Three free n8n templates
Three short workflows, each one solving a single task. They are free and they ask for no license key. Every value you have to change sits in one node at the top of the canvas, so there is no config file to edit and nothing to hunt for.
Where to get them, honestly. As of 23 September 2026, template F1 is submitted to the n8n Creator Hub and its badge reads "Under review". The other two cannot be queued behind it: the share button is disabled while a review is open, so the Hub takes one at a time. None of the three is published there yet, and there is no download link on this page.
If you want one before it appears there, write to [email protected] and say which one. I will send you the workflow JSON. No list, no sign-up.
What each one does
- Free
F1. Draft customer review replies with Claude
Who it is for. Hotels, guest houses, restaurants, garages, clinics, shops. Anyone who knows a bad review needs an answer the same day and never finds the hour to write one.
What it does. A review reaches a webhook. Claude writes a public reply in the language of the review, keeps it short, reveals nothing about the customer and promises no refund. Three checks then run on the draft: the word limit, a list of phrases that promise compensation, and any number that looks like a date or an amount. You get the draft by email with the review beside it.
What it does not do. It never posts anything. You publish the reply yourself, or you do not.
What you need. An Anthropic API key and a Gmail account. It asks for no access to any review platform.
- Free
F2. Save form submissions to Google Sheets without duplicates
Who it is for. Anyone who collects contacts from a website form and keeps them in a spreadsheet: trades, agencies, consultants, shops, clubs. The people who end up with the same person on four rows and no idea which one is current.
What it does. A submission reaches a webhook. Field names are normalized first, so any form builder works. The email, or the phone number when there is no email, is compared with the rows already in the sheet. A new contact is appended and you are notified. A contact already in the list is not written a second time, and the notification says the message came from someone you already know.
What it does not do. It never deletes and never overwrites a row.
What you need. A Google account with a sheet you can write to, and a Gmail account for the notification.
- Free
F3. Summarize your morning Gmail inbox with Claude
Who it is for. Anyone whose day starts with an inbox that filled overnight and who wants to know, before opening it, what actually needs an answer today. Owners, freelancers, practice managers.
What it does. At seven in the morning it reads the emails from the last 24 hours, sends them to Claude in a single call, and emails you a summary in three parts: to handle today, for information, ignorable. One model call per morning for the whole batch, which is what keeps it cheap to run.
What it does not do. It marks nothing as read, moves nothing, deletes nothing and answers nobody. The prompt also forbids copying a password, a verification code or a bank account number out of an email.
What you need. A Gmail account and an Anthropic API key.
What they have in common
- Everything you can change is in a single settings node at the head of the canvas: the business name, the address that gets the email, the model, the wording. Nothing a customer reads is buried in code.
- No template posts, sends or deletes anything without a human, apart from the email addressed to you.
- No API key, no real address and no real spreadsheet id ships inside them. Credentials are referenced by name and you select your own after import.
- One link back to this site, at the bottom of the email each one sends. That is the only promotion inside them.
What has been tested, and what has not
All three were run on n8n 2.26.7 on a Mac mini, in both their English and their French edition, on 23 September 2026. The plumbing was exercised end to end: a negative review through F1 with the guard rails checked separately against a draft that promised a refund, a duplicate submission through F2 with the case of the email address changed, and three invented emails through F3 including one carrying a prompt-injection attempt.
What was not done: the model was replaced by a local simulator for those runs, and the Google Sheets and Gmail credentials do not exist on that machine, so those nodes were stood in for. A pass against the real model, and a run of F2 against a real Google Sheet, are still to come.
There is a French edition of each
The same three workflows exist in French, marked [FR] in the title, with French node names, French notes and French wording in the emails they send. The JavaScript inside is identical: one source generates both editions, so a fix lands in both at once. The field names of the settings node stay in English in both, because the shared code reads them.
If you want more than a template
The paid packs are French-language and none is on sale yet. There is no English pack. What is on this page is what exists in English today, and the home page says the same thing in more detail.