The Ultimate List of 300+ Free Tools to Grow Your Business — Freshsales Blogs

Jayakumar Muthusamy
Freshsales - The Official Blog
9 min readNov 16, 2018

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Website

Branding and logo

Invoicing

Legal

Idea management

Business/Project name generation

Marketing

Design and code

Productivity

Learn

Website

HTML5 UP

Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates.

Bootswatch

Free themes for Bootstrap.

Templated

A collection of 845 free CSS and HTML5 site templates.

WordPress

Create your new website for free.

Strikingly

Free, unlimited mobile-optimized websites for Strikingly domains.

Layers

A simple WordPress site builder. It’s free, forever.

Bootstrap Zero

The largest open-source, free Bootstrap template collection.

Branding and logo

Logaster

Professional online logo maker and generator.

Squarespace Free Logo

Create and download a free low-res version of your logo.

Signature maker

A free web-based tool that creates your handwritten digital signature.

Invoicing

Invoice to me

Free invoice generator.

Slimvoice

Insanely simple invoices.

Wave

Free and easy accounting, invoicing and more.

Legal

Kiss

Free legal docs for startup founders and investors from 500.co.

Docracy

An open collection of free legal documents.

Shake

Create, sign and send legally binding agreements in seconds. Free for personal use.

Idea management

Javelin

Test your startup idea without wasting time or money.

Germ.io

Get from idea to execution.

Skitch

Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes, and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.

Business/Project name generation

The Name App

Find an available name for your brilliant idea.

Namium

Discover a perfect company name.

Short Domain Search

Find short, available single-word domain names.

Hipster Business Name

Hipster business name generator.

Marketing

Writing/Blogging

Hemingway Editor

Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.

Grammarly

Finds and corrects mistakes of your writing.

Medium

Everyone’s stories and ideas.

ZenPen

The minimal writing tool of the web.

WordPress Editorial Calendar

See all your posts, drag and drop to manage your blog.

Story Wars

Writing stories together.

WordPress Hide Post

Control the visibility of items on your blog.

Social Locker for WordPress

Ask visitors “to pay” for your content with a share, tweet, etc.

E.gg Timer

Set a countdown time and bookmark it for repeated use.

BlankPage

Writing made simple.

Wattpad

The world’s largest community for readers and writers.

Known

A single site for the content you create.

CoSchedule Headline Analyzer

Blog post headline analyzer.

Free Summarizer

Summarize any text online in just a few seconds.

Trending content ideas

Portent Content Idea Generator

Content idea generator.

Google Trends

A new way of displaying trending searches.

BuzzSumo

Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.

HubSpot Blog Ideas Generator

Custom blog ideas.

SEO + Website analysis

MOZ Link Expolrer

A comprehensive tool for link analysis.

Ahrefs

Site explorer and backlink checker.

Quicksprout

Complete analysis of your website.

WordPress SEO by Yoast

Have a fully optimized WordPress site.

SEO Site Checkup

Check your website’s SEO problems for free.

HubSpot Website Grader

Grade your website.

SimilarWeb

Analyze website statistics for any domain.

Alexa Ranking

Analytical insights to analyze any site’s rank.

SERPs Rank Checker

Free keyword rank and SERP checker.

OpenLink Profiler

The freshest backlinks, for free.

Keywordtool.io

Free alternative to Google Keyword Planner.

Nibbler

Test any website.

Broken Link Check

Find broken links, redirects and more.

Copyscape

Search for copies of your page on the web.

Google Pagespeed Insights

Check the performance of your site across platforms and devices.

Freshping

Free, reliable website uptime monitoring.

GTmetrix

Analyze your website page’s speed performance.

MOZ Local

Check your local listings on Google, Bing, and others.

XML-Sitemaps

Sitemap generator that creates XML & HTML variants.

W3C Validator

Easy-to-use markup validation service.

Night Watch

Search visibility tracker

Image optimizers

TinyJPG

Compress images.

Compressor.io

Optimize and compress your images online.

Dunnnk

Beautiful mockups delivered to your inbox.

Image editors

Canva

Amazingly simple graphic design for bloggers.

Pixlr

Pixlr Editor is a robust browser photo editor.

