Tools directory

The marketing stack database

Hand-picked and reviewed marketing tools — filter by category or pricing, sorted by what actually works.

261 tools

AB Tasty

A/B Testing & CRO

Experimentation + personalization + feature flags for mid-market.

Act-On

Marketing Automation

Mid-market marketing automation with strong lead scoring.

ActiveCampaign

Automation

Marketing automation with surprisingly deep workflows.

Adalysis

PPC & Ads

PPC statistical significance testing — automated and rigorous.

Adobe Creative Cloud

Design & Creative

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere — the pro design standard.

AdRoll

PPC & Ads

Cross-channel retargeting for DTC brands — web, email, social.

Advanced Web Ranking

SEO

Enterprise rank tracker with the most SERP feature coverage.

Agorapulse

Social Media

Mid-market social suite with a unified inbox and strong reporting.

Ahrefs

SEO

The SEO toolset marketers actually keep open all day.

Airtable

Project Management

Spreadsheet-database hybrid — custom marketing ops in a weekend.

Amplitude

Analytics

Enterprise product analytics with the deepest cohort and funnel reports.

Anyword

Content & Writing

AI copywriter with predicted-performance scoring per variant.

Apollo.io

Lead Gen & Outbound

275M+ B2B contact database + sales engagement — pay once, outreach many.

Asana

Project Management

The project management tool most marketing teams default to.

Attentive

SMS & Push

Enterprise SMS marketing for DTC brands at scale.

Attio

CRM & Sales

Modern, Notion-feeling CRM built for product-led growth companies.

Autopilot

Marketing Automation

Visual customer journey builder — now part of Ortto.

beehiiv

Email Marketing

The newsletter platform built by Morning Brew alumni.

Bettermode

Community

Community platform for brands — the Discourse alternative for SaaS.

Birdeye

Reviews & Reputation

Multi-location reputation management for SMB chains.

Bold Subscriptions

E-commerce

Subscription management for Shopify — Recharge's main competitor.

Brevo

Email Marketing

Formerly Sendinblue — cheap, transactional-friendly email + SMS platform.

BrightLocal

SEO

Local SEO specialist — rank tracking, citations, reputation in one.

Buffer

Social Media

Simple social scheduling without the enterprise bloat.

Buzzsprout

Video & Podcast

The simplest podcast hosting platform for independents.

Cal.com

Scheduling

Open-source Calendly alternative — self-hostable and extensible.

Calendly

Scheduling

The default meeting scheduler. Share a link, let people book.

Campaign Monitor

Email Marketing

Designer-first email tool with the prettiest templates in the category.

Canva

Design

Fast, template-first design for marketers who are not designers.

Capsule CRM

CRM & Sales

Simple, no-nonsense CRM for very small businesses.

Capterra

Reviews & Reputation

Gartner-owned software review and discovery platform.

Carrd

Landing Pages

One-page sites for the lowest price in the category.

ChatGPT

AI Assistants

OpenAI's conversational AI — the default LLM for most workflows.

Chili Piper

Scheduling

B2B scheduling + routing — convert inbound leads to booked demos.

Circle

Community

Modern community platform for creators and course businesses.

CJ Affiliate

Affiliate Marketing

Veteran affiliate network with the biggest brand roster.

Claude

AI Assistants

Anthropic's AI assistant — strongest at long-form reasoning and writing.

Clay

Lead Gen & Outbound

Spreadsheet-meets-CRM for building hyper-personalized outbound lists.

Clearbit

Lead Gen & Outbound

B2B enrichment + reveal — turn anonymous site traffic into named accounts.

Clearscope

Content

The content optimization tool content leaders actually trust.

ClickFunnels

Landing Pages

Funnel-first builder for info-product and course sellers.

ClickUp

Project Management

Feature-dense all-in-one project tool. Powerful but noisy.

Close

CRM & Sales

Dialer-first CRM for high-velocity SMB sales teams.

