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Fatcousin
Free collection of browser-based tools for working with files, media, data, documents, design, development, and more. File processing happens locally in the browser, so files don’t need to be uploaded to a server, and most tools require no account or installation. It also includes stacks, a system for chaining individual tools together into custom workflows.
MP4toMP3
Convert video files into MP3 audio — simple, free, and online. MP4toMP3 is a MP4 to MP3 converter that helps you convert video files into MP3 audio. Built for music, podcasts, lectures, and offline listening, it works online with a clear, beginner-friendly workflow.
Bibliome
A Mac app designed for reporters managing large volumes of documents, such as FOIA returns, court filings, and scraped PDFs. It builds a searchable library and uses a local LLM to answer questions about the corpus, citing the specific page for each answer to prevent hallucinations and allow easy verification. Pricing: $29.99 one-time purchase (no subscription, no accounts, no telemetry). Free iPhone and iPad companion that syncs via the user’s own iCloud.
AO.News
Tracks the push notifications of more than 330 news apps in 44 countries in real time — a way to see what every newsroom is alerting on, and who’s first.
SeeGov
Uses AI to help civic creators and journalists select and share video highlights from local government meetings. Creators choose what to include and add context to inform residents and expand democratic participation. The platform does not alter the source video. Helps civic creators and journalists produce and share video highlights of local government meetings. Run by a nonprofit founded in 2023. Also features a Reddit community
Rolli IQ
Quickly discover and book leading experts for your news stories with this AI-powered newsgathering platform built by journalists, for journalists. Find experts, scan the news cycle 10X faster, access a preloaded news planning calendar, even get social engagement scores for your published content. The site also features Information Tracer, which tracks disinformation spreaders on social media.
*-Journalisttoolbox.ai readers get special free access to Rolli’s suite of tools for journalists, with invitation code: JOURNOAI redeemable at Rolli.ai
Kittl
Provides a wide range of features, including AI-powered design tools, text transformation, background remover, mockup generator, premium fonts, illustrations, and more.
Nota
Nota offers a suite of assistive AI tools that can reformat human-created content into multiple different text, audio and video formats. You can use tools individually or plug them into your CMS for seamless integration. It creates SEO headlines, social posts, short videos, image generation and generates newsletters from stories. Paid tool.
Shortwave AI: Email Search
Applies AI to search through threads. It also helps you write an email in your past voice.
AI Tools for Local Newsrooms
From PAI, an AI nonprofit that partners with journalism organizations.
Supertools
Comprehensive list of AI tools by category.
Future Tools
Find the exact AI tool to fit your needs
Brilliant
Short, interactive lessons in AI, logic, data and more.
Y2Doc
Transform YouTube videos into structured documents
Albis
Scans domestic news from more than 10 regions in nine languages, three times daily, and generates a Perception Gap Index scoring how differently each story is framed across regions. Example: When the Iran crisis scores a PGI of 9, reporters can instantly see that Tehran, London and Beijing are covering three different wars.
Digital Digging: Using AI to Find Hidden Data Sources
Tips from Henk Van Ess.
FilesDesk
AI-powered file renaming tool that automatically analyzes your files’ content and metadata to generate smart, descriptive filenames, saving you from manual renaming and messy folders. It supports a wide range of file types—including images, documents, audio and video and can batch-process or monitor folders to keep your files consistently organized.
Pinterest Video Download
A free online tool that allows users to download videos and images from Pinterest in high quality without any installation required. This fast and secure Pinterest video downloader enables users to save Pinterest videos in MP4 format or download Pinterest HD images with just a few simple steps. The tool works on all devices, ensuring users can easily download their favorite Pinterest content anytime, anywhere.
Civic Sunlight
A collection of tools for covering local government. Meeting summaries, listening tools, analytics, etc.
Claptools
A mix of AI productivity tools, including a YouTube video to text tool.
Super Tools Database
A large collection of AI tools organized by skills. You can filter by free/paid tools.
Magic
Upgrades your AI workflow with integrations with Gemini, Claude, Midjourney etc.
Remi
AI-powered knowledge hub
Verso
Shop that builds AI tools for newsrooms, journalists, and creators that push what’s possible.
Downer Video Downloader
Download any video online for free. Our free video downloader lets you download any video online from iFunny, OnlyFans, Snapchat, Tumblr, and Twitter. No registration required.
AI Top Hub
A directory of more than 5,000 AI tools organized by category with ratings and reviews
Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant
Get quick answers and one-click summaries from PDFs
Change Tower
Like Visualpint and Distill, this site can monitor changes to a webpage (or an entire website).
A professional PDF to MP3 converter that turns any PDF into high-quality audio using advanced AI text-to-speech. You can convert PDFs to MP3 in seconds with 61 natural-sounding voices across eight languages.
Pomelli
A Google AI tool that lets you place your website URL in it to get bespoke ad campaigns with image and video assets. Takes about 5 minutes.
Obsidian
A private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think. Good for writing summary notes at the end of a workday and integration with Zotero allows track PDFs. The tool has a built-in web clipper to gather news clips and create timelines.
Draftable
Compare two documents online (Word, PDF, text files). Free with a paid desktop version.
Amical
AI voice-to-text app for dictation, meetings and note-taking
DownThemAll
Batch rename a long list of PDFs
MethodKit Tool for Journalists
coJournalist V2
An agent that is in the workflow from the beginning. You can create scouts that monitor pages, local news, social profiles and civic sources, without leaving the chat. These scouts store the extracted data in vector format, in a system built around verification. You can also ask your agent to search units, pull threads across scouts, and turn the result into briefs or drafts. It is fully open-source for newsrooms, with a simple self-hosted setup.
10 Best AI Tools
Curated platform that ranks and reviews the most effective AI tools across categories like content creation, automation, design, and productivity. It helps users compare features, pricing, and real-world use cases to make informed decisions. Whether you’re a marketer, developer, or entrepreneur, the site simplifies your search for the right AI solution.
Caption Desk
A free beta application for photographers and small editorial teams that prepares editable IPTC captions, keywords, and structured fields from a photo series and context supplied by the user.
Old English Translator – Free AI Historical Language Converter
Converting between Modern English and historical language variants including Old English, Middle English, Shakespearean English and Victorian English.
Gumloop
Everything you need – data, apps, and AI in an intuitive drag and drop interface to automate your workflows. The Reddit Insights Generator workflow will analyze and summarize Reddit community posts.
Alfred
Build customized keyboard shortcuts.
Sourcebase
Dashboard to search through curated collections of documents that cite directly to the source material and not the wider web.
Rocket.new
Build production-ready mobile apps and internet tools with just a few prompts.
AI Text Summarizer by AI4How
Summarize lengthy texts instantly and capture the key points with AI-powered accuracy. 100% free, no login required.
Hypothes.is
A free extension that lets you highlight anything you read online and add your own private notes.
Project Genie
Google DeepMind’s interactive world generator
Drafts
Quick capture app that allows you to write notes or save links.
Dynalist
A notetaking app built exclusively around outlines. Works well for larger projects.
PubGen.ai
An AI-driven CMS designed specifically for local news.
Kit
Kit is the email marketing platform that helps you grow your list, find your highest-value subscribers, and earn more from every send. A good OS for newsletter distribution.
Storyboarder
Use AI for intuitive storyboarding
Alice Secure Recorder
“The world’s most confidential recorder and AI note-taker.” Used by journalists, healthcare and legal workers.
AI Research Pilot
This tool is designed specifically for investigators, reporters and other researchers. It works with AI platforms that cite their sources and formats queries for other chatbots in ways that encourage them to back up their claims with references. Research Pilot isn’t about letting AI do the research for you – it’s about making AI help you find where to start your actual investigation.
Affine Pro
All-in-one workspace where you can write, draw and plan just about anything – Blend the power of Notion and Miro to enable dynamic note-taking, tasks, visualized mindmaps and presentations.
Bibliome
A Mac app designed for reporters managing large volumes of documents, such as FOIA returns, court filings, and scraped PDFs. It builds a searchable library and uses a local LLM to answer questions about the corpus, citing the specific page for each answer to prevent hallucinations and allow easy verification. Pricing: $29.99 one-time purchase (no subscription, no accounts, no telemetry). Free iPhone and iPad companion that syncs via the user’s own iCloud.
Archive.ph
It takes a ‘snapshot’ of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears. It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page. Works around paywalls for articles you may want to read.
Pic Detective
A free everse image search tool that can detect matches even when photos are cropped, flipped or color-adjusted.
ImagetoVideo.net
Image-to-video creation with a free, uncensored AI video generator plus built-in AI image and AI audio tools. Go from image to video, and generate AI images and sound in one studio.
Talktastic
Cleans up audio you record and summarizes it. Website app.
Rezoomed
An AI resume platform that helps job seekers build ATS-friendly resumes, scan them for parsing and keyword issues, and export cleaner application-ready files. It compares resumes against specific job descriptions with match scoring, so users can see where their experience aligns or falls short. Its tailoring workflow helps rewrite summaries and bullet points for each role, making applications sharper without starting from scratch.
