Free AI tools

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Coding tool

4.8

An AI-native code editor (VS Code fork) whose parallel agents can rework a whole project in one pass — a default pick for daily development.

Ollama

Dev platform

4.8

Run open-source LLMs locally with one command — 160k+ GitHub stars, a rich model catalog and cross-platform builds; there's now an official hosted cloud API too (Pro from $20/mo).

Hugging Face

Dev platform

4.8

The open-source community platform for AI models and datasets — the GitHub of machine learning.

ChatGPT

Chat assistant

4.7

OpenAI's flagship conversational AI — versatile and a great fit for most users.

Claude

Chat assistant

4.7

Anthropic's AI assistant, known for safety and long-context handling.

ElevenLabs

Audio tool

4.7

The benchmark for AI voice synthesis, leading in voice cloning and multilingual coverage — widely used for dubbing and spoken-word content.

Open WebUI

Dev platform

4.7

A self-hosted open-source AI chat interface that connects to Ollama and other models.

Canva

Design tool

4.7

An online design platform whose Magic Studio adds AI image generation, rewrites, design and video.

Whisper

Audio tool

4.7

OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model — accurate multilingual transcription, self-hostable.

LlamaIndex

Development platform

4.7

Data framework for LLM apps — connects private data to large models and is a standard way to build RAG.

Obsidian

Productivity tool

4.7

Local-first Markdown knowledge-base notes with bidirectional links; AI comes via community plugins, so your data stays fully yours.

GitHub Copilot

Coding tool

4.6

GitHub's official AI coding assistant with the most polished IDE integration; moved to usage-based billing in June 2026.

Runway

Video tool

4.6

An all-in-one AI creative platform with best-in-class video generation.

DeepSeek

Chat assistant

4.6

Open-source, high-value Chinese LLMs. The V4 family brings much stronger agent skills, and API pricing remains the cheapest in class.

Suno

Audio tool

4.6

Turns one prompt into a complete song — vocals, arrangement and lyrics included. Among the most finished AI music tools.

Perplexity

Chat assistant

4.6

An AI-powered search engine that gives real-time answers with cited sources.

Gemini

Chat assistant

4.6

Google's multimodal AI assistant (latest Gemini 3.8 Flash), deeply integrated with Search and Workspace.

Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

Coding tool

4.6

Formerly Windsurf - renamed Devin Desktop in 2026, Cognition's AI IDE and agent command center.

Grammarly

Writing tool

4.6

An AI writing assistant for grammar correction, polishing and generative rewrites.

NotebookLM (Gemini Notebook)

Productivity tool

4.6

Google's AI research notebook, which turns your own material into summaries and audio overviews; in 2026 it folded into Gemini Notebook, and notebooklm.google.com now redirects to notebook.google.

Dify

Dev platform

4.6

An open-source LLM app platform with visual orchestration for agents, RAG and workflows.

n8n

Dev platform

4.6

An open-source workflow automation platform with AI nodes connecting hundreds of apps.

ComfyUI

Image generation

4.6

A node-based open-source image/video generation workflow tool with fine-grained control.

Flux

Image generation

4.6

Black Forest Labs' image model with strong prompt adherence and realism; partly open source.

Granola

Meeting assistant

4.6

An AI meeting notepad for Mac — no bot joins the call; it enhances your own notes.

Synthesia

Video tool

4.6

An enterprise AI avatar video platform with 140+ languages, great for training and marketing.

LM Studio

Dev platform

4.6

A desktop app to discover, download and run open-source LLMs locally with a GUI.

Warp

Coding tool

4.6

An AI-powered modern terminal supporting natural-language commands and agentic workflows.

Zed

Coding tool

4.6

A high-performance open-source code editor with built-in AI and real-time collaboration, from the Atom team.

Webflow

Development platform

4.6

Visual website builder for designers, with AI capabilities for quickly generating pages and layouts.

CrewAI

Agents

4.6

Open-source multi-agent collaboration framework that orchestrates role-based agents to complete complex tasks.

