Social media content creation is a task that’s quite tough to handle. Especially if you’re managing several accounts and all of them have different posting habits. There are several apps that can help you out with this hassle.
Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark is a fast content creation software that lets you easily combine text, images, and video content for better storytelling online.
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.
Evernote
Evernote has been around for years now and has become one of the ultimate productivity tools for the entire generation of smartphone users. Evernote doesn’t just let you capture content. Evernote offers a full range of powerful tools to annotate documents, create checklists, or organize content into folders. All that enables it to create a whole new type of content—meaningful and informationally enriched.
If you don’t like it for some reason or need more cloud space—try checking out its closest and also cross-platform alternative NoteLedge. It comes with a Kdan Cloud solution and lets you synchronize all your digital assets.
Canva
Canva is yet another drag-and-drop image creation tool, but one that’s exceptionally intuitive for the busy B2B marketer. With Canva, your images can look like professionally designed social media content in a matter of minutes.
It’s very easy to select your templates, pick your colors, and add some professional stock images or logos to your messages. Your text will look beautiful as well, with a number of eye-catching fonts to choose from. When you’re all done, you’ll have images that will capture the interest of your social prospects on the likes of Facebook and Google+.
Skitch
From the great people behind Evernote comes Skitch, a very useful image annotation app. Skitch is simple: add visual elements, such as arrows and text-boxes, to your content. This can help to call out certain parts of your text, such as an important step in a series of instructions, or to clarify an on-screen process for software.
A B2B company that walks its customers through a complex process or makes it more intuitive is one that will be talked about—and a tool like Skitch can help achieve that brand recognition for you.
Pablo by Buffer (Web)
Pablo is a minimalist tool for placing text over the top of images from the team behind the social media scheduling app Buffer. It couldn’t be simpler to use or in its design. To us, that’s a feature—but if you need something with more options, check out one of the other great apps on this list.
Seriously, Pablo is barebones. Open the website and you’re straight into the app. There’s no need to create an account—because there are no accounts. In the center of the screen, there’s a preview of your image. On the left, you can search for an image through Unsplash or click Upload Image to add your own. At the top of the screen, click Templates to choose from one of the six defaults. On the right, you can choose the size and shape of the canvas, add a filter, position the text, and insert your logo or another graphic. Click on the text to change its formatting, double-click on it to edit it directly. Oh, and click Reposition to change the position and crop of the background image. That’s literally it.
Once you’re happy with your post pic (and it won’t take long for you to be), click Share & Download to save your image or post it directly to Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram (or queue it up with Buffer). If you do queue it up with Buffer, you can also connect it to any of the other apps you use with Zapier.
For all the lack of options, Pablo is still on this list. It makes it beyond simple to create basic-but-good-looking social media images. Honestly, by stripping most features, it just makes it impossible to create ugly graphics.
infogr.am
We’ve covered several infographic-creation tools already, but there’s one more that deserves special mention: infogr.am.
The special emphasis of infogr.am is the creation of great-looking charts and graphs for your visual content. Use this tool to make your data “pop” and create an immediate impression with your social leads.
After choosing your template, add your data, and within just a few clicks, watch it turn into beautiful visuals. The charts infogr.am creates look better than the stock charts created by Microsoft Excel, and they’re perfect for inserting into infographics, sharing via social, or embedding in your other marketing collateral. Finishing your infographic design is easy, and the final product is an attention-grabbing piece ready to engage your prospects.
BeFunky Graphic Designer
If you’re looking for a way to quickly create collages and other photos, BeFunky Graphic Designer can help. You can also make cards, banners, brochures, and posters with this fast content creation software package.
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.
Animation Desk
Have you ever done animations? It’s really fun. You don’t need any expensive software for that anymore—you can just do it all on your iOS or Android mobile device with the help of Animation Desk. It’s a great example of a content creation app that lets you draw, use graphics, and create unique standalone pieces of art in a matter of minutes or hours.
Animation Desk is also almost completely cross-platform—the app can be used on iOS, Mac, Android, and Windows 10. If you would like to share your work with fellow animators—they even have got a dedicated community for that! AniZone brings together not only the users of Animation Desk but also graphic design influencers having a yearly animation contest AniMagic.
Piktochart
Visual content is all the rage, and is essential in B2B social media marketing. One of the best forms of lead-generating visual content is infographics, and Piktochart is a great way to create stunning examples.
Piktochart is a dream for marketers without a graphic design background—the app makes it easy to create infographics with its drag-and-drop interface. Simply select the template you want, drop in the text and images, and edit every aspect of the graphic with just a few clicks.
With Piktochart, you can serve up powerful, relevant content to leads who want the information you’re sharing—and you can share it in such places as LinkedIn and Google+, building the social respectability of your brand.
Write-on Video
If, on the other hand, you are more into videos and love shooting and editing short clips on your mobile—you definitely should check out Write-on Video. It’s another app which is totally transforming the way we produce and distribute content. Write-on Video lets you easily cut and edit the videos shot with your mobile device camera, then add some effects and post your final work to social media or YouTube. Being a vlogger has never been easier.
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.
Crowd Signal
Tapping into the minds and hearts of your prospects, even in B2B marketing, is essential to creating content that will drive conversions. Enter Crowd Signal, an app that lets you survey your prospects to gain invaluable knowledge to drive your social marketing.
Crowd Signal is simple. First, type in the questions for your survey and all possible answers. You can choose from different answer types, such as text or multiple-choice, giving your leads and customers flexibility in sharing their thoughts. Then, make your survey look great by adding your logo and other visual elements. Finally, share the survey with your leads to collect the invaluable information they’ll provide.
Crowd Signal can help your social campaigns in two huge ways: you can share the poll link on networks such as Facebook and Twitter (not to mention via email and your corporate website), and you can gain insights that can inform your social media content strategy. Polling your leads through PollDaddy is a smart way to get to know your audience.
Chant
Create short promo videos and tutorials on your phone in a couple of minutes.
There are many templates to choose from and the app allows you to filter templates by purpose, such as building brand awareness, increasing sales, engaging users, or attracting new customers.
You can also sort templates by your industry such as service, business, beauty or fashion. The options available will help you mix things up and allow you to create dynamic content.
Chant is currently available on the App Store and offers monthly and annual subscription options.
Conclusion
There are many social media content creator software applications (i.e., apps) available for you to create engaging, dynamic content. You can post text, images, video clips and live video to build your brand’s online presence
If you are a busy digital professional working with a lot of data and content, you can’t afford being tied up to your desktop.