The Big List Of 61 Free Social Media Tools To Grow Your Fan Base

How important is having a huge, active and relevant social media fan base to the growth of your blog and business?

Well, based on reports and as you've probably observed, social media is one of the top referral of traffic for blogs and websites.

When it comes to building your social media following.

Researching Your Social Media Audience.

Building & Curating Engaging Social Media Content.

Engaging with your audience regularly, and

Monitoring your activities to identify areas for improvement are just some of the things you can do.

Using the right tools will increase your productivity and greatly boost your social media marketing results.

These free social media tools will help you create, format and find engaging content to share, schedule your posts efficiently, measure and analyze the effectiveness of your performance, provide valuable insights to improve your performance and help you do so much more to grow your social media followers.

Here's the big list of the best free social media tools to grow your fan base .

Facebook Tools

1. Facebook Live

On average, people spend 3x more longer watching a Live video than a video that’s no longer live. That makes this video platform a powerful tool to engage your audience and increase your following. Get started on Facebook Live and increase your brand’s following.

2. Facebook Sounds

Facebook Sound offers audio tracks to use on your video content for free when you publish on the platform.

3. Adpresso Compass

Facebook Ads Compass analyzes your Facebook Ads campaign and tells you what's working and what's not about it!

4. Facebook Blueprint

Facebook Blueprint offers courses, guides, and training modules, so you’re always up to date on the latest in social advertising.

5. LikeAlyzer

LikeAlyzer helps you to measure and analyse the potential and success rate of your Facebook page.

LikeAlyzer take the guess work out of your Facebook strategy. It analyzes your Facebook page and provides useful recommendations to point you in the right direction.

6. Botletter

Send newsletters on Facebook Messenger

Price: Free (for 1,000 messages every month), $23.50 per month, $53.60 per month, $85.50 per month, or custom pricing.

Twitter Tools

7. Daily140

Daily140 gives you a daily email with the most recent follows and favorites of Twitter users you find interesting.

8. MyTopTweets

Find anyone’s Top 10 tweets, ordered by engagement using this tool.

9.AllMyTweets

View all tweets from any Twitter user on one page.

Fast, Free and Easy. Great for viewing, searching and archiving old tweets.

10. ManageFlitter

This Twitter tool helps you filter who you follow: Easily unfollow those who don’t follow you back, those who’ve never changed their profile photo, and those who are inactive.

11. Audiense

A nearly all-in-one platform for all things Twitter. The free plan comes with best time to tweet, follow/unfollow tools, and community segmentation.

12. Tweriod

Tweriod analyzes your account. The Tweriod reports break it down into daily and hourly windows when you can expect the highest engagement with what you share.

13. Tweepi

Tweepi has a number of useful Twitter features, many of which fall into a couple categories: Managing your followers, and supercharging who you’re following. For management, you can unfollow in batches those who don’t follow you back, and you can bulk follow another account’s complete list of followers or who they’re following.

14. Twitonomy

A dashboard of analytics for whichever Twitter user you choose (even yours). Analyzes profiles, tweets, engagement, and more.

15. SocialRank

SocialRank gives you a sorted list of your best followers, most influential followers, and most engaged followers. Useful to track the important people to engage with on Twitter.

16. TweetChat

Log in to follow a specific hashtag, hang out in a room that collects the hashtagged tweets for you, and reply as you like (with the hashtag added automatically to your tweet).

17. Nuzzel

Nuzzel helps you discover content from your friends and from their friends as well.

18. Buzzsumo

Type in a keyword and get the content with the highest shares on social media.

19. Twipho

Search by keyword or by location to find photos shared on Twitter.

20. The Latest

Get a real-time, constantly updated list of the most interesting links on Twitter, culled from the accounts of interesting people

21. Twurly

An easy way to stay on top of the best links in your timeline. Twurly analyzes the popularity and page authority of the links so you only see the best

22. Paper.li

Paper.li lets you create a daily newspaper of your favorite tweets and stories and share this paper with your followers.

23. TheHash

Hash brings you the stories people are talking about.

Aggregating popular tweets about the day's most topical stories, Hash is a simple, visual way to catch up on global events.

24. Twitter Assistant

Twitter Assistant from UnionMetrics analyses your Twitter account and shows you your top performing tweets, your top retweeter, your best time to tweet, your best performing hashtag and recommends a popular related hashtag.

You also get to see your three most influential contributors in addition to useful v to cboost your performance quit Twitter.

25. Swayy

Swayy helps you see content that your followers recommend plus the topics they most enjoy. View it all via the dashboard or from a daily email digest.

Sharing interesting content on social media is a great way to build your authority and expertise on a topic. Customize Swayy’s suggested topic matches so that you get only the most accurate suggestions.

26. Commun.it

See all the information on all your followers – top tweets, influence, and more.

27. Followfly

What else are Twitter users sharing?

Search Twitter users, find their best content on Twitter and beyond – Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Reddit AMAs are currently supported.

