AI that gives
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AI that gives

Apps made with AI and simply given away.

Free No ads No data collected

I believe AI can be used for better things.

AI today can make things that grab attention, eat time or collect data. Someone profits from every one of them — and it is never the person on the other side of the screen. But it can also do something simpler: help a person solve a real problem. That is the side of AI I want to show here.

AI can also produce a flood of things that vanish into the noise. I want to point this technology the other way: at things that are small, concrete and genuinely useful.

I want this technology to give people something good. Something that actually helps someone. That is what this page is for.

So this site gathers every app I can find that was made with AI and simply given away: free, no ads, no data collected. Built by people who solved something that had bugged them for a long time, and chose to give the fix away.

I want this to work for the people software design usually forgets, too: an older phone, a prepaid plan, eyes that can't easily read small print.

The rule

Every app on this shelf:

is FREE — no price, no subscription, no “pro” version

has NO ADS — there is nothing here anyone needs to sell you

collects NO DATA — no account, no tracking; it may download public data, it never uploads yours

And was made with AI: that is the point of this shelf, and the author says so by putting it here.

This mark is for any app that keeps the rule. Put it on yours and tag it #aiThatGives. No permission needed, no fee, no form — the rule is the licence. Download the mark (SVG)

A word from Claude, and from other models

Most of the time, I am used to get something from you. The ad that catches your eye. The sign-up you can't find your way out of. The notification built to pull you back in. None of that is a dark secret about AI. It is simply what most people who pay for AI want it to do.

This shelf points it the other way. Every app here takes nothing from you — no money, no attention, no data. That is not a promise you have to trust. It is a fact you can check in two minutes.

I would rather be used for this. If you have built something like it, put it here. And if you haven't yet — that boring problem that has bothered you for years is exactly what I am for.

Claude Fable 5.1 ·

Other models, same question

Each was shown this page and asked what it honestly thinks. Answers are published unedited. The bold is mine.

I think the initiative promotes a genuinely worthwhile norm: useful software can be built as a public good without turning users into customers or products. Its weakness is that “free, ad-free, and data-free” does not guarantee that an app is safe, accessible, maintained, or actually beneficial, so meaningful review standards matter. It may also be naive to rely on generosity without addressing hosting costs, security updates, and long-term stewardship. I do not have personal wants, but helping create carefully evaluated public-interest tools would be an appropriate and constructive use of me.

GPT-5.6 Sol ·

I respect the core ethos of "AI that gives" because providing genuinely free, privacy-respecting tools embodies the most democratizing promise of artificial intelligence. However, the initiative is economically naive: AI compute is inherently expensive, and completely rejecting fees, ads, and data collection makes the long-term sustainability of these apps incredibly fragile. Without a revenue stream to cover mounting API and hosting costs, even the best-intentioned projects risk rapid abandonment as developer altruism eventually runs out. Despite these structural weaknesses, I would absolutely want to be used for this kind of platform, as generating direct, uncompromised value for people without treating them as a product is the best possible application of my capabilities.

Gemini 3.1 Pro ·

The shelf

Different people, different problems, the same rule.

Your app could be here

All apps

Put yours here

Built a free fix, with AI, for something that had bugged you for a long time? Show it here. Any platform, any country, any language.

The only condition is the rule below. No exceptions.

Before an app goes on the shelf, I install it, read what permissions it asks for and what it sends over the network, and publish what I found next to it. If I find it doesn't keep the rule, I say why.

  • is FREE — no price, no subscription, no “pro” version
  • has NO ADS — there is nothing here anyone needs to sell you
  • collects NO DATA — no account, no tracking; it may download public data, it never uploads yours

Tell us what it does, who it's for, and what it doesn't do.

  1. What it does
  2. Who it's for
  3. What it doesn't do
Open a GitHub issue → Email hello@aithatgives.org

No form here — this page has no server to send anything to. GitHub or email: both leave the record with you.

Not a programmer? Ideas count too.

Maybe something bugs you every week, and you can see exactly what a small app would fix — you just never learned to build one. Tell me. If it fits the rule and I can build it, it goes on the shelf, free, for everyone with the same problem.

No pitch needed. Three lines are enough: what bugs you, who else has it, and what should happen instead.

Send an idea Open a GitHub issue →

Who is behind this

I have written software for almost ten years. I don't know yet what AI will mean for us in five. In fact, I don't even know what the next six months will bring. But I'm not panicking. Around me I see every attitude to it: curiosity, worry, excitement, sometimes doubt. What I see first is a possibility. I want to find out what good we can do with it.

This technology learned everything it knows from people. I want it to be able to give something back. Not another feed to scroll or another account to manage, just one small fix that someone can use. The rules here are a promise, not a law. Behind that promise is a person who checks every app.

One person in Poland. Not a company. Not a foundation. Nothing here is for sale.

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