{
  "categories": [
    {
      "name": "Chat apps",
      "slug": "chat-apps",
      "note": "Consumer-facing assistants for general questions, writing, coding, and research.",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Claude",
          "slug": "claude",
          "desc": "General-purpose AI assistant from Anthropic for conversation, writing, coding, and document analysis.",
          "platforms": "Web · iOS · Android · macOS · Windows",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://claude.ai"}
        },
        {
          "name": "ChatGPT",
          "slug": "chatgpt",
          "desc": "OpenAI's conversational assistant with text, image, voice, and web-browsing features.",
          "platforms": "Web · iOS · Android · macOS · Windows",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://chatgpt.com"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Gemini",
          "slug": "gemini",
          "desc": "Google's AI assistant, integrated with Google Search and Workspace apps.",
          "platforms": "Web · iOS · Android",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://gemini.google.com"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Microsoft Copilot",
          "slug": "microsoft-copilot",
          "desc": "Microsoft's AI assistant for chat, web search, and image generation, integrated across Windows and Microsoft 365.",
          "platforms": "Web · Windows · iOS · Android",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://copilot.microsoft.com"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Perplexity",
          "slug": "perplexity",
          "desc": "AI answer engine that responds to questions with cited web sources.",
          "platforms": "Web · iOS · Android · macOS · Windows",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://www.perplexity.ai"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Grok",
          "slug": "grok",
          "desc": "Conversational AI from xAI with real-time access to web and X content.",
          "platforms": "Web · iOS · Android",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://grok.com"}
        },
        {
          "name": "DeepSeek",
          "slug": "deepseek",
          "desc": "Chat assistant from DeepSeek AI that runs the company's open-weight models.",
          "platforms": "Web · iOS · Android",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://chat.deepseek.com"}
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Local runners",
      "slug": "local-runners",
      "note": "Applications and libraries for running language models on your own hardware.",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "LM Studio",
          "slug": "lm-studio",
          "desc": "Desktop application for discovering, downloading, and running local LLMs with a chat UI and an OpenAI-compatible local server.",
          "platforms": "macOS · Windows · Linux",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://lmstudio.ai", "docs": "https://lmstudio.ai/docs"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Ollama",
          "slug": "ollama",
          "desc": "Tool for downloading and running open-weight models locally, with a command line and a local API.",
          "platforms": "macOS · Windows · Linux",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://ollama.com"}
        },
        {
          "name": "llama.cpp",
          "slug": "llama-cpp",
          "desc": "C/C++ library and command-line tools for running LLM inference locally across a wide range of hardware.",
          "platforms": "macOS · Windows · Linux · CLI",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Jan",
          "slug": "jan",
          "desc": "Open-source desktop app to run LLMs offline, with local chat history and an OpenAI-compatible server.",
          "platforms": "macOS · Windows · Linux",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://jan.ai"}
        },
        {
          "name": "GPT4All",
          "slug": "gpt4all",
          "desc": "Desktop app from Nomic AI for running open-source LLMs privately on your own device, including local document chat.",
          "platforms": "macOS · Windows · Linux",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all", "docs": "https://docs.gpt4all.io"}
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Coding agents & dev tools",
      "slug": "coding-agents-dev-tools",
      "note": "Tools for AI-assisted software development, from terminal agents to editors and IDE extensions.",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Claude Code",
          "slug": "claude-code",
          "desc": "Anthropic's agentic coding tool that works in the terminal, IDEs, and the web to build, debug, and ship code across a codebase.",
          "platforms": "macOS · Windows · Linux · VS Code · JetBrains · Web",
          "pricing": "Paid",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://claude.com/claude-code", "docs": "https://code.claude.com/docs"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Cursor",
          "slug": "cursor",
          "desc": "AI-native code editor, built as a VS Code fork, with in-editor chat, autocomplete, and agentic multi-file editing.",
          "platforms": "macOS · Windows · Linux",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://cursor.com", "docs": "https://docs.cursor.com"}
        },
        {
          "name": "GitHub Copilot",
          "slug": "github-copilot",
          "desc": "AI pair-programmer from GitHub offering code completion and chat across major IDEs and the command line.",
          "platforms": "VS Code · JetBrains · Visual Studio · CLI",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://github.com/features/copilot", "docs": "https://docs.github.com/copilot"}
        },
        {
          "name": "OpenAI Codex CLI",
          "slug": "openai-codex-cli",
          "desc": "OpenAI's open-source terminal coding agent that runs tasks in a local sandbox.",
          "platforms": "CLI",
          "pricing": "Paid",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://github.com/openai/codex"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Aider",
          "slug": "aider",
          "desc": "Open-source command-line coding assistant that pairs with your local git repository; you bring your own model API key.",
          "platforms": "CLI",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://aider.chat"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Cline",