Constant Contact

Email Marketing

Old-guard email tool — reliable, boring, good for non-profits and events.

Convert.com

A/B Testing & CRO

A/B testing with the strongest privacy and GDPR story.

Copper

CRM & Sales

CRM that lives inside Gmail — the best Google Workspace integration.

Copy.ai

Content & Writing

AI copywriter with templates for ads, emails, product descriptions.

CoSchedule

Project Management

Marketing calendar + work-management for content and social teams.

CreatorIQ

Influencer Marketing

Enterprise creator marketing — the Salesforce of influencer platforms.

Crisp

Customer Support

Live chat + helpdesk + CRM for small businesses.

Customer.io

Email Marketing

Event-driven messaging for product-led SaaS teams.

Customers.ai

Live Chat & Chatbots

Formerly MobileMonkey — chatbot + lead-identification platform.

DALL·E

AI Image & Video

OpenAI's image generator — simple access via ChatGPT.

Dashword

SEO Content

Simple content optimization tool for solo SEOs and small teams.

Databox

Analytics

Dashboard aggregator that pulls data from 100+ marketing tools.

Delighted

Surveys & Feedback

NPS and CSAT surveys at scale — Qualtrics-lite.

Demio

Events & Webinars

Marketing-friendly webinars for lead gen and product demos.

Descript

Video & Podcast

Edit video and podcasts by editing the transcript. Game-changer.

Discourse

Community

Open-source forum software — the modern SaaS community standard.

Divi

Landing Pages

WordPress page builder + theme with lifetime pricing.

Doodle

Scheduling

Group poll scheduling — the easiest way to find a time for 5+ people.

Dreamdata

Attribution

B2B revenue attribution across every touch, from first click to deal.

Drift

Live Chat & Chatbots

Conversational marketing for B2B — book meetings from the chat widget.

Drip

Email Marketing

E-commerce email automation with deep Shopify + Magento integration.

Dynamic Yield

E-commerce

Enterprise personalization + A/B testing for e-commerce.

Elementor

Landing Pages

The most popular WordPress page builder — drag-and-drop for WP.

Encharge

Marketing Automation

SaaS-focused marketing automation with a clean visual builder.

EngageBay

CRM & Sales

All-in-one CRM + marketing + support for small businesses.

Eventbrite

Events & Webinars

The default event ticketing platform for in-person events.

Everflow

Affiliate Marketing

Performance partner tracking with best-in-class fraud detection.

Factors.ai

Attribution

B2B account intelligence + attribution for revenue teams.

Fathom Analytics

Analytics

GDPR-friendly simple analytics with a single-page dashboard.

Figma

Design

The browser-based design tool teams actually collaborate in.

Flodesk

Email Marketing

Flat-rate email tool with gorgeous templates for creators and designers.

Folk

CRM & Sales

Relationship-first CRM for agencies and investors.

Formbricks

Surveys & Feedback

Open-source Typeform alternative — self-hostable and privacy-first.

Framer

Design

Design-to-publish website builder with Figma-grade controls.

Frase

Content

Research, outline and optimize content against live SERPs.

Freshdesk

Customer Support

Freshworks's help desk — the Zendesk alternative at a lower price.

Freshsales

CRM & Sales

Freshworks's sales CRM — AI-powered contact scoring built in.

Front

Customer Support

Shared inbox + customer ops hybrid for support, sales and ops teams.

FullStory

Analytics

Enterprise session replay + analytics with autocapture.

Funnel.io

Analytics

Enterprise marketing data pipeline — ETL for marketers.

G2

Reviews & Reputation

The B2B SaaS review platform — Grid reports move purchase decisions.

Gemini

AI Assistants

Google's AI assistant with native Workspace integration.

GeneratePress

Landing Pages

Lightweight, performance-first WordPress theme + page builder.

GetResponse

Email Marketing

Email + landing pages + webinars for solopreneurs and course sellers.

Ghost

Email Marketing

Open-source publishing + newsletter + membership platform.

