193 Free Tools and Resources for Bloggers, Digital Marketers & Designers

Free Stock Images

• Unsplash: Beautiful, free HD images and photographs for commercial and non-commercial use.
• Stock Snap: High quality stock images without any copyright restriction to use for your projects.
• Pexels: Free photos to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes.
• Pikwizard: Free stock photos of high quality for your next project. No attribution required to use the photos.
• Gratisography: Collection of free, quirky and creative images of high quality.
• Pixabay: High quality stock images for your projects.
• Picjumbo: Free, high resolution photos for personal and commercial use.
• Stock Up: 34,000+ photos/images curated and indexed from 31 different free stock photo websites.
• Evergreen Photos: Free nature photos.
• Iconscout: Around 10,000 royalty free images for commercial and personal use.

Free Image Editors/Graphic Design Tools

• Pixlr: Online photo/image editor that gives complete control to you.
• Pablo: Search for images, choose your font, add text, format, resize, add effects and share stunning visuals.
• Canva: A drag-and-drop graphic design tool that offers access to photographs, vector images, graphics, and fonts.
• Doka Photo: Edit your images in the browser without uploading anything.
• Status DV: Create colorful personalized word-clouds.

Free Image Optimizer

• Image Optimiser: Resize, compress, and optimize your images for free.
• Optimizilla: Upload multiple image files (JPEG and PNG) and compress them.
• JPEG Image Optimizer: Offers three different methods of JPEG/JPG image optimization – lossless, by size, and by quality factor.
• Kraken: Upload/import images and optimize the; offers lossy, lossless, and expert image optimization along with resizing option.
• SmushIt: WordPress plugin to resize, compress and optimize your images on your WordPress powered site.
• CompressJPEG: Upload multiple JPEG image files and compress them as per your needs.

Free Blogging Platforms

• Medium: An online publishing platform to share your stories and ideals with an in-built audience.
• WordPress.com: A free, hosted solution to create your website or blog.
• Wix: A website builder to create stunning websites with no knowledge of codes.
• Strikingly: A website builder to create and host stylish, mobile-friendly, professional-looking websites.
• Hugo+Netlify: An extremely fast, open-source static site generator. Can be hosted for free on Netlify.
• Hexo+Netlify: A simple, fast static site generator powered by Node.js.
• Jekyll+GitHub Pages: Blog aware static site generator written in Ruby.
• Weebly: A website builder to create a professional site, blog, or online store.
• Blogger: A blog-publishing service owned and hosted by Google.
• Tumblr: A micro-blogging and social networking site with built-in audience; allows custom domain.
• Write.as: A minimalist blogging platform with strong privacy principles.
• Bloggi: A simple, distraction-free blogging platform.
• Postach.io: Blog from your Evernote notebook.
• Proseful: A simple blogging platform to help you focus on writing.
• Notepin: A simple, minimalist, note-taking site with blogging features.
• Devblog: A blogging platform for developers, but others can use it too.
• Collected Notes: A markdown powered, simple notetaking-blogging platform.

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Free Web Hosting Solutions

• Render: Connect with your Github/Gitlab account and host your static website/blog for free.
• Netlify: Free static website hosting solution with continuous deployment, 1-click HTTPS, CDN, and more.
• GitHub Pages: Host your website/blog for free directly from your GitHub repository.
• 000webhost: Free website hosting with PHP, MySQL, and cPanel.
• Infinity Free: Free, unlimited web hosting for your blog/website.
• Surge: Publish your static site right from the CLI.

Free Note-Taking Tools

• Evernote: A note-taking app for your smartphone, tablet, and computer that syncs across all your devices.
• Journey: A note-taking and journaling app available on Android, iOS, Mac, Windows PC & online.
• Simplenote: A note-taking app from the makers of WordPress that offers Markdown support and is available for Android, iOS, Mac, Windows PC & online.
• Notion: An all-in-one collaborative solution for note-taking, project management and task management, supports Markdown.
• Microsoft OneNote: Digital note-taking app from Microsoft that allows users to gather notes, screen clippings, drawings, etc.
• Dropbox Paper: A collaborative document editing tool from the makers of Dropbox.
• Notepin: A web-based note-taking app that has the features of a blog.
• Dynalist: An app/outliner for note-taking, word processing, bullet journalling, etc.
• Workflowy: A simple outliner to help you organize your work/projects.
• Google Docs: Web-based word processor offered by Google.
• Schema: A note-taking tool to organize your knowledge in a clean structure.
• Roam: An easy-to-use note-taking app as powerful as a graph database.

