10 Apps that Every Content Creator Should Know

Whether you are a content creator or just a regular social media user, creating content and dealing with social media every day can be tiring. It also takes so much time and effort. And let’s admit that the content we see on social media has become a little too familiar.

Thankfully, there are a bunch of tools out there to make content creation easier for us all. So we are here to share 10 apps for you to stand out from the crowd and have the best content for your followers.

1. Evernote

Evernote for content creators

Evernote has everything you need to organize your life. Great notetaking, project planning, and an easy way to find what you need, when you need it. 

With Evernote, you can work anywhere, remember everything, find things fast and get things done easily. All of this allows you to create entirely new types of content, meaningful and informative.

 

2. Buffer

buffer for content creators

Buffer is a platform where you can manage different social media channels. For each social media account, you can manage post scheduling, view the direct messages you receive and generate reports.

With the Buffer App, you can regularly follow the posts you will make on social media, set the time of your posts with the timer feature and see how much interaction your posts get.

 

3. Subcap

Sunbcap for content creators

We all know that most people don’t watch videos with the sound on, therefore adding subtitles in videos is a must.

Subcap is an automatic subtitle app for your videos. It’s easy to use, simple but brilliant. Its speech-to-text engine is the best on the market which transcribes your words accurately in 125 languages. You can use it for all social media videos.

Putting subtitles on your videos increases your engagement and makes your content reach more people. It also makes your videos accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing.

 

4. Canva

Canva for designs

Canva helps you create professional designs and graphics. You can edit photos, add text, elements, stickers, frames and more. There are also more than hundreds of professional templates that you can customize to suit your needs.

 

5. Snapseed

Snapseed for content creators

Snapseed is one of the very useful photo editing apps, only available for mobile devices. Snapseed allows you to edit your photos to improve their aesthetic quality. You can then save, share, and export your final edited photo.

Snapseed’s photo editing tools come pretty close to some of the features found in the professional and often costly image editors.

 

6. Splice

Splice for videos

GoPro’s Splice is a free video editing application that works on iPhone and iPad. It’s a powerful video editor with a lot of features such as trimming, cropping, effects, transitions, titles, speed controls, animations, and more. It even has a library of free music and sound effects.

 

7. All Hashtag

All Hashtag for content creators

All Hashtag is a hashtag generator for Instagram, Twitter, and other social media networks. You must enter a term to get hashtag recommendations that are relevant to that word.

This program will produce and evaluate thousands of relevant hashtags for you to copy and paste into your social media posts. This can help you increase the reach of your content and the visibility of your business on social media.

 

8. LifeLapse

Life Lapse for content creators

LifeLapse is a stop motion app with all the tools you need to record and edit stop motion animations. You can import photos and use the app’s video editing tools to adjust frame rates, apply visual effects, and create soundtracks from royalty-free songs.

If you don’t know anything about stop motion videos, don’t worry. LifeLapse developers have created in-app academy to help you learn how to create stop motion videos.

 

9. Grammarly

Grammarly for content creators

Grammarly scans a text you’ve written and checks for any errors. The free version covers the basics (grammar, punctuation, and spelling) but the premium version goes a step further by providing stylistic and best writing practice recommendations.

It helps users write error-free content on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and almost anywhere else.

 

10. Typeform

Typeform for content creators

Doing surveys is a great way to prompt engagement on social media. Typeform is an easy-to-use quiz, form, and survey builder that allows you to ask your audience questions in a variety of formats, including image-based, multi-choice, short answers, yes or no.

Once your quiz is ready, you can share it on social media platforms or share the link.

7 Tips for Increasing Your Social Media Engagement

accessible social media

Brands, organizations and institutions use social media platforms every day to connect with their audiences, raise awareness and drive leads and business. Your social media accounts literally can make or break your business. Promoting your brand through social media is therefore vital to your business but getting your content on these platforms isn’t what gets you the sales. As a business, it’s quality, not just quantity, that you should be striving for. The key is to have followers who’ll actively engage with your content, share it, and ultimately, become paying customers.

Follow these top 7 tips for increasing social media engagement to achieve business growth.

1. Share more video

Video is the most engaging type of content on every social media platform, so if you can, it’s a good idea to create at least one type of video content to maximize engagement. You should upload your videos directly to your social media account, rather than sharing a link of a website so that your video will auto-play to grab your audiences’ attention.

Soc,al media videos

2. Add subtitles to your videos

Did you know that 85% of all social media videos are watched without sound?

It’s shocking, isn’t it? And 6% of the world’s population is affected by deafness or hearing loss. In fact, 80% of people who use captions aren’t deaf or hard of hearing. That means you could be missing out on connecting with millions of social media users. For that matter, adding subtitles to your videos will make you reach a broader audience.

