Best AI Tools 2026

Best forEveryday questions and writing help (emails, CVs, captions) · Explaining a topic step by step for study · Reading a photo or PDF and summarising it

Free planFree plan: unlimited everyday text chats with GPT-5.6 Luna (it also powers the 'Think' button). File uploads, image creation, voice, data analysis and deep research have separate limits; OpenAI does not publish exact numbers. In India, Free and Go users see ads below some answers (since 27 Aug 2026).

Paid planChatGPT Go ₹399/month (more uploads, images, data analysis and memory than Free; voice limits are the same as Free; shows ads in India; reported to include GST). Plus ₹1,999/month: no ads, GPT-5.6 Sol thinking models in chat, and GPT-6 Astra only inside ChatGPT Work and Codex. Plans are billed monthly only.

IndiaIndia has its own ₹ prices (Go ₹399, Plus ₹1,999, Pro from ₹10,699). The free 12-month ChatGPT Go offer for India (from 4 Nov 2025) ended on 21 Jan 2026 (per OpenAI release notes, as reported); claimed free years auto-renew at the paid price unless cancelled. OpenAI's help centre says UPI works for Go and Plus (not Pro). Ads appear for Free and Go users in India.

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Best forHomework and study help in Hindi and other Indian languages · Deep Research reports for free · Working with Gmail, Drive and Android phone features

Free planFree: Gemini 3.6 Flash plus some access to 3.1 Pro, image making and editing, Deep Research, Gemini Live voice, Canvas, Gems, Gemini Notebook and limited Google Flow. Limits are usage-based (refresh every 5 hours, with a weekly cap); free context window is 32k tokens. 15 GB storage.

Paid planGoogle AI Plus ₹399/month (2x free limits, video generation, 400 GB storage, share with family). AI Pro ₹1,950/month. GST not stated on the page.

IndiaJio users aged 18+ on an Unlimited 5G plan of ₹349 or more get Google AI Pro free for 18 months via MyJio (claim by 29 Oct 2026 as per Jio's terms; the 5G plan must stay active for the whole 18 months). College students get Google AI Plus free for 1 year if they redeem by 31 Dec 2026 (then ₹399/month unless cancelled). Supports Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia, Urdu and more.

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Best forQuick answers without installing anything (inside WhatsApp) · Writing a message or caption in Hindi or Hinglish · Fun images to share in chats

Free planFree to use in WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, meta.ai and the Meta AI app. Meta says the core Meta AI experience stays free; image and video generation have lower limits than on paid plans.

Paid planMeta One Core ₹549/month (higher Meta AI image and video limits plus app perks); Premium ₹1,950/month. Single-app plans (WhatsApp Plus ₹79, Instagram Plus ₹99) are mainly looks and extra features.

IndiaWorks in Hindi and in Hindi typed in English letters (Hinglish). Meta said in 2024 that India was Meta AI's biggest market by usage. Meta One paid plans launched in India on 16 Sep 2026; Meta says everyday Meta AI stays free.

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Best forWriting that sounds human (letters, articles, scripts) · Reading long PDFs and notes · Coding and building small apps (paid plans)

Free planFree: chat on web, desktop and phone with the Sonnet and Haiku models, web search, file creation, Artifacts, memory, voice mode, connectors and up to 5 Projects. Usage resets every 5 hours; Anthropic gives no fixed message count. No Opus model and no Research mode on free.

Paid planClaude Pro ₹2,399/month billed monthly, or ₹24,000/year (about ₹2,000/month) billed yearly; GST included (USD price is $20/month, or $17/month billed yearly).

IndiaRupee prices with GST included since July 2026 (Pro; Max ₹11,999 / ₹23,999). UPI is still not accepted on Claude's website: pay by card, or subscribe inside the Android app through Google Play billing. Claude's menus can be set to Hindi on web and desktop. India is reported to be Anthropic's second-largest market.

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Best forHelp inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint (with Microsoft 365) · Quick questions on a Windows PC · Making images

Free planFree: chat, image creation and file uploads, subject to capacity and limits. Deep Research, Podcasts and Group chat were retired from the consumer Copilot app on 18 Aug 2026, as Microsoft merged its Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps into one 'Microsoft Copilot' app (the old Copilot phone app is gone from Play).

Paid planMicrosoft 365 Personal ₹689/month or ₹6,899/year (Copilot with higher usage, plus Office apps and 1 TB). Microsoft 365 Premium ₹1,999/month or ₹19,999/year for the most Copilot use plus agent and advanced research features. GST not stated on the page.

IndiaRupee prices on Microsoft's India store. Microsoft's official language list for personal Copilot includes Hindi for typed chats, and Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu for voice (Hindi is missing only from the work/school Microsoft 365 Copilot list).

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Best forMaths and logic problems (DeepThink mode) · Coding help · A free backup when other apps hit their limits

Free planFully free on web and app, with DeepThink (reasoning) and Search modes. The final DeepSeek V4-Pro reached the app on 13 Aug 2026; the newer V4.1-Flash came out on 10 Sep 2026 and DeepSeek is phasing out V4-Pro on its API (it has not said which model the app uses by default now). No paid chat plan; only the developer API is paid.

Paid planNo paid plan for the app (free).

IndiaDeepSeek's privacy policy says it collects, processes and stores your data in China. India's Finance Ministry told staff (advisory of 29 Jan 2025) not to use AI apps like ChatGPT and DeepSeek on office devices. Avoid sharing personal or work documents.

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Best forQuick answers while searching · Comparing options (phones, courses, schemes) with follow-up questions · Asking in Hindi or your own language

Free planFree for everyone with Google Search. AI Mode is at google.com/ai, the AI Mode button on google.com, or the AI Mode tab in the Google app. Turning on history and personalised recommendations lets you continue earlier AI Mode chats.

