Web-based community builder app allows the creation of web forum with private/public spaces were to get feedback, comments, suggestions.
Ideal for app developers, startuppers, as well as for trainers, coaches and indie entrepreneurs wanting to have an exchange and community forum for their members.
Key features:
✅ - Builds a community forum with unlimited sections/areas
✅ - Discussion, voting and Q&A features
✅ - Public and private spaces
✅ - Email Notifications
✅ - Custom branding
Pricing: Free version for up to 100 members.
Pro version $79/mo billed annually or $99 monthly.
https://freehumans.com/pricing
Web-based form builder and data collection app offers all of the basic features plus some extras in a truly free basic version that requires no credit card to be utilized.
Ideal for customer feedback, assistance, training tests, surveys for small companies, indie entrepreneurs and startups.
Best free/low-cost alternative to Typeform.
Key features:
✅ - Easy creation of forms for surveys, tests, customer feedback, etc.
✅ - Unlimited forms, unlimited submissions
✅ - Email notifications
✅ - Download all form responses in a standard .CSV file
✅ - Integrate images in forms
✅ - Embed forms on unlimited websites and pages
✅ - Webhooks support
✅ - Upload files (max 10MB each)
Pricing:
100% free version available
It includes unlimited forms and submissions.
Pro version is $29/month and additionally offers:
- No YouForm branding
- Fully customizable "Thank you" pages.
- View & download partial submissions.
- Use your domain for form pages.
- Integrate with 6000+ apps like Google sheets, Slack etc using Zapier
- Invite & collaborate with team members
My evaluation: Attractive and functionality-rich form builder offers a highly usable free alternative to Typeform for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Many good features, simple-to-use, worth trying.
Try it out now: https://youform.io/
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Web app checks through multiple tests how good is the reputation of your email and how likely it is to go through email spam filters.
Mail-tester analyzes your email message, your mail server, your sending IP and shows you a detailed report of what's configured properly and what's not.
Ideal for bloggers, creators and authors who publish an email-based newsletter, which can be - depending from which email server it is being sent - blocked by recipients email spam filters.
Key features:
✅ - Tests your email through SpamAssassin a popular email spam filtering software
✅ - Checks whether your email is fully authenticated (SPF, DMARC, DKIM)
✅ - Verifies whether you're listed inside official "Block Lists"
✅ - Checks the integrity of the links inside your newsletter/email message
✅ - Check whether you have an "unsubscribe" message/link in your newsletter
Pricing: Free - 3 tests for free within the last 24 hours.
My evaluation: Professional solution to inspect your email or the one of your email newsletter sending provider and verify how likely it is that your email messages and newsletters will go through all major email spam filters.
Try it out now: https://www.mail-tester.com/
]]>Web app allows you to generate professional "user persona" profiles, which are a fictional representation of your ideal customers.
Ideal for marketing, sales and social media managers.
Key features:
✅ - Generates detailed User/Buyer Persona profiles based on your customer profiles
✅ - Accepts data about your product target customers, company industry, competitors and more
✅ - Profiles generated include info on Motivations and Needs, Goals, Frustrations
✅ - Profiles generated include preferred Hobbies, Brands and a Personality profile
✅ - Uses AI to generate custom User Personas
Pricing: Free version. (Up to 5 user persona profiles per month - no PDF download)
https://app.personadeck.io/en/pricing
My evaluation: Useful and effective tool to support marketing and sales strategies in any company. By providing basic info about your product, company and clients you can generate a very useful set of user persona profiles.
Try it out now: https://www.personadeck.io/
AI-based web app generates images according to your prompt specifications. Great for illustrations and paintings-like illustrations.
Ideal for content and social media managers as well as for writers and authors of any kind.
Key features:
✅ - Prompt based: you specify the image you want to obtain and the app does the rest
✅ - Fine control of "inference steps"
✅ - Fine control on how much to follow closely any given prompt
✅ - Output resolution 1024x1024
✅ - Saves to .PNG
Pricing:
100% free to try.
Unlimited use will require payment.
My evaluation: Good image generator in terms of both prompt interpretation, execution speed and final results. Tends to generate painting-like illustrations rather than photo-realistic images.
Try it out now: https://huggingface.co/spaces/AP123/Playground-v2.5
Prompt used for the opening image: Photorealistic portrait of mexican girl, beautiful exotic face, black hair, eyes like a mongolian-chinese, large red-brown lips. Closed mouth. Looking out in the distance, away from the camera. In the background out of focus flowers and plants. (Inference steps=55 - Guided scale=4.6)
File-sharing based mirror library website for books, scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest content, images and magazines. This searchable library hub gives free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized.
