I Tested 7 AI Tools for 200+ Hours — Only 4 Are Worth Your Time
By Shakeel Ahmed Every AI "guru" on the internet is selling you a list of 47 tools you "need." I run a Facebook page with 1.8 million views, two YouTube channels, and three print-on-demand shops — and I do it all with four tools. Let me save you the 200 hours I spent testing the rest. In short: I tested 7 AI tools over 200+ hours of real daily video production, spending $60, and only 4 earned a place in my daily workflow: Google Flow + Veo for video generation, Gemini for research and brainstorming, ElevenLabs for Urdu voice narration, and CapCut for editing. Canva, Spark, and Claude are useful but not daily drivers. Here is what actually works, what I pay for, and what's a waste of your money. How I tested them For the last four months I've generated AI videos daily: 30-second animal dramas on Facebook, YouTube Shorts, voiceovers, thumbnails, the whole pipeline. Every tool on this list went through real production — not a demo video, not a screensh...