MonkeyCode

Coding tool

4.5

Chaitin's open-source, enterprise-grade AI coding platform: 30M free model tokens daily, a forever-free cloud dev environment, self-hostable with multi-model support.

Notion AI

Productivity tool

4.5

Notion's built-in AI assistant, perfectly integrated with your notes workflow.

通义千问

Chat assistant

4.5

Alibaba's Qwen3.8 large language model family — fully open-source, with strong reasoning, multilingual and multimodal abilities.

Kimi

Chat assistant

4.5

Moonshot AI's assistant, known for ultra-long context handling; the K3 flagship was open-sourced in July 2026.

Gamma

Productivity tool

4.5

An AI presentation generator that turns text into professional slide decks fast.

Adobe Firefly

Image generation

4.5

Adobe's AI creative tool, built into Photoshop and others with commercially safe generation.

v0

Coding tool

4.5

Vercel's AI frontend generator — turn natural language into React/UI code.

Stable Diffusion

Image generation

4.5

Open-source image generation model — self-hostable and highly customizable.

可灵

Video tool

4.5

Kuaishou's AI video generation model with excellent motion and quality, strong at Chinese prompts and value.

豆包

Chat assistant

4.5

ByteDance's AI assistant — #1 in China and #2 globally by MAU, multimodal and free.

Lovable

Coding tool

4.5

An AI platform that builds full-stack apps from natural language — 'vibe coding'.

HeyGen

Video tool

4.5

An AI avatar video platform for talking-head, training and marketing videos.

Aider

Coding tool

4.5

An open-source terminal AI pair-programmer that edits your local Git repo directly.

Cline

Coding tool

4.5

An open-source autonomous coding agent inside VS Code that reads/writes files and runs commands.

Krea

Image generation

4.5

A real-time AI image/video creation platform focused on instant generation and enhancement.

Recraft

Image generation

4.5

An AI image tool for designers, great at vectors, icons and on-brand consistency.

Fireflies.ai

Meeting assistant

4.5

Automatically joins meetings to transcribe and summarize, with deep CRM and collaboration integrations.

秘塔搜索

Chat assistant

4.5

Metaso AI search — ad-free with structured output, great for academic and deep research.

Figma AI

Design tool

4.5

Figma's AI features (incl. Make) that generate designs and interactive prototypes from prompts.

Framer

Design tool

4.5

A design tool that generates and publishes responsive websites quickly with AI.

Photoroom

Design tool

4.5

An AI image editing tool great at cutouts, background removal and e-commerce product shots.

Descript

Video tool

4.5

An AI tool that edits audio/video like a document, with transcription and voice cloning.

Zapier

Productivity tool

4.5

An automation platform connecting 8000+ apps, with built-in AI for smart workflows and agents.

Meshy

3D generation

4.5

A leading AI 3D model generator supporting text/image-to-3D with automatic texturing.

Elicit

Productivity tool

4.5

An AI research assistant that searches, screens and synthesizes evidence from academic papers.

DeepL

Writing tool

4.5

Widely considered the most natural machine translation, plus DeepL Write polishing.

Deepgram

Audio tool

4.5

Production-grade speech recognition (ASR) API — low-latency real-time transcription, multilingual and highly accurate.

LibreChat

AI Chatbot

4.5

Open-source multi-model AI chat client — self-hostable, aggregating ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more.

Jan

Development platform

4.5

Open-source offline AI assistant that runs open models locally — your data never leaves your machine.

SciSpace

Productivity tool

4.5

Research-focused AI assistant — paper reading, Q&A, citation management and writing in one place.

Grok

Chat assistant

4.4

SpaceXAI's (formerly xAI) conversational AI with real-time access to X, in a direct style; the newest model live on the service is Grok 4.6 (August 12, 2026), and no official Grok 4.7 exists as of September 20, 2026.

Microsoft Copilot

Productivity tool

4.4

Microsoft's AI assistant, deeply integrated with Windows and Microsoft 365.

Leonardo AI

Image generation

4.4

An AI image platform for game and commercial assets with strong control.

Ideogram

Image generation

4.4

An AI image tool that excels at rendering legible text inside images.

