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265+ FREE and Inexpensive Tools for Authors

Chase Austin
Apr 20
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Writing and selling books is a lengthy and time-consuming process, which authors have discovered to be among their areas of greatest stress. While the publishing industry is getting more automated, marketing your books demands time and effort to go around writer's block and finish the job with a blank screen. To effortlessly allow your creativity to flow, today we’re sharing my selection of favorite tools.

I’m sure you are no stranger to tools that are helping you simplify your day-to-day writing life, however, I believe that you might be interested in knowing a few more content marketing tools that not only help save your time and effort and, on top of it all, these are also completely free of charge.

Tool Categories

  1. Writing Tools

  2. Book Formatting Tools

  3. Design Tools

  4. Productivity Tools for writers

  5. Animation-Creation Tools

  6. Video-Creation Tools

  7. Photo apps

  8. Audio-Creation Tools

  9. Best Organization Apps & Software

  10. Infographic-Creation Tools

  11. Presentation-Creation Tools

  12. Screen-Capture Tools

  13. Cheapest Email Marketing Tools

  14. Misc Tools

Let’s start.

Tools Categories

  1. Writing Tools

  2. Book Formatting Tools

  3. Design Tools

  4. Productivity Tools for writers

  5. Animation-Creation Tools

  6. Video-Creation Tools

  7. Photo apps

  8. Audio-Creation Tools

  9. Best Organization Apps & Software

  10. Infographic-Creation Tools

  11. Presentation-Creation Tools

  12. Screen-Capture Tools

  13. Cheapest Email Marketing Tools

  14. Misc Tools

Writing Tools

  1. Google Docs

  2. LibreOffice

  3. Trello

  4. EverNote

  5. Notion

  6. Grammarly

  7. Hemmingway Editor

  8. CoSchedule’s headline analyzer

  9. BuzzSumo

  10. WordCounter

  11. Focus Writer

Book Formatting Tools

  1. Atticus

  2. Vellum

  3. Kindle Create

  4. Microsoft Word

  5. Scrivener

  6. Ulysses

  7. Reedsy

15 Free Sites like Grammarly for Authors, Bloggers, Copywriters, and Content writers

Foolish Author by Chase Austin
15 Free Sites like Grammarly for Authors, Bloggers, Copywriters and Content writers
Do you write for a blog, author a book, produce copy or content? Is your writing littered with errors and typos? Grammar checker tools can help! Grammar checker tools have been a game-changer for writers. A decent grammar checking tool for authors, bloggers, copywriters, and content marketers is immensely beneficial that can help them upgrade their piece of content. It is also a good idea to use a grammar checker tool in order to improve the readability of their content…
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Design Tools

  1. Canva

  2. Crello

  3. Simplified

  4. Pixelated

  5. Tyle

  6. Piktochart

  7. Colorcinch

  8. DesignBold

  9. Photopea

  10. Snappa

32 Free Canva Alternatives with Better Templates and Design Features

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32 Free Canva Alternatives with Better Templates and Design Feature
One of the most critical elements to consider when building a brand is design. It will help you stand out from the competition and elicit your prospects and audience's desired emotion or feeling. However, if you're not developing visual content for your website and social media platforms, you must rethink your approach…
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4 months ago · 2 likes · 4 comments · Chase Austin

Productivity Tools for writers

1. Friday

2. Todoist

3. Asana

4. Trello

5. Slack

6. Microsoft Teams

7. Zoom

8. Nifty

9. Toggl

10. Clockify

11. Monitask

12. Harvest

13. Loom

14. IFTTT

15. Zapier

16. Integromat

17. Notion

18. Dropbox Paper

19. Clickup

20. Twist

21. 15Five

22. Tettra

23. Sunsama

24. Akiflow

25. TimeCamp

26. TickTick

27. nTask

28. Evernote

Animation-Creation Tools

  1. Biteable

  2. Boomerang

  3. Moovly

  4. Animaker

  5. Blender

  6. K-3D

  7. OpenToonz

  8. Pencil2D Animation

  9. Plastic Animation Paper

  10. Powtoon

  11. Stykz

Video-Creation Tools

  1. Lightworks

  2. VideoPad

  3. HitFilm Express

  4. DaVinci Resolve

  5. VSDC Free Video Editor

  6. OpenShot

  7. Shotcut

  8. Blender

  9. Movie Maker 10

  10. iMovie

  11. Magisto

  12. WeVideo

63 Amazing Sites With Breathtaking Free Stock Photos

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63 Amazing Sites With Breathtaking Free Stock Photos
Photos and images are an essential part of marketing and especially in creating great content. Unfortunately, we’ve grown looking at cheesy stock images of people in suits shaking hands and nodding heads. They are not only tacky, but they cost a hell lot of money…
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Audio-Creation Tools

