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55 tools · 8 categories

Tools a beginner can actually start with

A plain-English directory of AI tools for side projects and creators. Each listing says what the tool does, who it is for, the price we could verify, how hard it is, and what to watch out for.

55 tools in the directory

WritingBeginnerFree tier
ChatGPT
A chat box for drafts, answers, and simple images. You describe the task in plain language and edit what comes back.
Price. Starts at $8/month. Full listing · Official site
WritingBeginnerFree tier
Claude
A chat tool for writing, editing, and working from documents you upload. It can also make files and simple on-screen artifacts.
Price. Starts at $20/month. Full listing · Official site
WritingBeginnerFree tier
Gemini
Google's chat app for writing, research prompts, and image help inside a Google account.
Price. Starts at $4.99/month. Full listing · Official site
WritingBeginnerFree tier
Grammarly
Checks spelling, grammar, and tone in the browser and in documents. Paid plans add rewrites and a larger monthly allowance of AI prompts.
Price. Starts at $30/month. Full listing · Official site
WritingSome practiceFree tier
Notion
A notes and docs workspace. AI features can draft, rewrite, and fill in pages. On the cheaper plans, Notion describes that AI as a trial.
Price. Starts at $10/month. Full listing · Official site
WritingBeginnerFree tier
QuillBot
Paraphrases sentences and checks grammar. Paid plans raise the limits on those tools.
Price. Starts at $19.95/month. Full listing · Official site
WritingBeginnerFree tier
LanguageTool
A grammar and style checker for many languages, with a browser add-on and its own editor.
Price. Starts at €19.90/month. Full listing · Official site
WritingBeginnerFree tier
Hemingway Editor
Highlights long sentences, passive voice, and hard-to-read phrases. The Plus plan adds AI rewrites.
Price. Starts at $100/year. Full listing · Official site
WritingSome practiceFree tier unverified
Copy.ai
Drafts marketing and sales text, and runs heavier workflow tools aimed at businesses.
Price. Starts at $29/month. Full listing · Official site
Images and designBeginnerFree tier
Canva
A browser design tool for posts, simple videos, presentations, and print layouts, with AI helpers inside the editor.
Price. Starts at $144/year. Full listing · Official site
Images and designBeginnerFree tier unverified
Photoroom
Removes backgrounds and builds product photos and simple marketing visuals with AI, including batch tools on paid plans.
Price. Starts at $7.50/month. Full listing · Official site
Images and designBeginnerFree tier unverified
Pixlr
An online photo editor with AI credits for edits and generation on paid plans.
Price. Starts at $2.49/month. Full listing · Official site
Images and designSome practiceFree tierPrice unverified
Photopea
A free photo editor that runs in the browser and opens common Photoshop-style files. It is an editor, not an image generator.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Official site
Images and designSome practiceFree tierPrice unverified
Kittl
Designs for merch, labels, and marketing art, with AI actions that spend monthly tokens.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Official site
Images and designBeginnerFree tier
Recraft
Generates and edits images and vector-style graphics from a text prompt.
Price. Starts at $12/month. Full listing · Official site
Images and designBeginnerFree tier
Napkin
Turns a block of text into diagrams and simple visuals you can drop into a post or a deck.
Price. Starts at $9/month. Full listing · Official site
Images and designBeginnerFree tierPrice unverified
Adobe Express
A browser design app from Adobe for posts, simple videos, and quick image edits, including background removal.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Official site
Images and designSome practiceFree tier unverified
Magnific
An image and video generation and upscaling suite. Freepik's pricing URL now opens Magnific, which the page calls Magnific (formerly Freepik).
Price. Starts at $20/month. Full listing · Official site
Images and designBeginnerNo free tierPrice unverified
Photomizer 3 Premium
A Windows program that automatically sharpens a photo, lifts the color, and removes red eye and image noise. It is a download, not a browser editor.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Visit
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Images and designSome practiceNo free tierPrice unverified
BookCoverly
Desktop software for Mac and Windows that lays out print and ebook covers, including a spine-width calculator and an ISBN barcode.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Visit
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VideoBeginnerFree tier
Kapwing
A browser video editor for trimming, subtitles, resizing, and simple AI voice or dubbing tasks.
Price. Starts at $16/month. Full listing · Official site
VideoSome practiceFree tier
Descript
Edits video and podcasts by editing the transcript. It also removes filler words and can generate speech.
Price. Starts at $24/month. Full listing · Official site
VideoBeginnerFree tier
Opus Clip
Cuts a longer video into short clips and adds captions.
Price. Starts at $15/month. Full listing · Official site
VideoSome practiceFree tier unverified
InVideo
Makes videos from a prompt or a script, using stock footage and generated clips, inside a credit system.
Price. Starts at $20/month. Full listing · Official site
VideoSome practiceFree tier
HeyGen
Makes videos of an on-screen presenter from a script, including translated versions.
Price. Starts at $29/month. Full listing · Official site
VideoBeginnerFree tierPrice unverified
Clipchamp
A browser video editor from Microsoft, with AI subtitles, voiceover, and silence removal on the feature list.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Official site
VideoBeginnerFree tier
CapCut
A video editor for phones and the desktop, with templates, captions, and AI effects.
Price. Starts at $19.99/month. Full listing · Official site
VideoTakes practiceFree tier
Runway
Generates and edits video and images from text, and spends credits by the second.
Price. Starts at $12/month. Full listing · Official site
VideoBeginnerFree tier
Loom
Records your screen and camera, then shares a link. Paid AI features add titles, summaries, and filler-word removal.
Price. Starts at $18/month. Full listing · Official site
