Editor’s note: This page lists noteworthy AI tools and training videos that we’ve added to the site in the last few weeks.

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Conversent.io
If your archives could talk, what would they say? Find moments of audio as easily as asking a question. It captions and indexes your audio, making it searchable and easy to find soundbites.

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.

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.

Editara
A free AI photo editor that lets users describe one change at a time in plain language. It can remove unwanted objects, restore old photos, colorize black-and-white images, extend a scene, and upscale results. It requires no sign-up, adds no watermark, and deletes uploads after processing.

StudioEditor
A free, browser-based audio workspace in which recording, timeline editing, exporting, leveling and automatically ducking music under speech cost nothing. Designed for podcasters, creators, educators, interviewers, journalists and media, it combines a traditional audio editor interface with optional but unbeatable AI-tools, all in your browser.

AI Enforcement Monitor Germany & EU
Tracks officially published investigations, orders, fines, remedies, and appeals involving AI and automated decision-making in Germany and across the EU. Each entry links to the official source and preserves the procedural stage, legal basis, and a permanent evidence dossier, without generating a compliance score or automated legal interpretation. It is a free, continuously updated research tool for journalists who need to verify what authorities have actually published and distinguish open proceedings from final decisions.

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.

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.

Visualtruth.ai
Detect deepfakes and verify video authenticity with AI–

Monitoring Wildfires Using Open Source Tools
Training video on how to use the tools

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.

Sleek
AI mobile app design too. Use text prompts to design apps in minutes.

MapMaker.news
Fast, uncomplicated map maker for reporters and digital producers. No GIS skills. No designer. No complicated workflow. 2-week free trial with paid models starting at $6 monthly. 

Civilio
Transforms public meeting videos and documents into searchable, verifiable data, so you can instantly track issues across all levels of government. Civilio’s civic intelligence database was designed by journalists for data transparency, accuracy, and verification. All outputs have been independently benchmarked by data scientists at the University of Virginia, with all claims linked directly to source data for quick validation.

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.

What Uses More?
Compare the environmental footprint of digital tasks

Glasp

YouTube video summarizer among many tools in the suite

ChronoVerify
A  free web verifier and developer API that checks what evidence an image file carries: it validates C2PA Content Credentials against the official trust lists, reads EXIF and XMP capture metadata, and runs classical pixel forensics, returning one verdict with a confidence score. It is a C2PA Conformant Validator listed on the C2PA Conforming Products List and a Section 1 signatory of the EU Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content. It is not an AI detector; it verifies provenance rather than guessing how an image was made, and every check can mint a shareable verdict permalink journalists can cite. Free version plus per-image pricing

The Community AI Workflow Hub
The Rundown’s one-stop shop to learn how everyday builders are actually applying AI — and to share your own. It’s a good way to network and find examples of how journalists and others are using AI.

Originality AI: Guideline Checker
Easily see if essays, papers, or articles are formatted similarly to editing guidelines.

Data Desk
Turns hard-to-access local data sources into a stream of editor-ready story leads. It ingests, structures, and summarizes hard-to-access local data — court records, restaurant inspections, DOT traffic, public-health alerts, civic notices, transit data — and surfaces it as a continuous flow of story leads delivered into the newsroom’s workflow. Editors choose which leads to develop; United Robots does the legwork of finding, parsing, and packaging the signal. Best for small-to-medium local newsrooms that want to cover civic and community data but don’t have the time, headcount, or engineering capacity to chase down dozens of fragmented sources.

HeyGen Video Podcast
Upload your notes and HeyGen will convert it into studio video show

OSINT Tools Library

Verify OpenAI Images Tool
Upload an image and the tool will tell you if it was made with an OpenAI tool, Checking SynthID.

Reality Defender
Built primarily for enterprise, government and media organizations, it includes real-time detection for video, voice cloning and images. It’s particularly useful if you’re dealing with political videos, scams or breaking-news verification.

TrueMedia.org
A free service designed for journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers.

Investigate Midwest: 5 Things to Know About Data Centers
A focus on rural areas.

How Much Electricity Does AI Consume? [2025 Summary]

TextBases Sentence Counter
A free browser-based tool that counts sentences, words, paragraphs, characters, average words per sentence, and estimated reading and speaking time. Journalists and editors can use it to spot dense drafts, review pacing, and compare sentence structure before publishing. It requires no account, and normal text processing runs locally in the browser.

Earth Index
Empowering environmental defenders with AI to understand local trends.

Lenfest Institute: Solution Set: What Works Best for AI Experimentation in Newsrooms

Revise
A new, browser-based word processor with a built-in AI agent. Revise is designed for complex, full-document edits. It supports every major model (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok) in one place, with visual revision history so every AI change is trackable and reversible. Free model with upgrades starting at $8 a month.

We Detect: AI or Not?
A free, no-login image checker that returns a probability rather than a yes/no, and deletes the image right after analysis. It catches roughly 85% of Midjourney, DALL·E, SDXL, and Flux images, and it publishes its weak spots instead of hiding them.

