10 free AI tools worth trying this month

Each month we surface free (or genuinely-free-tier) tools we've actually used. June's list:

1. DeepSeek — a frontier reasoning model that's completely free in chat. Genuinely competitive with GPT-5 on hard problems.
2. NotebookLM — upload sources, get a podcast-style summary. Surreal the first time you hear it.
3. Perplexity — the free tier is still the best general-purpose research interface on the web.
4. Suno — make a full song from a text prompt. The free tier gives you enough to be dangerous.
5. Krea — real-time image generation. Fun, fast, free for casual use.
6. Granola — meeting notes that actually capture what mattered.
7. Goblin Tools — tiny utilities for ADHD brains: task breakdown, tone-checker, formaliser.
8. Mathpix — photograph a math problem, get LaTeX or a worked solution.
9. Wolfram Alpha — still the king for anything computational.
10. Khanmigo — free for educators; brilliant tutor.

See the full list of free picks on our Free AI tools collection page.