Google Ads

PPC & Ads

The world's largest ad platform — search, display, YouTube, Shopping.

Google Analytics 4

Analytics

The default web and app analytics platform — now event-based.

Gorgias

Customer Support

Shopify-focused help desk with order lookup and refunds built in.

Grammarly

Writing

An editor that lives wherever you write.

GRIN

Influencer Marketing

Creator management platform for DTC brands running at scale.

GrowthBook

A/B Testing & CRO

Open-source feature flags + A/B testing. Loved by engineering teams.

Heap

Analytics

Autocapture product analytics — no manual event tagging required.

Help Scout

Customer Support

Email-feel help desk for small-but-mighty support teams.

Hemingway Editor

Content & Writing

Simple readability checker. Catches passive voice and wordy sentences.

Hemingway Editor

Writing

A ruthless clarity check for your prose.

Hootsuite

Social Media

The enterprise-ready social scheduling and listening platform.

Hopin

Events & Webinars

Virtual event platform for conferences, trade shows and summits.

Hotjar

Analytics

Heatmaps, session recordings and surveys to see what users actually do.

HubSpot

CRM

The CRM-plus-marketing-plus-sales suite most B2B teams end up on.

Hunter.io

Lead Gen & Outbound

The simplest way to find professional email addresses by domain.

Impact.com

Affiliate Marketing

Enterprise partnership management — affiliates, influencers, agencies.

Insightly

CRM & Sales

SMB CRM with project management built in.

Instantly.ai

Lead Gen & Outbound

Scalable cold-email sender with unlimited inboxes and warmup.

Instapage

Landing Pages

Enterprise landing-page platform with the strongest personalization features.

Intercom

Customer Support

Messenger-first support + marketing + onboarding for SaaS.

Iterable

SMS & Push

Enterprise cross-channel orchestration — email, SMS, push, in-app.

Jasper AI

Content

AI writing assistant built for marketing teams.

Jotform

Surveys & Feedback

Flexible online form builder with the biggest template library.

Judge.me

Reviews & Reputation

Affordable Shopify reviews app with great UGC collection.

Keap

Marketing Automation

CRM + automation for small businesses (formerly Infusionsoft).

Keywords Everywhere

SEO

Browser extension that shows keyword volume everywhere you search.

Kit (ConvertKit)

Email Marketing

The email tool built for creators and course sellers.

Kittl

Design & Creative

AI-powered illustration + lettering tool for merch and prints.

Klaviyo

Email Marketing

Email and SMS automation built for ecommerce.

Klear

Influencer Marketing

Meltwater's influencer platform with analytics and campaign ROI.

Landbot

Live Chat & Chatbots

No-code chatbot builder with conversational landing pages.

Later

Social Media

Visual-first social scheduler with a strong Instagram story.

Leadpages

Landing Pages

SMB-friendly landing-page builder with the lowest entry price.

Lemlist

Lead Gen & Outbound

Cold email with personalized images and video for higher reply rates.

Lex

AI Assistants

AI-first writing app for long-form drafts and essays.

LinkedIn Campaign Manager

PPC & Ads

B2B's most important ad platform. Expensive CPMs, qualified reach.

LiveChat

Live Chat & Chatbots

The OG live-chat tool. Simple, reliable, mature integrations.

Livestorm

Events & Webinars

Browser-based webinars with no downloads for attendees.

Local Falcon

SEO

Geo-grid local rank tracking for Google Business Profile.

Looka

Design & Creative

AI logo and brand kit generator — the DIY branding tool.

Looker Studio

BI & Dashboards

Google's free dashboarding tool. Pairs natively with GA4 + Ads.

Loom

Video & Podcast

Async screen recording — the Slack replacement for status updates.

Loomly

Social Media

Content calendar + scheduler with strong post-approval workflows.

Luma

Events & Webinars

The modern, mobile-first event platform for creators and communities.

