When it comes to how to start your own business, we often don’t have the funds to pay for the tools that we need to succeed. We have collated 20 of the best free tools you can use to grow your business.

Canva

Canva is a graphic design tool that is both simple and free. Whether you want to design a poster, Facebook post, presentation or email header – you can do it with Canva. It’s super simple to use and has a lot of free and $1 templates so even those without design skills can create something epic.

Canva also has a design school to help you get the most out of their tool!

VerifiedEmail

VerifiedEmail is an essential tool for any startup building an audience from scratch. It helps you keep your email list clean by verifying every address before you send anything. That means no more bounces, no more sending to dead inboxes, and no damage to your sender reputation. Simply upload your list or use the real-time checker to validate sign-ups as they happen. 

With affordable pay-as-you-go pricing and a free 200-credit trial, VerifiedEmail makes email list hygiene simple — and saves young companies from costly deliverability issues.

flexClip

FlexClip is another tool that brings a range of AI functionalities to video creation, making it an excellent choice for entrepreneurs looking to enhance their visual content. With features like AI-powered text-to-video, automatic subtitle generation, and a library of templates, FlexClip simplifies the video-making process for users of all skill levels.

Visme

Visme means visual communication when it comes to generating content and helping startups put their best foot forward. With this interactive content creator, businesses can add movement to their brand strategy and reach their audience using the Visme presentation templates, infographic templates, the AI image creator, etc. No matter the role or level of design skills, with Visme, worklife is easier.

CodedThemes

CodedThemes offers a wide range of React Templates, Vue Templates, Bootstrap Templates, Tailwind Templates, Angular Templates, and many more. They offers versatile templates built to suit a wide range of industries and project needs. To help users explore the features and functionalities, CodedThemes provides free trial versions before committing to the premium version.

Every template is thoughtfully crafted with a clear purpose, clean and scalable code, and a focus on delivering a smooth user experience. With over 204K creatives already using their products, CodedThemes continues to be a trusted and popular choice among developers and designers worldwide.

Infogram

A picture is worth a thousand words, and infographics even more! Create highly shareable content like infographics easily with Infogram and display your data beautifully.

Trello

Trello is an amazing tool that you can use for project management. It’s extremely useful for collating ideas, managing campaigns and for personal organization – it definitely makes me more productive! You can invite your clients to use it too so you can keep all of your work organised. There are other tools similar to Trello in the market that also offer great project management features to streamline your workflow.

Docracy

As a startup business it’s hard to find the funds to pay a lawyer for some legal documents. However, there’s now a free option! The founders of Docracy provide legal documents that are easily customizable for your business and have completely transparent sources. Many people are raving about Docracy, so we recommend it!

Zintego

Zintego offers an invaluable resource for startups—the Zintego Free Invoice Generator. This tool empowers businesses to produce professional invoices effortlessly without the need for specialized software or design skills. The complimentary invoice templates provided by Zintego simplify the invoicing process, making it both cost-effective and user-friendly.

MailChimp

It’s 100% free for up to 2,000 email addresses, making it a great starting point for small businesses exploring Mailchimp pricing before scaling their email marketing efforts. Easily create stunning email campaigns and signup forms with the preset templates, or create your own.

IFTTT

If This Then That creates a recipe with your apps and allows you to automate your actions. For instance, you can connect Facebook and Instagram and automatically post every Instagram post onto your Facebook Page. This can save you lots of time and can be used in a variety of different ways.

Codecademy

If you’re looking to learn to code, Codecademy is perfect for it. It starts in a simple manner so as long as you can use a computer, you can learn to code. As the world is going more and more digital, this is definitely a worthwhile skill to learn.

Invoice To Me

Do you take payment by invoice? Here’s a free invoice builder that allows you to create, save to PDF and send.

Buffer

Buffer is a Social Media scheduling app available online or on mobile. It allows you to schedule 10 posts for 3 different Social Media accounts for free. This means you can sort out all of your Social Media for the week in one go and not have to worry about remembering to post.

Marketing Grader by Hubspot

If you’re wondering how your marketing is doing, pop your URL into Marketing Grader by Hubspot and they will analyze your website, blog and Social Media presence and give you advice on where to improve.

HARO

Help A Reporter Out sends daily emails with opportunities for you to be in the press. Although the free version sends you unfiltered emails so you do have to sift through, it can still help you with getting in the paper or even on TV!

Pixabay, Unsplash, Pexels, Death To The Stock Photo

Need royalty-free images for your website, blog or Social Media but don’t want to pay sky high prices? These websites provide you with 100% FREE and royalty-free images for you to use as you please.

Google Docs, Sheets, Slides

Don’t want to pay for a Microsoft Word license? Well, Google has you covered. Their free Google Apps allow you to create spreadsheets, word documents and presentations in the same way you would on Microsoft Word.

Dropbox

Do you often need to send large files to other people, or want to back up your existing files? Dropbox is free and it acts like an extra hard drive on your computer- plus it’s also an app for your smartphone!

Boomerrang for Gmail

Do you find yourself replying to emails at 1am? This can look unprofessional as it’s an inappropriate time, and that’s where Boomerang comes in. It’s an extension for Gmail and allows you to scheduel a time to send your email. Awesome, huh?

GoSkills

Slidebean

Slidebean’s presentation templates provide a fill-in-the-blank outline that can kick start your presentation workflow. Combined with their AI arrangement, you’ll be able to wrap up a presentation in minutes, instead of hours.

Kittl

Kittl is an AI-powered design platform for creating product mockups, logos, t-shirts, and social media visuals using drag-and-drop tools and ready-made templates. It is especially useful for Etsy sellers and print-on-demand businesses looking to create and scale product listings faster.

Venturz

Venturz is an all-in-one startup platform that brings your website, email marketing, CRM, and social media scheduling under one free platform. Instead of signing up for a separate tool for each task, you can build a website, run email campaigns, manage leads, and schedule social posts — all from a single dashboard.

Wideo.co

Wideo uses templates to help you create professional videos for marketing, internal communications, social media and more. (Think: Squarespace or Minted, but for videos)