          "slug": "cline",
          "desc": "Open-source autonomous coding agent that runs as a sidebar in VS Code and other editors; you bring your own model API key.",
          "platforms": "VS Code · JetBrains",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://cline.bot"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Zed",
          "slug": "zed",
          "desc": "Open-source, high-performance code editor written in Rust with built-in AI assistance and collaboration features.",
          "platforms": "macOS · Linux",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://zed.dev", "docs": "https://zed.dev/docs"}
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Creative tools",
      "slug": "creative-tools",
      "note": "Tools for generating images, video, audio, and music.",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Midjourney",
          "slug": "midjourney",
          "desc": "Subscription image-generation service, accessible through a web app and Discord.",
          "platforms": "Web · Discord",
          "pricing": "Paid",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://www.midjourney.com", "docs": "https://docs.midjourney.com"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Google Veo",
          "slug": "google-veo",
          "desc": "Google DeepMind's text-to-video and image-to-video model with native audio generation, available through Gemini, Flow, and the Gemini API.",
          "platforms": "Web · API",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://deepmind.google/models/veo/"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Google Imagen",
          "slug": "google-imagen",
          "desc": "Google DeepMind's text-to-image model, available through Gemini, Google AI Studio, and the Gemini API.",
          "platforms": "Web · API",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://deepmind.google/models/imagen/"}
        },
        {
          "name": "ElevenLabs",
          "slug": "elevenlabs",
          "desc": "AI audio platform for text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing, and music generation.",
          "platforms": "Web · API",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://elevenlabs.io", "docs": "https://elevenlabs.io/docs"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Suno",
          "slug": "suno",
          "desc": "AI music generator that creates songs with vocals and instrumentation from text prompts.",
          "platforms": "Web · iOS · Android",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://suno.com"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Runway",
          "slug": "runway",
          "desc": "AI platform for video generation and editing, including text-to-video and image-to-video tools.",
          "platforms": "Web · iOS",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://runway.com"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Ideogram",
          "slug": "ideogram",
          "desc": "AI image generator noted for rendering legible text within images.",
          "platforms": "Web · iOS",
          "pricing": "Freemium",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://ideogram.ai", "docs": "https://docs.ideogram.ai"}
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Agent frameworks & libraries",
      "slug": "agent-frameworks-libraries",
      "note": "Developer libraries and SDKs for building AI agents and LLM applications.",
      "tools": [
        {
          "name": "Claude Agent SDK",
          "slug": "claude-agent-sdk",
          "desc": "Anthropic's SDK for building agents on the same tools, agent loop, and context management that power Claude Code; formerly the Claude Code SDK.",
          "platforms": "Python · TypeScript",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": false,
          "links": {"site": "https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview", "docs": "https://github.com/anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-python"}
        },
        {
          "name": "LangChain",
          "slug": "langchain",
          "desc": "Open-source framework for building applications and agents with LLMs, with integrations across many model and tool providers.",
          "platforms": "Python · JavaScript",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://www.langchain.com", "docs": "https://docs.langchain.com"}
        },
        {
          "name": "LangGraph",
          "slug": "langgraph",
          "desc": "Open-source library from the LangChain team for building stateful, multi-step agent workflows modeled as graphs.",
          "platforms": "Python · JavaScript",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://www.langchain.com/langgraph"}
        },
        {
          "name": "CrewAI",
          "slug": "crewai",
          "desc": "Open-source Python framework for orchestrating role-based, collaborating AI agents.",
          "platforms": "Python",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://www.crewai.com", "docs": "https://docs.crewai.com"}
        },
        {
          "name": "OpenAI Agents SDK",
          "slug": "openai-agents-sdk",
          "desc": "OpenAI's lightweight open-source SDK for building multi-agent workflows with handoffs, guardrails, and tracing.",
          "platforms": "Python · TypeScript",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/", "docs": "https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python"}
        },
        {
          "name": "LlamaIndex",
          "slug": "llamaindex",
          "desc": "Open-source data framework for connecting LLMs and agents to external data sources for retrieval and workflows.",
          "platforms": "Python · TypeScript",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://www.llamaindex.ai", "docs": "https://docs.llamaindex.ai"}
        },
        {
          "name": "Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)",
          "slug": "google-adk",
          "desc": "Google's open-source Agent Development Kit for building, testing, and deploying agents, with support for multiple languages.",
          "platforms": "Python · Java · Go · TypeScript",
          "pricing": "Free",
          "open": true,
          "links": {"site": "https://adk.dev"}
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}