50 Lifetime-Free Marketing Tools You Need to Know About

Marketing doesn’t have to be expensive to be effective. Whether you’re managing customer relationships, fine-tuning SEO (Search Engine Optimization), or creating eye-catching content, the right tools can simplify the process and save you time.

In this article, we’ve compiled 50 reliable, lifetime-free marketing tools that cater to every aspect of your digital strategy. From social media management and email marketing to video editing, SEO and Business tools, these tools empower you to get the job done without any hidden costs. Start making smarter, more efficient marketing decisions today and enhance your digital marketing efforts without breaking the bank.

Business Tools

1- eLitius

eLitius is an open-source software package that enables the creation and management of Affiliate Programs, the recruitment of affiliates, and the tracking of visitors and transactions.

2- Digitalsignage.com

DigitalSignage.com is a web-based digital signage tool that provides smart multimedia display features for small and medium businesses in all industries.

6- BIRT

Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) is an open source, based on the Eclipse system for designing, developing, and running reports.

7- Superset

Superset is a modern data exploration and visualization platform that can replace or augment proprietary business intelligence tools for many teams. Superset integrates well with a variety of data sources.

8- SuiteCRM

SuiteCRM is an open-source CRM solution that provides a 360-degree view of your customers and business. Making it easy for your sales, marketing, and customer service departments to discover key information that will help you grow, retain, and delight your customers.

9- EspoCRM

EspoCRM is an open source self-hosted CRM that allows you to see, enter and evaluate all your company relationships regardless of the type.

10- Germ.io

Germ.io helps you ‘get from idea to execution’. The tool is designed to help teams collaborate and brainstorm in order to turn ideas into actionable projects. Most of the best features of Germ.io are focused on development teams. So if your core team consists of developers and strategists, this collaboration tool will be perfect for your team.

11- Admidio

Admidio is open-source online membership management optimized for associations, groups, and organizations, including user management, access control, event creation, and more.

12- Meet Alfred

Meet-Alfred is a LinkedIn automation tool that helps you connect with new people and find potential customers without all the hassle. It lets you create custom messages based on your contacts’ actions.

13- FrontlineSMS

FrontlineSMS is an open-source messaging platform that lets you send bulk SMS and receive and manage communications. FrontlineSMS can work anywhere in the world.

Media Tools

1- Palettemaker

Palettemaker is a color tool that allows you to create color palettes and test their behavior in pre-made design examples from the most common creative fields, such as Logo design, UI/UX, Patterns, Posters, and more.

2- Inkscape

Inkscape is a leading open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images, primarily in Scalable Vector Graphics format (SVG), but other formats can be imported and exported.

3. Logaster

Logaster, despite being a free tool, is one of the most easy to use and powerful branding tools available on the web. The tool will generate a multitude of logo options simply based on your chosen business name and your industry. Once you select a logo, it will generate other branding elements with a single click.

Logaster

4. Hipster Logo Generator

Hipster Logo Generator is a logo generator that will enable you to create logo designs that stand out and appeal to a younger demographic. If you have a direct to customer brand, this may be the ideal logo generator for your needs.

5. Squarespace Free Logo Maker

Squarespace is a popular premium website builder. However, the logo builder developed by the brand is free to use. The great thing about this tool is that it enables you to see how your logo will look in different settings and on different mediums like t-shirts, coffee mugs, pens, visiting cards and of course, digitally.

6- Markup Hero

Markup Hero is a screenshot and annotation tool that works on the web. Made for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome. Markup Hero helps you capture ideas, communicate clearly, and stay organized.

7- GIMP

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a leading image manipulation software that allows editing and retouching images, designing icons, creating free-hand artworks, converting files into various formats, and more.

8- Glyphr Studio

Glyphr Studio is a web-based font designer focusing on font design for hobbyists. It has vector editing tools, full Unicode (BMP) support, import and export capabilities, and more.

9- FontForge

FontForge is a FOSS font editor that allows you to create and modify postscript, truetype, and opentype fonts. You can save fonts in many different outline formats and generate bitmaps.

10- Blender

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software used to make animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D apps, virtual reality, and computer games.

11. Lightworks- Video Editing

Lightworks is one of the best video editing tools currently available on the web. The tool is not only free and surprisingly easy to use, it offers an incredible capability to help you turn raw footage into professional looking videos that are perfect for social media.

The tool’s interface also features a library of tutorials that you can use to learn everything that Lighthouse can do for you. Besides this, the tool also comes packed with an enormous library of stock footage that is licensed to be used with any video.

12. Story Boarder

As the name suggests, the Story Boarder is a downloadable tool that allows you to create free storyboards for your online videos.

13- OBS Studio

OBS Studio is a software that lets you record and live-stream videos while capturing audio and video content in real-time. You can also use its editing tools to mix audio and recordings for your interactive video projects.

