In Catalonia, a new EL PERIÓDICO guide sets out which generative AI apps are most useful for everyday tasks, from summarising documents to generating code and creating images. Published on 14 June 2026, it aims to help readers choose between the growing number of tools now on the market.
The guide says AI has become a major area of investment since late 2022, which has led to a crowded field of commercial apps. For readers who want a broader local news path, see our Catalonia news coverage.
For all-purpose use, the guide points to multimodal models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, with Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini offering assistants that can search for information, write, summarise complex documents, generate code and work with voice and images. It also notes that Qwen, a model family from Alibaba, appears in some rankings.
On image and audio generation, the guide highlights GPT Image 2, Google Flow, Nano Banana Pro, Runway, Midjourney, Canva, Adobe Firefly and Stable Diffusion. In audio, it names ElevenLabs for synthetic voices, and Otter.ai, Scribe, Rev, Sonix and TurboScriu for transcription, while Suno, Lyria 3, Mureka, MiniMax and Udio are listed for music production.
The article also notes the legal and ethical disputes around this sector. Some companies face lawsuits over the use of copyrighted works in training data, while others are accused of not doing enough to stop abusive or illegal content.
For coding, the guide says AI now lets users generate and debug code through conversational prompts, with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor and GitHub Copilot among the main options. For search and document work, it recommends Perplexity, NotebookLM and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, while warning that AI systems can still present incorrect information as fact.
The final section looks at AI agents, which are designed to carry out tasks more autonomously. The guide lists consumer tools such as Claude Cowork, OpenClaw, ChatGPT Agent, Manus, Genspark and Kuse Cowork, and business-focused platforms including Claude Managed Agents, OpenAI Frontier, Microsoft Agent 365, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Meta Business Agent.