Lusha

Lead Gen & Outbound

Chrome extension for pulling B2B emails and phone numbers from LinkedIn.

Mailchimp

Email Marketing

Email marketing that scales from solopreneur to mid-market.

MailerLite

Email Marketing

Clean, simple email tool with a generous free plan.

Mailshake

Lead Gen & Outbound

Sales engagement built for simplicity — email + LinkedIn + calls.

Majestic

SEO

Link-intelligence pioneer — Trust Flow and Citation Flow metrics.

Make (Integromat)

Automation

Visual automation with branching and iterators Zapier makes hard.

Mangools

SEO

Affordable SEO suite built around KWFinder — great for solo bloggers.

ManyChat

Live Chat & Chatbots

Instagram DM, Messenger and WhatsApp automation for creators.

MarketMuse

SEO Content

AI content planning for enterprise content teams.

Marketo Engage

Marketing Automation

Enterprise marketing automation inside the Adobe stack.

Matomo

Analytics

Open-source, self-hostable GA alternative. Privacy-friendly by design.

Meta Business Suite

PPC & Ads

Facebook + Instagram ads management for business pages.

Metabase

BI & Dashboards

Open-source BI tool — self-hostable, SQL-friendly, loved by engineers.

Metricool

Social Media

Analytics-first social media manager — great for agencies.

Microsoft Advertising

PPC & Ads

Bing + Yahoo + partner network — cheaper CPCs than Google.

Microsoft Clarity

Analytics

Free, unlimited session recordings + heatmaps from Microsoft.

Microsoft Clarity

Analytics

Free, unlimited session recordings and heatmaps from Microsoft.

Microsoft Power BI

BI & Dashboards

Microsoft's BI tool — cheaper than Tableau, strong Excel ties.

Midjourney

AI Image & Video

The best AI image generator for art and marketing visuals.

Mighty Networks

Community

Community + courses + events for creators under one roof.

Mixpanel

Analytics

Product analytics for understanding user journeys and cohort retention.

Modash

Influencer Marketing

Influencer search engine with 250M+ profiles across IG, TikTok, YouTube.

Mode

BI & Dashboards

SQL-first BI for data teams. Now part of ThoughtSpot.

Monday CRM

CRM & Sales

Monday.com's take on a flexible sales CRM — colorful and visual.

Monday.com

Project Management

Colorful, flexible work OS — the Asana competitor.

Moz Pro

SEO

The classic SEO suite with the best Domain Authority score around.

NeuronWriter

SEO Content

Budget content optimization — Clearscope features at 1/5 the price.

Northbeam

Attribution

DTC-focused marketing attribution with media-mix modeling.

Nosto

E-commerce

AI personalization for product recommendations and content.

Notion

Productivity

Flexible docs and databases for the whole team.

Notion AI

AI Assistants

AI inside Notion — drafting, summarizing, and answering across your workspace.

Nutshell

CRM & Sales

SMB CRM designed to be loved by sales reps (not managers).

Olark

Live Chat & Chatbots

Classic live chat for small businesses — simple, affordable.

Omnisend

Email Marketing

Klaviyo alternative for small-to-mid Shopify stores at a lower price.

OneSignal

SMS & Push

Free push notifications, in-app, SMS and email at scale.

Opteo

PPC & Ads

Google Ads optimization suggestions — simpler and cheaper than Optmyzr.

Optimizely

A/B Testing & CRO

Enterprise experimentation platform — the OG of web A/B testing.

Optmyzr

PPC & Ads

PPC optimization and automation layered over Google and Microsoft Ads.

Opus Clip

Video & Podcast

AI tool that turns long videos into short-form social clips.

Oracle Eloqua

Marketing Automation

Enterprise B2B marketing automation inside the Oracle stack.

Ortto

Marketing Automation

Customer-data-platform meets marketing automation (ex-Autopilot).

Outreach

Lead Gen & Outbound

Enterprise sales execution platform — the Salesloft rival.

