Honest rating of AI tools to help speed up your work.

If you, like I and many others, find yourself in a rabbit hole of Instagram reels or TikTok, you may well have come across a fair few videos that tell you that how you’re wasting your time at work if you’re not using these AI tools to increase your productivity.

These videos tend to run through a ream of AI tools that probably haven’t been tested by the video creators themselves.

I’ve taken it upon myself to test the free versions of these tools and see if they have any usability in a professional setting, in turn, hopefully cutting some of the work for you.

WRITING/READING

ChatPDF

ChatPDF will read any PDF document for you. You can upload a pdf of the work and ask ChatPDf to answer any questions about it. It scans the document and returns some pretty useful responses.

Cost?

My Opinion

Yes, I can’t lie, it’s a useful way of getting an idea of what your pdf is talking about. As always with AI, the better your inputs (your questions), the better the output (the responses you get). I would personally use this.

Perplexity

This does the same as ChatPDF but also claims to be designed to search the web in real-time and offer up-to-date information on various topics.

Cost?

My Opinion

Is it any good? Honestly? Yes, it does the same as ChatPDF with a slightly nicer-looking interface in my opinion. And the ability to use Copilot is quite fun as Perpelxity can rewrite your answer using Copilot (git hub’s AI) if you aren’t satisfied with the answers.

Text FX

Text FX is Google's ‘AI-powered tools for rappers, writers and wordsmiths’ made in collaboration with Lupe Fiasco. It makes thinking of writing Similes, POV, Alliteration and Acronyms easy.

Cost?

It’s completely free!

My Opinion

Would I use it? Yes, why not? It offers a range of tools that, like most AI at the moment, are useful for giving you ideas or a starting point, reducing the need for you to work your brain. However, it’s not perfect by any means for example:

It got a little stuck on comparing a river to a ribbon when making a simile.

And

Repeated a few lines in the POV option( Evaluating a topic through different points of view.) over the topic of cow tipping.

But overall, it’s a fun tool to inspire your creativity!

VIDEO

Repurpose IO

Repurpose IO can autopost social media to your channels by repurposing your TikToks to post on Instagram without the water mark.

Cost

My Opinion

It doesn’t offer enough for me personally, as you can’t schedule other posts directly from it. But it’s good for creators to create a lot of video content as this is its main purpose!

Opus Clip

Opus Clip is a generative AI video tool that repurposes long-talking videos into shorts in one click. Powered by Openai.

Cost?

My Opinion

Would I use it? Yes, it can extract the most engaging parts of long videos to create viral shorts and other social media content.- pretty neat helpful and saves you a lot of time!

Descript

Record, transcribe, edit, mix, collaborate, and master your audio and video. Descript is an all-in-one audio/video editing tool, as easy as a doc.

Cost?

My Opinion

Would I use it? Yes, I’d give it a go! However, I wish I’d found it earlier because I’ve already done the hard work on all my videos — sadly.

ORGANIASTION

Fireflies. Ai

You can automate your meeting notes with Fireflies.ai as it helps you and your team transcribe, summarize, search, and analyze voice conversations. And it’s pretty extensive as tools go, reporting on words per minute and the amount of time each speaker speaks for then creating action points of the basis of the meeting.

Cost?

My Opinion

Would I use it? Yes, A great tool to help you concentrate on being present during meetings!

And there you have it; I hope you found at least one of these to be a useful bit of information! In helping you to navigate the world of AI.