Free AI tools & free trials

Hugely popular free editor with effects, templates, and auto-captions. The default for many TikTok/Reels/Shorts creators.

Enhance Speech removes noise and echo to make rough recordings sound professional — free and genuinely magic.

Free analytics for YouTube and other platforms — track your growth and research other channels.

Browser extension for keyword research, A/B testing thumbnails, and bulk channel management.

Studio-quality AI voiceovers and multi-language dubbing. The go-to for narration, faceless channels, and turning scripts into speech.

Adobe's image generator, trained for commercial safety and integrated with Photoshop. Good when licensing matters.

Turn a single photo into a talking avatar video. Quick and cheap for explainers and personalized messages.

Generate custom, royalty-free background tracks by mood and length. Clean and simple for video backing music.

Live voice changer and soundboard loved by streamers and gaming creators for fun, real-time effects.

Generate royalty-free tracks by genre and length, with a big library and simple customization.

Impressive text- and image-to-video generation with strong motion and realism. Good for eye-catching generated clips.

Keyword research, title/tag suggestions, and competitor insights built into YouTube. Easy to recommend to any creator.

Fast, playful text-to-video generation — ideal for short, punchy clips and social content.

Great at rendering readable text inside images — perfect for thumbnails and posters with words.

Create original, royalty-free music from a text prompt — intros, outros, and background tracks.

Turn text or a blog into a narrated video with AI voices and stock media. Good for faceless, repurposed content.

A free, Photoshop-lite editor with AI generate, remove, and background tools — great for quick thumbnail edits.

Remove backgrounds, erase objects, and generate images fast — simple AI design tools for non-designers.

A cheap, no-frills AI writer for hooks, scripts, and descriptions. Great value if you're on a tight budget.

Instantly cut out your subject from any photo — the fastest way to isolate your face for a thumbnail.

Background removal, cleanup, relight, and upscale in one place. A handy toolkit for prepping thumbnail assets.

Automatically finds the best moments in a long video and turns them into captioned vertical clips. Huge time-saver for short-form.

High-quality AI-generated music with fine control over style and structure.

Generate smooth, high-fidelity video clips from text or images. Strong for cinematic B-roll and creative shots.

All-in-one AI app for captions, editing, eye contact correction, and AI avatars. A favorite for fast short-form on mobile.

One-tap background removal and AI backgrounds. Perfect for cutting out your subject for thumbnails.

Real-time image generation and enhancement with great upscaling. Fun and fast for thumbnail backgrounds.

Plan content, write scripts, and organize your channel in Notion, with AI built in to draft and summarize.

MiniMax's text- and image-to-video tool known for lively motion and character consistency.

Generate images, icons, and designs with strong control over text and style. Great for branded thumbnails.

Black Forest Labs' image model known for sharp, realistic results — available through several apps and APIs.

Rewrite, paraphrase, and tighten scripts and descriptions. Handy for cleaning up AI drafts into your voice.

Cuts silences, adds subtitles, and auto-reframes your video automatically. Good for fast rough cuts.

Generate short video clips from text or images with a simple, friendly interface and a free tier.

Create stylized and realistic video clips with motion controls and effects. Popular for creative social clips.

Create unique, royalty-free background music you can use on monetized videos without copyright worries.

Turn any text into natural speech quickly. Popular for narration and for creators who like to listen back to scripts.

Compose original soundtracks by style and mood, with options to own the rights to what you create.

Powerful, controllable image generation with models and presets. Great for thumbnails, backgrounds, and concept art.

Generative music for videos, streams, and podcasts with a simple prompt-based workflow.

Browser-based editor with templates, AI voiceover, and auto-captions. Free to start and built into Windows.

AI talking avatars and video templates with a generous free tier — a cheaper HeyGen alternative to start with.

Beginner-friendly image generation with templates and editing — a simple way to make thumbnail art.

Catches typos and awkward phrasing in scripts, descriptions, and community posts. Works across the web.

AI image generation alongside a massive library of stock graphics, templates, and icons for thumbnails.

Generate music and sound effects from text prompts with fine control over length and structure.

Dub your videos into dozens of languages with AI voices and auto-captions. Good for reaching global audiences.

Text-to-video, video-to-video, and powerful AI effects. Great for B-roll, motion graphics, and experimental content.

Templates, Magic Studio AI tools, and background remover — the fastest way to ship polished thumbnails.

Discover 'outlier' videos that massively outperformed a channel's average, so you can model proven ideas and titles.

Automatically removes bad takes, silences, and filler so your talking-head videos edit themselves. A big time-saver.

Channel analytics, outlier research, and thumbnail/title tools built by a top creator team. Popular and growing.

Transcribes your footage and lets you edit video like a doc — delete filler words, remove 'ums', and add captions in a click. A creator favorite.

Online editor with AI subtitles, text-to-video, and clipping. Handy for teams and fast turnarounds in the browser.

Formerly vidyo.ai — turns long videos into clips and helps schedule and post them. All-in-one short-form workflow.

Generates optimized titles, tags, descriptions, and chapters for your videos. Connects to YouTube to publish in a click.

Turns long videos and livestreams into clips with captions — popular with streamers and gaming creators.

Turns webinars, podcasts, and long videos into short clips with captions and a quick editor.

Browser-based editor with auto-subtitles, background removal, and AI tools. No install, good for quick edits and team work.

Large library of natural AI voices with a timeline editor — good for explainers and presentations.

Paste a script or blog post and Pictory builds a captioned video with stock footage and voiceover. Great for faceless, repurposed content.

Large library of realistic AI voices with an API and voice cloning. A solid ElevenLabs alternative for narration.

Describe a video in a prompt and InVideo generates scenes, voiceover, and captions. Popular for faceless YouTube and social videos.

Scripts, blog posts, and SEO content with an AI article writer. Good for creators who also blog for traffic.

High-quality text- and image-to-video from Google, available through Gemini. Strong realism and motion.

Brainstorm ideas, write scripts, titles, and descriptions, and more. The Swiss-army knife most creators start with.

Anthropic's assistant, especially strong at long-form writing and natural-sounding scripts and summaries.

Add animated, trend-style captions, B-roll, and effects to short-form videos in seconds. Loved for Reels/TikTok.

Brainstorm, script, and research with Google's assistant — strong at pulling in current info and long context.

Fast, cited answers for researching video topics and fact-checking scripts before you publish.

AI voice generator with a built-in video/subtitle editor and a huge voice library across many languages.

Create talking-head videos from a script using realistic avatars — no camera needed. Strong for faceless and multi-language content.

Paste a YouTube link and get ready-to-post shorts with captions and reframing. Simple and fast.

Quick generation of hooks, scripts, and descriptions with a generous free tier to start.

Turns long videos into clips while factoring in trends and marketing signals to pick what's likely to perform.

Pulls real YouTube search suggestions so you can title and tag videos around terms people actually look for.