The 28 Best Free AI Tools You Need to Know About

AI tools are revolutionizing how we work and create. From chatbots to image generators, AI can automate tasks and enhance creativity. In this post, I'll highlight the top 28 free AI tools you need to know about in 2023. Whether you're a marketer, artist, musician, or hobbyist, these tools will supercharge your productivity and creativity.

1. ChatGPT

ChatGPT is one of the most well-known AI chatbots. The free version allows you to have natural conversations and get advice, ideas, and summaries. To use it, simply go to chat.openai.com, create a free account, and start chatting. Ask ChatGPT complex questions or open-ended prompts like "give me 10 blog post ideas about AI" and it will provide thoughtful responses. You can have back-and-forth conversations to clarify or expand on ideas. It's great for brainstorming content, improving workflows, automating research, and more.

3. Claude AI

Claude AI has a massive 200,000 token context window, allowing it to summarize extremely long-form content like research papers, lengthy articles, books, and more. This makes it the perfect free tool for digesting and learning from complex materials. To use it, sign up for a free account, then copy and paste text or upload documents. Claude will provide a concise summary you can understand quickly. It's great for students, researchers, and anyone who works with lengthy content.

4. Character AI

Character AI is a fun, free chatbot focused on roleplaying fictional characters. You can pick from popular fictional characters or make up your own. Then have entertaining conversations from that character's perspective. It's great for writers looking to get in a character's head or just having silly, amusing chats.

5. Perplexity AI

The Perplexity AI Chrome extension uses AI to search webpages and provide summaries. As you browse, highlight any text on a webpage. Then right click and ask Perplexity a question about the highlighted text. It will return a concise answer summarizing key information. This makes it easy to get quick answers without reading an entire page. Great for research, learning, and extracting key ideas from articles.

6. TextFX

TextFX helps overcome writer's block with AI-generated suggestions. Enter any word and TextFX will provide synonyms, rhymes, acronyms, related phrases, and more. You can also generate chains of related words. It's great for sparking creative ideas, improving your vocabulary, and elevating your writing skills.

7. AI for Marketers Course

HubSpot's free AI for Marketers course teaches how to leverage AI for marketing campaigns and content. Through 15 video lessons, learn best practices for crafting effective prompts to get useful AI-generated content. Understand how to evaluate AI content quality and incorporate AI ethically and responsibly into your marketing strategies.

8. Leonardo AI

Leonardo AI offers free AI image generation with 50 free images per day. It also provides unlimited free access to handy tools like image upscaling, background removal, and real-time image editing with C Canvas. To generate images, create a free account, describe what you want in the prompt, choose your preferred art style, and run the image generation. Then download your creations.

9. DALL-E 3

Access advanced DALL-E 3 image generation capabilities through Microsoft's free Bing Image Creator. Create original images from text prompts by describing exactly what you want to see. DALL-E 3 is one of the most advanced AI systems available, making very realistic and detailed images.

10. Ideogram

Ideogram specializes in AI image generation with text inserted into images. It's easy to create images with customized captions, logos, overlays, and more. Simply enter a prompt like "a cute corgi wearing sunglasses with a caption that says 'Cool Dog'" and Ideogram will generate the image with the text. Great for social media posts, ads, presentations, and more.

11. Playground AI

Playground AI is a user-friendly AI image generator with multiple models to choose from. The free version allows you to generate 500 images per day. Describe the image you want in the prompt box and Playground's models will create original images for you. Great for graphic design, social media, art projects, and more.

12. Magic Eraser

Magic Eraser is a free AI-powered photo editing tool that removes unwanted objects and fixes imperfections in images. Simply upload a photo and use the eraser tool to erase objects. Magic Eraser will seamlessly fill in the background. Great for cleaning up photos and removing photobombers.

13. Upscale Media

Upscale Media uses AI to upscale and enhance image quality. Upload low resolution images and it will enlarge them while preserving clean edges and detail. This allows you to transform pixelated images into crisp, high-res versions perfect for print, web, and more.

14. LeiaPix Converter

LeiaPix Converter is a unique free tool that converts 2D images into 3D animations. Upload any image and LeiaPix will transform it into a short 3D video that you can rotate and pan around. Great for creating visually appealing social media posts.

15. AutoDraw

AutoDraw is like autocorrect for drawing. Start doodling simple shapes and AutoDraw will suggest complete drawings to match what you're trying to illustrate. Even if you can't draw well, AutoDraw's AI can interpret your scribbles and generate quality clipart, saving you tons of time.

16. Blockade Labs

Blockade Labs generates AI 3D worlds from text prompts within seconds. Describe a scene like "a colorful alien planet" and Blockade will generate a stunning 360 degree interactive environment. Great for concept art, video game design, VR experiences, and more.

17. Luma Labs

Luma Labs offers free AI-powered 3D reconstruction of objects and scenes. Upload photos or videos and Luma will convert them into interactive 3D models viewable from any angle. Amazing for digitizing real objects in 3D.

18. Genie

Genie by Luma Labs is a free AI tool that generates 3D models from text prompts. Simply describe what you want like "a cartoon robot waving" and Genie will create a 3D model matching your description that you can view and rotate.

19. Pika

Pika offers free AI-powered video creation and animation. Upload an image and Pika will animate it based on your prompt. Or enter text like "a cute puppy playing in the grass" and Pika will generate a short video. Great for social media, ads, and more.

20. Plazma Punk

Plazma Punk creates AI-generated music videos synced to any song you upload. Select a video style and song, and Plazma Punk will generate a stylized visualizer music video. The free version allows up to 20 seconds per day.

21. PlayPhrase.me

PlayPhrase.me is like a video search engine, finding clips that match your quoted text search. Search for a quote or meme text like "that's what she said" and PlayPhrase will find the video clips matching your search. Helpful for finding specific scenes and memes.

22. Adobe Speech Enhancer

Adobe Speech Enhancer uses AI to clean up poor audio quality. Upload any noisy or messy audio and it will reduce background noise, wind, and echo. Great for improving podcasts, videos, interviews, and other audio.

23. Mubert

Mubert is a free AI music generator. Select your preferred genre and length, and Mubert will generate unique royalty-free songs. As long as you credit Mubert, you can use up to 25 songs per month at no cost.

24. VoiceMod Text-to-Song

VoiceMod Text-to-Song converts text into AI-generated singing. Type in lyrics, choose a voice, and press create to transform your words into a song. Hilarious for making meme songs and parodies.

25. Suno AI

Suno AI offers free AI-powered music generation with optional lyric assistance from ChatGPT. Pick a genre, write lyrics or have AI generate lyrics, and Suno will create a high-quality song for you. Currently accessible through their Discord.

26. Vocal Remover

Vocal Remover uses AI to extract vocals from any song file. Upload a song and it will isolate and remove the vocals, giving you both the instrumental and acapella tracks separately.

27. Audiobox by Meta

Audiobox by Meta provides free AI-powered audio editing tools like speech generation, voice cloning, sound effect creation, noise reduction, and more. Great for podcasts, videos, and other audio projects.

28. Pinokio

Pinokio makes it easy to access, install, and run various open-source AI tools through its preconfigured browser-based environment. Explore AI image generators, audio tools, productivity apps, and more with just a click.

There you have it - 28 incredible free AI tools to boost your productivity and creativity in 2023! Let me know which ones you find most useful. I'm always hunting for new and emerging AI tools, so reach out if you have any recommendations.