whichtool.dev

Your go-to for anything nerdy or code-heavy

The Swiss army knife — does everything decently

Quick answers and anything visual/multimodal

When you need the X/Twitter pulse

Open-source reasoning powerhouse

Free if you're already in Microsoft's world

Local-first AI when privacy matters

Best AI Chrome extension

Model gateway for flexibility across providers

GUI companion to Ollama

Direct line to Gemini models

Clean multi-model chat interface

Privacy-focused AI gateway

Google's IDE with massive AI limits — your primary IDE

The original AI IDE

Foundation everything forks from

AI IDE competitor — dodged a bullet here

Speed demon editor

The hacker's editor

Visually building frontends fast

Ship apps without touching Xcode

Vibe coding alternative

Google's vibe coding with Firebase baked in

Terminal AI agent for Claude in your codebase

Fast iterative terminal work — synchronous collaborator

Smart terminal for when you forget the command

Classic terminal with GPU acceleration

Open-source terminal AI agent

OpenAI's competitor to Claude Code

Windows native scripting

Legacy Windows terminal

Linux on Windows

Your primary PKM — the vault where everything lives

Outliner companion — daily journals and queries

Documents → interactive research assistant

AI second brain for web content

Semantic vault search — private and powerful

Visual canvas PKM for spatial thinkers

Would be daily driver if you didn't need local-first

Most AI-advanced PKM — but vendor lock-in

The OG networked note-taker — outpaced

Encrypted Notion alternative

Power-user PKM for devs

Emerging visual PKM with AI

Enterprise PKM — great for teams, heavy for personal

Docs meets spreadsheets

AI does the organizing for you

PKM for software developers

iPad handwriting king

Minimal markdown note app

Fastest mobile capture — tap and type

Quick capture to vault and other destinations

Marginal benefit over Apple Notes

Markdown capture to sync folders

Distraction-free writing

Code editing on mobile

The original scratchpad

Notepad's big brother

The default — extensions unmatched

Chrome but with privacy

Perplexity's browser — browsing IS researching

Another AI browser

Reimagined tabs

Minimalist vertical-tab browser

Power user's browser

Windows default — fine but not chosen

Privacy search engine

Desktop voice capture

Voice-to-text flow state

Meeting notes + action items on autopilot

Discrete meeting enhancer

Lifetime transcription — if you commit

Voice-first notes

Free but you get what you pay for

AI podcast clipper

Your task manager — simple, reliable, everywhere

Free tasks + time tracking

Dedicated time tracker for logging hours

Premium task+calendar — pricey Todoist alternative

Prettiest task manager — Apple only

AI tracks how you spend time

Dedicated Pomodoro timer

AI search engine — sources not vibes

Funnels highlights into your PKM

Readwise's read-later companion

RSS command center

Free web highlighting

Tool discovery hub

Your tech news pulse

Earnings calls for investment research

Newsletter inbox declutter

AI note-taker from media

Another read-later

Free library books on your phone

Audible library backup

Academic citation manager

Web → vault pipeline

Pretty bookmark manager

AI content collection

Default cloud storage

Apple cloud — cheap and seamless

Privacy-first vault sync

Your own personal cloud

Microsoft's Drive

The millennial of cloud storage

SyncThing alternative

Photo cloud — AI search is useful

The email default

Every company uses it

Private email for when security matters

Expensive keyboard shortcuts — hard pass

Email + fitness helper

The calendar

Google Cal alt for Notion users

Community hub

Power-user messenger

Global standard messenger

Corporate meetings — because you have to

The one launcher to rule them all

Zapier but self-hosted and free

Windows macro king

Windows utility pack

Easy web automation — but costly

Open-source text expander

AI prompt patterns library

AI text detector

Grep repos without cloning

Magic VPN mesh — any device from anywhere

The design tool

Universal diagramming — free

AI text → diagrams

Phone doc scanner

Recording/streaming powerhouse

Screenshot Swiss army knife

Quick edits and social content

Hollywood-grade editing — for free

Edit video like editing text

Auto-zoom screen recorder

Premium screenshots — ShareX is free

Open-source quick screen recording

Videos with code

Consumer video editor

Windows screenshot — fine for quick grabs

Dev slides in markdown

Music default — discovery unmatched

When audio quality matters

Great if all-in on Apple

Best for obscure and live recordings

Track every song across platforms

Audiobook library

AI music creation

Best-in-class AI voices

AI video generation

AI pixel art generator

Financial dashboard — everything in one place

Quick trades, simple portfolio

Social investing platform

Put money on your predictions

Kalshi's decentralized rival

Crowdfunded real estate

OG calorie tracker

Point camera at food for calories

Open-source, cheap, reliable

Bitwarden for dev secrets

Container everything

Git with a GUI

GitHub alt with CI/CD

The cloud for serious infra

PDF→markdown if you can get it running

The spreadsheet — formulas and data

Collaborative docs — free and universal

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