Turbo AI
Upload video, audio, notes, etc. and Turbo can turn it into a study guide, quiz, podcast, etc.
NoteGPT
Summarization tool for many formats: YouTube video, PDFs. Also does images, videos, transcriptions and more. Prices range from $9 a month to $69 a month.
SeeGov
Uses AI to help civic creators and journalists select and share video highlights from local government meetings. Creators choose what to include and add context to inform residents and expand democratic participation. The platform does not alter the source video. Helps civic creators and journalists produce and share video highlights of local government meetings. Run by a nonprofit founded in 2023. Also features a Reddit community
Yutori Scouts
Monitor a specific topic online and get an agent-curated summary sent to you at a specific time of the day.
Snappixify.net
Convert MP4/MP3, download Instagram videos, and more with our fast online tools. Supports H.264, 4K resolution, and all major formats.
Albis
A global news-intelligence feed that helps readers spot stories, gaps, and framing differences their usual feed may miss. It is useful for journalists, educators, and globally curious readers who want to notice what their normal news flow is not surfacing. Early users can try the feed for free and use the media literacy exercise at Albis Media Literacy.
An iOS recorder that announces out loud that it is recording, never trains on your audio, and leaves the file yours. The output is built to be usable, not just archived: top-tier models, speaker labels, and the action items, decisions, open questions and key people pulled out accurately. You can extend a recording with Continue, and refine or restyle the summary to match how you write.
Bellingcat’s TikTok Hashtag Analysis Toolset
A Python library that searches TikTok posts by hashtag
Global GPT
Use more than 1,000 tools, including text, images, code, videos, and academic research, all in one spot. Includes ChatGPT, Midjourney, Grok, Claude and many other AI tools.
Vibe Coder Pro
Transform rough thoughts into master-class platform prompts. Scribble down your rough thought, and let’s craft it into instructions an AI builder will adore.
Wonder Tools Data Visualizer
Upload your dataset and ask it to design a chart. Built by Jeremy Caplan at CUNY.
Note-Taking Tool Finder
Take a quiz to find the right type of tool for you. Built by Jeremy Caplan at CUNY.
Zen Focus
A customizable pomodoro timer that works on desktop and mobile browser. The aim of this app is to help you focus on any task you are working on. This tool was built with vibe coding.
iFramely
Create responsive embed code from a link
Base 44
Build your own apps, websites, products and AI agents on Base44 using your own words. Get ahead — and make sure it stays that way.
Liminary
Captures and recalls knowledge automatically across your workflow.
LySave
Audio and video downloader tool
Granola AI
Transcribes and organizes meeting notes for you. Includes a free plan.
Startpage
More of an old-school search experience. Download an app to search with more privacy. Also has a browser plug-in to make it your browser start page.
Ritto
An AI workflow automation tool that turns demonstrated processes into reusable tasks, with review checkpoints for uncertain or high-risk actions.
Fast
Check your internet speed
Down Detector
Check if any site is down or having service issues.
MangaTranslators
AI manga image translator that automatically detects and translates text from manga, manhwa, and comics. Upload images, choose a target language, and get translated images while keeping the original layout. Supports more than 50 languages.
Text Jam
AI-driven writing and editing tool. Offers AI suggestions as you write. Studies your writing style and matches it to future edits.
Responsive YouTube Embed Code
Creat a responsive embed from a YouTube link
Advanced Responsive Video Embedder
Dropbox Dash
AI universal search and knowledge management that will find every doc, video, image, or teammate across apps and turn content into first drafts, fast.
Letterly
Captures your voice and lets AI tdo the writing. Phone app and desktop tool. Then tell it how to organize thoughts: Outline/summary for a class or a presentation. A form of “bionic dictation,” says Jeremy Caplan of CUNY.
Trails
Easily build a step-by-step guide. No copying and pasting screenshots. Just record your process and out comes a beautiful guide.
AI Convert Hub
A fast, secure online file conversion and compression platform for video, audio, and images, supporting more than 200 formats with no software installation. It offers batch uploads, AI-optimized compression to preserve quality and advanced codec-aware controls for power users. With a free tier up to 1GB, multi-language support, and SEO-friendly positioning, it helps creators and teams quickly convert or compress files entirely in the browser.
OSINT Framework
Open source intelligence tool poses a list of questions and helps you track down a username, photo, person’s full name from a social account, etc.
Plottie.art
Free AI research assistant for generating publication-quality plots, diagrams, and scientific illustrations in seconds.Turn your research into visualizations.
MindCheck
MindCheck enhances mental clarity by evaluating your responses to tailored questions.
Sunsama
This paid tool helps with daily planning and time-blocking.
Raycast
Mac tool that offers quick calendar
Vimcal
Natural language calendar
Agenda Hero
Add multiple events to your calendar from printed calendars or lists
Reclaim.AI
Automated scheduling for reminders, breaks, etc.
This tool promises to monitor your typing and provide a stamp to verify your work is written by a human. It could help editors manage freelancers’ use of AI.
Steal These Custom Instructions Templates
AI and automation: An updated guide to using LLMs for local news, Center for Cooperative Media (2024) and Joe Amditis.
Syft
AI-powered global news-tracking tool
Manga translator translate to several languages.
FlipBook
An infinite visual browser. No HTML. No links. Every “page” is an image or rather ‘generated pixels’. Click anywhere, and the system generates the next image in real time, diving deeper into the idea. Even the text is rendered as pixels.
CogniAIX
An AI-powered productivity platform designed to convert spoken conversations into actionable and trackable tasks. It uses automated transcription and intelligent analysis to capture decisions and commitments from meetings, client calls, interviews, brainstorming sessions, and voice notes.
AIGenTools
All-in-one AI platform for chat, image and video. Powered by leading AI models like GPT, Claude, Gemini, Seedance, Nano Banana, Kling, and more. From writing and research to AI image and video generation, create stunning visuals and smart ideas with ease.
SciFig
From any input to a publication-ready scientific figure — editable at every step.
AI Random Generator
Browse random generators by category and subcategory.
FileMatic
A desktop tool designed to compress PDF files quickly while maintaining high visual quality. It helps users save storage space and easily share large documents through batch processing and automation features. With complete offline functionality, it ensures your files remain private and secure at all times.
LittleBird
Records screens and meetings to automate tasks.
Viasocket
No-code platform for app automation and workflows.
VidStats
AI-driven analytics platform for YouTube creators to enhance channel growth
Omnibox
Saves web pages and files to answer questions and organize notes.
AO.News
Tracks the push notifications of more than 330 news apps in 44 countries in real time — a way to see what every newsroom is alerting on, and who’s first.
ChatGPT Exporter
Exports ChatGPT chats to PDF, Markdown, and CSV.
ChatGPT Tasks
Schedule tasks and reminders in ChatGPT
DryMerge
Automate tasks with AI agents that work for you 24/7
AI Stamp by Cascadia Link
A simple, browser-based utility that lets users apply a visual watermark to identify AI-generated or modified content.It promotes immediate visual transparency for audiences. For journalist safety, it processes everything locally in the browser (client-side), so no source material is ever uploaded. Watch a one-minute demo of the workflow.
MP3 to Text
A lightweight, browser-based MP3 to text converter with TXT and SRT export. Upload an MP3, transcribe, then copy text, download TXT, or export SRT. You can start free with no credit card.
Product Hub X
Discover the best new products and innovative tools across multiple categories including AI, Design, Marketing, and more. Users can explore cutting-edge technology, trending mobile apps, and revolutionary SaaS solutions that are curated daily.
React Grab
Select any on-screen element and edit it directly using Cursor or Claude Code. There’s a browser extension coming in 2026.
Skywork Office Agent: Automate Your Workflow
AI Workspace Agent, designed to revolutionize your productivity. Our Skywork Super Agents automate complex tasks like creating stunning presentations and in-depth reports in seconds. Simply provide a topic or a file, and let our AI agents do the heavy lifting.
Traveling Mailbox
View your snail mail remotely.The site receives your postal mail and scans the outside of each envelope. You view and tell them to open and scan the contents, shred the envelope, or forward it to you anywhere in the world. View your postal mail online in an easy to use interface or via the iOS or Android App. Plans start at $15 a month.
Drawstory
AI storyboarding for filmmakers and documentary
OpenClaw
AI assistant that actually does things, 24/7 — clearing your inbox, managing your calendar, even checking you in for flights, all from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use. Self-host for free or run on managed cloud.
Google Edge Gallery
Deploy AI across mobile, web, and embedded apps
Todoist
Still jotting on a sticky note? Simplify work and life with this to-do list app.
Capacities
Note-taking tool that includes task integration
Happenstance
Smart tool for contact managemen
Lazy
Keyboard shortcut to take notes and save information
Kraa
Kraa is for writing. It’s a note-taking app, a text editor, a messaging app, a story book, a community hub, a shared document, a blogging platform, a family board, … It’s not designed to be this or that. It’s just designed for writing and clutter-free reading.
