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.

GoogleMaps
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.

BUFFER
Buffer is an intuitive social media management platform trusted by brands, businesses, agencies, and individuals to help drive social media results.

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.

PLANN
Complete Instagram Suite. Instagram planning, scheduling. and analytics for beautiful brands.

Mailtag
Unlimited free email tracking for Gmail with real-time notifications, link tracking, and so much more. Tag. Send. Done. Tag. Send. Done.

CYFE
Social media, analytics, marketing, sales, support, infrastructure all in one place. Track your entire business in real-time.

FEEDLY
Organise, read and share what matters to you.

REGRANN
Expands Instagram capabilities. Repost to your Instagram feed. Keep Instagram posts to repost later. Save photos and videos to your phone.

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.

GATHERCONTENT
Content planning, production & workflow for agencies & in-house teams.
MESSAGING / CALLS / VIDEO CALLS

SKYPE

UBERCONFERENCE

Voxer

WHEREBY

Intercom

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

Dropmark
Dropmark enables users to share links, files, and notes; organise them into collections and manage the audience visibility for them.

FRONTIFY

HABITLIST

IFTTT

KANBANFLOW

TIME KEEPER

MEETINGBIRD

NOTION
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION (SEO)

AHREFS

ANSWER THE PUBLIC

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

KWFINDER

SERPSTAT

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

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.

STUDIOPRESS AGENCY PRO

VIDEO USER MANUAL

WHITE LABEL CMS

WORDPRESS SLICK SITEMAP

WOOCOMMERCE
WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress.

ALL-IN-ONE-WP-MIGRATION
VIDEOS

DESCRIPT

ENOUNCE MYSPEED SLIDER

HEADLINER

iMOVIE

SHAKR

JING

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.
WEBINARS

WEBINAR NINJA
WEBSITE TOOLS

WPFIXIT

FLOWMAPP

GLOOMAPS

HUMAAN

MANAGEWP

MY WEB AUDIT

SILKTIDE
SITEGROUND

SLICKPLAN

WPMAINTAINN
OTHER TOOLS

ANALYZE MY WRITING
An online writing sample content and readability analyzer.

COLD TURKEY

DEPOSIT PHOTOS

GENIUS SCAN

LYNDA

NOTABILITY
A powerful, yet wonderfully simple note-taking and PDF annotation.

ONENOTE

OVERCAST


PIXELSNAP

SPOTIFY

SWEAT

STRONG

WPBEGINNER

TONE ANALYZER
