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Ali Abdaal

Doctor and productivity YouTuber.

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Sound

Microphones1

  • DJI microphone

    $249.00first cited September 2026positive about it

    “We have done a nice haul of equipment from the DJI store which we are now putting on charge for a four-way microphone setup with a single transmitter which means we can do four-way podcasts.”
    View source at 10:24from September 2026

Editing and post

Editing software6

  • Final Cut Pro

    cited in 2 videos

    “…editing is fully has been outsourced since 2019. I haven't touched Final Cut since then.”
    View source at 42:27from June 2026+ 1 more source
  • Remotion

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2026

    “I'd never tried AI video editing before, so in this video you can watch me learn it from scratch with Claude Code, DaVinci Resolve, HyperFrames and Remotion, while making a launch video for CreatorGrid and comparing it with the edit from Parth, one of our human editors.”
    View sourcefrom October 2026+ 1 more source
  • Hyperframes

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2026

    “I'd never tried AI video editing before, so in this video you can watch me learn it from scratch with Claude Code, DaVinci Resolve, HyperFrames and Remotion, while making a launch video for CreatorGrid and comparing it with the edit from Parth, one of our human editors.”
    View sourcefrom October 2026+ 1 more source
  • DaVinci Resolve Studio

    first cited October 2026mixed views on it

    “All righty, it worked. We have just bought Da Vinci Resolve Studio for about $300 and it is an 8.5 GB file.”
    View source at 6:17from October 2026

Coding software1

  • Claude Code

    cited in 6 videos

    “I'd never tried AI video editing before, so in this video you can watch me learn it from scratch with Claude Code, DaVinci Resolve, HyperFrames and Remotion, while making a launch video for CreatorGrid and comparing it with the edit from Parth, one of our human editors.”
    View sourcefrom October 2026+ 5 more sources

AI software9

  • VoicePal

    cited in 4 videosspeaks highly of it

    “The third one is Voice Pal, an app that me and my team have built uh to make it easier to capture ideas while you're on the go.”
    View source at 0:13from June 2026+ 3 more sources
  • Claude AI

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited September 2026speaks highly of it

    “Next up, we have Claude from Anthropic. It's my favorite large language model. I use it all the time. I think it's way better than chat GPT.”
    View source at 0:08from October 2026+ 1 more source
  • Google Stitch

    positive about it

    “Although Google stitch is actually quite good for that as well.”
    View source at 0:13from June 2026
  • Claude

    positive about it

    “Claw chat for brainstorming.”
    View source at 0:02from June 2026

Productivity software12

  • Slack

    cited in 5 videos

    “On Monday, Owen, our marketing guy, hit one button on our Lifestyle Business Academy scorecard, and Victor pulled in all of the previous days' metrics in terms of like our applications and our interviews and our ad spend and posted a full summary of all of those metrics to the relevant Slack channel, which meant everyone in the team could see it.”
    View source at 0:07from August 2026+ 4 more sources
  • Zoom

    cited in 4 videos

    “…since we'd only ever known each other over Zoom and WhatsApp”
    View sourcefrom June 2026+ 3 more sources
  • Waking Up

    first cited September 2026speaks highly of it

    “All right, so there is an app that I've had on my home screen for the last like 5 years and that is Waking Up.”
    View source at 0:00from September 2026
  • Day One Journal

    first cited October 2026speaks highly of it

    “And finally, we have Day One, which is my favorite journaling app. I've used lots of them, and Day One is my favorite, and I've been using it for over 10 years now.”
    View source at 0:38from October 2026

Creator tools5

  • Epidemic Sound

    cited in 3 videosspeaks highly of it

    “I have been using Epidemic Sound since pretty much day one of this YouTube channel back in 2017. And so, for the last 9 years, Epidemic Sound has been our source for royalty-free music that makes our videos and like elevates them a little bit, whether it's a vlog or whether it's a sit-down video or a study with me from back in the day.”
    View source at 4:06from July 2026+ 2 more sources
  • Canva

