It won’t surprise you to discover most of the conversations we’re having with L&D professionals at the moment mention AI in some capacity. The list of AI tools for learning and development teams is growing by the day, and it can be tough to navigate what they all do, which is the best and what on earth you’re supposed to do with them all.
If this sounds familiar, fear not! We’ve pulled together the ultimate list of AI tools for learning and development – and rest assured, we’ll be updating it regularly so you always have the most up-to-date information. Bookmark this page, and let’s get started!
It wouldn’t be right to start a list of AI tools for learning and development with anything other than ChatGPT. It’s by far the most commonly used AI tool for L&D, because the free version is great, and it’s a brilliant tool for solving the blank page problem.
L&D professionals are mostly using ChatGPT for content creation (such as coming up with quiz questions, creating course summaries and promotional materials and writing elearning scripts) and as a research assistant (for instance, asking ChatGPT to act as a subject matter expert and answer questions in a way that resonates with their specific audience). It’s now also possible to use ChatGPT to create AI images for your learning content – ideal if your graphic design skills leave something to be desired!
However, the sky’s the limit when it comes to using ChatGPT for learning – every single day, we hear about businesses using it in increasingly creative ways, which is a great sign for the L&D industry’s appetite for AI tools!
Price: Free (with premium paid subscriptions)
For more hands-on learning professionals, content creation tools like Claude are proving extremely useful as a way to bridge the gap between technical information from SMEs and the learning designer’s own understanding of the subject matter. We spoke to instructional designer Will Herzog to find out how he’s been using Claude to enhance the learning content he’s building for his clients:
“Asking tools such as Claude to break down information into layman’s terms helps give me a running start when entering into a new project. For example, in attempting to learn more about Environmental and Social Governance, I asked Claude to create an interactive graph where I could input any variable and create a host of outcomes within a set of rules. The graph can be provided in code so it can also be embedded into an authoring tool for the learner to play around with – so not only is Claude teaching me, but it’s also creating a viable tool I can pass on to learners to interact with. AI is allowing me to be a bit more of a multi-industry chameleon - and certainly helps me get up to speed with client requirements.
There are already way more uses than I’ll probably ever get to use, but so far I’ve enjoyed trying out AI assistants, interactive simulations, machine-generated environments for gamification, at-scale learner personalisation and creating interactive plug-ins such as graphs and calculators.”
Price: Free
Perplexity is a free AI search engine that scours the internet for the answers to your questions. Instead of clicking through dozens of links to find the information you need, Perplexity collates the various sources into one simple, conversational answer.
Perplexity pulls from sources in real time, ensuring the information it gives you is always up to date, and it shows you the sources used so you can verify and cross-reference everything before you include it in your learning content.
Price: Free
We can’t all be graphic designers, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we have hours to waste cobbling images together in Canva. AI image generator tools like DALL-E (from the makers of, and now integrated with, ChatGPT) are an absolute godsend if you need help creating on-brand images at speed for your elearning courses, thumbnails or promotional materials.
It also saves you from trawling through stock image websites to find the perfect image, saving you huge amounts of time. You can keep asking for adjustments until you get an image you like, and you can also create diagrams, flowcharts, graphs and more, which can seriously supercharge a small L&D team. Just remember that AI image generators aren't perfect, so don't forget to check for errors like extra fingers, spelling mistakes or strange facial expressions!
AI-generated image for an elearning course from DALL-E via ChatGPT
Price: Free ($25 USD/month for business subscription)
NotebookLM is Google’s AI-powered research and writing assistant, used to analyse sources and documents uploaded by you to help you surface the key facts and information. In moments, you can transform a document of rough notes or source material into FAQs, bullet points, briefing documents, checklists, cheat sheets and more.
This is a brilliant AI tool for learning and development professionals, especially when it comes to transforming notes from SMEs into polished learning materials. You can also add key resources to a digital notebook to create a group knowledge base, helping you organically gather collective knowledge over time.
Price: Free
Otter.ai is one of the most popular AI transcription tools on the market today, and with good reason. Instead of relying on a human notetaker, Otter.ai automatically takes meeting notes for you, transcribing your meeting and creating a summary and action items for reference.
