Tools
52+ curated AI tools from China and abroad — filter by use case or search by keyword, each with pricing, China access and tips.
即梦 Jimeng
ByteDance's image tool — strong Chinese prompts and a generous free tier
Midjourney
The benchmark for aesthetic quality — go-to for art posters and concept work
可图 Kolors
Kuaishou's image model — solid Chinese text rendering and realistic portraits
哩布哩布 LiblibAI
A China-based online Stable Diffusion platform with a huge model community
通义万相
Alibaba's image tool — rich e-commerce and creative-poster templates
Adobe Firefly
Commercially safer training data and deep Photoshop integration
DALL·E 3
Built into ChatGPT — refine images by chatting, great at complex prompts
Ideogram
Best at rendering English text in images — great for typographic posters and logos
Leonardo.ai
Rich models and controls — a favorite for game art and concept design
Recraft
Generates vectors and consistent brand styles — a designer-oriented tool
Stable Diffusion
Open-source, free, self-hostable and trainable — maximum freedom
WHEE（美图）
Meitu's all-in-one image platform for e-commerce, design and portraits
吐司 TusiArt
Another China-based online SD community with daily free compute
文心一格
Baidu's image tool — handy for Chinese / guochao styles
豆包
ByteDance's easy, free all-round AI assistant
ChatGPT
The best-known AI assistant — broadest capability and ecosystem
Claude
Beloved for writing and coding — nuanced long-context, natural style
DeepSeek
Free China-made LLM with strong reasoning and coding — a breakout hit
腾讯元宝
Tencent's assistant — taps the WeChat ecosystem, great at reading official-account articles
通义千问
Alibaba's assistant — handy for office work, transcription and documents
Gemini
Google's model — strong multimodality, huge context and search integration
Kimi
Great at very long context and web search — strong for papers and long docs
文心一言
Baidu's chat model — solid Chinese knowledge and a plugin ecosystem
智谱清言
Zhipu's assistant — rich agents and office (slides/data) features
可灵 Kling
Kuaishou's top-tier China AI video — natural motion and camera work
Runway
Veteran pro AI video — rich effects and controllable editing
海螺 AI
MiniMax's China video tool — crisp quality and a strong cinematic feel
Luma Dream Machine
Fluid motion and good texture — excellent image-to-video
Pika
Playful creative effects that pop on social media
PixVerse
Rich effect templates — one-tap viral social clips
Sora
OpenAI's text-to-video — strong realism and imagination
Vidu
Shengshu's tool — good subject consistency and fast generation
秘塔写作猫
One-stop Chinese proofreading, polishing and plagiarism check
DeepL
Top-tier translation, plus DeepL Write for polishing English
Grammarly
The benchmark for English grammar and clarity checking
Notion AI
Write, continue and summarize right inside your Notion docs
QuillBot
Strong English paraphrasing and summarizing
Copy.ai
Template-rich marketing copy with GTM workflow automation
Jasper
Marketing-focused copywriting with brand voice at scale
Claude Code
An agent that reads, edits and runs your code from the terminal
Cursor
The most popular AI code editor — chat and edit across your whole project
通义灵码
Alibaba's China-made coding assistant — free for individuals, Chinese-friendly
GitHub Copilot
The original AI pair programmer — solid completion and chat across IDEs
Trae
ByteDance's free AI IDE — Chinese-friendly and easy to start
Windsurf
An agent-first AI IDE with smooth flow — a strong Cursor rival
文心快码 Comate
Baidu's China-made coding assistant — completion and chat, no VPN needed
Gamma
Generate polished decks from a prompt — the benchmark AI presentation tool
通义听悟
Alibaba's meeting & media note-taker — transcribe, summarize, action items
AiPPT
A China-made AI deck maker — tons of templates, Chinese-friendly
Napkin AI
Turn text into professional diagrams and infographics in one click
WPS AI
Built into WPS — AI across docs, sheets and slides
讯飞智文
iFlytek's one-click deck and document generator