14. Celtx

Celtx is a script writing tool and a video production project management platform. The tool will allow you to not only write your script, but also view it shot by shot and frame by frame in the form of index cards. The tool also allows you to add relevant notes and media files to your script and share them with the rest of your production team. While there is a very affordable premium version of the tool that offers some sweet additional features, all the features I just mentioned are available in the free version.

15. Premium Beat

Premium Beat is an online repository of royalty-free music that you can use to jazz up your marketing videos. Keep in mind that in order to use the royalty-free music, you will be expected to give credits to the creator wherever you upload the video.

16. Vidyard

Vidyard is a video hosting platform that enables you to use videos on your website without slowing it down. With the free account, the platform allows you to upload unlimited videos and embed upto five videos to your website at a time. You can pick and choose the five videos at any given time. The only catch is that videos embedded by using a free account will feature a small Vidyard logo at one of the bottom corners of the frame.

Website Builders

1. Strikingly

Strikingly is a website design tool rich with easy to use features and a huge library of templates. The free plan offers restricted access to their services (like a .strikingly domain name) but the website builder is one of the best currently available on the web.

2. HTML Templates

As the name suggests, HTML Templates is a website dedicated to offering free website templates for HTML and CSS based websites. If your website is using any of these technologies, HTML Templates can save your hours of work.

4. BootsWatch

If you are using Bootstrap to build your website BootsWatch is definitely worth checking out. The website offers absolutely free of cost themes for websites built on Bootstrap.

SEO TOOLS

1- Keyword Surfer

Keyword Surfer for Chrome shows search volume, CPC, traffic estimates, word count, keyword count, and a list of related keywords with overlap scores.

2- Screaming Frog

Screaming Frog is a website crawling and auditing tool that helps you identify technical SEO issues on your website. It crawls your site and provides detailed information on broken links, duplicate content, missing meta tags, and more. Screaming Frog’s free plan has limited functionality, making it an essential tool for technical SEO analysis and website optimization.

3- RankWatch Website Audit

RankWatch is actually a full service SEO tool that offers all the features you need to dominate the search rankings in your niche. The tool has recently turned its features into individual tools and offers limited free access to them. The website audit tool by RankWatch will analyse your entire website and tell you about the optimization opportunities that you may otherwise overlook.

RankWatch offers similar tools for backlink analysis, keyword research, and competitor research.

4- Google Keyword Research Tool

Google Keyword Research tool isn’t as powerful as it used to be a few years ago but it is still one of the best free keyword research tools available today. The tool will give you keyword suggestions in exchange of a ‘seed’ keyword, along with performance metrics like (approximate) search volumes and competition among different advertisers for those keywords.

5. Ahrefs Backlink Checker

Ahrefs is a well-known premium SEO tool that offers its individual features without having to pay for them. The Ahrefs backlink checker is one of the most capable in the industry and is offered for free. It can be used to reveal all the links pointing to a specific web page or a set of web pages. However,

6- Google Search Console

Google Search Console is another great free tool by Google that helps you keep track of various aspects of your website’s SEO. This includes a real time record of the backlinks pointing to your website and keyword tracking capabilities.

The tool also makes it possible to easily submit sitemaps to Google, making it easy for you to immediately index new pages on your website. The tool can also be configured to deliver automated alerts regarding mobility and indexing issues with your website.

7- Google My Business

Google My Business is not so much a tool as it is a platform that Google developed for the benefit of local businesses. If you have a local business and value organic traffic, Google My Business is definitely worth checking.

The tool allows your business to appear in the Google My Business section of the search results, which usually appears above the organic search results.

8- Local Search Results Checker

If your business operates in multiple locations, you will have to optimize your website for each one of your target locations. Keeping up with website rankings in multiple locations can become challenging and overwhelming. Local Search Results Checker makes it easy with its free and user friendly dashboard.

9- Moz Local Online Presence Tool

One important best practice for local SEO is to ensure consistent business information across different platforms, websites, social media handles, and directories. The Moz Local Online Presence Tool is a citation analysis tool that analyses your entire local online presence and highlights issues with business information consistency

Social Media Tools

1 – Scalenut Generators

Scalenut offers over 30 online AI generators like Product Description Generator, Meta Description Generator, Passive To Active Convertor, Blog Ideas Generator, and many more.

2- Portent’s Content Idea Generator

Portent’s Content Idea Generator lets you create catchy titles for your next blog post, podcast, or video. Simply type in your subject, and the Portent’s Idea Generator will spin up a creative title.

3- Fireliker

Fireliker is a TikTok auto-liker tool that provides all the safe and secure methods to get instant likes and views on your TikTok account.

September 30, 2024 WaelGharbi