Content creators come in all shapes and sizes. Whether you are a small-business owner or college student, a blogger or an artist, a writer or a photographer, these free content creation apps will help you get your ideas off the ground. With social media content creator app like Social Blade and Buffer Me, you can manage your schedules so that your fans will never miss an update.
Mobile Content Creator is a universal app compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It’s focused on creating content for social media, blogging and promotion. It helps users to create content for their blogs and social media easily by enabling them to choose from a selection of templates.
Canva
Canva is perhaps the most well-known content creation tool among digital marketers, content creators, and bloggers alike.
It offers plenty of content templates for various social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn. If you’re looking to diversify your blog content, it even offers blog cover templates for you to use.
What’s more, it allows users to create slideshows, PowerPoint presentations, videos, posters, and cards for all sorts of occasions. Alternatively, you can customize your dimensions if necessary.
One reason why marketers love Canva is because of its intuitive interface, which leads to an amazing user experience even for first-time users.
Most importantly, Canva offers free stock photos targeting varied industries, from digital signage and healthcare to logistics and manufacturers. Simply type in the search term and grids of related images will show up.
Digital marketers can easily create well-designed images or videos with the help of Canva.
VistaCreate
VistaCreate is world-recognized design software used by 8+ million people who want to simplify their visual content building tasks.
It’s perfect for creating posts and stories of pre-optimized formats for all social networks, flyers, logos, thumbnails, infographics, banners, brochures, and the like.
Delivering around 50K+ ready-to-go design templates and 1M+ creative assets, VistaCreate makes it a matter of minutes to build stunning and professional visuals, which means digital marketers can save so much of their time and energy on the next content creation task.
Unlike some other similar tools, VistaCreate puts a huge emphasis on the productivity tools, for example, allowing you to erase an image background in a click.
You can also automatically align objects, simply apply typography styles, add animations, to name a few features.
Namely, you get started in seconds and customize your design in minutes thanks to the human-friendly, clean editor interface and tons of categorized and pre-designed patterns.
Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark, designed by Adobe Systems, is an all-in-one graphic design suite that allows digital marketers to design social posts, web pages, and videos.
One of the highly praised features is its video creation tool which helps turn your images into enticing videos within a few clicks.
Many marketers use Adobe Spark alongside Photoshop to create videos on Instagram or Facebook. Besides, Adobe Spark offers exhaustive articles for beginner-level users whenever they run into difficulties.
Pablo
Pablo is a content design tool by Buffer, a social media scheduling platform. That being said, Pablo is a great tool for creating attractive social media images.
It offers 25 different fonts and over 600 beautiful stock images to choose from while allowing for plenty of customization.
One of the greatest features of Pablo is its minimalistic design principle.
Users can simply follow an easy workflow and share the content directly on social media platforms or schedule it on Buffer once they finish the design.
Also, unlike other content creation tools that sometimes require users to log in, Pablo allows you to create an on-screen project directly.
MuseCam
MuseCam is a great app to help you shoot and edit your photos on iOS. It features a bunch of professional feeling camera presets, manual camera controls, and advanced tools like HSL and Curves.
Boomerang
Instagram’s Boomerang app takes a series of photos and creates a GIF-like image. However, there’s one subtle but super important difference between Boomerang and a GIF. A GIF loops a video over and over again. Whereas a Boomerang, plays a video forward, and then backward, and then loops that continuously.
VSCO
VSCO (formerly VSCO Cam) enables you to capture, edit, share and discover photos. The app features a bunch of high-quality filters to help you get the look you want and also offers a host of free editing tools like fade, clarity, skin tone, tint, sharpen, saturation, temperature and more, each with manual adjustments.
VSCO also has a VSCO X membership, which costs $19.99 per year for exclusive presets, more editing tools, and educational content.
Halide
Halide is a unique camera app that focuses heavily on enhancing the experience of taking photos on mobile.
Google Trends
With Google Trends, you can understand the popularity of a keyword, search term, or topic among Google search users. Considering that the majority of web users use Google, you can find trending topics in your niche.
