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50 Free content creation tools
There is an amazing selection of free content creation tools available online. Some are completely free; others, have a limited free plan. In this blog post, Iโve done my best to put together the most comprehensive list of free content creation tools โ from image and video creation to noise generators for a better writing ambience, thereโs a bit of everything in here.
Image creation
Video creation
GIF creators
Meme generators
Presentation tools
Infographic creators
Free Chart & Graph creators
Interactive content
Headline & topic generatorsa
Improve your writing
Noise generators
Organizational tools
Bonus tools
Free content creation tools: image creation tools
Adobe Spark Post
Adobe Spark Post is an image creation application for mobile and web that is developed by Adobe Systems. It is a great tool for beginners who do not have design background to create impactful social graphics by leveraging great templates. You can use it as a free social poster maker or even a meme generatorย to help you easily stand out on social and beyond.
Use it to create: collage, logos, banners, flyers, slideshow, facebook cover, invitation cards, brochure, album cover, and more.
Canva
Canva is my favourite option when it comes to creating images for blogs and social media, as well as other types of visual content โ and Iโm sure Iโm not the only one. Itโs super easy to use, and although they also have some paid options, thereโs plenty that you can do with the free version.
Use it to create: social media posts, quote images, infographics, blog graphics, book and magazine covers, presentations, banners, logos, brochures, and more.
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Crello
Crello is very similar to Canva; itโs a tool for quick and easy creation of all kinds of social media and blogging visuals.
Use it to create: social media posts, blog graphics, marketing materials (posters, flyers, etc.), business cards, visuals for social media ads.
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Pablo
Pablo by Buffer offers a super quick solution (under 30 seconds per image!) for creating beautiful and compelling social media images. There arenโt a lot of editing/customization options, but thereโs everything you need to create images that get people to take action.
Use it to create: social media posts, quote images, promotional images, announcements, and outreach cards.
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PicMonkey
PicMonkey is a photo editor, primarily; however, thereโs much more to it than that. Apart from editing photos, you can also use it make collages, and use their templates to create all kinds of designs.
Use it to: edit your photos, create collages, create social media posts, logos, banner ads, email headers, or create custom designs.ย PicMonkey also offers photo editing options, including adding filters, removing backgrounds, blurring photos, adjusting image settings, face swap, and cropping.
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Befunky
Befunky, like PicMonkey, is a photo editor, collage maker, and image designer. As you can see above, there are plenty of templates to choose from, such as blogger resources, social media headers and graphics, and event graphics.
Use it to create: social media headers and images, blog graphics, business cards, letterheads, infographics, and more.
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Stencil
Stencil is an image creator with a big focus on speed. Use their incredible selection of templates to easily and quickly create beautiful images.
Use it to create: social media images, blog graphics, quote images, promotional visuals, ebook covers.
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Skitch from Evernote
Skitch from Evernote is one of the easiest ways of taking screenshots and adding annotations and sketches. Just get the app and start snapping screenshots to get your point across.
Use it to: add annotations, add shapes and lines, highlight certain parts, pixelate what you donโt want people to see.
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Recite
Recite is a super quick way to create a quote image; as you can in the screenshot above, all you have to do is write down your quote, select a style, and youโre good to go. And share.
Use it to create: quote images, of course!
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Over
Over is a smartphone app (and free content creation tool!) that allows you to create beautiful social media images on the go. All you need to is choose an image of the millions available, add your text to it, and youโre good to share on your social profiles.
Use it to create: social media images with text over them (get it?)
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Subtle patterns
If you want an understated, subtle background for your images, look no further; Subtle Patterns offers a huge selection of background images that you can easily download.
Use it to: download background patterns.
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Pattern Library
Another great option for background patterns is the Pattern Library; while Subtle Patterns focuses on the understated, Pattern Library offers a great selection of colourful, eye-catching designs.
Use it to: sort out all your pattern needs.
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Video creation
CloudApp
CloudApp allows you to take recordings of your screen (as well as screenshots), edit and annotate them and share with your team or audience. Itโs very useful , particularly for explainer videos.
Use it to create: explainer videos, annotated images, high-quality GIFs.
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RenderForest
RenderForest is an online video production tool that you can use for free; they offer a huge library of video templates that you can use and edit to your liking.