Skitch

Get your point across with fewer words.

Easel.ly

Empowers anyone to create and share powerful visuals.

Internet Marketing Ninjas — Social Image Resizer

Create optimized images for social media.

Placeit

Free product mockups and templates.

Meme Generator

The original online meme generator.

Pablo by Buffer

Design engaging images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds.

Email management

Contact form 7

Famous WordPress plugin to collect email addresses.

Mailchimp

Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free.

ManyContactsBar

A free contact form sits on top of your website.

Hello Bar

Get more email subscribers.

Sumome List Builder

Collect email addresses with light box popover.

Sumome Scroll Box

Capture more email addresses, politely.

Scroll Triggered Box

Boost your conversion rates — Wordpress only.

Mandrill

The fastest way to deliver email. Free 12K emails/month.

Mailgun

The Email Service For Developers. Free 10K emails/month.

Sendgrid

Delivers your transactional and marketing email. Free 12K emails/month.

Sendinblue

Free 9K emails/month.

Mailtrack

The best free email tracking solution.

Beefree

Free Email editor to build responsive design messages.

Canned Emails

A minimal site with pre-written emails.

Guides and resources

Primer

No-nonsense, jargon-free marketing lessons (by Google).

KeepYourFriendsClose

A free e-book about maximizing Customer Lifetime Value.

Pricing Course

A free 9-day course on charging what you’re worth.

Email Course for Sponsorships

How to get sponsorships for anything.

Startup Sales Course

A free course to help you become a better marketer.

Build an online course

A free course to help you build an online course.

MailCharts

A free email course to help you become a better marketer.

FirstSiteGuide

The beginner’s guide to successful blogging.

Social media and community engagement

WriteRack

The best way to tweetstorm.

Click To Tweet

Get more shares on your content.

MyTweetLinks

Increases Twitter traffic.

Latergram

Easily plan and schedule your Instagram posts.

WordPress Pin it Button for Images

Add a “Pin It” button.

SharedCount

Track URL shares, likes, tweets, and more.

How Many Shares

Count how many shares a URL has across most social networks, all in one place.

Crowdfire

Grow your audience and build a brand.

SocialRank

Identify, organize, and manage your followers on Twitter.

Klout

Social media influence score on browser extension.

Ritetag

Instant hashtag analysis.

Buffer Free Plan

Schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+.

Bitly

Create, share, and track shortened links.

Filament

A free beautiful and customizable sharing bar.

Addthis

Get more shares, follows and conversions.

Sumome Share

Auto-optimizes your share buttons for max traffic.

Digg Digg

Your all-in-one share buttons plugin.

Disqus

Build a community of active readers and commenters.

Presskit Generator

Generate a Press Kit for your iOS App for free.

Customer support and surveys

Typeform

Free beautiful online survey and form builder.

Tally

Create polls in no time.

Batch

The first-ever 100% free engagement platform for mobile apps.

Freshdesk

Exceptional customer support free forever for unlimited agents.

Limecall

The fastest way to generate more sales qualified leads by connecting your qualified website visitors to the right sales rep instantly

A/B Testing

Petit Hacks

Acquisition, retention, and revenue hacks used by companies.

Optimizely

One optimization platform for websites and mobile apps.

Hello Bar

Tool for A/B testing different CTAs and power words.

GrowthHackers

Unlocking growth. Together.

Design and Code

Design

Freebbble

High-quality design freebies from Dribbble.

Graphic Burger

Tasty design resources made with care for each pixel.

Freebiesbug

Latest free PSDs and other resources for designers.

Marvel

Free resources from designers we love.

SketchAppResources

Free graphical resources.

Tethr

The most beautiful IOS design KIT ever.

Color Pickers

Adobe Color CC

Color combinations from the Kuler community.

Flat UI Colors

Beautiful flat colors.

Palette for Chrome

Creates a color palette from any image.

Get UI Colors

Get awesome UI colors.

Brand Colors

Colors used by famous brands.

Stock photos

All The Free Stock

Free stock images, icons, and videos.

Unsplash

Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.

Pixabay

Free high-quality images.

Startup Stock Photos

Go. Make something.

