Best New Free AI Tools This Week

The best new free AI tools this week are Scape, Knocket AI and Dedica. One sorts your email and writes the first draft of your replies, one puts a free chat box on your site with an AI that answers the boring questions, and one tells you whether the AI agents your customers are starting to use can actually buy from you.

That's a shorter list than usual, and that's on purpose. Plenty launched this week. But most of it was either a trial dressed up as a free plan, a developer platform you'd need an engineer to set up, or a product with no published pricing at all. We don't list a tool until we've seen the free tier on the vendor's own page.

So here's what passed. Every limit below comes from each vendor's pricing or product page, checked this week.

What are the new free AI tools this week?

Here's the short version:

• Scape (scape.app). A Mac email client that ranks your inbox, drafts replies from your email and meeting context and records calls locally. Free plan, no card.
• Knocket AI (knocket.trtc.io). A chat widget and shareable contact page with an AI agent that answers from your FAQs. Free forever, bring your own AI key.
• Dedica (getdedica.com). A 125-check audit that scores how well AI agents can use your website. Free score, no signup.

One lands in our productivity category and two in business. Last week's batch, with DeepCell, Spacesheep, Strawberry and TheySaid, is in the previous roundup.

Can Scape get your inbox under control for free?

For a lot of people, yes. Scape is a desktop email client for Mac that sorts your messages by priority, so the client asking about an invoice sits above the newsletter you'll never read. When you open a thread, it suggests a reply using context from your other emails, your calendar, attachments and even your meeting transcripts. You still check and send every draft yourself. That's a feature, not a flaw, when the email is going to a paying client.

The meeting side is the bit freelancers will like most. Scape records calls locally on your Mac, with no bot joining the meeting, and transcribes them in 99 languages. If you've ever had a client ask "who's that?" when an AI notetaker popped into the call, you'll get why that matters. It also turns the meeting into follow-ups, so the action items don't vanish after you hang up.

On price, Scape's pricing page lists Free at $0 a month with unlimited inboxes, meeting recordings, no model training on your data and "No credit card needed." Plus is $20 a month and Max is $100 for heavier use.

The honest limits: it's Mac only for now, so Windows users are out. The pricing page doesn't publish any numeric caps for Free, which means you won't know exactly where the ceiling is until you hit it. And you need an account, because it connects to your mailbox. Read the privacy settings before you point it at a client inbox, especially if you handle personal data under Singapore's or Malaysia's PDPA.

Is Knocket AI really free live chat?

As far as we can tell, yes. Knocket gives you three ways for people to reach you: a chat widget for your website, a widget for your app and a contact page you can share as a link, the kind you'd put in an Instagram bio or a WhatsApp status. Everything lands in one inbox, and you can reply from Telegram. Your visitors don't need to sign up to start a chat, which is a big deal. Every extra form is a customer who gives up.

The AI part is optional. Upload your docs and FAQs, and its agent answers the routine stuff, like opening hours, delivery areas and how to rebook, then hands the conversation to you when it needs a human. That's the right way round for a small shop. You want the bot to deal with "are you open on Sunday?" and leave the angry refund question to you.

Knocket's Why Free page says everything it ships today is "free forever," including the contact page, widget, unified inbox and AI agent. It runs on Tencent RTC's messaging infrastructure. And it launched on Product Hunt this week.

The honest limits: the AI agent uses your own model key from OpenAI, Claude or Gemini. So the chat is free, but the AI answers can show up on your provider's bill. If you don't want that, just use it as plain live chat. There's no pricing page and no published usage limits yet, so treat it as new software and keep an eye on it during your first busy week.

Why would a small business check if AI agents can use its site?

Because some of your customers are starting to send one. AI agents like Meta's Muse can now browse, fill in forms and shop on someone's behalf. If your booking form confuses the agent, or your checkout blocks it, the sale doesn't happen and you never find out why. It sounds like a problem for later. The traffic numbers say it's already here (more on that below).

Dedica runs 125 checks across four layers it calls Discovery, Access, Usability and Payments. In plain terms: can an agent find your pages, get in without being blocked, work your forms and finish paying? You get a score out of 100 with the fixes that would help most ranked first, and the whole thing takes under a minute.

