120+ Free Tools for Mommy Bloggers

The beauty of mommy blogging is that it costs almost nothing to get started.

Yes, you have to pay for web hosting, but apart from that everything else you can get pretty much for free!

Here is our complete list of resources you can use to get your blog started or to make your existing blog work better & earn you more money!

Have you been using any of these?

Did we miss out any important free tools? Leave a comment below!

BLOG SET UP

Everything you need from blogging platform, website themes, design help, fonts to use and plugins that will make a difference.

1. Website Templates – Free WordPress Themes (Responsive)
2. Weebly – free blogging platform, includes free site templates
3. Blogger – together with WP (WordPress) the most popular free blogging platform, free templates included
4. Free HTML course : udemy.com – online class at Udemy
5. Free webdesign course – online course with the basics of webdesign
6. Website Logo – free logo generator
7. Unique Hipster logo generator – generate hipster logo for free in few minutes
8. Hive – free cloud service
9. Tumblr – free blogging platform
10. Dropplets – an easier way to blog
11. Slimvoice – simple invoices
12. Website Colors – free color palettes for your website design
13. Impossibility – domain name generator
14. Wordoit – create a unique and catchy blog name
15. Google fonts – over 600 free fonts to use on your website
16. Quick Sprout – detailed analytic of your websites performance and recommendations for improvements
17. Coffee cup – basic html editor for people with minimal or no html skills
18. Feedburner – easy set up of RSS feeds
19. Laspass – no need to remember all your passwords
20. Yoast SEO – best WordPress seo plugin
21. PageSpeed Insights – find out how fast / slow your site loads
22. Jetpack plugin – WordPress plugin that comes packed with many briliant features, social sharing buttons are our favorite
23. Disqus Comments – popular comments plugin for WP
24. Facebook Comments – WP plugin that lets you comment with your facebook account
25. Contextly – add recommended content to the bottom of your post (WP plugin)
26. Google XML Sitemap – WP plugin, sitemap generator, seo essential
27. W3 total cache – WP plugin that helps your site run faster and smoother
28. WP Affiliates manager – manager your affiliate accounts and links
29. Nelio AB Testing – great for running a/b tests on your website
30. Marketing Grader – review the performance of your website’s marketing effort
31. Similarweb – research what your competition is up to, where they get their traffic, how much visitors they have and much more
32. Hotjar – website optimisation, reports and recommendations for improvements

WRITING & PHOTOS

Tools to help you become a better and more organized writer, plus photos to make your blog stand out from the crowd.

33. Hemingway – free writing editor, make your posts more clear and concise with this simple tool
34. Content Progress – custom mark each post in WordPress to keep track
35. Ilys – forget about writers block. Set a wordcount and Ilys wont let you go back, delete or amend until you reached your goal.
36. Editorial Calendar – organize and keep track of your writing and posts schedule
37. Storywars – brainstorming, writing stories together
38. Alltop – trending content online
39. Photopin – free photos for bloggers
40. Phonto – app that adds text on photos
41. Picasa – organize, edit and share your photos
42. QuotesCover – create visual quotes
43. Sellfy – desing freebies (fonts, graphics and more)
44. Pixabay – free high quality images
45. Canva – create free graphics, images
46. Unsplash – free to use images
47. Gifmaker – make gif images
48. Picmonkey – photo editor
49. Piktochart – create free infographics
50. Rhyme Zone – when you need something that rhymes
51. Creative Commons – Search and discover creative commons licensed media for free use
52. Soovle – type in keyword and this tool will research most popular terms across all search engines
53. Google Keyword Planner – free keyword research tool
54. Content Idea Generator – type in subject and get ideas
55. Everpost – content curation tool
56. Quora – research most talked about topics
57. Google Alerts – get an email every time google finds content based on your keywords
58. Buzzsumo – top performing content by keyword
59. Headline Analyzer – analyze your headline for emotional marketing value
60. Headline analyzer by CoSchedule – pop in headline and get results right away
61. Blog post generator – by hubpost
62. Plagium – check the originality of a text online, great if you’re planning to use texts written by guest bloggers
63. Check your grammar – free online tool
64. Blog post title generator – for catchy blog titles
65. Copyscape – most popular plagiarism software online
66. Cliche finder – don’t ever use cliches in your blog posts
67. Listly – discover and create great lists
68. Optinskin – opt in box you can use in emails or bottom of your blog post
69. Storify – curate articles and opinions on selected topic
70. Writer app – write & draft your blog posts on the go
71. Bubbl – brainstorm and create map of your ideas for content

