10 Best AI tools for freelancers (2025)

Finding the right tools to utilize when freelancing may be time-consuming and unpleasant. Thousands of AI and productivity tools exist, and they all boast about being the greatest at what they do. You will feel bad or experience a fear of missing out if you don’t jump on board and try them all out. 

To provide excellent service as a freelancer, it’s always a good idea to be keen to learn new things, experiment, and continuously enhance your procedures. The issue is that snatching up every tool that’s advertised, simply because it has the newest feature or the most beautiful design, is not only overwhelming but also distracting.

If you decide to use an AI tool, use it because it will save you time, cost, and effort. So make sure you do your research and choose the one that will work best for you. Once you’ve decided to add an AI application to your freelancing toolset, look for YouTube tutorials and videos that will guide you through the process of making the most of the program. 

If you’re struggling to decide which tools to use to make your work easier as a freelancer, then keep reading. In this article, I will share the 10 best AI tools for freelancers: 

1. ChatGPT

There are so many ways you can use ChatGPT and other Generative AI to boost your freelancing career. These AI models can generate content for you so you can use them to create unique write-ups, videos, pictures, code, and even suggestions and ideas. 

Depending on the kind of freelance service that you offer, ChatGPT may assist you in so many ways. For example, you may create structured product listings or create descriptions for products that you want to market.

ChatGPT may be requested by outbound sales professionals to assist in creating cold outreach email templates that they may distribute to potential customers.

Access to basic ChatGPT is free but has restrictions. You will need to pay $20 a month for a Plus membership to access the most recent version of ChatGPT and unlock greater use. 

2. Grammarly 

Everyone makes grammar mistakes, but you don’t want any grammatical errors in any professional write-up that will be associated with you and your business. Some people have an eye for these things, and it will make you look unprofessional. 

That’s where Grammarly comes in, a tool that helps to eliminate spelling and grammar mistakes in any piece of writing. It also helps you to correct the tone and fit your writing to its intended purpose. 

It’s great for writers and editors, but every freelancer needs Grammarly to help correct spelling and grammar mistakes. The basic plan is good enough for freelancers, but you can choose to upgrade your plan for $12 per month, and gain access to the wide range of features Grammarly has. 

3. Otter.ai

Otter.ai is an AI transcription tool that may be used to record a variety of meetings. With Otter, you can get a transcription and summary of online meetings in platforms like Google Meet, Teams, and Zoom. You can also record an audio of real-time and in-person meetings and get a transcription of it. Even prerecorded audio and video files can be transcribed with ease.

Otter may be used by a self-employed virtual assistant to automatically transcribe video calls that take place in a different time zone.

Otter may assist a freelance writer with transcribing any in-person or Zoom interviews. Conversation transcripts may be saved in Otter by a researcher, who could then ask the AI to highlight significant information.

Otter is free to use for the first time. With a 30-minute restriction per chat, the company’s Basic subscription allows you to transcribe up to 300 minutes of live material every month. 

Paid subscriptions, invoiced yearly, start at $8.33 per month if you need to transcribe more audio.

4. DeepL

DeepL is an AI translation tool that can help freelancers translate recordings, pictures, videos, emails, websites, instant messages, and even verbal exchanges. 

Freelancers often work with clients from a wide range of backgrounds and sometimes the freelancer and the client might not speak the same language. With DeepL, communication is easier when no party speaks the same language as it can provide instant translations, eliminating the need for a third party to act as a translator. 

A few examples where freelancers can benefit from using DeepL include;

• An English tutor may use DeepL to communicate with a new student who does not speak the language
• DeepL can assist a public relations professional with writing press releases for foreign publications.
• DeepL may even be used by a translator to help them proofread their translations.

DeepL offers a free monthly translation service for up to three non-editable files. DeepL premium plan starts at $8.74 per user per month when paid yearly.

