It’s Mother’s Day here in the UK so I’m going to spoil you…because everyone has, or as in my case had, a mother and sharing the love is the best way to celebrate anything.
I’ve been ferreting around to find you some cool new stuff that won’t cost you a bean along with some of the things I’ve been using that, again, are yours for the taking.
One of the first things I want to recommend is this alternative to the pricy Adobe Acrobat. Sejda is an excellent online tool that will enable you to easily edit any PDF for absolutely nada:
Even better is PDF24 which you can download and use, again for nada:
As for Photoshop, the other Adobe tool that most people would love to use but find rather pricy, there are 17 alternatives here:
https://skylum.com/blog/best-free-photoshop-alternatives
While we’re talking design and images, here is an excellent selection of tools, over half of which are either no cost or have a trial version:
https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/best-web-design-tools-2024/
Moving on to writing and Clickup is a great tool that you can use for a multitude of purposes including productivity – and yes, you can get started for nada:
Then there is the wonderful Hemingway editing app which is both clean and intuitive to use:
While Power Thesaurus does just what is says on the tin – this is a thesaurus on steroids:
https://www.powerthesaurus.org/
Need a research assistant? Here’s one that will make your job so much easier and it won’t even need a lunch break:
While the Reedsy book editor will help you write and export a beautifully typeset book:
https://reedsy.com/write-a-book
If, on the other hand, you want to create beautiful content such as presentations and documents then Visme is worth a try:
And if you want to get even fancier and turn text into gorgeous videos, then you need to check out AI Studios:
https://www.deepbrain.io/aistudios
With so many tools now dependent on AI, your TED talk this week is the perfect antidote…when AI can fake reality, who can you trust?
