AI Tools

Updated Mar 8, 2025, but this is all moving very fast so there may be really cool stuff I’m not aware of!

LLMs (text/search)

Perplexity is an AI search engine & one of the best free AI tools.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has a pretty good free plan.

Claude is similar to ChatGPT in abilities, but better at coding.

Pi is built as a conversation partner.

Grok also has a great free plan (no X login needed).

Google’s NotebookLLM is free and awesome, you can upload long PDFs and other resources and ask questions about them.

Image generation

Clipdrop – realtime image generation is pretty cool. It updates as you type. Free images are watermarked in the corner.

Meta recently released a free image generator along with their text generator.

Midjourney is the best. You can now use it via the web rather than Discord.

Dreamlike.art also has a credit system where you can claim 24 free credits per day (limit 50 total). Their system lets you choose different models to use to generate your images.

Leonardo.ai gives you 150 free credits per day and offers a variety of models. I got my invite after a few weeks.

I also think Bing’s image generator is fairly good and it’s also free but you get limited credits for faster generation. It is powered by Dall-E. The credits regenerate over time.

Lexica.art offers 100 free image generations per month.

Adobe Firefly is open and seems to be free for now.

My Fav AI Youtubers

Wes Roth – covers breaking news in AI

Matt Wolfe – AI tool reviews and overall news – he also has an AI news page on his site

AI Explained – in depth technical breakdowns around AI news

Robert Miles – AI safety

Multi-use / Mashup tools

Fredo is a tool you can add to WhatsApp and lets you use Midjourney for free, among other things.

Goblin Tools is a brilliant interface to ChatGPT that lets you break down tasks into smaller chunks and estimate how much time it will take, check the tone of a piece of text, translate a braindump into a list of tasks, and more.