Software with a free tier

Capable CRM at a fraction of the usual price, free for three users and part of a very large business suite.

No-code builder for AI agents that automate real work across your existing tools without writing anything.

Fast AI video generator with a free tier, good for quick clips and camera motion from a still image.

Autonomous agent that plans and works through a whole task in the background, returning a finished deliverable.

Free Microsoft assistant with frontier models behind it, tied into Windows and the Microsoft 365 apps.

Colourful, highly visual work platform that adapts to projects, sales pipelines or anything else you configure.

Open source automation platform you can self-host, flexible enough for AI agent workflows without full no-code limits.

Self-hosted file sync, calendars and collaborative documents, a Google Workspace equivalent on your own server.

Straightforward password manager from the Nord team, the easiest of the major options to set up and live with.

Note app that records audio synced to your handwriting, built for lectures and meetings you need to revisit.

Playful AI video generator focused on fast, fun clips and effects rather than cinematic realism.

Collaborative presentation tool with real version control and analytics showing which slides recipients actually read.

One subscription and one interface reaching most frontier AI models, for people who do not want to bet on just one.

Presentation tool built on a zooming canvas rather than slides, designed for talks delivered live in a room.

Privacy-focused password manager from the Proton team, open source and bundled with their wider encrypted suite.

Editing tool that reports on pacing, repetition and sentence variety across a whole manuscript, not just sentences.

AI that reviews pull requests and generates the tests your code is missing, working the verification side of the pipeline.

No-code platform for building a team of role-based AI agents that handle recurring business work.

AI video platform aimed at creators, with the deepest set of editing and control tools around the generation.

Large free template library with AI generation on top, producing decks you open directly in Slides or PowerPoint.

The simplest way to run a board of cards, with a free tier most small teams and individuals never outgrow.

Visual development tool giving designers real control over markup and CSS without hand-writing either.

Agent-first AI code editor that keeps itself in sync with your edits and runs long multi-step changes.

Website builder with the strongest AI setup flow and the widest app ecosystem, if you can live with the interface.

Managed hosting for WordPress, the most extensible website platform once you need it to do something unusual.

Adobe image and video generation trained on licensed content, built into Creative Cloud and safe for commercial work.

Project management that stays clear as teams grow, with strong workflow rules and a free tier for up to ten people.

Fast, flexible CRM shaped like a database, built for startups that outgrow a spreadsheet but hate enterprise software.

Open source, independently audited password manager whose free tier covers unlimited passwords on unlimited devices.

Design and presentation tool with an enormous template library and AI generation, on a free tier that is a real product.

Object-based note app that organises by the kind of thing a note is, a modern take on the second brain.

One-page site builder that gets a landing page live in an afternoon for about the price of a coffee per year.

The most complete AI assistant, strong at everything and the widest product around the model, from voice to custom bots.

AI assistant with the best writing quality of the frontier models, strong on long documents and careful reasoning.

Project tool that does nearly everything, with docs, goals and views layered on a generous free tier.

Open source framework for building teams of AI agents with defined roles, a cleaner design for multi-agent systems.

OpenAI image generator built into ChatGPT, the easiest way to get a usable image from a plain-English description.

Password manager with the widest extra feature set, including a VPN and dark web monitoring alongside the vault.

Open-weight AI models with frontier-class reasoning at a fraction of the usual price, free to use in the browser.

Password manager with a one-time purchase option and local or your-own-cloud storage instead of a vendor subscription.

AI presentation tool that turns one prompt into a near-finished deck, built from flexible blocks that stay easy to edit.

Google AI assistant with the most generous free tier and real access to Gmail, Docs, Drive and Calendar.

Research agent that turns a question into a structured deliverable rather than an answer in a chat window.

AI coding assistant that installs into the editor you already use, with the deepest GitHub and pull request integration.

Handwriting-first note app for iPad, the standard choice for students and anyone who thinks better with a pen.

Google image generation inside the Gemini app, the strongest free option and good at prompt accuracy.

Google video generation with synchronised audio, currently the most realistic output of any text-to-video tool.

Writing assistant that follows you into every app and text box, catching mistakes and flagging unclear sentences.

xAI assistant wired into X for real-time information, with visibly looser content rules than its rivals.

MiniMax video generator with an unusually generous free tier, good for trying AI video without paying.

Free browser tool that highlights the sentences nobody will finish reading, plus passive voice and weak verbs.

CRM with a free tier that is genuinely usable, growing into full marketing and sales suites as you pay.

Image generator that renders readable text inside images, which most other models still get wrong.

Atlassian issue tracker built for software teams working at scale, powerful and heavy in equal measure.

Chinese video generator that leads on image-to-video, turning a still into convincing motion better than most.

The most established open source framework for building AI agents in code, with the largest surrounding ecosystem.

European AI assistant from Mistral, built and hosted in the EU and noticeably faster than its rivals.

Image generator aimed at game and product art, with fine-grained control and trainable custom models.

Clean document editor where the AI waits to be asked, built for writers who find constant suggestions distracting.

A keyboard-first launcher for macOS that replaces Spotlight with extensions, snippets and window management.

Issue tracking built for speed, with keyboard shortcuts, cycles and a roadmap that product teams actually keep up to date.

Speech synthesis and voice cloning with the naturalness to be used in production audio.

Answer engine that searches the web and responds with a written answer carrying citations to its sources.

A whiteboard that looks hand-drawn, works in the browser and needs no account to start sketching.

Open source web analytics that keeps 100% of the data on your own servers if you want it there.

Product analytics, session replay, feature flags and experiments in one open source platform you can self-host.

Task manager built around fast natural-language capture, available on effectively every platform.

Note-taking on local Markdown files, with links between notes and a plugin ecosystem that reshapes it into almost anything.

Documents, databases and wikis in one workspace, where any page can also be a structured table with multiple views.

Design tool that publishes directly to a live website, aimed at marketing sites rather than product interfaces.

Transactional email for developers: an API, React email templates and delivery logs you can actually read.

Open source design and prototyping tool that stores files as open standards and can be self-hosted.

Browser-based interface design tool where a whole team can work in the same file at the same time.

Code editor built on VS Code with model-assisted editing that can read and change multiple files across a project.

Deploy applications, databases and workers from a repository without writing infrastructure configuration.

API client and collaboration workspace for designing, testing, documenting and monitoring HTTP APIs.

Error and performance monitoring that turns a stack trace into the specific commit, release and user session that produced it.

Postgres as a backend, with auto-generated APIs, authentication, file storage and realtime subscriptions on top of a database you can take with you.

Deployment platform built around frontend frameworks, with preview URLs on every pull request and a global edge network.