Intro

If you’re still using ChatGPT and Claude in 2026 and calling yourself an AI expert,and I’ve been giving AI workshops for companies around the world, including the Dubai government, Apple, Coca-Cola, HP, Lenovo, and many more. Most people only use the top two or three AI tools, but these ones are the real gold mine.

Then I’ll show you what these tools are, what you can do with them, and how you can start using them for completely free. These tools can help you with research, delegating tasks, making more money, creating videos, creating images, and doing all of that without paying a single rupee.

Gemini AI

All of us have used ChatGPT and Claude, but Gemini is something we often ignore. Here’s the latest news from Google: the paid subscription for Gemini is available completely free for one year for students. That means you get 400 GB of Google Drive space, access to Gemini Omni, which is considered one of the best video generation models, and in Flow Studio you can create some incredible videos, all with the free subscription. You also get higher limits on NotebookLM and Gemini’s deep research feature, plus the latest model, Gemini 3.7 Flash, built right in. If you’re a student, this is the most obvious thing you should take advantage of.

Google has made so many AI tools for learners and researchers, like NotebookLM, Socratic AI, Opal, Jules, Antigravity, flow music, and whatnot. There are so many AI tools, and you get access to all of them with the paid subscription for free as a student. This, in my opinion, is a no-brainer. Links for all of these AI tools will be in the description of this video.

Wispr Flow: AI Voice-to-Text & Prompting

The second AI tool is what I use every single day, and it helps me write longer text without typing. I’m talking about Wispr Flow, and they’re also sponsoring this video. Wispr Flow is an excellent voice-to-text model that works better than native dictation. Suppose I say, “Analyze this. No wait, summarize this. Actually, just turn it into an infographic.” Most tools would type all of that out, or worse, execute the wrong instructions entirely. Wispr Flow understands what you actually want and gives you a clean, ready-to-use prompt. These days, I’ve stopped typing to Claude and ChatGPT, and I simply use Wispr Flow to speak all of my prompts.

What I love the most is their snippet feature. For example, I often use ChatGPT for writing my scripts. Instead of typing the same prompt over and over again, I can just say “write script,” and it will draft the entire prompt with all the details in it. You can set up custom snippets just like this for your own use case, and you can use it in almost any app of your choice, be it Gmail, Notion, Claude, ChatGPT, or any other AI tool. If you spend a lot of time on your laptop, this is honestly a no-brainer. So go try out Wispr Flow with the link in the description of this video.

Draw Things: Free Local AI Image Generation

This one lets you create any image you want, completely free, without internet. If you’re tired of buying subscriptions and waiting for ChatGPT to create an image, you can check out Draw Things. Draw Things is an app you can download for iPad or MacBook that lets you download any open-source image generation model. This could be a Qwen model, this could be a Flux model, this could be any image generation model. Once you download it, you can simply type the prompt, or just use Wispr Flow to speak the prompt, and watch it generate any image you want without using the internet, for unlimited use, as long as you have your laptop and enough battery.

I thought this would be basic, but look at the type of images I was able to create with the help of Draw Things using the latest Qwen model, and they have so many open image models to choose from. Just download it, it’ll take some time, and you can start using the local hardware on your MacBook or iPad to create images. Just one thing to note: your MacBook might get a little hot and take a little longer to generate an image, but it’s completely free and you can use it for unlimited use cases.

n8n: No-Code AI Automation & AI Agents

This next tool is going to make you money, and I’ve literally given an entire workshop on this. It’s a drag-and-drop, no-code automation builder. You can create workflows, build AI agents, and connect different services together with a trigger that kicks off the whole workflow. Any non-technical person can start using it by connecting different services and logging into their accounts. You can connect Google Sheets with a Gemini node, connect that with Gmail, set a trigger, and create any type of email outreach assistant.

There are so many companies that would pay you for setting up agents in their businesses, and n8n is the software you’d use to build them. I’ve made an entire video on why n8n AI agents are the future and can help you make money. n8n has a free 14-day trial you can sign up for and just test out the platform: how it works, how you can build different agents. Then you can either buy their $20 subscription, or sign up for a Hostinger account, which is what I did, and host your n8n agents on a private VPS server, or you can even download the n8n app and host your agents locally on your laptop.

Kimi Slides: AI Presentations & Deep Research

The next tool is going to save your life when it comes to creating slides. I’m not talking about Gamma or Canva, tools you’ve probably already heard of. I’m talking about Kimi Slides. Kimi Slides is a free tool you can check out to create consulting-level presentations and breakdowns of any business. You can run a SWOT analysis, or ask it to gather data, do deep research, go through different reports and surveys, and compile all of that into something visual.

It doesn’t just create images, it also builds bar graphs and charts that make the data a lot easier to read. I’ve never seen such in-depth presentations made by AI. This is literally what consultants and private equity people do on a daily basis, and it takes them two, three, four, five hours to create a single presentation, something that can now be done with the help of Kimi Slides.

If you’re like me, you’re taking meetings every single day, whether you’re at work, building your own freelance business, or attending college lectures.

