Best AI for writing
What 83 creators said they actually use for writing, from podcasts and YouTube. Not benchmark scores. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
For writing, most creators use Claude (49), then ChatGPT (34).
Top tools for writing
Creators who use or recommend each"I am a Claude girly through and through for writing, particularly with Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 coming out... Part of the reason I prefer Claude is that Claude talks more like me naturally."
"I use ChatGPT for vibe checks and context window, but I use Claude for my personal stuff."
"That's coming out on Thursday. It's going to be awesome. I am psyched for this. I wrote it mostly with Codex and a lot of Gemini 4 Argon."
"I like Gemini because it's a Google product. I've never had any resistance of them learning to use Gemini for free to write four blog posts in about 15 minutes and send them to me."
"If you don't spend a thousand credits a day, I'm disappointed in you. Most of my leadership team is sending their emails from inside of IDE like Claude Code terminals."
"If you come over here to Grokbot, I just did this. I said draft an email to Emily saying Grokbot is in Slack. You'll see here that we have this inline draft which is incredibly useful, right? It allows me to very quickly make changes to ..."
"Perplexity is very useful for pulling stuff quickly. On my blog posts and stuff, it's obviously a game changer for research."
"I would feed it through Cursor and I would tell Cursor, okay, I want you to use Gemini to process the video and audio... And you're just using Cursor to route it to all these different models. Yep. Because Cursor has that built-in model ..."
Models creators name for writing
Most creators name the app (like Claude Code), not the model, so these counts are smaller.
Head to head for writing
Only creators who compared the two for writing.
Best AI for other jobs
How this works: we read every podcast and YouTube transcript we track and note when a creator says they use or recommend an AI tool for a job. Each creator counts once per tool. Sponsored mentions are left out. More about Followed.