Shazam Review: Identify Any Song in Seconds, Free on Your Phone
Shazam is the app that answers the question “what song is this?” You hold your phone up to a speaker, and within a few seconds it identifies the track, artist and album. It has been around since 2002, was acquired by Apple in 2018, and…
Perplexity Review: The AI Search Engine That Cites Its Sources
Perplexity is a search engine that answers questions with synthesized summaries rather than ten blue links. Every answer comes with inline citations to the pages it used, which makes it the closest thing to an AI research assistant. It is not a…
Claude Review: The AI Assistant That Reads Longer and Reasons More Carefully
Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant, and it has built a reputation as the model that reads long documents carefully, writes polished prose and refuses to be careless. It is the closest competitor to ChatGPT for general-purpose AI work, and in…
Claude Review: The AI Assistant That Reads Longer and Reasons More Carefully
Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant, and it has built a reputation as the model that reads long documents carefully, writes polished prose and refuses to be careless. It is the closest competitor to ChatGPT for general-purpose AI work, and in…
Midjourney Review: The AI Image Generator That Set the Creative Standard
Midjourney is the AI image generator that made people stop arguing about whether machines could make art. It launched in 2022 as a Discord bot, and within months its outputs were indistinguishable from professional concept art. Today it is a standalone…
Adobe Acrobat Review: The PDF Standard for Editing, Signing and Forms
Adobe Acrobat is the application that created the PDF format, and nearly thirty years later it is still the reference point for PDF work. It reads, edits, creates, signs, OCRs and secures PDF files. It is also expensive and subscription-only, which is…
WPS Office Review: A Free Microsoft Office Compatible Suite for Any Device
WPS Office is a free office suite that reads and writes Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files without breaking formatting. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android, and it is especially popular on Chromebooks and low-end hardware where…
InShot Review: The Simplest Mobile Video Editor for Social Media
InShot is the phone-based video editor that asks nothing of you: open the app, pick a clip, trim it, add music, export. It is not a professional tool, and it does not pretend to be. It exists because most people need to make a social video in five…
DaVinci Resolve Review: Hollywood-Grade Editing and Color Grading for Free
DaVinci Resolve is the rare piece of software that is used on Hollywood films and available for free. It combines video editing, color grading, audio post-production and visual effects in a single application, and the free version is more capable than…
Snapseed Review: Google’s Free Photo Editor That Lives in Your Pocket
Snapseed is Google’s free mobile photo editor, and it remains one of the best apps on a phone for serious photo adjustment. It has no subscription, no ads and no watermark, and it packs tools that most mobile editors lock behind a paywall. The…