UP 7 PLACES IN 2026
A generative AI chatbot developed by Microsoft, integrated into Office 365.
Website: copilot.microsoft.com
Ranking in the surveys
Copilot has only been on the Top Tools list since 2024, and it has reached its highest ranking this year
| 2026: 12 | 2025: 19 | 2024: 20 | 2023: – | 2022: – | 2021: – | 2020: – | 2019: – | 2018: – | 2017: – | 2016:- |
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Comments on Copilot in 2026
“Ideation, writing, rewriting, design, analysing, creation, graphics, visuals, extract learning objectives, reviewing, feedback, correction, making powerpoints, generating gamification ideas, generating questions.” Miriam Krooswijk, Instructional Designer, Netherlands
“Phew, my assistant to remove drudgery, to find and suggest, to repackage my best written drafts and provide criticism when I need it. Yes, there are others but this is the one I am using with the Microsoft suite and it all works together beautifully.” Ian, L&D Manager, New Zealand
Previous comments on Copilot
“It helps us to develop new courses and refresh existing ones. Keep track of developments in our field.” Nigel Turner, Senior Learning Consultant, UK, 2025
“An AI chatbot developed by Microsoft that assists with writing, coding, and productivity tasks, enhancing the learning experience.” Khadim Hussain, Nursing Instructor, Pakistan, 2025
“Most complementary tool for office 365” Advisor, Belgium, 2025
“This has been very useful in refining learning objectives.” Senior Instructional Designer, USA, 2025
“Love using this tool to summarize meeting notes or documents.” Astrid van Dael, Agora coach en teacher trainer, Netherlands, 2025
“An AI-powered coding assistant that helps developers write code faster, reduce errors, and increase efficiency.” Natnicha Neampuang, teacher, Thailand, 2025
“To transcribe interviews and meetings, speed up building content” 2024
“Not as good as ChatGPT but with a corporate version it allows you to include proprietary information.” 2024
“Microsoft Copilot enhances my productivity by integrating seamlessly with my workflow and providing helpful suggestions.” 2024
“used for analyzing and finding gaps in ideas, processes, content. Also used for chain prompting and creating hands-off assessments with rubrics that give feedback to students” 2024
“I use ChatGPT for quiz question creation, content creation, and as a thought partner. It helps me summarize content and figure out ways to convey the information I want my learners to learn.” 2024
“great tool for research and collecting ideas” 2024
