Just watched Dan Martell roast old tools and recommend these 2026 upgrades...worth it?
**Just watched this quick AI tools roundup for 2026 and its actually pretty good list.**
<https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IspQZw2Wi0E>
Dan Martell drops a fast “stop using X, start using Y” list and I gotta say some of these hits hit different.
His swaps:
- Writing → Claude over ChatGPT (been doing this already, Claude just feels cleaner)
- Research → Grok instead of Google Search (lol I’ve been using Grok a lot more lately and yeah it’s scary good)
- Presentations → Gamma instead of Canva
- Building apps → Claude Code over Replit
- Images → Nano Banana (he literally snorts and calls you crazy if you’re still using ChatGPT for pics 😂)
- Prompting → WhisperFlow (voice instead of typing – I need to try this)
- Automation → OpenClaw instead of Make or n8n (and he plugs his own [apex.host](http://apex.host) to make it easy to deploy)
Ends with the classic “it’s not about more tools, it’s about the right tool for the job.”
What do you guys think? Which of these have you actually switched to in 2026? Anyone tried Nano Banana or WhisperFlow yet? Curious if they’re actually better or just hype.