Mistral

Chat assistant

4.4

France's Mistral AI assistant Le Chat — open models, privacy- and EU-compliance-focused.

Manus

AI agent

4.4

A general AI agent that autonomously plans and completes multi-step tasks end to end.

Bolt

Coding tool

4.4

StackBlitz's in-browser AI full-stack app generator.

Replit

Coding tool

4.4

A cloud IDE plus Replit Agent — build and deploy apps from scratch in natural language.

LangChain

Dev platform

4.4

An open-source framework for building LLM apps, connecting models, tools and data.

即梦

Image generation

4.4

ByteDance's AI image and video creation tool — Chinese-friendly and easy to use.

Luma

Video tool

4.4

Luma AI's Dream Machine, great at smooth camera motion and realistic video.

海螺

Video tool

4.4

MiniMax's AI video model with large motion range and strong instruction following.

Udio

Audio tool

4.4

An AI music generator with excellent audio and vocals — Suno's main rival.

Otter.ai

Meeting assistant

4.4

An AI meeting transcription and notes tool with live captions, summaries and action items.

Poe

Chat assistant

4.4

Quora's AI aggregator — access many leading models and bots in one place.

Murf

Audio tool

4.4

An AI voiceover tool offering natural, multilingual and multi-style speech synthesis.

Julius

Productivity tool

4.4

An AI data analysis assistant that analyzes data and generates charts and reports in natural language.

Coze

Dev platform

4.4

ByteDance's AI agent development platform to build and publish bots and workflows with no code.

Comet

AI browser

4.4

Perplexity's AI browser with a built-in assistant that browses autonomously and completes multi-step tasks.

ChatGPT Atlas

AI browser

4.4

OpenAI's AI browser with ChatGPT deeply built in, able to act on web pages as an agent.

Kiro

Coding tool

4.4

AWS's spec-driven AI IDE that generates requirements/design/tasks before writing code.

Antigravity

Coding tool

4.4

Google's agent-first AI IDE that builds while generating execution plans as it goes.

Tripo

3D generation

4.4

VAST's AI 3D generator that creates usable 3D models from text or images in seconds.

Consensus

Productivity tool

4.4

An AI academic search engine that extracts research findings directly from papers with evidence.

CapCut

Video tool

4.4

ByteDance's editor for everyone — AI captions, background removal and endless templates.

Fathom

Meeting assistant

4.4

The beloved free AI meeting notetaker: unlimited for individuals, instant summaries.

Beautiful.ai

Design tool

4.4

Presentation tool with AI-powered auto-layout — design rules are enforced by the AI.

AIVA

Audio tool

4.4

AI composition tool that generates original music (rights included) — ideal for film and game scoring.

Hex

Productivity tool

4.4

AI data notebook — collaborative analysis plus AI assistance for data teams.

Rodin

3D generation

4.4

Hyper3D's AI 3D generator with a unique 'pay by result' model — preview for free, pay credits only when you confirm.

Craft

Productivity tool

4.4

AI-native docs and notes app, Mac App of the Year, with a built-in AI assistant and beautiful design.

文心助手（原文心一言）

Chat assistant

4.3

Baidu's Chinese LLM assistant, strong at Chinese and local services.

腾讯元宝

Chat assistant

4.3

Tencent's AI assistant with Hunyuan + DeepSeek models, deeply tied to WeChat.

Genspark

AI agent

4.3

An AI platform centered on autonomous agents, strong at deep research and generative tasks.

Pika

Video tool

4.3

An easy-to-use AI video generator focused on creative effects and quick output.

智谱清言

Chat assistant

4.3

Zhipu AI's assistant built on the GLM model series, balanced at Chinese and reasoning.

Captions

Video tool

4.3

An AI short-video creation tool with auto captions, dubbing and avatar talking-heads.

Trae

Coding tool

4.3

ByteDance's AI-native IDE with free access to frontier models, focused on smart collaboration.

天工 Skywork

AI agent

4.3

Kunlun's AI agent, strong at deep research, documents and local office automation.

Krisp

Audio tool

4.3

AI noise cancellation and meeting assistant — one click, works with every meeting app.

