AI is not just about chatbots anymore. Today, powerful free tools help you research smarter, design faster, write better, and even make music or build websites—all using AI. You’re missing out if you’ve only been using ChatGPT or Gemini. Here are ten free AI tools you should check out in 2025.
1. Perplexity
Perplexity is like a search engine mixed with an AI assistant. Instead of giving you a long list of links like Google, it gives you a direct answer to your question, and shows the websites it used to find that answer.
You can ask anything from current events to complex science questions, and it responds in a clean, easy-to-understand way. It also lists sources below each answer, which is perfect if you want to double-check the facts or dive deeper.
2. Claude
Claude is built by Anthropic and is one of the smartest AI chatbots out there. What makes it special is how well it handles long documents. You can paste in a full research paper, a contract, or even a book chapter, and Claude will understand and respond in seconds.
It’s also great at following instructions and sounds more thoughtful in its replies compared to many other AI tools.
3. Mistral
Mistral is an open-source AI model that works quickly and efficiently. You can use it on platforms like Poe or in developer environments. While it might not have a flashy interface, it’s surprisingly smart and responsive.
It doesn’t require much to run, which is why developers and casual users like it. It’s lightweight, flexible, and doesn’t try to overcomplicate things.
4. Leonardo
Leonardo is an AI tool that turns your words into high-quality images. It’s popular with designers, game developers, and content creators. You just describe what you want, like “a warrior standing on a mountain during sunset”—and Leonardo creates it.
The tool gives you multiple styles to choose from, and the results are often good enough to use in real projects.
5. Krisp
Krisp is an AI-powered noise-canceling app that works with Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, and more. It listens to your voice during calls and removes all background noise automatically—like dogs barking, children crying, fans spinning, or street traffic.
It works on both sides of the call, too, which means it can also block noise coming from the other person.
6. Riffusion
Riffusion lets you generate short pieces of music just by typing in what you want to hear. You could type something like “peaceful piano background music” or “fast-paced techno beat,” and it will create a short audio track that matches your request.
It’s based on AI models trained to understand both text and sound, and the results are surprisingly good for a free tool.
7. Runway
Runway is a powerful video and image editing platform that uses AI to do things that used to take hours. You can remove backgrounds from videos, add effects, or even create scenes with just a prompt.
One standout feature is “video inpainting,” where you can remove an object from a video, and the tool fills in the missing background automatically.
8. Tome
Tome helps you create beautiful, professional presentations using AI. You just enter a topic, and it creates a full slideshow—complete with text, images, and layout.
You can adjust things after it generates the slides, but most of the heavy lifting is already done.
9. Eightify
Eightify is a Chrome extension that summarizes YouTube videos in just a few seconds. It scans the video, picks out the main points, and gives you a bullet-point summary.
It works best with educational content, interviews, or long explainers.
10. Durable
Durable builds a complete website for you in less than one minute. You just tell it your business type—like bakery, consulting, or photography—and it generates a working website with content, images, layout, and contact info.
It’s fully editable, and you don’t need to touch any code.
These free AI tools in 2025 show that you don’t have to rely only on big names like ChatGPT or Gemini to benefit from AI. There are plenty of free tools that can help you save time, improve your work, and even have fun creating things you never thought possible.
Try a few of them out and see which ones fit your style or workflow. And keep checking back—AI is moving fast, and new tools are launching every month.