And that’s not all. Video subtitles also provide an SEO boost. Search engine sites now can crawl videos for content.

You can add subtitles to your videos on all your social media platforms, even to your Instagram stories with useful apps such as Subcap. Subcap allows you to take a video simultaneously or upload a video from the gallery. It automatically transcribes the audio to text. With Subcap, you can easily and automatically add subtitles to your videos in 125 languages and variants.

3. Create polls and surveys

Another good practice for creating engaging social media posts is via the use of polls and surveys. Social media polls and surveys are super simple for obtaining that customer feedback you need quickly.

Voting on a poll allows you to instantly see real-time results. People sometimes just click to see what the results are. Keep this irresistibility factor in mind as you create poll questions and response options.

4. Get the timing right for your posts

Publishing posts at times when your target customers are most likely active is one of the best ways to ensure your followers will see your content giving you the best chance of generating engagement. The secret behind a successful social media post is to share the right post at the right time. No matter how strong your marketing campaign is, timing is a crucial factor. If you do not publish your posts at the right times, you may not get the results you want.

5. Be proactive in listening to and responding to your online community

Did you know that 83% of your Facebook fans, and 71% of your Twitter followers, now expect a response from you on the same day when they ask a question on each platform?

Listen to their needs and respond accordingly. When you make your online community feel heard and acknowledged, they’re more likely to become fans and your most loyal social media ambassadors.

6. Use analytics tools to monitor engagement

Analytics Tools are really helpful in monitoring the levels of engagement on social media, websites and more. Data from your analytics also ensure you get more out of the time you spend. For best results, make sure you use the right tools to track your analytics and only track metrics that matter most to your business.

With the help of social media analytics tools, you can understand your audience and your competitors, create better content and better strategy. Make sure to keep tracking regularly so that you catch jumps or dips in engagement that can give you valuable clues about what’s working.

7. Share customer or follower posts

It’s important you share your followers’ and customers’ posts. You should look to publicly recognize people who retweet, favorite, and mention your organization on Twitter, and thank users who comment on Instagram and YouTube. In addition to making the customer feel great about themselves for being worthy to go on your business feed, it can lead to them sharing your reply to them and that means more exposure.

 

 

How to Be More Accessible on Social Media

When the internet came into our lives, the Web have become a significant resource in many aspects of life. To provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with diverse abilities, it is important that the websites are accessible. While many organizations are taking the right steps towards a more accessible and inclusive website, the same isn’t necessarily true for their social media channels. While you cannot change the accessibility of the social media platforms, here’s what you can do to make your social media more accessible to provide equal access to your content.

Phone screen showing social media apps in a group of Social Networks

1. Use CamelCase hashtags.

Capitalize the first letter of each word. This is easier for everyone to read and helps automated screen readers to differentiate each word and read out loud. #WriteYourHashtagsThisWay #dontdoitthisway

2. Don’t use too many emojis.

Screen readers have a text description for every emoji. However, when you use too many of them, it might take a long time for a screen reader to read them and to be honest it might also get boring. You wouldn’t want to say “Face with Tongue” five times in a row. 😛😛😛😛😛

3. Avoid GIFs.

On social media platforms, it’s not possible to add alt text to GIFs. So if you insist on using GIFs, you should combine them with some explanation to make them comprehensible.
Moreover, flashing, blinking, flickering and other strong visual images can make it difficult for people with cognitive or learning disabilities to focus on your post.

4. Add subtitles to your videos.

Without subtitles, your videos would exclude the 466 million people worldwide living with some form of hearing loss. This is equivalent to 6% of the world’s population. That means your videos are not accessible to a lot of people.
You can add subtitles to your videos on all your social media platforms, even to your Instagram stories with useful apps such as Subcap. Subcap allows you to shoot a video simultaneously or upload a video from the gallery. It automatically transcribes the audio to text which you can edit or copy. With Subcap, you can easily and automatically add subtitles to your videos, not only in English but also in 125 languages and variants.

Subcap logo, yellow speech bubble
As a matter of fact, eight out of every ten people prefer to watch videos silently so it’s not just people with disabilities who benefit from accessible social media. Subtitles are helpful for people who are watching videos in a noisy environment, in a quiet place, or without headphones, as well as for children learning to read and those watching videos in a second language.

5. Add image descriptions.

You should add alternate (alt) texts in order to provide a context in place of an image, graphic, and other media. This way, screen readers can describe them for blind and low vision users. Text descriptions should be brief but descriptive.
And don’t forget to write image descriptions for your posts or tweets with screenshots. They might include writing, but screen readers can’t read it unless you add it as an alt text.