Claude Just Got Interactive Tools: 9 MCP Apps You Can Use Without Leaving Chat

Anthropic AI has rolled out a new feature that allows professionals to interact with their everyday tools within Claude, called interactive tools in Claude. This is a feature we have already seen OpenAI add to ChatGPT, known as Apps in ChatGPT. However, we are not here to compare who did what first, but instead, we will check how well Anthropic has implemented this new feature in Claude. With this new feature, Anthropic is suggesting professionals can work and finish tasks without constantly switching tabs.

If you are a designer, data analyst, or business professional, there are different, and even multiple, everyday tools you can connect to and interact with within Claude. Anthropic states that Claude can already connect to tools and can take actions; now, those tools can appear directly in the chat, so you can see and collaborate with them in real time.

Top 9 MCP apps you can interact with inside Claude:

1. Amplitude:

Amplitude is an AI-powered analytics tool that you can use inside Claude to build analytics charts directly from a question or hypothesis. Growth, product, and operations teams can interactively explore trends and improve parameters to validate what they're seeing.

2. Hex:

Hex brings AI to data, allowing professionals to explore data with or without coding. With Hex in Claude, professionals can ask data questions and receive results with interactive visuals. It also embeds tables and citations with the answer for easier review/sharing.

3. Asana:

Asana is a popular work and project management tool that is now inside Claude to help professionals convert chat outputs into projects, tasks, and timelines in Asana. If you or your team uses Asana, you can now build and update timelines in Claude without leaving the assistant.

4. monday.com:

Monday.com is another popular project and work management tool. Teams can use monday.com as an interactive inside Claude to manage projects and update boards from inside Claude. It can also smartly assign tasks, post, and visualize progress with insights.

5. Slack:

Slack is an AI work and productivity management tool, and its interactive mode is especially practical because it lets users search/retrieve messages, channels, threads, files, and users for context. Professionals can also generate drafts and format them before posting, and create and share Slack canvases directly from Claude.

6. Canva:

Canva is a well-known graphic design tool that anyone can use, and with it being interactive inside Claude, users can generate presentation outlines, then edit branding/design interactively. Professionals can even browse, summarize, autofill, and generate new designs from Claude, which they can then easily export.  

7. Figma (FigJam):

Figma is a collaborative design platform for designing, prototyping, and building products, and can now be used by anyone to turn text/images into flowcharts, Gantt charts, and diagrams in FigJam. If you are already a Figma user, you can pull Figma context and generate code aligned with design intent.  

8. Box:

Box is a content management platform now interactively available in Claude so that users can easily search for files, preview documents, and extract information. Professionals can also ask questions about their content, get insights from unstructured data, automate content workflows, and access other features from the Box platform.

9. Clay:

Clay is a go-to-market (GTM) tool that professionals can use inside Claude to run deep company and contact research without leaving that chat. Professionals can even use Clay's contact databases, enrichment providers, and AI agents to research target accounts, surface verified, enriched contact information, and draft personalized outreach all inside Claude.

Bonus 10:

As of writing this article, Anthropic has highlighted the above-mentioned 9 apps and tools as interactive tools inside Claude. Anthropic has also stated that Salesforce will be available soon as one of the interactive tools within Claude, bringing enterprise context to Claude with Agentforce 360. This means teams can now reason, collaborate, and act from a single, connected interface.

Editor's note:

Thus far, I think Claude has done an amazing job with the implementation, as all the demonstrations look smooth, and it shows some really useful ways to use apps inside Claude. Although Anthropic needs to add more interactive tools, I am optimistic about it because Anthropic AI has stated that the underlying technology they used was the Model Context Protocol (MCP). There is also a new extension to MCP called MCP Apps that lets any MCP server deliver an interactive interface within any supporting AI product, not just Claude.

Now, all we need to do is compare the apps in ChatGPT and the interactive tools in Claude to see which company has implemented the apps/tools better inside the chat.