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited September 2026

    “…that previously used to be a manual process involving a team member, like going through the transcript, figuring out what the key points are, turning it in into an Instagram carousel on Canva.”
    View source at 6:53from September 2026+ 1 more source
  • Frame.io
    “So I'm like, oh god, now I've got to get involved in the edit and give all this feedback on Frame.io.”
    View source at 1:19:25from June 2026
  • Whisper Transcription

    first cited October 2026

    “So now what I want is I want the transcription. So I'm going to use this tool, whisper transcription for that.”
    View source at 33:37from October 2026

Platforms

Membership platforms1

  • Circle

    first cited September 2026

    “…but then there's also I think like right now some of our stuff is on circle some of is on Slack some of Google sheets and stuff”
    View source at 35:24from September 2026

Courses3

  • ScaleOS CEO Coaching (Eric Partaker)

    first cited September 2026speaks highly of it

    “Now, this idea that 10x can potentially be easier than 10% was the basis of a conversation I recently had with my own CEO coach, Eric Partaker.”
    View source at 6:37from September 2026
  • ScaleOS: Founder & CEO Coaching

    first cited September 2026positive about it

    “So I sat down with my CEO coach Eric Partaker, who's helped over 500 founders scale, and let him walk me through what it would actually take to grow our business from $5 million a year to $50 million.”
    View sourcefrom September 2026
  • Taki Moore Mastermind

    first cited August 2026positive about it

    “So, I pay $60,000 to join a mastermind from a guy called Taki Moore and we get together once every four months.”
    View source at 22:38from August 2026

Desk

Computers1

  • iPad

    $449.00first cited October 2026

    “Obviously, Paperlike has improved a lot since 2018, but it genuinely does make writing on an iPad feel like writing on paper. And I write on an iPad all the time.”
    View source at 4:45from October 2026

Peripherals2

  • Apple Pencil

    $129.00first cited October 2026

    “But with Paperlike's nano dots technology, like genuinely, it feels like you're writing on paper when you're using the Apple Pencil.”
    View source at 4:57from October 2026
  • Paperlike 3 iPad Screen Protector

    $49.99first cited October 2026speaks highly of it

    “Whenever I get a new iPad, the very first thing I do on it is I put on a Paperlike screen protector that I've literally been using since 2018.”
    View source at 4:37from October 2026

Office furniture1

Everything else

Other3

  • Trading 212

    first cited August 2026speaks highly of it

    “And actually, me and my wife Izzy have both independently been using Trading 212 for absolutely years to manage a portion of our investment portfolio long before they started sponsoring our videos.”
    View source at 9:26from August 2026
  • Meta Ads Manager

    positive about it

    “I got up to speed and then I started tinkering around with Meta Ads Manager and we managed to run some Instagram ads profitably.”
    View source at 11:11from July 2026
  • WeWork

    first cited September 2026speaks highly of it

    “Which is why me and my team have been paying customers of Weiwork since like 2020.”
    View source at 7:28from September 2026

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Productivity software5

  • Alfred

    speaks highly of it

    “And this is an app called Alfred. And the cool thing about Alfred is you press command and space and then it brings up this box that essentially lets you type anything.”
    View source at 3:47from November 2020
  • Notion

    speaks highly of it

    “But the really cool thing is that Readwise has an integration with Notion where anytime I make any Kindle highlights, so I've got 116 of those, it will automatically import into this really nice libraries thing in Notion where I can see all my books.”
    View source at 8:50from November 2020
  • Airr

    speaks highly of it

    “Now Airr is amazing because Airr is a podcast app that lets you save the best moments from podcasts and they call them Airr quotes.”
    View source at 7:33from November 2020
  • Fantastical

    positive about it

    “So Fantastical is my calendar app and you can just type in "cal."”
    View source at 5:46from November 2020

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