Discontinued AI tools
AI tools do not usually announce their own deaths. A pricing page quietly stops loading, a domain starts offering itself for sale, a company is acquired and the product it was famous for is wound down eighteen months later. Meanwhile the tool keeps getting recommended, because most directories never revisit an entry once it is published and language models answer from training data captured while the product was still alive.
This is the running record for the ToolChase directory: 31 tools that are no longer the product we reviewed, what happened to each one, and where to go instead. 23 shut down, 5 were acquired or absorbed, and 3 were renamed or replaced. Every entry was checked against the vendor rather than inferred, and the list is rechecked monthly.
Keeping the reviews online is deliberate. If you are here because something stopped working this morning, deleting the page would answer nothing. See also what is new and changed for the other direction, and how we verify.
Shut down (23)
The product is gone. The company folded, the service was switched off, or the domain now sells itself.
| Tool | Category | What happened | Where to go instead |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Tutor | Education | This product is no longer available. | AI Tutor alternatives |
| Crossplag | Education | In July 2023, Crossplag was acquired by Inspera, a Norwegian digital assessment company backed by CGE. | Crossplag alternatives |
| DreamStudio | Image | Discontinued in 2026; dreamstudio.ai now redirects to Brand Studio. | DreamStudio alternatives |
| HomeHunter | Productivity | Homehunter.ai now serves a domain-sale listing. | HomeHunter alternatives |
| Humane AI Pin | Productivity | In February 2025, HP acquired Humane for approximately $116 million, far below its roughly $850M pre-launch valuation. | Humane AI Pin alternatives |
| Jarvis Meet | Productivity | This product is no longer available. | Jarvis Meet alternatives |
| Lexica | Image | This product is no longer available. | Lexica alternatives |
| Logome.ai | Design | Status: appears discontinued (checked July 31, 2026). | Logome.ai alternatives |
| LOVO.ai | Audio | LOVO, Inc. filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy on May 27, 2026 and lovo.ai no longer serves a product. | LOVO.ai alternatives |
| NFT Checker | Finance | This product is no longer available and nftchecker.io no longer resolves. | NFT Checker alternatives |
| Notably | Writing | This product is no longer available. | Notably alternatives |
| Omnivore | Productivity | The hosted Omnivore service shut down in November 2024. The code remains open source for self-hosting. | Omnivore alternatives |
| Peppertype.ai | Writing | This product is no longer available. | Peppertype.ai alternatives |
| PhraseWise | Writing | This product is no longer available. | PhraseWise alternatives |
| Play.ht | Audio | This product is no longer available. | Play.ht alternatives |
| Podcast.ai | Audio | This product is no longer available. | Podcast.ai alternatives |
| Polish | Writing | The domain now redirects to a HugeDomains listing offering getpolish.com for sale at $4,295, which means the app is off the air and the domain has been released by its owner. | Polish alternatives |
| ReadSmart AI | Productivity | This product is no longer available. | ReadSmart AI alternatives |
| Rewatch | Meeting | This product is no longer available. | Rewatch alternatives |
| Rex | Productivity | This product is no longer available. | Rex alternatives |
| SmartWhisper | Productivity | This product is no longer available. | SmartWhisper alternatives |
| Translate.com | Translation | Translate.com has stopped operating. Its own pricing page returns "Sorry, but our service is no longer working" and the vendor stopped accepting new orders on August 1, 2026. Verified August 17, 2026. | Translate.com alternatives |
| Vowel | Meeting | This product is no longer available. | Vowel alternatives |
Acquired or absorbed (5)
The company was bought and the standalone product retired. The technology usually still exists inside the acquirer.
| Tool | Category | What happened | Where to go instead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limitless AI | Meeting | Limitless has been acquired by Meta. The Pendant has not been sold since December 5, 2025 and recording is disabled in the desktop and web apps, though existing recordings remain accessible through 2026. Verified August 17, 2026. | Limitless AI alternatives |
| MonkeyLearn | Automation | MonkeyLearn was discontinued as a standalone product and folded into Medallia; monkeylearn.com now redirects there. | MonkeyLearn alternatives |
| Refract | Sales | Refract was absorbed into Allego and is no longer sold separately. | Refract alternatives |
| Sentieo | Finance | Sentieo was folded into AlphaSense and is no longer sold separately. | Sentieo alternatives |
| Ultimate.ai | Chatbot | Zendesk acquired Ultimate and the standalone product is gone; ultimate.ai now redirects to Zendesk AI agents. | Ultimate.ai alternatives |
Renamed or replaced (3)
The product continues under a different name or at a different address. Your account may still work; the thing you searched for does not exist under that name.
| Tool | Category | What happened | Where to go instead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listener.fm | Audio | Listener.fm is discontinued and listener.fm now redirects to listener.com, a different product. | Listener.fm alternatives |
| Riffusion | Audio | The standalone Riffusion music generator is gone and riffusion.com now redirects to Flow Music. | Riffusion alternatives |
| ShortlyAI | Writing | The ShortlyAI writing assistant reviewed below is no longer available. The shortlyai.com domain is still online, but it now hosts an unrelated multi-model AI chat service. | ShortlyAI alternatives |
Questions
How do you know these AI tools are actually discontinued?
Each one was checked against the vendor directly: the pricing page, the signup flow, or the domain itself. Where a company filed for bankruptcy or announced a shutdown we say so and date it. Where a domain now serves a broker listing or redirects somewhere unrelated, that is what we record. We recheck the list every month, and a tool only appears here after that check, never on the strength of a rumor.
Why keep pages for tools that no longer exist?
Because the question people ask is real. Somebody who searched for a tool this morning needs to know it is gone and what to use instead, and deleting the page answers neither. We keep the review, mark it clearly, and point at live alternatives. What we do not do is leave a dead product sitting in a recommendation list as though you could still buy it.
Do AI assistants know which tools have shut down?
Often not. Language models answer from training data that was captured before the shutdown, so they will confidently recommend products that no longer exist, quote pricing for services that stopped billing, and describe features of software you cannot sign up for. That gap is the reason this page exists in a structured, dated form.
What happens to my data when an AI tool shuts down?
It depends entirely on how it ended. An orderly wind down usually gives notice and an export window, an acquisition often migrates accounts into the buyer's product, and a bankruptcy or a silent domain sale may give you nothing at all. The practical lesson from this list is to export anything you would miss while the service is still answering, because the window closes without warning more often than not.
How many AI tools shut down?
Of the tools ToolChase has reviewed, 31 are no longer available as the product we reviewed: 23 shut down outright, 5 were acquired or absorbed into a larger company, and 3 were renamed or replaced. That is the count for our directory rather than the market as a whole, and it moves every month.