  1. Audacity

  2. Adobe Audition

  3. GarageBand

  4. FL Studio

  5. Descript

Best Organization Apps & Software

  1. Any.do

  2. Friday

  3. Sunsama

  4. Trello

  5. Todoist

  6. Akiflow

  7. Get Plan

  8. Toggl

  9. Asana

  10. ClickUp

  11. 24me

  12. DayViewer

  13. Microsoft Planner

  14. Google Calendar App

  15. Dropbox

I’d like to invite you to join me in my quest to provide you with the best tips, tricks and hacks to help you build your author career while keeping this newsletter free and independent.

If there was ever a time to join me in this quest, it is now. Every contribution, however big or small, powers me to create more amazing content and sustain the future of this publication. Support this newsletter – it only takes a minute. If you can, please consider supporting us with a regular amount each month. You can do either by buying me a cup of coffee. Thank you.

Buy me a Coffee

Infographic-Creation Tools

  1. Canva

  2. Venngage

  3. Piktochart

  4. easel.ly

  5. Visme

  6. Infogram

  7. Vizualize.me

  8. Snappa

  9. Google Chart

  10. MS PowerPoint

Presentation-Creation Tools

  1. MS PowerPoint

  2. Google Slides

  3. Keynote

  4. Prezi

  5. Canva

  6. PowToon

  7. GoAnimate

  8. Zoho Show

Screen-Capture Tools

  1. CloudApp

  2. SnapDraw Free

  3. Free Cam

  4. Screencast-O-Matic

  5. OBS Studio

  6. Debut Video Capture

  7. ShareX

  8. Apowersoft

  9. CamStudio

  10. ScreenRec

  11. Ezvid

Cheapest Email Marketing Tools

  1. Flodesk (Lifetime offer of 50% off)

  2. Sendinblue

  3. Mailchimp

  4. Constant Contact

  5. ConvertKit

  6. Cake Mail

  7. MailerLite

  8. GetResponse

  9. SendGrid

  10. Aweber

  11. Moosend

  12. Omnisend

  13. SendPulse

  14. Mailjet

  15. Email Octopus

  16. Benchmark

  17. Sender

  18. RedCappi

  19. Pabbly

Misc Tools

  1. Hootsuite - To plan and track your social media activity

  2. Right Relevance - To find the right influencer

  3. Bitly - URL shortener

  4. GTmetrix - for checking the website speed

  5. Facebook Ad Library - To spy on competitors’ ads

  6. Ocoya - for Scheduling Facebook and Insta Posts

  7. Tubebuddy and Vidiq - for YouTube video Analytics

  8. Rapdtags - for YouTube Video Tags

  9. YouTube Audio Library - for Royalty-free music

  10. Pexels - for free stock images and Videos

  11. QuillBot - Paraphrasing tool that generates various synonyms

  12. WordHero - AI writing assistant

What would you add to the list? Tell me in the comments

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I’d like to invite you to join me in my quest to provide you with the best tips, tricks and hacks to help you build your author career while keeping this newsletter free and independent.

If there was ever a time to join me in this quest, it is now. Every contribution, however big or small, powers me to create more amazing content and sustain the future of this publication. Support this newsletter – it only takes a minute. If you can, please consider supporting us with a regular amount each month. You can do either by buying me a cup of coffee. Thank you.

Buy me a Coffee

About Chase Austin

I have spent 10+ years writing stories and marketing them. I’ve failed and succeeded over the years, and these are some of my tidbits on how I started my author business, perfected marketing, and more.​

Here you’ll find resources to help you kick more ass with your words. No fluff, only actionable tips, and tricks if you are looking to make a living through writing, or just use it as a side hustle.​

Things I like: Long walks, Reading about anything and everything, Telling stories and chess.

Visit me at www.thechaseaustin.com. Want to say hi, email me at contact@thechaseaustin.com.​

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Michael Wenzel
Apr 21Liked by Chase Austin

Thanks this is a very helpful list. Hopefully I will start using these resources.

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