Best AI Design Tools: 8 Picks, 5 Tested, Sorted by the Job
The best AI design tools by job: Canva for layouts, ChatGPT for images with exact text, Lovable for working apps. Five tested, three read, each one labelled.
Canva Code: What It Builds, and What One App Cost Me
Canva Code turns a prompt into a working web page. I built a pricing calculator on a Pro trial: correct sums, hard-to-read totals, 43% of the AI allowance gone.
Canva Pro Price: $144 a Year, and What Canva Leaves Out
Canva Pro price in the US: $18 a month or $144 a year. Business is $25 per person. Plus the $100 AI Pass, seat billing and the refund rule, all sourced.
Canva Review: Great Editor, but the AI Runs on a Meter
A Canva review from a Pro trial: nine hands-on tests, exact US prices, and six AI requests that used 56% of the trial's allowance. Plus what the trial hides.
Canva vs Adobe Express: Same Prompts, Opposite Strengths
Canva vs Adobe Express on the same prompts: Canva's AI spelled 11 of 11 text lines, Adobe's default model 0 on its first image. Express costs less.
Gamma alternatives: 7 worth trying, and the one that's dead
The best Gamma alternatives, two run against Gamma on one nine-fact deck: Beautiful.ai invented numbers, ChatGPT kept them. Prices, free plans and when to stay.
Gamma pricing: $9 a month, and what the credits really buy
Gamma pricing in October 2026: Free, Plus $9, Pro $18, Ultra $90 and Business $40 a month billed yearly, plus what a deck costs in credits on my account.
Gamma AI review: 8 accurate slides in a minute, then the fixes
A hands-on Gamma AI review: an 8-slide deck in a minute with every number right, a footer bug, a chart that exports as a picture, and what Plus costs.
Gamma vs Beautiful.ai: one kept my facts, one looked better
Gamma vs Beautiful.ai, tested with the same nine-fact brief: which kept the numbers, which made the better-looking deck, which costs less, which trains on you.
CapCut alternatives: free editors are easy, free clipping isn't
CapCut alternatives by job: four free editors replace its timeline with no watermark. Replacing its AI clipper cost me $0.85 to $2.03 per 35-minute video.
AI tool cost statistics: 60+ figures, each labelled by source
What AI video, voice, coding and automation tools really cost — per clip, per call, per invoice. 60+ figures from our own accounts, each labelled by source.
Best ElevenLabs alternatives: which one replaces it?
The best ElevenLabs alternative depends on why you're leaving. I lined up Murf, Descript, Cartesia and 4 more against the one job each actually wins.