20 Free Online Tools That Will Make Your Life Much Easier

Anyone who works with the Internet often encounters tasks that they are not quite sure how to solve. There are many times when looking for solutions, we find websites or applications that want to charge us in exchange, whether a nominal amount or significant figures. In many cases, it is not necessary to pay anything, as there are almost always free online tools that can get us out of a jam.

Very Useful Online Tools That Are 100% Free

You just have to search well to find those for which you don’t even need to install anything on your computer.

Here is a list of some of the most useful free online tools, leaving aside, for being well-known and practically universally used, those provided by Google (Search Console, Analytics, Calendar, Trends, Hangouts, Drive, Maps, Alerts, Street View, Translate, and a long etcetera):

STORIFY

You have a blog or a content website and you want to reflect the echo that a specific topic has had on social media. But you are not going to insert each message one by one.

To facilitate that task and give it an attractive and orderly appearance, there is Storify, a transmedia storytelling tool that allows you to create a "story" from certain publications on social media. Thus, you can intersperse tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram images, YouTube videos, etc., providing a very complete online perspective of the matter in question.

In the image, an example we made searching for Unancor. Yes, we swept our own 😉

PIXLR.COM

Your Photoshop license has expired, or you have never had this program, and you need an image editor with the same features. This online service offers you the vast majority of the functions of the original program, with the same icons and everything, so you can handle it well from the first minute.

WORD COUNTER

How many times are you writing an article and wondering if you have gone overboard or fallen short? This tool tells you exactly by simply copying your text the exact number of words, paragraphs, and sentences it has. And not only that, it also measures the density of the words, so you know which ones appear most and how many times. A timer will also help you know how many words you can write in the time you set.

PLAYBUZZ

You want to create a quiz, a survey, or a contest on your website and you don’t know how to do it. If you go to this platform, you can either use any of the existing ones by simply embedding a code or create your own on the theme you want in a very simple and intuitive way.

CHARTGO

On this website, you can make charts of different styles (bars, pies, lines, areas...) simply by providing the data and parameters you want. A unique, visual, and fresh content for your website or blog.

INTERACTIVE IMAGES

Thinglink allows you to create interactive images. It’s as simple as uploading the photograph you want to work on and marking a series of points on it.

Each point will contain information that will be displayed to the user when they hover over the point. Start thinking about all the things you can do with this on your blog or in your online store, for example.

MULTIMEDIA TIMELINES

Another of our favorite free online tools. On Capzles, you can use videos, photos, documents, music, and blogs to set up a timeline of an event or occurrence.

An original way to present a story on your website.

PINGDOM

There are many similar tools that measure the loading time of your website, one of the most important factors for positioning, but we particularly like this one because with its free version, it provides a wealth of relevant information from which to optimize the weight of your site.

DROPBOX

A place to store your files in the “cloud.” You can access them from anywhere and any device, and the fear of losing them is over. The quintessential free online tool. Also with a Premium version.

You can also share files and folders with other users. The era of the “flash drive” is over.

WETRANSFER

You’ve been asked to send someone material via email, and your email is giving you problems because the file weighs too much. It’s as simple as using WeTransfer.

Its free version allows you to send files of up to 2 GB. In seconds, you’re done. You enter your address, upload the file, and the recipient's email. Send and done. Plus, it will notify you when it has been received.

ILOVEPDF

If you need to do anything with a PDF file, you can do it here for free and quickly. Merge several, split them, compress them, convert them to other formats... It will get you out of more than one jam, remember what I’m telling you.

ONLINE CONVERT

The incompatibility of files is something that has always caused headaches for many of us. Whether a device doesn’t read the M4A, or a program won’t open a TIFF image...

Problem solved with this magnificent online website that converts audio, video, documents, images, etc., to the format you desire, with the adjustments and cuts you need. Fast and easy.

EXTRACT AUDIO FROM VIDEOS TO MP3

You’ve seen a YouTube video and would like to extract the audio. On this website, you just have to enter the address of the video in question, and it offers you to download the sound separately in MP3 format.

CUT VIDEOS ONLINE

You upload a video to this website, and it allows you to cut it wherever you want, crop a specific area of the image, and even rotate it 90, 180, or 270 degrees, which is very useful when a vertical scene has been recorded horizontally, or vice versa.

SIMILARWEB

This page gives you a comprehensive overview of your website, from its rankings, visit percentages, traffic sources, user retention time, search keywords, etc.,...

Additionally, you can view your website alongside that of the competition to compare data from both.

SHRINKTHEWEB

You indicate the address of a website, and it takes screenshots of it from top to bottom, with the option to choose the size, convert those images into a PDF, edit them, share them on social media, embed them with a code, etc.

How many times have you wanted to print a website and only got the first scroll? Well, with this, problem solved. This is another of our free online tools.

OPEN COMPRESSED FILES

The day you try to open a .zip file and the program you used now asks you to buy the license. You won’t need that, nor will you need to look for another one to install.

On this website, you can open and download files you have in any compression format.

WHATSMYBROWSER

It won’t be the first time someone asks you what version of the browser you are using and you are left blank. Yes, you know it’s Chrome, for example, but you don’t know if your version is the latest or one from ages ago, and that’s why some things don’t work well.

Well, this page immediately tells you that: what browser and what version you are working with.

RESPONSINATOR

If you are wondering how your website looks on other devices, you just have to enter your address on this website, and it will show you how it displays on the most popular smartphones and tablets. You know, you have to be responsive.

This same service is also offered by the website http://mobiletest.me/.

HOW WAS THE WEBSITE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IN THE YEAR...

The WayBack Machine tool lets you see how a particular website looked in the past.

You just have to enter the URL of that website and select one of the dates on which it is recorded. Useful for seeing the evolution in design or the very philosophy of websites over time.

BONUS TRACK

Before finishing, a trick you may not know. If you want to download a YouTube video, you don’t need to install any program or application on your PC.

Just in the address of the video in question, do the following: from the word youtube to the left, delete everything (that is, remove https://www.) and add two ess's (ss).

Once you do that, a screen like the following will appear, with download buttons in the various available formats of the video in question.

And you, what free online tools do you use that can save us from a jam? Share them with us 😉