If virtual instructor-led training is a key part of your learning offering, Otter.ai will help you capture and summarise presentations, discussions and Q&As that could prove useful at a later date. It can also be turned into handy performance support assets, such as checklists, cheat sheets and job aids, based on real conversations.
Price: Free (with premium paid subscriptions)
Writer is one of those handy do-it-all AI tools that every L&D professional should know about. The tool itself allows users to build generative AI into any business process from an all-in-one platform, but it’s particularly useful for overstretched L&D teams who need a little extra support.
You can use Writer to generate AI learning materials based on source content, respond to FAQs, analyse employee engagement surveys and more. It’s great if you’re looking to streamline the learning and comms creation process, make your learning consistent and plan for the future – and if you have capacity, you can even use Writer to build your own AI tools for learning and development.
Price: From $18/user/month
Mindsmith is a generative AI elearning authoring tool that makes it easy (and speedy) to create and share elearning content – and our Head of Product James Cranwell describes it as ‘one of the best offerings I’ve come across in this category’.
It couldn’t be simpler – you give the AI tool a prompt, using your documents as source material, then fine-tune your course with the help of the AI assistant. You can add AI narration directly within the tool, and it’s also super easy to collaborate with your colleagues to ensure everything can be reviewed and signed off with no hassle. And as an added bonus, when you update your elearning course in Mindsmith, it automatically updates in your LMS too – yes, even with SCORM!
Price: Free ($31.20/month for Professional subscription)
Another recommendation from our Head of Product is Easygenerator. Easygenerator was created to solve a common L&D problem: the constant need to update elearning content. Easygenerator empowers SMEs to update their own content, taking the burden off the L&D team and enabling collaborative course creation at speed.
Easygenerator’s ‘employee-generated learning’ is, of course, supported by AI, which allows anyone to create elearning content, whether or not they’re in L&D. This helps you capture the brilliant thinking of your SMEs without requiring them to upskill in yet another new tool, and helps you transform their existing documents into engaging courses and quizzes to boost understanding and knowledge retention across the business.
Price: From €99/month for Pro subscription
Coursebox is an AI-powered course authoring tool, used to convert existing content (such as text documents, website pages or videos) to elearning courses. With the power of AI, you can transform a boring document into an interactive elearning course in minutes, and you have total control to edit whatever needs to be updated along the way.
You can also include AI tutors who are trained on your course content to provide 24/7 support to learners. Coursebox is particularly well-suited to extended enterprise training companies who sell courses to customers, as you’re free to white label your Coursebox content and sell courses on an ad hoc or subscription basis to boost your revenue stream.
Price: Free (with premium paid subscriptions)
If you’re looking to enhance your learning experience with microlearning, 7taps could be the AI tool for you. According to 7taps, you can create your first mini-course in just 15 minutes for everything from performance support to sales enablement to training reinforcement, keeping learning front-of-mind with a constant drip-feed of highly relevant information.
You can simply type in a topic or upload an existing piece of content, and 7taps’ AI transforms it into bite-sized microlearning resources, without the need to manually create the additional content yourself. This is a great example of an AI tool helping L&D teams get more bang for their buck, and hopefully ensuring better learning outcomes!
Price: Free ($99 USD/month for one Pro account)
SC Training (formerly EdApp) offers a quick, easy way to create AI-generated elearning courses from a simple prompt. SC Training says that using their tool allows 81% of instructional designers to create courses up to two hours faster, which can’t be a bad thing!
SC Training is especially useful for more ‘generic’ topics, such as health and safety or soft skills. The relative simplicity of the course creation process means it won’t necessarily be the best choice for highly specialised topics needing expert input, but it can be a great jumping-off point to get the ball rolling.
Price: Free (with paid premium subscriptions)
We’re borrowing an AI tool from the world of education here – hear us out! Copilot is designed to create lesson plans, project outlines and educational handouts, but… wouldn’t that be great if your company does a lot of instructor-led training (ILT)?
Templates allow you to generate training workshop outlines at speed, saving you huge amounts of time on planning and prep work for your live learning events. While this specific AI tool was created with the education sector in mind, there’s no reason you can’t use it for your corporate training – and there’s a free trial, so you can play around with it risk-free.
