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Refraction.dev
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI coding assistant for editors and IDEs that explains, refactors, documents, and generates code across 56 languages.
2.8K visits/mo
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Gemini Code Assist
✓ verifiedFreemium
Google's AI coding assistant for code completion, generation, chat and review across IDEs and GitHub.
559K visits/mo
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GPTExcel
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI assistant that generates and explains Excel/Sheets/Airtable formulas plus SQL, regex, VBA and scripts for spreadsheet users.
245K visits/mo65K saves
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Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI app builder that turns chat prompts into working web apps and sites, with credit-based build and deploy.
35M visits/mo69K saves
Pricing
Hobby: Free (10 code generations, 1 user)
Pro: $8/mo (unlimited generations, editor extensions)
Team: $14/user/mo (multiple members, shared history)
Free trial available
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Core features
- ✦Bug detection and fix suggestions
- ✦Code and CSS framework conversion
- ✦Unit test and documentation generation
- ✦Regex, SQL query, and CI/CD pipeline generation
- ✦Code explanation and style checking
- ✦Editor extensions for VS Code, Sublime, JetBrains, Visual Studio
- ✦AI code completion and suggestions
- ✦Natural-language code generation
- ✦In-IDE chat assistance
- ✦AI code review
- ✦IDE integrations (VS Code, JetBrains, etc.)
- ✦GitHub integration
- ✦Formula generator for Excel/Sheets/Airtable
- ✦Formula explanation
- ✦SQL query generation
- ✦Regex generator
- ✦VBA and Apps Script generation
- ✦Pivot tables, charts and data insights
- ✦Chat-to-app and website generation
- ✦Real-time prototype building
- ✦One-click deploy and hosting
- ✦Templates to start projects
- ✦Credit-based building with shared workspaces
- ✦You own your code and data
Use cases
- →Generating unit tests for existing functions
- →Refactoring legacy code to modern practices
- →Producing inline documentation automatically
- →Learning new programming languages or concepts via AI explanations
- →Speeding up coding with AI completions
- →Generating code from plain-language prompts
- →Getting in-editor help and explanations
- →Reviewing pull requests with AI
- →Understanding unfamiliar codebases
- →Writing complex spreadsheet formulas
- →Understanding existing formulas
- →Generating SQL and regex
- →Automating spreadsheet tasks with scripts
- →Build web apps without coding
- →Prototype product ideas quickly
- →Create landing pages and sites
- →Ship internal tools
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