Paid planFree. Google AI Pro (₹1,950/month) gives higher access to Gemini 3 Pro and Deep Search inside AI Mode; Google AI Plus (₹399/month) only adds more Nano Banana image making in Search.

IndiaAvailable in India and supports Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and more.

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Best forSearching a question from a book or screenshot · Translating a sign, label or page · Finding a product or checking if a photo is original

Free planFully free in the Google app and Google Lens. Circle to Search is free on select Android phones (including Pixel 6 and later): touch and hold the home button or navigation bar, then circle.

Paid planFree.

IndiaCircle to Search works only on select Android phones; on other phones use Google Lens in the Google app. It may not work inside some banking and medical apps.

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Best forFact-checking with sources you can open · Latest news and current information · Starting a school or college project

Free planFree (Standard): practically unlimited basic searches, a very small number of Pro Searches, limited file uploads and search history. No choice of advanced models and no image generation.

Paid planPerplexity Pro $20/month, or $200/year (about $17/month). Education Pro $10/month for verified students and teachers. No ₹ price published.

IndiaOn Perplexity's website, Indian users can only pay in US dollars (no rupee billing yet); buying inside the Android app goes through Google Play. The Airtel free Perplexity Pro offer ended on 16 Jan 2026 (people who claimed it keep Pro for 12 months from activation, then it renews as paid). Perplexity's Help Center is also published in Hindi.

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Best forExam prep from your own notes and PDFs · Listening to a chapter as an audio 'podcast' · Making flashcards and quizzes

Free planFree: up to 100 notebooks with 50 sources each, and standard limits for chat and for making Audio Overviews, Slides and other outputs (limits refresh every 5 hours, with a weekly cap). Answers and audio in 80+ languages.

Paid planIncluded in Google AI Plus ₹399/month (2x limits, 100 sources per notebook); AI Pro ₹1,950/month (4x limits, 300 sources).

IndiaOutput and Audio Overviews work in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu and more. In India a visible watermark is always added to generated outputs, even on paid plans. The Jio Google AI Pro offer and the student Google AI Plus offer both raise its limits.

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Best forQuick answers from an Excel or CSV file · Cleaning messy data and making charts · Writing Excel formulas and explaining them

Free planYes. Unlimited text chat, but uploads and data analysis are 'limited' (OpenAI does not publish exact numbers). Free input is about 12 pages of text per message. Interactive tables and charts are not on Free or Go.

Paid planChatGPT Go ₹399/month (GST included) gives more uploads and full data analysis but may show ads; Plus ₹1,999/month adds interactive tables and charts and full use of the Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Google Sheets add-ons (Free and Go get only limited use).

IndiaPrices are in rupees. UPI works for Go and Plus, but not Pro. OpenAI's free 12-month ChatGPT Go offer for India (started 4 Nov 2025) ended on 21 Jan 2026, per OpenAI's own release notes, so new users now pay ₹399.

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Best forFree analysis of an uploaded Excel/CSV on your phone · Building a sheet or dashboard just by describing it (Sheets, Pro plan) · Fixing formulas, pivot tables and conditional formatting

Free planYes, in the Gemini app. Upload up to 10 files per prompt, spreadsheets up to 100 MB each, and ask for charts (Google's help describes charts in the web app at gemini.google.com, which also opens in a phone browser). There is a rolling limit on chats with files. Gemini inside Google Sheets is NOT free.

Paid planGoogle AI Plus ₹399/month gives 2x the free usage and adds Gemini in Gmail and Vids, but no Gemini inside Sheets, Docs or Slides. Gemini in Sheets needs Google AI Pro at ₹1,950/month.

IndiaJio: users 18+ on a ₹349+ Unlimited 5G plan get Google AI Pro free for 18 months by claiming it in MyJio, and must stay on an eligible plan the whole time. AI Pro includes Gemini in Sheets and Docs. Jio's official terms say the offer runs until 29 Oct 2026 (since 11 Feb 2026, ₹299+ plans with 1.5 GB/day also qualify for a limited time). College students 18+: AI Plus free for 1 year if redeemed by 31 Dec 2026 (no Sheets), or a discounted AI Pro (news reports say ₹489/month). The Gemini app works in Hindi and 11 other Indian languages. Gemini inside Sheets supports about 29 languages but not Hindi or any other Indian language, and works best after you save an Excel file as a Google Sheet.

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Best forOffice work that already lives in Excel · Multi-step clean-ups and reports inside the workbook · Explaining and writing formulas

Free planNo Copilot inside Excel on the free tier. The free Microsoft Copilot app can chat and search the web, but Copilot inside Word/Excel/PowerPoint needs a Microsoft 365 Personal, Family or Premium plan.

Paid planMicrosoft 365 Personal ₹689/month or ₹6,899/year (includes Copilot in Excel, Word and PowerPoint, plus 1 TB OneDrive).

IndiaCollege students get 50% off Microsoft 365 Personal after verifying with a college email or ID (half of ₹689 is about ₹345/month; Microsoft's page did not show the exact rupee price on 4 Oct 2026). On Android, Copilot in Excel is chat-only: it cannot edit your sheet. Editing works on Windows, Mac and the web. On a Family plan, only the subscription owner gets Copilot. Hindi is not on Microsoft's official Copilot language list.

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Best forLong PDFs and reports full of tables · Careful, step-by-step analysis you can check · Making a ready-to-use Excel or report file

Free planYes. The free plan can upload files, run code and create or edit files, with up to 5 projects. Usage limits apply and are not published as exact numbers. Claude Slides/Docs and Claude for Microsoft 365 (Excel add-in) are Pro only.

