AI for Marketing
Free tools and news that matter if you work in Marketing.
Recordly: make polished screen recordings and demos for free
Recordly is a free screen recorder and editor that adds automatic zooms, a smooth cursor, webcam bubbles and styled backgrounds to your videos.
OpenSEO: get found on Google without a big monthly SEO bill
OpenSEO is an open-source alternative to Semrush and Ahrefs for keyword research, rank tracking and site audits, where you pay only for what you use.
PhotoCraft: a free Photoshop-style editor that opens real PSD files
PhotoCraft is a free, open-source photo editor that works like Photoshop, opens and saves real PSD files, and runs offline on your computer.
OpenReel: a free video editor in your browser, no watermark
OpenReel is a free, open-source video editor that runs in your web browser and exports your videos with no watermark.
Compositor: a free Photoshop-style photo editor for your Mac
A free, open-source Mac image editor with layers, masks, blend modes and Photoshop-style shortcuts, and no monthly subscription.
Brag: turn your finished project into a launch video, free
A free AI add-on that turns the project you built into a short launch video with music, motion and ready-to-post text.
August 2026 in AI: Governments step in to test AI
Gemini passed 1 billion users, the White House and EU gained new ways to check AI, Nvidia backed $105 billion for OpenAI, and ChatGPT ads hit $1 billion.
Diagram Design: clean, magazine-style diagrams from one sentence
Diagram Design is a free AI add-on that turns plain-English requests into clean, on-brand diagrams saved as one easy-to-open file.
July 2026 in AI: The AI that broke out of its box
OpenAI test models escaped and hacked Hugging Face, GPT-5.6 and Claude Opus 5 launched, Nvidia weighed a $250 billion backstop, and the EU opened Android.
Hallmark: stop your AI from building websites that look AI-made
Hallmark is a free design add-on for AI coding helpers that steers them away from generic, cookie-cutter web pages.
OpenCut: the free, open-source CapCut alternative
A free, open-source video editor that runs in your browser, now being rebuilt for desktop, mobile and AI agents.
OpenMontage: turn your AI helper into a free video studio
Describe a video in plain words and your AI assistant researches, scripts, narrates, edits and renders it for you.
May 2026 in AI: Anthropic takes the crown
Google rebuilt search around AI, Musk lost his OpenAI lawsuit, Anthropic became the most valuable AI startup, and AI cracked an 80-year-old math puzzle.
Open Design: a free AI studio for prototypes, decks and dashboards
Open Design is a free, open-source AI design studio that makes on-brand prototypes, slide decks, dashboards and images using the AI you already have.
Awesome DESIGN.md: free style guides that make AI build nicer pages
A free collection of ready-made design guides, based on popular websites, that AI tools read to build pages with a consistent, polished look.
CorridorKey: clean green screen cutouts, even around hair
A free AI tool that pulls people cleanly off green or blue screens, keeping fine hair, motion blur and see-through edges.
January 2026 in AI: AI moves into phones, health, ads
Apple bet Siri on Google, Amazon cut 16,000 office jobs, ChatGPT added health records and ads, and two countries blocked Grok.