VidMate
A free video downloader that allows users to download HD videos, music, movies, and status updates from popular platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. It also features an MP3 converter, high download speeds, and supports various quality options up to 8K resolution. Additionally, VidMate offers a built-in music and video player, offline sharing, and the ability to save WhatsApp status and Instagram photos permanently on your Android device.
Read PDF Aloud
Let AI Read Your PDF Aloud with Natural Voice. Free AI-powered PDF speaker. Listen to any PDF document with natural-sounding voices in 140+ languages.Read your PDF aloud with one click.
FilesDesk
A simple but powerful AI file renamer that helps you rename file automatically using smart, content-based naming. This smart file renamer supports bulk file renaming, template-based renaming for consistent file names and watch folders to automate your workflow. It also comes with offline processing mode where your files stay private while being renamed quickly and efficiently.
FileMatic
A powerful and secure PDF compressor designed to reduce file size without compromising quality. With advanced compression technology, it can shrink PDFs by up to 90% while maintaining clarity, making it the perfect PDF compression tool for professionals and everyday users. FileMatic features offline processing mode for complete privacy, watch folders to automate PDF compression, and custom DPI configurations for precise control over output quality.
YouTube to Transcript
Generate YouTube transcripts in more tban 125 languages for free.
Drone Database
Center for a New American Security database that lists information about drones from around the world
Google Opal
Sign up for it’s beta program and build mini-apps with no code. It comes with templates that can help you Create AI ads for your target audience and brand, get an accurate view of how the internet views your business and turn any YouTube video into an interactive quiz.
GlobalGPT
Database of hundreds of LLMs and other models.
Lazy
Lets you capture content from sources including web pages, Kindle books, YouTube videos, social media, etc.
Moondream
Do real-time video analysis
Vento
Stress-free screen recording tool that lets you rewind and re-record over mistakes.
ChatGPT for Powerpoint
Create stunning slides in seconds with the power of AI. Add visuals to your presentations with our AI. Translate into multiple languages with one-click
Doc2Lang
Translate document file (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF) on our ChatGPT-powered service. Just upload and the AI will auto translate. Then download the translated file. Fast and accurate due to latest AI.
Talo
Real-time voice translator for video calls
Tana
Put your notes to work with voice and AI
Newsroom Ally CustomGPT
This tool in ChatGPT can be used for for evaluating pitches, refining stories, and matching publication tone. Brainstorm story ideas, evaluate a lead or a PR pitch, etc. Best used in ChatGPT 4.1.
Echo Mobile VoIP App
Record a meeting or call and organize the notes, transcribe, etc.
Sidejot
AI-powered task planner for focused productivity
DangerZone
Scans an removes malware from PDFs and other docs. Run it through here if you are unsure of a document’s source.
Database Search Engine
Perform domain, name and keyword searches across more than 1,300 databases.
There’s an AI for That Database
Searchable AI tool aggregator
Arkiflow
AI-driven workflow tool
Paperguide
Discover, read, write, and manage research with ease
Tomedes AI Transcription
A free, browser-based speech-to-text tool that converts audio files into text using multiple leading AI engines—Whisper, Gemini, and Amazon Transcribe. It generates up to three transcription results per file, allowing users to compare and select the most accurate version. With no sign-up, no ads, and multilingual support, it’s ideal for journalists, podcasters, and researchers.
Gemini in Drive
Summarize and ask questions about Google Drive videos
Mumble Note
AI voice notetaker
ReadPartner
Personal AI assistant for automated news digest and quick summaries of websites, videos and documents.
A basic online hub for saving links and sites you find online.
Softr
Build a database and link record, etc. as well as develop a frontend user interface – all in one platform.
Actually Relevant News
A news curation platform that crawls more than 80 sources across five languages daily, using LLM analysis to evaluate each article’s relevance to humanity on transparent criteria. It publishes only the most relevant stories across four issue areas (Human Development, Planet and Climate, Existential Threats, Science/Technology), with every story showing a full relevance analysis. Free to use with no ads, no tracking, and no paywall — plus a free public API, RSS feeds, weekly newsletter and a positivity slider that lets readers filter by emotional tone.
Roone AI
Roone is an editorial intelligence platform that monitors your sources around the clock, scores every incoming story against your publication’s specific mission and editorial priorities, and surfaces only the stories that matter — so editors spend less time scanning and more time reporting. It turns those scored signals into actionable story ideas, generates first drafts in your publication’s voice, and assembles newsletters, all from a single workspace. The more your team uses it, the smarter it gets — Editorial DNA accumulates institutional knowledge about your coverage, voice, and preferences over time, creating a compounding advantage that generic AI tools can’t replicate.
CoJournalist
Connect your agent to scouts that monitor pages, social profiles, city councils, and your beat — while you focus on reporting.
OSINT Navigator
The tool database is compiled from 17 independent OSINT toolkits maintained by established practitioners and organizations. A weekly crawler checks all sources, adds new tools, and flags deprecated ones. Each tool is enriched with structured documentation.
Surfshark
An industry-leading VPN for secure online browsing
The Essential AI Toolkit for Journalists and Content Creators
All the tools listed are free to use and open-source. Audio, images, web scraping and other tools
Chronicle
Great tool for building visual presentations. Timelines, basic charts, etc.
Claude Computer Uses
Give Claude the power to view your screen, click, type, and execute tasks
Fxyer AI
AI assistant that automates daily email and meeting tasks
Harriet Meyer: What AI Tool Should You Use for Your Media Tasks
Glimpse
Free tool that shows the Google, LinkedIn and Meta ads that point to a specific domain.
Workbookly
Turns YouTube videos into interactive worksheets
Wayback Machine Extension
Pull up history of a website
Transcription tool known for accuracy
Common Crawl Archive
Get a saved copy of most pages on the internet for every week since October 2014 and less regular data since 2008.
Model Playground AI
Compares AI models side-by-side
TwinMind
AI sidebar that listens, sees tabs, and proactively helps users
Fill Genius
Automate form filling in seconds with AI
YouPro
Translation tool
YouTube to WAV Converter
Convert YouTube videos to high-quality WAV files instantly.
Talecast
Instantly translates videos into more than 100 languages with synced subtitles, natural AI dubbing, and lip-sync technology—no download required. Clone any voice, customize subtitles, remove watermarks, and preserve cultural context while expanding your reach to global audiences.
BigBang
A free tool from Majd Khalifeh, a journalist with Belgian public broadcaster VRT, that helps gather social media posts about an event or breaking news story. Enter search terms, a location, and date and the tool auto populates GPS coordinates and opens your search in new tabs for Google, Facebook, X and Instagram. Enable browser pop-ups to use it.
Manga Translator
A comic translator. Professional online manga translation platform supporting multiple languages, featuring OCR text recognition, smart typesetting.
DeepSite AI Website Builder
Transform your ideas into stunning websites instantly, no coding required.
Manzoni
Free, open source and private AI text editor. Run LLMs locally. No data leaves your device.
Mind Maps
Interactive visual creation tool in Google’s NotebookLM
Nova Act
Amazon’s agentic AI browser system for completing tasks
Yorba
Find and delete old accounts
HowsThisGoing
AI project manager for Slack.
Breyta.ai
Extract key insights from multiple files instantly.
Monkt
Convert a web page or document into Markdown or JSON
Rose.ai
Find, clean and visualize data
TimeOS
AI-powered tab page for tasks
Yorba
Find and delete old accounts
Notis
Voice-powered Notion assistant for high-productivity
PageSection
Translate and edit web pages
Granola iOS
AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings
LegoGPT
Just for fun: Create LEGO designs from text prompts
SetApp
For $10 a month you can pick from a suite of tools to perform various tasks like resizing images, snipping text from images and other productivity tools. Similar to Tinywow, which offers more free tools than this.
Clop
Resize images just by dragging it to a digital box. Similar to the Landscape Image resizer
PullTube
Download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, etc.
Teleprompter App
Run the teleprompter on your laptop or mobile device when recording videos.
Command A Translate
Translation model
Promptcast
Summarizes any podcast with AI
PullTube
Download and archive a recording of a public meeting.
NotebookLM
Use this Google tool to convert a story or document into a podcast, FAQ, timeline, etc.
How The Atlantic and Other Media Are Using Google’s NotebookLM
YouTube Summarizer
Free tool that offers a quick way to generate video summaries, enhancing user understanding and saving time. Powered by cutting-edge AI technology, users simply paste a YouTube URL to gain concise insights, facilitating better viewing choices. Perfect for anyone wanting to efficiently process video content.
Vidmateapp
A comprehensive HD video downloader app that allows users to download videos, movies, and music from popular platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and more using a simple link.
ChatGPT Study Mode
Helps you work through problems step by step instead of just getting an answer.