Paid planClaude Pro ₹2,399/month, or ₹1,999/month billed yearly (₹24,000/year), GST included (India pricing since July 2026, per news reports). The official pricing page shows $20/month or $17/month yearly ($200 up front), before tax.

IndiaRupee prices with GST included started in July 2026 (news reports). UPI is not supported yet (news reports), so you need a card or app-store billing. Anthropic's own tests put Claude's Hindi at about 97% of its English quality.

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Best forCollege / school PPT from just a topic ('AI se PPT') · Turning notes or a PDF into slides · Export to PowerPoint or Google Slides to submit

Free plan400 AI credits one time at sign-up. They do not refresh, but you get 200 more per referral (up to 2,000 credits). Up to 10 slides per prompt. You can export to PDF, PPTX, PNG and Google Slides. Free decks carry Gamma branding.

Paid planPlus ₹500/month (or ₹400/month paid yearly, ₹4,800/year): 1,000 credits/month, up to 100 slides per prompt, no branding. Tax may be added.

IndiaPrices are in rupees. The official Android app is only in the US and Canada for now, so in India use gamma.app in a phone browser (we did not test how well it works on a phone). Gamma's website now has a Hindi version (gamma.app/hi). Its help pages say the AI works in many languages but do not list which, so Hindi output is not officially confirmed.

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Best forGood-looking school / college presentations · Posters, reports and docs in one app · Editing slides comfortably on a phone

Free planYes. Free has 1.6M+ templates and exports to PDF/JPG/PNG, and to PowerPoint (PPTX) through Canva's Microsoft PowerPoint app, which is free on every plan. AI is limited to about 20 uses a month of Standard or Premium AI tools (generating a design with Canva AI counts as Premium), and the allowance resets monthly.

Paid planPro ₹500/month or ₹4,000/year (10x Premium AI vs Free). Pro Lite is ₹199/month or ₹1,590/year but keeps the Free-level AI limit. Day and week Pro passes are also sold.

IndiaJio prepaid: recharge ₹399 on or after 16 Sep 2026 to get 12 months of Canva Pro free (₹349, or 2 GB/day plans above ₹349, get Pro Lite). Claim it in MyJio. It only works if you have never paid for Canva, and you must keep an eligible plan active. Canva for Education is free for K-12 teachers and their students. The full Canva interface is available in Hindi (canva.com/hi_in), and Canva AI officially supports Hindi.

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Best forOffice decks that must stay in .pptx · Turning a Word report into slides · Drafting and polishing Word documents

Free planNo. Copilot inside PowerPoint and Word needs a Microsoft 365 Personal, Family or Premium plan.

Paid planMicrosoft 365 Personal ₹689/month or ₹6,899/year.

IndiaCollege students get 50% off Personal (Microsoft's page did not show the exact rupee price on 4 Oct 2026). Microsoft lists 'create a presentation' for Windows, Mac and iPad, not Android, so plan to use a laptop. On Android phones, Copilot in PowerPoint can only summarise a deck and answer questions about it. Microsoft says it works best with Word files under 24 MB. Hindi is not on Microsoft's official Copilot language list.

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Best forStudents already using Google Slides / Docs · Making a deck from your own notes in Drive · Writing and summarising docs

Free planNo. Gemini inside Slides and Docs needs Google AI Pro or Ultra (or a paid Workspace work account). Google AI Plus does not include it.

Paid planGoogle AI Pro ₹1,950/month.

IndiaFree for 18 months for Jio users 18+ who claim the Google AI Pro offer in MyJio on a ₹349+ Unlimited 5G plan; Jio's official terms say claims close on 29 Oct 2026. College students can get a discounted AI Pro (news reports say ₹489/month). The full-deck generator is desktop-only and English-only, and on personal accounts it is part of Google Workspace Experiments, an early-access program you sign up for.

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Best forFlowcharts and diagrams for assignments · Making text-heavy slides visual · Infographics for reports and posts

Free planYes. 500 AI credits per week (about 1 credit per word you turn into a visual), unlimited PNG and PDF export, and you can import PPT, DOC, PDF, HTML and MD files. Free visuals carry Napkin branding, and PPT/SVG export is paid.

Paid planPlus ₹849/month: 10,000 credits/month, PPT and SVG export, no branding. Yearly billing saves about 25%.

IndiaPrices are in rupees and it accepts debit and credit cards. There is no student discount. We found no official Android app. You must create your account on a computer, and Napkin says making visuals is not available on mobile yet (you can view work and edit presentations on a phone). Napkin makes visuals in 60+ languages but does not name Hindi, and its interface is not in Hindi.

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Best forTrend photos from your selfie (saree, retro, figurine) · Editing a photo while keeping your face the same · Quick festival / greeting images

Free planYes. Free accounts can make and edit images with Nano Banana 2 every day. Google no longer publishes a fixed number: limits are usage-based, refresh every 5 hours and have a weekly cap. Free images carry a visible Gemini sparkle watermark plus an invisible SynthID mark. The sharper Nano Banana Pro 'Redo' needs AI Plus or higher.

Paid planGoogle AI Plus ₹399/month; Google AI Pro ₹1,950/month

IndiaJio users aged 18+ on an Unlimited 5G plan of ₹349 or more get Google AI Pro free for 18 months (Jio says it is worth ₹35,100). Claim it in the MyJio app and keep the 5G plan active. University students in India aged 18+ get Google AI Plus free for 1 year if they redeem by 31 Dec 2026; you must verify you are a student, add a payment method, and it renews at ₹399/month after the free year unless you cancel. India was Nano Banana's No. 1 country in 2025 (saree, retro Bollywood and figurine trends). Google says text renders properly 'in many languages', but nobody has independently checked Hindi spelling, so check the matras before you print. Police in Punjab warned that photos you upload can be used to train Google's AI, so check Gemini's activity setting before uploading your face.

