The 15 from the post
01 Image Creation
Midjourney to Nano Banana
gemini.google.com
Googles image model. Free in the Gemini app.
02 Ai Research
Perplexity to Consensus
consensus.app
Searches actual research papers, not the open web.
03 Avatar Creation
HeyGen to Hedra
hedra.com
Talking avatars from one photo. Free credits monthly.
04 Code Generation
GitHub Copilot to Cursor
cursor.com
Free Hobby tier. Same editor, limited fast requests.
05 Cinematic Creation
Runway ML to Stable Diffusion
stablediffusionweb.com
Open source. Free forever if you run it yourself.
06 Image Editing
Adobe Firefly to Photoroom
photoroom.com
Background removal and product shots. Free tier.
07 Video Generation
Higgsfield to Hailuo
hailuoai.video
Free daily generation credits.
08 Social Scheduling
Buffer to Publer
publer.com
Free plan covers 3 accounts and 10 scheduled posts.
09 Presentation Design
Canva to Lovart
lovart.ai
AI design agent. Free credits to start.
10 Website Builder
Framer AI to Durable
durable.co
Builds a site in a minute. Free to build, paid to publish.
11 Video Editing
CapCut to Edits
Suno to Udio
udio.com
Free monthly generation credits.
13 Voice Generation
ElevenLabs to MiniMax
minimaxi.com
Free text to speech credits, many languages.
14 Seo Research
Surfer SEO to Ubersuggest
Jasper AI to Copy.ai
copy.ai
Free plan covers 2,000 words a month.
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16 Transcription
Otter to Whisper
Fireflies to Tactiq
tactiq.io
Live transcripts for Meet and Zoom. Free tier.
18 Grammar
Grammarly to LanguageTool
languagetool.org
Open source. Browser extension is free.
19 Image Upscaling
Topaz to Upscayl
upscayl.org
Free and open source. Runs offline.
20 Design and Prototyping
Figma to Penpot
penpot.app
Open source Figma alternative. Free, self hostable.
21 Screen Recording
Loom to OBS Studio
obsproject.com
The standard for recording and streaming. Free.
22 Automation
Zapier to n8n
n8n.io
Self host it and every workflow is free.
23 Research Notebook
ChatPDF to NotebookLM
notebooklm.google.com
Upload sources, ask questions. Free from Google.
24 Local Ai Models
ChatGPT Plus to Ollama
ollama.com
Run models on your own machine. No subscription.
25 Background Removal
remove.bg to Rembg
Open source. Unlimited, runs locally.
Free, for your email
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