What counts as a generative AI feature

Our definition

A generative AI feature is a feature that creates new text, images, audio, video or code from a prompt or from your content. Examples: chat assistants, writing or rewriting tools, summaries, image generation, and code completion by an AI model.

Not counted: non-generative machine learning such as spam filters, fraud and security detection, classic spell-check, machine translation, speech-to-text (turning speech into subtitles or a transcript), and neural-network filters that clean up your own drawing without adding anything new. When a listed app has one of these, we say so on its listing.

Connecting an outside AI yourself: if an app has no generative AI of its own but lets you connect an AI service or tool that you choose, install and sign in to yourself, it can still get the “No generative AI features found” label. We add a short note saying so on the listing.

We check the app's own website, help pages, documentation, changelog and plan tiers. If a feature exists only as a third-party plugin or extension, we say so.

The three labels

• No generative AI features found (34 listed): we checked the maker's own pages and found no generative AI features. Shown as “No generative AI features found. Checked [date] ([plan or version])”.
• AI optional or can be switched off (6 listed): the app has generative AI features, but the maker documents a way to switch them off or not use them.
• AI built in (0 listed): generative AI is part of the app and can't be switched off.

These labels are our editorial findings on the date shown. They are not a certification, a seal or a guarantee.

How we check

• We give the “No generative AI features found” label only after our own check of the maker's pages, never just because a tool appears on someone else's list.
• Every check is saved with the date, the pages we read and what they said. Each listing links to that evidence.
• We re-check every listing about every 90 days, and sooner when a maker announces AI features. Listings that go more than 90 days without a check are pulled or relabelled.
• Anyone can report a change. Corrections are logged on the corrections page.
• Payment never changes a label. A tool with built-in generative AI can't buy a no-AI label.