PRODUCTIVITY & STAYING ORGANIZED

Keep track of your progress, stay organized, focus better and get more done!

70. Markticle – mark where you finished reading while doing your online research
71. Toggl – track how much time you spend on your tasks & get more productive
72. Focus Booster – get more efficient with your writing by using pomodoro technique
73. Cold Turkey – block out distracting website and focus more on writing
74. After the Deadline – polish your writing, correct grammar and more
75. Evernote – great for keeping ideas for blog posts, inspiration, resources and everything else you need. Your virtual notepad and diary in one.
76. Coffitivity – white noise generator, to help you concentrate while writing.
77. Social Locker – ask visitors to follow you before revealing content
78. Asana – free project management tool
79. Dragon Dictation App – text to speech app
80. Trello – visual way to organize your ideas
81. WordPress Distraction free writing – just click on the 4 direction arrows in your blog posts for clean writing environment and more productive writing
82. Bitly – shorten your links for free
83. Flickr – use advance search to find free to use images
84. IFTTT – if this then that – schedule and organise your posts and social media activities
85.  Dig Dig – floating social share bar
86. Bookmarklets – convert any online content into easy to read format with this browser extension

EMAILS

Good email management platform is absolutely essential for managing your subscribers list!

87. Aweber – the King of email autoresponders, not 100% free, but you can get first month with only $1!
88. Hello Bar -get more subscribers for free
89. Mailchimp – basic account limited to 2.000 subscribers for free
90. Contact Form 7 – free contact form for email collecting
91. Scroll Triggered Box – capture more emails
92. Product Psychology – free email newsletter series on user behaviour
93. Double your email list in 30 days – free 30 day course

SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING

No blog cannot succeed without proper social media tools. Here are just a few options:

94. Hootsuite – social media management platform
95. PollDaddy – for online polls (free account with limited options)
96. Delicious – discover, organize and share the hottest links online
97. Repost App –  great for re-posting others’ photos on instagram
98. Bluestack App – install and access all your mobile apps through pc, brilliant for uploading instagram photos
99. Click to Tweet – includes click to tweet boxes in your post
100. Latergramme – schedule your instagram posts
101. Buffer – social management software (limited accounts in free version)
102. Bloglovin – free blogging directory, get followers and more traffic
103. Likealyzer – analyze your facebook page and get recommendations for improvements
104. SavePublishing – find tweetable passages of any online text and use for twitter
105. Latest – generates a list of interesting links on twitter
106. Tweriod – discover the most optimal times to post on twitter
107. Mention Map – explore your connections with this simple tool
108. Press Kit Template – free template to edit, needs photoshop skills
109. Amazon Auto Links – WP plugin for your affiliate sales
110. Linktrack – track your affiliate links
111. Crowdfire – free instagram and twitter management
112. Iconsquare – free instagram management tool
113. Clickmeter – another free link tracking tool
114. Takeoff – schedule instagram updates
115. ThingLink – create interactive images or videos
116. Followerwonk – find, analyze and grow your presence on Twitter
117. DoShare – sharing extension for chrome browser
118. Crowdfire – twitter management tool
119. Tweetdeck – manage multiple twitter accounts
120. Simply Measured – free social media analytics tool
121. Wistia – video hosting with analytics
122. Stupeflix – create and edit videos