10 Lesser-known Ai Tools You Should Try

In today’s internet era, the penetration of AI simply can’t be overlooked anymore. AI can be seen in almost every pathway of the online world, be it content creation, writing, images – you name it. Thanks to their sheer popularity and first-mover advantage in many areas, only a handful of companies have cemented themselves as the torchbearers and have their names on everyone’s lips. These include everyday popular toolsf we use to help with our queries and problems, such as Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta AI, Perplexity AI, and a few more.

As good as they are, we are certainly unable to discover and appreciate the beauty of the lesser-known tools. While the aforementioned are more of an all-in-one helper tool, the tools mentioned in this article will surely make you realize the use cases you didn’t expect AI to help you with. These tools are equally worthy, and frankly better at what they’re doing than the big names, because they’re tailor-made for the purpose. If your workflow aligns with the use cases of these unpopular yet unique AI tools, we highly recommend you give them a try. That said, let’s check out these lesser-known AI tools you should try.

Moonlite Labs

With AI content creation gaining popularity day by day, let us introduce something that may intrigue you if you’re into it. Say hello to Moonlite Labs, which is a generative AI platform catered to content creators. It helps you generate videos, animations, and visuals with the least manual effort. Such a tool is essentially a powerhouse at your fingertips, because all you need to obtain a perfectly adequate piece of content is the right set of prompts, and you’re good to go. The generation is quick, easy, and perfectly suited for those starting in this emerging field of digital content creation.

More specifically, Moonlite Labs can help you with video and animation generation, including short-form clips, animation, music visualizers, voiceovers, talking avatars, and more. You can also fine-tune the generated content yourself by hopping on Moonlite Lab’s built-in editor, which lets you trim, cut, and add text, effects, transitions, plus more. There’s also a native content scheduler, an analytics dashboard, and an ads management portal, which make Moonlite Labs unique. While there’s a free version, the Starter pack costs $25 a month, or $20 per month when billed yearly, which is a fair price considering the kind of asset it can be for digital content creators.

Zoviz

If you are a small business, startup, or an entrepreneur looking to make an impression in the crowd, Zoviz can help you do so. It is an AI-powered branding platform that lets you stand out by creating professional visual identities quickly and effortlessly. Be it logos, social media profiles and covers, business cards, letterheads, email signatures, brand guidelines, and more, Zoviz takes care of your entire brand kit. Similar to other AI tools, all you need to provide it is a relevant prompt in the form of your brand name and tagline, set your preferences, and let Zoviz take care of the rest.

You get dozens of generated logos to choose from, and you can also fine-tune your preferred one’s fonts, layouts, colors, and more using the built-in editor to align with your brand’s identity. You can choose to download the files in appropriate formats for online publishing or printing. Thanks to its multilingual support, your brand kit won’t be limited by language limitations. Along with that, Zoviz also includes useful AI tools, such as a background remover, an image upscaler, a product photography generator, a sketch-to-image generator, and more. Given its usefulness, the $19.99 and $99.99 one-time fees for the basic and full brand kits seem justified.

Gensmo

If you often struggle to style yourself the right way and are fed up with influencers flaunting new outfits every time they appear, Gensmo could prove to be a great AI tool for you. Gensmo is essentially an AI-powered fashion stylist and shopping assistant. It can help you discover new styles, try them out, and improve your existing styles using AI. An excellent feature we truly admire is the ability to suggest styles based on images of garments you already have, which is such a helpful feature, as you don’t necessarily have to purchase a suggested look to try it out.

To visualize AI suggestions better, Gensmo lets you upload a photo of yourself to create a realistic try-on dummy and test the styles. Gensmo also includes an AI outfit generator that suggests styles based on text prompts. For example, you can ask it to create beach-themed outfits, retro styles, or outfits that meet specified wedding dress codes. You can also ask Gensmo’s AI to style a specific piece of clothing you see somewhere, and it can, in fact, enable agentic commerce by providing online shopping links to similar yet cheaper products. While the basic feature set is free, you can purchase the premium plan by paying a weekly, monthly, or one-time fee of $5.99, $19.99, or $39.99, respectively.

Gensmo is available as an app on both Android and iOS.

