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AI Tools

Introduction

Academic and professional environments are increasingly integrating AI tools to support creativity, productivity, and research, as in educational contexts, AI tools can enhance learning outcomes when used responsibly and in alignment with academic integrity standards. The following sections present key categories of AI tools and explain their primary functions.

This guide introduces accessible AI tools for a range of activities. To use these tools effectively and responsibly, Badya University Library users are encouraged to refer to the AI Guide for best practices; in addition, they may reserve a consultation session with a librarian  for additional support. 


Research Assistance

  • Paperguide: AI tool for paper writing, literature review, reference management, summarization, citation generation, and deep research.

  • Perplexity:  AI tool for fast web research and cited sources.

  • Semantic Scholar:  AI-powered summaries, citation graphs, topic filters.

  • Elicit: AI research tool for question answering & reviews.

  • Paperpal: An AI tool for academic writing refinement, grammar checking, coherence improvement, and paraphrasing.

  • SciSpace: An AI tool that assists in automating research tasks, summarizing PDFs, AI-powered writing, and citation management.

  • ScienceDirect AI:  An AI tool that searches for peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, including open access content.

  • consensus AI: An AI-powered academic search engine designed to help users find answers in scientific research.

  • Connected Papers AI:  An AI-driven platform that transforms academic research through visual graph-based exploration of scientific papers.

Writing and Translation

  • DeepL: AI-powered translation that provides very accurate translations between languages. It is widely used for academic and professional writing.

  • Smartcat: An AI tool that covers all your language needs with translation, content generation, and human workflow.

  • QuillBot: An AI writing tool that helps rephrase and improve text. It is commonly used to paraphrase sentences, check grammar, and enhance clarity in academic writing .

  • Grammarly: An AI tool that checks grammar, spelling, and punctuation in writing. It also helps improve clarity, tone, and correctness, especially in academic and professional texts.

  • Wordtune: An AI tool that rewrites and enhances sentences to be clearer, more formal, or more fluent.

  • Scribbr: AI Tool Designed for academic writing and plagiarism-safe paraphrasing.

Presentations, Diagrams, and Mind Maps

  • Canva AI: A design platform integrated with AI for creating graphics, social media posts, and presentations.

  • Looka: AI logo and brand design generator. It helps generate a complete visual identity for projects.

  • Slidesgo: Design platform to create stunning presentations instantly by writing a topic, and the AI crafts compelling slides for you.

  • Presentations.ai:  AI tool to generate PowerPoint presentations in seconds.

  • Pitch: An AI tool that lets you enter a prompt, select a color palette and font, and generate your presentation quickly.

  • Slides.bot:  An AI tool that transforms text into visually appealing presentations.

  • Edraw. Ai:  Ai tool creates diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps, charts, network diagrams, and other visual presentations.

  • Napkin AI: This AI tool creates diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps, and org charts.

  • Visme: An AI tool for online design that helps create visual content like presentations, infographics, reports, charts, and social media graphics.

  • MyMap.ai:  An AI tool that quickly creates interactive maps from your data. It’s useful for visualizing locations, routes, or regions.

  • Lucid: A platform for charts, diagrams, mind maps, and there are AI tools to enhance your data.

  • Venngage:  AI Diagram Generator tool.

  • AI Diagram: An AI diagram tool is a simple visual that shows how data goes into an AI system, gets processed, and produces an output.

Coding and Development

  • Antigravity AI: An AI platform for coding, text, and multimedia generation, leveraging advanced models for accurate and efficient outputs.
    Models used: Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.5, GPT-OSS

  • Cursor AI: An AI tool specializing in coding assistance, offering code generation, suggestions, and debugging using advanced language models.
    Models used: Gemini 3 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.5, GPT-5, Grok

  • Claude AI: An AI platform specialized in coding, offering code generation, debugging, and reasoning using advanced AI models.
    Models used: Opus, Sonnet, Haiku

  • GitHub Copilot: An AI-powered coding assistant that helps developers write, debug, and optimize code efficiently.
    Models used: Claude Models, OpenAI Models, Google Gemini Models

Arts and Design

  • Open art: AI tool that turns any idea into a captivating visual story in minutes.

  • Runway: AI tool to quickly create and edit videos and digital visuals.

  • Breshna Breshna: AI tool and no-code game design tool that allows educators and students to build interactive digital games without any technical expertise.

  • Microsoft Designer: AI-powered design tool that helps create visually appealing digital designs quickly and easily.

  • Adobe Firefly: It allows to generate and edit images using AI, explore styles, colors, and compositions, and quickly visualize artistic ideas, it is used as a creative support tool.

  • Midjourney: An AI tool that creates images based on text prompts you give it. You type a description of what you want to see in a highly creative or stylized way.

  • Craiyon: An AI tool with a user-friendly interface that's great for creating quick and simple images.

  • DaVinci: AI that also generates unique artworks from simple text prompts using multiple image generation models.

  • Freepik: An AI tool with no-frills AI image generation from text prompts.

  • Let’s Enhance: AI tool used to enhance existing images, and it has now added generative AI features.

  • NightCafe: AI tool that generates images from text prompts, using advanced AI models, allowing users to create digital art and visuals easily.

  • Leonardo.ai:  AI tool for generating creative artwork with style control and multi-model options.

  • Artbreeder: An AI tool that generates portraits, landscapes, and characters using AI “gene mixing.” Ideal for character design and creative experimentation.

  • Fotor AI Art Generator: An AI tool that generates images and edits them using AI; strong for marketing visuals and creative art.

  • Seaart: It enables artists to place and view digital artworks in real-world spaces, making it useful for installation of art, exhibitions, and experimental visual storytelling

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Date: 1st January, 2026