Which tools brands AI assistants recommend
Across 364 answers to tools buying questions, ExifTool was named most often. Many other brands in the category were not mentioned at all.
Named most often
ExifTool
8 of 364 answers (2.2%)
- Answers analyzed
- 364
- Brands named
- 25
- Websites cited
- 15
- Scans behind it
- 31
- ChatGPT131 · 36%
- Perplexity118 · 32.4%
- Google AI115 · 31.6%
Brands named in tools answers
Share is the percentage of this category's answers that named the brand.
| # | Brand | Share of answers | Answers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ExifTool | 2.2% | 8 |
| 2 | 2.2% | 8 | |
| 3 | 1.4% | 5 | |
| 4 | Photopea | 1.4% | 5 |
| 5 | GIMP | 1.1% | 4 |
| 6 | 1.1% | 4 | |
| 7 | 1.1% | 4 | |
| 8 | 1.1% | 4 | |
| 9 | 1.1% | 4 | |
| 10 | 1.1% | 4 | |
| 11 | Adobe Firefly | 0.8% | 3 |
| 12 | Adobe Photoshop | 0.8% | 3 |
| 13 | ImageMagick | 0.8% | 3 |
| 14 | 0.8% | 3 | |
| 15 | 0.8% | 3 | |
| 16 | PDF24 | 0.8% | 3 |
| 17 | Pika | 0.8% | 3 |
| 18 | 0.8% | 3 | |
| 19 | 0.5% | 2 | |
| 20 | 0.5% | 2 | |
| 21 | OneNote | 0.5% | 2 |
| 22 | 0.5% | 2 | |
| 23 | 0.5% | 2 | |
| 24 | Snapseed | 0.5% | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 113 | - | |
| 81 | - | |
| 81 | - | |
| 46 | - | |
| 22 | - | |
| 21 | - | |
| 20 | - | |
| 19 | - | |
| 17 | - | |
| 15 | - | |
| 15 | - | |
| 13 | - | |
 instagram.com | 11 | - |
| 11 | - | |
| 10 | Listing |
Other categories
How this is measured
VerifiedDR asks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI 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 2,706 answers, one scan per website, refreshed August 21, 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.