Deals & Free Tools
The best AI tools that will not break the bank. Free tiers, affordable plans, and open source gems.
Best Free Tools
Top-rated tools with genuinely useful free tiers.
VS Code
The most popular code editor. Free, extensible, and the foundation of modern development.
Figma
The collaborative design tool that replaced Photoshop for UI/UX. Now with AI.
Linear
Issue tracking for software teams who care about speed and design quality.
GitHub
Where the world builds software. Git hosting, CI/CD, project management, and Copilot AI.
Canva
Design everything without being a designer. Templates, AI, collaboration — all in one.
Cursor
AI-first code editor. The VS Code fork that makes AI coding actually work.
Claude
The thoughtful AI. Best-in-class for long documents, nuanced writing, and careful reasoning.
Stripe
The payment infrastructure for the internet. APIs for every payment scenario imaginable.
Cloudflare
CDN, DNS, security, and edge computing. The internet infrastructure behind millions of sites.
OBS
Free, open-source streaming and recording. The industry standard for live content.
Vercel
Deploy frontend apps instantly. The platform Next.js was built for.
Plausible
Privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative. No cookies, GDPR-compliant, lightweight.
Best Value (Under $10/mo)
Premium features at budget-friendly prices.
Things 3
The most beautiful task manager ever made. Apple-only, one-time purchase, pure GTD.
Linear
Issue tracking for software teams who care about speed and design quality.
GitHub
Where the world builds software. Git hosting, CI/CD, project management, and Copilot AI.
Stripe
The payment infrastructure for the internet. APIs for every payment scenario imaginable.
Midjourney
The AI image generator with the best aesthetic taste. Discord-based, wildly popular.
Plausible
Privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative. No cookies, GDPR-compliant, lightweight.
Notion
All-in-one workspace for notes, docs, wikis, projects, and databases. Infinitely flexible.
Todoist
The best personal task manager. Clean, fast, with natural language input that actually works.
Flux
Open-source AI image model from Black Forest Labs. The new Stable Diffusion.
Photopea
Free Photoshop alternative that runs entirely in your browser. Seriously impressive.
Google Drive
The default cloud storage. 15GB free, seamless Google Workspace integration.
Stable Diffusion
Open-source AI image generation. Run locally, customize infinitely, own everything.
Open Source Picks
Free forever, community-driven, and fully customizable.
n8n
Self-hostable workflow automation. Open source, no per-execution limits, full control.
PostHog
All-in-one product analytics, session replay, feature flags, and A/B testing. Open source.
Grafana
Open-source observability dashboards. Visualize any data source beautifully.
Flux
Open-source AI image model from Black Forest Labs. The new Stable Diffusion.
Stable Diffusion
Open-source AI image generation. Run locally, customize infinitely, own everything.
Metabase
Open-source business intelligence. Ask questions of your database without SQL.
Appsmith
Open-source Retool alternative. Build internal tools with full source code control.
Chatwoot
Open-source Intercom alternative. Self-host customer support with no per-agent limits.
Activepieces
Open-source Zapier alternative. Self-host your automations with no per-task limits.