"a searchable database of items "collected from publicly available public Internet resources" as well as files uploaded "from users"".
Note: The site is blocked and considered illegal in some regions and countries. It can still be accessed through a VPN and there are several mirror sites ( libgen.rs, libgen.st) that replicate its content.
Ideal for authors, writers, researchers, curators, teachers.
Key features:
✅ - Search for Non-fiction / Sci-tech / Fiction / Scientific books, articles and magazines
✅ - Search by author, title, publisher, year, ISBN and more
✅ - Provides links to downloadable versions
✅ - Allows content uploads (also anonymously)
✅ - (optional) Downloadable Windows dekstop app (requires tech competence to install it)
100% free
My evaluation: Extremely useful content research library offering access to many scientific and research journals, fiction and non-fiction books and magazines otherwise paywalled or inaccessible.
Try it out now: https://libgen.is/
Ideal for basic audio conversion needs. Can be used also to convert video clips to audio files.
Key features:
✅ - Web-based audio and video conversion facility
✅ - Supports: WAV, FLAC, MP3, OGG, MP4, MOV, WMA
✅ - Quality bitrates supported: 96, 128, 256, 320Kbps
✅ - No registration required
✅ - Stereo/Mono
Pricing: 100% free
My evaluation: Super-simple audio conversion facility online. 100% free. No registration required. Supports all major audio file formats and allows also video to audio conversion.
Try it out now: https://sodaphonic.com/convert
AI-assisted web app allows you to easily create how-to video tutorials to explain how to install an app, how to use certain features or how to do any other process online.
Key features:
✅ - Auto-captures process that you carry out on screen
✅ - Auto-extracts key steps and generates both video and illustrated text documentation
✅ - Auto-adds editable text descriptions for every step
✅ - Allow voice-over recording or
✅ - Integrates voice synthesis to illustrate the video tutorial being generated
✅ - Multiple voices available
✅ - Multiple languages available
✅ - Manually add further texts, graphic shapes, images
✅ - Blur sensitive info
✅ - Share as a link or embed into any website/blog
Free version available includes:
* Generation of up to 25 how-to videos
* Voiceover recording
* Access to stock music library
* Motion and Transitions
* Shareable link
Pricing: https://www.guidde.com/pricing
My evaluation: AI-assisted solution to easily create video tutorials, demos and step-by-step video guides and documentation. Works across languages and integrates editing, graphics, voice-over and voice synthesis abilities to generate simple step-by-step video and text documentation.
Try it out now: https://www.guidde.com/
Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/guidde/oacmmmjedhheaijfjidilonpngccnhdl
Ideal for content producers, podcasters, videomakers, social media managers, creators and anyone else producing content.
Key features:
✅ - Speech synthesis (from any text) in 29 different languages
✅ - Detects and labels each different speakers
✅ - Create custom voices
✅ - Voice cloning
✅ - Audio file download
✅ - Translate to other languages
✅ - Change the timing, and regenerate the dialogue until the accent and tone are just right
✅ - API
detect and label each of your speakers, creating an editable script of your content. In the editor, you can update translations, change the timing, and regenerate the dialogue until the accent and tone are just right.
Pricing: Free version allows up to 10k characters/mo + 3 custom voices
My evaluation: Top text-to-speech synthesizer available online includes ability to create custom voices, clone existing ones and fine tune how text is being read and interpreted. Free version available.
Try it out now: https://elevenlabs.io/
Ideal for transcribing lectures, videos, audio books and podcasts as well as for generating captions and subtitles for videos.
Key features:
✅ - Transcribes into text any Youtube video or audio/video file uploaded
✅ - Maximum file size allowed: 2GB (you must be logged in)
✅ - Allows uploading of audio/video files in the following formats: mp4, mp3, m4a, mkv, webm
✅ - or alternatively to paste a link to a video on YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts
✅ - Transcribes in 50+ different languages (list)
✅ - Export text transcriptions in: .SRT, .VTT or .TXT
100% free.
My evaluation: Excellent free tool for transcribing any video or audio file (or published video / podcast). Supports many languages and exports to .SRT, VTT, .TXT with time stamps.
Try it out now: https://createeasily.com/
Ideal for indie creators, video-makers, journalists.
Key features:
✅ - Auto-captions video content
✅ - Accepts .mp4 or .mov files up to 200MB in size
✅ - Caption customization options: font style, color, background, outline or shadow, size and where they appear on your video.
