If you are a blogger or you are starting to build your video channel, you probably want to know about the best apps for content creators ,right? Hell Yeah! However, having the best apps may not be enough. You need easy-to-use apps that can do what you want more than anything — create content that will attract your brand subscribers and potential customers.
Content creation is one of the biggest aspects in social media. And if you’re looking to improve your content creation, here are the ultimate apps for content creators to use when creating valuable and engaging content.
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.
Semrush Content Marketing Platform:
Let’s start strong with Semrush’s end-to-end Content Marketing Platform that helps you to build a data-informed content strategy focused on your audience’s needs:
This tool is super helpful when planning each step of the content marketing workflow, from ideation to planning, creation, optimization and measurement.
Next, you can add topics to my editorial calendar right within the platform. That way you can manage all the activities with your colleagues and track campaign performance.
Before creating content, type in a keyword you want to focus on. Then, the platform generates a brief with optimization tips taken from your top competition online. It will deliver recommendations on everything — target length of your content, links, and semantic keywords you should include, and much, much more.
The platform also has a rich-text editor, where (on the go) you can test the content that targets a particular keyword. It gives tips on SEO, readability, and tone of voice, and is available as a Google Doc add-on and WordPress plugin.
SNAPSEED:
Snapseed is a complete and professional photo editor app developed by Google. I use it to edit almost all my photos. Tune and edit colors, effects, white balance, and more with granular control over almost everything.
Pro tip: I’m a big fan of the “Brush” tool for bumping up saturation on specific spots on my photos because I (obviously) love color! Also, the Ambience setting under “Tune Image” adds a nice depth and warmth to image.
Price: 100% free in the App Store or Google Play.
Open Office:
Chances are that you have already heard about this application package. The freeware and public version of Microsoft’s own Office, Open Office allows entrepreneurs and freelancers alike to use this product package. It allows a variety of content creation possibilities such as creating web presentations, emails, data visualization, written content and so forth.
All of the apps contained in this package are fully compatible with Microsoft Office with one difference – it’s completely free to use. There is no reason not to include Open Office in your content creation and workflow in order to boost your business’s growth.
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.
Giphy:
Create your own amazing animated gifs or stickers for free with Giphy. Or browse their library of thousands. Find that perfect animated gif to make your blog post shareable, favorite gifs to use later, and even convert a gif to share on Instagram and generate social buzz.
Photo Collage:
Photo Collage opens with a blank canvas where you can add your photos and arrange them. You can also add text. It includes a handy tool to create your collage automatically if you don’t want the hassle of arranging the images yourself.
Answer the Public:
Answer the Public is a powerful visual keyword research tool…
It’s similar to Semrush’s Keyword Magic tool, but it’s a lot more visual (obviously), while also delivering more “human” ideas about what searchers are asking about a given topic.
The only thing to keep in mind is that now you are limited to a certain number of free search queries per day – it used to be unlimited, but as of this update, that’s no longer the case.
A COLOR STORY:
A Color Story is a fun app with hundreds of filters and effects, and a great community too. Create photos and videos with colors that pop, save your own edits to use as custom presets, and toggle between 20+ tools to help you get that perfect edit.
Pro Tip: Follow #acolorstory on Instagram for a major dose of inspiration and a fun community vibe!
Price: Free with in-app purchases for extra filters and effect “Packs” that are mostly under $3. New all-access yearly “ACS+” membership is $24.99 a year. Download from the App Store or Google Play.
Feedly:
Feedly: Did you ever wonder how you can stay up to date with current content marketing trends? If yes, then Feedly is the perfect platform for you. Gathering content marketers and creators from all over the world, the tool allows you to filter and receive news, tips, guides and inspiration from all over the web. The tool will only send you what you specifically tell it to.
Feedly will never spam you with content you don’t want and it will always be relevant to your content marketing needs. Just insert your favorite creators, YouTube channels, blogs and RSS feeds and wait. This is a great way to stay updated and relevant on the market since Feedly is free to use and easy to navigate and customize.
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.
Storify:
Live blog events, curate hashtagged content, or tell your story in a more engaging manner with Storify, a content creation and archival tool that helps you create, organize, and share image content.
Pixlr
Pixlr is another useful free content creation tool. It’s available in three flavors:
- A quick tool for adding fun filters
- Pixlr Express, which includes more image editing
- The full Pixlr Editor, which has many of the same functions as professional image editing software like Photoshop
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.
Google Trends:
I know, I know… there are a lot of other robust tools and apps out there to help you drill into what content topics you should be covering to get the most bang for your buck with your content strategy.
Still, the simplicity of Google Trends belies its usefulness:
This is an incredibly valuable tool for you to quickly compare related (but different) terms to see which has higher search volume, catch topics in your niche on the rise, and so on.
UNFOLD:
Transform your Instagram Stories with Unfold. Create streamlined stories that look like they took hours to craft, but took mere minutes. Turn plain Instagram Stories into storyboards with stylized videos, photos, and text.
Pro Tip: Explore the different packs you can buy because there may be a perfect style that matches your branding…and voila! You have easy-to-use story templates. I personally love “RP1” and the limited-edition rainbow “Pride” collection.
Price: Free with in-app purchases for extra layout packs around $0.99. Download from the App Store or Google Play.
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.
Conclusion:
These days creating content for your ad campaigns or getting a ton of views on social media is very important. Check out this article to learn about the latest applications on Google Play and App Store. Also, it will help you be more efficient while creating content for your ad campaigns.