Dedica's pricing page lists the free check at $0, including the score, a grade and up to 20 sample findings. No signup needed, which earns it our no-signup tag. The paid fix kit, with every finding and a fix file per issue you can hand to Claude Code or Cursor, is $30 one-time per domain until 30 November 2026 and $50 after that.

The honest limits: 20 sample findings is a taste, not the full report. If your site gets a bad score, the detailed fixes cost money. And agent shopping is still early, so for a lot of small businesses this is a "check now, fix over the next few months" job rather than an emergency. If you work as a freelance web developer, though, a free score is a pretty good conversation starter with a client.

Which launches this week didn't make the list?

A few looked promising and failed on the details.

Empacer, a voice-first assistant for small business owners and the top Product Hunt launch of the week, says on its pricing page that it isn't free: it's a paid subscription for the web and Android, and you see the price at checkout. SpeakON Agent, which turns speech into emails and calendar actions on iPhone, has a free software-only plan capped at 2,000 words a week, but its product page lists Agent access as a perk of the $129 Pro Lifetime plan, so we couldn't confirm the agent itself is free. Gumloop, an AI agent builder, starts at $37 a month on its pricing page. And Dock, a shared workspace for AI agents, starts at $40 per person a month, with no free plan on its pricing page. Developer platforms like Vaani and Overmind are interesting, but they need engineering work to be useful, so they're not a fit for this list.

Why do these tools matter for SMEs in Southeast Asia?

Because small firms here are adopting AI quickly, and they're doing it with cheap, off-the-shelf tools. IMDA's Singapore Digital Economy Report 2026 found AI adoption among Singapore SMEs rose to 23.4% in 2025, up from 14.5% a year earlier. Among non-SMEs it went from 62.5% to 70.4%. And 85.7% of surveyed workers said they used AI tools at work, up from 77.6% the year before.

The agent side is moving even faster. Bot management firm DataDome's AI Traffic Report Q3 2026 counted nearly 25 billion AI agent requests across its network between July and September, up 41.5% on the previous quarter. DataDome also found that Meta's Muse agent made up 33% of September's agentic browser volume, even though it was only fully available for the last nine days of the month.

Put those together and this week's picks make sense. Scape gives you back time spent on email and call notes. Knocket answers the customers who'd rather type than call. And Dedica checks whether the next wave of "customers," the AI agents running errands for real people, can get through your front door. For more no-card options, see our guide to free AI tools for freelancers in SEA, or try the AI tool finder quiz to match a tool to your job.

What else do people ask?

Is Scape free on Windows?

Not yet. Scape is a desktop email client for Mac, and its site doesn't mention Windows or mobile apps. On a Mac, the Free plan costs $0 a month with unlimited inboxes, meeting recordings and no credit card. Plus is $20 a month and Max is $100 a month for higher usage.

Do my customers need an account to use Knocket chat?

No. Visitors can start chatting from your website widget or contact page without signing up. You, as the business, create a free account to run the inbox. The AI agent is optional and uses your own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini key, so any AI costs are billed by that provider.

What does Dedica's free check include?

The free check gives you a score out of 100 and a grade, split across four layers: Discovery, Access, Usability and Payments. It shows up to 20 sample findings, takes under a minute and needs no signup. The full findings and fix files come in a $30 one-time fix kit per domain.

Is Knocket AI going to stay free?

Knocket says yes. Its Why Free page states that everything it ships today is free forever, including the contact page, widget, unified inbox and AI agent. It adds that paid extras may come later for heavier users. As with any new tool, check the page again before you build your support around it.

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

Empacer topped Product Hunt this week as a voice-first assistant for small business owners, but its own pricing page says it isn't free. It's a paid subscription covering the web and the Android app, and you see the price at checkout. A paid-only tool doesn't meet our bar for an ongoing free tier.

Sources: Scape pricing. Knocket homepage and Why Free. Dedica pricing and homepage. Empacer pricing, SpeakON Agent, Gumloop pricing and Dock pricing for the excluded tools. IMDA, Singapore Digital Economy Report 2026, for SME and worker AI adoption. DataDome, AI Traffic Report Q3 2026, for agent traffic. Free tiers change without notice, so check each vendor before relying on a limit.