Price: From $9/month
At first glance, Synthesia might look a bit spooky! It takes a text resource and turns it into an AI video, complete with a moving avatar and voiceover, in minutes. Essentially, you can write a script, company update or list of helpful tips, and it can be ‘read out’ by an AI avatar.
Stock avatars and voices are available in all plans, but where it gets really interesting is in the paid plans, where you can create AI doppelgangers of your own people, using just their photos and a sample voice recording. This could be useful for producing AI videos of busy stakeholders and SMEs who don’t have time to keep recording videos for your elearning courses, especially when combined with the language translation feature which makes video content much more accessible and engaging for diverse learner audiences.
Price: Free (with tiered paid subscriptions for more personalisation)
HeyGen is another popular tool among L&D professionals wanting to create studio-quality videos for their elearning courses. It has some nifty features, such as the ability to change voices, clothing or the background at the click of a button, meaning you don’t need to reshoot an entire video series just because the speaker’s shirt gets lost on the green screen.
Using just your webcam, you can create an AI avatar that speaks 175 languages and moves naturally, or use one of HeyGen’s preset avatars to keep things simple. In just minutes, you can generate high-quality, fully scripted videos of your own people or characters for a range of learning scenarios, which helps bring learning to life.
Price: Free ($69/user/month for Team subscriptions)
If you don’t want to waste time finding the perfect voice artist to narrate your elearning content and videos (or, very often, find a colleague to create a slightly ropey recording using their laptop's dodgy microphone), WellSaid is for you.
It takes your script and generates AI audio content in seconds, in the voice of your choosing. You can also tailor the audio by content type, such as training module or podcast ad, helping you refine the tone of voice. WellSaid saves 80% on the cost of traditional voiceovers, and you can ensure consistency across your learning as you never have to compromise on the voice artist you use.
Price: $179/user/month for Business subscriptions
5app customer Greystar uses Murf to generate AI voiceovers for its elearning videos. You can choose from over 200 AI voices to find the perfect narration for your content, which can be translated into 20+ languages and countless accents to create perfectly localised narration.
Murf also integrates with commonly used L&D tools like Canva, Google Slides, PowerPoint and Adobe Captivate, meaning you can access your AI-generated voiceovers wherever you need them for speedy content creation.
Price: $66/month for Business subscription
Colossyan is an AI video creation tool designed specifically with L&D in mind. They specialise in areas such as employee onboarding, compliance training, internal communications and sales enablement, making this a great choice for L&D teams who prefer to use tools aligned to their exact content creation needs.
It takes less than five minutes to create an AI avatar, and there’s even an AI assistant to help you write your video script. You can capture and add screen recordings, and create engaging interactive videos complete with branching scenarios, quizzes and more, making this a fantastic choice for L&D teams with big ambitions, but limited time and resource.
Price: $19/month for Starter subscription or $61/month for Pro subscription
Descript is probably one of the most intuitive, user-friendly tools on this list. As they put it, ‘If you can edit text, you can edit video’, and that’s exactly right. Instead of having to learn to use a video editing tool, Descript uses AI to help cut and edit videos from the transcript alone.
You can also change backgrounds, add captions, correct the speaker’s eye contact and even tweak words or phrases using the super smart AI voice technology, helping you avoid expensive video reshoots. All videos can automatically be created in your business’ brand, keeping everything looking consistent and professional (and keeping your marketing team happy).
Price: $40/user/month for Business subscription
If you’ve ever searched for the right stock music for your learning videos, you’ll know the quality can be... questionable. You usually end up choosing the best song of a bad bunch, meaning you end up with a finished product you’re not completely happy with.
Soundful’s AI music generator puts a stop to all that. It allows you to generate royalty-free background music at the click of a button based on a range of themes and moods, so you can easily create high-octane tunes for your energetic learning programme launch videos or mellow, undistracting ambient melodies for your health and safety training.
Here's a preview of a track we created – it took literally 10 seconds, and it would work perfectly as low-key background music for an elearning intro video!
Price: $5/month for Premium subscription
If you’ve ever thought ‘Our elearning is great, but I just wish it could be narrated by Snoop Dogg’... you’re in luck! Speechify is another AI voiceover tool, but this one comes with celebrity-inspired voices, which makes it a lot more fun.