Archivarix Echo
A search engine that pulls results from more than 200 online archives, including the Wayback Machine, national archives, academic research databases and more. Paste anything, a URL, DOI, ISBN, social handle, file hash, or just a title. We detect what it is and route to the right archives.

 Achivarix Tube Search
“Find deleted YouTube videos and recover their metadata, thumbnails, and subtitles from archive data.” 

OneLook
Search engine for words. Get its history, where it has been used and several dictionary definitions.

Google Training Video: How Does SynthID Work?

AI Deepfake Detector
Helps journalists screen video, audio, images, and text for possible AI generation or manipulation before publication. It combines C2PA provenance data, file metadata, and AI analysis to return a risk level with uncertainty notes rather than a definitive verdict; no signup is required, and each visitor receives free checks. DeepFakeCheck does not retain uploads after the request completes, while media sent to Google Gemini is subject to Google’s privacy policy. Two free checks, then a $6.99 monthly fee.

OnDevicePDF
A free suite of browser-based PDF tools (redact, remove metadata, password-protect/unlock, merge, split, compress, OCR) that processes files on the journalist’s own device — no uploads, no account. Its security tools run under a sealed browser Content-Security-Policy, so a source document physically cannot be transmitted to any server; reporters can verify this themselves in DevTools or at ondevicepdf.com/verify. Works offline once loaded, which also suits reporting from low-connectivity environments.

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. 

Canva Code
Canva’s vibe-coding tool with drag-and-drop editing

French Journalist Found More Than 15,000 Fake News Sites
French investigative journalist and educator Jean-Marc Manach has spent two years tracking AI-generated ‘news’ sites and has identified more than 15,000 of them – some earning millions of dollars by gaming Google Discover. He explains how to spot them, and why the industry should be worried.

MacWhisper (Whisper Transcription)
Free but it’s only available on Apple devices. It runs locally, meaning the audio and transcriptions never leave your local computer. 

ScriptTimer
A  free script timing calculator built for journalists, podcasters, and broadcast creators. Paste any script and instantly get your exact speaking time, word count, and per-paragraph timing breakdown — no sign-up required. It works in any language and supports slow, normal, and fast speaking speeds for radio segments, podcast episodes, and video packages.

AI for Newsrooms
Everything about AI for journalism in one place — curated for editors, reporters, and local newsrooms. Track real initiatives, policies, research, tools, and a daily newsfeed.

Indicator: Seven Web Scrapers Put to the Test

Poynter AI Leadership Hub
Focuses on AI literacy, training and ethics.

Higgsfield Explainer
Turn a topic into an explainer video

AI Top Hub
A directory of more than 5,000 AI tools organized by category with ratings and reviews

VideoMasker
A browser-based video de-identification editor for journalists, educators, researchers, creators, and organizations that need to blur faces before sharing footage. It detects faces automatically in the browser, then lets users review the timeline and fix missed or misplaced masks before export. Processing is local in the browser for ordinary use, so sensitive footage does not need to be uploaded to a remote server just to create face masks.

ReporterLens.app
Analyzes news articles by breaking down sourcing, evidence, and narrative framing — measuring the structural alignment of any story to show what is driving it beneath the surface.

Full Fact
Fact-checks claims made by politicians, public institutions and the media, as well as viral content online. We focus on facts, not opinions. They also build AI tools that allow small groups of people to fact-check false or misleading claims at internet scale. The tools have been used in more than forty countries around the world.

Truthout: Google’s New AI-Fueled Search Bar Threatens to Further Upend Journalism Industry
Independent journalism needs a lifeline to survive as Google urges readers toward AI summaries instead of article links.

OpenArt Director
Launched in June 2026, this vibe-directing tool builds short videos from its chat.

Are You In the Weights?
Find out if your name or website appears in Large Language Models like ChatGPT, Claude, etc.

Flaurent Daudents: The Half of Journalism AI Can’t Do Yet
A new paper from Oxford and Stanford built a seven-agent “virtual newsroom.” Daudents tested it, and the result says less about whether AI can do journalism, more about which half of the job is still ours as journalists.

Reuters Digital News Report (2026)
New data on where news website traffic is coming from, viewer habits and more.

Fast
Check your internet speed

Down Detector
Check if any site is down or having service issues.

The Arc-Hives Index
A claim verification platform that traces journalist and researcher claims back to primary source records, such as government databases, official filings, and original documents, producing a permanent, timestamped, citable verification record for every run. Unlike general AI fact-checkers, the pipeline architecturally disqualifies wire service reports, aggregator sites, and same-event news coverage as independent corroboration, returning an “unverifiable” verdict rather than a false consensus when primary evidence is absent. The platform also includes The Hive, a knowledge graph where verified claims and story subjects connect across articles, surfacing cross-story patterns that individual outlets miss.

Attesta
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.

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.

ZenMic
Turn any text, blog, or RSS feed into a professional multi-speaker podcast. Custom voices, full script control and your own podcast RSS feed

Whisper Web
Free, browser-based transcription tool that converts audio and video files to text in 100+ languages with no signup required. It runs OpenAI’s Whisper model directly in your browser, so interview recordings never leave your device — a meaningful privacy protection for journalists. It’s a practical zero-cost option for reporters transcribing interviews on deadline.

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.