6 AI Tools You Should ACTUALLY Use in 2026!

guy is moving insanely fast and because of that it feels like every week there's a new tool everyone's talking about. But let's be honest, most of these tools don't actually change your life or you don't end up using them. You tried them once, forget about them, and go back to the same apps you always use. So today, I want to cut through the noise and show you AI tools you actually will use in 2026. The ones that are practical, free to try, and genuinely useful no matter what you do. So, let's get into it.

Let's start with Perplexity, the tool that makes researching anything almost effortless. This is way more than AI search. It's like having a personal research assistant that pulls real sources, simplifies information, and gives you clean answers fast. It matters because it gives you multi-source answers, citations are included, summaries of complex topics, and is great for students, self-arners, or any professional. So to test it out and show you guys its capabilities, I'm going to ask Perplexity to explain quantum computing, blockchain, and protein folding in simple terms, then compare them in a clean chart. Now let's see what it does. So Perplexity gives you an overview of all three concepts, recognizes that they are different, and then gives you a simple view for each of them, quantum computing, blockchain, and protein folding. as well. It then gives you a side-by-side comparison of all of them and breaks it down into its aspect like what it is, the main goal, the core idea in simple terms, where it's used or explored, maturity today, and how it links to other things like for example sometimes used to track scientific data or drug supply chains that may involve proteinbased products. So you can see that Perplexity was able to take all this complex information, summarize it in a simple manner, and if you're a student trying to learn something new or a professional trying to grasp a new concept, Perplexity should be the tool that you should be using. Next is Gemini

3 Pro. This is the model you use when you want to make something. Websites, UI layouts, concepts, prototypes. Gemini is incredibly good at transforming ideas into real usable outputs. And it matters because it can turn your sketches into actual websites, understands your images, and writes clean, functional code, and is great for creative planning. To show you guys this, I've given Gemini this sketch, and I've told it to turn it into a clean, responsive homepage using HTML and CSS and explain your choices. So now it's doing that at the moment. And let's see what it creates. So Gemini was able to create this wireframe app based on my sketch. And as you can see, it's already making it interactive where I can have the sliders go to min and max. Change the options here. Have a text input here as well. A okay button and a cancel button. Other properties like settings and much on the side. So you can see this was crazy. It was able to create that in 10 seconds. So if you're somebody that wants to create something a website or wants to be creative in general, Gemini is the place to go with Nano Banana Pro as well Gemini 3 Pro. Next up, we have

DeepSeek version 3. 2. 2. Deepseek version 3. 2 took over the internet for a reason. Its reasoning ability is insane, especially considering it's free and open- source. If you need clear steps, solid logic, and structured thinking, this is the tool to use. It matters because it's excellent for step-by-step explanations, great for problem solving, surprisingly strong at coding, and amazing for learning, planning, or studying. To show you guys its capabilities, I've asked Deep Sea to create a simple three-day workout plan for a complete beginner, include variations, and explain the logic behind each exercise. So, let's see what it creates. So, Deep Seek is amazing because it's able to number one, show me exactly what I have to do each day. Provides me a variation for it just in case I don't have the capability or the equipment necessary to do that. And then provides logic. It tells you it teaches hip hinging and knee bending which is essential for daily movements. Or another example could be body weight rows. Use a study table or body horizontal pullchested table if you don't have that. The logic behind that is that it counters push movements and strengthens your back and improves posture. So Deep Seek took that and provided me a simple plan. So this is where it shines. It provides you reasoning structure and clarity as well. It includes progression principles and key mindset tips. So, if you're somebody that needs help with anything that requires some reasoning, logic, or a clear understanding of it, Deepc gives you that without any fluff. Now, let's

talk about Replet agents. Even if you're not a programmer, this tool is incredibly useful in 2026. It works with you like a real developer, writing code, explaining it, and fixing errors as you go. is basically a coding agent. It matters because it writes and explains code for you, builds full project folders, debugs in real time, and is great for learning or even prototyping apps that you could have thought of over the weekend. So, let's test this out. I'm going to ask Replet to build a simple budgeting app where I can add expenses and see the total. And I wanted to use clean code. So, let's go. Replet also allows you to modify the plan based on what it has created. So, has given me a plan. I can modify it, but I'm not going to at the moment. And then I'm going to ask it to build the entire app, or you can ask it to start with the design. Let's just do build the entire app. So, our budgeting app is live, and you can see it's very clean and simple, and it was able to do that all on the side while it's going on. And right now, the application is also testing the app out. As you can see, Replet agents make coding feel collaborative and is perfect for beginners or somebody that's just trying to create a simple application for personal use. People have also used Replet to publish real life apps. So this is a perfect tool that you could be using in 2026. AI video absolutely

exploded in 2026. Tools like Cling, Pika, and Dream Machine give you the power to create cinematic shots, B-roll, or animations with just a simple prompt. It's perfect for YouTube, Tik Tok reels, and it creates smooth camera motions. It could turn images also into video animation and is great for storytelling or content creation. To show you guys this, I've asked Clink to create a 5-second cinematic clip of a futuristic city at sunset with smooth camera motion. So, let's see what it does. A few years ago, this kind of shot took hours of editing. Now, it's 10 seconds and it's only a simple prompt. So, just imagine what the future will be in 2026. So, if you're into making YouTube videos, Tik Tok videos, or even for any creative projects and you need some B-roll or some raw interesting footage, you can use tools like Cling AI, Pika, and Dream Machine to give you that. And

finally, Google Anti-gravity. One of the most futuristic and underrated tools that you can use in 2026. It's not a chatbot. It's actually an environment for building AI agents that actually do things and is powered by the top models like Gemini 3 Pro. It matters because it allows you to build multi-step AI agents, built-in browser plus file tools to debug the program, step-by-step testing and debugging, and is great for automating daily tasks. To show you this, I'm going to ask anti-gravity to build me an agent that checks tomorrow's weather, creates an outfit suggestion, and saves it to a text file. So, let's see this. You can now see that the agent is actually running terminal commands by itself without me having to do anything. So, this shows you how powerful these agents have gotten, especially with Google Anti-gravity and Gemini 3 Pro. As we can see here, Google Anti-gravity created a whole Python script to fetch the temperature and suggest a appropriate outfit for me to wear tomorrow and is supposed to generate a outfit suggestion text file, which is over here. And you can see that tomorrow is forecasted to be 1. 2° C with a low of -7. 7° C. And the chance of precipitation is at 15%. So, the outfit it suggested is that it's cold. Wear a heavy coat, scarf, and gloves. So, this was something it created with a simple prompt, and it's able to run this in the background without me having to do anything. This is what makes real AI assistant look like, not just answers, but actual actions. And this is the ability of Google Anti-gravity at the moment. I can't imagine what 2026 will

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