Enhancing Your Digital Footprint - The Ultimate List of FREE Apps

Enhancing Your Digital Footprint - The Ultimate List of FREE Apps

Michael Lv12

Enhancing Your Digital Footprint - The Ultimate List of FREE Apps

Worried about managing your social media accounts on multiple platforms? Try these free apps.

With the growing number of social platforms, manually managing all your social accounts has become almost impossible. At the same time, staying away from all of them is not a viable option.

Luckily, there are some social media management tools available for free. Check out these social media management apps that assist you and make your life easier.

1. Tailwind

Visualization of the Tailwind app interface for social media managament

If you want to be active on Instagram, or are willing to use Pinterest to showcase your work to the world, opt for Tailwind. This social media management app lets you go worry-free with features like scheduling posts and basic analytics data. With this tool, you can manage one Instagram and one Pinterest profile.

The app enables you to design and schedule 20 posts each month. Moreover, you can join up to five Tailwind communities. These are groups of like-minded people where you can grow your reach and network. It offers other features like bulk uploads, photo & video support, Smart.bio custom link, etc., for posting content quickly and seamlessly.

Download: Tailwind forAndroid |iOS (Free, in-app purchases available)

2. Crowdfire

Image showing managing social media accounts from Crowdfire web app

Crowdfire supports four social platforms: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. However, you can manage up to three profiles from a single account. Each month, you can schedule 10 posts per account through this tool. You can access this free app from android, iOS, and the web.

Crowdfire lets you curate unlimited articles and images for your social media posts. The app also recommends Hashtags and displays previews of auto-tailored posts before posting the contents on each platform. Apart from the above features, you will have access to social analytics and advanced analytics data of your profiles for one day.

Download: Crowdfire forAndroid |iOS (Free, in-app purchases available)

3. Friends+Me

Visualization of Friends+Me social media account management web app

Friends+Me

This app aims at publishing your content at the right time and assisting in increased engagement. It supportsposting content on Facebook pages , Linkedin profiles, Linkedin company pages, Twitter, and Tumblr. By using this tool, you can post on any two of the mentioned platforms.

The Friends+Me app’s scheduling feature will let you schedule five posts per platform every month. You can allow another user (a family member or friend) to post on your behalf, too.

You can use this tool through the desktop or mobile app, apart from the browser extension it offers for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera—which are only available on your computer. By supporting bit.ly, it lets you shorten the URL too. Moreover, you get standard customer support and a third-party integration facility with Zapier with this tool.

Download: Friends+Me forAndroid (Free, in-app purchases available)

4. Socialoomph

Image showing Socialoomph account interface

If you want to manage your one social media account, consider trying Socialoomph. Its supported platforms are Discord channels, Facebook pages, Twitter profiles, Pinterest boards, Reddit subreddits, LinkedIn profiles, Mastodon profiles, and StockTwits profiles. Choose any of these and start scheduling an unlimited number of posts each month.

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Visualization of the Tailwind app interface for social media managament

However, it allows you to schedule three posts every hour. While scheduling through this tool, you can only have access to the basic posting features of your chosen platform. If you have any issues or queries, you can get free support on behalf of this tool.

5. Buffer

Image showing the social media management interface of Buffer app

Buffer has become a common name among social media users. It lets you manage three profiles from the following: Facebook pages and groups, Twitter profiles, LinkedIn profiles and pages, Pinterest boards, and Instagram (only business profiles.) You can create and schedule 10 posts per social channel per month.

There is also the facility to set the time slots for content publishing throughout each week. With Buffer, you get integration with 30+ third-party apps, including Zapier, Pocket, IFTTT, Quuu, and Feedly. Besides the apps for iOS and Android smartphones, you can access this tool through your web browser extension.

Download: Buffer forAndroid |iOS (Free, in-app purchases available)

6. IFTTT

The web app visualization of the IFTTT social media profile management tool

IFTTT

Wouldn’t it be awesome to integrate your multiple social media accounts and make them work in sync? With its features, IFTTT makes it possible to unify your posts on various social platforms. Apart from automating vital social media tasks, it makes sure that they are working smoothly.

With this tool, you can create three applets of your own and enable unlimited Applets. You get the opportunity to create your own commands for connecting various applications.

Thus, the actions will take place automatically when triggered. For example, you can enable a setting that will tweet an image or share that image on Instagram as soon as you post it on Facebook.

Download: IFTTT forAndroid |iOS (Free, in-app purchases available)

7. Later

Image showing the social media management interface of Later app

Whether you’re new to social media platforms, or you’ve been using them for a while, Later is suitable in both cases. It supports Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. You can schedule 30 posts per month on each of these platforms with this app.

Apart from offering access to high-quality stock images, it offers a media library. Here, you can upload and store an unlimited number of photos and videos to post on your social accounts.

You can also plan and save captions, hashtags, and other texts here. It also has features like the visual Instagram planner, Chrome extension, Linkin.bio for TikTok, and so on.

Download: Later forAndroid |iOS (Free, in-app purchases available)

8. Followerwonk

Illustration of Followerwonk profile for social media management

If Twitterati is your nickname, use this tool to connect your Twitter account and start managing it. Besides showing all of your followers and their locations, it also lets you know the time when your followers are most active. Thus, you get to know the best time for tweeting to reach most of your followers.

The app also informs you of the Social Authority Ranking of your Twitter profile. You can search up to 50 Twitter profiles per day. With each search, you will have 100 results.

With this app, it is possible to analyze Twitter profiles that have up to 25,000 followers. Every day, you can analyze 20 profiles.

9. Planoly

Visualization of Planoly IG Planner feature for social media management

Planoly

This sophisticated tool for social channel managing offers support for one Instagram and one Pinterest profile. Every month, you can add 30 posts each on both accounts. However, it supports uploading only images on social platforms.

You can directly reply to the comments of the five latest Instagram posts from the app dashboard. Driving traffic to your blog or website from Instagram is also possible with Linkit—the free tool of Planoly for creating a clickable gallery consisting of some selective Instagram posts.

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The tool lets you get hold of basic analytics data of both Pinterest and Instagram accounts. Thus, tracking social media metrics of any given period of your choice becomes super-easy.

Download: Planoly forAndroid |iOS (Free, in-app purchases available)

10. Sparkotoro

Visualization of Sparkotoro web app for social media management

Sparkotoro is basically a research tool that you can use to know the trending hashtags, phrases, and audience insights. Search for a term in this tool, and it will show you the audience size of that term, commonly visited websites and social accounts of the audience, YouTube channels and podcasts the audience follows, etc.

You can also learn the most used words/phrases in the content or bio of popular influencers. It offers five monthly searches for free.

Making It Easy to Handle Your Social Media Presence

Each free tool we’ve listed for social account management comes with different features. Try them out to find out the most suitable one that works best for your social media strategy.

Alongside these social media management apps, it’s also worth using other free tools to improve the look of your visual content—such as graphic design platforms. By integrating multiple apps and platforms, you can increase your social media presence significantly.

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  • Title: Enhancing Your Digital Footprint - The Ultimate List of FREE Apps
  • Author: Michael
  • Created at : 2024-12-09 19:41:41
  • Updated at : 2024-12-12 16:44:17
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