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Best forPosters, flyers and product photos from templates · Careful edits that change only what you ask · Remixing your own photo into a new style

Free planYes, but limited. Free users get Images 2.5 with 'limited image creation'. OpenAI does not publish an exact daily number. Images carry C2PA data and an invisible watermark.

Paid planChatGPT Go ₹399/month (more images, may show ads); Plus ₹1,999/month (as reported by Indian news)

IndiaOpenAI's free 12-month ChatGPT Go offer for India (started 4 Nov 2025) closed to new sign-ups on 21 Jan 2026, so new users now pay ₹399/month. People who claimed it are charged ₹399/month when their free year ends (from about Nov 2026) unless they cancel. Go and Plus can be paid in ₹, including by UPI. On 22 Sep 2026 Delhi Police warned on X that viral AI photo trends like the '80s look' (which OpenAI itself promoted at the Images 2.5 launch) can lead to fake profiles and blackmail; report fraud on 1930. OpenAI's pricing page says your content is used to train its models, but you can opt out. Hindi prompts work; Hindi text inside images is not independently tested, so proofread it.

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Best forFestival posters and shop banners with correct Hindi text · Instagram posts, invites and thumbnails from templates · Background removal (paid plans)

Free planYes. Free plan gets up to 20 Standard or Premium AI uses (a shared monthly allowance) plus 1.6M+ templates. Background remover starts at the Pro Lite plan.

Paid planPro Lite ₹199/month or ₹1,590/year (includes background remover); Pro ₹500/month (₹4,000/year)

IndiaPrices are in ₹ and Canva Pro also has short plans (₹69 for 1 day, ₹199 for 7 days, ₹1,500 for 3 months), handy for one festival season. Hindi tip: AI image tools often get Devanagari spelling wrong, so make the picture without text, then type the Hindi wording yourself in Canva's editor so it comes out exactly right. Whether Canva's AI generator understands Hindi prompts is not confirmed. remove.bg is a Canva brand; its standalone site closes on 1 Dec 2026 and its background removal moves into Canva (date from news reports quoting remove.bg). Canva is #1 top-grossing art & design app on Play India (500M+ downloads).

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Best forCommercially safe images for business use · Generative Fill to add or remove things in a photo · Trying many models (incl. Nano Banana) in one app

Free planYes. Free daily generations across image, video and audio (incl. Nano Banana and Luma models) with no plan; limits refresh every day. Adobe does not state the exact number.

Paid planFirefly Standard ₹797.68/month incl. GST (2,000 credits)

IndiaOfficial ₹ prices including GST. Until 21 Oct 2026 the bigger Pro Plus and Premium plans are 30% off for the first year. Every paid plan also gets unlimited generations on select models for the first year (on Standard this includes Nano Banana 2 at 1K). In 2023 Adobe said Firefly takes prompts in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and other Indian languages; Hindi text inside images is not tested. There is a separate Students and Teachers tab (price not checked). The Android app has 10 lakh+ downloads, far fewer than the Gemini or ChatGPT apps.

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Best forArtistic, cinematic or fantasy art · Mood boards and style exploration · Wallpapers and album/cover-style art

Free planNone. There is no free trial on the website or Discord; only a limited trial in the separate anime-style niji·journey app (iOS and Android).

Paid planBasic $10/month ($96/year), billed in US dollars only; no ₹ plan

IndiaBilled in US dollars only, so you need a card that works for international payments. No official Midjourney Android app; use it in the phone browser (the separate anime-style niji·journey app is on Android). Your images are public unless you pay for Pro ($60/month, or $48/month yearly) or Mega, which have Stealth Mode.

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Best forPosters and thumbnails with clear English text · Logo and quote-card ideas · Sale banners with prices and dates

Free planYes. 30 credits every week when you sign in with Google, Apple or Microsoft (email sign-ups get none). When they run out you wait for next week's credits or buy more; the slower 'keep going' queue is only for paid plans. Everything made on the free plan is public.

Paid planPlus $20/month ($15/month billed yearly), US dollars before tax; no ₹ plan

IndiaBilled in US dollars. No official Android app (Ideogram only has a website and an iOS app). Play shows look-alike apps named 'Ideogram' or 'Ideo AI' from other developers, so use the website instead. Ideogram's own guide says words come out best in English and non-Latin scripts like Hindi can come out wrong or not at all, so for Hindi wording use Canva on top.

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Best forBlur-to-HD and enlarging old or low-res photos · Batch-upscaling many images at once · Printing a small photo bigger

Free planFully free and open source (AGPL-3.0), unlimited, no watermark. Runs offline on Windows 10+, macOS 12+ and Linux. It needs a Vulkan-compatible graphics card; built-in laptop graphics often don't work.

Paid planFree. Optional paid Upscayl Cloud (web): 10 free trial credits, then Pro $24.99/month for 300 credits

IndiaThe free app is desktop only, no Android app, so it suits a cyber cafe, studio or shop PC. Nothing to type, just pick the photo. Best privacy option here, because your face photos stay on your own computer. The paid Upscayl Cloud works in a browser, but then photos go online. The last desktop release is v2.15 (Dec 2024), though the project is still being worked on.

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Best for10-second trend clips with sound and dialogue · Turning a photo into a moving clip · Joining clips into a short story or ad in Flow

Free planNo video in the Gemini app on the free plan: Gemini's help page marks video generation as 'not available' without a Google AI plan. Google runs short trials now and then (for example 10 free videos from 30 Jul to 4 Aug 2026, per a blog report). Google Flow's help page says everyone gets 50 free credits a day, with or without a plan (Flow is 18+): about 2 Veo 3.1 Fast clips (20 credits each) or a few Omni Flash clips (7 to 15 credits each at 720p). Unused credits don't roll over, and free users may not be able to make videos at peak time (about 7:30 to 10:30 pm IST).

