What's new
Curated drops are compiled by hand — weekly finds, a monthly batch, special occasions and a yearly toolkit.
Weekly
Weekly Free Finds — week 34 2026-08-22
Five things worth ten minutes each this week.
Self-hostable toolbox for merging, splitting, OCR and converting PDFs locally.
Visual step-by-step learning paths for developer and data roles.
Directory of free public APIs grouped by topic, with auth and HTTPS noted.
Compress and convert images entirely in the browser, offline-capable.
Upload your own sources and ask grounded questions about just those documents.
Monthly
Monthly Resource Drop — August 2026 2026-08-01
The strongest additions to the library this month.
Run open language models locally with a single command.
Self-hosted chat interface for local and remote language models.
Hand-drawn style whiteboard for diagrams, no account needed.
Searches academic papers and extracts findings into a comparable table.
Harvard's introduction to computer science, free to audit online.
Offline password manager storing everything in a local encrypted database.
Special
Back to School 2026-08-10
Set up your study stack before term starts.
Spaced-repetition flashcards that schedule reviews for you.
Local-first markdown notes with linking and a large plugin ecosystem.
Reference manager that collects sources and generates citations.
Upload your own sources and ask grounded questions about just those documents.
Free lessons and practice across maths, science and economics.
Bundle of developer tools offered free to verified students.
Yearly
Yearly Guide — a free toolkit for 2026 2026-01-05
If you only bookmark ten things from SlashAI, bookmark these.
General-purpose AI assistant for writing, explaining and everyday questions.
Assistant that handles long documents and careful, structured reasoning well.
Complete offline office suite: documents, spreadsheets and slides.
Browser image editor that opens PSD, XCF and Sketch files.
Screen recording and live streaming, used by most creators for a reason.
Project-based web development curriculum with free certifications.
Authoritative reference for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and browser APIs.
Offline password manager storing everything in a local encrypted database.
Hand-drawn style whiteboard for diagrams, no account needed.
Visual step-by-step learning paths for developer and data roles.
Recently added
Ad-free AI answer engine that summarises pages and never tracks you.
Anonymous chat with several models through DuckDuckGo's privacy proxy.
Chat interface running open-weight models hosted by Hugging Face.
Ask one question and compare answers from many AI models side by side.
Try two anonymous models on the same prompt and vote for the better answer.
Browser workspace for prompting Gemini models and testing an API key.
Very fast hosted inference for open models, with a free developer tier.
European assistant from Mistral with a usable free plan.
Assistant with strong reasoning and coding output on a free web tier.
Alibaba's assistant with open-weight model options and image support.
Answer engine tuned for programming questions, with sources.
AI search that lets you pick a model and keeps a private mode.
App updates
v1.4.02026-08-24
Build Ideas Library
- New Build Ideas library: 150 researched product ideas with the problem, target users, MVP scope, tech stack, pricing and a first-10-customers plan.
- Search and filter ideas by category, difficulty, business model, build type and who they suit.
- 'Build this' generates a full product spec plus a paste-ready Lovable prompt, cached on your device so it opens instantly and works offline.
- Idea validator: describe your own idea and get scores for problem clarity, competition, monetization, build and acquisition difficulty.
- My projects tracks saved ideas from Idea to Launch with auto-saving notes — all on-device, no account needed.
- Sidebar sections for Discover and Build Ideas now collapse and expand with a toggle.
v1.3.02026-08-23
Free AI, Reddit and themes
- New Free AI section: Andi, Duck.ai, HuggingChat, Eye2, LMArena, Le Chat, DeepSeek, Groq, local model apps and more.
- New Reddit section — the subreddits and wikis that actually hold free resources, from r/freebies to the r/learnprogramming wiki.
- New Free Time section: legal free movies and TV, public-domain books, radio, games and good blogs.
- New Websites section for single-purpose sites that do one thing properly.
- Four new themes — Batman, Ocean, Moonlight and Warm — alongside Dark, Light and AMOLED.
- 'I want to…' shortcuts on the home screen for when you don't know what to search.
- Every command now shows where to run it, with a tip for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Duck.ai.
v1.2.02026-08-22
More than commands
- New Discover hub: curated AI tools, free utilities, GitHub gems, courses, YouTube channels and practical tricks.
- Free Radar collects new free tools, student offers and free courses — with the conditions and a last-checked date on every entry.
- Free alternatives to popular paid software, grouped by what they replace.
- Student, Professional, Developer and Creator hubs.
- What's New page with weekly finds, monthly drops and yearly guides.
- Calmer home and simpler navigation: four items on mobile, nested Discover in the sidebar, endless feed removed.
- Search now returns curated resources alongside commands.
v1.1.02026-08-22
Cleaner, faster, more yours
- Catalog grown to 5,635 commands across 45 categories — money, health, travel, social and home added.
- Simpler home screen: less text, bigger tap targets, filters tucked into one button.
- Smarter search — type several words in any order and it still finds the right command.
- Six accent colours to pick from in Settings.
- Backup and restore your favourites, history and settings as a single file.
- Smoother 120Hz-friendly animations and a proper launch screen instead of a black flash.
- This update popup, plus a full changelog in Settings.
v1.0.02026-08-01
SlashAI launch
- Searchable library of AI slash commands with copy-ready prompts.
- Favourites, recently used and shareable command links.
- Works offline and installs as an app.