Best New Free AI Tools This Week

The best new free AI tools this week are Claude's Slides, Docs and Design, GenPage and IrisGo. One makes the decks and proposals you'd normally pay a design app for, one builds landing pages for your ads, and one takes repetitive admin off your hands. You can start all three without a credit card.

Most of the week's headlines were about models you reach through an API, or features that only paying subscribers get. That's useful if you're building software. It's less useful if you run a bakery in Johor Bahru or freelance as a marketer in Cebu. So we asked the same question we ask every week: what can a small business or a freelancer in the region use today, for nothing, without handing over a card?

Three tools passed. Every free limit below comes from the vendor's own pricing page, download page or announcement, and where a free plan has a catch, we say so up front.

What are the new free AI tools this week?

Here's the short version:

• Claude Design, Slides and Docs (claude.ai). Anthropic's tools for making decks, documents and visuals inside a Claude chat left beta and now work on the Free plan. Decks export to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides.
• GenPage (genpage.ai). Version 3.0 of this AI landing page builder launched with a new AI agent and Google Ads support. The Free plan gives 100 credits a month.
• IrisGo (irisgo.ai). A Windows and Mac app that records a task you do once and replays it. The new solopreneur edition adds a morning brief and inbox triage, and it's free during the public beta.

Two of them sit in our productivity category and one in business. Last week's batch covered AI customer chat, a private memory app for AI agents and a free SEO audit, and it's all in the previous roundup.

Can you make a client deck with Claude for free now?

Yes, and this is the biggest free-tier change of the week. Anthropic's announcement says Docs, Slides and Design are out of beta and available on every plan, including Free. The Claude pricing page backs that up: "Claude Design, Slides, Docs" is now listed among the Free plan's features. Until this change, they were paid-plan features.

In practice, you describe what you need in a chat and Claude builds it as something you can edit, not a wall of text you have to paste into PowerPoint. Ask for a ten-slide pitch for a new client, a one-page proposal or a simple product visual. Anthropic says PowerPoint and PDF downloads look like what you made in the editor, and decks can go straight to Google Slides as editable files. That matters when a client wants to tweak the deck themselves.

People are clearly using it. Anthropic says users have made more than 45 million docs, decks and designs in Claude so far. That's a big number for something that, until this week, sat behind a paywall.

The honest limits: free usage isn't unlimited. Claude's pricing FAQ says every plan has usage limits that reset on a rolling five-hour window, with no fixed message count, and Pro gets at least five times more usage per session than Free. A long deck with lots of revisions can eat through that. Two newer tools announced alongside, Dashboards and Motion, stay on paid plans. And you'll need a Claude account, though no card.

Is GenPage's free plan enough for a small ad budget?

For testing the idea, yes. GenPage builds a separate landing page for each ad, keyword or target account, then keeps testing versions of it through a feature it calls Autopilot. The logic is simple: someone who clicks an ad for "aircon servicing in Tampines" should land on a page about exactly that, not on your generic homepage.

GenPage 3.0 shipped this week with a new AI agent, rebuilt brand knowledge bases, a Concierge feature, MCP support in both directions, and Google Ads integration out of beta. It also connects to tools like Clay, Apollo and common CRMs.

On the free side, GenPage's pricing page lists a Free plan at $0 a month with 100 credits a month and says you can start free with no card required. That's a monthly allowance, not a one-off trial, which is why it made the list.

The honest limits: the pricing page doesn't say how many credits a single page costs, so you'll find out as you go. Custom domains and removing the "Made with GenPage" badge are Pro features, and Pro costs $79 a month, which is a real jump for a small shop. It's also clearly designed for marketing and growth teams, so expect a learning curve if you've never run A/B tests. Our take: use the free credits to build pages for your two or three best-performing ads, run them for a few weeks, and only then decide whether the upgrade pays for itself.

Can a desktop AI really take admin off a solopreneur's plate?

Some of it, and IrisGo is one of the more interesting attempts. Rather than asking you to build automations in a flowchart, it asks you to do the task once while it watches. Its solopreneur page uses the example of filing an expense report: record it once, then replay it with a different receipt.

The solopreneur edition, which topped Product Hunt's daily ranking this week, adds two things aimed at people who run a business alone. A morning brief reads your calendar and unread email and posts a summary. And Radar cards pull bills, client requests and deadlines out of your inbox so you can turn them into to-dos. IrisGo says it uses local NPU and GPU compute for private, fast inference.

