Design + Firefly AIFree tier
Adobe Express
Adobe's quick-design app with Firefly generative AI built in. Templates for social, flyers and short videos.
Price: Free; Premium $9.99/mo.
AI tools for Restaurants & Food
Cafés, snack bars, takeaways and full-service restaurants. Tools that answer the phone, cut waste, fill tables and make your food look as good online as it tastes.
16 tools11 with a free tier
Email, SMS & WhatsApp marketingFree tier
Brevo
Email, SMS and WhatsApp campaigns plus a simple CRM. Priced by emails sent, not contacts.
Price: Free (300 emails/day); Starter from $9/mo; Standard from $18/mo.
Social schedulingFree tier
Buffer
Simple, no-nonsense post scheduler with an AI assistant for ideas and rewrites.
Price: Free; Essentials $5/channel/mo billed yearly; Team $10/channel/mo billed yearly. 14-day trial.
Design + AI (Magic Studio)Free tier
Canva
Menus, flyers, posts, thumbnails and videos from templates, with Magic Studio AI and one-click background removal.
Price: Free; Canva Pro $144/yr for one person (US price).
Video editor with AIFree tier
CapCut
The go-to editor for TikTok and Reels: auto captions, templates, background removal and AI effects.
Price: Free; Pro $19.99/mo (cheaper billed yearly).
AI assistantFree tier
ChatGPT
The all-rounder: emails, menus, quotes, captions, spreadsheets, brainstorms. Start here if you use one AI tool.
Price: Free; Go $8/mo; Plus $20/mo; Pro from $100/mo.
Budget AI website builderPaid only
Hostinger Website Builder
Cheap AI website builder with hosting included. Describe your business and get a site in minutes.
Price: From $3.49/mo on a 48-month term (renews at $10.99/mo). No free plan.
Email marketingFree tier
MailerLite
Easy newsletters, automations, landing pages and an AI writing assistant at a fair price.
Price: Free up to 250 subscribers; Comfort $10.80/mo and Power $22.50/mo (billed yearly, up to 500 subscribers). 14-day trial.
Social scheduling & analyticsFree tier
Metricool
Plan, schedule and analyse posts across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and more, with AI copy help.
Price: Free; Starter from $20/mo yearly ($25 monthly); Advanced from $53/mo yearly ($67 monthly).
Restaurant website & direct orderingPaid only
Owner.com
Builds your restaurant a website, commission-free online ordering app and automated marketing, with AI doing the SEO and promos.
Price: Plans at $249/mo and $499/mo, no per-order restaurant fees. No free tier.
AI product photosFree tier
Photoroom
Snap a product on your counter, get a clean studio-style shot with AI backgrounds and shadows. Batch-edit a whole catalogue.
Price: Free plan (personal use); Pro $12.99/mo or $7.50/mo billed yearly; Max $34.99/mo; Ultra from $99/mo.
AI phone host for restaurantsPaid only
Slang.ai
AI voice host that picks up your restaurant phone, answers the 'are you open / do you have parking' calls and takes or routes bookings.
Price: From $399 per location/mo (Core) and $599 (Premium); now quote-based on the site. No free tier.
Restaurant analytics & forecastingPaid only
Tenzo
Pulls your POS, labour and delivery data into one dashboard and forecasts sales so you can staff and prep to match.
Price: Price on request (book a demo). No free tier.
Restaurant POS with AI featuresFree tier
Toast
US restaurant POS that runs orders, payments, online ordering and staff, with built-in AI reporting help.
Price: Starter Kit from $0/mo (you pay through processing rates); Point of Sale plan from $69/mo; Build Your Own from $69/mo + $9 per employee/mo.
Food-waste trackingPaid only
Winnow
Camera and scale over your kitchen bin that uses AI to log what gets thrown away, so you can cut prep and food cost.
Price: Price on request (hardware + subscription). No free tier.
Website builder with AIFree tier
Wix
Website builder whose AI drafts your whole site from a chat, plus bookings, online ordering and stores.
Price: Free (Wix branding); Light $17/mo, Core $29/mo, Business $39/mo billed yearly (US).
Newsletter
One AI move a week. Tested, priced, no fluff.
A short email with one tool that saved a real owner time or money, plus price changes worth knowing about.
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