Hypothes.is
A free extension that lets you highlight anything you read online and add your own private notes. Excellent collaboration tool.
Scourhead
Free, open-source AI agent that scours the web, organizes data, and delivers results in a spreadsheet
QA.tech
Uses AI to test web apps and creates bug reports
TurboScribe
Converts all audio and video files into transcripts
Hedy AI
Real-time insights in meetings and classes
Alice
Built by journalists, this is a secure tool for journalists to record, get high-accuracy transcripts and use AI to analyze your entire dataset. Endorsed by journalists for its privacy, this is as secure as it gets. Used by organizations globally, pay-as-you-go pricing.
Email AI Extractor
Extract emails from websites using AI
Bouncer
Email verification platform that checks for bots, similar to Botometer. It actually “bounces” bot accounts off your platform.
Media.io
Kive
Manage all AI-generated assets in one place
Smartcat
Automatic translations in any language with near-human-like results.
Zivy
Prioritize and organize messages in Slack
TextSniper
A simple and easy to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) app that helps instantly extract text from images, PDFs, slides, Zoom calls, or even YouTube videos.
Noteplan
Combines your notes, tasks, and calendar in one app. Link everything together for a complete view of your work and plans.
Mymind
Uses cards to store your notes, bookmarks, images, articles, etc. Browser extensionfor desktop/mobile to capture things you need.
Waveloom
Build complex AI workflows
Detasurf
A browser, file manager and AI assistant in a single app
Hootz
An AI-powered productivity tool
Lazy.so
One keyboard shortcut to take notes and save information.
Chronicle
AI slide-creation tool
Kosmik
Moodboard/note-taking/browser that allows you to collect things to save and create something with it.
Eddie AI
Edit video with prompts. It will work with Final Cut, Adobe Premiere, etc., but also as a prompt-driven editor.
Fathom.ai
Create meeting summaries using AI
Download Instagram videos, photos, reels, and profile pictures with IG download.
Facebook Downloader
FBDownloader is a quick, reliable, and free tool to download any Facebook video to MP4 format.
Riseup
A secure email service crafted for activist groups. Run by volunteers, this platform ensures your activities remain untraceable and is fortified against malicious attacks and government interference.
Similar to WhatsApp, KeyBase lets you share files with friends and contacts. What sets it apart is its use of end-to-end encryption with public key cryptography, ensuring your data stays private and anonymous.
Bounti.ai
Cuts 20+ hours p/w of time-consuming research and meeting prep
Zoom AI Companion 2.0
Create work processes across the Zoom Workplace platform
SetApp
For $10 a month, you get 250 Mac apps all in one place.
BeforeSunset
Customize your schedule with intelligent planning, helping you plan smarter and get more done
Phew AI Tab
Manage tabs with AI grouping in the sidebar
ScanRelief
Convert receipts to Excel and rename files
SciSpace Literature Review
Finds the most relevant academic papers with researcher-like critical thinking.
Fathom
AI notetaker that captures, summarizes, and acts on meetings.
MyLens
Turns your ideas and content into effective visuals that are interactive, editable and ready to present. Upload PDFs, web pages, documents and more.
SnagIt
Tech Smith tool lets you scroll the page and pull text, then save as a PDF. Starts with a $39 plan.
AI Links Organzied by Category
A great set of tool links from Ethan Holland
Google Career Dreamer
Use this tool to develop new directions for your career with this free site. Enter your skills, etc. and it builds a map of jobs for you.
Bardeen
AI agent that turns complex workflows into one click
Storydoc
Create interactive slide decks
Toolstash
Keep track of all your tools using AI
Midship
Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data
Nifty
Combines tasks, docs, chats, and roadmaps into one workspace to reduce app switching.
SlidesPilot
Create/convert PowerPoint presentations using AI
Google Illuminate
Transform research papers into AI-generated audio summaries
Making Today
A comprehensive dashboard: organize, plan and execute tasks
Plus AI Powerpoint Maker
Generate PowerPoint presentations in minutes
Questions AI
Homework, editing, summary, problem-solving tool
WikiTimeline
Turns any Wikipedia article into an interactive timeline for easy visualization and comparison
Metaforms
AI-powered form builder
XXAI
XXAI is an advanced AI software for PC, designed to help users improve their work efficiency through artificial intelligence technology. The tool helps PC users quickly complete various tasks, such aswriting emails, creating content or generating images. A free tool with paid upgrades, It seamlessly integrates powerful models such as GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and DALLE-3, Provides comprehensive solutions to help you create efficiently on your PC.
Mural
Share ideas, brainstorm, etc.
HuggingFace Spaces
AI App store that allows you to search approximately 400k AI tools for your best use.
MathGPTPro
AI Math Tutor that benefits both students and teachers
Reclaim Smart Meeting
Optimize scheduling for teams.
Voicenote
AI Note-Taker that transcribes your thoughts instantly
Linkody
Finds broken or no-follow links on any website. 30-day free trial, then plans starting at $15 monthly.
SEO Optimer
Get notified for new links to any domain. Keep an eye on your backlink profile, but also follow your competitor’s link building campaigns. 14-day free trial, then plans starting at $15.
Non-Writing AI Tools Every Journalist Should Know About
Hugging Chat
ChatGPT alternative that uses Llama
CommandBar for Mobile
AI-powered user assistance for mobile apps
Vondy – Next Generation AI Apps
AI content creator. A deep list of chatbots that work with a variety of tools and sites.
Sune AI
Collaborate, automate, and streamline workflows for your team
Emilio
Virtual AI assistant that manages your email inbox
Skyvern
An AI agent that automates browser-based workflows
Meta AI Studio
Create and discover personalized AIs
Windsurf Cascade
A free, no-code tool that helps you create games and apps.
Jamie
A privacy-first AI meeting notetaker
IdeaFlow.io
Notebook augments text as you type.
BriefNews
A daily, AI-powered news brief
Openlayer
Get real-time alerts when things go sideways with your AI model
Forefront
An AI workflow assistant
NameQuick
Rename MacOs files easily and quickly
Llama-Factory
Fine-tune and train open-source LLMs with no code
ChatSlide
AI assistant for building slides and videos from documents
Stepify
Gives step-by-step tutorials from any YouTube video
Autofillr
Uses AI to automatically fill out web forms
Tugan.ai
Content conversion tool. E.g.: Convert a YouTube video into a Twitter thread.
Namify
Generate unique business names and logos
Groupthink
Real-time meeting notes, task detection, and recaps
Miro Intelligent Canvas
AI-powered canvas for team collaboration
Newsgames
Builds news quizzes, crossword puzzles and other games using AI
Scribe
Turn any process into a step-by-step guide
Print Edit WE
Chrome plug-in that removes images, headers and ads from web pages when printing.
Todolist
Stay organized
Any.do
Create simple to-do lists
Autoppt
AI-driven presentation generation tool with rich templates. It can create a complete and visually appealing presentation of 20-30 pages in just one minute. With the ability to replace templates with a single click
Gestimer
Create simple countdown timers with this Apple app
BuildShip
Streamline app development with AI-powered backend workflows and APIs (link)
RescueTime
A time tracking tool that helps you understand where your time goes.
Albus AI
A live board that will help you explore any topic you like in new ways, from different perspectives. Think of it as Google meets Pinterest.
Heyday
AI copilot for your own research, notes and conversation.
Wispr Flow
Write three times faster using your voice
Martin
An AI voice assistant that proactively manages your calendar and email
Gitmind
AI-powered, free collaborative mind mapping software for brainstorming and idea co-creation.
Plus AI
Build presentation slides with AI
SlidesAI
Text to slides in seconds
Doclime
Get answers from your documents
Sparkle
Automatically clean up and organize your data with AI
Abacus.ai
Good for finding and analyzing research papers.
Capgo.ai
Simple AI table that’s good for mass SEO work.
Are.na
Online software for saving and organizing the content that is important to you, and a toolkit for assembling new worlds from the scraps of the old.
URlist
Save links, store bookmarks, and gather research findings in neat shareable lists. (ur)list is a home for list curators.
Rabbit.tech
This Large Action Model (LAM) is a system that can infer and model human actions on computer applications, perform the actions reliably and quickly, and is well-suited for deployment in various AI assistants and operating systems.
NinjaChat AI
Access premium AI chatbots, an AI image generator, AI music generator, and AI writing assistants on one platform. Get all these tools with a single subscription, designed to enhance productivity and creativity. Explore AI applications that simplify tasks and boost efficiency.
Sophi.io
From automated content curation to first-party data activation and predictive decisioning engines, Sophi’s AI-powered platform helps modern publishers make vital strategic and tactical decisions to transform their business.
Asana AI Teammate
Tackle complex workflows and elevate teamwork
Flowise
An open-source UI visual tool to build LLM apps
Granola
Transcribe meeting notes without meeting bots
Notion AI Q&A
Lets users to ask and find information across a workspace
Lavender
Write email faster and better.
