Free tools for creators

Small, fast, honest utilities. No signup, no email gate, nothing leaves your browser.

Social media strategy from your website

Paste your website, get a strategy you can run this week: platform priorities, content pillars with example posts, a 14-day starter plan and quick wins. Reads your public pages only. Free, no signup, two runs a day.

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Character counter — all platforms

Type once, see live counts against the real limits for X, Threads, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube Shorts — including where each feed truncates.

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Post time planner

Audience split across timezones? Pick their regions and see which posting hours — in your local time — catch the most of them awake. Pure timezone math, no fake "magic hours".

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Instagram line-break generator

Instagram destroys your caption spacing when you paste. Write it here, copy the converted version — the blank lines survive. Works for TikTok and LinkedIn too.

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Image resizer — every platform

Drop one image, download it center-cropped to the correct size for Instagram, Stories, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and YouTube. Runs in your browser — your image never uploads.

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Will your video pass?

Drop a video and see its resolution, duration, size and bitrate checked against platform upload specs — before a failed upload wastes your evening. File never leaves your machine.

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Engagement rate calculator

Followers, likes, comments in — engagement rate out, with honest context instead of invented "industry benchmarks".

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Twitter (X) character limit — live counter

280 for free accounts, 25,000 on Premium, counted the way X counts: emoji and CJK as 2, every link as 23. See the number X will see before you post.

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Instagram bio generator

Type what you do, who it's for and one proof point; get six bios under 150 characters in four tones, with a live count. No AI fluff, nothing uploaded.

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Username generator (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X)

Type your name and niche; get 30 username ideas that fit each platform's length and character rules, with one-click availability checks. No AI, nothing uploaded.

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Instagram grid maker

Split one image into a 3×1, 3×2, 3×3 or 3×4 grid of 1080×1080 tiles, numbered in the order you should post them. Runs in your browser.

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Content calendar template

Four weeks pre-filled with a platform mix, pillar dropdowns, hook and caption columns, UTM and results. Excel, CSV or Google Sheets. No signup.

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UTM link builder

Tag your links so analytics can tell you which platform actually sends clicks. Presets per network, clean-format enforcement, one-click copy.

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Image sizes — 2026, verified

Every image and video size for Instagram, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Threads, Pinterest and Snapchat — feeds, Stories, covers, profiles. Checked against current platform specs, dated so you know it's fresh.

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Why free? These tools cost nothing to run and solve real problems we hit ourselves building Smart Post Studio, a desktop scheduler for all 8 platforms with a free plan. If a tool is useful, link to it — that's the whole business model of this page.

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