Content creation tools: video, image and audio software

A hand-picked directory of software for making and editing video, images and audio. Compare pricing, platforms and features across free, freemium and pro tools.

• Midjourney — The most opinionated image model, and the most consistent look
• AI image generators
• Google Veo — The most convincing motion, with sound
• AI video generators
• FLUX — Open weights that actually compete with the closed models
• Adobe After Effects — It’s still standard motion graphics, and it’s still slow. Both are correct.
• Motion and special effects
• OpenAI Sora — Storyboards, remixing and a real editing timeline
• Affinity Photo — A one-stop Photoshop replacement that covers most of what is actually used.
• Photo editor
• DaVinci Resolve — A complete post-production suite, the free version of which will never fail for most people.
• Video editor
• Adobe Audition — Professional playback level sound restoration, with the best spectral editing available.
• Sound editor
• Blender — A free 3D suite that’s quietly reached the level of professional production — and it’s got a real video editor in it, too.
• Topaz Video AI — Quality enhancement, noise removal, and frame interpolation that save movies like no other tool can.
• Artificial intelligence video
• Figma — Collaborative design in the browser — now the default option for any team work.
• Graphic design
• Audacity — The free audio editor that has cleaned up more podcasts than any other tool.
• Adobe Premiere Pro — The industry default choice for teamwork on video, and the safest option if you’re working with other editors.
• Photopea — A remarkably complete Photoshop replacement that runs in a browser tab.
• GPT Image — Image generation that understands a conversation
• Runway — A working post-production suite that happens to generate
• Google Imagen — Photoreal stills with Google's provenance watermarking
• Opus Clip — Converts a long video into a series of vertical clips, sorted by expected performance.
• Final Cut Pro — It’s freakishly fast on an Apple processor, provided you can deal with the magnetic timeline.
• Camtasia — Screen recording and editing in one place, precisely for training and organizational courses.
• Screen recording
• Epidemic Sound — Licensed music with channel royalties — that’s what it’s all about.
• Music and sound library
• Adobe Firefly — Trained on licensed material, and indemnified for it
• Kling AI — Long clips, strong motion, and the best price per second
• Frame.io — Employer review and approval, replacing a string of time-consuming emails.
• Manage files
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• Short video editor — Vertical video, subtitle and template ready
• Index image and template — Attractive and clickable image, fast
• Audio and podcasts — Capture, clean and implement text
• Artificial intelligence voice — Sound production, simulation and dubbing
• Analysis and SEO — Keyword research and performance measurement