AI Tools & Services

AI tools and services

In this section, we give you an overview of how you can get to know AI-supported work with various tools and services. We have divided them into different areas, which, like the tools and services, are still in flux.

We asked ourselves the following questions when making our selection:

Is the tool/service usable for beginners?
Can it be used free of charge?
Are the user interface and explanatory help also available in German?
Can we assume that the requirements of the GDPR are taken into account?
Which 3 to 5 are currently our best recommendations?

(Registration is often required as a minimum.)

Overview AI Tools and Services

Tips & recommendations

There is so much going on here that we could add to or expand this section every day. Free offers may use older AI applications that are less powerful or have less up-to-date information. Those who use paid tools often have a wider range of functions.

With some tools and services, it makes sense to make entries in English despite the German-language interface. The AIs have often been trained with English-language data.

Well-known Office applications such as Microsoft 365 are gradually offering corporate customers corresponding extensions or integrations. Keep an eye on these providers in any case:

ChatGPT: Communication via text, audio and image input as well as image generation in a paid Plus version.
Microsoft 365 Copilot: AI-supported assistance in Microsoft products for text creation, summaries, text revisions, image search or generation of presentations.

Multimodal AI tools

These offerings provide several tools for the various application areas under one roof.

Bing Chat / Copilot: Communication via text, audio and image input as well as code generation on the basis of GPT-4; Image generation with Dall-E 3; Range of functions depends on operating system, German-language, free basic use.
Fobizz Tools: Tools for schools and further education for chats with historical figures, text summaries, converting spoken content into text, handwriting recognition, image generation, free basic use, GDPR-compliant. Test different AI models with one registration (Image: Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion; Text & Chat: _Luminous Extended, GPT3.5 turbo, GPT4, Open Assistant, Claude 2).
Neuroflash: ChatFlash, ContentFlash, ImageFlash and PerformanceFlash for text creation, text revision, image creation, German-language, free basic use, GDPR-compliant.
Poe: Test various AI models in chat with one registration (currently including ChatGPT & GPT-4, Claude Instant & Claude 2, StableDiffusionXL, PaLM, Llama 2), free basic use.
You.Com: Tools YouChat, YouCode, YouImagine, YouWrite for research, text creation, code assistance and image generation, English-language, free basic use.

AI tools for text

AI text tools allow you to interact with the tool as if you were having a conversation with another person. They support online research and provide a wide range of assistance with text creation, translations and revisions.

AudioPen: Generates monolingual or multilingual text from multilingual, even indistinct or stitched language input, can revise texts in style in paid version, free basic use.
Gemini (formerly Bard): AI experiment from Google that can be used to generate translations and texts, German-language, free basic use.
Bing Chat / Copilot: Communication via text, audio and image input on the basis of _GPT-4;_functional scope depends on the operating system, German-language, free use.
BlogMojo: Text creation with style of the individual blog, German-language, free basic use, GDPR-compliant.
ChatGPT: Text chat for text development, translation, text editing etc. with data status until January 2023, free basic use.
Claude 2: Can be used in Europe via Fobizz Tools and Poe (see above).
Deepl: Translations and DeeplWrite for text improvement with various style selections, German-language, free basic use, GDPR-compliant.
Luminous: Sentiment analysis and text generation categorized according to various application scenarios, English-language interface, free basic use, GDPR-compliant.
Pi: Text chat with voice output on various topics as an empathic counterpart, English-language, free to use.

AI tools for code

Code tools with AI are innovative programs that help developers work more efficiently. They generate short code snippets, open discussions about different approaches and provide explanations for code fragments. They can also be used to revise existing code in order to improve its quality.

AWS CodeWhisperer: Code assistance for Amazon Web Services cloud developments with code suggestions and security scans, supports 15 programming languages, can be used in a free individual tariff, DSGVO-compliant.
Bing Chat / Copilot: Code assistance for various programming languages, German-language, free basic use.
ChatGPT: Code assistance for various programming languages with a focus on Python, German-language, free basic use.
Github Copilot: Code assistance that provides suggestions and optimizations for software code, free trial use.
YouCode: Code assistance (see above)

AI tools for images

Image tools use AI to generate and optimize photos and graphics. Text instructions are processed, understood and used accordingly to generate suitable images. They are able to generate so-called deepfakes: photos (or videos) in which the facial features of a person are transferred to the image of another person.

Adobe Express: Generation of images as well as editing and enhancement of images, German-language, free basic use.
Bing Creator: Image generation with DALL-E, German-language, free basic use.
CivitAI: Image generation with template selection and text prompt, English language, registration required, free basic use.
Use Midjourney (for a fee) use via Discord, web interface or Poe (see above).
Stable Diffusion WebUI / Stable Difusion App: in addition to the online tool, can also be used offline and without a subscription on your own computer.

AI tools for audio

Audio tools with AI allow voice input to control applications. They can generate natural-looking speech based on text input. Some tools replace the audio track of a video file, for example with a translation of the spoken text, for so-called dubbing. Other tools are capable of voice cloning, i.e. transferring the characteristics of a spoken voice to a synthesized voice output.

AudioPen: Generates monolingual or multilingual text from multilingual, even slurred or stitched speech input, free basic use.
Descript: Tool that generates summaries and social media posts from voice recordings, offers speech generated from text and voice cloning with AI Voices, free basic use.
ElevenLabs: Generates high-quality audio from text input with emotions in many languages, large selection of voices, dubbing of videos, voice cloning and audiobook development, free basic use.
Murf: High-quality German-language voices, free basic use, GDPR-compliant.
MacWhisper: Fast, secure and accurate speech recognition on MacOS or iOS devices, 100 supported languages, free basic use.

AI tools for video

Video tools use AI to generate suitable videos from text input or animate human-like avatars whose movements and facial expressions look very realistic. By transferring the characteristics of a real person to a person in a video, some tools can create so-called deepfakes that look extremely realistic.

FlexClip: Video editor with many AI-supported functions for generating videos from text input or video editing, German-language, free basic use.
Heygen: Video generation with human avatars in many languages from text script, free demo video, GDPR-compliant.
Synthesia: Multilingual generation of videos with real-looking avatars from text input, free demo video.
Pictory: Converts text input into videos or creates short videos from video content, free basic use.

Additional AI tools: Discover even more possibilities

In addition to well-known AI applications, there are numerous other exciting tools. For example:

Auphonic: Improve the audio quality of video / audio, free basic use, GDPR-compliant.
Gamma: Creates presentation with content from briefing (up to 100 characters), English interface, processes multilingual input and can generate slides with German-sounding text, free basic use.
MiroAssist: AI extension for online whiteboards with Miro. fee-based Miro use, Miro is GDPR-compliant.
Semantic Scholar: AI-driven search and research tools for the global research community, free of charge.

Various online platforms, such as Futurepedia, provide an overview of the broad and constantly growing range of AI-supported tools: