Tools
The 55 tools the ideas on this site use, most used first. Each price comes from the vendor's own site, in the vendor's own currency.
ChatGPT
AI assistant from OpenAI that you chat with on the web, desktop or mobile. You paste in notes or documents, or upload files, and it drafts, summarises and rewrites text.
Free planUsed in 66 ideas
Claude
AI assistant from Anthropic that you chat with on the web, desktop or mobile. You paste in notes or documents and it drafts, summarises and rewrites text.
Free planUsed in 66 ideas
Google Gemini
AI assistant from Google that you chat with on the web or mobile. You paste in notes or documents and it drafts, summarises and rewrites text; paid plans add Gemini in Gmail and Docs.
Free planUsed in 66 ideas
Zapier
Automation service that connects apps so that something happening in one, such as a new form entry, triggers an action in another, such as an email or a spreadsheet row.
Free planUsed in 16 ideas
Xero
Online accounting software for UK small businesses: invoices, quotes, bills and bank feeds, with automated invoice reminders and repeating invoices.
From £18 a monthUsed in 13 ideas
Calendly
Online scheduling tool: you share a booking link and people pick a free slot in your calendar. Paid plans add reminders and workflows, and take payment at booking.
Free planUsed in 11 ideas
Brevo
Email and SMS marketing platform with a drag-and-drop email editor, sign-up forms, contact segments and an AI tool for drafting email copy.
Free planUsed in 9 ideas
RotaCloud
Staff rota and scheduling software with a mobile app, shift swapping, staff availability, holiday management and labour cost reports.
From £10 a monthUsed in 7 ideas
Dext
Bookkeeping software that captures receipts and supplier invoices from a phone, email or WhatsApp, reads the details and sends them to accounting software such as Xero for you to approve.
From £24.17 a monthUsed in 5 ideas
Tradify
Job management app built for trades: quotes, scheduling, timesheets and invoicing, with quote and invoice reminders that chase customers for you.
From £34 a monthUsed in 5 ideas
Booksy
Booking software for barbers, salons and beauty businesses with a client booking page, reminders, waitlist, forms, gift cards, packages and marketing messages.
From £40 a monthUsed in 4 ideas
Cliniko
Practice management software for health and wellbeing clinics: diary, online bookings, treatment notes, invoices and payments, SMS to clients, with an API and connected apps.
From $45 a monthUsed in 4 ideas
Legalesign
E-signature service built for legal documents: send documents for signing, track them, and keep an audit log. Plans include Advanced signatures, and Qualified signatures on higher plans.
From £10 a monthUsed in 4 ideas
Shopify
Online shop platform for selling from your own website, with built-in checkout, inventory, local delivery and an AI assistant called Sidekick.
From £19 a monthUsed in 4 ideas
Amazon Seller Central
Amazon's seller account and tools for selling on its UK store, including an AI listing content tool, Automate Pricing and a profit calculator.
From £25 a monthUsed in 3 ideas
Bookwhen
Online booking system for classes, courses and events: customers book and pay on your booking page, and you manage attendees, memberships and waiting lists.
Free planUsed in 3 ideas
Fathom AI Notetaker
AI note-taker for online meetings that records, transcribes and summarises calls. It is a different product from the Fathom financial reporting tool.
Free planUsed in 3 ideas
Powered Now
Job management app for UK trades: quotes, invoices, diary and compliant certificates, with automatic quote and invoice chasing and appointment reminders on its top plan.
From £28 a monthUsed in 3 ideas
Smokeball
Practice management software for law firms: client and matter management, document automation, time tracking, billing and a client portal, with an optional AI assistant called Archie.
From £89 a monthUsed in 3 ideas
Apex27
Cloud CRM for estate and letting agents covering sales, lettings, viewings, offers, tenancy management and a client portal, with exports to property portals and websites.
From £35 a monthUsed in 2 ideas
Blink
Cloud practice management system for opticians with a diary, patient records, patient recall and SMS reminders, with optional online booking from your website.
From £95 a monthUsed in 2 ideas
Dentally
Cloud dental practice software with patient records, NHS integration, a patient portal for online booking and digital forms, and AI clinical notes on higher plans.
From £134 a monthUsed in 2 ideas
GoCardless
Direct Debit payment service: you collect one-off or recurring payments from customers' bank accounts, and pay a fee per transaction instead of a monthly subscription.
Free planUsed in 2 ideas
Jobber
Job management software for home service businesses: quotes, scheduling, invoicing and payments, with automatic follow-ups and an optional AI receptionist.
From $29 a monthUsed in 2 ideas
Medesk
Practice management software for private clinics: online booking, patient forms, electronic records, billing, and automated SMS and email reminders.
Free planUsed in 2 ideas
Smoobu
Channel manager and booking system for holiday lets: syncs your calendar across booking sites, schedules guest messages, and provides a booking website with card payments.
