Which tools brands AI assistants recommend
Across 423 answers to tools buying questions, Canva was named most often. Many other brands in the category were not mentioned at all.
Named most often
Canva
10 of 423 answers (2.4%)
- Answers analyzed
- 423
- Brands named
- 25
- Websites cited
- 15
- Scans behind it
- 35
- ChatGPT148 · 35%
- Perplexity135 · 31.9%
- Google AI132 · 31.2%
- Claude8 · 1.9%
Brands named in tools answers
Share is the percentage of this category's answers that named the brand.
| # | Brand | Share of answers | Answers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.4% | 10 | |
| 2 | ExifTool | 1.9% | 8 |
| 3 | 1.9% | 8 | |
| 4 | GIMP | 1.2% | 5 |
| 5 | Adobe Photoshop | 1.2% | 5 |
| 6 | 1.2% | 5 | |
| 7 | 1.2% | 5 | |
| 8 | Photopea | 1.2% | 5 |
| 9 | 0.9% | 4 | |
| 10 | 0.9% | 4 | |
| 11 | Apple | 0.9% | 4 |
| 12 | 0.9% | 4 | |
| 13 | 0.9% | 4 | |
| 14 | 0.9% | 4 | |
| 15 | 0.9% | 4 | |
| 16 | Adobe Firefly | 0.7% | 3 |
| 17 | DeepBrain | 0.7% | 3 |
| 18 | ImageMagick | 0.7% | 3 |
| 19 | 0.7% | 3 | |
| 20 | 0.7% | 3 | |
| 21 | 0.7% | 3 | |
| 22 | PDF24 | 0.7% | 3 |
| 23 | Pika | 0.7% | 3 |
| 24 | 0.7% | 3 | |
| 25 | 0.5% | 2 |
What those answers cited
The websites assistants read before naming a brand. Becoming a useful source can help a brand enter the ranking above.
| Cited domain | Answers | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| 120 | - | |
| 88 | - | |
| 82 | - | |
| 48 | - | |
| 25 | - | |
| 22 | - | |
| 22 | - | |
| 19 | - | |
| 18 | - | |
| 15 | - | |
| 15 | - | |
| 13 | - | |
 instagram.com | 11 | - |
| 11 | - | |
| 10 | Listing |
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How this is measured
VerifiedDR asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI and Claude real buying questions on behalf of the websites it tracks, then records which brands each answer named and which domains it cited. This page counts 2,954 answers, one scan per website, refreshed October 6, 2026.
Only aggregates are published. The questions themselves, the answer text, and the identity of the websites that ran a scan stay private. A domain appears here only when answers from at least 3 different websites cited it, and a brand enters a ranking only when answers from at least 2 different websites named it.