Free Writing Tools/Editors

• Hemingway App: A free web-based app to simplify your sentences and highlight common errors.
• Grammarly: A free writing app to make your writings grammatically correct.
• ZenPen: A distraction-free writing tool.
• Calmly Writer: Web-based distraction-free writing tool. Also available for ChromeOS.
• Typora: A powerful, minimal Markdown editor and reader for Windows and Linux.
• Zen by Unit: A web-based, full-screen, distraction-less writing app that supports Markdown.
• WYSIWYG Markdown Editor: What You See Is What You Get Markdown editor that has offline support.
• WebFX Readable: Get the readability score and text statistics of any web page.
• Stackedit: Rich Markdown editor for browser.
• Readable: Check readability, spelling and grammar of your text and know where to improve.
• Devpen: GitHub style markdown editor.

Content Ideas

• Google Trends: Find popular/trending search queries in Google across regions and languages.
• HubSpot Blog Ideas Generator: Enter a word and get blog ideas to write on.
• Portent Content Idea Generator: Enter your subject and get ideas to write content.
• Impact Blog Title Generator: Enter a keyword (something you want to blog about, like productivity, content marketing, SEO, etc.) and get ideas.
• BuzzSumo: Enter keyword or domain to get insights and ideas for great content.
• Ubersuggest: Enter a domain or keyword and get suggestions, blog ideas, and insights to improve SEO.
• Answer The Public: Enter a keyword to generate content ideas in the form of questions.
• Title Generator: Enter keywords to generate 700 content ideas.
• Soovle: Enter a keyword to know what people are looking for in various search engines.

Free Content Promotion Tools

• SlideShare:
• Quora:
• Scoop.it:
• Pinterest:

Free Writing Resources

• UK-US Spelling List: Comprehensive list of British and American spelling differences.
• Thesaurus: Enter a word to know its synonyms, definitions, and usage examples.
• Word Hippo: Find similar and opposite words, with examples, for your creative writing.
• Power Thesaurus: A free, online thesaurus for writers.

Free Infographic Tools

• Piktochart: Web-based app to design infographics, posters, presentation, etc. with no design or coding knowledge.
• Canva: A drag-and-drop, web-based design tool that comes with templates as well as the option to upload your own design elements.
• Venngage: Select a template, add charts, texts, and visuals, and edit your design to create visually stunning infographics.
• Easelly: An easy-to-use tool to create visuals (infographics, posters, etc.) without any knowledge of design.
• Visme: Create visually appealing and professional looking infographics and presentations.
• Snappa: An online graphic design tool to create visuals for your blog, social media, etc.

Free Illustration Libraries

• Ouch!: Beautiful, free vector illustrations for your next project.
• Whoosh: Free, customizable illustration pack for any kind of projects.
• Humaaans: A customizable, mix-and-match human illustration library.
• Glaze: Professional looking free illustrations.
• Abstrakt: Unique, abstract illustrations for your next project – app, website, blog.
• isometric: Free isometric illustrations for website, landing pages, blogs, etc.
• Iconspace Library: Free illustrations for designers, developers, and content creators.
• Open Doodles: Free, customizable sketchy illustrations for your projects.
• DrawKit: Hand-drawn vector illustrations of a wide range of categories.
• Lukasz Adam: Download vector art illustrations for free.
• Bottts: Mix and match different elements (antennas, colours, sensors, etc.) and create robot illustrations.
• Mixkit: Extremely beautiful art and illustrations to use for free.
• Iconscout: 300+ high quality, royalty free illustrations for personal and commercial use.
• Manypixels: Royalty free illustrations for your blog, landing pages, email, social media posts.
• Outlane: Colourful design resources and illustrations for personal and commercial use.
• Smash Illustrations: 250+ objects and characters and 20+ unique scenes to create trendy illustrations/visuals for your project.
• Illustrations: Open source illustration kit available for download in AI, PNG, SVG, and EPS.
• Buttsss: Beautiful butt illustrations and GIFs.
• Freellustrations: Download high quality, free background illustrations for your landing pages.
• Fresh Folk: Mix-and-match, customizable illustration library of people and objects.
• Delesign: Free graphics and illustrations for download (both SVG and PNG).
• Open Peeps: A hand-drawn illustration library by Pablo Stanley.
• Dribble:
• Black Illustrations: Free illustrations of black people.

Free Icons

• Icons8: Download design resources, including icons, for free.
• Flat Icon: One of the largest collections of free icons of all types and styles.
• The Noun Project: A vast collection of free icons.
• Freepik: Great collection of free icons of all types.
• Font Awesome: A simple font and icon toolkit.
• Icon Finder: Collection of free icons of various styles (outline, flat, photorealistic, etc.)
• Iconscout: More than 1 lakh free icons of all varieties for your personal and commercial use.
• Material Design Icons: 750 free icons by Google.
• Jollof Icons: Free 3D, Isometric, Abstract icons and emojis.

Free Logo Generator

• Namecheap Logo Generator: Design your own logo for free in just a few minutes.
• Squarespace Logo Generator: Create a high-quality, professional logo for your business/brand.

