82 free tools · zero signup walls · verified 2026-08-19

The starter pack for people who build with AI

Every open-source tool, model, and service we actually use to make apps, videos, and companies. Curated by Pamba, verified monthly, free forever.

every search has its own link, e.g. pamba.app/tools?q=watermark

82 of 82 tools

All tools

🧹

AI Slop Remover

free · runs in your browser

RUN IN BROWSER

Paste AI text, get it back without the em dashes, delve-words, curly quotes, and invisible unicode watermarks.

🫥

Metadata Scrubber

free · runs on-device

RUN IN BROWSER

See exactly what your image is leaking (EXIF, GPS, C2PA provenance), then strip it without re-encoding. Nothing uploads.

📱

Safe-Zone Previewer

free · runs in your browser

RUN IN BROWSER

Overlay the TikTok, Reels, and Shorts UI on your video so captions never hide behind the like button.

💬

Caption Toolkit

free · runs in your browser

RUN IN BROWSER

Turn SRT files into word-per-line TikTok captions, shift timings, and export plain text. The boring caption chores, automated.

🧊

App Icon Resizer

free · runs on-device

RUN IN BROWSER

One 1024px icon in, a zip of every iOS, Android, and favicon size out. Ten seconds, no upload.

🖼️

OG Image Maker

free · runs in your browser

RUN IN BROWSER

Type a title, pick a style, download the 1200x630 social card. Your links stop looking like spam.

📜

Policy Generator

free · no signup

RUN IN BROWSER

Answer six questions, get the privacy policy and terms the App Store requires, in Markdown.

remove-ai-watermarks

★ 5k · Apache-2.0

★ TOP PICK

Strips the Gemini sparkle watermark from your own generated images, plus the invisible SynthID and C2PA tags.

tell claude ›clone github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks and remove the watermark from every image in ~/Downloads
🍌

GeminiWatermarkTool

★ 3.1k · MIT

Desktop app that removes the Veo and Nano Banana watermark from your Gemini images and videos. No terminal needed.

🖌️

IOPaint

★ 23k · Apache-2.0

★ TOP PICK

Brush over anything in a photo and AI paints it out. People, logos, text. Runs locally.

tell claude ›install IOPaint with pip and open the web UI so I can erase objects from photos
GitHub ↗archived Apr 2025, still installs and works

We use these to make AI UGC videos that sell

Pamba turns a product link into avatar videos, posts them to TikTok, and reads the analytics. This page is our toolbox; that is our product.

🎞️

video-subtitle-remover

★ 12k · Apache-2.0

★ TOP PICK

Removes hardcoded subtitles or watermarks from video, losslessly, fully on your machine. Nobody believes this is free.

✂️

rembg

★ 24k · MIT

Background removal in one command. The thing remove.bg charges for, minus the pricing page.

tell claude ›use rembg to remove the background from every product photo in this folder
🔍

Upscayl

★ 49k · AGPL-3.0

★ TOP PICK

Drag a blurry image in, get 4x resolution out. A real desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

🧪

Real-ESRGAN

★ 37k · BSD-3-Clause

The upscaling model itself, as a CLI. Use Upscayl unless you want the knobs.

🧓

GFPGAN

★ 38k · Tencent license

Restores old, blurry, or damaged faces in photos. The grandparents-photo tool.

🛠️

CodeFormer

★ 18k · non-commercial

Heavier-duty face restoration that survives truly wrecked photos.

GitHub ↗research license, no commercial use
🐇

RIFE

★ 5.6k · MIT

AI frame interpolation. Turns 30fps footage into buttery 120fps slow motion.

🌊

Flowframes

★ 2k · GPL-3.0

The Windows GUI for RIFE. Same fake slow-mo magic, zero terminal.

⬇️

yt-dlp

★ 186k · Unlicense

Downloads video or audio from basically any site on the internet. One command.

tell claude ›install yt-dlp and download this video as mp4: <paste url>
🎛️

FFmpeg

★ 63k · LGPL/GPL

The tool every video app is secretly built on. Convert, trim, compress, resize, anything.

tell claude ›write me the ffmpeg command to compress this video under 50MB without visible quality loss
🍹

HandBrake

★ 24k · GPL-2.0

GUI video compressor. Shrinks a 2GB file to 100MB so you can actually send it.

