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Best free AI tools from Chinese indie developers (2026)

Hand-picked 33 products · updated 2026-11-04

China's indie developers ship a lot of AI tools, but most of them never get covered in English. This page collects 33 of them, grouped by what you actually want to do — generate images, edit video, speed up office work, code faster, or just play. Every entry is free or has a free tier, and links to its own page on this directory.

Product descriptions are machine-translated from the developers' original Chinese (the original text stays untouched on every product's Chinese page). Every listing links to our English product page, which in turn links to the product's official site.

AI Image & Design 8

  1. 1980s AI Photo Upload a personal photo, retain facial features, and generate a realistic 1980s retro portrait with one click; the first one is free By littlePig-zzf
  2. Erase Background Pro AI one-click cutout tool, outputs transparent PNG with clean edges in seconds, supports e-commerce portraits/hair details and 4K HD, provides batch processing, free trial and developer API, no registration required, free to use By 肖戈 · Shenzhen
  3. PicEditor AI image editing and generation tool, use natural language to change the background, remove objects, modify image text or generate new images. No registration is required for first time use. By dong13
  4. CubistAI AI picture generation tool, enter text and generate high-definition pictures in seconds. It integrates Nano Banana 2, Seedream, FLUX.2 and other models. It has a free quota every day. It also comes with special tools such as AI avatars, cartoonization, coloring pages, cutouts, and watermark removal. By 小范 · Wuhan
  5. unblurry AI photo deblurring tool, which handles image quality loss caused by defocus, jitter and low resolution, as well as sharpening, noise reduction and old photo restoration; free trial for 2 times without registration, purchase credits on a per-time basis, no subscription required By edenSu
  6. StitchCraft Cross-stitch drawing generator (free), drag photos into the browser and turn them into embroiderable DMC drawings in a few seconds. 454 colors automatically match color numbers, calculate how many skeins of each thread to buy, export PDF and print directly; no registration required, photos are not uploaded to the server, AI redrawing is optional, and Chinese interface is supported By ooklwq · Chengdu
  7. HelloGen AI picture and video generation workbench, free and unlimited pictures, no watermarks, commercially available, videos are billed on a pay-per-view basis; the assistant automatically selects models (Seedream, Nano Banana, GPT Image 2, Veo, Kling, Seedance) based on needs, and quotes are made before generation, and no fees will be deducted if failed By chenchiwei
  8. YourArt AI design Agent workbench, calling mainstream picture and video models in the same space, generating and editing materials and arranging workflow on unlimited canvas; pay as you go, no subscription required By CH0918

AI Video & Audio 6

  1. C2Anime AI animation creation assistant (AI Anime Agent) turns stories and novel fragments into animated short films with dialogue and sound, no animation production experience required By C2Anime Team
  2. ScribeToAny AI audio and video transcription and subtitle generation tool, supports speaker recognition (distinguishing speakers), multi-language translation and word-level high-precision timestamps, long audio to text at high speed, and one-click export to SRT/VTT/TXT format - free trial By hypercube67
  3. Thumbrix AI thumbnail generation tool for YouTube creators. You can generate a cover by entering text or uploading a photo. It is convenient to try different designs and optimize the click-through rate of the cover. It supports free trials. By chaojieY26
  4. Video Text Remover AI video text erasure tool to remove text, subtitles and captions from videos By CoderLim · Beijing
  5. Seadanse A multi-model AI video generation platform that supports the generation of multi-lens videos with sound through the Composer workbench, and provides an AI Video Agent function that automatically disassembles advertising footage and storyboards in one sentence By codeugar
  6. Toonflow Open source and free AI short drama factory: full link automation from novels to scripts, storyboards, and videos, multi-agent collaboration, role consistency maintenance, and full platform availability By HBAI-Ltd

AI Productivity & Office 5

  1. AIradar · AI Subscription Price Radar AI subscription price comparison tool, filters public quotes by product, delivery method, term and currency, supports regional price reference, target price and expiration reminder By superwang
  2. ReadGZH WeChat public account article AI reading tool, paste the link to generate a page that is easy for AI to read, and also provides API and MCP access By sweesama
  3. Shu Xiaoer Xiaohongshu Compliance Operation Toolbox, one-click detection of banned words + replacement suggestions, AI popular title generation, note collection and current limit self-examination, pure web version without installation, free departures for newcomers every day By 肖戈 · Shenzhen
  4. Hui Quote AI foreign trade quotation tool, the product library is built once, and the selected products are automatically priced according to EXW/FOB/CFR/CIF/DDP (the profit margin is based on the practical standard of selling price and insurance plus 110%). It generates a bilingual quotation PDF in Chinese and English in 30 seconds, and comes with a free quotation calculator that does not require registration. By 宋永昌 · Shanghai
  5. WorkGround2 A local-first AI engineering workbench, a Go binary provides both CLI/TUI and desktop, supports DeepSeek, Anthropic, OpenAI compatible interfaces and other multi-model access, built-in MCP tool management and change rollback - MIT open source, provides Windows, macOS, Linux versions By KiddPhenix

