10 Free Tools and Software to Keep your Business Ahead of the Game

Though many people use Canva which is a great service as well and has a great plan I thought I would add a service that many may not know about. The thing for JnM Web Creations that I think makes the free Glorify plan better than Canva’s is that they have 10 uses of the background removal tool and Canva doesn’t have any it is only on their paid plan. It may be something where you use Glorify for the background tool and Canva for other stuff as it has more features.

This is a definite go to for me when I just need a simple crop or taking out a background. It has many quick easy to use tools and requires no login. It’s about the easiest image editors you can use.

This is a tool I use all the time, but I believe it is only for Windows computers. This is an actual program to install on your computer. You can easily take a folder with tons of pictures that are way too large for your website or maybe too big to attach to emails and in bulk compress all images and also set the max width lower so you get much smaller images. It works great, is totally free and is quite quick to mass compress and mass scale down images.

If you have ever used Photoshop and are annoyed by their monthly fee then definitely check out GIMP. It is free and open source and it works for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is a downloadable program that can do most all the things Photoshop can do. It also has a great community with many free addons that individuals have made. Understand though that just has Photoshop has a very large learning curve GIMP does as well though there are many how to videos on Youtube.

This free stock photo site only has photos, but it does have a great selection.

Another great free stock photo site that also includes stock video.

The last free stock photo and video site we use regularly.

This software is totally open source and thus is free. If you want to make Youtube videos especially those where you need to show off your screen or just want to talk in front of your video camera this is a great option. This is what we use on our Youtube videos and it allows us to switch easily between different scenes with great transitions. You can use multiple audio and video sources making for something that is very personalize and professional.

Another service I got from Appsumo this tool stores your passwords and allows you to create very secure passwords easily and even has autofill. It only allows 15 passwords on the free level so that may not be enough for most people. The great feature of Pass Camp is if you have a team account (only €35 per year) is that you can create team members and share certain passwords with those team members. It is a great tool compared to using an excel spreadsheet for all your passwords.

This free tool is great for managing team projects. You essentially make online lists with things that need to be done in your business and you can make them by when they need to be finished or a piece of a project and you can give each of these tasks to people working on the project. It is essentially a project management tool that allows you to see how well a project is coming along.