✅ - Multiple pre-set caption styles (5)
✅ - Real-time transcription editing
✅ - Works across 90+ languages
✅ - Download captioned video in .mp4 format
✅ - Download all captions generated in .SRT format
✅ - No watermarks
✅ - Requires registration
100% free (for the time being)
My evaluation: Simplest, effective tool to create automatic captions for video clips. Basic customization options. Export to .mp4 and .srt.
Try it out now: https://caphacker.com/
Ideal for following YT based podcasts, influencers, courses and other types of long-form content.
Key features:
✅ - Generates AI summaries for YoutTube videos.
✅ - Allows you to subscribe to specific YT channels or to selected "topics"
✅ - Works across web and mobile. Dedicated apps for iOS and Android.
✅ - Search and summarize any existing video from any channel
✅ - Generates listenable audio version of each summary (Pro versions)
✅ - Works across languages
✅ - Uses ChatGPT4 to generate summaries
✅ - Instant or scheduled notifications
Free version allows for up to 3 hours of video to be summarized
Pricing: https://www.tubeonai.com/pricing
My evaluation: Time-saving solution for anyone needing to follow YT based podcasts or video channels. Simple to use. Provides effective text (and audio) summaries of just about any YouTube video URL you submit to it. Works on the web and across mobile devices.
Try it out now: https://www.tubeonai.com/
Web App: https://app.tubeonai.com
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tubeonai.app
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tubeonai/id6451212292
100% free web app makes it easy to create simple graphic logos (excluding the textual part).
Ideal for anyone who needs to create a visual logo with the minimum cost and effort.
Key features:
✅ - Gives instant access to a library of 1K+ simple icons
✅ - Makes it easy to set size and rotation of the icon chosen
✅ - Allows to set icon line thickness and color
✅ - Allows to set background color or transparency
✅ - Exports to .PNG orr .SVG
100% free.
My evaluation: True to its name LogoFast offers a super-simple web app that makes it supereasy to create a simple, visual graphic logo (lettering / typography not included) starting from a library of free icons. You can personalize most everything, and export to PNG/SVG in color and with transparent background.
Try it out now: https://logofa.st/
Created by Marc Lou
Ideal for anyone managing lots of music and playlists across online music platforms.
Key features:
✅ - Transfers existing playlists, albums, artists or individual tracks between 43 different music platforms
✅ - Keep multiple playlists automatically synchronized
Free version - Up to 200 tracks per playlist - Only one active Sync
Pricing: https://soundiiz.com/pricing
My evaluation: Excellent resource for musicians, music fans and DJs makes it super-easy to transfer playlists and tracks from one platform to another.
Try it out now: https://soundiiz.com/
Online library of over 1,000 free fonts that can be utilized for commercial work.
Ideal for web designers, content managers, editors, authors and publishers looking for zero-cost typographic alternatives to use in their publications.
Key features:
✅ - Searchable library of over 1K free to use fonts
✅ - Sort fonts by popularity, languages supported, date, etc.
✅ - Integrated Webfont generator allows conversion of any font to a @fontface
✅ - Integrated Font Identifier allows to identify the font used in uploaded image
✅ - Doesn't require registration or login
100% free.
My evaluation: Excellent resource for web designers, content managers, editors, authors and publishers alike, who are looking for alternative fonts and typefaces at zero cost.
Try it out now: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/
Ideal for teachers and educators who want to easily and rapidly assess how many of their of students have ben assisted by AI to produce their writing work.
Key features:
✅ - Allows to paste in your text or to upload a file or checking
✅ - Highlights AI detection sentence-by-sentence
✅ - Can detect text generated by ChatGPT, GPT-4, GPT-3, GPT-2, LLaMA, and other AI services based on those models
✅ - Batch file scanning - up to ten files
✅ - Up to 10,000 words per month
✅ - Individual scans up to 5000 characters.
✅ - Free Chrome extension allows you to instantly scan any web page on the fly
Pricing: Free plan available
My evaluation: Accurate AI checker. Readily detects AI generated content in most situations. Not infallible but good.
Try it out now: https://gptzero.me/
Chrome extension: https://gptzero.me/chrome
Ideal tool for anyone needing to find relevant human conversations on just about any topic.
Key features:
✅ - Searches across Reddit and many online discussion forums.
✅ - Does not require registration or login
✅ - No ads
Pricing: 100% free
My evaluation: Rare and useful. Search engine for reddit and forums makes it easy to find human discussions on just about any topic. Great to find opinions and reviews rather than marketing, SEO-boosted, content. Recommended.