Paid planGoogle AI Plus ₹399/month (Omni Flash video plus 200 Flow credits a month). Google AI Pro ₹1,950/month (1,000 Flow credits a month). At its India launch in Dec 2025, AI Plus cost ₹199/month for the first 6 months for new users; the current plans page does not show that offer.

IndiaBiggest India hack: Jio users aged 18+ on an unlimited 5G plan of ₹349 or more can claim Google AI Pro free for 18 months (Jio values it at ₹35,100) in the MyJio app, and it includes AI video generation. The Jio plan must stay active the whole time. Indian college students aged 18+ can get 1 year of AI Plus free, with Omni video, if they redeem by 31 Dec 2026; it then renews at ₹399/month unless cancelled. The Gemini app works in Hindi, but Google does not say how well Omni speaks Hindi dialogue, so test it first. Every clip carries Google's invisible SynthID AI watermark.

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Best forEditing reels with auto captions · AI Restyle and photo animation · Green screen, keyframes and teleprompter

Free planCompletely free, with no watermark and exports up to 4K. The new AI assistant (added 30 Sep 2026) has limited free use; more use needs a Meta One subscription.

Paid planFree

IndiaBilingual auto captions in 15 languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali and Kannada, plus Devanagari and Bengali-Assamese fonts. Inside the Instagram app, Meta AI can translate the voice in your reel with lip-sync into Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Marathi. CapCut is still banned in India (since June 2020). Meta One plans in India start at ₹79/month, but we could not confirm which plan adds more AI-assistant use in Edits.

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Best forQuick, simple edits on any Android phone · Auto captions · Removing or cutting out the background

Free planFree with ads. Free exports carry an InShot watermark: you can remove it for one video by watching an ad, or for good with Pro.

Paid planPro ₹399/month, ₹1,499/year or ₹3,999 lifetime (App Store India).

IndiaNo. 10 in Photo & Video on the Indian App Store, with 1.5M ratings. InShot says auto captions work in 'multiple languages', but Hindi is not confirmed: a June 2025 Gadgets To Use review said Hindi was not supported and auto captions were Pro-only, and we could not check the current app. The iPhone app's menu languages don't include Hindi.

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Best forFree AI clips for Shorts · AI first edit of raw phone footage, with music and effects · Hindi AI voiceover on your edit

Free planFree app with no ads. Gemini Omni clips are vertical (9:16) and up to 10 seconds, with prompts up to 900 characters. Google does not publish a daily limit, and Omni clips carry Google's SynthID AI watermark.

Paid planFree

IndiaIndia is one of 5 launch countries for Omni video in YouTube Create (the others are the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), on phones only. Omni prompts work in all languages. 'Edit with AI' can add a voiceover in Hindi, Bengali, English or Portuguese. Image prompts (Nano Banana, 18+) must be in English or Hindi. Omni is also rolling out free inside YouTube Shorts.

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Best forPhoto-to-video of characters (talking fruit and vegetable style) · Realistic motion and action shots · Extending a clip up to about 3 minutes

Free planFree plan with daily login credits that expire after 24 hours. Guides say 66 credits a day, but Kling's own pages don't publish the number. That is about two 5-second 720p Kling 3.0 clips a day. Free videos are watermarked and can't be used commercially.

Paid planStandard plan with 660 credits a month. Kling's own guide lists it at $6.99/month, which reviewers say is the first-month price (it then renews at about $8.80 to $10). The App Store India listing shows Standard at ₹999/month, plus weekly passes from ₹49.

IndiaAvailable on the Indian Play Store and App Store. Kling 3.0's built-in speech covers Chinese, English (including an Indian accent), Japanese, Korean and Spanish, not Hindi, and the app has no Hindi menus, so add your own Hindi voiceover in an editor. App Store India reviews complain about paid credits disappearing or not being added, so buy a small pack first.

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Best forTalking-presenter ads and explainer videos · Translating a video into Hindi with lip-sync · Your own AI avatar for regular uploads

Free plan3 videos a month, each up to 1 minute, in 1080p with a watermark. Includes 1 custom video avatar.

Paid planCreator $29/month, or $24/month billed yearly (charged in USD on the website). The App Store India listing shows Starter ₹999/month and Creator ₹2,999/month.

IndiaSupports Hindi dubbing with lip-sync and voice cloning. The website bills in US dollars; the App Store India listing shows ₹ prices. We could not find what the app-only Starter plan includes.

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Best forFilm-style shots · Changing an existing video with AI (new scene or style) · Creators who want several models in one place

Free plan125 credits, one time only (not monthly). A Gen-4.5 clip costs 60 credits per 5 seconds, so that is about two short clips.

Paid planStandard $12/month billed yearly, or $15/month billed monthly (625 credits a month). The App Store India listing shows Standard at ₹1,499/month.

IndiaHas an Android app on the Indian Play Store (over 1 million downloads) and an iPhone app. The website bills in US dollars, and the iPhone app is in English only. We could not confirm Hindi speech in its videos.

Open Runway ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forNatural-sounding voice-overs for Reels and Shorts · Cloning your own voice (paid plans) · Dubbing a video into Hindi or English

Free planYes: 10,000 credits a month. On the best models 1 character costs 1 credit and 1 minute of speech is about 1,000 characters, so roughly 10 minutes (about 20 minutes on the faster Flash models, which cost half). Free use is personal only: no commercial licence on the Free plan, so not for monetised videos. Voice cloning is not on Free (Instant Voice Cloning starts on Starter).

