Essential AI Tools for Students: A Comprehensive Reference Guide
This guide provides a curated list of AI tools that students can utilise for various purposes, including text generation, image and video creation, music generation, and neural network visualisation.
AI notebook assistant
Google AI Notebook: https://notebooklm.google/ - Requires a Gmail account and is currently free.
Illuminate: https://illuminate.google.com/ - Transform your content into engaging AI‑generated audio discussions | requires a Gmail account | currently free
LLM-powered knowledge creation
STORM by Stanford: https://storm.genie.stanford.edu/ - Requires an account and is currently free.
Text generator
chatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/ - Can be used without an account.
Claude: https://claude.ai/chats - Requires an account.
Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/app - Requires a Google account.
Meta AI: https://www.meta.ai/ - Requires a Facebook account.
Perplexity AI: https://www.perplexity.ai/ - Requires an account and is good for research.
Mistral AI: https://chat.mistral.ai/ - Requires an account and is currently free.Essential AI Tools for Students: A Com
DeepSeek: https://chat.deepseek.com/ - Requires an account and is currently free.
Image and video generator
Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/home - Paid, accessible via Discord.
Playground: https://playground.com/ - Free for 50 images in 24 hours, requires a Google account.
Leonardo AI: https://app.leonardo.ai/ - Free for 150 tokens per 24 hours, requires an account.
Bing Image Creator: https://www.bing.com/images/create - Requires a Microsoft account.
Recraft AI: https://www.recraft.ai/ - 50 credits per day, requires an account, good for creating icons, vector art and product demos.
Krea AI: https://www.krea.ai/home - Requires an account, offers roughly 900 images in the free plan, and can generate videos.
CGDream: https://cgdream.ai/ - Requires an account, 1200 images per month in the free plan.
Lummi AI: https://www.lummi.ai/ - Requires an account to download, provides high-quality AI stock images, and is currently completely free to use.
Dreamina: https://dreamina.capcut.com/ - 220 credits per day, requires an account
Dream Lab: https://www.canva.com/dream-lab - 500 credits, requires an account
Adobe Firefly: https://firefly.adobe.com/ - 500 credits per month, requires an account
AI background remover
Removebg: https://www.remove.bg/ - free and no account is required
BG Bye: https://bgbye.fyrean.com/ - free and no account is required
Music generator
Suno: https://suno.com/ - Requires an account.
Neural network visualisation
TensorSpace: https://tensorspace.org/html/playground/lenet.html
CovNet Visualization: https://blog.terencebroad.com/archive/convnetvis/vis.html
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