The tools I actually use.
Not a list of everything that exists. This is the short list of things that are open on my machine in a normal week — what each one is for, and the part about it I'd want to know before paying.
Worth saying up front
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An AI video platform built around camera control — you pick the shot (dolly in, crash zoom, orbit, whip pan) rather than describing it and hoping the model understood. It turns a still image or a line of text into a short clip, and it bundles most of the current video models behind one interface instead of making you hold an account with each of them.
What I use it for
The b-roll in the reels. When a video needs a shot I can't film — a product spinning on a table, a camera pushing through a doorway, an object that doesn't exist yet — that clip gets generated here and cut in with the footage I shot on a phone.
The honest bit
It's a credit system, so heavy use gets expensive faster than a flat subscription suggests. And the first generation is rarely the one you use — budget for three or four attempts at any shot that matters, because that's the real cost of every tool in this category, not just this one.
★ Why it's this short
A list of fifty tools helps nobody.
Every one of these earns its place by being something I opened this week. When I stop using one it comes off the page, commission or not — a list that only ever grows is a list that stopped being true a while ago.