The download page offers a Windows 64-bit installer and a macOS build for Apple Silicon, and says the app is free during the public beta.

The honest limits: "free during the beta" is the most fragile kind of free. There's no published price for afterwards. Intel Macs aren't supported. And any tool that reads your inbox and screen deserves a careful look at what it touches, especially if you handle client data under the PDPA in Singapore or Malaysia. Start it on your own admin, like expense claims and invoice reminders, before you point it at anything a client has trusted you with.

Which launches this week didn't make the list?

Several looked promising and failed on the details.

Onepin is a clever AI voiceover tool that fixes the names, prices and dates that text-to-speech engines usually mangle. Its Free plan costs $0 with no card, but it's 1,000 one-time credits, which Onepin puts at about 15 minutes of audio. Once they're gone, you pay. That's a trial in practice, so it's out.

OpenSEO bills itself as an open source alternative to Semrush. You can self-host it for free, but the hosted version, which the maker says most people use, is billed by usage, and its data comes from DataForSEO. Not free in the way our readers need.

Spira Maxima, a video model that turns a script into a social video, offers up to 50 free credits with unclear renewal, and users report a watermark until you pay. ReSO AI, an AI search visibility tool, offered a free month as a launch promotion rather than a free plan. Halo, a Mac notch app, costs $9.99 once.

Why do these free tools matter for SMEs in Southeast Asia?

Because free, off-the-shelf tools are how most small firms in the region start with AI. IMDA's Singapore Digital Economy Report 2025 found AI adoption among SMEs rose from 4.2% to 14.5% in 2024, driven mainly by off-the-shelf generative AI tools. Among larger firms it went from 44.0% to 62.5%. That gap is the opening for tools like this week's: no IT team, no procurement process, no card.

Customers are already there. The e-Conomy SEA 2025 report from Google, Temasek and Bain found interest in AI topics across the region running at three times the global average. A small business that answers with sharper proposals and landing pages that match its ads is meeting those customers where they are.

Not needing a card matters more than it sounds. Many free tiers that ask for a card reject ones issued outside a handful of markets. Our guide to free AI tools for freelancers in SEA covers that pattern, and you'll find every recent addition on the New This Week page.

What else do people ask?

Are Claude Slides, Docs and Design really free?

Yes. Anthropic says Docs, Slides and Design are out of beta and available on every plan, including Free, and its pricing page lists Claude Design, Slides and Docs under the Free plan. You need a Claude account but no credit card. Free usage shares Claude's normal limits, which reset on a rolling five-hour window and have no published message count. Dashboards and Motion are separate tools that stay on paid plans.

What do you get on GenPage's free plan?

GenPage's pricing page lists a Free plan at $0 a month with 100 credits a month and says no card is required. The pricing page doesn't say how many credits one page costs. Custom domains and removing the Made with GenPage badge are listed as Pro features, and Pro costs $79 a month.

Will IrisGo stay free after the beta?

Nobody outside the company knows yet. IrisGo's download page says the app is free during the public beta for Windows 64-bit and Apple Silicon Macs, but it doesn't say what happens to pricing afterwards. Use it now for workflows you could rebuild elsewhere, and don't make it the only place a critical process lives until pricing is announced.

Why didn't Onepin make this week's list?

Onepin's Free plan costs nothing and needs no card, but it gives 1,000 one-time credits, which Onepin puts at roughly 15 minutes of validated audio. Once those are gone you have to pay, with the Creator plan at $16 a month billed yearly. That works like a trial rather than an ongoing free tier, so it doesn't meet our bar.

Do these free AI tools work in Southeast Asia?

Yes. None of the three lists a country restriction and none asks for a credit card. Claude is available across most of the region, GenPage is a web app that builds pages for any market, and IrisGo is desktop software, so location matters less than having a Windows PC or an Apple Silicon Mac. Interfaces are in English.

Sources: Anthropic's Dashboards and Motion announcement for Docs, Slides and Design leaving beta, export options and the 45 million figure. Claude pricing for Free plan features and usage limits. GenPage pricing and GenPage on Product Hunt for the free plan and 3.0 features. IrisGo download page and solopreneur page for platforms, features and beta pricing. Onepin pricing, OpenSEO and Spira pricing for the excluded tools. IMDA Singapore Digital Economy Report 2025 for SME AI adoption. Google's e-Conomy SEA 2025 summary for regional AI interest. Free tiers change without notice, so check each vendor before relying on a limit.