# Free AI Tools, Tested

> AI tools covered in the BGOS weekly AI newsletter for office professionals. Each page states what the tool does, its free path, and pricing as reported on the date shown. Tool of the Week entries were tried hands-on.

Newsletter: https://newsletter.brandgrowthos.ai

## AI assistants and models
- [Google Workspace Intelligence](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/google-workspace-intelligence/): Workspace Intelligence is a context-aware AI layer that reads across your Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Chat at the same time, then surfaces actions, drafts, and answers grounded in your actual work, not generic web knowledge. (last covered 2026-04-25)
- [Slack AI](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/slack-ai/): Slack's overhauled Slackbot (powered by Anthropic's Claude) brings meeting intelligence, channel summaries, enterprise search, message drafting, and workflow automation directly into the messaging app you already use at work. (last covered 2026-04-04)
- [Microsoft 365 Copilot](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/microsoft-365-copilot/): An AI assistant built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams that now lets you choose between OpenAI's GPT models and Anthropic's Claude for different tasks. (last covered 2026-03-21)
- [Gemini 3.1 Pro](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/gemini-3-1-pro/): Google's most advanced reasoning AI model, built for complex tasks like analyzing large documents, writing detailed reports, and solving multi-step problems. (last covered 2026-03-14)

## Design and images
- [Recraft](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/recraft/): Recraft is an AI design tool that turns a text prompt into real, downloadable graphics: logos, icons, illustrations, social banners, and product mockups, including true SVG vectors you can edit in Figma or Illustrator. (last covered 2026-09-05)
- [Napkin AI](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/napkin-ai/): Napkin turns plain text into clean, professional visuals. (last covered 2026-08-08)
- [Moda](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/moda/): An AI design agent that creates fully editable presentations, social posts, ads, and visual assets on a layered canvas. (last covered 2026-03-28)
- [Adobe for ChatGPT](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/adobe-for-chatgpt/): Adobe for ChatGPT: a new free plugin drops 70 plus Adobe tools (Photoshop, Firefly, Premiere, Acrobat, Express) straight into ChatGPT; type @Adobe, describe what you want, and it routes the request to the right app, with no Creative Cloud subscription needed to start. (last covered 2026-08-08)
- [Google Stitch](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/google-stitch/): New AI design canvas from Google Labs that turns text or voice prompts into multi-screen UI prototypes with exportable code. (last covered 2026-04-04)
- [Shopify Tinker](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/shopify-tinker/): Free mobile app bundling 100+ AI tools from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. (last covered 2026-04-04)
- [Midjourney V8](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/midjourney-v8/): Native 2K resolution, 5x faster rendering, and dramatically better text in images. (last covered 2026-03-21)
- [Canva Magic Layers](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/canva-magic-layers/): Upload any flat image (even AI-generated ones) and Canva automatically separates it into editable layers: text becomes live text, objects become movable elements, backgrounds separate cleanly. (last covered 2026-03-14)

## Agents and automation
- [Gemini Spark](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/gemini-spark/): A 24/7 personal AI agent that lives across your Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, YouTube, and Maps. (last covered 2026-05-23)
- [Paperclip](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/paperclip/): Paperclip is an open-source platform that lets you organize AI agents into a company structure, complete with org charts, roles, budgets, and task delegation, so they can run business operations autonomously. (last covered 2026-04-11)
- [Google Workspace CLI](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/google-workspace-cli/): A single command-line tool that connects AI agents to your entire Google Workspace, Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, and Admin, through one unified interface. (last covered 2026-03-07)
- [OpenWorker](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/openworker/): Andrew Ng released a free, open-source desktop "AI coworker" that returns finished work across 35 connected apps instead of chatting, though you bring your own model key to run it. (last covered 2026-07-25)
- [Perplexity Computer](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/perplexity-computer/): A $200/month agent that takes a high-level goal, breaks it into subtasks, and delegates across 19 AI models (Claude, Gemini, GPT-5.2, Grok). (last covered 2026-02-28)

## Slides and presentations
- [Presenti](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/presenti/): Presenti turns a prompt, an outline, or a Word or PDF file into a finished, professionally designed slide deck in under a minute. (last covered 2026-08-29)
- [Genspark](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/genspark/): You describe the outcome you want, a slide deck, a spreadsheet with the analysis already done, a research brief, a formatted doc, and Genspark's agent builds the finished file, then lets you refine it by chatting. (last covered 2026-07-25)
- [Presentations.ai](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/presentations-ai/): You describe a topic, or paste a document, a PDF, or your company URL, and its AI assistant (Clip-E) builds a complete, on-brand slide deck for you: structure, written content, and design in one pass. (last covered 2026-07-18)