Travel Coffee Book

Sharing beautiful travel moments.

ISO Republic

Totally free photos.

Free Nature Stock

Royalty-free Nature Stock Photos. Use them however you want.

Typography

TypeGenius

Find the perfect font combo for your next project.

Google Fonts

Free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.

DaFont

Archive of freely downloadable fonts.

Adobe Edge Fonts

The free, easy way to get started with web fonts.

Typekit

A limited collection of fonts to use on a website or in applications.

Icons

Flat Icon

A search engine for 16000+ glyph vector icons.

Font Awesome

The iconic font and CSS toolkit.

MakeAppIcon

Generate App Icons of all sizes with a click.

The Noun Project

Thousands of glyph icons from different artists.

Free Round Icons

Doodle Set | Flat Set | Vector Line Set

UI Elements

UI Names

Generate random names for use in designs and mockups.

UI Faces

Find and generate sample avatars for user interfaces.

Window Resizer

See how it looks on various screen resolutions.

Code

GitHub

Build software better, together.

BitBucket

Git and Mercurial code management for teams.

Searchcode

Search over 20 billion lines of code.

Loggly

Simplify Log Management Forever. Free for one user.

TinyCert

Free SSL certificates for your startup.

Getting Real

The smarter way to build web apps. A free book by 37signals.

Rollbar

Full-stack error monitoring for all apps in any language.

DevFreeCasts

A huge collection of free screencasts for developers.

Cody House

A free library of HTML, CSS, JS nuggets.

Codacy

Continuous Static Analysis designed to complement your unit tests.

Productivity

Focus beats

Noisli

Background noise and color generator.

Noizio

Ambient sound equalizer for relax or productivity.

Designers.mx

Curated playlists by designers, for designers.

Coffitivity

Stream the sounds of a coffee shop at work.

Deep Focus

Spotify’s famous playlist to focus.

DND

Self Control: Mac

Free application to help you avoid distracting websites.

Cold Turkey: Windows

Temporarily block yourself off of distracting websites.

Organize and Collaborate

Trello

Keeps track of everything.

Evernote

The workspace for your life’s work.

Dropbox

Free space up to 2GB.

Yanado

Tasks management inside Gmail.

Pocket

View later, put it in Pocket.

Slack

Free for unlimited users with few limited features.

HipChat

Free for unlimited users with few limited features.

Witkit

Witkit is the secure platform for teams. 50GB of free encrypted data storage.

Any.do

Get things done with your team.

Asana

Teamwork without email.

GoToMeeting

Online meetings without the hassle.

Remote Working

Teleport: Startup Cities

Discover and budget your next move to 100+ startup cities.

Nomad House

Houses around the world for nomads to live and work together.

Workfrom

Coffee, WiFi and good vibes.

Nomadlist

The best cities to live and work remotely.

Nomad Jobs

The best remote jobs at the best startups.

Learn

Discover tools and startups

Product Hunt

Curation of the best new products, every day.

Angellist

Where the world meets startups.

Beta List

Discover and get early access to tomorrow’s startups.

Startups List

Collections of the best startups in different places.

Build together

CoFoundersLab

Find a co-founder in any city, any industry.

Founder2be

Find a co-founder for your startup.

Learn

Coursera

Free online classes from 80+ top universities and organizations.

Khan Academy

Free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Skillshare

Unlock your creativity with free online classes and projects.

Codecademy

Learn to code interactively, for free.

Y Combinator’s How to start a startup

Available as an Audio Podcast or as an Online Course.

Startup Notes

Startup School invites amazing founders to tell their story.

Rocketship.fm

Learn from successful entrepreneurs each week.

Mixergy

Learn from proven entrepreneurs.

Grow

Pitcherific

Pitcherific helps you create, train, and improve your pitch.

Foundrs

Co-founder equity calculator.

Ad Spend Calculator

Should my startup pay to advertise?

Newsletters

Design for Hackers

12 weeks of design learning, right in your inbox.

Startup Digest

Personalized newsletter for all things startup in your area.

Mattermark Daily

Curated newsletter from investors and founders.

UX Design Weekly

Best user experience design links every week.

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