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CATEGORY 06 · 22 TOOLS

Video & avatars

AI video generation, avatars, UGC-style ads and captions.

ESSENTIAL IN VIDEO & AVATARS

  1. HeyGen

    AI avatar video platform: avatars that look, sound and move like you.

    FREE TIER

  2. Mirage (Captions)

    AI-native creative tools for video, motion and sound; the team behind the Captions app.

    PAID

  3. Runway

    Generative video, image and audio platform (Gen-4.5, Aleph) for creators and enterprises.

    FREE TIER

All 22 Video & avatars tools

  1. HeyGen

    AI avatar video platform: avatars that look, sound and move like you.

    EssentialFree tier

  2. Mirage (Captions)

    AI-native creative tools for video, motion and sound; the team behind the Captions app.

    EssentialPaid

  3. Runway

    Generative video, image and audio platform (Gen-4.5, Aleph) for creators and enterprises.

    EssentialFree tier

  4. CapCut

    ByteDance's all-in-one video editor (desktop, web, mobile and tablet) with templates, auto-captions, text-to-speech, background removal and a growing…

    Worth a lookFree tier

  5. Descript

    Edit video and podcasts by editing text; AI tools for clips, voices and fast editing.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  6. Genie (Google DeepMind)

    Google DeepMind's world model: turns a text or image prompt into an interactive, explorable world you can move through in real time.

    Worth a lookSee website

  7. Google Flow

    Google's AI creative studio for cinematic video, images and custom tools.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  8. Higgsfield AI

    AI-native creative suite for video, image and audio, with ad and marketing studios.

    Worth a lookPay as you go

  9. Kling AI

    Next-gen AI video and image generator (Kling 4.0, Kling Image 3.0).

    Worth a lookPay as you go

  10. Luma

    'Creative Agents That Make You Prolific': AI video/image generation with Luma Agents.

    Worth a lookPaid

  11. Mosaic

    Agentic AI video editing platform ('frontier video agents').

    Worth a lookPay as you go

  12. OpusClip

    AI video clipping and editing: turns long videos into viral short clips in one click.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  13. Pika

    Building AI for the future of creative work; launched a Founder Starter Kit of marketing skills.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  14. Remotion

    Make videos programmatically with React; now with agent skills.

    Worth a lookSee website

  15. Riverside Agents (Riverside)

    Riverside, the remote podcast/video recording studio, launched Riverside Agents on 26 Oct 2026 on web and iOS: a Producer (preps and supports your…

    Worth a lookFree tier

  16. Seedance (ByteDance)

    ByteDance Seed's audio-video generation model.

    Worth a lookPricing unknown

  17. Synthesia

    AI video platform for business: avatar videos for training, communication and enterprise learning.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  18. Tavus

    'The human computing company': real-time conversational AI video humans (PALs) via API.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  19. VEED

    AI video creation platform for marketers and solopreneurs.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  20. WanGP (Wan2GP)

    Free, self-hosted web app (by developer DeepBeepMeep) for running open-weight generative models locally on consumer GPUs, aimed at the 'GPU poor'.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  21. Pexo

    AI video agent that turns ideas into videos through natural conversation.

    NicheFree tier

  22. snapcn (Shadcn Labs)

    shadcn registry of Remotion components for product demo videos. 100+ components (text animations, captions, device mockups, AI chat sequences, full…

    NicheFree / open source