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AI Tools with a Free Plan

66 tools that are free or offer a free plan

By task

Images and photo editing

Remove or replace image backgrounds
PicWish (Zuotang) · top pickGaoding DesignMeitu Design StudioClipdrop
Make e-commerce product image sets with AI
Meitu Design Studio · top pickGaoding DesignJimeng
Make posters, covers and product images
Gaoding Design · top pickChuangkitCanva ChinaMicrosoft Designer
Generate illustrations and images from a prompt
Jimeng · top pickTongyi WanxiangLiblibAI
Sharpen blurry photos
PicWish (Zuotang) · top pickUpscaylClipdrop
Design a logo with AI
Recraft · top pickJimengGaoding Design

Video, voiceover and music

Edit video and add subtitles
Jianying (CapCut China) · top pickDescriptOpusClip
Add an AI voiceover to video
Jianying (CapCut China) · top pickTTSMakerElevenLabs
Generate video with AI
Kling · top pickJimengHailuo VideoRunway
Write songs with AI
Haimian Music · top pickUdioSuno

Recording and transcription

Turn meeting recordings into minutes
Tongyi Tingwu · top pickOtter
Convert video to text and extract scripts
Tongyi Tingwu · top pickJianying (CapCut China)Otter
Remove noise and clarify voices in recordings
Adobe Podcast · top pickAuphonicJianying (CapCut China)Descript

Writing, reading and translation

Write and edit copy
Doubao · top pickDeepSeekKimi
Summarize long articles and PDFs
Kimi · top pickChatPDFDoubaoTencent Yuanbao
Translate PDFs and foreign-language documents
DeepL · top pickImmersive TranslateKimi
Read foreign-language web pages with side-by-side translation
Immersive Translate · top pickDeepL

Research and papers

Research with cited sources
Metaso AI Search · top pickPerplexityFelo
Search papers and review research evidence
Consensus · top pickElicit

Office documents

Make a slide deck
GammaChuangkit
Write Excel formulas with AI
DeepSeekDoubao
Generate mind maps with AI
Xmind · top pickGitMindKimi
Generate office files with AI
Tokeny

Websites and coding

Build a website without code
Bolt · top pickv0LovableTrae
Write code with AI
Trae · top pickCursorGitHub Copilot

All 66

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ChatGPT

OpenAI's general-purpose chat assistant for writing, editing, questions and brainstorming

Free planBlocked in ChinaWriting

Claude

Anthropic's chat assistant, strong at long-form writing, editing and reading long documents

Free planNot offered in ChinaWriting

Kimi

Moonshot AI's chat assistant; upload long documents and ask questions about their content

Free planAccessible in ChinaWriting

Doubao

ByteDance's chat assistant for Chinese writing and questions, also available on mobile

Free planAccessible in ChinaWriting

DeepSeek

DeepSeek's chat model, strong at reasoning, for Chinese writing and questions

FreeAccessible in ChinaWriting

Gemini

New

Google's chat assistant, integrated with Google services

Free planBlocked in ChinaWriting

Baidu Wenxin Assistant

Baidu's Chinese chat assistant, formerly ERNIE Bot (Wenxin Yiyan)

Free planAccessible in ChinaWriting

Tencent Yuanbao

Tencent's chat assistant, able to search WeChat Official Account articles

FreeAccessible in ChinaWriting

Grammarly

English grammar correction and tone adjustment

Free planAccessible in ChinaWriting

DeepL

New

Machine translation, including whole-document translation of uploaded Word and PDF files

Free planAccessible in ChinaWriting

Immersive Translate

New

Browser extension for bilingual side-by-side translation of web pages and PDFs

Free planWriting

Duck.ai

New

AI chat platform from DuckDuckGo

Free planAccessible in ChinaWriting
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QuillBot

New

Paraphrasing, grammar checking and polishing for English sentences and paragraphs

Free planWriting
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LanguageTool

New

Checks spelling, grammar and style in many languages, with browser extensions

Free planWriting

Tokeny

New

Desktop AI assistant that generates slides, spreadsheets, reports and documents on instruction

Free planAccessible in ChinaAI Agents

OpenClaw

New

Open-source personal AI assistant that runs on your own computer and works through chat apps

FreeAccessible in ChinaAI Agents

Jimeng

ByteDance's image and video generation tool, supporting Chinese prompts

Free planAccessible in ChinaImage generation

Ideogram

New

Text-to-image tool that can render text within images

Free planBlocked in ChinaImage generation

Adobe Firefly

Adobe's image generation and editing tool

Free planNot offered in ChinaCutout and editing

Canva China

Online design template platform with built-in AI image editing and copywriting

Free planPoster design

Gaoding Design

Template platform for e-commerce images and posters, with online cutout and editing