## Meetings and notes
- [Circleback](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/circleback/): Circleback is an AI notetaker that joins your video calls, writes the notes and action items for you, and now also captures whatever gets shared on screen. (last covered 2026-06-27)
- [Fathom](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/fathom/): Fathom joins your Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams call, transcribes it, and spits out a timestamped summary with action items you can paste into Slack or a doc. (last covered 2026-04-18)
- [Sally AI](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/sally-ai/): Meeting note-taker now auto-joins recurring meetings. (last covered 2026-02-28)

## PDFs
- [UPDF](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/updf/): UPDF is a lightweight PDF app for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and the browser, with a set of AI agents that read a document and hand you back something usable: a plain-English summary, a clickable outline of every section, the key numbers pulled out, or a translated copy. (last covered 2026-08-22)
- [Adobe Acrobat Studio](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/adobe-acrobat-studio/): Turns the PDFs you already work with every day into something you can chat with, summarize, restructure, and share as an interactive workspace called a PDF Space. (last covered 2026-05-09)

## Research
- [Perplexity Deep Research](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/perplexity-deep-research/): You ask one hard research question. (last covered 2026-06-13)
- [NotebookLM](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/notebooklm/): NotebookLM is Google's research assistant that reads your own documents (reports, PDFs, transcripts, web pages) and lets you ask questions, generate summaries, and turn the pile into a podcast-style audio rundown or a set of narrated slides. (last covered 2026-05-30)

## Audio and video
- [ElevenMusic](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/elevenmusic/): Generate, remix, and license original music tracks from a text prompt, the same way ChatGPT generates copy. (last covered 2026-05-02)
- [Adobe Firefly](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/adobe-firefly/): Adobe Firefly became a full audio studio: it can now generate background music, spoken voiceover from a script, and custom sound effects from a text prompt, all in the same workspace as its image and video tools with no extra subscription. (last covered 2026-08-22)
- [DeepL Voice-to-Voice](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/deepl-voice-to-voice/): DeepL, the translation tool Europeans swear by, launched live voice-to-voice translation in 40+ languages. (last covered 2026-04-18)

## Websites and apps
- [WordPress.com AI Assistant](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/wordpress-com-ai-assistant/): A native AI assistant built directly into the WordPress editor, no plugins, no copy-pasting into ChatGPT. (last covered 2026-02-28)
- [Canva Code 2.0](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/canva-code-2-0/): Canva's "vibe-coding" builder now turns a plain-language prompt into a working website or app, and it is free for all 265 million-plus users, not just paid ones. (last covered 2026-07-18)
- [Durable Discoverability](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/durable-discoverability/): New built-in tool that shows small businesses how they appear across Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, with a "Visibility Score" and guided SEO/GEO suggestions. (last covered 2026-04-04)

## Writing and documents
- [ML Clever](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/ml-clever/): ML Clever turns a short prompt plus your own files into a structured, editable business document, a report, a brief, or a one-pager, that you refine section by section. (last covered 2026-09-12)
- [Zoom AI Productivity Suite](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/zoom-ai-productivity-suite/): Zoom's new Canvas, Slides, Sheets, and Paper turn what was said in your meetings into proposals, reports, and decks; included with paid Zoom Workplace plans from about $16/user/month. (last covered 2026-07-04)

## Guides and how-tos
- [Tango](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/tango/): Tango records you doing a task once and turns it into a clean, step-by-step how-to guide, capturing every click as a written step with its own annotated screenshot. (last covered 2026-09-19)

## Planning and scheduling
- [Akiflow](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/akiflow/): Akiflow pulls every task from your inbox, Slack, Notion, and calendars into one place, then time-blocks your day so you actually work your plan instead of your notifications. (last covered 2026-07-04)

## CRM and sales
- [Attio](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/attio/): Attio is an AI-native CRM that keeps your contacts, companies, and deals in one place, and now runs AI agents that research and update those records for you. (last covered 2026-07-11)

## Spreadsheets and data
- [Sourcetable](https://tools.brandgrowthos.ai/tools/sourcetable/): Sourcetable is an AI spreadsheet that works like a data analyst you can boss around in plain English. (last covered 2026-08-15)