Reviewed from a DJ's perspective

AI Tools Directory

Every tool here earns its place in a working DJ's week. What it's for, when it's worth paying for, and where it falls down.

Writing, contracts and client email
Free tier · paid $20/mo
ChatGPT

The default drafting partner: proposals, contracts, bios, follow-ups, captions. Best results come from a saved prompt, not a fresh ask each time.

Free tier · paid $20/mo
Claude

Longer, calmer writing. Better at holding your voice across a whole press kit or a page of terms without drifting into hype.

Open-weight · free to run
Hermes

Nous Research's open Hermes models — a solid free alternative for drafting when you'd rather not run everything through a closed API.

Open-weight · free to run
Mistral

Another strong open model in the same lane as Hermes — fast, cheap to self-host, good for drafting at volume.

Free
DJ Contract Generator

Ours. Event details in, a complete performance contract out — payment terms, cancellation, equipment, liability. Open it →

Music, keys and track analysis
Free
AI Track Analyzer

Ours. Camelot keys, BPM transition range, energy-arc advice, five techniques and five next tracks. Open it →

Free · paid tiers
TuneBat

Fast key and BPM lookup for almost anything released. Good for checking a request mid-set on your phone.

Free tier · paid
Fadr

Stem separation and auto-remix in the browser. Clean acapellas and instrumentals for edits without opening a DAW.

Paid
rekordbox

Not AI, but the library layer everything else feeds. Analyze once, tag properly, and your crates stay searchable for years.

Research, generation and graphics
Free tier
Gemini

Research and long-document reading. Powers our Track Analyzer and the free AI Chat for DJs.

Free tier · paid
Perplexity

Quick sourced answers — venue capacities, union rules, gear specs — with links you can actually check before you quote.

Paid
Suno / Udio

Music generation. Useful for drops, idents, bumpers and event stings. Not for filling a set — know the licensing before anything goes out.

Free tier · paid
Adobe Firefly

Flyers, cover art and social graphics with commercially safer training data than most image models.

Performance and mixing
Free tier · paid
djay Pro (Algoriddim)

Neural Mix stem separation live in the app — strong for mobile and wedding DJs building mashups on the fly. Pre-render stems for dense or older tracks to avoid artifacts.

One-time purchase
Mixed In Key

The most reliable key detection for harmonic mixing. Pays for itself in smoother transitions the first time you use it to plan a set.

Paid
DJ.Studio

Plan and pre-build a mix on a timeline before the gig — built for wedding and corporate prep where the transitions can't be left to chance.

Treat AI transition suggestions as a shortlist, not a final setlist — the energy curve and crowd response still decide the mix.

Stem separation and audio repair
Free ~5/mo · $4–$12/mo
Moises

Mobile-first vocal/drum/bass/instrument separation plus chord detection and pitch or speed changes. Cheapest way to prep clean acapellas on the road.

£6–£12/mo
LALAL.AI

Up to 10 stems — vocals, drums, bass, piano, guitar, strings and more — browser-based with nothing to install.

$399 – $1,399
iZotope RX 12

AI audio repair for room hum, clicks, plosives and mic bleed — the tool for cleaning up recorded sets before you publish them.

Mastering and production
$4–$25
LANDR

One-click AI mastering plus distribution — the fastest route from a recorded mix to something published sounding finished.

$175 – $499
iZotope Ozone 12

Master Assistant proposes a starting EQ, compression and loudness chain, fully tweakable in your DAW afterward.

Free tier · $7.99/mo
Splice

AI sample and loop search by key and tempo, plus rentals for plugins like Ozone and RX without buying them outright.

Music generation — intros, interludes, original content
Free 50/day · $8–$24/mo
Suno

Full song generation from text or lyrics. Premier tier adds stem export and a full DAW for finishing what it generates.

Free 100/mo · $10/mo
Udio

Song generation with remix and extend tools — useful for stretching a drop or an ident into a full intro.

Free 3/mo · €11/mo
AIVA

Instrumental and cinematic composition that exports MIDI — good for scoring a promo reel rather than filling a set.

~$11/mo
Soundraw

Royalty-free instrumentals generated by mood, genre and length — safe background music for promo content.

Generated music is for drops, idents and promo content — check licensing before anything goes into a paid set.

Automation and business ops
Paid
Manus

An autonomous agent that can carry out multi-step tasks — research a venue, draft and send follow-ups, build a spreadsheet — with less hand-holding than a chat window.

Free tier · paid
Zapier

Connects Gmail, your calendar and payment tools so replies, follow-ups and review requests fire on a schedule instead of on memory. Prompts to run through it are in the Business Checklist.

Free tier · paid
Notion AI

One place for the Lead Tracker, event briefs and content calendar, with AI that can summarize a client thread into a to-do list.

Free tier · paid
Descript

Edit talking-head video by editing text. Turns a phone clip from the booth into a clean Reel without touching a timeline.

Free tier · paid
CapCut

Fast captions, beat-synced cuts and templates built for short-form — the quickest way from gig footage to a posted Reel.

Free tier · paid
Canva Magic Studio

EPKs, flyers, story templates and a brand kit that keeps every graphic consistent without opening Illustrator.

Free tier · paid
ElevenLabs

Clean voiceovers for promo videos or IVR-style booking confirmations in your own cloned voice.

The prompts matter more than the tool

Any of these gets better with a prompt built for DJ work. There are 30+ in the Playbook.

See the Playbook Free prompt library →