VideoSome practiceNo free tier
TubeMagic
Drafts YouTube scripts, titles, descriptions, tags, and thumbnails, and can look up keywords and channels. One paid plan covers the tools.
Price. Starts at $41/month. Full listing · Visit
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Voice and audioSome practiceFree tier
ElevenLabs
Turns text into spoken audio, clones a voice, and can make sound effects and music. Everything draws from one credit pool.
Price. Starts at $6/month. Full listing · Visit
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Voice and audioBeginnerFree tier
Suno
Makes songs from a text description, then lets you edit sections on higher plans.
Price. Starts at $8/month. Full listing · Official site
Voice and audioBeginnerFree tierPrice unverified
Auphonic
Cleans up a recording: levels, noise, and some filler cuts, then exports the file.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Official site
Voice and audioBeginnerFree tier
Speechify
Reads text aloud and offers a large set of text-to-speech voices on the paid plan.
Price. Starts at $29/month. Full listing · Official site
Voice and audioSome practiceFree tier
Riverside
Records remote interviews in the browser, with separate tracks, and includes some AI editing on paid plans.
Price. Starts at $29/month. Full listing · Official site
Voice and audioBeginnerFree tier unverified
Cleanvoice
Removes filler words, mouth noise, and long silences from a spoken recording.
Price. Starts at $11/month. Full listing · Official site
Social postsBeginnerFree tier
Buffer
Schedules posts to social accounts and includes an AI assistant for draft ideas.
Price. Starts at $5/month. Full listing · Official site
Social postsSome practiceFree tier
Metricool
Schedules posts and shows simple analytics for several social accounts.
Price. Starts at €16/month. Full listing · Official site
Social postsBeginnerFree tier
Publer
Schedules social posts and includes an AI assistant for writing them.
Price. Starts at $5/month. Full listing · Visit
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Social postsSome practiceFree tier unverifiedPrice unverified
Predis.ai
Drafts social posts and simple ad creatives from a product link or a short brief.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Visit
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Social postsBeginnerFree tier unverifiedPrice unverified
Typefully
Writes and schedules posts for X and LinkedIn, and advertises an AI writing feature.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Visit
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WebsitesBeginnerFree tier
Carrd
Builds a single-page site from a template. It is a page builder, not an AI writer.
Price. Starts at $19/year. Full listing · Official site
WebsitesBeginnerFree tier
Durable
Builds a small business website from a short description and includes AI credits on the paid plans.
Price. Starts at $22/month. Full listing · Official site
WebsitesSome practiceNo free tier
Squarespace
Hosts a template website and a small store. Plans include a limited set of AI credits.
Price. Starts at $25/month. Full listing · Official site
WebsitesTakes practiceFree tier
Framer
Designs and publishes a site on a canvas, with a monthly pool of AI credits on paid plans.
Price. Starts at $10/month. Full listing · Official site
ResearchBeginnerFree tierPrice unverified
Perplexity
Answers questions with sources attached, and can dig further on the paid plan.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Official site
ResearchBeginnerFree tier
Gemini Notebook
Reads the sources you upload and answers from those sources. Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook in July 2026. Old notebooks stay put.
Price. Starts at $4.99/month. Full listing · Official site
ResearchSome practiceFree tierPrice unverified
Elicit
Searches research papers and pulls findings into a table.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Official site
ResearchSome practiceFree tier unverifiedPrice unverified
Consensus
Searches research papers and summarizes what they report, aimed at students and clinicians as well as general readers.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Official site
Everyday helpersBeginnerFree tierPrice unverified
Otter
Transcribes meetings and recordings, and can join a call to take notes.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Official site
Everyday helpersBeginnerFree tier
Fathom
Joins a video call, records it, and writes a summary and action items.
Price. Starts at $20/month. Full listing · Official site
Everyday helpersBeginnerFree tierPrice unverified
Calendly
Shares a link so someone can book a time on your calendar. Paid add-ons include an AI notetaker and an email scheduling assistant.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Official site
Everyday helpersBeginnerFree tierPrice unverified
Tally
Builds forms with unlimited responses on the free plan, including payments, file uploads, and simple logic.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Visit
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Everyday helpersBeginnerFree tier unverifiedPrice unverified
VEED
Edits, subtitles, and transcribes video in the browser, and can generate video from a prompt.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Official site
Everyday helpersBeginnerFree tier unverifiedPrice unverified
Fast Screen Recorder
Records a Windows screen, a chosen area, the microphone, and system audio, and can grab a screenshot. Recordings save as MKV and can be converted to MP4 and other formats.
Price. Paid price not confirmed. Full listing · Visit
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Before you pick one

Will these tools make me money?: No. This site does not promise income. A tool can help with a task. It cannot promise customers, views, or sales.
Are the prices current?: Each listing has a last-verified date and a link to the official pricing page. If that page did not show a clear number, the listing says the price is unverified.
Do you earn a commission if I sign up?: A few listings use an affiliate Visit link. Those pages say so next to the link. We may earn a commission if you sign up, at no extra cost to you. There are no sponsors. The disclosure page has the full note.
How should a beginner pick?: Filter to Beginner and Free tier: Yes. Read the watch-out note, then open the official site and try the free plan before you pay.