Free planAccessible in ChinaPoster design

Recraft

Generates vector illustrations and icons, exportable as SVG

Free planAccessible in ChinaPoster design

Krea

Real-time image generation with image upscaling

Free planBlocked in ChinaImage generation

Tongyi Wanxiang

Alibaba Cloud's text-to-image and image-to-image tool

Free planAccessible in ChinaImage generation

LiblibAI

Chinese model community for generating images online with style models

Free planAccessible in ChinaImage generation
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Leonardo

Image generation for game art, characters and concept art

Free planBlocked in ChinaImage generation

Clipdrop

Background removal, object cleanup, upscaling and relighting

Free planBlocked in ChinaCutout and editing

Chuangkit

Chinese online design template platform covering posters and slides

Free planAccessible in ChinaPoster design

Microsoft Designer

Microsoft's AI design tool for posters, greeting cards and social media images

Free planAccessible in ChinaPoster design

PicWish (Zuotang)

New

Online image processing: sharpen blurry photos, remove watermarks, remove backgrounds

Free planAccessible in ChinaCutout and editing

Upscayl

New

Free, open-source desktop image upscaler

FreeAccessible in ChinaCutout and editing

Meitu Design Studio

New

Meitu's AI design platform for posters, product images and slides

Free planAccessible in ChinaPoster design

Lovart

New

AI design agent that creates posters, brand assets and product images through conversation

Free planBlocked in ChinaPoster design
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Adobe Express

New

Online design tool with templates and AI image and video creation

Free planPoster design

Jianying (CapCut China)

Video editor with built-in subtitle recognition and text-to-speech voiceover

Free planAccessible in ChinaVideo

Kling

Kuaishou's video generation tool, creating video from text or images

Free planAccessible in ChinaVideo

Runway

Video generation and effects editing

Free planAccessible in ChinaVideo

HeyGen

Talking avatars and video translation with dubbing

Free planBlocked in ChinaVideo

Hailuo Video

New

MiniMax's video generation tool, creating video from text or images

Free planAccessible in ChinaVideo

Descript

Edit video and podcasts by editing the transcript

Free planAccessible in ChinaVideo

OpusClip

Automatically cuts long videos into multiple short clips

Free planAccessible in ChinaVideo

Suno

New

Generates complete songs with vocals from a text description

Free planBlocked in ChinaAudio

ElevenLabs

AI voiceover and voice cloning

Free planAccessible in ChinaAudio

Adobe Podcast

Removes noise and echo from recordings and improves voice clarity

Free planAccessible in ChinaAudio

Udio

Generates music from a text description, with a wide range of styles

Free planAccessible in ChinaAudio

Haimian Music

New

Generates songs from a description or lyrics, supporting Chinese

FreeAccessible in ChinaAudio
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TTSMaker

New

Converts text to speech with a choice of languages and voices, and downloadable audio

Free planAudio
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Auphonic

New

Automatically processes loudness and noise in recordings, suited to podcasts and voiceovers

Free planAudio

Tongyi Tingwu

Audio and video transcription with automatic meeting minutes

Free planAccessible in ChinaOffice

Gamma

Generates presentations automatically from an outline

Free planBlocked in ChinaOffice

Perplexity

AI search with cited sources in its answers

Free planBlocked in ChinaOffice

Metaso AI Search

Chinese AI search with cited sources in its answers

FreeAccessible in ChinaOffice

Napkin

New

Turns text into diagrams automatically

Free planAccessible in ChinaOffice

Otter

Real-time transcription and notes for English meetings

Free planAccessible in ChinaOffice

Xmind

New

Mind mapping software with built-in AI to generate and expand maps

Free planAccessible in ChinaOffice

GitMind

New

Online mind mapping with AI map generation

Free planAccessible in ChinaOffice
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Felo

New

AI search across languages, with sources

Free planOffice
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Elicit

New

AI tool for academic research that searches papers and organizes research material

Free planOffice
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Consensus

New

AI search for scientific literature, showing the papers behind each answer

Free planOffice
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ChatPDF

New

Ask questions about and summarize PDFs, with answers linked back to the source text

Free planOffice

Cursor

Code editor with integrated AI

Free planAccessible in ChinaCoding

GitHub Copilot

Code completion and coding chat inside your editor

Free planCoding

Trae

ByteDance's AI coding editor; the China edition offers a Chinese interface

Free planAccessible in ChinaCoding

v0

Generates web interfaces and apps from text descriptions

Free planAccessible in ChinaCoding

Bolt

Builds complete web apps through conversation in the browser

Free planAccessible in ChinaCoding

Lovable

New

Build apps through conversation without writing code

Free planAccessible in ChinaCoding