Supercharge Your Productivity With These 8 Powerful AI

While we wait for artificial intelligence to replace us at work and take over the world with an army of autonomous drones, we might as well take advantage of its benefits. As far as useful AI tools go, ChatGPT is the obvious place to turn because it's free, intuitive, and well-known. But there's also a whole bevy of AI-supported browser extensions that can transcribe YouTube videos, summarize articles, and correct your grammar. Here are the best productivity-boosting applications, from Compose AI to Perplexity.

Price: $39 a month and up

Need to write an email, a witty Twitter thread, or a creative title? Jasper's browser extension will do that and more without having to toggle back and forth between two windows. You simply have to click, write a prompt, and wait for Jasper to generate text that you can edit, copy, and paste. The biggest downside is that Jasper costs a pretty penny at nearly $40 a month.

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Price: free

When it comes to leveraging ChatGPT, coming up with a decent prompt is half the battle. Outsource that work with this free, open-source extension, which will let you save, share, and discover top-tier prompts within the app's community.

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Price: free

If there's one tool you pick from the list, it should be Fireflies. The ChatGPT-powered extension can record, transcribe, and summarize meetings. And using the same technology, it has the ability to digest and condense information from articles, emails, YouTube videos, and other web content. You can try out Fireflies for free, though you’ll have to pay upwards of $10 a month if you want unlimited transcription credits and additional features.

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Price: free

Think of this like an easy-to-use ChatGPT sidebar. You can highlight the Wikipedia article for Socrates and ask the extension to summarize the text, or you can ask the AI to explain a complex news article. Free users can send up to 30 queries to use the GPT 3.5-enabled version, while premium users get access to more queries and GPT 4.

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Price: free

Compose is another writing-focused tool that works by offering autocomplete suggestions, rephrasing sentences, and using prompts to generate text. It's also contextually aware, so it will tailor its voice depending on where and what you’re writing. The free version offers fairly strict limits on how often you can use it, but users can pay upwards of $10 a month to unlock unlimited autocomplete suggestions and other features.

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Price: free

Perplexity augments the power of ChatGPT by marrying its artificial intelligence with Google. That means that when you ask Perplexity a question, it will feed you a detailed answer along with a list of online sources. Because it's integrated with the search engine, you can also ask website-specific questions. Say, for example, you’re browsing Apple's website and you want to know which computer has the strongest processor. The AI will know that you’re on Apple's website and will generate a relevant answer.

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Price: free

Like most of these AI-powered extensions, Wiseone excels at transforming Wikipedia articles, news stories, and other web pages into a short, digestible bullet-point list and brief summaries. But Wiseone stands out thanks to its suggestion feature, which generates a list of similar content, allowing you to cross-check and deepen your understanding of a topic.

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Price: free

If there's one browser extension you’ve already heard of on this list, it's probably Grammarly, which predates the recent AI revolution. As its name suggests, the Grammarly extension checks your writing — whether in an email or Google Doc — for errors that many built-in correction tools overlook. While the free version is fully functional, paying for a Premium or Business membership will unlock more features, such as plagiarism detection and suggestions based on tone, clarity, and even formatting.

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