Speechify can also be used for text-to-speech, so it can read content out to your learners up to 4.5x faster than they can naturally read it. This helps speed up content consumption, which can be especially useful for long learning resources, and instant AI summaries mean your learners don’t waste time reading irrelevant content.
Price: Free ($11.58/user/month for Premium subscription)
Mindset AI’s AI agent is a lifesaver if you waste too much time answering the same learner FAQs time and time again. Instead of learners constantly asking you where to find a specific piece of content, Mindset AI’s chat agent will handle those questions for you, helping connect the right people with the right content, on demand.
This helps you surface learning content the moment it’s needed, even if your learners don’t know the specific search terms they need. With Mindset AI, your learners get 24/7 support from a conversational agent that doesn’t feel like a typical bot, giving them the answers they need to do their jobs much, much faster.
Price: From £1,250/month
If personal and professional development is a priority for you, Rocky’s AI coaching platform could be a great addition to your tech stack to boost learner engagement. Instead of all coaching falling to the L&D team, the Rocky AI coach can tap into the values, goals and challenges of your team for personalised professional coaching experiences.
Rocky is built on the science of positive psychology and solution-focused coaching, and is designed with employee engagement in mind to boost LMS logins and positive learning outcomes. Managers can ‘work with’ Rocky to develop personal development plans for team members, and employees can access AI-powered coaching via the Rocky app, making it a powerful AI tool for learning and development teams.
Price: From $199/month
Anyone who’s ever created elearning knows how many moving parts there are. From gathering information from SMEs to building the content in your authoring tool to creating images and thumbnails to recording voiceovers... it’s a lot of work!
5app CEO Philip Huthwaite is a fan of project management system Jira’s AI work breakdown tool. This handy little tool generates subtasks for your main tasks in seconds, saving you from setting up every task manually. You can also refine suggestions, allowing you to tailor everything to your specific project and workflows. Here’s what Philip has to say about it:
Price: Free for up to 10 users (from $7.53/user/month for Standard subscription)
As Asana says, ‘AI is no longer a tool – it’s a teammate’. A whopping 98% of Asana’s top 500 customers use Asana AI, because it’s just that useful! It can advise you on your priorities, automate tasks and complex workflows and learn from your L&D team’s usage and working patterns to make your life easier.
Asana AI allows you to hand off your tedious ‘busywork’ to the AI tool, giving you more time to focus on what matters – building engaging learning content. Asana will also update your project status in real-time, helping you keep an eye on where the risks lie so you can get every learning programme launched on time with no snags.
Price: Free for up to 10 users (from £9.49/user/month for Starter subscription)
Quizgecko was originally created for the education sector, helping students study for their exams, but it’s also very useful for corporate L&D. This AI-powered tool transforms PDFs, PowerPoints and Word documents into quizzes, with accompanying learning materials such as flashcards, podcasts and study notes.
This could be useful if your audience is studying for an external certification, such as the CIM marketing qualification or the PRINCE2 project management qualification, as it will help maximise their chance of success and, in turn, your ROI on your investment in their professional development.
Price: Free (£62/year for Educator subscription with LMS export)
Quizizz is an AI-enhanced assessment solution which enables businesses to maximise their training ROI and knowledge retention. It does this by creating quizzes out of your learning content to ensure learners are engaging with the material and to avoid training becoming a passive ‘click next’ activity.
Quizizz’s AI functionality means it can constantly generate new questions based on your content to keep learning fresh, which can be used as part of spaced practice learning delivery to ensure learners stay engaged over time. You can also integrate it with your LMS for a smooth, consistent learning experience.
Price: From $3/user/month for the Essential subscription
Scoring learning assessments can quickly get tedious and repetitive, and takes L&D’s attention away from more important tasks. Graide is an AI assessment tool which streamlines the grading process and provides tailored feedback for every learner, making it 89% quicker to get results back without the need to manually review every quiz.
It also helps ensure consistency and visibility of the entire grading process, helping reassure learners that there’s no bias at play in the scoring process. While it’s not cheap, you can use Graide for everything from quick multiple choice quizzes to long-form answers and even image-based assignments, so it could be a huge time-saver if you have a large volume of training assessments to grade.
Price: £30,000-£50,000/year for Vocational & Professional Development subscription
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