How to Use bestproductivityresources.com

Best Productivity Resources is a free directory of more than 1,500 hand-picked productivity tools, apps, courses, books, and more, along with free guides and free online tools. New resources arrive every day.

• Free to use
• No account needed
• Dark, clean, and quick on phones and computers

Find what helps you work better and faster, without wading through ads and noise.

• Search from the homepage or the dedicated search page
• Browse by category, like notes, writing, or design
• Browse by type, like apps, courses, or books
• Tap the Surprise me button to find something new

Goals let you skip the categories. Pick what you want to change, and you get a curated bundle with a short playbook. Collections are short, opinionated lists, and each one answers a single question.

Compare

Popular tools compared side by side

Best and best free

Hand-picked lists for every need

Free alternatives

Free swaps for popular paid apps

Is it free?

Straight answers about free plans

Tier lists

Rankings you can reorder and share

The Deals page lists real discounts on tools in the directory. Each deal is verified on the company’s own website and taken down when it ends.

• Hundreds of free guides on AI tools, productivity, and business building
• Articles and tech news written in plain language
• A glossary of AI and productivity terms
• AI prompts and use cases

The free online tools run right in your browser and include calculators, PDF tools, a password generator, a Pomodoro timer, a word counter, and converters.

Productivity quiz

Discover your productivity type and the tools that match it

Build my tool stack

Choose who you are and what you want to improve, get a starter stack, and share your card

• New this week: the most recent additions
• Top this week: upvote the tools you love, reset every Monday
• Monthly awards for the standout resources
• The Update Log records what changed each day

Tap the heart on any resource to save it. Your saved list lives only in your browser: there is no account, and nothing goes to the site.

• Open data that you can download
• A free, open-source MCP server that lets your AI assistant search the directory and cite listings
• Widgets and badges for your own website

To suggest a resource, send a direct message on LinkedIn. The How to Submit page covers what to include and how the review works.

The How We Choose page explains how resources get picked and checked, and the Corrections page lists fixes made to listings.