BiRead
Transform any website content into bilingual text
Zapier: How to Train ChatGPT to Write Like You
Forbes: How to Train ChatGPT to Write Like You in 5 Easy Steps
Reclaim
Schedule meetings, tasks, etc.
GoPDF
AI-driven PDF management tool
API Hunt
Access over 500 tech APIs
Metaview
Automatic, AI-powered notes for interviews
Zep
Recall, understand, and extract data from chat history
Lido
Automates PDF data extraction with AI
Tally
Create surveys and other online forms
For AI-powered legal documents
Ncogni
Prevents spammers, stalkers, and fraudsters from accessing your information by removing it from the web.
ReadPartner
An AI assistant for automated news digests and summaries
HeyGen In-Video Text Translate
Automatic text detection and instant translations
CamScanner
Scan in images, merge PDFs and more
AI Power
AI plugin for WordPress that generates customizable content
Ahrefs
See who’s linking to you and your competitors. Monitor competitors’ Google rankings. Provides limited access to Site Explorer (organic search traffic and backlink profile of any website) and Site Audit (SEO audit to uncover technical and on-page SEO issues.)
Backlinks Checker
Checks backlinks for any website / URL. Free
The Hoth Backlink Checker
Backlink checker powered by SEMRush. Free
HyperWrite AI Agent
An AI agent to automate repetitive workflows
BuildShip
Visually build workflows, automation, and powerful backend logic for your apps, powered by AI.
Highperformr Suite of Social Media AI Tools
DeepTab
AI productivity tools on one tab
Wonder Tools Toolkit
More than 100 productivity tools from CUNY’s Jeremy Caplan
GPT Workspace
Create and share your GPT without an OpenAI subscription
PowerMode
Build presentation decks in minutes
ideamap
A visual workspace that boosts brainstorming and creativity for teams.
Toolify
Deep database of AI-driven tools.
Dart
A tool to manage tasks and workflows using AI assistance.
Tugan.ai
Generate emails, newsletters, threads, tweets, and Linkedin posts, etc.
TinyWow AI Writing Tools
The popular all-in-one productivity tool now features a page of AI writing tools. Use with caution and fact-check/edit anything produced by AI.
JanAI
Open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline on your computer Agenda Hero Magic
Creates AI-generated calendar events
SciSpace Copilot
Chrome plugin that helps you understand scientific literature.
Research Rabbit Discovery App
Unlocks a completely novel way to search for papers and authors, monitor new literature, visualize research landscapes, and collaborate with colleagues.
Video Translation by Akool
Translate and adapt your videos with a single click
Ayraa
AI-powered workplace search assistant
Osum
Deep search tool
Albus
Productivity tool
Timehero
Schedule, manage and automate work
Folk.app
Email management tool. Send up to 5,000 in one blast.
CloneDub
Automatically dubs your videos and podcasts
WhatFontIs
Finds any font from any image
Forefront
AI assistant that lets you choose from powerful models, chat with files, browse the internet, bring your team, customize assistants, share chats, and much more.
Scade.pro
Find more than 1,500 AI tools using this platform
Audio Notes AI
Transform disorganized thoughts into structured notes with AI
Quizgecko
AI test and quiz maker
TidyRead
Let AI curate and summarize your feeds into a tidy digest delivered at your chosen time
Walles.ai
Get instant insights from any site or PDF
Meimu
Convert SVG to 3D
Circleback
Unbelievably good AI-written meeting notes and powerful automations with Notion, Slack, HubSpot, and more. Try for free.
Edge
Writes patents using AI
Spinach.io
An AI project management tool. Freemium account up to $100 monthly for a pro account
Contents
Build social media posts, images, advertising copy
Monica.im
AI personal assistant
Docufai
AI-powered document assistant
OneConvert
OneConvert is an online platform that provides a diverse array of conversion utilities, spanning from unit conversions to PDF file transformations. The platform prioritizes precision, efficiency, and user confidentiality, guaranteeing swift outcomes and safeguarding data privacy. With accessibility across various devices and operating systems, OneConvert aims to streamline usability and secure file exchanges.
WriteText.ai for Magento
WriteText.ai is an AI-based extension for Magento that generates various content including meta titles, product descriptions, and keyword analysis. The tool offers two modes – ‘Single’ for customized text for individual items, and ‘Bulk’ for generating content for multiple products at once. This extension supports multiple languages, enabling global market reach, and it works with an unlimited number of e-commerce sites and user accounts at no extra cost.
Chuchotis
Chuchotis (French word for whisper) is a fee-based speech-to-text application based on OpenAI’s whisper. It runs fully locally on any M-silicon-based Mac, to preserve privacy of recordings and transcriptions.
Smart Tools AI
Smart Tools AI is a hub for best AI tools that help streamline the work of the users. It offers different tools in multiple categories such as keyword analysis, unit conversion, online calculation, website development, website management, domain analysis, password management, image conversion, text analysis, website tracking, online PDF and binary conversion.
GIJN: Top 10 Investigative Tools of 2023
Excellent list of research tools
FAQ Generator
Enter a website URL and get a FAQ generated for free
Assista
Hub for all your productivity apps
ToolSniper
Capture text from anywhere on your screen.
Organize images, notes, videos and more
Kittl
Speeds workflow with AI-powered design tools
Blocks
AI-powered email builder
IPAuthor
Draft patent applications using AI
Airtable
Forms will flow data into tables for easy analysis.
Survey Monkey
Microsoft Forms
COA Beat Assistant
Filipino journalist Jaemark Tordecilla created a custom GPT to analyze documents from the Commission on Audit (COA) for investigtative journalists in his country.
Brief
Custom AI-curated news digest
Aboard
Organize and prioritize your links, notes, and data
Mashable: 18 AI Products to Boost Your Productivity in 2024
Epieos
Tool bad actors based on their Google reviews
Junkipedia
A tool that tracks social media accounts from 12 different platforms.
Deepchecks LLM Evaluation
Validate, monitor, and safeguard LLM-based apps
OpsBerry
Turns tribal knowledge into step-by-step actions
GPTGo
Free ChatGPT and search engine
Surya
Multilingual text line detection model for document MyMap generates mindmaps with ease
MindMatrix
Minimalist AI mindmap generator
MyMap AI
Create mindmaps with AI prompts
Mapify
Turn ideas and documents into mindmaps
Fill3D
Generates photorealistic images in minutes
Fliki
Makes video creation faster and more simple
Alt Text Helper by Good Good Good
Alt Text Helper is trained on accessibility best practices to quickly create alt-text. Just drop your image into the chat and it’ll write descriptive alt-text to make your image accessible to all when you publish it.Arvin AI
Arvin is an innovative text-to-image AI that creates artwork from your words in seconds. Simply describe anything you can imagine. Available as a phone app or browser plug-in.
UForm
AI library for content understanding and generation
Inbox Zero
Open-sourced AI email cleanup management
Predis.ai
An all-in-one social media production tool. Create videos and time posts.
Textero
Helps you overcome writer’s block with AI
IJNet: Tracking Disinformation? These AI Tools Can Help
Summarize.tech
Post the link to a YouTube video and get a written summary of that video in a few minutes.
Speech to Note
Turn your spoken words into summaries
Otio
Uses AI to summarize research, documents and links
Summarize.ing
AI-driven summaries of YouTube videos
Notta
Notta is an AI-based voice-to-text transcription software that supports 104 languages. Notta excels at transcribing and summarizing audio or video files, online meetings, and voice recordings. Additionally, Notta offers a suite of team alignment features, enabling users to schedule and transcribe Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams meetings, among other functionalities.
AI Summarizer
Free tool that also has paraphrasing capabilities
Monica Browser Plug-in
AI assistant that can do many things, including summarizing videos.
PicNotes
Converts images into summarized text with AI
Simplescraper
Allows users to easily extract data from websites and convert it into a JSON or CSV file.
Huru – An AI-powered tool that helps you master job interview preparation with over 20,000 mock interviews, instant feedback.
GPT for Sheets and Docs
Chrome extension that lets you use ChatGPT in Google Sheets and Docs. Get the full power of AI for inspiration data cleaning, classification, extraction, translation, edition, summarization, writing
Circleback
AI-written action items and meeting notes. Paid site with a free trial.
Circleback
AI-driven meeting notes. Freemium account
OpenZeppelin AI Assistant
Create and deploy smart contracts
Wofram Alpha
Search facts on many topics. Also solve math problems.
PaperChat
Sending/receiving documents using AI
Symbolab
Solves math problem with AI
Creaitor
Create across multiple platforms
StoryChief streamlines content collaboration for teams
Quicky AI
Use AI on any website instantly just by selecting text. Basic plan starts at $5 month
LogicBalls
Links to dozens of free AI writing tools.
Browse AI
Train a robot in 2 minutes to extract and monitor data from any website
IntelTechniques Search Tool
Resources for backgrounding people, all housed in one place.
Beta.Monic
Create quizzes, flash cards, etc.