Use it to create: promotional videos, explainer videos and animations, presentations, slideshow videos, and more.
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Biteable
Biteable is a very easy to use online video creator with a great selection of free video templates that you can use. Plus, you can create up to 5 videos a month with the free plan.
Use it to create: ads, animations, explainer videos, infographics, presentations, social media videos, cartoons, and more.
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Powtoon
Powtoon is a tool that allows you to create animated videos, easily. Plus, you can also create awesome presentations with it so that you can stand out from your competitors.
Use it to create: animated videos (promotional, explainer, etc.) and presentations.
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Free GIF creators
Giphy
Giphy is one of the most popular GIF resources, but also a great, easy to use GIF creator.
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Imgflip
Imgflip is a free tool that allows you to turn your videos and images to GIFs, easily.
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Ezgif
Ezgif, like the other tools in this list, allows you to create GIFs from videos and images.
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GIFMaker
GIFMaker โ โnough said.
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Meme generators
Imgflip
Imgflip is not just a GIF creator, but also a meme generator; use it to upload your own image or use popular memes to quickly create one.
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Meme Generator
Thereโs not much more I can say that the name Meme Generator doesnโt already say; just like the tool before, you can choose a popular meme image or upload your own, add your text, and youโre good to share!
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Memes
Just like the tools before, Memes lets you easily create memes from popular images or upload your own.
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Presentation tools
Prezi
Powerpoint is OKโฆbut Prezi can be amazing. Use their library of beautiful templates (or start from scratch) to create more compelling presentations. The tool is very easy to use and it can turn your presentation from boring same old-same old to a dynamic, compelling presentation that people canโt help but pay attention to.
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SlideDog
SlideDog do things a little differently; as a multimedia presentation tool, it allows you to create โplaylistsโ by combining all kinds of media, such as PowerPoint and Prezi presentations, PDFs, videos and images, and basically most any type of media you can think of.
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Visme
Visme helps you create beautiful presentations โ for free. Choose from their selection of templates to get started, or create your own presentation from scratch (or, you can even upload a powerpoint to use online). Plus, animate your presentations, add videos and audio, links, and pop-us.
Use it to create: presentations, infographics, charts and reports, graphics
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Infographic creators
Some of the tools mentioned earlier โ such as Canva and Visme โ can be used for creating infographics as well (just thought Iโd mention it!), but here are a few more great options:
Infogram
Infogram offer over 37 beautiful templates to choose from to help you create infographics, easily. Whatโs more, you can also use the tool to create interactive reports and maps, graphs and charts, as well as social media visuals.
Use it to create: infographics, graphs, charts, reports, maps, social media images and other visuals.
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Piktochart
Piktochart is a free, easy to use infographic maker โ and best of all, their free plan allows for unlimited creations. Just pick your template and start adding data, customize your colours, fonts, images, vectors, and so on, to build your very own infographic.
Use it to create: infographics, presentations, posters, reports.
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Venngage
Another great option, Venngage helps you create infographics in 3 easy steps: pick a template from their professional designs, add visuals, text, and charts and then start customizing it to make it your own.
Use it to create: infographics, reports, posters, social media visuals, promotional visuals.
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Easelly
Not only is Easelly a free to use infographic creator (although you can upgrade, too), but you can actually start creating and editing without even creating an account โ just click on whichever template strikes your fancy to get started creating.
Use to it to create: infographics, reports, resumes, processes.
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Free chart and graph creators
There have been at least a couple of tools that I mentioned earlier that allow you to create charts and graphs (Canva, Venngage, Infogram) โ here are a few more though:
Amcharts
Use Amcharts to easily create a chart from scratch (all major chart types are covered), or use one of their available templates.
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Meta-chart
You can use Meta-chart to create a variety of charts, such as Pie charts, Venn Charts, Multiple bar and scatter plot charts, and basically any common chart that you can think of. I really need to stop writing โchartโ now.
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Plot.ly
Plot.ly allows you to create a big variety of charts and graphs for business, science, and finance, as well as 3D charts, and maps. Just enter your data and then you can start customising your chart or graph.