5. Asana Intelligence

The well-known Asana project management platform now includes Asana Intelligence. Paid users can leverage Asana Intelligence to:

• Create automated workflows that engage when someone joins an Asana team or project
• Sort and label projects with auto-generated fields
• Generate summaries and actions for projects 
• Edit project summaries and team messages for voice, tone, and clarity
• Find data points and information in a project within an Asana workspace

This versatility makes Asana Intelligence a nice choice for professionals doing both creative and administrative work.

For instance, independent customer service representatives could help speed up their clients’ workflows by introducing them to Asana with the intelligence feature enabled‍. Web developers might use Asana Intelligence to help keep track of client projects and write short status updates‍. Agency teams may also use Asana Intelligence to aid in making shared project management faster and easier.

Premium and Business tier Asana plans include the Intelligence feature at no additional cost. Plans start at $10.99 per user, per month (billed annually).

6. Canva

Canva is invaluable for those in the design field, and an important tool for every freelancer to have. Canva is not like other graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop that require extensive knowledge to master. It is simple to use and you can learn how to use its basic features within a day. With Canva, you can create and edit pictures, add text to pictures, share them with others, and download them for use. 

With plain text commands and just a few clicks, Canva users can:

• Ask Canva to produce a variety of social media graphics for a specific campaign
• Update a webpage template’s colors and fonts to match a brand
• Turn AI-generated content into a slide deck
• Transform Instagram posts into a LinkedIn carousel

It’s a useful tool that can help more freelancers create content for their businesses—or their clients. 

7. Dall-E

Dall-E is an AI image generator from OpenAI. You can use Dall-E directly in a ChatGPT conversation and produce one image at a time. However, because ChatGPT can reference its earlier responses as part of a chat, you can use the tool to continually revise Dall-E outputs.

Many professionals find Dall-E to be a useful aid for work and inspiration:

• YouTube video editing pros might use Dall-E to help them create images for title cards‍
• Web designers may use Dall-E to generate images for websites‍
• Scriptwriters could enjoy using Dall-E to help them visualize scenes and fictional locations 

8. Scribe

Scribe helps its users to create step-by-step guides with screenshots. These guides are useful for:

• Internal process documentation
• Standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Client tutorials 
• Customer support documents 
• Team training libraries 

Use of the service requires a browser extension. Once you turn on the extension, simply begin moving through your process as normal—Scribe will automatically record your clicks and text inputs with screenshots. 

Social media designers might use the Scribe service to create SOPs for junior designers working with their agency‍.

Website developers may use Scribe to create documentation for clients with CMS questions

Scribe is free to use, but all documents will include the Scribe logo. Customized branding requires a paid plan—options start at $23 per month (billed annually).

9. Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud is a suite of 20 apps for design, videography, and other creative work. A number of the Adobe apps include AI tools to help you:

• Generate ideas
• Mockup concepts
• Create AI-assisted art 
• Edit images faster than ever

You can use AI across Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Express, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Stock, and Adobe Acrobat. Regardless of where you specialize as a freelancer, there will be a tool under the umbrella of Adobe Creative Cloud that will help you stand out. 

Usually, these tools are more advanced than their competitors, so they will need a higher level of skill and more time to master. 

The full suite of Adobe Creative Cloud applications costs $59.99 per month, but you can decide to subscribe for just one or two if you don’t need the whole package. 

10. Jasper

Jasper is an AI writing assistant that uses natural language processing (NLP) to support content marketing. Users can freely type and work with the AI or rely on user-friendly templates to produce specific types of content:

• Blog posts
• Facebook ad copy 
• Social media captions
• Email subject lines

There are dozens of ways to use Jasper, so both content creators and non-writers alike enjoy using the platform. 

For instance, survey creators could use Jasper to help develop engaging questions‍; nonfiction writers might use the platform for help with proofreading articles or creating high-quality content briefs; real estate agents may turn to Jasper for help writing or translating social media posts about houses. 

Jasper can be used for free, but for more advanced features, plans start at $39 per month when billed annually. 

Conclusion

Thanks to developments in artificial intelligence (AI), freelancers now have a plethora of possibilities for services that assist with administrative, automation, and content production. With any of these AI tools, you can streamline several processes and make things much easier for yourself. You just need to choose the one that will best work for you and your business.