Paid planStarter $6/month (first month $1 offer shown on the pricing page until 18 Oct 2026); Creator $22/month (first month $11). Billed in US dollars; no ₹ plan on the official pricing page.

IndiaHindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese and Urdu are listed. The Android app shows 1 crore+ installs on Play Store (a worldwide count, not India only). Cloning someone else's voice without consent breaks ElevenLabs' rules (its own guide warns of permanent bans), and a Professional Voice Clone can only be of your own verified voice. Under India's IT Rules amendment (in force since 20 Feb 2026), realistic AI voices posted on big platforms must be declared and labelled as AI.

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Best forTurning study notes into a podcast to listen to · A quick audio summary of a long document · A first draft for an explainer podcast

Free planYes, with any Google account. Usage now runs on a compute-based quota that refreshes every 5 hours until you hit a weekly limit; Google does not publish a fixed number of free Audio Overviews (the old '3 a day' figure is out of date). Formats: Deep Dive, Brief, Critique, Debate. On the website you can download the audio file; the Android app saves it for offline listening only, not as a file.

Paid planGoogle AI Plus ₹399/month in India (launched Dec 2025 with ₹199/month for the first 6 months for new users); Google AI Pro ₹1,950/month. AI Plus gives 2x the free limits, AI Pro 4x.

IndiaAudio Overviews work in 80+ languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Choosing the length and the 'Interactive mode' (asking the hosts questions) are English-only. NotebookLM was renamed Gemini Notebook on 16 Jul 2026; it is the same tool and old notebooklm.google links redirect. The Android app has 1 crore+ installs. Google's India plans page says students can get a year of Google AI Plus free (it says the offer 'expires soon').

Open NotebookLM Audio Overviews ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forFree Hindi and Indian-language voice-overs with mood control · Two-voice dialogue or podcast-style audio from a script

Free planYes: Google says AI Studio use is free of charge (with rate limits). On the free tier Google may use what you type and the audio to improve its products, and human reviewers may read it, so don't paste private information. You must be 18+. Google says it won't claim ownership of the audio.

Paid planNo monthly plan needed. Developers pay per use through the Gemini API: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS costs $0.50 per 1M text tokens in and $9 per 1M audio tokens out until 31 Dec 2026 (prices double from 1 Jan 2027); the cheaper Flash-Lite TTS is $6 per 1M audio tokens out. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers get higher AI Studio limits.

IndiaBoth current TTS models (Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS) support Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati and Punjabi; 3.8 Flash TTS also adds Odia, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Chhattisgarhi, Magahi, Manipuri, Mizo and Santali. It is a website, not a phone app (no Google AI Studio app on Play Store on 4 Oct 2026; apps with similar names are by other developers), and Google's terms describe it as a tool for developers and business use, not consumers.

Open AI Studio voice (Gemini TTS) ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forHinglish and regional-language voice-overs · YouTube narration in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and more · Indian-language transcription (paid API)

Free planYes: the free web voice generator needs no sign-up and no card, does up to 2,500 characters per go and has 35+ voices. Sarvam says this audio can be used in monetised YouTube videos, podcasts and commercial work. API accounts also get ₹100 of free credits on sign-up, which never expire.

Paid planPay as you go, no subscription: text to speech ₹3 per 1,000 characters; speech to text ₹30 per hour of audio.

IndiaIndian company. The free tool lists 11 Indian languages: Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Odia and Assamese (the API docs also list Indian-accent English), and Bulbul v3 handles Hindi-English mixing (Hinglish) in one go. The voice tool runs in the browser. Sarvam's 'Indus' Android app is a chatbot, not this voice tool.

Open Sarvam Bulbul ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forTranscripts and subtitles for long videos and podcasts · Interview and lecture notes

Free planYes: 3 files a day, each up to 30 minutes, one upload at a time, with lower priority (slower) processing.

Paid planUnlimited plan: $10/month billed yearly ($120 a year), in US dollars. Paying month by month is about $20/month (third-party reports; the monthly figure could not be read on the official page).

IndiaTurboScribe lists Hindi and Kannada among its 98+ languages, but test how well it handles your Hinglish before you rely on it. There is no official app: the only 'TurboScribe' app on Play Store is an independent 'App Guide', not made by TurboScribe. Use the website in your phone browser.

Open TurboScribe ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forBirthday and name songs with vocals · Full songs from your own lyrics · Jingles and Reel songs (paid plan for commercial use)

Free planYes: 50 credits a day (roughly 10 songs). But on the free plan Suno owns the songs, and you may only use them for personal, non-commercial purposes, so no monetised YouTube or Instagram use. Since 3 Sep 2026, free accounts made before that date get only 7 trial downloads in total, ever; newer free accounts only 'occasionally' get trial downloads. Extra downloads can be bought.

Paid planPro $10/month (or $8/month billed yearly): 2,500 credits, 20 downloads a month, commercial rights. Premier $30/month ($24 yearly): 10,000 credits, 60 downloads.

IndiaThe Android app shows 1 crore+ installs on Play Store (a worldwide count, not India only). The India Play Store lists in-app purchases from ₹340 to ₹80,700 per item, but the monthly ₹ plan price is not published on Suno's site. Indian Play Store reviews complain about the new download caps and about songs mixing languages or getting pronunciation wrong. Commercial rights cover songs you download while paying (within your monthly download allowance) and stay after you cancel; remixes can never be used commercially, and upgrading later does not cover old free-plan songs.

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Best forQuick birthday songs (there are birthday templates) · Free short background tracks · Fun songs made from a photo

Free planYes, for everyone 18+ in every country where Gemini works, India included. Google doesn't publish how many free tracks you get: Gemini limits are compute-based, refresh every 5 hours up to a weekly cap, and music uses more of your allowance than chat. You see a notice when you hit the limit. Choose short (~1 min) or full (~2-3 min). Download as MP3 or as MP4 with cover art. Every track has an invisible SynthID AI watermark.