Free Stock Videos

• Pexels: Free, high quality stock videos for your next project.
• Pixabay: Free video clips and footage of high quality.
• Videvo: Free stock video footage and motion graphics.
• Stock Footage 4 Free: Unlimited stock videos and footage for all kinds of projects.
• Mixkit: High quality free stock videos to use anywhere you want.
• Mazwai:

Free Video Editing Tools

• Headliner: Create unlimited videos (1080p and 10 without any watermark) and share directly to social networks.
• Soapbox: Just record and edit your video with this Chrome extension.
• Adobe Spark: Create powerful videos without any design skills.
• Clipchamp: Create unlimited 480p videos for personal use. Comes with compressor, converter and webcam recorder.
• FlexClip: Create marketing and lifestyle videos in minutes.

Free Plagiarism Checker

• SmallSEOTools Plagiarism Checker: A 100% free, multilingual plagiarism tool that compares your content with billions of web pages on the Internet.
• Copyscape: An online plagiarism detection tool.
• Quetext: Free plagiarism checker that provides analysis and feedback.
• Dupli Checker: Another plagiarism checker.
• Grammarly Plagiarism Checker: Plagiarism checker for your text that also provides feedback on grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, and sentence structure.
• Plagiarisma: Free online plagiarism checker that supports 190+ languages.
• PapersOwl: Select the type of content (essays, website content, resume, etc.) and check for plagiarism.
• Free Plagiarism Checker: Know if there is any duplicate content in your text with this free plagiarism checker.

Free Email Management

• Mailchimp: Marketing automation and email marketing service.
• Hello Bar: Convert your visitors to subscribers/customers by showing unobtrusive messages to them.
• Contact Form 7: Create, integrate and deploy lead-generation forms for your WordPress site.
• Bee Free: A tool to easily design mobile-responsive beautiful emails.
• Mailgun: Send, receive and track your emails without any difficulty.
• TinyLetter: A free newsletter service from the makers of Mailchimp.
• Boomerang: Take control of when to send and receive emails.

Free Social Media Management Tools

• TweetDeck: A free application to manage your Twitter accounts.
• HootSuite: A social media management tool that supports Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
• Socialoomph: One of the best social post scheduling app for individuals with a single social profile.
• Friends+Me: streamline your social sharing across different platforms.
• Zoho Social: A single tool to manage your brand on social media and get reports.
• Followerwonk: Twitter analytics tool to optimize your social growth.
• ST.HT: Free custom URL shortener
• SharedCount: Check Facebook shares, likes, comments, reactions, Pins of URLs.

Free SEO Tools

• Google Analytics: Free web analytics service by Google to track and analyze your web traffic and get meaningful insights.
• Google Search Console: Webmaster tool by Google to check indexing status and control visibility of your blog/website.
• LSI Graph: Free tool to generate LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) keywords for SEO.
• LSI Keywords: Generate LSI keywords to improve the On-Page SEO of your blog/website.
• Google Keyword Planner: Free tool from Google to help you with keyword research and provides ad groups ideas.
• Ahrefs: Free backlink checker for your website or blog.
• SmallSEOTools
• Alexa: A tool by Amazon for keyword research and analysis of competitors\’ websites.
• SimilarWeb: Get information about your competitors\’ website traffic for free.
• Google Pagespeed Insights: Analyze your website\’s performance and get suggestions to improve website speed.
• Google Trends: Find out trending google searches across different regions and languages.
• Google Optimize: Test your website and optimize accordingly to get more customers.
• Nibbler: Check detailed insights into any website – accessibility, social media, SEo, etc.
• Google Tag Manager: Free tool from Google to manage and deploy marketing code snippets/tracking code on your website/app.
• Keyword Tool: Keyword research tool that provides keywords on the basis of language and region.
• Browseo: Check how a web page looks like to search engines.
• GTmetrix: Get performance report for your site and recommendations to improve.
• Pingdom: Get detailed analysis of your website speed and know how to optimize your site.
• Moz Link Explorer: Get detailed insights into backlinks to your site.
• SERPs Keyword Rank Checker
• SEMrush: Get domain and keyword analytics, marketing insights, SEO audits, etc. for your blog/website.
• Open Link Profiler: Enter a domain and analyze the backlinks to the site.
• Broken Links: Find broken links, redirects and other insights into all links on a website.
• XML Sitemaps: Generate a sitemap for your website.
• Keyword Hero:
• Beam Us Up:
• Link Redirect Trace:
• Screaming Frog:
• Seolyzer:

Free Cloud Storage

• Google Drive: A file storage and management service and office suite that offers synchronization across devices.
• Dropbox: A cloud storage/file-hosting service and management tool.
• Arcane Office: Decentralized office suite and an alternative to Google Drive
• Workona: Cloud storage management tool, a single tool to manage all your work on the web.