7 Best AI Tools You NEED to Try (Free & Powerful!) 💡

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Kevin tours seven free-to-try AI tools. 1) Zapier (a sponsored segment) automates repetitive work: describe a workflow and the apps involved, Zapier suggests a ‘Zap’, and in his example new Google feedback-form submissions trigger an automatic personalized response; it connects thousands of apps including Gmail, Notion, Excel and Slack. 2) Google AI Studio’s Stream Real Time shares your microphone and screen so the AI watches and gives step-by-step guidance, demonstrated by walking him through building a pivot table of units sold by location in Excel. 3) ChatGPT’s advanced features: Canvas for creating, editing and iterating on long-form text or code with paragraph-level changes and version history, a reasoning model for logical and multi-step problems, Projects that use uploaded documents as context, multimodal image/file analysis, and Sora for generating video from text. 4) Udio generates music from a description — it produces two songs, and you can supply your own lyrics, specify verse/chorus/bridge/hook structure, and customize length and prompt strength before downloading. 5) ElevenLabs does realistic text-to-speech with selectable voices, models and settings, plus voice changer, sound effects and dubbing/translation. 6) Perplexity AI is a search alternative where you choose sources (web, academia, or social/Reddit); answers carry citations you can open or remove and rerun. 7) Descript edits video and podcasts like a Word document — delete pauses and text to cut video, use Overdub with a trained voice, Studio Sound, background separation and automatic captions.

Key takeaways

• Zapier turns a described workflow into a Zap that automates repetitive tasks across thousands of apps, e.g. auto-sending a personalized response when a Google feedback form is submitted.
• Google AI Studio’s Stream Real Time can watch your shared screen and talk you step-by-step through unfamiliar software tasks, like building an Excel pivot table.
• ChatGPT goes beyond chat with Canvas for long-form/code editing with version history, a reasoning model, context-rich Projects, multimodal file analysis, and Sora video generation.
• Udio creates downloadable songs from a description (generating two versions) and ElevenLabs creates realistic speech plus voice changing, sound effects and dubbing.
• Perplexity lets you limit search to web, academic or social sources with cited, removable sources, while Descript lets you edit video by editing its transcript, with Overdub and automatic captions.

Episode details: published March 5, 2025 · 7:49 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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