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of must-have tools for the job you do
Pick your role and get one reviewed tool per job, with the real price and the catch written down, so you stop paying for three apps that do the same thing.
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Each stack covers the everyday jobs with as few tools as we could get away with.
minylist for
Founders
Shipping the product, the content and the follow-ups with no team behind you yet.
Dictation · First app · Social posting · Explainer video · Recurring chores · Customer chats
minylist for
Marketers
Running paid ads, content and social, and needing more creative than you can brief.
Ad creative · Conversion tracking · Short copy · Social posting · Presenter video · DM lead replies
minylist for
AI builders
Running models, agents and apps without a per-seat AI bill.
Back-office agents · App building · Dictating prompts · Web data for agents
minylist for
Freelancers
Selling your own time and needing the admin, writing and promotion to take less of it.
Writing · Promotion · Client videos · Dictation · Recurring chores
Top-rated tools
The 9 highest scores right now; the full list lets you filter by category and price.
HeyGen
AI
Turn a script into a video with an AI avatar, in your language
Typefully
Marketing
Write, schedule and publish social posts from one editor
Typeless
Productivity
Speak instead of type, and get clean text in any app
AnyTrack
Analytics
No-code conversion tracking that feeds your ad platforms
Apify
Developer Tools
A marketplace of ready-made scrapers and AI tools, run in the cloud
Arcads
AI
AI actors that turn a product link into a video ad
Crawl4AI
Developer Tools
Open-source crawler that turns websites into LLM-ready Markdown
Firecrawl
Developer Tools
Turn any website into clean Markdown or JSON for AI agents
MWM AI
Developer Tools
Describe an app and a squad of AI agents builds it natively
Each listing is a review we wrote, including the parts vendors leave off the pricing page
Most directories paste the vendor's blurb and move on. We write down what we'd want to know before a purchase order goes in, which is usually the stuff the blurb skips.
Highest rated right now
HeyGen
4.4out of 5
The broadest AI avatar video tool for training, sales and marketing clips, and the strongest pick when one video has to exist in several languages. The credit system sets your real cost, so test your own script on the free plan before you pick a tier.
The price you'll actually pay
Skip the banner price; each review walks through the plans and tells you where the free tier stops.
The limits we found
Arcads
Credits meter every render, and Arcads doesn't show what they cost until you sign up. A large hook-testing round can use a month's allowance quickly. AI-generated actors also fall under each ad network's synthetic-media rules, which can change under you.
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Firecrawl
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Zapier
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Bubble
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Buffer
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