Respell.ai
Build AI workflows without code to save more time and get more done.
Shownotes
Summarizes anything with AI
Scholarcy
AI summarization tool
Mayday Calendar
All-in-one planning tool
Consensus
AI search engine for research
Eesel
Find any doc, create new ones, and follow your teammates’ projects. All from your new tab. eesel doesn’t compromise on privacy and doesn’t require any setup – you don’t even need to login. Add to Chrome browser as an extension, too.
ReportPDF
Generates PDF reports from CSV files
Dart
Project management tool that automates tasks
Segmind
Fastest open source Generative AI model APIs
ChangeDetection.io
From simply monitoring website pages that have a change (such as watching prices, restock notification), to deep inspection such as PDF text support, JSON and XML monitoring and extensive text triggers.
Fireflies.AI
Automate your notes
Spikes Studio
Video shortening AI
SaneBox
Organize your email
Bloks
Free desktop note-taking app
Predis
Social media post generator
TLDR This – Article Summarizer & Online Text Summarizing Tool
Keep It Shot
Instantly rename and find messy screenshots with AI
Screenshot to Code
Automatically create HTML and Tailwind CSS websites using just a screenshot. Open source download off Github.
Facebook Video Downloader
Be careful with copyright issues.
KeepVid.com
Download streaming video from YouTube and other sites to edit and use in your video.
Bellingcat Auto Archiver
Preserve video evidence in seconds. Quickly download social media clips and archive them in a Google Sheet.
TikTokio
A 100% free online TikTok video downloader. It aims to help people download TikTok videos (musically) without watermark.
unDraw
Open-source illustrations for any idea
Write with Transformer
This site, built by the Hugging Face team, lets you write a whole document directly from your browser, and you can trigger the Transformer anywhere using the Tab key. It’s like having a smart machine that completes your thoughts
Uizard
Create mockups and designs from a hand drawing.
Scholarcy
AI-powered article summarizer
Document Pro
Extract invoices and other text from PDFs and images with this AI-driven scraping tool
FlowCV
Resume-building tool.
Supertools
Comprehensive list of AI tools by category.
Media.io
A collection of AI tools ranging from video/image enhancement to audio
Netmind Power
The decentralized machine learning and AI platform
Latte.social
Text to video AI tool. Free trial with packages as low as $8 a month.
Ramble Fix
An audio to text tool. Speak your mind and it will paraphrase/rewrite what you say. Five free uses per month, then $10 monthly for more recordings.
PDF Parser
Analyze, visualize, and communicate data for insights
Reveal
Pull nsights from qualitative data and enable decisions at scale
SlidesAI
Use AI to extract the main points from a body of text and create a presentation. Freemium tool
Superflow
Generate quick email summaries. Freemium tool
Perpexity.ai
Intuitive search/research tool. Upgrade to CoPilot and ChatGPT–4.
LightPDF
AI-powered Document Chatbot. Ask anything about your files, get summaries, outlines and answers instantly. PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, ePub and even scanned documents supported. You can upload a file within 200 pages for free.
Kaiber
An AI creative lab on a mission to unlock creativity through powerful and intuitive generative audio and video. Upload a song, add a touch of your artistic style, and let its audio analysis technology do the visual work. Monthly plans ranging from $5 to $25 with a free trial.
Krisp
Krisp improves the productivity of online meetings with its AI-powered Voice Clarity and Meeting Assistant.
BeyondWords
Text-to-speech tool. Free account with paid upgrades.
Mindsera
An AI-powered journal. Get personalized mentorship and feedback for improving your mindset, cognitive skills, mental health and fitness.
Nolej
Automatically convert documents (text, video, audio) into dynamic active learning content through the use of our AI.
TwitterGPT
Analyzes a Twitter profile using AI and creates a detailed report for free.
Boomy
Create original pieces of music using AI tools.
Decoherence
Build AI-driven music videos
Follwr
Social media on autopilot. solution that empowers you to create social media content, automate your calendar, and achieve time-saving efficiency using AI-powered tools.
WebScraping.AI
Rotating proxies API for web scraping
Murf
Text-to-speech tool
Cogram
Takes notes automatically in meetings
Slidesal
Create slideshow presentations with AI
ChatBase
Similar to ChatGPT but for a website or document.
QuickChat
Create a chatbot that talks like a human
Chatling
Create a personalized AI chatbot
Zentask.ai
Create articles, images and manage SEO in this all-in-one tool.
Fina.xyz
Manage finances without spreadsheets
Decktopus
AI-driven presentation generator
Magical
Takes meeting notes for you.
SEOdity
SEO tools and analysis.
Chatling.ai
Personalized chatbot for businesses
VisualPing.io
Uses AI to track updates to web pages you want monitored.
Wachete
Monitor web pages for changes. Lots of pro features. Daily/weekly summary email. Monitor pages which require clicks or submission of values. Monitor specific parts of a page. Download data. Free plan monitors up to five pages.. $5 a month after that.
DeepDiveDuck
Keep track of key changes to your competitors’ websites. Get alerts on key changes, including staff changes, pricing tweaks, new products, address changes, and more. Free trial, then paid
Compint Competitor Website Monitoring
Track competitors website changes on a daily basis while controlling frequency and sensitivity. Free tool.
AI Visual Creator’s Toolkit
Heather Cooper’s AI tools database.
Syllabus Maker Pro
An excellent syllabus-making Custom GPT from CUNY’s Jeremy Caplan
YouTube Video Summaries with Eightify AI
This extension powered by GPT-4 will summarize or extracts key insights from any YouTube videos.
Finchat – ChatGPT for Finance
This ChatGPT for finance offers the latest information on more than 750 companies and super investors
Monica – Your ChatGPT AI Assistant Chrome Extension
Helps you run ChatGPT on any site.
RJI YESEO App
Slack plug-in app helpful for many things, including help with writing SEO headlines.
Decktopus AI
On- demand AI presentation generator.
DeepL Translator
Works similar to Google Translate. Paste a block of text in and translate into other languages.
Newsroom Robots Podcast
All you need to know about AI for journalism.
GrammarBot
Rewrites and transforms your writing instantly
Planet
Provides daily satellite data that helps businesses, governments, researchers, and journalists understand the physical world and take action.
Before Sunset
An excellent day-planner app. Freemium with $10 monthly upgrades.
Quizgecko
An AI-powered quiz maker
Doclime.com
PDF analysis tool
ChatGPT Online: AI Advanced Chatbot by OpenAI
Discover the ultimate collection of high-quality and effective AI tools on this website, designed to meet the needs of businesses and individuals alike. Explore world-renowned tools such as ChatGPT and GPT 4, which excel in natural language processing and writing skills. For designers and creatives, the revolutionary DALL-E 2 allows users to generate custom images based on textual prompts.
10Web – AI -Powered WordPress Platform
OTHER PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
Roam Research
Bi-directional linking that assists with note-taking and research.
Notion
Great for note-taking, time-tracking, making handouts, etc. An all-in-one workspace.
Coda
Collaborative team documents. Works well for spreadsheets and data projects.
Noted
An iOS & macOS app tool that is perfect for journalists and professionals to quickly and easily capture every great idea. Noted is enhanced with the unique #TimeTag feature, which makes recalling important information like #Highlights and #ToDos quick and effective. Noted solves both problems by letting you take notes while recording time-stamped Zoom/ video and audio recordings, saving you lots of time to review each session.
Gems
AI-powered writing assistant. You can visually create, organize and connect notes and see how your story outline is coming together on use it as an infinite whiteboard. AI finds similarities between ideas so you can see hidden connections, be more creative and fill the page. It’s useful for investigative journalists to conduct research and turn files, docs, and notes into insightful discoveries faster.
Jasper
AI writing tool
Postwise.ai
AI-driven Twitter writing tool
Craft.do
Document-creation tool with AI features
Mem
A self-organizing workspace. It’s the world’s first AI-powered workspace that’s personalized to you.
Tana
Easily turn raw notes into tasks, bugs, follow-ups and more. No more context switching, copy-and-pasting, or ad hoc spreadsheets and docs. Moving out of private beta in 2023.
Typora
Gives you a seamless experience as both a reader and a writer. It removes the preview window, mode switcher, syntax symbols of markdown source code, and all other unnecessary distractions. Instead, it provides a real live preview feature to help you concentrate on the content itself.
BeefText
Open-source text substitution tool for Windows
GIJN: Tips for Using Open-Source Tools When Reporting from Home
Turn YouTube Videos into GIFs by Adding GIF to URL
Toggl Track
Time-tracking software.
123Apps
A Swiss Army knife collection of browser-based web editing and productivity tools along the lines of TinyWow.
Fanurio
Time-tracking tool for freelancers.
BBC Africa Eye: Digital Forensics Dashboard
A collation of some essential tools tailored to journalists using open source intelligence (OSINT) to carry out investigations.
