Project and Time Management

Trello

Free project management tool, collaboration, stay organized

https://trello.com

Toggl

Free time tracking tool, online/desktop, measure and improve

https://toggl.com

Notion

Free and paid note taking, project management, trapper-keeper

https://www.notion.so

Fonts and Colors

fontpair

Free online tool to visualize different font pairings

https://www.fontpair.co

Adobe Color Wheel

Free color pairing tool

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel

Finding and Creating Images

Unsplash

Free images requiring attribution

https://unsplash.com

Openverse

WordPress library of free photos, images, and audio

https://wordpress.org/openverse

WordPress.org Photos

Completely free to use images from the WordPress community

https://wordpress.org/photos

Canva

Free and paid graphic design tool

https://www.canva.com

Adobe Express

Free and paid graphic design tool

https://www.adobe.com/express

Editing and Resizing Images

removebg

Free tool to remove backgrounds from images

https://www.remove.bg

BeFunky

Free image editing tool – resize, crop, edit, etc.

https://www.befunky.com

ShortPixel

Free and paid image compression, including plugin

https://shortpixel.com

Writing Aids

Grammarly

Free and Paid grammar checker and writing improvement

https://www.grammarly.com

Website and File Management

ManageWP

Free and Paid website management for one or multiple sites

https://managewp.com

FileZilla

Free FTP applications for Mac & Windows

https://filezilla-project.org

Google Drive (and Docs, Sheets, Calendar, etc.)

Free and paid file storage

https://www.google.com/drive

Auditing and Testing

Screaming Frog

Free and Paid SEO auditing tool

https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider

DNS Checker

Free online tool checks if DNS record changes have propagated

https://dnschecker.org

ViewDNS.info

Free online tool checks if a wide variety of domain, IP, & DNS issues

https://viewdns.info

WordPress Experimentation

InstaWP

Free and paid instant WordPress websites

https://instawp.com

TasteWP

Free and paid instant WordPress websites

https://tastewp.com

WPThemeDetector

Find out what makes that WordPress site tick

https://www.wpthemedetector.com

Technical Tools

Visual Studio Code

Free code editor – works with multiple coding languages

https://code.visualstudio.com

Notepad++

Free text editor that includes specific language highlighting

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads

Hoverify

Paid browser extension – suite of web development tools

https://www.tryhoverify.com

WordPress Collaboration

Slack

Free asynchronous chat / communication tool

https://slack.com

GitHub

Development and project management collaboration used by WordPress teams

https://github.com

Mastodon

The Twitter alternative

https://joinmastodon.org

Audio

Adobe Podcast

Interesting audio tools

https://podcast.adobe.com

Otter.ai

Free and paid audio to text

https://otter.ai

ClickUp

Project management tool

https://clickup.com

Forest

Tool to stay focused on task

https://www.forestapp.cc

Figma

Web design brainstorming tool

https://www.figma.com

HyperWrite

AI powered templates for writing faster

https://hyperwriteai.com

Recorder

Transforms audio files into text transcripts

https://recorder.withgoogle.com