24 Productivity Tools to Help You with Almost Everything

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With such high competition in the market, how do you make sure you're project, product or idea cuts through? And in a timely manner? The difference is made by the talent, learning new technologies and last, but not least, by the tools used. There are a heap of productivity tools out there that are helping web designers and developers to design logos, build phone apps without the need for coding skills or even build a database quickly and efficiently.

In this showcase, we will take you through 25 of our favourite tools to help you overcome almost anything. We hope that you will find these helpful. Let us know your thoughts or if you have some other recommendations to add to the list.

1. Tailor Brands - Automated Logo Maker and Brand Builder 

Tailor Brands has quickly grown to be one of the best tools on the market to help you design logos and make branding. After offering up a great logo maker, the company now offers a full branding suite that makes marketing and creating unique company visuals a breeze.

The company’s logo maker uses AI and pairs it with an expansive template library to create unique and effective designs in a matter of minutes. You can then fine-tune aspects of your logo until it's perfect.

Now that you have your logo, you can move on to making your mark with a powerful online brand presence. Tailor Brands is easy-to-use and gives you a fully automated weekly social planner that sets a schedule and auto-generates posts and ads to upload on a regular basis, you can also add more posts in manually if you'd like.

If you want to launch a holiday campaign, you can take advantage of Tailor Brands’ seasonal logos, which lets you give your branding a quick boost. For your business needs, you can create business cards and decks to go along with letterheads, and even presentation templates. You can also download your logo in EPS format to print it on shirts, bag, and other gear.

With a basic monthly subscription of $2.99 or a full package for $10.99, Tailor Brands is a quick and easy way to give your brand a professional touch.

Pricing: Monthly subscription from $2.99.

2. iGenApps - Build Your Phone App Without Any Coding Skills

iGenApps is a powerful and affordable app builder that allows people without programming skills to build and publish a fully customized app. According to the company, it has been downloaded 2 million times and has more than 1.5 million registered users building their apps with it already. And in April 2017, it was named the Best Productivity App.

You start the app creation with the wizard building process that will guide you step by step to build Apps for mobile phones and tablets. Build and publish your Apps in minutes all through your mobile device.

iGenApps has a free trial you can start playing with that will show you how it all works and what it can do.

Pricing: Check their website for detailed pricing.

3. Kohezion - Online Database Software

Kohezion is an advanced online database software that allows you to quickly create your own customized web-based database without coding or any programming. The database can be used for:

• Clients – Easily manage your clients, leads, organization and more. You can create reminders so you will never lose an opportunity. Keep a record of all communications and attach files to client's records
• Manage Contracts - Collaborate and share ideas about contracts. Never miss an expiration date with reminders. Easily track all required information. Attach files, Apply calculations or Email contracts directly from Kohezion
• Manage tasks
• Schedules

It is also highly customizable. You can create custom quotes and invoices for your clients, custom reports with your own look and feel, integrate with Dropbox™, Google Drive™ or Box™, create complex calculation fields, or even embeddable online forms.

There are 3 types of plans, standard, non-profit organizations and enterprise solutions, with pricing starting at $50/user/year. They also have a Free Forever plan, which will cover your basic needs.

Pricing: Starts from $50/User/YEAR for full access or they also have a Free Forever plan.

4. Visme

When it comes to Visual Communication, Visme is a game changer.  Imagine taking key features of Powerpoint and Photoshop and then marrying them together into an easy-to-use tool. It allows people without design experience to tap into hundreds of professional templates and an extensive library of assets to create engaging and memorable presentations, infographics, charts and report, ebooks, websites and social graphics. You can even make your content interactive with the ability to insert videos, audio or embed external content such as forms, polls, and maps.  

You can publish your content online, embed to your website, make it private and password protected or download it as an Image, PDF or even HTML5, so you can present offline.

Pricing:Paid plans start at $10/month which unlock premium features including the ability to customize your own brand, upload your own fonts, and tap into all premium templates and images. But they also have a free plan.

5. Ultra Theme

Ultra Theme is a powerful and flexible WordPress theme created by the well reputed Themify. It is easy to use and makes creating sites quickly and beautifully (and responsive, of course), a breeze. It allows you to take full control of your theme design from header to footer.

Pricing: The standard license is $49.

6. Codester.com

Codester is a fast growing platform for web designers and developers to buy and sell lots of great premium PHP scripts, app templates, themes and plugins to create amazing websites & apps. They even have a “flash sales” where products are available for a limited period but with a 50% discount.

Pricing: It's a marketplace, so will vary on products.

7. GrapeCity - JavaScript Solutions

GrapeCity JavaScript solutions provides all you'll need for a full web app. With this you'll get dependency-free, fast, flexible, true JavaScript components that enable you to build basic websites, full enterprise apps, and Excel-like spreadsheet web apps. And if you need it, expert support is available by forum, direct ticket or phone.

There are 2 products: SpreadJS and Wijmo and both have offer free trials.

Pricing: SpreadJS is $999/developer and Wijmo is $895/developer.

8. ThemeFuse.com

ThemeFuse is one of the most impressive WordPress theme developers in the market. They cover most domains such as automotive, blogging, e-commerce, events and portfolios. Their themes are professional-looking and includes everything you need to get started and the installation and setup only takes a couple of minutes, so you can get started with your next big idea.

Pricing: They offer a free plan, but the premium ones start from $45, paid once.
You can also use this code BLKFRY2017 and get a 70% discount.

9. Blaskan

Blaskan is a responsive and professional WordPress theme that's built for many kinds of screens. It was built by Colorlib, a new WordPress developer that is quickly becoming one of the best in the market. The theme is free to download and use, so give it a try.

Pricing: Free

10. VectorStock.com

VectorStock is the world’s premier vector-only image marketplace with more than 10,000 vectors added daily. It’s one of the favorite places for web designers because there is a heap to be found here and also because the pricing is budget friendly.

Pricing: Free plan with access to 41,000 free vectors and millions of royalty free images.

11. wpKube

wpKube specializes in WordPress themes, hosting, plugins and everything related to this platform. They've even made a complete guide about how you can start a WP website from scratch, which tools, themes and hosting to choose from, so you can have an awesome website.

They're also investing lots of money in developing new themes. All of their templates are fully responsive, easy to install, setup and customize. At this point, there are 5 themes and the pricing is between $49-$59/theme.

Pricing: Varies depending on service you are after

12. Host-Tracker.com

Host-Tracker is one of the best website monitoring systems on the market. It provides instant notifications about failures, domain and certificate expiration monitoring, content check and many other cool things. They recently launched a cool new feature which automatically pauses your AdWords campaign if any problems with the site are detected and then reactivates onces resolved.

Pricing: $5/month with a 50% discount for new customers

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