The Best AI Tools for Filmmakers (2026)
A.I. is changing filmmaking
That’s why we put together this list of the best AI tools for filmmakers.
Along with short descriptions and links, all in one place.
You’re gonna wanna bookmark this.
HIGGSFIELD
Higgsfield is the ultimate AI tool for filmmakers. It has it all, from the best AI video and image generators in the world, to their own unique models and tools. Our current favorite.
RUNWAY
Runway is the overall leader in AI video. The best experience by far for AI video generation, they have a great app, and it has a myriad of other AI tools perfectly suited for AI filmmakers. We generate most of our videos with Runway.
Midjourney - The best AI image generator in the game when it comes to taste. A must-have for AI filmmakers and creators. We use this to help design our characters for every project we do.
ElevenLabs - AI speech generator that turns your text into hyper-realistic speech. This is essential for almost every project.
Suno - Incredible music has long been out of reach of most indie filmmakers. Suno changes that completely by composing mindblowing original royalty-free AI music tracks that can used in your films in videos, without needing to worry about copyright.
ACE Studio
ACE Studio is another stunning music creation AI platform unlike anything we’ve seen before. Upload your full video, and ACE Studio will score it for you with your direction. You can also create the music ideas yourself by selecting simple notes or melodies, and then ACE Studio can flesh it out for you to unbelievable effect.
ChatGPT - The pinnacle of AI tools by OpenAI. Just type or tell it what you want it to do, and it can create everything from story ideas, to shotlists, to breakdowns of new filmmaking techniques you want to learn, and even entire scripts. It even has one of the best image generators built in.
Claude - If you don’t use ChatGPT, definitely use this. Everything you could possibly want to work on can benefit from using Claude to help. Create everything from film concepts, to storyboards, to full websites for your project, all in one place.
invideo Agent Two
invideo Agent Two is an AI filmmaking agent that automates the entire video production pipeline. Simply direct it in plain English to handle scriptwriting, storyboarding, and video generation without manual prompting, all while maintaining perfect character and style consistency across your entire project.
Kling
Kling is one of the best AI video generators with their own flagship models. You can use their own platform on their website, or simply use the Kling models inside other AI video generation platforms like Higgsfield.
Hailuo
Hailuo is one of the best original AI video generation platforms. Hailuo combines an excellent model that excels at big budget VFX shots, which is why we used it to create the best AI short film of the time, Javelin.
Lovart - An AI design agent built specifically for creatives. It features all the latest AI models from Seedance, Google and more, and you can speak to it to help create your project in plain language.
Genspark
Genspark is an all-in-one AI workspace, and a Silicon Valley unicorn that reached $100M annual run rate in just 9 months. Once you see everything it can do, you’ll see why.
HappyHorse AI
HappyHorse AI is an AI platform with a strong all-around video model with excellent character consistency and integrated audio generation.
CapCut
CapCut is an AI video editing tool and video generation app. Because they’re owned by Bytedance, they typically get first access to all their incredible new AI video and image models like Seedance and Seedream.
TapNow
TapNow is a professional AI creative engine for video creators. You can make everything from social media content, to full short films like our viral AI horror short film Hello There.
Adobe Photoshop - Generative Fill for Adobe Photoshop is an AI feature that has completely revolutionized image creation and design.
FireCut - FireCut is like your personal editing assistant. It can edit your longform videos for you by cutting out all the silence, switch between speakers and cameras for podcasts, and even add pro-level captions with a click.
Beatoven - An online music generation website that will generate new songs for you to use in your videos, even if you have no music skills whatsoever.
Creative Reality Studio - Take a photo or image of any person or character, and Creative Reality Studio will turn that into a digital video presenter with the click of a button.
Kive.ai - An AI-powered visual reference library equipped with AI tagging so you never have to manually organize your images again.
Adobe Podcast - Effortlessly record audio and podcasts with AI-powered tools that increase quality, and automatically transcribe your audio so it can be edited simply by editing the text.
Move.ai - Capture high quality motion capture data from video in any environment using mobile phones with no need for markers, mocap suits, or studio equipment.
Descript - An AI-powered video editing platform that allows you to edit your videos by editing the text.
Imagine 3D - An AI text-to-3D model generator by Luma Labs.
Papercup - An AI platform that artificially creates voiceovers and dubs for your videos, even in other languages.
SOUNDRAW - An AI-powered music generation tool that allows you to create custom, royalty-free music for your films and videos.
Podcastle - An AI-powered podcasting tool that can fix garbage audio with a single click.
Synthesia.io - Easily create videos from text of digital humans that can speak in over 120 languages.
Flim - An AI-powered fully searchable image database of stills from movies, TV series, music videos and commercials.
Plask - A browser animation software and editing tool that lets you create motion capture animations with just your webcam.
Nova.ai - An AI video editing program that lets you search through the content of your videos using text.
TrueSync - Uses AI to perfectly match the lips of characters to match the dialogue of dubs in other languages.
Vidu - A free-to-try AI video generator that’s perfect for getting started generating AI videos.
Meshy - An AI 3D model model generator that can do both text-to-3D models and image-to-3D models.
HeyGen - An AI-powered text-to-video generator that lets you turn any text into a video narrated by a digital human.
Vrew - An online, AI-powered video editing platform that lets you edit your videos by editing the text.
Pixop - An AI service that lets you easily fix noisy, grainy or terrible looking footage, in addition to the ability to remaster, upscale and remove noise.
DeepBrain AI - Allows you to create and use fully digital humans in your videos by simply typing in what you want them to say.
Pictory - A cloud-based, AI-powered video editing platform that allows you to edit the videos by editing the text.
Topaz Video AI - Easily upscale, enhance, denoise, increase the frame rate without artifacts, or slow down your video clips.
Make-A-Video - Meta’s entry into the text-to-video generation space that allows you to generate new videos using text prompts.
Rokoko Video - An AI motion capture tool that allows you to easily record motion capture with just your cell phone.
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