About

Who I Am

I'm Alex, and I run this site. I'm not a journalist and I'm not affiliated with any AI company — I'm someone who uses these tools every day to get actual work done.

That distinction matters. Most "best AI tools" articles are written by people who spent twenty minutes with a free tier and then ranked fifteen products. I don't do that here.

How I Test

Every tool reviewed on this site goes through the same process:

  1. Real task, not a demo prompt. If I'm testing a writing tool, I use it on

a piece I actually need to ship. If it's an image tool, it's for a real project.

  1. At least two weeks of use. The first-hour impression is almost always wrong.

Tools that look magical in a demo fall apart on edge cases; tools that look boring often turn out to be the ones you keep using.

  1. I note the failures. Every review includes what went wrong — errors,

rate limits, weird output, pricing surprises. A review without a drawback section is marketing, not a review.

  1. Screenshots come from my own screen. No stock images, no marketing

material from the vendor.

What I Cover

  • AI chat and reasoning models — which one for which job, and where the

free tiers actually end

  • Image generation — practical workflows, not prompt-collection dumps
  • Video generation — the most expensive category, so cost control matters most
  • Voice and audio — dubbing, narration, music
  • API access — for developers who want to wire these into their own apps

Independence

I buy most subscriptions myself. When a vendor provides free access, I say so in the review.

Some pages contain affiliate links and advertising. This never changes a verdict — if a tool is bad, I say it's bad, and I've published negative reviews of tools that pay well elsewhere. That's the only way this site is worth anything.

Get In Touch

Found something wrong, or want me to test a specific tool? Contact me — I read everything.