Tagshop AI

AI is steadily advancing to revolutionize the marketing industry, and a great example is AI-generated UGC (user-generated content). Keeping the confusing words aside, Tagshop AI can help you create AI UGC videos and is overall a must-have AI tool for performance marketers and those involved in branding, promotions, sales, marketing, and more. The videos turn out incredibly realistic and convincing, almost as if a real human being is showcasing and promoting a product themselves. After all, AI progressed a lot since the famously messed-up AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti came out a few years ago.

If you’re worried about licensing, fret not: Tagshop AI includes a library of 100+ avatars, each featuring a variety of outfits and situated across various environments, such as home, office, outdoors, and more. The URL-to-video feature essentially lets you paste a product link from Amazon, Shopify, and other e-commerce platforms, and let Tagshop AI create a realistic UGC video in no time. You can either use preset voices or upload yours for voice cloning, which is a great addition. In fact, you can also create AI avatars of yourself and generate AI UGC videos with them. There are many more features that make the $29 per month, or $11 per month when billed yearly, pricetag worthwhile.

Fiddl.art

Fiddl.art is an AI tool truly worth checking out if you are into AI art creation. As an AI art studio featuring an extensive community of enthusiastic members and vast collections of generated art forms, you can understand why it’s often referred to as a creator-first platform. While the general concept still revolves around text-to-image and video generation, you get quite advanced versions of them. For instance, in addition to the professional-grade AI tools for image generation, Fiddl.art also includes an elaborate editor called Fiddl Studio, which lets you apply not just basic edits, but also prompt-based AI edits, making it one of a kind.

As far as image generation is concerned, you can pick from various AI models, including DALL-E 3, Flux Pro, Imagen 4, Google Nano Banana, and a lot more. This enables fine-tuned output based on your prompts. Fiddl.art also includes Forge, which lets you train custom AI models using your own dataset of pictures or styles. There’s also a Magic Mirror feature, where you can upload mere selfies to turn them into headshots based on your theme and style preferences. Fiddl.art doesn’t charge a penny for all this, provided you earn enough Fiddl Points by completing daily or weekly tasks, such as generating a certain number of images, upvoting others’ posts in the community, and more.

ChatSlide AI

If you frequently deal with presentations, ChatSlide AI could be a handy tool. Let’s face it: making presentations from scratch is not just time-consuming but also frustrating. In addition, ChatSlide AI can help you create dynamic charts and graphs, AI-avatared videos, posters, and more. It essentially lets you create visuals to represent data, something many of us will find helpful for both personal and professional work. All you need to do is provide raw input in the form of a PDF, URL, video link, or just text, and ChatSlide AI will turn it into a visually appealing presentation, video, graph, or poster.

Since presentations require a lot of work to fine-tune to requirements, ChatSlide AI lets you do so with user-controlled customization, theme matching, visual elements generation, and intuitive AI-based adjustments. For video creation, it can also clone the voice of video avatars by recording a short sample of your voice. ChatSlide AI can also repurpose generated presentations and other content into social-media posts. You can also chat with the built-in AI agent to extract specific information or create an outline using your uploaded documents. ChatSlide AI is relatively affordable, given its $5 weekly, $9.90 monthly, or $99 yearly pricetag for the individual Plus plan.

Jobright

The entire job industry is clearly pretty messed up, and we all know how tiring it is to search for new ones. If you are in a similar situation, Jobright is the best thing you could wish for. It’s an AI-powered job search tool that’s automated, meaning it can handle most of the tedious work for you. Jobright is nothing short of a godsend for job seekers, as it can handle most of the prerequisites. For starters, it serves as a hiring agent, searching across platforms such as LinkedIn, Indeed, company job portals, and more, and assigning a match score based on your resume and preferences.

As its standout feature, Jobright can take care of the application process all by itself. It can customize resumes to match relevant open roles and positions, complete application forms, and submit applications on your behalf. You can use the resume customizer feature on its own to optimize your resume for specific keywords and make it ATS-friendly. Jobright’s Orion AI Career Coach can offer career advice, help with interview preparation, provide company insights, and more. It even goes a step further by identifying and helping you reach out to company personnel, colleagues, or alumni for referrals. Although you get limited free credits, you can also purchase the Turbo plan for $29.99 per month.

