Your AI mission control
Launch your AI journey with confidence
Find the right AI tools for your goals, budget, and skill level —
and discover what you can create.
Free to explore. No account needed.
What will you create?
Something to say
Write, brainstorm, and turn your ideas into something people will love.
Something to see
Generate and edit images, designs, and visual ideas.
Something to discover
Research, explore, and make sense of information faster.
Something that runs itself
Automate your work and connect your favorite apps.
A little inspiration for your next launch
Featured workflow
From rough idea to finished article
Research, outline, draft, and polish a publish-ready article using complementary AI tools.
Featured workflow
Make your first visual campaign
Concept art, marketing visuals, and iterations from prompt to final asset.
About Launchpad HQ
What Launchpad HQ is
Launchpad HQ is a free, independent directory of AI tools for beginners and anyone on a budget. It covers writing, images, video, audio, code, research, meetings and automation, and it points out free plans and open-source options you can run yourself. Browsing, guides and the matching quiz need no account.
How tools are checked
We check prices, free tiers and plan limits against each vendor's own pages. Checked facts carry the date they were checked and a link to the source; anything not yet confirmed is labelled instead of guessed. Sponsors buy a labelled placement only: never rankings, quiz results or data.
How to use it
Browse by category in Discover, take the four-question quiz for a shortlist, compare tools side by side, or open a getting-started guide for setup steps, safety notes and first prompts.
For developers and AI assistants
The same dated, sourced facts are published as a free, read-only JSON data feed with an OpenAPI description, a read-only MCP connector for AI assistants, and llms.txt. No API key or sign-in.