New AI tools launch every single week — and most of them are noise. The MTD AI Tools Directory is our curated, regularly updated collection of the AI tools actually worth your attention: trending launches from Product Hunt and the open-source projects developers are building with on GitHub. Every roundup below is hand-reviewed by our team, with honest notes on pricing, strengths, and caveats.
Latest tool roundups
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ChartGen AI Review: The AI Chart Generator That Hit #1 on Product Hunt
Every business runs on charts that nobody wants to make. The weekly revenue report, the client-facing dashboard, the board deck with forty slides of bar charts — someone has to build them, format them, and fix them every time the numbers move. ChartGen AI, a free AI chart generator from a Singapore-based team, promises to…
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Diagram Design: The AI Diagram Generator for Developers Who Are Done With Mermaid Slop
If you have ever asked a coding agent to “make an architecture diagram” and received back a generic rounded-box Mermaid chart that looks like every other AI-generated diagram on the internet, you already know the problem this post is about. Diagram Design is an AI diagram generator for developers — an open-source agent skill with…
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Articuler AI Review: The AI Professional Networking Platform That Matches by Intent
AI professional networking is having a moment, and Articuler is the sharpest new entrant we have seen. The pitch is disarmingly simple: describe your goal in plain language — “I need warm introductions to fintech CTOs in the Gulf” — and the platform matches you with the right professionals using intent, not job-title keyword searches.…
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Agentic AI Video Creation: Inside ArtCraft, the 31,800-Star “IDE for Artists”
Agentic AI video creation has a dirty secret: the models got astonishingly good, but the workflow got worse. One prompt box, one black-box render, one disappointed creative director. ArtCraft, the open-source project that calls itself “the IDE for artists,” takes the opposite bet — that the future of AI filmmaking is not better prompting, but…
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Web Scraping for AI Agents: A Hands-On HasData Review
If you are building AI agents that need fresh web data, web scraping for AI agents is the unglamorous infrastructure problem nobody warns you about. LLMs are great at reasoning; they are terrible at fetching a JavaScript-heavy page behind Cloudflare. The verdict up front: HasData is a managed scraping service that turns any URL into…
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Billion Context: Context Compression for AI Coding Agents That Claims 5x Fewer Tokens
Billion Context is a context compression plugin for AI coding agents that promises something most agent-heavy teams would pay real money for: a single coding session that runs for days or even weeks — billions of tokens through one conversation — inside a modest 100K-token context window, using a claimed five times fewer tokens. The…
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Naptick Review: The AI Sleep App That Works Before Bedtime
Verdict up front: Naptick is the most interesting AI sleep app we have looked at in 2026, and the reason is embarrassingly simple. It targets the thirty minutes before you fall asleep instead of writing a report on the eight hours after. Most sleep products are morning journalists: they hand you a sleep score, tell…
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AI Text to CAD Generator: How text-to-cad Gives Your Agent CAD Superpowers
An AI text to CAD generator sounds like science fiction: you describe a part in plain English and a real, manufacturable 3D model comes out the other side. That is exactly what text-to-cad does — and unlike the demo-ware AI CAD tools of 2024, it plugs straight into the coding agents you already use, including…
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Kelviq Review: AI Billing for SaaS Without the Tax Headache (2026)
If you are selling AI billing for SaaS is the part of your stack nobody warns you about. You ship the product, find your first customers, then spend weeks wiring up Stripe subscriptions, VAT invoices, usage meters for AI tokens, and the nagging fear that you owe tax in fourteen countries. Kelviq is a 2026…
How we choose tools for this directory
- Verifiable traction — Product Hunt votes and badges, GitHub stars and commit activity, real user discussion. Hype alone does not qualify.
- Business relevance — every tool must solve a real problem for a real team, not just demo well.
- Honest economics — we note pricing, credit burn, and the hidden costs (setup time, infrastructure) that marketing pages skip.
- No paid placements — tools earn their spot here. If that ever changes, we will label it clearly.
We update this directory as new tools trend — bookmark it and check back. Want help evaluating which of these tools fit your business, or integrating AI into your existing systems? Talk to our team — 9+ years, 300+ projects, and a healthy skepticism toward launch-day hype.