📡

OBS Studio

★ 75k · GPL-2.0

The free recording and streaming standard. If you have watched a stream, you have seen OBS.

🎥

Cap

★ 21k · source-available

Beautiful shareable screen recordings. Loom charges monthly for this.

GitHub ↗source-available, not plain OSS
🖊️

Screenity

★ 18k · GPL-3.0

Unlimited screen recording as a Chrome extension, with annotation while you record.

OpenCut

★ 85k · MIT

★ TOP PICK

The open-source CapCut alternative. Browser-based editing, no export watermark, no subscription.

🎬

Shotcut

★ 15k · GPL-3.0

Cross-platform open-source video editor with a real timeline.

🎞

Kdenlive

★ 5.5k · GPL-3.0

The most professional fully-free video editor. No strings, no watermark.

⚛️

Remotion

★ 57k · free for individuals

Make videos with React code. Vibe-code your video templates instead of clicking timelines.

GitHub ↗companies above a size threshold need a paid license
🎠

Gifski

★ 8.5k · MIT

Converts video to genuinely high-quality GIFs on Mac.

⏱️

whisperX

★ 24k · BSD-2-Clause

★ TOP PICK

Whisper transcription with word-level timestamps and speaker labels. The caption-maker's weapon.

tell claude ›transcribe interview.mp4 with whisperX and give me word-timed SRT captions
🎧

whisper

★ 108k · MIT

OpenAI's open speech-to-text. Transcribes anything in 90+ languages.

faster-whisper

★ 25k · MIT

Whisper, four times faster on the same hardware. An hour of audio in minutes.

🥔

whisper.cpp

★ 53k · MIT

Speech-to-text that runs on a laptop, a phone, or a potato. No GPU, no cloud, no upload.

💬

auto-subs

★ 4k · MIT

Free AI subtitles inside DaVinci Resolve and Premiere. Skip the caption-app subscription.

🗣️

GPT-SoVITS

★ 61k · MIT

★ TOP PICK

Clone any voice from one minute of audio. Free, local, and unsettlingly good.

🎙️

F5-TTS

★ 15k · MIT

Zero-shot voice cloning from about ten seconds of reference. No training run required.

📢

Chatterbox

★ 26k · MIT

Open state-of-the-art TTS with emotion control, from a company that sells the paid version.

🌸

Kokoro

★ 8.5k · Apache-2.0

An 82M-parameter voice that renders faster than real time. Voiceovers on any hardware.

🎵

AudioCraft

★ 24k · MIT (code)

Meta's text-to-music and sound effects. Type a vibe, get royalty-free background music.

🔊

stable-audio-tools

★ 3.8k · MIT

Stability AI's open text-to-audio toolkit. The sfx generation angle.

🥁

demucs

★ 3.1k · MIT

★ TOP PICK

Splits any song into vocals, drums, bass, and everything else. Karaoke and sample flips, free.

tell claude ›use demucs to extract just the vocals from track.mp3
🎚️

Ultimate Vocal Remover

★ 26k · MIT

The desktop GUI for stem separation. Same result as demucs, no terminal.

GitHub ↗dormant since Mar 2025, still works
🧬

humanizer

★ 37k · MIT

★ TOP PICK

A skill you drop into Claude that strips the AI tells from writing. The em-dash killer with 37k stars.

tell claude ›install the humanizer skill from github.com/blader/humanizer and rewrite my draft with it
📝

Harper

★ 15k · Apache-2.0

Grammarly, except it runs offline and never reads your writing back to a server.

🔤

LanguageTool

★ 15k · LGPL-2.1

Self-hostable style and grammar checking in 25+ languages.

📄

marker

★ 39k · Apache-2.0

Turns any PDF into clean Markdown your LLM can actually read. Fast and scarily accurate.

tell claude ›use marker to convert this 80-page PDF into markdown, then summarize it
GitHub ↗free below a revenue threshold
🗂️

docling

★ 65k · MIT

IBM's document parser. PDF, DOCX, and PPTX into structured data for your RAG pipeline.

🌞

surya

★ 21k · Apache-2.0

OCR that actually works on receipts, tables, and bad scans. 90+ languages.

GitHub ↗free below a revenue threshold
🐼

PaddleOCR

★ 88k · Apache-2.0

Industrial-strength OCR toolkit. Turns PDFs and images into structured data.