Try it out now: https://crowdview.ai/
]]>Ideal for all visual communicators, trainers, consultants, social media managers.
Key features:
✅ - Customizes screenshot images to your needs
✅ - Creates device mockups for computers, laptops and wearables
✅ - Offers layout presets for all major social media platforms aspect ratio
✅ - Allows to customize background, style and borders
✅ - Downloads in .PNG or .JPG file formats
✅ - Exports to your preferred resolutions
✅ - Does not require registration or login
Pricing: 100% free
My evaluation: Superfine post-production image processor does a fantastic job in creating pro-looking device mockups and screenshots. Lots of nice features, well designed, works at all resolutions and includes nice pre-sets for all social media platforms. Recommended.
Try it out now: https://shots.so/
Advertisers can browse trough the list, add filter, and then contact the medias to send them offers.
Ideal for indie creators and publishers looking for advertisers.
Key features:
✅ - Listing of your website / newsletter / community / app / podcast
✅ - Media card welcomes info about your audience profile
✅ - Allows specifying type of ads offered
✅ - Allows specifying ad rates
✅ - Allows unlimited editing and updating of profile card(s)
Pricing: 100% Free
My evaluation: Advertising hub for independent media publishers offers a free way to gain visibility and to seek and find potential advertisers.
Try it now: https://openforads.com/
Ideal for anyone who needs to records troubleshooting sessions, demos, tutorials, training lessons where you need to show a recording of your screen alongside your voice (and optionally, video) recording.
Key features:
✅ - Records entire computer screen or exclusively a specific window or tab
✅ - Automatically saves to your hard disk
✅ - Unlimited recording time
✅ - Can be paused and re-started during a recording
✅ - Recording can be downloaded in WebM file format
✅ - No registration, login or downloads are required
Pricing: 100% free
My evaluation: Top free screencasting tool does what it claims flawlessly. It's my favorite free video screen recording tool for its simplicity and effectiveness.
N.B.: Its integrated converter (WebM to .MP4) does not work. Use Zamzar or Convert.io.
Try it out now: https://snipclip.app/
Ideal for content publishers of any kind.
Key features:
✅ - Generate music tracks according to your specifications
✅ - Leverage music styles/templates
✅ - Choose tempo in BPM
✅ - Select tonality / key and whether it is in major or minor
✅ - Max length 3 mins
✅ - Download in .MP3 or .WAV
Pricing: Free version available. Up to 3 tracks per month.
https://my.soundful.com/profile/plan-details
My evaluation: AI-assisted music generation tool creates custom tracks based on your specifications. Generates downloadable tracks as well as individual music stems. Vast library of ready-made customizable tracks. Recommended.
Try it out now: https://soundful.com
Ideal for teachers, trainers, coaches and guides or for anyone who needs from time to time to organize and synchronize group meetings.
Key features:
✅ - Simplifies the process of finding the best time for a group meeting
✅ - Integrates with Google Calendar (optional)
✅ - Allows you to manually edit your available days and hours
✅ - Requires no registration
Pricing:
100% free
My evaluation: Simple and effective, it does help in situations where you need to rapidly find a common ideal meeting time for a group of people.
Try it out now: https://schej.it/
]]>Stripe add-on allows you to create professional looking sales and subscription pages for your products and services.
Ideal for indie entrepreneurs, creators, and for anyone else who sells products online.
Key features:
✅ - Fully integrated with Stripe
✅ - Free for up to 10 products
✅ - Supports 135 different currencies
✅ - Sell one-time and recurring subscriptions
✅ - No transaction fees
✅ - Professional subscription and sales page templates
Pricing: You can add 10 products in the free plan and unlimited products in the paid plan. Cornerrr watermark on free account pages.
My evaluation: Great add-on for Stripe users expands opportunities to create professional-looking sales and subscription pages for digital products sold online for a moderate flat monthly fee.
Try it out now: https://cornerrr.com/
]]>Web app allows you to inspect and automatically detect whether an image has been generated by an AI-engine or if it is an actual untouched original.
Ideal for journalists, bloggers, reporters.
Key features:
✅ - Auto-detects images created by Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, DALL-E, GAN or
Generated faces
✅ - Supports JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, WebP, BMP file formats
✅ - Max image size 10MB
✅ - No registration required
Pricing: Free for analyzing single images. Daily limit of 5 images.
Paid version useful if you need to process a large number of images.
My evaluation: Reliable AI-image detector helps journalists, reporters and reviewers verify any image and know whether it came from an AI-engine. Useful.
