AI Tools

Updated April 12, 2025

My daily driver right now is Grok, but I also use ChatGPT and Claude a lot.

LLMs (text/search)

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

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has a pretty good free plan.

Claude is the best at coding.

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

Google’s Gemini offers a limited number of free Deep Research queries per month.

Pi is built as a conversation partner.

Perplexity is an AI search engine.

Image generation

Ideogram is one of my favs.

Midjourney now has a web interface.

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.

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.