AI Tools

This hub collects Shipworthy's reviews, comparisons and roundups of AI tools for developers. Some are coding assistants, some are terminals, launchers and app builders with AI features, and some are general tools that developers end up paying for. Each post tries to answer one practical question: should you spend money and attention on this, and if so, on which plan?

It is for developers and small teams who are tired of launch-day hype and want a straight answer. Every week brings a new tool that promises to change how you work. Many of them overlap, some are thin wrappers around the same models, and a few are genuinely worth adopting. Telling those apart takes real use, which is what the reviews here are built on.

The rules are simple. We only review tools we have used on real work, never from a feature list. Every review opens with a verdict, a rating and the pros and cons we observed, and the verdict is allowed to be "not yet". Prices are checked on the vendor's page and dated, because AI pricing changes often. Some links on this site are affiliate links; they are always disclosed, and they never decide a verdict. Reviews show a last-tested date and are re-tested on a schedule, so an old opinion does not sit here pretending to be current.

Where to start: the guide to the best AI tools for developers is the broad overview, organised by the job each tool does. If you write code all day, read the Cursor vs GitHub Copilot comparison and the Claude Code review next. For the tools around the editor, there is a Warp terminal review and a Raycast vs Alfred comparison, and the v0 vs Bolt vs Lovable comparison covers builders that turn a prompt into a working app.