TOOLS I LOVE
I’m often asked which are my favourite tools and apps. And believe me, I use a lot of them in my busy business.
So to make life easier, I’ve compiled them all into one handy list, broken up into sections.
Yes, some of these are affiliates (if that bothers you then just Google the name), but I don’t recommend tools unless I genuinely love them and believe in them.
DESIGN AND PHOTOGRAPHY
INVISION
InVision is the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences.
CANVA
Design anything. Publish anywhere. Use Canva’s drag-and-drop feature and professional layouts to design consistently stunning graphics.
SKETCH
Sketch is a design toolkit built to help you create your best work — from your earliest ideas, through to final artwork.
SNAPSEED
Snapseed App is the best photo editing tool developed by Google.
PIKTOCHART
Helps you create professional, good looking infographics in less than 10 minutes.
WORDSWAG
Exclusive Typomatic™ Engine. Now you can create beautifully custom text layouts that would normally take minutes – or even hours – with just a tap.
FINANCE
RECEIPT BANK
Automated bookkeeping for every business. No more paper. No more data entry. Just more time doing what you really love.
XERO
Xero is a New Zealand domiciled public software company that offers a cloud-based accounting software platform for small and medium-sized businesses.
GOOGLE AUTHENTICATOR
Google Authenticator generates 2-Step Verification codes on your phone.
GMAIL
Gmail is email that’s intuitive, efficient, and useful. 15 GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access.
GOOGLE CALENDAR
Get organized on the go with the Google Calendar app.
GOOGLE CHROME
Get more done with the new Google Chrome. A more simple, secure, and faster web browser than ever, with Google’s smarts built-in.
GOOGLE DRIVE
A safe place for all your files.
GOOGLE MAPS
Find a place. Your location. Trails. Dedicated lanes. Bicycle-friendly roads.
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN
All-in-one marketing platform. Grow your business and save time with a seamless experience.
MAILTAG
Unlimited free email tracking for Gmail with real-time notifications, link tracking, and so much more. Tag. Send. Done. Tag. Send. Done.
KLAVIYO
Klaviyo is a growth marketing platform created for online businesses — featuring powerful marketing automation and a revenue-driving email platform.
AGORAPULSE
An easy to use social media management software that allows you to drive engagement and build authentic relationships with your audience all in one platform.
BUFFER
Buffer is an intuitive social media management platform trusted by brands, businesses, agencies, and individuals to help drive social media results.
CYFE
Social media, analytics, marketing, sales, support, infrastructure all in one place. Track your entire business in real-time.
FACEBOOK PAGES MANAGER
Manage your Facebook Page, right from your phone. With the Pages Manager app you can stay informed and respond to customers immediately.
FEEDLY
Organise, read and share what matters to you.
GATHERCONTENT
Content planning, production & workflow for agencies & in-house teams.
PLANN
Complete Instagram Suite. Instagram planning, scheduling. and analytics for beautiful brands.
REGRANN
Expands Instagram capabilities. Repost to your Instagram feed. Keep Instagram posts to repost later. Save photos and videos to your phone.
MESSAGING / CALLS / VIDEO CALLS
SKYPE
Stay in touch! Free online calls, messaging, affordable international calling to mobiles or landlines and Skype for Business for effective collaboration.
UBERCONFERENCE
UberConference provides everything you need for effective meetings, minus all the stuff you don’t.
VOXER
Voxer is a Walkie Talkie messaging app for your smartphone with live voice (like a PTT walkie talkie), text, photo and location sharing.
WHEREBY
Is your team remote or distributed? Stay productive with effortless video collaboration!
INTERCOM
Intercom makes customer messaging apps for sales, marketing, and support, connected on one platform. Intercoms mission is to make business personal again.
TAPEACALL
TapeACall makes it easy to record calls you’re already on, or calls you’re about to make. Once you’re done, the recordings show up instantly, ready for you to share or save.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
ASANA
Help teams organize, track, and manage their work.
BIDSKETCH
Online proposal software that helps you create professional-looking client proposals in half the time.
DROPMARK
Dropmark enables users to share links, files, and notes; organise them into collections and manage the audience visibility for them.
FRONTIFY
Frontify is an easily operated, cloud-based brand management software, with powerful collaboration solutions for design feedback, prototyping & consistency.
HABITLIST
Habit List includes everything you need to reach your goals, wrapped in a beautiful and intuitive interface. It motivates you, helps you stay focused, and keeps you on track. It’s for all the little things that make a big difference.
IFTTT
IFTTT (If This, Then That) is the easy, free way to get your apps and devices working together. The internet doesn’t always play nice, but we’re here to help.
KANBANFLOW
KanbanFlow is a Lean project management tool allowing real-time collaboration between team members. Supports the Pomodoro technique for time tracking.
MEETINGBIRD
Save time with Meetingbird’s scheduling platform. Its simple interface and powerful integrations make scheduling meetings easy.
NOTION
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It’s the all-in-one workspace for you and your team.
TIME KEEPER
TimeKeeper is a simple time tracking application. Keep track of your day to day activities when working on your Mac.
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION (SEO)
AHREFS
Audit your website, explore competitors, research keywords & backlinks – all in one place. Powered by seriously big data & trusted by top SEOs.
ANSWER THE PUBLIC
Find out what questions and queries your consumers have by getting a free report of what they’re searching for in Google.
SEMRUSH
SEMrush is a powerful and versatile competitive intelligence suite for online marketing, from SEO and PPC to social media and video advertising research.