28. Twitshot

See & share the images from any web page

Give Twitshot a URL, and it will pull in all the images associated with that page, giving you an easy option to see what to share.

29. RiteTag

Input a hashtag and Ritetag will give you feedback on the tag’s reach and popularity as well as suggestions for some alternatives to try.

30. Hashtagify

Enter a hashtag to discover related tags, recent conversations, usage patterns, and influencers.

31. Tagboard

Enter in a hashtag and Tagboard will pull all the most recent and relevant content into a highly useful board of tweets and visuals.

32. Finch

Discover and curate images on Twitter

Finch turns Twitter into streams of endless photos of anything.

33. One Miillion Tweetmap

Track and follow keywords as they’re tweeted in real-time and at real places. Zoom in to a geotargeted area for super fine results.

34. Twazzup

Search and track any keyword, username, or hashtag. See a results page full of relevant tweets, user accounts, and influencers.

35. Happyfriends

Pick the friends you want to hear from. Never miss their tweets. View all their activity via an inbox-style layout with nested updates.

36. Tweet Topic Explorer

Discover the most-used words of any user you choose (even you).

37. Periscope

Live stream video of whatever you’re up to.

38. Click To Tweet

Add a highlighted snippet of easily-tweetable text to your website or blog post.

39. Who Tweeted It First

Enter a keyword to see which person was the first to tweet it.

Pinterest Tools

40. Tailwind

Tailwind* is a popular scheduling tool for Pinterest. It equips you with analytics, a reporting system and advises you about the ideal times to schedule your pins.

The downside is you are only allowed to schedule 100 pins on the free account.

41. PinGroupie

Group boards typically have a larger following and can help get your pins seen by a new audience.

PinGroupie prides itself as the only tool you would ever need to find interest boards.

There are over thirty categories to choose from, if your niche isn’t represented, you can search for it under Description.

42. PinFollow

PinFollow is a tool to Find and Unfollow Pinterest users who do not follow you back.

Instagram Tools

43. TapBio

Tapbio solves a problem that many Instagram marketers face — having only one link for the entire Instagram account — by creating a mini website where you can list multiple links in your Instagram bio .

44. Lisa

When you are not sure which photo to post, select those that you’re considering in the Lisa app. Lisa will analyze the photo and recommend the photo that it thinks will be most liked on Instagram.

Miscellaneous Free Social Media Tools

45. KLear Free Tools

Klear is an influencer marketing platform that helps brands build, scale and measure influencer campaigns.

They have a suite of free tools to help:

Find,research and measure Instagram influencers

Find Twitter Influencers

Find Youtube Influencers

Find Bloggers

Find Influencers By Location

Analyze Twitter Influencers

Analyze Facebook Pages

Analyze Youtube accounts

Track Hashtags and more.

13. Social Bearing

Search Twitter keywords, locations, usernames, interests, or followers.

Find, filter and sort tweets or people by engagement, influence, location, sentiment and more.

46. Snip.ly

With Snip.ly you can add a call-to-action to every link you share.

For example, you can attach a button to the page that links to your own website, so that people can discover you while they read.

It generates unique links for you to share. Anyone clicking on your links will see the content along with your call-to-action inside.

47. Crowdfire

Crowdfire is a super smart social media management tool with lots of great features that can help you save time and grow your social media followers.

Tools for social media images

48. Crello

Crello is a visual editor launched by Depositphotos. It allows creating social media images, ad banners, posters, email headers, and other popular formats.

There are over 12,000 free photos and vectors on Crello, 11,000 templates and 33 design format to choose from.

49. Pablo

Pablo is a free tool by buffer to help you create beautiful images for social media.

50. Stencil

You can create up to 10 images every month on Stencil free plan.

51. Canva

Everything is free on Canvaunless you choose to use something from Canva’s library of stock photos.

52. AnyImage

With AnyImage you can create clickable social cards for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ in seconds linking to any web page of your choice.

53. Infogr.am

Infogram is an easy to use infographic and chart maker.

54. Piktochart

Create beautiful infographics, flyers, posters, presentations and reports easily for your social media posts.

55. BeFunky

BeFunky Photo Editor lets you apply photo effects, edit photos and create photo collages with collage maker.

56. Feedly

With Feedly you can organize, read and share what matters to you.

57. Pocket

With Pocket, you can grab the content on your social networks that looks good to you and read it later in a stripped down, easy-on-the-eyes view.

58. Bitly

Shorten some long or ugly URLs when you’re posting to Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google+ or even when you’re writing an ebook or email.

59. IFTTT

Social is just a small part of what IFTTT can do. The Internet automation app can do everything from text you tomorrow’s weather to automatically update your Twitter with your Instagram photos. IFTTT connects with more than 90 channels, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

60. ContentStudio

Discover trending and engaging content and fill your social channels or blogs with interesting articles, videos, images, GIFs and quotes – in any industry or niche!

Free Tools for Social Media Videos.

61. Typito

Typito makes it simple to add beautiful text, images and basic graphics to videos.

Create awesome videos to share on social media.