After the Deadline
Download this desktop tool to check grammar and style, do contextual spell check and more. It’s more advanced than Microsoft Word.
Google Test My Site for Mobile/Desktop
Test your site’s performance across mobile and desktop devices.
WebSiteGrader
Evaluates your site based on SEO, design-friendliness, etc.
Becoming: Hundreds of Digital Tools from Stephen Goforth
Tools for engagement, mobile, maps, polls quizzes and more.
Distill.io
Track other websites and get notified of when they make changes to the site/pages.
Tiny Wow
A great collection of tools that solve file management issues.
ExportData
Twitter data export tool. Allows downloading historical tweets since 2006, exporting unlimited followers and followings, and gathers historical Twitter trends in 63 countries and 400 cities.
Down Detector
Sends you alerts when your favorite social platforms and sites are down.
GIJN Online Research Tools
An extensive list of digital tools, including Journalist’s Toolbox.
Air.inc
Great image storage resource.
7 Best Free OCR Software Apps to Convert Images into Text
Changedetection.io
Website change detection and notification, monitors changes in website content, easily alerts you via slack, discord, telegram, email and 80-plus more. Easily setup keyword triggers, compare pages. Also monitors JSON feeds and other data.
Napkin
Post notes on a visual board and draw connections to other ideas
Milanote
Create mood boards with text, images, links, etc.
Xtiles
A digital bulletin board for ideas.
Repurpose.io
Tool for automating workflows. Good for autoposting social media.
Synthesia
Create a video from plain text in minutes. Good for creating a talking avatar
Murf
Text-to-speech tool
Eagle
Organize your images online.
Center for Cooperative Media: Useful Links and Websites
A table of great resources that’s downloadable as a CSV file.
Grain
Record and transcribe Zoom meetings and interviews.
Veed.io Video Converter
Convert videos to different file formats including MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, FLV, and more.
Adobe Fresco Painting App
Sketch something and size it up from the original size without pixelation.
Stck.me
Build a super profile for your social accounts. Post audio, ebooks, video, etc.
Workona
Tab and bookmark organizer for your browser.
Remove bg: Remove a Background from Images
SlickInbox
A great way to manage e-newsletters in one place, away from your regular email.
Veed.io Transcription Tool
Transcribe audio and video to text online. Automatic transcription in just one click.
MailBrew
Personal email digest tool. The links you can’t miss, the best content from your favorite creators and newsletters, in a daily email digest.
Kobotoolbox
Reliable free field surveys.
Ice Cream Apps: Screen Recorder
Tool for making introductions.
PDF Candy
Free suite of PDF and file conversion tools.
The GIMP Tutorials
A tutorial site that covers everything you might want to do in GIMP (an open source image editing program), from basic editing operations to advanced custom brush creation and RAW photo editing workflows.
Listen Notes
A podcast search engine.
Manganum
Productivity plug-in for Google Chrome browser.
NewsDeck – from OneSub
Find, filter and analyze thousands of articles, daily. NewsDeck uses the power of OneSub’s intelligent newsreader AI to give you realtime access to the global news cycle.
Listium
A website for creating and sharing lists. Examples of lists published on Listium include products, places, collections, directories and links. Listium is typically used as an alternative to: spreadsheets, when you want something simpler and more attractive; or text lists and tables, when you want more functionality like the ability to sort and filter the list, and also to change its appearance (eg. from a table to an article to a map to a slideshow).
InoReader
Read up to 150 social media accounts in this reader.
VisualPing.io
Track website updates. Enter a URL and it sends you an update when a website has been updated.
Inoreader
A powerful content reading platform, which allows you to discover and consume relevant information on any topic. It can convert any meaningful information stream into a feed and the content is curated and served at a single and convenient place – a website or an app.
GIJN: Google Pinpoint As a Search Engine for Documents, Photos and Video
FutureTools
A treasure chest of AI tools
AnonDaddy
Anonymous email forwarding
Hourglass
A basic countdown timer for Windows
How to Find Public Google Docs (and Slides, Forms, Sheets, and Drawings Too)
Fotor Background Remover
An AI background remover can automatically remove image bg in smooth cut out way without any manual work. It helps edit pictures–journalists need photo editing tools.
Cleanup.pictures
Edit things out of photos quickly with this browser-based tool
Companies.tools
App stacks of some of the top tech companies in the world. See what tools they’re using.
Synthesia
Create Free AI videos from this browser-based tool.
PDF 24 Tools
Edit, merge, split and convert PDF documents
Hypothes.is
Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere, including social media annotation.
ClipDrop
Capture anything around you on your phone and drop it onto your laptop seamlessly.
Figjam
A free whiteboard tool.
Padlet
A digital bulletin board that works well for teaching. Install as a Mac app or use in browser.
Glitch
A good tool for managing data journalism projects.
Noun Project
Add icons to your presentations, sites, etc.
Milanote
Digital bulletin board tool.
EasyRemote
Collaborate with your remote team and get better at what you do with a simple, intuitive tool.
Sunsama
A good day-planning app
NewsFlow
An application that lets you share stories from all over the world. Create your own news by adding photos, videos, text, and links to other sources and share instantly with your head office.
Routine
A solid calendar/planning app
Cloudapp
Record your screen as a video with your voice & face, an annotated image, or a GIF and instantly share it as a link to get your point across. Works for Mac, PC, Chrome, iOS, etc.
Listy
Phone app for creating and sharing lists.
Wonder Tools
A great newsletter from CUNY’s Jeremy Caplan on all types of productivity tools for journalists and others.
Almanac.io
Document creation tool along the lines of Google Docs.
WunderPresentation
Load a link from a Trello board, Notion, Markdown, Figma, etc. into this browser-based tool and it converts it into a slideshow presentation.
TubeBuddy.com
Chrome extension that tracks analytics on YouTube videos.
Scribe
This tool automates the creation of how-to guides via a desktop app or Chrome extension. Users follow a process on the web or in tools they use, this app records clicks and keystrokes and turns it into a guide with text and images. Guides can be shared internally or externally, and embedded in web pages or wikis. This tool is helpful for educators who create digital tools guides, and community- and solutions-focused journalists can speed the document creation process to better help their audiences.
Calendly
Schedule meetings without back-and-forth emails.
Copy.ai
Just type a few words about your product and CopyAI does the rest. It’s like having a legion of copywriters spoon-feeding you ideas and crafting copy that converts. No more writer’s block, missed deadlines, or stale copy.
Soundslides
The audio slideshow tool is back with an upgraded HD version.
Copysmith.ai
Create high-converting ads, product descriptions, emails, and more in seconds – never start from a blank page again. Paid but has a free trial.
Genial.ly
Create charts, infographics, timelines, presentations and more. Set up a free account in seconds
Workflowy Project Management Tool
Machine Translation
Provides access to all available machine translation engines for journalists to easily translate their work into the target language with the best results.
Linktree
Popular with social media users who want to list all of their accounts in one place.
Unpaywall
Want to avoid paying for academic articles? Try this free and legal browser extension which simply monitors the internet for an alternative source where a paper is free.
FlipHTML5
Publishing platform for magazines, zines and other pubs.
Beautiful.ai
Create cool presentations.
Genial.ly
Great interactive video and other multimedia through the templates in this desktop app.
AlternativeTo
Type in a name of a piece of paid software and the site will give you a free alternative. Example: Type in Photoshop and it will give you a list of free, browser-based photo editors such as Fotor.
Remove BG
Remove a background from an image quickly with this free browser-based tool.
OneTab
Google Chrome and Firefox extension to organize browser tabs.
Audio Hijack
Record any application’s audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more. Save audio from hardware devices like microphones and mixers as well. You can even record all the audio heard on your Mac at once! If you can hear it, Audio Hijack can record it.
Diagrams.net
Good for building flowcharts and other basic graphics and static charts.
GIJN Guide: Business Tools for Newsrooms
Productivity and management tools for small newsrooms, including communication, management, file sharing, audience engagement, data visualization, security, passwords and more.
Murmel
A social media aggregator. It saves researchers and journalists the time and effort of scrolling for compelling material on Twitter. Instead, Murmel carefully bundles news and trending items shared by one or more of their Twitter friends. The result is an informative and compact daily email digest. Free 30-day trial and pricing plans as low as $5 after that.
50Hacks
A list of 50 great current productivity tools, voted on users.
Beeline Reader
Makes reading on-screen easier, faster, and more enjoyable. Uses a simple cognitive trick — an eye-guiding color gradient — to pull your eyes through long blocks of text.
Muzzle
A simple Mac-only desktop app that mutes any sound notifications while you record.
The Artificial Creativity Landscape
More than 180 AI tools in a downloadable PDF. Just click on the icons to find your next AI tool for creative and knowledge work.
How to Search Closed Caption Text on YouTube
Newslit.com
Personalized and easy-to-digest news briefs based on your topics of interest and/or Twitter network.
Minelead.io
A technology solutions company that has developed a cutting-edge email finder and verifier tool. It helps to find professional emails for any company or website and verify their quality through a browser extension, API, or web interface.