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Free interactive content tools
Leadrev from SnapApp
Leadrev from SnapApp is a free interactive content tool that can help you generate more leads for your business. Use it to turn your PDFs (whitepapers, e-books, presentations, etc.) into interactive experiences: add animations and transitions to your PDF and even include a lead form to generate more leads.
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Wirewax
Want to create better, more engaging videos? With Wirewax, you can add interactive elements to your videos โ aka hotspots. Hotspots basically mean that you can add clickable areas in your videos so that you can get more out of them. Plus, they offer a free plan for non-commercial videos.
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Thinglink
Thinglink lets you annotate any video, image, or 360-degree video with text, images, web links, as well as video and audio, so that you can create interactive content that will entertain your audience โ and push them convert faster.
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Playbuzz
Playbuzz is a tool designed for advertisers, publishers, and content creators, helping them to create, monetize, and distribute interactive stories and content. Use it to create all kinds of interactive content, such as personality quizzes, interactive lists, polls, stories formed of multiple interactive elements, and more.
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Headline and topic generators
Sumo Kickass Headline Generator
Need some help coming up with a kickass headline? Use Sumoโs Kickass Headline Generator to easily get headline ideas for all kinds of different types of content (How toโs, explanatory posts, controversial posts, listicles, fun blog posts).
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Hubspotsโ blog ideas generator
Sometimes, you need help coming up with ideas for what to write on your blog. For those times, just use Hubspotโs Blog Topic Generator to enter a few keywords and get your ideas.
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SEOPressor Blog Title Generator
Use SEOPressorโs Blog Title Generator to quickly enter a keyword and get your headline ideas.
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Portentโs Content Idea Generator
Just like with the previous tools, you can simply enter your keywords into Portentโs Content Idea Generator to get ideas and headlines.
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Improve your writing
Grammarly
When it comes grammar checkers, thereโs no beating Grammarly. Itโs super convenient to use as you can get it as a browser extension so that you can check every piece of content you write, whether itโs an email, a tweet, or a blog post.
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Hemingway App
Youโre never going to be Hemingway, but you can always try to be more like him. If you want to be a writer who is always clear and bold, use the Hemingway App to check your contentโs readability and make it easier to read.
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Readable
Readable helps answer the question: how readable is your content, really? The tool uses all kinds of popular readability tests to find out exactly how readable your content is and then also helps you understand what you need to improve in order to get a better score (and ultimately, provide a better reading experience).
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CoScheduleโs Headline Analyser
As Iโm sure youโve heard time and time again, headlines are extremely important, and they can make a huge difference to your success. Quite simply, if your headline doesnโt capture peoplesโ attention, then they wonโt read your content. Use CoScheduleโs headline analyser to quickly check the quality of your headline โ and optimise it for better results.
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Get in the mood for writing: noise generators
Hipster Sound
Do you work better in certain environments? Do you hate working in silence? One of your options is to get a tool like Hipster Sound to create a positive environment with sounds like busy Texas cafes, charming little Parisian cafes, rain, busy libraries, and more.
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Noisli
Like Hipster Sound, Noisli aims to help you become more productive and improve your focus by providing you with relaxing sounds, such as coffee shops, rain and thunder, and many more.
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Free organizational tools for content creators
Evernote
Creating content requires lots of research; with Evernote, you can make sure all your thoughts are well organised and plus, you can collect anything that attracts your attention online, in your Evernote app.
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Trello
Trello is my personal favourite task manager; however, there are so many different ways that you can use it. For example, keep track of your content ideas, share content with your team, or create an editorial calendar and schedule.
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Other useful free content creation tools:
Checkli
With Checkli, you can easily create and share fun and educational checklists. Once finished, you can share your checklist on social media, use the embed code to publish it or download it as a PDF.
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Word2CleanHTML
Word2Clean lets you easily convert your Word docs to clean HTML โ for example, convert bold writing to <strong>, indent with tabs, remove empty paragraphs, and more.
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Conclusion
As you can see, there are some amazing free content creation tools out there for all of us content creators. In fact, thereโs something for every step of the content creation process, from coming up with ideas and topics for creating content to actually creating it.
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What free content creation tools are you using? Any good ones that I havenโt included in my list? Let me know in your comments and please share ๐
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