The Free BYOK Apps Directory

A registry of free AI applications built on the Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) architecture.

Don't pay any more for text-to-video, picture-to-video, image generation, song generation, or image or document analysis than you have to. Learn how to get your own API keys from xAI, Anthropic, and Google. Detailed instructions are provided in the apps. Then ditch your expensive monthly Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscriptions and use the free BYOK apps found here instead. The API keys cost less to use, are more secure, and you will not get locked into an expensive SaaS subscription.

You obtain your own API key from xAI Grok, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, paste it into a freebyokapps.ai app, and pay the API Key provider directly at metered token cost. No subscriptions. No markup. No middleman.

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Software

Edit and Produce Movies, a professional Windows desktop app for combining short clips into feature-length films

• 💻 Movie Maker Edit Pro, Desktop Edition v4.1 $49.99, one-time purchase.
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  The professional Windows desktop edition of Movie Maker Edit. AI video generators only give you clips a few seconds long. Movie Maker Edit Pro lets you combine 10, 50, or even hundreds of those small clips, along with your cell phone videos, home movies, and even real movies, into polished, feature-length films with ease. Add your own soundtrack from your personal MP3 library with two clicks. Unlike the free browser editor, Pro drives a native, multi-core FFmpeg engine with NVIDIA GPU hardware encoding, on a high-end Windows PC it runs about 40× faster and supports videos of up to 3 hours or more. It saves complete, self-contained project files you can reopen and keep editing. One-time purchase, no subscription, no account, no watermark, no per-export fees. Your videos are your own, nobody else has access to your work but you.

Free & BYOK Apps

Free tools to create and edit videos

• 🎞️ Movie Maker Edit, Web Edition v4.1 Free, no API key required.
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  Movie Maker Edit, Web Edition v4.1 is a browser-based video editor. Stitch together AI-generated videos from Movie Maker Grok, phone videos, and home footage with any soundtrack into finished films, right in your browser. It’s not BYOK, with no model provider in the loop, and nothing to pay anyone, ever. If you need more power, try the Desktop Edition. Movie Maker Edit Pro, Desktop Edition v4.1 is a native Windows app, far faster, with longer video support and saved project files. $49.99, one-time purchase. Buy Movie Maker Edit Pro
• 🎥 Movie Maker Grok v3.1 Free with your Grok API Key.
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  Movie Maker Grok provides the most affordable and easiest path to creating your AI-generated videos. If you already have an xAI SuperGrok ($30/mo) subscription, you can generate free videos, and the good news is you will be able to generate at least 10 good, usable video clips before the quota window resets. You can then combine these videos into finished movies with our Totally Free “Movie Maker Edit” app. If you do run out of free quotas with your premium subscription, you can keep working on your long video without any quotas. A BYOK version of Movie Maker Grok is also provided. Here is how it works. Just click on Movie Maker Grok, get an xAI key, instructions are provided, and enter your API key into Movie Maker Grok. Then you can continue to create as many watermark-free video clips as you want for $0.07 per second of xAI API tokens that you pay for yourself. You won’t even need a SuperGrok subscription to do this.

Free tools to create images, music, and WIKIs and analyze documents with your xAI Grok, Claude, and Google API keys

• 🎵 Lyric Remix Studio Gemini v3.1 Requires Google Pro Subscription.
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  AI music and lyric transformation engine powered directly by Google Gemini, Lyria 3, and Imagen 3. Upload an MP3 or WAV, choose an era and instrumentation, and receive rewritten lyrics, an AI-generated instrumental, and album art, from 1890s ragtime to 2030s synthwave. Use it to produce soundtracks and MP3s for the movies you create using Movie Maker Edit v4.1 (Web Edition) and Movie Maker Edit Pro v4.1 (Desktop Edition). Token costs are about $0.56 per 3-minute song. A Google Pro $19.99/mo subscription (or higher) is also required to use this free BYOK App.
• 📖 Wiki 2066 v1.0
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  AI biographical engine powered by Anthropic Claude and xAI Grok. Generate a Wikipedia-style entry set in 2066 or later for anyone, yourself, a public figure, or a fictional character. Grok searches the internet for real facts, Claude writes the biography based on The Singularity Roadmap 2026–2116: A Ninety-year Forecast. For autobiographies, optionally connects to Gmail for additional personalization. Token costs: about $0.30 or less per detailed 2066 Wiki. No subscriptions are needed to use the Anthropic and xAI Grok APIs.

• 🔍 Describe That Claude v3.1
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  AI media intelligence extraction engine powered by Anthropic Claude Opus. Submit a photo or PDF and receive a fully structured report, every person with a 27-field physical profile, every object, every vehicle with make, model, plate, and condition. Token costs: about $0.20 or less per detailed image report. No subscriptions are needed to use the Anthropic API.
• ⚖️ What’s The Catch Claude v1.0
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  AI-powered document review tool powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Upload a PDF and get a plain-language summary with a 0–100 risk score, executive summary, and key-provision breakdown across Legal, Financial, Medical, and Business documents. For informational purposes only. Token costs: about $0.50 or less per detailed document review. No subscriptions are required to use the Anthropic API.
• 🛡️ ScamCheck Claude v1.0
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  AI-powered scam and fraud detection powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Upload a photo, screenshot, or PDF and receive a forensic report with a 0–100 risk score, verdict, and full red-flag breakdown. Specializes in phishing, mail fraud, romance scams, and pig butchering schemes. Token costs: about $0.08 or less per detailed forensic report. No subscriptions are required to use the Anthropic API.
• 🛡️ ScamCheck Grok v1.0
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  AI-powered scam and fraud detection powered by xAI Grok. Upload a photo, screenshot, or PDF and receive a forensic report with a 0–100 risk score, verdict, and full red-flag breakdown. Specializes in phishing, mail fraud, romance scams, and pig butchering schemes. Token costs: about $0.08 or less per detailed forensic report. No subscriptions are required to use the xAI Grok API.

Listing Policy

To be listed in this directory, your free BYOK app must meet all five of these criteria.

This policy applies to BYOK submissions only. Free non-BYOK companion apps from listed developers (such as Movie Maker Edit) are welcome on the directory but are not subject to these criteria.

• 1. The app is completely free, with no purchase price, subscription, trial-to-paid conversion, or freemium wall on core functionality.
• 2. The user enters their own API key, one they obtained personally, not a key the app supplies or resells.
• 3. The key is from a major AI provider: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Meta AI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, xAI Grok, or equivalent.
• 4. API calls go to a first-party AI provider, never through an aggregator, reseller, or third-party key-holding service.
• 5. AI usage is billed directly by the provider, the user pays the provider at token cost only.

Apps that route through key aggregators or resellers such as OpenRouter, Groq Cloud, or Helicone do not qualify, even if they describe themselves as BYOK. A single-purpose pass-through hosted by the app developer is acceptable only when the provider’s API does not permit direct browser calls, and only if the developer holds no keys, retains no content, adds no markup, and routes to a single named provider.

To submit an app for listing, use the submission form below. Listings are reviewed within 24–48 hours.

Submit Your App (or) Review an App

Choose one of the two forms below to submit your app to the Free BYOK App Directory for review and listing, or to review one of the apps you find here after you try it with your own API key. App submissions are reviewed within 24–48 hours. Reviews are read personally and used to keep the directory accurate.