ComputerWorld: Seven Best Tools for PDF to Excel Conversion
Sharon Machlis reviews the best tools for converting the files.
The Wayback Machine
A new version of Archive.org that searches screengrabs of old website designs.
Naptha: Capture and Copy Text from Images
A great browser plug-in.
Zapier
Connects your apps to help your workflow become more efficient.
Whiteboard Fox
Share a whiteboard in real-time on any web browser.
Scrivener
Great for storyboarding, planning and organizing a deep story.
Zmurl
Event-hosting site for Zoom. Similar to Eventbrite.
Klaxon
A tool that alerts journalists when online content changes.
Design Hornet
Post your publication to the web in a magazine/publication format.
Awesome Screenshot
Capture any part of a page and add text, graphics. Plug-in for Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
ScreenSnapAI
Captures and organizes screenshots with AI
Camp
This app extracts information, people, location, music, etc. from screenshots.
CleanshotX
Capture high-res screenshots
ShareX
Capture screenshots
Trickle
Receive AI-generated insightful summaries for each uploaded screenshot, especially for text-heavy and unstructured diagrams. Uses GPT-4 to allow you to make text queries on screenshot content. Seven-day free trial, then $8 a month.
GetGreenshot.org
Capture screenshots of web pages.
Screenshot.guru
Capture screenshots of web pages.
Air
Great for organizing a photo workflow. Search, share, etc.
Tally
An easy-to-use forms tool.
Lose the Very
Gives you synonyms to words to help avoid using the word very. It’s VERY effective.
TeauxDeaux
As its name implies, this to-do list desktop application that is simple and easy to use.
ToDoList
Another organization tool that’s easy to use.
Training Videos: 30-Minute Skills
The New England First Amendment Coalition presents a monthly educational series featuring short, practical lessons on journalism and the First Amendment. The program — called “30 Minute Skills” — provides reporters and other citizens knowledge they can use immediately in newsgathering, data collection, storytelling and other areas of journalism and First Amendment law. The lessons are featured in a 30-minute format to accommodate the demanding schedules faced by many working in New England newsrooms.
UnDraw.co
Find free illustrations
Cardsmith Digital Stickyboard Tool
What You Need to Know: Embedding Videos into a Site
PDFtoExcel.com
A free web-based service for extracting data tables from regular and scanned PDF files into fully editable Excel spreadsheets. Email address is not required; converts PDFs of any size and does not impose any limits on the number of files that can be converted for free. It can come handy to investigative and data journalists for extracting tabular data from PDFs to .XLSX format for free, especially when working with the big tables.
Open Source Intelligence Tools Handbook (OSINT)
An exhaustive list of current digital research tools– social media, phone records, data scraping, crypto, site-mapping, image search, dark web, etc.
Sidekick
Work OS based on the Chromium browser. Designed to be the ultimate online work experience, it brings together your team and every web tool you use – all in one interface.
Zoomcorder
Virtually attend any Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, WebEx, Goto Meeting, Goto Webinar video meeting. Get a recording sent to you of the meeting for later viewing and archival purposes.
Excalidraw
Free drawing tool that lets you build cool charts.
Docs Online Viewer
Chrome plug-in that lets you view and document right in your browser.
GlideApp
Create an app in a Google Sheet in five minutes. For free.
SpeakPipe
Receive voice messages from your audience directly from your website.
Dropmark
The smart way for teams and individuals to collect, organize, and discuss anything on the web.
ExportComments.com
Easily exports all comments from your social media posts to Excel file.
Downdetector
Monitor when your favorite services are down or having problems. Good for tracking outages on social accounts, government sites, etc.
Pitch
Professionally designed templates in this cool presentation slide-building tool.
Brainshark
Convert Powerpoints into online videos. Free and paid models
FlipSnack
Record your PDF as a slidecast.
WeVideo
Video editor, screen recorder, meme-maker, green screen and more. Good for editing social video and has templates for Facebook and TikTok. Plans start at $5 a month but it has a free trial.
TurboCollage
Photo collage-maker app for your laptop.
EasySub
EasySub is an automatic subtitle generator that provides the most refined automatic subtitles and free subtitle translation on the internet. It helps journalists transcribe audio and video faster, and can perform simple video editing, providing functions such as adding watermarks, modifying video resolution, video format and background color.
Humaans
Create royalty-free illustrations with a variety of skin tones, body types and backgrounds.
Discord
Topic-based channels where you can collaborate, share, and just talk about your day without clogging up a group chat. Good option to Slack.
YouTube Audio Library
Find hundreds of rights-free music tracks.
PageMark Browser Extension
The PageMark add-on for Firefox helps journalists gather, document, and annotate source material for reporting. Make highlights as you read articles in the browser, annotate those highlights, then save your work to a local file so you never lose track of the most important bits of primary documents again. Once saved, notes may be edited or added, and highlights may be tagged, rated, and filtered so important archived information is always just a few clicks away.
Top 10 Timeline-Making Tools
Free and paid resources.
Sourceful
An index of useful Google Sheets and Docs.
ClipChamp
Free in-browser video editor, compressor and converter.
What You Need to Know: Embedding Video
oTranscribe
Web app to transcribe audio interviews.
How to Embed Vertical Video from YouTube or Vimeo
CountWordsFree.com
Web site helps to calculate main text statistics. Text entered can always be saved in proper format. Even PDF documents can be loaded and analyzed.
SendSpace
Send/share large video files.
Ifttt.com
Organize your social media and other online accounts.
Re: Format Gmail Inline Quoter
For gmail users who run chrome, it helps you break up replies to long emails by making a quick highlight+push-button flow. Helpful for email-heavy workflows, and the formatting we insert makes the quoted sections pretty obvious.
latakoo
This tool makes it simple for journalists to securely share video, photos, and audio files over any Internet connection. latakoo handles large files fast and preserves great quality.
Timeline Setter
Tool from ProPublica.
SpeedTest
Check the speed of your internet connection.
Able2Extract Professional
A PDF converter, creator, editor and more. Convert .PDFs into Excel.
Notion.so
Great all-in-one workspace tool.
WeTransfer
Send and receive large files.
Github: Haccer Tweep Scraper Tool
Promo Free Image Resizer
Similar to Landscape from Sprout Social, you can drag an image into this browser-based tool and resize images to fit various social platforms.
Wunderpresentation
A free tool that lets you create a deck automatically from a Notion or Trello link or markdown text.
Lex.page
AI text-generation tool.
Copy.ai
AI text-generation tool.
Knight Lab: Beginners Guide to Collecting Twitter Data
Damon Kiesow: Tools to Improve Your Research and Writing Workflow
MediaCloud
Suite of tools for analyzing media use.
Event Registry
Collects and analyzes news articles published by more than 30,000 news publishers worldwide.
Dead Link Checker
Free and paid versions to help you fix/remove bad links on your site.
Start.me
Build a personalized productivity page.
Screen.so
Collaborate with others like you’re in the same room. Screen-sharing tool that lets you work with colleagues on each other’s screens.
Alfred
Keeps a mini-archive of the last 100 things you’ve copied. Useful if you copy/paste a lot.
Airtable: Journalism-Related Database Tools
Coda: Create Collaborative Docs
FlightEra.net
The database collects flight data and tracking information to generate statistics around aviation. Using data from different sources, we try to provide information not available on other sites. The site uses a variety of freely available data to generate the information. Those include airlines, airports and tracking data from planes. We are always looking for additional information so please get in touch if you would like to provide your data.
How to Set Up a Secure Phone
David Koff’s Medium post walks you through the steps. Important for investigative reporters and international correspondents.
OSINTCurious
Lots of information, tutorials, webcast on finding and verifying information.
Writer.com Free Grammar Checker
Pitch.com
Build killer slides and presentations.
Xmind
Mind-mapping tool.
Audemic
A powerful tool that enables researchers to save time and organize their knowledge. Upload a paper and it will create audio of the paper.
Zotero
A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite and share research.
Mailbird
Manage multiple email accounts in one place.
SameDiff
Compares two or more text files and tells you how similar or different they are. Good for catching plagiarists.
Genially
This site lets you tag photos with audio and a lot more.
Osf.io
Free, open platform to support research and enable collaboration.
Promo Free Image Resizer
Similar to Landscape from Sprout Social, you can drag an image into this browser-based tool and resize images to fit various social platforms.
Distill.io: 15 Successful Journalists Reveal Top 3 Productivity Tools
Figma
Figma helps teams create, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.
Sketch
Create, prototype, collaborate, and bring your ideas to life with the design platform used by over one million people — from freelancers, to the world’s largest teams.
PikWizard
Thousands of rights-free stock images.
Typeform
Creates an online test that engages your colleagues, pupils, or friends. It creates multiple choice test or exam and inspire learning in a fun and engaging way.
Elementor
Tool for building WordPress themes. Free and paid versions.
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