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14 Niche AI Tools You Should Try

They deserve a chance in the limelight.

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Daniel Nest
Sep 18, 2025
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We all know the key players in AI and are at least familiar with the big, mainstream AI products.

Hell, I have my own regularly updated list here:

Here Are My Go-To AI Tools

Here Are My Go-To AI Tools

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July 16, 2025
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But there are thousands of lesser-known AI-powered tools that do a specific thing or solve a niche problem.

So for this listicle, I dug up 14 of them that might be worth a look.

Let’s roll!

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14 niche AI tools

All of the tools are free to use or at least free to try.

Here they are in alphabetical order:

1. AudioCleaner

Remove unwanted elements from audio clips

Audiocleaner dashboard

Got a poor audio recording with lots of background noise, awkward pauses, and filler words? Throw it into AudioCleaner to fix it up. At least in theory. In my one-off test, AudioCleaner did a solid job removing the noise and normalizing volume, but some pauses and filler words remained.

AudioCleaner also lists dozens of additional audio-related features like a voice e…

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