🔎

Tesseract

★ 76k · Apache-2.0

The classic OCR engine. Image in, text out, twenty years of battle testing.

📸

NormCap

★ 2.7k · GPL-3.0

Screenshot any region of your screen and it copies the text, not the pixels.

📎

Stirling-PDF

★ 90k · source-available

Self-hosted web app doing 50+ PDF jobs. Merge, sign, redact, OCR, compress. Stop paying Adobe.

GitHub ↗source-available, not plain OSS
🦙

Ollama

★ 179k · MIT

★ TOP PICK

One command to run DeepSeek, Qwen, or Gemma on your own machine. ChatGPT at home, private.

tell claude ›install ollama, pull the best model that fits my RAM, and set it up as a chat assistant
🧠

llama.cpp

★ 125k · MIT

The inference engine underneath everything. Runs serious LLMs on plain CPUs.

🖥️

Open WebUI

★ 149k · BSD-based

A self-hosted ChatGPT-style interface for your local models. Multi-user, RAG built in.

GitHub ↗license carries a branding clause
👋

Jan

★ 44k · custom

An offline ChatGPT-alternative desktop app. Download, open, chat.

🧫

LM Studio

free for personal use

The most polished desktop app for local models. The easiest on-ramp.

Visit ↗not open source
🚀

vLLM

★ 89k · Apache-2.0

High-throughput model serving for when your side project outgrows Ollama.

🕸️

ComfyUI

★ 128k · GPL-3.0

The node-graph cockpit for running every open image and video model on your own GPU.

⌨️

Claude Code

★ 142k · free tier

★ TOP PICK

Agentic coding in your terminal. The reason half this page ends with tell Claude to.

🖱️

Cursor

free tier

The AI-native code editor. Free tier is enough to feel the difference.

Visit ↗not open source
🤝

aider

★ 48k · Apache-2.0

AI pair programming in the terminal that works with any model, including free local ones.

🙌

OpenHands

★ 85k · MIT

An open-source autonomous dev agent. A free AI employee that writes the boring code.

🧩

shadcn/ui

★ 122k · MIT

Copy-paste React components. The reason every vibe-coded app looks decent now.

🔐

better-auth

★ 30k · MIT

Drop-in TypeScript auth. Login, sessions, and OAuth in an afternoon.

tell claude ›add better-auth to my app with email and Google login

Supabase

★ 108k · Apache-2.0

Postgres, auth, and storage with a free tier generous enough to launch on.

🔗

n8n

★ 201k · fair-code

Visual workflow automation with native AI nodes. Cancel Zapier, self-host this.

GitHub ↗fair-code, not plain OSS
✏️

Excalidraw

★ 130k · MIT

Hand-drawn-style whiteboard for diagrams, thumbnails, and explainers.

🌐

browser-use

★ 110k · MIT

★ TOP PICK

Lets an AI agent drive a real browser to do tasks for you.

🔥

Firecrawl

★ 170k · AGPL-3.0

Turns any website into LLM-ready data. Give Claude the entire internet.

🕷️

crawl4ai

★ 79k · Apache-2.0

The fully open, self-hosted crawler. Firecrawl without the invoice.

🎭

Playwright

★ 95k · Apache-2.0

Script and test any website. The automation layer under half the AI browser agents.

🦔

PostHog

★ 38k · MIT core

Analytics, session replay, and feature flags with a huge free tier.

📊

Plausible

★ 29k · AGPL-3.0

Privacy-first analytics with no cookie banner required.

🌅

Satori

★ 14k · MPL-2.0

HTML and CSS into SVG. Auto-generate a share image for every page you ship.

🏛️

Stripe Atlas

$500 one-time

Incorporate a Delaware company, get the bank intro and tax IDs, from anywhere on earth.

🏦

Mercury

free

The default startup bank account. Free, fast to open, plays nice with Atlas.

⚖️

Clerky

paid per document

Lawyer-grade incorporation and standard startup paperwork. What YC companies actually use.

🐷

Porkbun

at-cost

Cheap domains with free WHOIS privacy and no upsell maze at checkout.

📜

app-privacy-policy-generator

★ 4.7k · AGPL-3.0

Open-source generator for the privacy policy and terms the App Store requires.

🍳

icon.kitchen

free

Free app-icon generator. Every iOS, Android, and PWA size in one download.

📲

shots.so

free tier

Device-mockup screenshots for App Store pages and launch posts.