I Tried 100+ AI Tools – These 8 Can Actually Make You Money

Most AI tools promise the world and then quietly sit on your desktop doing nothing. But a small handful can genuinely save you hours, replace entire workflows, and even open up new ways to make money.

Below are eight such tools: from auto-generating ad creatives to building full-stack apps from prompts. If you’re serious about using AI to earn more and work less, these are worth your time.

1. Pomely AI – Turn Any Website into Ready-to-Run Ads

Pomely AI is a new Google tool that can turn any website into a full set of ad creatives in minutes. You paste a URL, and it automatically pulls branding assets like colors, products, and messaging from the page.

From there, it generates multiple ad variations for your brand—both static images and short video ads. These videos can even feature an AI influencer-style character demonstrating or talking about the product, ready to be used on platforms like Instagram and Facebook.

This effectively compresses the work of designers, copywriters, and video editors into a single click. For DTC brands, agencies, or solo creators, Pomely AI can become a fast way to test new angles, creatives, and campaigns without hiring a full marketing team.

2. Miro Flows – Turn Brainstorms into Actionable Projects

Miro is already popular as a visual whiteboard for teams. Miro Flows adds an AI layer that solves a common problem: you end a great brainstorming session with a messy canvas and no clear next steps.

With Flows, you run your session as usual—sticky notes, ideas, diagrams—and then let AI convert that chaos into structured outputs like project plans, content calendars, campaign breakdowns, or summary docs. It handles the “after-thinking” work: organizing, structuring, and translating ideas into tasks.

Miro also offers AI “Sidekicks” you can drop into a specific part of your board to:

• Pressure-test a decision
• Summarize documents or feedback
• Answer questions based on what’s on the canvas

Instead of replacing your thinking, it automates everything that happens after the thinking—perfect for content teams, product planning, and marketing campaigns. If you like the idea of consolidating multiple tools into one AI workspace, you may also find this deep dive on using a single AI workspace useful.

3. Granola AI – Private, Automatic Meeting Notes

Granola AI is a note-taking assistant for meetings with a twist: it doesn’t have to join the call as a visible participant.

You simply turn it on locally on your Mac. It listens to your system audio, captures what’s being said, and then generates a clean summary and notes right after the call ends.

Because it doesn’t show up as a meeting attendee, people are less self-conscious and more likely to speak naturally. Granola is especially useful if you:

• Hate taking notes while trying to stay present in the conversation
• Have frequent client or team calls and need quick follow-ups
• Want a free, low-friction way to capture meeting outcomes

It’s a simple tool, but it quietly removes a repetitive task from your day.

4. Claude Co-Work – An AI Operator for Your Desktop

Claude Co-Work is a desktop companion (currently on Mac) that comes with the paid Claude subscription. Instead of just chatting in a browser, you can ask it to directly interact with your files and apps.

Some practical things it can do:

• Read files and build presentations from them
• Analyze PDFs or long documents
• Resize files, add signatures, or perform batch operations
• Automate repetitive multi-step workflows on your computer

The standout feature is scheduled tasks. You can define a workflow—like researching content, processing files, or generating reports—and tell Claude Co-Work to run it automatically at set times (for example, every day at 9 a.m.), as long as your laptop is on.

One powerful use case is content research: you can have it scan X (Twitter) daily for viral AI posts, turn them into short-form video scripts, and hand you a list of ready-to-record ideas. That’s the kind of work that used to require multiple people—researchers and scriptwriters—now compressed into a single automated routine for a relatively low monthly cost.

5. Birds Eye – Map What You Know and Discover What You Don’t

Birds Eye is a visual learning and knowledge-expansion tool. You start by telling it what you’re interested in—say, machine learning, psychology, or finance—and it shows you related, adjacent topics you might enjoy.

For example, if you’re into machine learning, it might suggest game theory. If you like behavioral science, it might surface connections to marketing or AI safety. These topics appear as a visual map of nodes and links, so you can literally see how ideas connect across fields.

You can also connect your YouTube account. Birds Eye will analyze your watch history, identify the themes you’ve been learning about, and then recommend new areas to explore. It’s a great way to:

• Break out of your usual content bubble
• Discover cross-disciplinary ideas (like applying psychology to AI or biology concepts to finance)
• Build a more structured learning journey around your interests

If you enjoy using AI tools to learn and level up your skills, you might also like our guide on AI tools that are genuinely worth paying for.

6. Google Flow – Make Talking Object Videos That Go Viral

Google Flow is an end-to-end video generation platform that makes it easy to create those viral “talking object” videos you see all over Reels and TikTok—like two food items having a breakup conversation.

Here’s how it works:

• You upload or select an image of an object (for example, an avocado).
• You write a prompt describing what it should say or the scene you want.
• Flow uses Google’s latest video model (V03.1) to generate a short video where that object appears to talk with synced audio.

You can create multiple clips, stitch them together into a narrative, and turn them into a complete short video or reel. For creators and brands, this is a fast way to produce entertaining, shareable content without filming or animating anything manually.

7. Notebook LM – Turn Textbooks into Animated Lessons

Notebook LM is one of Google’s most powerful learning tools. At its core, it lets you upload documents, notes, or research material and then:

• Generate summaries and study guides
• Create audio podcasts explaining the content
• Ask questions and get answers grounded in your sources

Recently, it has added even more features for visual and interactive learning:

• Animated video generation: paste in a textbook chapter or article and get an animated explainer video in minutes, turning dry text into a visual story.
• Infographics: automatically create visual diagrams to understand complex topics at a glance.
• Custom prompts: control the tone and style of the audio or visuals (for example, “explain this like I’m 15” or “make the infographic minimal and clean”).

You can also search for topics directly inside Notebook LM, pull in relevant reports or research papers, and add them as sources. Those projects can then be connected to Gemini chat, so you can continue asking deeper questions based on your curated notebook.

For students, researchers, or lifelong learners, Notebook LM is quickly becoming a must-have AI study companion.

8. Google Anti-Gravity – Build Full-Stack Apps from Prompts

Anti-Gravity is an AI-powered IDE (integrated development environment) that runs locally on your laptop. Instead of coding everything by hand in a traditional editor, you describe what you want to build in natural language, and the tool helps you generate and manage the code.

Key advantages include:

• Local-first: your code and files live on your machine, not just in the cloud.
• Full-stack support: you can build end-to-end web apps—from frontend to backend—through prompts and guided edits.
• Model flexibility: you can plug in different AI models, including the latest Gemini models or Claude Sonnet 4.6, depending on your preference.

Think of it as a next-generation version of Visual Studio Code, but with AI deeply integrated into every step: scaffolding projects, generating components, wiring APIs, and refactoring code. For indie hackers, startup founders, or developers who want to move faster, Anti-Gravity can dramatically shorten the time from idea to working prototype.

How to Turn These Tools into Real Results

Used well, these tools can do far more than just “save time.” They can help you:

• Launch and test ad campaigns with almost no creative overhead (Pomely AI, Google Flow)
• Run smoother projects and content pipelines (Miro Flows, Claude Co-Work)
• Capture and organize knowledge automatically (Granola AI, Notebook LM)
• Learn faster and think more broadly (Birds Eye, Notebook LM)
• Ship real products and apps without a big dev team (Google Anti-Gravity)

The key is to plug them into real workflows: client work, content creation, side projects, or your studies. Start with one or two tools that solve your biggest bottleneck today, master them, and then layer in the others as you grow.