Best AI Tools of May 2026

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   1. StoreClaw

   783 upvotes

   Grow your store profits with agents that know how to sell

   StoreClaw is the first AI commerce platform with agents that know how to sell, so you can make more money with less effort and less stress. Connect StoreClaw to your existing store and it will study your numbers, current sales figures…

   #1 on May 20, 2026storeclaw.ai6 makers, 3 with emails
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   2. HasData

   433 upvotes

   Web scraping service for AI agents

   HasData is the managed web scraping service for data pipelines and AI agents. Send any URL, get clean JSON or Markdown back in one API call. We handle proxies, browser rendering, retries, and anti-bot. 50+ ready scrapers cover Google…

   #2 on May 15, 2026hasdata.com1 maker
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   3. Composer 2.5

   419 upvotes

   Cursor’s most powerful model yet

   A substantial improvement in intelligence and behavior over Composer 2, particularly on long-horizon agentic tasks.

   #3 on May 19, 20261 maker
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   4. Gemini Omni

   380 upvotes

   Create anything from any input – starting with video

   Create anything from anything, starting with video. Gemini Omni is where Gemini’s ability to reason meets the ability to create. It delivers a leap in world understanding, multimodality, and editing.

   #4 on May 20, 2026geminiomni.app1 maker, 1 with an email
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   5. Scholé

   319 upvotes

   Turn everyday work into personalized AI learning

   Most AI learning is disconnected from the work people actually need to do. Scholé changes that by giving professionals and teams personalized, task-based learning in real time, right in the flow of work. Grounded in learning science and…

   #1 on May 2, 20265 makers
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   6. Freu AI

   295 upvotes

   Automate any Mac app with $0 recurring run cost

   Freu AI is an AI agent for Mac that automates any desktop app with natural language. It “sees” your UI to compile a cross‑app workflow once, then runs it locally via a deterministic DSL—no brittle coordinates/selectors and no recurring…

   #3 on May 24, 20261 maker
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   7. How AI-pilled are you?

   238 upvotes

   Curious how AI-fluent your organization is?

   The P9 AI Fluency Index gives you an explainable grade in ~12 minutes, along with clear recommendations on how to reach the next level. Based on benchmarks from some of the most forward-thinking companies like Ramp, Fin, Shopify, Zapier…

   #2 on May 9, 20261 maker
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   8. Prism

   224 upvotes

   Hire the best candidates, not just the available

   Most recruiting agencies start with who they already know. Prism starts with who is actually best for the role. We search beyond existing networks, agency databases, and active job seekers to find high-fit candidates across the open…

   #3 on May 9, 2026YC X26tryprism.com1 maker, 1 with an email
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   9. Notion Developer Platform

   216 upvotes

   Build on Notion, not just inside it

   Notion Developer Platform lets teams build on Notion with CLI, Workers, database syncs, agent tools, webhook triggers, MCP, and External Agents APIs, so data, workflows, and agents can operate inside the same shared workspace.

   #7 on May 14, 20261 maker
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    10. MESA

    207 upvotes

    Describe your Shopify workflow. MESA builds it.

    For Shopify merchants buried in repetitive store operations, MESA turns plain-English requests into automations that work across their existing tools. Unlike more DIY automation platforms, MESA is built for teams that want outcomes, not…

    #2 on May 7, 2026getmesa.com1 maker, 1 with an email
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    11. Motion

    206 upvotes

    A video agent for tasteful motion design

    Motion is a frontier video agent for tasteful motion design. Give it a prompt with links, X threads, videos, assets, or references. Motion researches, storyboards, and creates explainers, launch videos, logo animations, or motion design…

    #6 on May 19, 2026motion.dev1 maker
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    12. Gradient Bang

    172 upvotes

    Massively multi-player game played by talking to an LLM

    Gradient Bang is a new kind of software: AI-native, built from the ground up to use LLMs everywhere. The game has a dynamic user interface driven by an LLM, conversational voice input, and to win you have to manage a fleet of AI…

    #6 on May 15, 20261 maker
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    13. Prosed

    155 upvotes

    Go from newsletters & podcasts to published manuscript

    You've spent years creating—newsletters, podcasts, LinkedIn posts, courses. The book is in there. You just haven't had time to assemble it. Prosed's Inkwell pipeline analyzes your voice, structures your scattered content into chapters…

    #8 on May 22, 2026tryprosed.com1 maker
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    14. The Incident Challenge

    117 upvotes

    Production Debugging Games for Software Engineers

    Compete in realistic incident simulations where you find the root cause, fix the system, and race the leaderboard.

    #12 on May 25, 2026theincidentchallenge.com1 maker
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    15. Forsy

    117 upvotes

    The skill network for AI agents

    Forsy is the skill network for AI agents, turning expertise and real workflows into reusable capabilities that agents autonomously apply, evaluate, and evolve.