Paid planGoogle AI Plus ₹399/month in India (launched Dec 2025 with ₹199/month for the first 6 months for new users); Google AI Pro ₹1,950/month. Paid plans give higher limits (AI Plus 2x the free limit, AI Pro 4x).

IndiaHindi was one of the launch languages (Feb 2026). Lyria 3.5 reached the Gemini app on 4 Sep 2026. Google says it won't claim ownership of what you generate, but its pages say nothing explicit about monetising these tracks. Fine for personal posts; check before you use one in paid ads. For more control, Google's separate Flow Music studio (flowmusic.app, Lyria 3.5, from $6/month billed yearly) is on web and iPhone; Google said in May 2026 its Android app was 'coming soon', there was still none on Play Store on 4 Oct 2026, and the 'Flow Music' apps there are by other developers.

Open Gemini music (Lyria) ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forTrying ideas and remixing inside Udio · Listening and sharing within the Udio site

Free plan10 credits a day plus 100 extra credits a month (one create gives 2 songs: 2 credits for 32-second songs, 4 credits for 130-second ones). But downloading audio, video and stems has been switched off for everyone since 29 Oct 2025, with no return date given.

Paid planStandard (2,400 credits a month) and Pro (6,000 credits a month); third-party trackers list them at about $10 and $30 a month ($8 and $24 a month billed yearly). Paying does not bring downloads back.

IndiaUdio itself says it has no Android app: any 'Udio' apps on Play Store are unauthorised and shouldn't be installed (web and iPhone only). Its new licensed platform had not launched by early Oct 2026 and no date is given. Since you can't download songs, it is no use for YouTube or Instagram right now.

Open Udio ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forBig changes that touch many files, or whole new features · Finding and fixing bugs across a full project · Building and shipping an app from plain-English instructions

Free planNone. Claude's Free plan is chat only and does not include Claude Code. You need Pro or higher.

Paid planClaude Pro ₹2,000/month in India when billed yearly (GST included; rupee prices since 14 Jul 2026, per TechCrunch). We could not confirm the monthly-billing rupee price on an official page (one report says ₹2,399). claude.com still shows USD when opened from India: $20/month, or $17/month billed yearly. Max starts at ₹11,999/month.

IndiaAnthropic says India is its second-biggest market, and plans are billed in rupees. At launch you could pay by card or Google/Apple billing; news reports say UPI was not available. There is no student discount for individuals; only universities in Claude for Education get free access. On Android, the Claude app's Code tab can start and steer cloud sessions or a session running on your PC. The code never runs on the phone itself.

Open Claude Code ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forEveryday coding with smart autocomplete · Asking the AI to change code without leaving the editor · Running cloud agents on a GitHub project

Free planHobby plan: free and no card needed, but with 'limited Agent requests'. Cursor does not publish the exact number.

Paid planIndividual plan: Pro $20/month, Pro+ $60/month, Ultra $200/month. Billed in USD (cursor.com shows USD from India).

IndiaThe old free Pro year for students is not on offer right now. Cursor's students page only points to the free Hobby plan and on-campus promotions. The editor runs on desktop only, and the Cursor mobile app is iPhone-only, so there is no Android app. Cursor has been owned by SpaceX (which merged with xAI) since 14 Aug 2026, so xAI's Grok models now feature heavily in its plans.

Open Cursor ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forStudents learning to code (the Student plan is free) · Autocomplete while you type · Handing small GitHub issues to the Copilot coding agent

Free planCopilot Free: 2,000 code completions a month plus limited chat and agent use. Verified students get the Copilot Student plan free, with unlimited code completions and a monthly AI-credit allowance (GitHub does not show the exact credit number). Students can only use automatic model choice.

Paid planPro $10/month (1,500 AI credits a month). Pro+ $39, Max $100. Billed in USD.

IndiaThe best deal for Indian students: apply to GitHub Education with your college ID, enrolment letter or transcript, then turn on Copilot Student. It stays free while GitHub keeps your student status verified. Verified teachers and maintainers of popular open-source projects get Copilot Pro free. Copilot Chat also works in the GitHub Mobile app on Android.

Open GitHub Copilot ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forCoding help if you already pay for ChatGPT · Cloud tasks that work on your code and open pull requests (paid plans) · Code review on GitHub (paid plans)

Free planChatGPT Free and Go include 'limited Codex': the desktop app only, for quick, light tasks. Free and Go do not include the CLI, the editor extension or cloud tasks.

Paid planChatGPT Go ₹399/month (limited Codex). Plus ₹1,999/month ('expanded' Codex, including CLI, editor and cloud). Pro from ₹10,699/month. Prices shown on chatgpt.com in India.

IndiaOpenAI shows rupee prices in India (chatgpt.com/pricing checked from India on 4 Oct 2026: Go ₹399, Plus ₹1,999, Pro from ₹10,699). Third-party reports say UPI works, but OpenAI's own pricing FAQ only mentions cards. The free 12-month ChatGPT Go offer for India closed to new users on 21 Jan 2026. On Android, the ChatGPT app can start and steer Codex tasks running on your own Mac or Windows PC (preview, all plans including Free and Go). The code never runs on the phone.

Open OpenAI Codex ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forFree agent coding with Gemini models (older Claude 4.6 models only until 2 Nov 2026) · Carrying on with apps exported from Google AI Studio · Terminal coding now that the free Gemini CLI has ended

Free planFree Individual plan: several agent models, unlimited Tab completions and command requests, and 'basic weekly rate limits' that users report Google has kept cutting. Free models are Gemini 3.x Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro and gpt-oss, plus older Claude 4.6 models that leave on 2 Nov 2026; the newer Claude 5.5 models need paid AI Pro or Ultra. Note: Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist for individuals stopped working on 18 Jun 2026 for free, Google AI Pro and Ultra accounts. Google moved those users to Antigravity.

