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Free tier Productivity software

A free plan you can stay on indefinitely, with paid tiers above it. The most common model in the directory.

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

n8n

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

Developer Tools NewOpen Source

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

Productivity NewOpen Source

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

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

AI New

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

AI New

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

AI New

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

AI New

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

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

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

AI New

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

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

AI New

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

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

AI New

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

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

AI New

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

AI New

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

Lex

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

AI New

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

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

AI

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.

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

About this collection

A free plan you can stay on indefinitely, with paid tiers above it. The most common model in the directory.

By the numbers

26 tools match on this page. 2 of them are open source, so you can read or self-host the code.

How the listings are written

Every entry here was written for this directory rather than copied from the vendor. Each one says what the tool does, who it is a good fit for, and where it stops being one, because a listing that only repeats marketing copy is no use to anyone deciding between three options.

Pricing describes the software itself: free means no payment to use it, a free tier means a plan you can stay on indefinitely with paid tiers above, and paid means there is no free plan. That is separate from whether the listing here was paid for.