This tool is also useful for gaining a competitive advantage in your industry and being the first to jump on a new trend.
Pricing: Free
AlsoAsked.com
As a content marketer, I find AlsoAsked quite resourceful when doing keyword research for blog posts. You simply need to enter a search term, select a language and region. AlsoAsked gives you a visual map of all related questions it scrapes from Google’s People Also Search section.
Moreover, it can multiply the questions generated in the first results. You can export the results in CSV format with the Lite plan. Otherwise, this tool is free for limited use.
It’s an excellent content tool to sketch out the outline of your content around SEO.
Pricing: Free for 10 searches a month.
AnswerThePublic
AnswerThePublic works in a similar way with AlsoAsked. It is a keyword tool that visualizes search questions and suggested terms. Once you enter a topic, select a location and language, it lists all possible questions around question words like “why, when, what, how, which, etc.”
It gives you results as questions, prepositions, comparisons, alphabetical, and related. You can save the visualization as an image or export it in CSV format.
Pricing: Free to use with limitations. Upgraded plans start at $99/mo.
Semrush Topic Research Tool
SEMrush Topic Research Tool is a great tool to quickly come up with content ideas and plan out your content effectively. You just enter a topic and target location, then it provides you with potential ideas around the main topic.
Moreover, it allows you to enter a domain to find content on.
Pricing: Price plans start from $99.95 per month, but it also comes with SEO, content, social media, and PPC tools.
BuzzSumo
BuzzSumo is another content creation tool that is helpful in generating content ideas. This tool pulls popular posts based on keywords. It comes with a bunch of filters to narrow down the results based on language, location, journalist, date, and more.
The results can be sorted based on their total reach in social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. You can also set custom filters to further narrow down the results.
BuzzSumo has a free Chrome extension as well.
Pricing: Free for 10 searches a month. Paid plans start at $99/mo.
Grammarly
Grammarly is my go-to grammar and spelling checker tool. If you want to rank on search engines and provide a better user experience for your readers, your content should be error-proof.
This tool checks your content for grammatical errors, misspelling, plagiarism, as well as the tone of your content. It also has a Chrome extension, which comes in very handy when typing something on almost all web platforms.
Pricing: Free plan available. Paid plans start at $29.95/mo.
CoSchedule Headline Studio
This one is another one of my favorite content creation tools. CoSchedule’s Headline Studio analyzes your content’s headline and gives a score to it based on different factors like SEO, emotional words, uncommon words, word count, clarity, and more.
You can use it to optimize your headlines and craft the best-performing ones to rank higher on search engines and drive organic traffic to your site. In short, it is a simple yet powerful tool for your content creation process.
Headline Studio has a Chrome extension as well.
Pricing: Free plan available. Paid plans start at $9/mo.
Manual
If you’re looking for the ability to customize your photo taking experience, Manual could be a great option. Manual enables you to adjust shutter speed, ISO, and exposure values to create the effect you’re after with ease.
Manual also gives you the option to capture images in RAW format, JPEG format, or both. If you choose RAW capture, you’ll be able to save images without compression, resulting in a higher quality photo.
➡️ Download Manual 2.0 for iOS (currently $3.99)
PiktoChart
If you’re looking to create eye-catching, high-quality infographics or presentations, give PiktoChart a try. PiktoChart is a web-based content creation tool that doesn’t require users to have extensive design experience.
Like most content creation tools, PiktoChart also offers more than 600 themed templates for users to choose from.
As digital marketing requires some data analysis work, PiktoChart can conveniently help convert your numeric data into visual charts that provide a more engaging story of your marketing efforts.
According to Google’s Search report in 2015, there’s already been an 800% growth in infographic searches. And the numbers are continuing to grow. Infographics will undoubtedly become another way for people to consume information in our fast-paced society.
Conclusion
Content creation has never been easier than with these apps. You can organize, edit, and add music or photos to your document. These apps even come with all of the best features needed to create content for your page.