AI Developer Tools 5

  1. TideLink The existing OpenAI SDK code does not need to be modified. One API key can call GLM/Qwen/DeepSeek/Hunyuan/Doubao and many domestic large models; the gateway automatically fails over, and you can start for free without a credit card. By tidelink88
  2. RepoAtlas A local-first AI programming project workbench that centrally manages scattered code warehouses, 8 Coding Agent sessions such as Claude Code / Codex / OpenCode / Cursor, and common development tasks; supports cross-Agent search and recovery of historical sessions, runs build/test tasks, and saves data on the local machine - MIT open source, provides Windows installation package By Wujerry
  3. DeliverKit Delivery MCP for AI Agent, packaging products into ecological installation packages with knowledge, reviewable plans and real products strung together into a link - Linux deb/rpm/AppImage has passed the real build and clean container installation and running verification, Windows/macOS/Hongmeng are scheduled to the corresponding CI runner output according to the contract; npx -y deliverkit-mcp one command is connected to clients such as Claude Code and Cursor, MIT open source TypeScript By muzimu217
  4. RunWhale An open source mobile phone AI programming tool based on DeepSeek Harness. After describing the requirements, generate or modify Web/Expo projects and preview them on the same mobile phone; supports importing Git repository By Tony Chen
  5. Wake Coding Agent local session manager, browse all sessions by Agent and project, jump directly to the corresponding message after full-text search hits, or return to the original project directory to continue the session; supports Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Kiro, Gemini CLI, etc. - Free open source desktop application, supports macOS, Windows, Linux By Corey

AI Fun & Play 6

  1. PicLocation AI photo geolocation tool (free), uploads photos and returns GPS coordinates, city and country. It does not rely on EXIF ​​purely visual recognition. Screenshots and photos with erased metadata can also be located without registration. By RickyLee · Shenzhen
  2. Shen Suan Ge / Shen Suan Ge AI numerology web application, Tarot/Liu Yao/Plum Blossom/Four Pillars/Purple Micro 15+ divination methods, Chinese and English multilingual, pure HTML, no need to build, ready to use out of the box, supports USDC payment By breezesamuel
  3. BaziCalculator.ai Free online zodiac chart arrangement and interpretation tool. Enter the date of birth, time and city to generate the four pillars, sun master, five elements and ten-year fortune. It is corrected according to the true solar time of the place of birth. Even if the time is unknown, the three-pillar horoscope can be generated. No registration is required. By mikewaynecn
  4. SeichiGo Holy Land Tour Animation holy land tour itinerary planning tool, select works and days, AI Agent generates daily routes including transportation connections; global tour map with 50,000+ points, 1,500+ works, Simplified Chinese/Traditional Chinese/Japanese/English By emptylower
  5. FishCare AI Ornamental fish breeding guide and free tool station. Before buying fish, check polyculture compatibility (4000+ fish species combination comparison page), minimum fish tank size, water quality parameters and feeding amount. Covers common species such as bettas, guppies, colorful angels, etc. It is free and no registration is required. By Viki Wu
  6. LoveComic AI comic generation website supports automatic and manual control modes, customizing dialogue bubbles, fonts, etc.; it also has a flow canvas mode, which can freely arrange nodes to generate comics By rain · Shenzhen

AI Learning & Professional 3

  1. IELTS Writing Practice IELTS writing practice platform, providing Task 1 / Task 2 question bank, simulated writing, AI scoring and sentence-by-sentence correction feedback By Ian
  2. LawPulse A local offline legal research tool for Chinese practicing lawyers (macOS): 412 current laws can be searched one by one. Notes are directly linked under the legal provisions and automatically linked. AI contract review uses its own model key and references are returned to the local law database for verification one by one; all data is stored locally and not uploaded to the cloud. The public beta period is free. The supporting package is open source chinese-law-corpus (412 laws item by item JSON + 723 cases, CC0) By lttxzmj
  3. BeatDesign An open source, local-first AI media creation workbench that puts Canvas, short video timeline, material library and MCP Agent operations into the same local project By KKKK

Frequently asked questions

What are the best free AI tools made by Chinese developers?

This list covers image and design, video and audio, productivity and office, developer tools, learning, and playful experiments. Each entry is free or offers a free tier, and can be used online without installing anything.

Do I need to read Chinese to use these tools?

Most of them have an English interface or work with English prompts, but a few are Chinese-only. We keep every product's original description in Chinese so you can see exactly what the developer wrote, and each listing links to the product's official site where you can check the interface before signing up.

Are these tools really free?

Most are free or have a generous free tier. A few use a free-plus-paid model — that pricing belongs to the individual product, not to this directory. This directory itself is completely free, with no membership and no paid ranking.

Why are these tools grouped by category instead of ranked 1 to N?

Because 'best' depends on your task. A tool that wins at image generation tells you nothing about subtitle translation. We group by use case and list everything inside each group, so you can scan the category that matches your job.

How often is this list updated?

The underlying directory syncs from an open-source repository every day, so new products appear automatically. The curated selection on this page is reviewed periodically.

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