The best SaaS tools for entrepreneurs and freelancers

Talkspirit is an all-in-one French collaboration platform hosted in France for data sovereignty. No free plan, plans start at €5/user/month.

AssoConnect combines nonprofit accounting, a member database, a website, email campaigns and online payment collection in one platform. The payment feature is free, subscriptions start at €23 incl. VAT per month.

Sora is OpenAI's AI video generator, now built into ChatGPT subscriptions. Free app with capped generations, full access from $20/month.

AhaSlides builds interactive presentations with live quizzes, polls, and word clouds. Free plan available, paid plans start at $7.95/month.

Tolteck handles quotes and invoices for building trade professionals, with a preloaded library of work items and an offline mode. One flat price, unlimited users, starting at €19 excl. VAT per month.

Whaller is a French enterprise social network with sovereign hosting. Free plan for up to 100 members, Pro plan from €3/user/month excl. tax.

Nibelis is a full HRIS with a built-in payroll engine, built for French SMBs and mid-market companies with 50 to 3,000 employees. All-inclusive model with hands-on support. No public pricing, no free trial.

FLUX is Black Forest Labs' image generation model, open source and available via API. Free local models, API pricing starts at $0.014/image.

EmailListVerify checks your email lists to reduce bounces and protect your deliverability. From $5 per 1,000 credits, free trial included.

Zulip is an open source team chat app organized by topics. Free and self-hosted plans available, Cloud Standard from $6.67/user/month.

Stable Diffusion is Stability AI's image generation model, open source and available via API. Free local models, API plans start at $20/month.

Combo, formerly Snapshift, handles scheduling, time tracking and payroll prep for businesses with rotating shift teams: restaurants, bakeries, hotels, retail, pharmacies, gyms. Billed per location.

Warmup Inbox warms up email addresses to boost deliverability and avoid spam folders. Plans start at $19/month per inbox, with a free trial.

Twist is an asynchronous, thread-based messaging tool from Doist. Free plan, Unlimited at €6/user/month. A calmer alternative to Slack.

DALL-E 3 is OpenAI's image model, now at end of life. No standalone subscription: access via ChatGPT Plus at $20/month or the API at $0.04/image.

Joiin is a multi-entity financial consolidation tool that pulls in Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage. 14-day trial, billed per company from $28/month.

Eurécia is a French HRIS sold module by module: leave, time tracking, expense reports, reviews, training. Built for SMBs with 11 to 500 employees operating under French labour law. It prepares payroll but doesn't calculate it.

Rocket.Chat is an open-source, self-hostable messaging platform built for sovereignty. Free Starter plan up to 50 users, Enterprise is quote-based.

Perplexity is an AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources. Free plan, Pro at $20/month, Max at $200/month for power users.

Geo Targetly is a web geo-targeting tool for redirects, banners, and links based on visitor country. 14-day free trial, plans starting at $12/month.

Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable team messaging tool, an alternative to Slack. Free plan, Professional at $10/user/month.

Microsoft Copilot is the AI assistant for Windows and Microsoft 365. Free version, then Microsoft 365 Premium at $19.99/month, replacing Copilot Pro.

Algomo is now Newmode: a B2B platform for visitor identification and outbound prospecting. Opaque pricing, starting at $200/month, no free plan.

Le Chat is Mistral AI's assistant, a French company: frontier models, images, and code. Free plan, Pro at $14.99/month, EU-hosted data.