Imagine a toolbox where every tool is free, nobody asks for your email, and half of them come with a ready-made prompt you can hand straight to Claude. That’s the Pamba Starter Pack: 82 free and open-source tools for people who build with AI, curated by the team behind Pamba and re-verified monthly. Pamba also added a few browser tools of its own that run on your device with nothing uploaded. There’s an AI Slop Remover that hunts down em dashes and the word “delve,” a Metadata Scrubber that shows what your photos leak (GPS, EXIF, C2PA), a Safe-Zone Previewer so your captions never hide behind the TikTok like button, and a Policy Generator for the privacy policy the App Store demands.

Then comes the creative workshop. Need to scrub a watermark, erase a stranger from a photo, or turn a blurry image into a sharp 4x version? Upscayl, IOPaint, rembg and remove-ai-watermarks have you covered. For video there’s OBS for recording, OpenCut as a CapCut alternative with no export watermark, Kdenlive and Shotcut for serious editing, and FFmpeg underneath it all. Remotion even lets you build videos by writing React code. On the audio side, Whisper and its faster cousins turn speech into word-timed captions, GPT-SoVITS and F5-TTS clone a voice from seconds of sample, AudioCraft composes background music from a text prompt, and demucs splits any song into vocals, drums and bass.

For builders, the list goes deeper. You can run your own ChatGPT-style assistant offline with Ollama, llama.cpp, Jan or LM Studio, and drive image and video models through ComfyUI. Claude Code, Cursor, aider and OpenHands handle the coding, while shadcn/ui, Supabase, better-auth and n8n cover the stack. Firecrawl, crawl4ai, Playwright and browser-use let AI agents scrape and operate the web, and marker, docling, Tesseract and Stirling-PDF turn messy documents into clean data. When it’s time to launch, there’s PostHog and Plausible for analytics, Stripe Atlas and Mercury for company and bank, Porkbun for the domain, and icon.kitchen and shots.so for your store assets.

One thing to keep in mind: licenses vary. CodeFormer is non-commercial, a few tools like Remotion, marker and surya have commercial thresholds, and some (Cap, Stirling-PDF, n8n) are source-available rather than truly open source, so check before you ship something paid. And yes, the page is also a shop window for Pamba’s own product, which turns a product link into AI avatar videos for TikTok.

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