Companion site - Appendix B (live)

Tools Directory.

Last reviewed: May 2026. Pricing is shown in the currency the vendor uses on their public pricing page. Confirm at the link before paying.

Tool Tag Where Price Best for
Bolt CODE bolt.new Free; paid from $20/mo Building small web apps from a sentence
ChatGPT CHAT chatgpt.com Free; Plus $20/mo The Swiss-army-knife. The one most people meet first.
Claude CHAT claude.ai Free; Pro $20/mo (UK GBP 15.99) Long, careful answers; coding; writing.
Claude Artifacts CODE Inside claude.ai Included with Claude Pro Quick single-file apps in chat
Claude Code CODE claude.com/code Via Claude Pro/Max Developer-level agentic coding
Copilot (M365) CHAT Inside Microsoft 365 From GBP 24.70/user/mo AI inside Word, Excel, Outlook
Cowork mode WORKFLOW Claude desktop app Included with Claude paid Multi-step tasks involving your files
DALL-E IMAGE Inside ChatGPT Included with ChatGPT Plus Quick image generation
Gemini CHAT gemini.google.com Free; Advanced GBP 18.99/mo Search-aware Q&A; works inside Google apps
Lovable CODE lovable.dev Free; paid from $20/mo Longer, more ambitious app builds
Midjourney IMAGE midjourney.com From $10/mo Art-style imagery, covers, illustrations
Perplexity SEARCH perplexity.ai Free; Pro $20/mo Sourced answers, current events
Replit Agents CODE replit.com Free; paid from $20/mo Longer projects, hosting included
Skills (Claude) WORKFLOW Inside Claude Included with Claude Pro Anything you repeat. Save it, reuse it.
Stable Diffusion IMAGE stability.ai Free if self-hosted Local image generation; full control
Suno IMAGE suno.com Free; paid from $10/mo Short original songs, jingles

Tags: CHAT general chatbots  |  IMAGE image, audio, video  |  CODE app builders  |  SEARCH research  |  WORKFLOW orchestrators.