Powerful AI tools you can use for free in 2026.

HeyGen

Video

HeyGen turns a script into a video with stock or custom avatars, voice, and translation.

Runway

Video

Runway generates and edits video, images, and audio from prompts and credits.

Descript

Video

Descript edits video and podcasts from a transcript.

Ideogram

Images

Ideogram is a generative image platform with its own models, a visual workspace, and an API.

Recraft

Images

Recraft generates and edits images and vector art, including icons and layouts for web, print, and marketing.

Grammarly

Writing

Grammarly checks spelling, grammar, and tone in the browser, desktop, and docs, and it can generate text from prompts.

Wordtune

Writing

Wordtune rewrites sentences, checks grammar, and summarizes text.

Consensus

Research

Consensus is an academic search tool for peer-reviewed papers.

Elicit

Research

Elicit searches academic papers and builds cited reports and tables from them.

Granola

Productivity

Granola is a meeting notepad that writes AI notes from device audio, without a bot joining the call.

beehiiv

Marketing

beehiiv is a newsletter platform with a site, podcast, community, and digital products on the plans page.

Bolt

Coding

Bolt is an AI builder for websites, apps, and prototypes from a prompt.

Replit

Coding

Replit is an AI platform for building and publishing apps, sites, and tools in the browser.

ElevenLabs

Audio

ElevenLabs generates and edits speech, sound effects, music, and dubs.

Suno

Audio

Suno generates songs from a prompt, with editing, uploads, and stem tools on paid plans.

Buffer

Social Media

Buffer schedules and publishes social posts, with an AI assistant, a community inbox, and a link-in-bio Start Page.

Opus Clip

Social Media

Opus Clip turns a long video into short clips with captions, reframing, and a virality score, then can post them to short-form platforms.

Enhance Speech

Audio

Enhance Speech is a free AI filter from Adobe that cleans up spoken audio and video so dialogue is easier to hear.

AutoWrite

Writing

AutoWrite is a browser-based AI writer for SEO articles, with keyword research, YouTube or webpage to article conversion, and WordPress publishing.

Avidnote

Research

Avidnote is an AI tool for research writing, reading, and data analysis.

Clipfly

Video

Clipfly is an online editor and AI generator for video, images, and music.

Codia

Coding

Codia is a set of AI design and development tools that turn slides, screenshots, and Figma files into editable designs or code.

Cursorful

Video

Cursorful is a free screen recorder that runs as a browser extension and adds automatic zooms and pans based on your clicks, with a browser editor for finishing your video.

Emergent

Coding

Emergent is an AI platform that builds web and mobile apps from a natural-language description.

Inkeep

Automation

Inkeep builds AI agents for customer experience and operations, with a free open source option you self-host and a managed Enterprise platform.

iWeaver

Research

iWeaver is a set of AI agents that summarize and write from your personal documents, video, and other knowledge.

JobWizard

Productivity

JobWizard is a Chrome extension that autofills job applications and drafts cover letters, with a job description match score, resume retouches, and application tracking.

Kodus

Coding

Kodus is an open source AI code review tool for pull requests. Run it self-hosted or in the cloud, using your own model keys.

Mage

Images

Mage.Space is a browser-based AI image and video generator with a free starter quota and paid unlimited memberships.

Memorae

Productivity

Memorae describes itself as the memory layer above all your apps.

MyLens

Productivity

MyLens is an AI presentation maker that builds visual slides and narration from your sources or from an idea.

PageOn.AI

Productivity

PageOn.AI (also called PageOn AI) is an AI maker for presentations, posters, social graphics, infographics, and reports.

Paper Digest

Research

Paper Digest is an AI research platform for literature review, paper reading, writing, and daily paper digests from arXiv and other sources.

Pika

Video

Pika (also known as Pika Labs) is an AI platform for generating and editing video, images, and audio.

Supernormal

Productivity

Supernormal (formerly listed as Radiant AI) is a meeting notetaker that captures notes from your computer without a bot joining the call, then drafts follow-up work.

Typefully

Social Media

Typefully is a social media publishing and scheduling tool for X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Instagram.

ChatGPT

Productivity

General-purpose AI assistant for drafting, planning, and light research in a daily operator stack.

Claude

Productivity

Long-document and careful-reasoning assistant strong on rewrite quality and analysis.

Google Gemini

Productivity

Google assistant grounded in Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and Drive for Workspace teams.

Perplexity

Research

Cited web research assistant for source-backed answers without a blank chat rabbit hole.

NotebookLM

Research

Document-grounded research that turns uploaded sources into briefings and audio overviews.

Cursor

Coding

IDE-first coding agent for shipping features with AI help inside the editor.

GitHub Copilot

Coding

AI pair-programmer inside GitHub, IDEs, and PR workflows.

Zapier

Automation

Broad no-code automation glue for connecting apps and AI steps fast.

Make

Automation

Visual branching automation for workflows you can audit as a diagram.

n8n

Automation

Self-hostable, AI-friendly workflow automation with control and cost predictability.

Systeme.io

Marketing

Funnel, course, and email stack for shipping offers without a heavy MarTech pile.

Gamma

Writing

Fast deck and page generation for client-ready presentations without living in PowerPoint.

Fireflies.ai

Productivity

Meeting capture and summaries that turn calls into searchable notes and action items.

Clay

Marketing

Enrichment and outbound data system for lead lists and personalized sequences.

Figma

Images

Collaborative design system home for product and funnel UI, with AI assists on canvas.