PageFly

Landing Pages

Shopify page builder with the biggest template library.

PartnerStack

Affiliate Marketing

B2B SaaS partner management — affiliates + resellers + referrals.

Pendo

Analytics

Product analytics + in-app guides + feedback for PLG SaaS.

Perplexity

AI Assistants

AI-powered search with cited sources — the research assistant of 2026.

Piktochart

Design & Creative

Infographic + report design — business visuals without a designer.

Pipedrive

CRM

Sales-first CRM that reps actually keep updated.

Planable

Social Media

Visual collaboration tool for social media approvals — agency-friendly.

Plausible Analytics

Analytics

Lightweight, privacy-friendly analytics without cookies.

PostHog

Analytics

Open-source product analytics + session replay + flags, all in one.

Postscript

SMS & Push

Shopify-native SMS marketing with the best DTC flows.

ProWritingAid

Content & Writing

Deeper writing editor than Grammarly — loved by fiction writers.

Publer

Social Media

Budget-friendly scheduler with AI post generation.

Qualtrics

Surveys & Feedback

Enterprise experience-management platform — CX, EX, product research.

Rank Math

SEO

The feature-dense SEO plugin that overtook Yoast on WordPress.

Rebuy

E-commerce

AI-powered upsells and cross-sells for Shopify checkout.

Recharge

E-commerce

Subscription billing for Shopify — the DTC subscription standard.

Refersion

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate tracking tightly integrated with Shopify and WooCommerce.

Removal.AI

Design & Creative

AI background remover — faster than Photoshop for product shots.

Reply.io

Lead Gen & Outbound

Multichannel sales engagement — email, LinkedIn, calls in one sequence.

Riverside.fm

Video & Podcast

Studio-quality remote podcast + video recording in the browser.

Rockerbox

Attribution

Multi-touch marketing attribution for mid-market and enterprise.

Runway

AI Image & Video

AI video generation + editing — the Hollywood-approved tool.

Rytr

Content & Writing

Cheap, no-nonsense AI writer for short-form content.

Salesforce

CRM & Sales

The enterprise CRM standard. Powerful, complex, pricey.

Salesforce Pardot

Marketing Automation

B2B marketing automation inside the Salesforce ecosystem.

Salesloft

Lead Gen & Outbound

Enterprise sales engagement for high-volume outbound teams.

SavvyCal

Scheduling

Scheduler built for prospects — overlay your calendar on theirs.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

SEO

The desktop crawler every technical SEO ends up using.

SE Ranking

SEO

Mid-market SEO platform at a fraction of SEMrush's price.

Semrush

SEO

All-in-one visibility platform — SEO, PPC, content and social in one dashboard.

Sendible

Social Media

Agency-focused scheduler with white-label and client access.

Serpstat

SEO

Growth-market alternative to SEMrush — strong on EU keyword data.

ShareASale

Affiliate Marketing

The affiliate network of choice for mid-market e-commerce.

SharpSpring

Marketing Automation

Affordable Marketo alternative for agencies (now Constant Contact Lead Gen+CRM).

Shogun

Landing Pages

Shopify / BigCommerce page builder for ecom product and landing pages.

Shopify Collabs

Influencer Marketing

Free influencer discovery and payments inside the Shopify admin.

SimpleTexting

SMS & Push

SMB-friendly SMS marketing — chat, broadcasts, autoresponders.

Sitebulb

SEO

Visual technical SEO auditor — Screaming Frog's prettier younger sibling.

Skool

Community

Community + courses + gamification for creator-led communities.

SlickText

SMS & Push

Reliable SMS platform for US + Canada SMB marketing.

Smartlead

Lead Gen & Outbound

Cold email infrastructure with inbox rotation at scale.

Smile.io

E-commerce

Loyalty, rewards and referrals for Shopify stores.

Snappa

Design & Creative

Fast social graphic maker with a cleaner UI than Canva.

Snov.io

Lead Gen & Outbound

Email finder + verifier + drip campaigns in one affordable platform.

