Best Productivity AI tools, matched to your use case and budget
53 Productivity tools in our graveyard are still alive and taking signups. Below they're sorted two ways β by the job you're hiring them for, and by what you can afford per month. Anything we've confirmed dead, abandoned or absorbed is listed at the bottom so you don't waste an afternoon on it.
Pick by what you're trying to do
Use cases are matched against what each tool actually claims to do, not its marketing tier.
Automating repetitive work
Workflows, triggers, batch jobs and anything you'd rather never do by hand again.
Glean
π’ActiveGlean is an enterprise search and work assistant platform that connects workplace applications, indexes company knowledge, and uses generative AI to answer questions, retrieve information, and help automate tasks.
Tana
π’ActiveTana is a collaborative knowledge-management and productivity workspace that organizes notes as connected nodes. It combines structured data, Supertags, search, meeting capture, and AI-assisted workflows.
Box AI
π’ActiveBox AI is a generative AI capability within Box for asking questions about stored content, summarizing documents, extracting metadata, and supporting content workflows while applying Box permissions and security controls.
Circleback
π’ActiveCircleback is an AI meeting assistant that records or joins meetings, produces transcripts and summaries, identifies action items, and can sync meeting information with supported workplace tools.
Creating content and assets
Drafting, generating, designing and producing something a human ships.
Microsoft Copilot
π’ActiveMicrosoft Copilot is a generative AI assistant available on the web, Windows, mobile devices, and Microsoft Edge. It answers questions, drafts and summarizes text, creates images, and can connect with Microsoft services.
Craft
π’ActiveCraft is a collaborative document and note-taking app for individuals and teams. It supports structured pages, rich media, real-time editing, publishing, tasks, calendar-linked notes, and AI-assisted writing and search.
Dropbox Dash
π’ActiveDropbox Dash is an AI-powered universal search and knowledge-management product for finding, organizing, and asking questions about workplace content across connected apps and company sources.
Gemini for Google Workspace
π’ActiveGoogleβs generative AI features for Workspace apps, including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Chat, and Drive. It helps users draft, summarize, analyze, create images, take meeting notes, and find information.
Understanding data and customers
Search, research, analytics, summarisation and sentiment β turning noise into a decision.
Microsoft Copilot
π’ActiveMicrosoft Copilot is a generative AI assistant available on the web, Windows, mobile devices, and Microsoft Edge. It answers questions, drafts and summarizes text, creates images, and can connect with Microsoft services.
Craft
π’ActiveCraft is a collaborative document and note-taking app for individuals and teams. It supports structured pages, rich media, real-time editing, publishing, tasks, calendar-linked notes, and AI-assisted writing and search.
Dropbox Dash
π’ActiveDropbox Dash is an AI-powered universal search and knowledge-management product for finding, organizing, and asking questions about workplace content across connected apps and company sources.
Gemini for Google Workspace
π’ActiveGoogleβs generative AI features for Workspace apps, including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Chat, and Drive. It helps users draft, summarize, analyze, create images, take meeting notes, and find information.
Helping a team work together
Shared workspaces, support inboxes, meetings, handoffs and internal knowledge.
Microsoft Copilot
π’ActiveMicrosoft Copilot is a generative AI assistant available on the web, Windows, mobile devices, and Microsoft Edge. It answers questions, drafts and summarizes text, creates images, and can connect with Microsoft services.
Craft
π’ActiveCraft is a collaborative document and note-taking app for individuals and teams. It supports structured pages, rich media, real-time editing, publishing, tasks, calendar-linked notes, and AI-assisted writing and search.
Dropbox Dash
π’ActiveDropbox Dash is an AI-powered universal search and knowledge-management product for finding, organizing, and asking questions about workplace content across connected apps and company sources.
Gemini for Google Workspace
π’ActiveGoogleβs generative AI features for Workspace apps, including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Chat, and Drive. It helps users draft, summarize, analyze, create images, take meeting notes, and find information.
Building software
Code, APIs, infrastructure and everything with a terminal somewhere behind it.
Automatisch
π’ActiveAutomatisch is an open-source workflow automation platform for connecting applications and moving data between them without code. It supports self-hosting and offers a hosted cloud service.
Axiom.ai
π’ActiveAxiom.ai is a no-code browser automation platform for creating bots that click, type, scrape data, and connect web workflows with services such as Google Sheets, Zapier, and webhooks.
Wand AI
π’ActiveWand AI is an enterprise platform for building and deploying AI-powered business applications through a visual, low-code workspace, with governance and access controls intended for organizational use.
Pick by budget
Based on the lowest recorded entry price. Vendors change pricing constantly β treat these as a shortlist, then confirm on the vendor page.
53 live Productivity tools have no pricing on record yet: Microsoft Copilot, Craft, Dropbox Dash, Gemini for Google Workspace, Glean, Krisp, Read AI, Shortwave, Tana, Wispr Flow, Box AI, Circleback.
Don't bother: Productivity tools that are gone or going
Still ranking in Google, still linked in listicles, no longer worth your card details.
- Global Illuminationπ‘Acquired / Merged
OpenAI confirmed the acquisition on its blog in Aug 2023, the company's first acquisition ever. Team joined OpenAI; brand retired.
- Maydayπ΄Shutdown / Dead
Maydayβs official website states that the service shut down on May 1, 2024, after the team decided it could not continue developing the product sustainably.
- Multiπ‘Acquired / Merged
OpenAI announced the Multi acquihire on June 24, 2024 and the product was shut down July 24, 2024 with a public end-of-life notice.
- Rewatchπ΄Shutdown / Dead
Atlassian acquired Rewatch in August 2024. Rewatch's official shutdown documentation says the service shut down on January 16, 2026, after an extended migration period for customers.
- Airgramπ΄Shutdown / Dead
Airgram announced that it would cease service on December 29, 2023. Its website now redirects to an acquisition notice stating that Airgram was acquired by Notta in 2023.
- Compose AIπ‘Acquired / Merged
Compose AI announced on its website that its team had joined OpenAI and that the Chrome extension would cease functioning on October 10, 2023. OpenAI also lists Compose AI among its acquisitions.
- Diagramπ‘Acquired / Merged
Figma announced its acquisition of Diagram on June 21, 2023. Diagram's former homepage now redirects to Figma, while its best-known product, Magician, remains listed in the Figma Community.
- Humane AI Pinπ΄Shutdown / Dead
HP acquired Humane's assets in Feb 2025 and discontinued the Pin; cloud services were terminated Feb 28 2025, bricking the devices.