From €28 a monthUsed in 2 ideas
Square Appointments
Online booking and appointment software with automatic reminders, a free booking site, prepayments and built-in card payments for salons, clinics and other appointment-based businesses.
Free planUsed in 2 ideas
Thirdfort
Client identity, anti-money-laundering and source of funds checking service for law firms, estate agents and others, with checks completed by the client in the Thirdfort app.
From £83 a monthUsed in 2 ideas
Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan
Adobe subscription for photographers with Lightroom, Lightroom Classic and Photoshop plus 1TB of cloud storage. Lightroom includes Generative Remove for cleaning up photos.
From £20 a monthUsed in 1 idea
Adobe Photoshop
Image editing software with Generative Fill, Generative Expand and the Remove tool, which Adobe says use Adobe Firefly for the Fill and Expand features.
From £22 a monthUsed in 1 idea
Aftershoot
AI software for photographers that culls, edits and retouches images, with a free Galleries starter plan for client delivery. Plans are flat-fee with unlimited images.
From $10 a monthUsed in 1 idea
AgencyAnalytics
Client reporting platform for marketing agencies: dashboards and white-label reports pulled from the client's marketing accounts, with AI features for insights and commentary.
From £15 a monthUsed in 1 idea
Beds24
Channel manager and property management system for hotels, B&Bs, guest houses and holiday lets, with a booking engine, a central inbox for Airbnb and Booking.com, and automated guest messaging.
From €15.50 a monthUsed in 1 idea
BrightPay Connect
Add-on for BrightPay payroll software on PC or Mac: cloud backup, an employee self-service portal for payslips and leave requests, and an employer dashboard that bureaus can open to clients.
From £0.70 a monthUsed in 1 idea
Buffer
Social media scheduling tool: plan, schedule and publish posts to connected channels, with an AI Assistant to refine and repurpose your copy.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
Descript
Video and audio editor where you edit by editing the transcript. It can remove filler words, clean up audio and add captions, with an AI co-editor called Underlord.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
eRank
Etsy research tool that shows keyword search data, audits your listings and gives traffic stats for your shop.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
Fathom
Financial reporting and analysis software for accountants and bookkeepers: branded client reports, forecasts, KPIs and AI-written commentary, syncing daily with Xero and other accounting software.
From $67 a monthUsed in 1 idea
Frame.io
Video review and approval platform (not the website builder Framer): upload cuts, share them with clients and collect comments on the video. It can also generate transcripts and captions.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
Framer
Website builder for designers (not the video review tool Frame.io): design and publish sites visually, with a CMS, hosting and AI-powered translation of site content.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
Happy Scribe
Transcription and subtitling service: AI speech-to-text and subtitles in many languages, with optional human proofreading.
From €17 a monthUsed in 1 idea
Heidi
AI medical scribe for clinicians: it transcribes consultations and drafts notes and letters from templates for the clinician to review.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
Judge.me
Product review app for online shops that collects reviews by email request and shows them on product pages, with a free plan and a paid plan that adds automatic reminders.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
Loom
Screen and camera recording tool: record a walkthrough, share a link and get comments on it. A paid add-on plan adds AI titles, summaries, chapters and tasks.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
Manage Your Block
Online portal for residents' management companies, directors and owners of apartment blocks to keep block documents and contact details in one place.
From £8.25 a monthUsed in 1 idea
My PT Hub
Software for personal trainers and coaches to build workouts and nutrition plans, message clients, take payments and track progress through a client app.
From €25 a monthUsed in 1 idea
Pixieset
Client gallery and photo delivery service for photographers: private galleries, downloads and print sales, with an optional editing and culling add-on.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
resOS
Commission-free table booking and table management software for restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs. Takes bookings from your website and social media and sends confirmations and reminders.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
Square for Restaurants
Point of sale for restaurants, cafés, pubs and takeaways with built-in payments and Square Online Ordering for click and collect or delivery orders on your own website.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
Square for Retail
Till and stock system for shops, with item and inventory management, purchase orders and barcode labels, run from Square's point of sale.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
TaxCalc AML Centre
Anti-money-laundering records for accountancy practices: firm-wide and client risk assessments, client due diligence records, ID evidence and review dates.
From £9 a monthUsed in 1 idea
TaxCalc Engager
Practice management software for accountancy firms: proposals and engagement letters with e-signature, client onboarding, task and deadline boards, client chasing, time tracking and a client portal.
From £9 a monthUsed in 1 idea
TaxCalc eSign Centre
E-signature for accountancy practices: send documents from TaxCalc products for signing, with automatic reminders, tracking and an audit trail. Offers Advanced Electronic Signatures.
No public monthly priceUsed in 1 idea
UptimeRobot
Website monitoring service: it checks a site or server at set intervals and alerts you when it goes down. Plans differ by monitor count and check interval.
Free planUsed in 1 idea
Veeqo
Shipping and inventory software that connects sales channels such as Amazon, Shopify and eBay, with courier label buying and stock sync.
Free planUsed in 1 idea