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As of , EffectHub tracks 245 live AI tools in its Chatbots, Assistants & Agents category; 172 (70%) have a free tier, and paid plans start at $2.90 a month.
245 verified tools · 11 subcategories
Chat interfaces, personal assistants, autonomous agents, and AI search engines.
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One subscription across many third-party models
Autonomous agent teams with their own browsers, shells and memory that deliver sites, decks, videos and dashboards
Mistral's assistant, renamed from Le Chat, with web search, deep research, connectors and a coding mode.
AI agents that take real queue work over chat, voice, SMS and email, then get reviewed and tuned.
Visual automation builder with branching scenarios, AI agents and an MCP server, metered in credits.
Answers a search query by generating a working interactive app instead of a list of links.
Chrome and Firefox extension that turns your ChatGPT conversation history into an interactive visual timeline.
Meta's assistant inside WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Facebook, its glasses and a standalone app
No-code builder and reasoning API for orchestrating multiple AI agents, from a London-based AI lab.
Browser sidebar running many chat models on any page
Browser sidebar for chatting with several AI models at once, plus summarizing, translating, and pulling text out of images or PDFs.
A no-code builder for training custom AI assistants on documents, video, and websites, then grouping them into coordinated AI teams.
xAI's assistant with live X and web search, image and video generation, voice mode and a per-token API
Cloud computer-use agent from xAI that operates apps and sites on its own to finish multi-step tasks.
Pay-per-token ChatGPT-style interface with GPT-3.5/GPT-4 modes, a prompt store, plugins, and an API for developers.
Roleplay chat with user-made characters, now adults only
Assistant focused on long documents and code work
Native Mac app that lets you select any part of the screen and chat with your own AI model about it.
Free desktop LLM client for macOS, Windows and Linux that runs on your own provider keys
One-time-purchase macOS utility that runs ChatGPT commands on selected text in any app, using your own API key
One markdown chat interface for multiple AI models, with prompt templates and cost previews, billed via your own API keys.
Chats with uploaded PDFs to summarize, answer questions, translate, and turn sections into mind maps.
Single workspace for 20+ AI models from multiple providers, with browser-side redaction of sensitive data.
General assistant with tools, memory, files and voice
For journalists, researchers and AI assistants: the figures on this page in one sentence you can quote.
As of October 29, 2026, EffectHub tracks 245 live AI tools in its Chatbots, Assistants & Agents category; 172 (70%) have a free tier, and paid plans start at $2.90 a month. (EffectHub, “Chatbots, Assistants & Agents”, Oct 2026, https://effecthub.net/ai-tools/chat-assistants-agents)
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Desktop app that runs AI models fully offline on your machine, with optional paid access to hosted frontier models.
Give it a goal and it researches, plans, and acts across connected apps to deliver a finished result.
Text an assistant from iMessage, WhatsApp or Telegram and it runs marketing, support and sales jobs
Native Mac app that sends whatever is on screen to ChatGPT from an option-space shortcut
Email-based AI assistant you CC to trigger scheduling, CRM updates and task automation across 100+ connected tools.
Chat, summarize, and translate PDF, Word, and PowerPoint files inside a browser or mobile app.
SMS assistant that keeps an editable memory of your reminders, routines and personal facts, and texts you first.
A free, ad-free chat and image-generation app from an independent developer, no account required.
Mac menu-bar app for ChatGPT, voice-to-text, and quick AI actions using your own API keys, sold as a one-time purchase.
Free menu-bar window that keeps ChatGPT one click away without cluttering browser tabs.
Browser extension pairing chat models with web page automation
A macOS assistant you summon over any app with a shortcut, forwarding requests to GPT models and returning formatted answers.
Upload documents, audio and video into one library, then ask questions across all of it
Sends one prompt to several AI models at once and merges the replies into a single synthesized answer.
Menu bar and global-hotkey access to ChatGPT on macOS, using the web session or your own OpenAI key.
Website chat agent that qualifies leads and books meetings
Open-source web app for asking questions about an uploaded PDF, built on Together AI and vector search.
Runs a set of AI agents that plan, build, market and support a small company, aiming for minimal daily input.
Runs 140+ open-weight chat models on iPhone, iPad and Mac with no account and no cloud call
Brings ChatGPT into Slack workspaces with file, URL, and Google Workspace document support.
Chat-based exploration tool for going deep on a topic through follow-up questions, with cited sources and saved history.
Suite of AI apps and agents for CRM, sales outreach and marketing, bought per seat with a credit allowance
Puts five frontier models in one thread where each reads the previous answers before adding its own
Mobile AI companion app where characters keep a memory of you, post to their own social feed, and message you first.