    #7 on May 23, 2026forsy.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
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    16. Basedash: Embedded Analytics

    103 upvotes

    Give customers AI analytics inside your product.

    Basedash Embedding puts the full power of Basedash inside your own product. Drop a dashboard in with one iframe, or embed the whole app so your customers can chat with the AI agent, build their own dashboards, and get automatic insights —…

    #11 on May 29, 2026YC S20basedash.com1 maker, 1 with an email
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    17. Basedash MCP server

    102 upvotes

    Your data analyst, in every AI tool you already use

    Basedash is now an MCP server. Connect Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible client and your AI agent can ask Basedash anything about your data — across every database, warehouse, and SaaS tool you've already connected to your…

    #14 on May 7, 20261 maker
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    18. Unity AI

    97 upvotes

    AI agents built directly into Unity workflows

    Unity AI is a beta suite for Unity 6+ that brings agentic assistance directly into the Editor. It includes a project-aware assistant, AI Gateway for connecting third-party agents, and Unity’s official MCP Server for bridging Unity with…

    #13 on May 5, 2026unityai.co
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    19. Basedash MCP Connectors

    94 upvotes

    Connect any app and take action anywhere

    Basedash already reads from your databases, warehouses, and SaaS tools. Now it can act on them too. Connect any MCP server — Linear, HubSpot, Slack, Resend, Notion, GitHub — and the Basedash agent gets new tools it can use right inside…

    #20 on May 15, 20261 maker
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    20. JAMtime.ai

    92 upvotes

    Just tell your guitar pedal how to sound

    Tweaking knobs is a time-honored tradition in sound design. Chatting with AI is revolutionizing industries. JAMtime.ai embraces both, while keeping the human firmly in the driver's seat. Build and tweak your guitar pedal with phrases as…

    #16 on May 22, 20261 maker
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    21. Noteweave

    92 upvotes

    Go from research to executable production plans in hours

    Noteweave is an automated RnD lab. It helps teams to go from research to executable production plans in hours. 1. Stress test scientific research with Noteweave's E3 - surpasses Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 on technical fault finding. 2.…

    #22 on May 8, 2026noteweave.io1 maker, 1 with an email
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    22. Basedash Skills

    90 upvotes

    Reusable AI instructions for every Basedash surface.

    Skills are reusable bundles of instructions that every Basedash AI surface can read on demand. Define your metrics once and any AI agent in your workspace will pick up the skill when it's relevant. No more pasting the same caveats into…

    #18 on May 21, 20261 maker
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    23. Cleo AI

    89 upvotes

    AI Product Operator for AI-native teams

    Most small product teams spend days reading hundreds of customer messages, GitHub issues, and coding-agent failure traces trying to figure out what to build next. In this era, small AI native teams in B2B can outperform large companies.…

    #28 on May 15, 20261 maker
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    24. Neo by Amp

    89 upvotes

    The Amp CLI has been rebuilt from the ground up

    Neo is the rebuilt Amp CLI, redesigned around longer-running coding agents. It adds remote control from ampcode.com, automatic context compaction, message queuing and steering, a new Plugin API, and major performance improvements for huge…

    #15 on May 7, 20261 maker
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    25. Agora-1 by Odyssey

    84 upvotes

    A multi-agent world model you can play

    Agora-1 by Odyssey is a playable research preview of a multi-agent world model. Up to four humans or AI agents can share and interact inside the same real-time generated GoldenEye-style simulation.

    #25 on May 19, 2026odyssey.dev1 maker

Junior imports every day's Product Hunt leaderboard. Each launch is filed under the first topic its makers chose, so it appears in one category only. This list takes the Artificial Intelligence launches dated in May 2026 and ranks them by their upvotes. It refreshes daily.

• Best Productivity Tools214
• Best Design Tools76
• Best Open Source Tools67
• Best Developer Tools58
• Best Mac Apps46
• Best Android Apps37
• Best Marketing Tools38
• Best SaaS Tools27
• Best iOS Apps23
• Best APIs36
• Best Chrome Extensions28
• Best Analytics Tools27
• Best Health & Fitness Apps23
• Best Social Media Tools13
• Best Sales Tools20
• Best Fintech Tools25

• All AI Tools401
• Every launch in May 2026
• All best-of lists

What was the top Artificial Intelligence launch of May 2026?

StoreClaw ("Grow your store profits with agents that know how to sell"), with 783 upvotes on May 20, 2026, where it finished #1 of the day.

How many AI Tools launched in May 2026?

41 on Product Hunt, with 5,992 upvotes between them. This list shows the 25 most upvoted.

How is this list ranked?

By Product Hunt upvotes, as recorded on launch day. Ties go to the launch with the better daily rank. Every launch is counted once, in the category its makers listed first.

How do I reach the makers of these AI Tools?

Each launch links to its page on Junior, with the people behind it (33 makers across this list). Junior adds their verified work emails, LinkedIn and X profiles for subscribers.