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Ranked by current activity, adjusted for momentum — measured, not bought.

Updated nightly · momentum over the last 7 days · No paid placement. No pay-to-rank. Ever.

Rank shows current measured activity — not which tool is best for you.

bestofnow tracks which AI tools are gaining attention fastest, across ten categories. What do these numbers mean? →

  1. 1
    Kling↗ Rising

    Kuaishou's video model for cinematic motion and multi-shot scenes, with native 4K, Motion Control, and audio synced across cuts.

    Score 71.89

    Why it's rising

    Kling: score 72/100, engagement is rising compared with ~7 days ago.

  2. 2
    Google Veo↗ Rising

    Google's video model with the strongest realism and the only native 48kHz synchronized dialogue, in Lite, Fast, and Quality tiers.

    Score 66.84

    Why it's rising

    Google Veo: score 67/100, engagement is rising compared with ~7 days ago.

  3. 3
    ChatCut↘ Cooling

    Conversational AI video editor that exports to an editable timeline and professional NLE formats

    Score 54.47

    Why it's cooling

    ChatCut: score 54/100, engagement is cooling compared with ~7 days ago.

  4. 4
    Synthesia↗ Rising

    Avatar video platform for corporate training and localization, turning scripts into presenter-led videos with multilingual lip-sync.

    Score 54.39

    Why it's rising

    Synthesia: score 54/100, engagement is rising compared with ~7 days ago.

  5. 5
    AdAnt AIWatchlist — no trend yet

    Generates and iterates video ad creative from a product URL or existing asset.

    Score 35.86

    What the data shows

    AdAnt AI: score 36/100, not enough history yet for a reliable trend.

  6. 6
    WanWatchlist — no trend yet

    Alibaba's open-source video model, free to self-host, valued for fast iteration and unrestricted prompts at low cost.

    Score 29.55

    What the data shows

    Wan: score 30/100, not enough history yet for a reliable trend.

  7. 7
    Seedance↘ Cooling

    ByteDance's video generation model that produces clips with synchronized audio in a single pass, known for balance, speed, and strong physics.

    Score 28.07

    Why it's cooling

    Seedance: score 28/100, engagement is cooling compared with ~7 days ago.

  8. 8
    WisryWatchlist — no trend yet

    AI agents that find the ad formats performing in a market, adapt them to your brand as static and video ads, and launch them to Meta and Google

    Score 24.99

    What the data shows

    Wisry: score 25/100, not enough history yet for a reliable trend.

  9. 9
    WizstarWatchlist — no trend yet

    Digital human platform for avatar videos real-time interactive avatars and AI livestreaming with coordinated face and body movement and lip sync that holds through head turns and occlusions

    Score 15.27

    What the data shows

    Wizstar: score 15/100, not enough history yet for a reliable trend.

Watchlist — building baseline

Too little current activity in our sources to score or read a direction reliably. These are measured nightly — they move up the moment the data does.

  • HappyHorse

    Alibaba's video generation model topping the quality leaderboards, with joint audio-video output and seven-language lip-sync.

  • Higgsfield

    Creative suite that runs 15+ video models like Veo, Kling, and Seedance under one subscription, adding character consistency and camera control.

  • Runway

    Pro video-creation suite with its own Gen models, known for the best directorial control: motion brushes, camera moves, and scene consistency.

  • HeyGen

    Avatar video app for marketing and localization, generating talking-head videos and translations from a script in 175+ languages.

  • Luma Dream Machine

    Luma's video app built on its Ray3 model, noted for elegant, atmospheric output and being first with native 16-bit HDR.

  • Buzzy

    Agentic infinite-canvas video creation and editing - conversational pixel-level edits on real footage, orchestrating 70+ image and video models

  • Loova AI

    All-in-one AI image and video platform aggregating leading models with its own editor, director agents, avatars, and ads studio

  • Topview

    Agent-driven video workspace for marketing and film, spanning generation, canvas editing, character swap, upscaling, voiceover and localization.

  • Clueso

    Turns raw screen recordings into polished product videos and documentation, with an MCP connection that lets Claude or ChatGPT create and edit videos

  • PixVerse

    AI video generation platform for text- and image-to-video, now including R2, a real-time world model whose scenes can be explored and changed live

  • Pexo

    AI video agent that plans, generates and edits finished launch and product videos from a website link or a short pitch

  • ngram

    Turns prompts, documents and screen recordings into narrated explainer, demo and avatar videos that are edited by chat