10 Best AI-Powered Mobile Apps You Didn’t Know About

AI is slowly creeping into our existence with most of us hardly realizing it. Many of the mobile applications available today, in fact, are AI mobile apps designed to perform tasks in a quicker, easier, and personalized way. While popular tools like ChatGPT and Google Assistant are commonly used, tons of more flashy AI-powered mobile apps flying underground remain almost unknown. Here below are some of the best hidden AI gems worth looking at in 2025.

1. Otter.ai – Smart Voice Notes

Otter.ai is beyond the voice recorder. It leverages artificial intelligence to transcribe conversations in real-time. Whether it be during a meeting or lecture, Otter transcribes speech with a high level of accuracy and distinguishes between speakers.

Best for: Students, journalists, business professionals
Available on: Android, iOS

2. Replika – AI Chat Companion

Replika is a cool little friendly AI chatbot that will talk to you as a real person does. It learns with time who you are through the chat conversations and becomes more personalized. The app’s purpose is for reducing loneliness or practicing for conversation.

Best for: Mental wellness, casual conversations
Available on: Android, iOS

3. Lensa AI – Smart Photo Editor

Lensa AI is an image editing app that uses advanced AI to automatically enhance your selfies, remove blemishes, change backgrounds, and create cool AI avatars.

Best for: Content creators, selfie lovers
Available on: Android, iOS

4. Socratic by Google – AI Homework Helper

Socratic uses Google’s AI to help students with their homework. Just take a photo of a question, and it gives step-by-step solutions, explanations, and video guides.

Best for: Students from middle school to college
Available on: Android, iOS

5. Youper – AI Mental Health Coach

Youper is a service that uses both psychology and artificial intelligence to hold therapy-like conversations, track moods, and provide mental health support, like having a pocket wellness coach.

Best for: Stress relief, mental wellness
Available on: Android, iOS

6. AI Dungeon – Create Your Own Story

AI Dungeon is a creative storytelling app powered by AI. You give it a few ideas, and it builds entire stories around them, allowing you to go on text-based adventures.

Best for: Writers, gamers, storytellers
Available on: Android, iOS

7. ELSA Speak – AI English Speaking Coach

ELSA uses speech recognition and AI to help non-native English speakers improve pronunciation. It gives real-time feedback to help you speak more fluently.

Best for: English learners
Available on: Android, iOS

8. Notion AI – Smarter Productivity

Notion AI boosts the popular Notion app with features like automatic writing, task suggestions, summarization, and even email drafting. It’s like ChatGPT inside your notes.

Best for: Productivity, writers, planners
Available on: Android, iOS (with subscription)

9. Speechify – AI Text-to-Speech Reader

Speechify can convert any text into flowing speech modulation. Whether you are browsing a book, email, or PDF, it will be able to speak out aloud, with a voice sounding like that of a human being.

Best for: People with dyslexia, multitaskers
Available on: Android, iOS

10. Magisto – AI Video Editor

Magisto is AI software that edits your raw videos through its in-built artificial intelligence to change them into well-polished videos. Here, it easily manages transitions, music, and effects, saving one the time and effort.

Best for: Social media creators, vloggers
Available on: Android, iOS

F.A.Q:

Q1: Are AI powered mobile apps safe?
A: Mostly yes. Most apps will be fairly safe when it comes from reputed developers. Read reviews and privacy policies.

Q2: Are these AI applications free?
A: Most will have a free taste with very few features and the rest as a premium line giving access to all features.

Q3: What does an app do to become smarter than the human brain?
A: It becomes intelligent through the machine learning of your usage, inputs, and feedback for its usage.

Q4: Can these AI apps work offline?
A: A few will be used offline while others require a net connection to perform the main task.

Q5: Do AI apps extract heavy data/battery?
A: It varies from app to app, but apps which function on a continuous basis, such as synchronizing data can normally consume more battery or data.