SocialBee

Social Media

Category-based evergreen content scheduling for solopreneurs.

Sprout Social

Social Media

Enterprise social suite with the best inbox and reporting in the category.

SpyFu

SEO

Competitor PPC + SEO spying — historical ad copy and keyword data.

SquadCast

Video & Podcast

Remote podcast recording with excellent audio quality.

Squarespace

Landing Pages

Designer-friendly site builder for small businesses and creatives.

Stable Diffusion

AI Image & Video

Open-source AI image model — run it anywhere, including your own GPU.

StackAdapt

PPC & Ads

Programmatic DSP for mid-market and agency media buying.

Statsig

A/B Testing & CRO

Feature flags + experimentation + analytics for product-led teams.

Substack

Email Marketing

Newsletter + payments + community for independent writers.

Supermetrics

Analytics

Pipes marketing data from 100+ sources into Looker Studio, Sheets, Excel.

Surfer SEO

Content

Content optimization built around SERP correlation data.

SurveyMonkey

Surveys & Feedback

The old-guard survey platform — reliable, boring, universally recognized.

Synthesia

AI Image & Video

AI avatars for product marketing videos — no camera needed.

Tableau

BI & Dashboards

The enterprise BI standard — pricey, powerful, Salesforce-owned.

Tidio

Customer Support

Live chat + chatbot + helpdesk for SMB e-commerce.

Transistor

Video & Podcast

Podcast hosting + private podcast feeds for business and courses.

Triple Whale

Attribution

Centralized Shopify analytics + attribution for DTC brands.

Trustpilot

Reviews & Reputation

The world's most-used consumer review platform.

Typeform

Surveys & Feedback

Conversational forms with the best completion rate in the category.

Ubersuggest

SEO

Neil Patel's cheap-and-cheerful SEO tool. Not deep but accessible.

Unbounce

Landing Pages

Landing-page builder with Smart Traffic optimization.

Upfluence

Influencer Marketing

Influencer search + management + payments for mid-market brands.

Userlist

Marketing Automation

Event-driven email automation built for B2B SaaS onboarding.

Vidyard

Video & Podcast

Video hosting + prospecting for B2B sales and marketing teams.

Vimeo

Video & Podcast

Pro video hosting with a cleaner player and brand control.

Visme

Design & Creative

Presentations, infographics, data viz — Canva for business content.

VistaCreate

Design & Creative

Formerly Crello — Canva alternative with a huge template library.

VWO

A/B Testing & CRO

Experimentation + heatmaps + session replay in one visual builder.

Webflow

Design

Visual web builder with real CSS output and a serious CMS.

Wistia

Video & Podcast

Video hosting with marketer-focused analytics and lead capture.

Wix

Landing Pages

Mass-market website builder with the biggest template library.

Woodpecker

Lead Gen & Outbound

Clean, deliverability-focused cold-email tool for agencies.

WordStream

PPC & Ads

Google and Microsoft Ads management with the 20-minute work week promise.

Wordtune

Content & Writing

AI-powered rewriting — rephrase a sentence into 10 variants in a click.

Writesonic

Content & Writing

AI content generator with SEO article workflows.

Yoast SEO

SEO

The default on-page SEO plugin for WordPress.

Yotpo

Reviews & Reputation

Shopify-focused reviews + loyalty + SMS platform.

Zapier

Automation

Connect the apps you already use — no code required.

Zendesk

Customer Support

The enterprise help-desk standard — ticketing, chat, voice, knowledge base.

Zoho CRM

CRM & Sales

Affordable, feature-dense CRM inside the broader Zoho suite.

Zoho Social

Social Media

Affordable scheduler that integrates deeply with Zoho CRM.

Zoom Events

Events & Webinars

Zoom's take on a full-stack virtual event platform.

ZoomInfo

Lead Gen & Outbound

Enterprise-grade B2B contact + intent data. Expensive and essential.