Groq

Dev platform

4.3

Blazing-fast inference on custom LPU chips: open models at hundreds of tokens per second.

MiniMax

Chat assistant

4.3

MiniMax's flagship model family: M3 leads with top-tier coding and a 1M-token context, plus multimodal models for video, speech and music.

MusicFX

Audio tool

4.3

Google's AI music generation tool — text-to-track and sound effects, free experimental product.

Mem.ai

Productivity tool

4.3

AI notes app that auto-organizes information with backlinks and smart retrieval.

Hunyuan3D

3D generation

4.3

Tencent's open-source 3D generation model — text/image to 3D, with a globally available Tencent Cloud API.

Character.AI

Chat assistant

4.2

An entertainment/companion platform for chatting with AI characters, with very high engagement.

Dia

AI browser

4.2

The Browser Company's AI browser that operates pages and tabs conversationally.

Edge Copilot Mode

AI browser

4.2

Microsoft Edge's built-in Copilot browsing mode: it can read your open tabs, summarize pages and carry out some web actions, at no extra cost with Edge.

Meta AI

Chat assistant

4.2

Meta's AI assistant built on open Llama models, embedded in WhatsApp/IG/FB.

JetBrains AI

Coding tool

4.2

The AI assistant and Junie coding agent built into the JetBrains IDE family.

Gemini CLI

Coding tool

4.2

Google's open-source terminal AI agent with a generous free tier and direct Gemini access.

QuillBot

Writing tool

4.2

The most popular AI paraphraser: rewriting, grammar, summarizing and citations in one place.

Napkin AI

Productivity tool

4.2

Turn text into editable diagrams and visuals in one click — a gift for presentations.

Make

Dev platform

4.2

Visual automation on a canvas — more flexible and cheaper than Zapier.

Talkie

Chat assistant

4.2

MiniMax's AI companion app — chat by text or voice with AI characters, create your own; second only to Character.AI in global downloads.

讯飞星火

Chat assistant

4.1

iFlytek's LLM assistant — strong voice interaction and education/office scenarios, completely free.

Continue

Coding tool

4.1

The open-source IDE AI assistant framework — mix any models, customize everything.

通义灵码

Coding tool

4.1

Alibaba's AI coding assistant — free for individuals, great Chinese comments and local ecosystem fit.

Freepik AI

Image generation

4.1

Freepik's AI suite: image generation, upscaling, video and a huge asset library in one subscription.

OpusClip

Video tool

4.1

AI that turns long videos into viral short clips — with a virality score for each.

Speechify

Audio tool

4.1

Turn any text into natural speech — celebrity voices and speed listening done right.

tl;dv

Meeting assistant

4.1

Meeting recording and analysis for sales and teams — 30+ languages, CRM-connected.

Spline

3D generation

4.1

3D design in the browser — AI-generate 3D scenes and embed them straight into web pages.

SlidesGPT

Productivity tool

4.1

AI PowerPoint generator — one prompt, PDF or link becomes a structured deck in minutes; #1 AI PPT app on the ChatGPT store.

Amazon Q Developer

Coding tool

4

AWS's AI developer assistant with deep AWS integration, CLI and IDE agents.

Civitai

Image generation

4

The largest open-source image model community: LoRAs, checkpoints and online generation.

Vidu

Video tool

4

Shengshu's AI video model — excels at subject consistency and anime styles.

PlayAI

Audio tool

4

Formerly Play.ht — low-latency voice synthesis and conversational voice agents.

Wordtune

Writing tool

4

AI21's rewriting companion — light, accurate tone and phrasing suggestions.

Stable Video

Video tool

4

Stability's open-source video generation models (SVD) — image-to-video; the 2026 SD4 API adds native text-to-video.

Writesonic

Writing tool

3.9

An SEO-focused AI writing platform: keyword research to published article in one flow.

Codeium

Coding tool

4.4

A retired brand: Codeium became Windsurf in 2025, which was then folded into Devin Desktop (Cognition) in 2026. For the same kind of tool today, see Windsurf / Devin.