Best free tools for…

Private AI chat with no subscription: these apps run open models on your own laptop.

Midjourney-style images on your own PC. Most need a graphics card; FLUX can be tried online first.

Turn recordings, meetings and videos into text, privately and in almost any language.

Natural-sounding voices for videos, audiobooks and accessibility, free.

Clone your own voice (or one you have permission to use) for narration and dubbing.

AI that writes and fixes code for you, without a Cursor subscription.

Make small or blurry photos sharp, and restore old family pictures.

Cut people and products out of photos and videos, like remove.bg, for free.

Ask questions about contracts, reports and notes, with answers that point to the source.

Turn your sources into answers, notes and podcast-style summaries, on your own computer.

Connect your apps and let AI handle steps, without paying per task.

Copy text out of images, scanned PDFs and screenshots, offline.

AI answers from the web with sources, without a subscription.

Make songs, backing tracks and sound effects, or split songs into parts.

Make 3D objects for games, printing and design from one photo.

Record calls and get transcripts and summaries, privately, like Otter or Fireflies.

Let AI click, type and fill forms on websites for you.

Speak instead of typing, in any app, with speech recognition that runs on your device.

Create video clips from text or images, or make short videos automatically.

Teach an open model your style, your documents or a new skill.

Translate selected text, whole pages or documents, with AI or fully offline.

Make, fix and translate subtitles for your videos automatically.

Open alternatives to LM Studio for running models privately and offline.

Agents that read your project, edit files and run commands for you.

Notes, docs and knowledge bases you own, many with built-in AI.

Chat with your vault and find related notes with AI.

Make a professional resume with no subscription.

Turn a topic or document into slides, like Gamma or Beautiful.ai.

Draw flowcharts, sketches and technical diagrams, some just by chatting.

Edit, cut and subtitle videos with AI help.

Scan real objects and places by taking lots of photos.

Label images, video, text and audio to train your own AI.

Get answers from your data without writing SQL.

Add AI chat, summaries and translation to every page.

Bring your own API keys and switch models freely.

Chat, translate and edit photos with AI on Android and iPhone.

Native Mac apps for translation, images, dictation and local models.

Handy AI tools that run on an ordinary Windows PC.

Search your screen history or see where your day went. Mind your privacy.

Full control over image models, LoRAs and workflows.

Bring generative AI into the painting and photo apps you already use.

Convert EPUBs and documents into natural-sounding audio.

Turn one voice into another, for songs or speech. Use only voices you have permission for.

Chat with custom characters, with text or a talking avatar.

Summarize, question and organize scientific papers.

Convert PDFs, Word and slides into clean Markdown for ChatGPT and other AI.

Run your own private chat site that several people can use.

Snap a picture of an equation or a page and get editable LaTeX.

AI code completion and chat inside your editor.

Make websites and apps by chatting, without learning to code.

Collect web pages as clean text for chatbots and research. Respect each site's terms.

Agents that click, type and open apps for you. Supervise them closely.

Connect AI assistants to a real browser through MCP.

Free, well-made courses and interactive explainers for beginners.

Detect, translate and re-letter speech bubbles. For personal use.

Find, improve and organize prompts for better AI answers.

Translate games and visual novels while you play.

Talk to an assistant that respects your privacy.

Clean data, ask questions and make charts without being a data scientist.

Turn a video in one language into another, with subtitles or a new voice track.