Try it out now: https://www.aiornot.com/
Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ai-or-not/npmflglepoohnfpimomcogpmpmojhnki
Key features:
✅ - Automatically removes background noise from audio (and video) recordings.
✅ - Removes echo and reverb.
✅ - Automatically adjusts volume level.
✅ - Many supported video and audio file formats (see https://audo.ai/support-info)
✅ - Offers you option to compare processed audio with original.
✅ - Export/download to .MP3 (free version)
Pricing: 100% free plan allows for processing up to 20 mins /mo of audio
My evaluation: Interesting new tool for cleaning up audio. Super-simple and straightforward to use produces good results in standard situations where there is a clearly identifiable voice and background noises of various kinds. Works best with smaller files.
Comparison with Adobe Audition and Audacity
Try it out now: Live demo
More info: https://audo.ai/
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Ideal for project managers, team coordinators and planners, as well as for anyone who wants to improve, verify and optimize work execution.
✅ - Accepts natural language written requests about what checklist to generate.
✅ - Generates full interactive checklists listing all of the steps / actions required to carry out any specific mission.
✅ - Allows to download the checklist in .CSV, Markdown and .JSON formats.
✅ - Permits editing and changes to the generated checklist
✅ - On request it can generate both more steps (more detailed) as well as provide more detail about each step to be carried out.
✅ - Auto-saves the checklists you have generated for future use.
Pricing: 100% free
My evaluation: Highly useful checklist generator can complement and augment any professional planning work by identifying and suggesting all of the steps that may be needed to carry out any task.
Try it out now: https://checklistgenerator.ai/
AI-assisted web app allows you to generate and download original music tracks customized to your specifications.
Ideal for content creators, podcasters, video-makers.
Key features:
✅ - Generate personalized music tracks based on your prompt specifications.
✅ - Specify instruments, style, BPM, and other characteristics.
✅ - Max length 45 secs (free) - 90 secs (paid)
✅ - Download in .MP3 (free) or .WAV (paid)
✅ - Generate up to 20 tracks /mo (free) - 500 (paid)
Pricing: Free version available.
Max 20 tracks/mo. Non-commercial use. Download in .MP3
My evaluation: Promising new AI-based tool generates personalized short music soundtracks for podcasts, videos or social media content. Easy-to-use, fast, cost-effective. Definitely worth a try.
Try it out now: https://www.stableaudio.com/
]]>Web app allows you to record your computer screen activity and to auto-convert the recorded video file into an animated GIF image.
Ideal in training, onboarding, customer assistance situations in which to show short sequences of steps to be performed. Useful also for creating short video snippets to use on landing pages of web apps, or to show how to configure a feature or troubleshoot an issue.
Key features:
✅ - Records your computer screen as any other screencasting tool (no audio).
✅ - Allows you to select which specific app, web browser window or tab to record.
✅ - Unlimited recording time (based on your local available space).
✅ - Offers editing / trimming controls once the recorded has been completed to eliminate parts of the recording at the beginning and the end.
✅ - Renders the edited / trimmed video as an animated GIF file that can be published online.
100% free.
My evaluation: Excellent free tool to create animated GIFs of computer screen redcordings. Good for demos, assistance, promotion and marketing. Fast, simple, easy-to-use.
Try it out now: https://gifcap.dev/
Made with love by Joao Moreno.
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Ideal for anyone who wants to have more impactful and interesting ideas for email subject lines.
Key features:
✅ - Generates automatically email subject lines based on the contents of the email to be sent
✅ - Set Tone of Voice (Formal, informal, humorous, serious, etc.)
✅ - Works in English, Spanish, Czech and Slovak
✅ - Emoji support in titles
✅ - Generates as many titles ideas as you want.
Pricing: 100% free.
My evaluation: Useful extension for those who have a very hard time with writing interesting, professional or humorous email subject lines.
Try it out now: https://subjectlinegenerator.com/
Chrome extemnsion: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/subject-line-generator/mbfmlcgjcficafakcdgnckieplcnobfb
100% free web app offers everything you need to run a video call or meeting. It includes screen-sharing and works across all of your devices.
Ideal for anyone looking for a free web-based video calling and collaboration solution.
Key features:
✅ - Video and audio conferencing
✅ - Allows full screen-sharing
✅ - Works with up to 12 people
✅ - No registration or login required
Pricing: 100% free.
My evaluation: Good alternative for meeting online in video or audio without needing to download, install or register for anything. It works instantly and it offers all of the basics but has no text chat facility.
Try it out now: https://heyyep.com/