Categories
Buying guides written by usage, not by us.
Productivity
Tools that hand you back hours: notes, mail, focus and everything between.
- AutomationWiring tools together so the boring part happens without you.
- Calendars & schedulingFinding the hour everyone has free without the six emails.
- Email toolsClients, triage layers and automations that make the inbox a place of work again.
- Focus & timeProtecting the hours you meant to spend on the hard thing.
- Notes & docsWriting things down somewhere you will find them again.
- Search & bookmarksFinding the page, file or message you know you saw last month.
- Tasks & projectsWhat needs doing, by whom, and whether it is on track.
Engineering & Development
What teams use to build, ship and explain software.
- APIs & backendServing data to your own front end, and to everyone else's.
- Changelog toolsRelease notes and product updates that reach users instead of gathering dust.
- DatabasesWhere the data sits, and what it takes to ask it questions quickly.
- DevOps & hostingGetting code onto machines and keeping it there.
- Developer toolsEditors, terminals and the small sharp things that make a working day faster.
- Embedded analyticsCustomer-facing charts and dashboards that live inside your own product.
- No-code & low-codeBuilding something that works without writing the whole thing yourself.
- Testing & QAFinding out it is broken before the people using it do.
Design & Creative
Where design work is made, synced and handed to engineering.
- 3D & motionModelling, rendering and animation, from product shots to whole scenes.
- Design systemsToken pipelines and component libraries that keep design and code agreeing.
- Fonts & typeTypefaces, and the tooling for setting them properly.
- Illustration & iconsDrawing, and libraries of drawings, for people who would rather not.
- PhotographyShooting, editing and organising images at volume.
- PrototypingMaking the idea clickable before anyone commits to building it.
- Video & audioCutting, cleaning and shipping footage and sound.
Marketing & Sales
Finding the people your product is for, and telling them clearly.
- Ads & attributionBuying attention, and working out which of it paid off.
- CRMKeeping track of who you have spoken to and what you promised them.
- CopywritingDrafting, editing and testing the words that sell the work.
- Email marketingLists, sequences and the discipline of earning the next open.
- Landing pagesOne page whose only job is to convince, built without a deploy.
- SEOBeing findable for the things people actually search for.
- Social mediaPosting, scheduling and finding out whether any of it landed.
AI
Models put to work: writing, images, agents and the tooling around them.
- AI agentsSoftware that takes a goal and does the steps, instead of waiting for each one.
- AI images & videoGenerating and editing pictures and footage that used to need a studio.
- AI notetakersAssistants that sit in your meetings and turn talk into structured, searchable notes.
- AI searchAsking a question of your own documents and getting an answer, not ten links.
- AI writingDrafting and editing with a model in the loop, without losing your own voice.
- ChatbotsConversation as an interface, for support desks and products alike.
- Model toolingPrompts, evaluation and observability for teams shipping on top of models.
Data & Analytics
Getting numbers out of a product and into a decision.
- Business intelligenceTurning a warehouse full of rows into an answer somebody can act on.
- DashboardsThe numbers a team looks at every morning, on one screen.
- Data pipelinesMoving data between systems on a schedule, reliably.
- Product analyticsWatching what people do in your product, not what they say they do.
- SpreadsheetsThe tool everybody already knows, made to do more.
Finance
Money in, money out, and knowing where it went.
- AccountingBooks, ledgers and closing the month without dread.
- BudgetingDeciding where the money goes before it goes somewhere else.
- CryptoWallets, exchanges and on-chain tooling.
- InvestingResearch, portfolios and keeping track of what you hold.
- Invoicing & paymentsGetting paid, and chasing the people who have not paid yet.
- TaxFiling, tracking and not being surprised in April.
Customer & Support
Everything between shipping something and hearing what people made of it.
- Community toolsRunning a place where your users talk to each other.
- Feedback & surveysAsking people what they think in a way that gets a real answer.
- Help desksTickets, queues and the shape of a support team's day.
- Live chatAnswering while the person is still on the page.
- User onboardingThe first ten minutes, which decide most of the rest.
Work & Team
Hiring people, paying them, and running the week they work.
- HR & payrollPaying people correctly and on time, wherever they are.
- Hiring & recruitingSourcing, interviewing and deciding, with fewer spreadsheets.
- Internal wikisThe place a team writes down what it knows.
- MeetingsFewer of them, and the ones left worth attending.
- Remote workWorking from different rooms without losing the thread.
Commerce
Selling things online, and everything that happens after the order.
- MarketplacesTwo sides, and the software that keeps both honest.
- Point of saleTaking payment across a counter, and knowing what sold.
- Shipping & fulfilmentGetting the box from the shelf to the door.
- StorefrontsPutting a shop online without building the checkout yourself.
- Subscriptions & billingRecurring revenue, and the plumbing that keeps it recurring.
Health & Life
The parts of a day that are not work, and the tools that help them.
- FitnessTraining, tracking and turning up again tomorrow.
- HabitsSmall things done repeatedly, which is the only way they work.
- Mental healthTherapy, journalling and the quieter kind of maintenance.
- NutritionPlanning, logging and shopping for what you actually eat.
- ParentingLogistics, learning and the tools that take some of the load.
- SleepMeasuring the night, and making the next one better.
Learning & Media
Reading, watching and studying, on purpose rather than by accident.
- CoursesTeaching something, or being taught it, at your own pace.
- Language learningPractice that survives past the third week.
- NewsKeeping up without the feed keeping you.
- PodcastsMaking them, publishing them and finding the ones worth the commute.
- Reading & researchCollecting, annotating and getting back to what you read.
- Writing & publishingGetting words finished, and getting them in front of readers.
Security & Privacy
Keeping accounts, data and infrastructure out of the wrong hands.
- Auth & identitySigning people in without building it from scratch.
- ComplianceProving to auditors what you already do.
- Monitoring & alertingKnowing it broke before a customer tells you.
- Password managersOne place for the credentials, so they stop being reused.
- VPN & privacyFewer parties knowing where you have been.