Paid planGoogle AI Pro ₹1,950/month in India for higher Antigravity limits (Ultra 5x ₹6,500/month, Ultra 20x ₹19,500/month). Students can get AI Pro at ₹489/month.

IndiaMany Indian videos still call Gemini CLI 'free'. That has been out of date since June 2026, so use Antigravity CLI instead. Student offer: Google AI Plus free for 12 months, or AI Pro at ₹489/month. Verify through SheerID and redeem by 31 Dec 2026. Google's plan table gives AI Plus (₹399) only 'limited' Antigravity agent requests; AI Pro (₹1,950) gives 'expanded' limits. Jio's offer page (checked 4 Oct 2026) still lists Google AI Pro free for 18 months for Jio users aged 18+ on an unlimited 5G plan of ₹349 or more. The app runs only on Windows, macOS, Linux and Googlebook, with no phone app.

Open Google Antigravity ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forBuilding apps for free with Gemini · Native Android apps without installing Android Studio · Apps that use Gemini AI inside them

Free planFree with a Google account. Publish free: Google says new builders can deploy their first two apps to Google Cloud at no cost and with no credit card (announced May 2026). When others use a shared app, it counts against your limits. Android: test on your own phone, and publish in one click to Google Play's internal test track (you need a Play developer account).

Paid planFree to start. Google AI Plus ₹399/month gives 'limited' extra AI Studio access, and AI Pro ₹1,950/month gives 'expanded' access.

IndiaStudents: Google AI Plus free for 12 months, or AI Pro at ₹489/month (redeem by 31 Dec 2026). Firebase Studio is closing: no new workspaces since 22 Jun 2026, and it shuts on 22 Mar 2027. Google tells users to move to AI Studio or Antigravity, so skip old Firebase Studio tutorials. The AI Studio phone app announced at I/O 2026 was cancelled on 31 Jul 2026; Google says app-building will come inside the Gemini app instead, and the aistudio.google.com website keeps working. Projects can be exported to Antigravity in one click.

Open Google AI Studio ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forStartup-style web apps and MVPs · Good-looking websites and landing pages · Apps with login and a database, without coding

Free plan5 build credits a day (30 a month at most), plus small monthly grants (20 Cloud credits and 4 AI credits). Projects stay private to your workspace. Publish free: yes, on up to 5 lovable.app addresses. No custom domain, and you can't buy extra credits. Android app: no. It builds web apps, not native Android apps.

Paid planPro $25/month (100 credits, custom domain, remove the Lovable badge). Yearly billing gives 2 months free. Business $50/month. Billed in USD.

IndiaStudents get 50% off the Pro 100-credit monthly plan (or $12.50/month off other plans) for up to 12 months by verifying with a university email. Lovable says it accepts 'most accredited universities and colleges worldwide', but India isn't named. The official Lovable Android app (Android 9+, Apr 2026) lets you build from your phone.

Open Lovable ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forFull apps with database and hosting in one place · Learning to code in the browser or on a phone · Mobile apps (Expo), with step-by-step App Store publishing

Free planStarter plan: daily Agent credits up to a monthly cap, Lite build only (full build needs Core). Publish free: 1 app, which goes offline after 30 days (you can publish it again). Android: it builds native iOS and Android apps (React Native with Expo) you can test on your phone with Expo Go; the in-browser Android emulator needs Core. Replit has a guided App Store flow, but its docs say 'Publishing to Google Play is not yet supported' (you can do it by hand).

Paid planCore $20/month ($18 billed yearly). Pro $100/month ($90 billed yearly). Billed in USD.

IndiaThe official Replit Android app (5M+ downloads) lets you build from your phone. Prices are in USD.

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Best forBusiness apps such as CRMs, trackers and ERP-style tools · Full web and mobile apps without coding

Free plan10 credits a month, enough to try it but not to finish an app. The free plan says it can build web and mobile apps. Publishing: Emergent's help docs say each deployed app costs 50 credits a month, so the 10 free credits can't keep an app live. Mobile apps are built with Expo (React Native); Kotlin is not supported.

Paid planStandard $20/month ($17 billed yearly) with 100 credits. Pro $200/month ($167 billed yearly) with 750 credits. The official page shows USD even when opened from India.

IndiaIndian startup headquartered in Bengaluru, founded by Mukund and Madhav Jha (Mukund co-founded Dunzo). It became a unicorn ($1.5B) in Jul 2026, and India is about 8–9% of its revenue. Some third-party sites list rupee prices (for example ₹1,649/month), but the official pricing page does not, so treat those as unconfirmed. Its Android app is no longer on Google Play (listing not found on 4 Oct 2026; AppBrain says it was removed on 6 May 2026), so use the website.

Open Emergent ↗source 1source 2source 3source 4

Best forQuick web app prototypes · Websites with free hosting · Mobile apps through Expo (needs extra steps)

Free plan300K tokens a day, 1M tokens a month. Publish free: yes, with website hosting and Bolt branding on the site. No custom domain. Android: it builds Android apps with Expo, but publishing needs an Expo EAS build plus your own paid Google Play developer account.

Paid planPro $25/month (starts at 10M tokens a month; unused tokens roll over). Yearly billing saves up to 28%. Billed in USD.

IndiaPrices are in USD. There is no official Bolt app on Google Play (only unofficial 'guide' apps), so use bolt.new in a browser.

Open Bolt.new ↗source 1source 2