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Claude’s free tier now connects to apps, can create Microsoft Office documents, and more

Anthropic has just launched significant new features to Claude’s free tier. Connecting to apps was previously a pro feature available only to paid subscribers, but this is now included in the free tier.

Claude can connect to a wide range of apps, including Canva, Figma, Monday, Notion, Slack, Square, Wix, WordPress, and Google Workspace apps …

You can find the full list of Claude connectors here.

CNET reports on the other enhancements now available to free users.

File creation: People can now create and save PowerPoint slides, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents and PDFs from any Claude conversation.

Skills: Also previously paywalled, custom Skills are sets of instructions that you can have Claude follow, so you don’t have to repeat the request.

Anthropic is also giving users on the free plan lengthier conversations, interactive responses, and improved image and voice searching capabilities.

Amusingly, when I asked Claude to tell me about its new free capabilities, it had to search the web to do so.

At a time when ChatGPT has just started including ads in your chats, this might be a well-timed attempt to persuade people to try Claude instead. Though take my advice and don’t bother with the truly awful Mac app.

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