Flourish

If you’re facing mental health issues, we highly recommend giving Flourish a try. It’s essentially an AI-powered mental-wellness and happiness coach developed by leading psychologists, who claim it’s scientifically backed to help you cope. Flourish’s methodology revolves around strengthening your emotional health, promoting personal growth, and helping you progress in your current therapies. While it’s an excellent tool for dealing with mental health issues, it’s certainly not a replacement for physical counsellors, psychiatrists, or therapists, as it’s merely an AI model at the end of the day.

Flourish includes a 24/7 AI mental health buddy, Sunnie, to chat with, express your emotions, receive advice, or manage stress. Unlike other chatbots, Sunnie is trained on clinical research by Stanford scientists, so you know it’s not going to generate jargon you come to expect from other regular AI models. Other valuable features include science-backed fun daily activities, a gamified smart habit tracker, and more. Flourish can also present you with insights and progress reports. It also consists of a supportive community of like-minded users. While most features are free, this ’emotional first-aid kit’ is surely worth the minuscule $2.99-per-month asking price for its ‘Just Getting Started’ plan.

Flourish is available as an app on Android, iOS, and iPadOS.

Tight Studio

If the above tools seem a little too specialized, let’s check out an AI utility that takes screen recordings to the next level. There’s no doubt that recording your screen and showing it as-is is so underwhelming, to say the least. Tight Studio makes creating high-quality product demos, tutorials, and walkthroughs truly effortless. For starters, the Smart Zoom feature automatically zooms into relevant portions of the screen when it detects mouse clicks or keyboard strokes. It’s a helpful feature that makes it easy for viewers to keep track of the steps or follow along effectively, and you don’t need to perform any manual edits either.

Tight Studio lets you automatically generate captions in an instant, and you can also edit and change their style as per your preference. There’s also an AI Narration feature that enables high-quality voiceovers using preset voice models, which is useful if you are recording in a noisy environment. Since Tight Studio features a built-in editor, you can add background music from its curated library or upload your own, add text overlays, include animations, and more. You can also insert your own images or use the native AI generator for the same. While most features are available in the free tier, the $20 per month or $15 per month (billed annually) plan provides access to the full feature set.

Tight Studio is only available on Apple Silicon-based Macs.

Granola

With online meetings replacing physical meetings to a significant extent, you need a tool to streamline the experience. Granola helps you achieve this by handling the note-taking side of online meetings, and it does so really efficiently. It’s an AI notepad that transcribes meetings and generates summaries of line meetings. While other AI models that claim to do the same have to join your meetings as participants, Granola enables bot-free recording by capturing audio directly from your PC or Mac’s sound output. This already gives Granola an edge, as many online meeting-takers find AI meeting assistants of the other kind cumbersome.

It’s not that your personal meeting notes will become obsolete the second you enable Granola, as you can let it enhance your manual notes after the meeting concludes by filling in missing details, pointers, specific quotes, and more. Since Granola knows everything about the meeting you’ve attended, it can answer related questions, generate summaries, and more. There are custom templates for various kinds of meetings, such as user interviews, pitches, and 1-on-1s, among others. Granola even offers direct integrations with several popular tools, including Notion, Slack, Gmail, plus more. The Basic plan is free; however, the Business and Enterprise plans cost $14 and $35 per user per month, respectively.

Granola is available on Mac, Windows, and iOS.

Don’t Miss Out on These Lesser-Known AI Tools

In today’s AI-ridden world, you must ensure not to be masked by the renowned AI tools, as there are a plethora of tools that could prove a lot more useful than you think. Being specialized makes these tools excellent at what they do, even more than the big names. While the selection is more extensive than the ten listed here, we recommend giving Gensmo, Tight Studio, and ChatSlide AI a try, as they can fit almost everyone’s use cases. Granola, Tagshop AI, and Jobright are some insanely useful tools addressing valid use cases. Moonlite Labs, Fiddl.art, and Zoviz are highly recommended AI tools for digital content creators, whereas Flourish is perfect for digital detox.