SEO 1 CLICK META
SEO META in 1 CLICK is a tool that displays all meta tags/data and main seo information clearly.
SERPSTAT
Smart and powerful tool for Backlinks Analysis, Rank Tracking, Keyword Research, Competitor Analysis, Site Audit.
YOAST
Yoast helps you with your website optimization, whether it be through our widely used SEO software or our online SEO courses: we’re here to help.
THEMES / PLUGINS
ALL-IN-ONE-WP-MIGRATION
This plugin exports your WordPress website including the database, media files, plugins and themes with no technical knowledge required.
STUDIOPRESS AGENCY PRO
A professional theme for your website to represent your services with confidence and clarity.
VIDEO USER MANUAL
A rebrandable WordPress training plugin. Over 89 videos, automatically updated with each new WP release.
WHITE LABEL CMS
Save time and confusion with a simplified, custom dashboard for your clients.
WORDPRESS SLICK SITEMAP
This simple plugin adds a slick HTML sitemap of your site by entering the shortcode in the page content.
WOOCOMMERCE
WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress.
VIDEOS
DESCRIPT
Descript is the world’s first audio word processor, letting you view and edit audio as text. Superpowers for anyone that works with voice audio.
ENOUNCE MYSPEED SLIDER
Great for speeding up videos that you need to watch when you’re short on time.
HEADLINER
Easily create videos to promote your podcast, radio show or blog. Share to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Linkedin and anywhere video lives.
iMOVIE
Turn your videos into movie magic. With iMovie for iOS and macOS, you can enjoy your videos like never before.
JING
Jing is a screen sharing tool. It allows you to capture anything on your computer screen either as a still image or as a video up to 5 minutes long.
LOOM
Easy and free screen recorder for Mac, Windows, and Chromebooks. Record your camera and screen with audio directly from your Chrome browser and share.
SHAKR
Shakr is a turn-key self-serve platform that enables the entire social media team to easily produce thousands of customized video ads.
WEBINARS
WEBINAR NINJA
Run better webinars with no worries with the best webinar software ever. Create a live & evergreen webinar in 10 seconds.
WEBSITES AND HOSTINGS
WPFIXIT
Are you having an odd issue with your WordPress site? Let WP Fixit fix it for you right away.
DIVI
Divi isn’t just a WordPress theme, it’s a complete design framework that allows you to design and customize every part of your website from the ground up.
FLOWMAPP
Create interactive sitemaps and user flows for web development and planning better UX.
GLOOMAPS
GlooMaps, simple and fast online sitemapping tool. Create and build a visual sitemap, add content and share with others. Website planning made easy!
HUMAAN
Humaan’s QA checklist for launching a website.
MANAGEWP
Manage multiple WordPress websites from one dashboard. Schedule backups, migrate WordPress website, automate updates, monitor website traffic, and SEO.
MY WEB AUDIT
Start generating more leads and closing more deals faster with incredible website audit reports business owners will understand and love.
SILKTIDE
Test your website for everything. One platform to monitor and manage your websites effectively.
SITEGROUND
Our web hosting services are crafted for top speed, unmatched security, 24/7 fast and expert support. Trusted by more than 2000000 domains!
SLICKPLAN
A website mapping tool. This super-intuitive sitemap builder makes planning your website easy.
WPMAINTAIN
Maintainn offers WordPress support services for small business, enterprise, and blogging websites.
LEGAL
LEGAL 123
Easy-to-use online legal templates for all types of Australian businesses. We help with legals for Online Businesses, Startups, Freelancers and SMEs.
OTHER TOOLS
COLD TURKEY
Subscription-free, website and application blocking. Block digital distractions so you can be more productive and focus on what’s most important to you.
DEPOSIT PHOTOS
The best stock agency with millions of premium high-quality pictures: stock photos, royalty-free images, illustrations and vector art at affordable prices.
GENIUS SCAN
Genius Scan is a scanner in your pocket. It helps users digitize millions of documents on the go every day. Discover how it will help you too!
LYNDA
Online video courses in software, creative and business skills taught by industry experts.
NOTABILITY
A powerful, yet wonderfully simple note-taking and PDF annotation.
ONENOTE
Get organized in notebooks you can divide into sections and pages. With easy navigation and search, you’ll always find your notes right where you left them.
OVERCAST
A powerful yet simple podcast player for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
Put articles, videos or pretty much anything into Pocket. If it’s in Pocket, it’s on your phone, tablet or computer. You don’t even need an Internet connection.
PIXELSNAP
PixelSnap – The fastest way to measure everything on screen for macOS. Taking measuring to the next level!
SPOTIFY
Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.
SWEAT
SWEAT recognises that women want flexibility, variety, and support when working towards health and fitness goals.
STRONG
Train smarter. Get results. The simplest and most intuitive workout tracker just got better.
TONE ANALYZER
This service uses linguistic analysis to detect joy, fear, sadness, anger, analytical, confident and tentative tones found in text.
WPBEGINNER
WPBeginner is the largest WordPress resource site for WordPress Beginners with easy to understand WordPress tutorials for mastering the basics and beyond.
HEMINGWAY EDITOR
Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. The app highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors.
ANALYZE MY WRITING
An online writing sample content and readability analyzer.
CONVERT CASE
Accidentally left the caps lock on and typed something, but can’t be bothered to start again and retype it all? Simply enter your text and choose the case you want to convert it to.