Granola AI: AI Meeting Notes & Summaries

If you’re doing that, you should really check out Granola. It’s a free tool that records and analyzes all of your meetings on your behalf. What makes it different from Fireflies.ai or other notetakers is that it doesn’t have to join the meeting. It just listens in on the conversation, analyzes everything, and gives you a deep summary, including who said what to whom. They also have a paid subscription available.

And the free version is a great way to get started. Now you’ll say, “Ishan, I can always record my screen and record all of my meetings.” But the best thing about Granola is that you can analyze your meetings and come up with actionables. It turns the audio into written text and gives you the so-what of the meeting, and then you can turn that into a follow-up meeting, a slide to present to someone, or pretty much anything else, once you have the insights and next steps, all with the help of Granola.

Replit Free Mode: Build Websites With AI

This next tool you’ve probably already heard of. And it’s called Replit, but the free mode is what you need to check out today. Replit is a great platform for building any app or website, and you can host it and get a live link as well. They’ve come up with a new update called Free Mode, which runs on the free GPT-5.6 Luna model in partnership with OpenAI, giving you unlimited use of Replit to build any app you want.

All powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, which is actually a very strong model when you think about it. It’s quick, it’s capable, and it can help you build a basic website without paying Replit for it. I’ve personally been paying Replit $25 every month, if not more, for the website I built, helloishan.com/ai, and I think Free Mode will really motivate newcomers who’ve never built a website with AI to get on the platform and start building.

OpenRouter: Access Multiple AI Models

The next tool is called OpenRouter. How many times has it happened that you’re using Gemini or Claude Code to write and build a website, or tried writing to ChatGPT or Claude, and it says your usage quota is exhausted, come back in 5 hours? The fix for this is to check out OpenRouter, a platform that lets you use one connection to access the biggest and most important AI models in one place, for completely free.

Once you install OpenRouter, you can connect it with different services that give you access to free AI models for unlimited use. It has both paid and free options, and if you click on the free ones, you can connect to Antigravity, Nvidia Nemotron, and access models like Claude, Nemotron Ultra, and others, all for free. These are models you’d otherwise have to pay for, but now you can access them through OpenRouter.

Hey Clicky: AI Desktop Agent

The next AI tool is an AI buddy that lives on your desktop or Mac and can help you with almost anything. And it’s called Hey Clicky. Once you install it, you press two keys on your keyboard, it lights up, and it can see your entire screen so you can ask it to do specific tasks. For example, “How do I import images and videos into my Premiere Pro project?” or “How do I create a formula in my Excel sheet to get this result?” You just explain what you want, and you can watch it work right next to your cursor.

It’ll go around and do things while teaching you along the way. I think it’s a really cool AI agent, it can help you learn new software or do things on your behalf, so you can get a lot more done every day than you would on your own.

Rumé AI

This next AI tool is free and can help you land your first job. And it’s called Rumé AI. You simply go there, explain what you do, and it builds a resume for you, completely free. It also has a free ATS checker that analyzes your resume and tells you where it needs work and how to improve it, so it’s more likely to get through an ATS system and land you your first interview. I’m sure you could do something similar for free with ChatGPT or Claude, but this is a custom service built for exactly that, and it also runs the ATS check for you, which I think is really cool. You should definitely check it out, especially if you just graduated from college.

Arcads: AI UGC & Product Ads

This next AI tool is called Arcads, and it helps you create UGC ads or product ads for any business. There are so many businesses around the world that run very few ads for their products. Why? Because it costs a lot of money, and they don’t have the manpower to create different videos for them, and that’s where the opportunity lies. You can use Arcads to create user-generated content that businesses can run ads on and get a higher return on ad spend. Arcads also has an MCP you can connect to either Claude or ChatGPT, letting you create ads just by typing to Claude or ChatGPT.

It’s not just for UGC ads, either. You can create product ads for anything you’re trying to sell, and work with companies around the world. This is especially useful for D2C businesses.

Some people also use Arcads to create AI influencer girls and they end up charging money from mails. So if that’s something you want to do, Arcads is the app for it. But please don’t.

GrokBot: 24/7 AI Agents on the Cloud

The last AI tool on this list, and honestly one of the most powerful, is called GrokBot. Elon Musk just launched GrokBot, and it lets you create AI agents that work for you 24/7 on the cloud. Think of GrokBot as a Linux computer hosted on the cloud that works around the clock for you. Any agent you want, one that checks your emails, does outreach, gets on calls with potential leads, pretty much anything you do in your business, you can now set up an agent to do it on your behalf.

It makes it very easy to set up new bots and let them run 24/7 on the cloud. This doesn’t come cheap, it’s only available on their $200-a-month Grok plan. If that’s the kind of money you can spend, you should absolutely check out GrokBot. It’s also available inside Cursor itself, since Elon Musk reportedly bought Cursor for $60 billion and folded it into the xAI group. Those were the 12 AI tools you should check out in 2026.

Outro

Most of these tools are free. You can start using them today and get some real value out of them. Some of these will even help you make money, for example, n8n, GrokBot, Arcads, Replit’s free mode for creating websites, and Kimi Slides for creating presentations for people. These are like real skills that people pay $20, $30, $40, $50 for on Upwork. Now you can use these tools to access these same opportunities and start making your first money online.

If you’re using all of these AI tools, check out Wispr Flow with the link in the description of this video, and start speaking your prompts instead of typing them.