These days blogging has quite changed from what it used to look like with new strategies adopted in content creation. In recent times you will have to do more than copywriting about the fact social media and digitalization have influenced how an audience will react to a blog post or content in general. We say content is king, therefore engagement is queen.
It’s practically a nightmare for every blogger out there or content creator to create content and not get the desired traffic or a ready loyal and organic audience to read your articles or visit your news feeds and engage.
In 2022 articles are now complemented with a lot of other things, there’s the need for visual branding via enticing infographics and an open hand to vodcasts and podcasts.
There exist the normal traditional and more common social media platforms bloggers use to project content, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, blogger, and more. But these are mobile applications that serve as tools to ease blogging.
Below are some 10 selected mobile applications which every blogger should have.
1- 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆
Grammarly is a cloud-based typing assistant that reviews spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, engagement, and delivery mistakes. It uses artificial intelligence to identify and search for an appropriate replacement for the error it locates. It’s practical for a keyboard installed on your phone to be used as the default keyboard which works with an internet connection. Summarily it helps proofread through every write-up you make.
2- 𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿
Pages Manager is an application that lets admins check on their Page activity, view insights, and respond to their audience from their mobile devices. It’s advantageous in that your track contents performance, it’s makes accessing your pages easier and more organized.
3- 𝗜𝗻𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘁
InShot Editor is a photo and video editing app specially designed to improve the final result for any video you want to upload to any social media platform. It equally helps in photo editing like watermarking, resizing, and animations. You can simultaneously play with videos and images at the same time while importing other visuals, placing texts, voice-over, or imported music or sounds.
4- 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗖𝘂𝘁
CapCut is a free all-in-one video editing app that helps you create incredible videos. It has the same features as InShot but renders outputs in higher HD quality and resolutions. It principally prioritizes the creation and post-production of audiovisuals.
5- 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀
It’s meant for creating a free website or building a blog with ease as it provides a myriad of free, customizable, mobile-ready designs and themes, and free hosting. A content management system (CMS). WordPress contains plugin architecture and a template system, so you can customize any website to fit your business, blog, portfolio, or online store. Every blogger with a website should be familiar with this as it is an easy day for -to-day content publishing on websites.
6- 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗣𝗮𝗱
It could be anyone you chose to download it’s just an interface where you can stick your ideas for future articles, it serves as a jotter too. Outlining your content types, setting dates and deadline for publishing. It is easy for you not only to develop your articles and save them as drafts for publishing and proofreading but enables you to be on track with your content calendar. Not every blogger however has a content calendar but it’s very essential for coherent and organized posting on media platforms.
7- 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲
Vidmate allows you to download HD videos, songs, and photos from all of your favorite social media platforms and digital streaming websites. There are many substitutes to this application but this has been the most mobile-friendly as it’s constantly updated.
8- 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲.𝗯𝗴
This application is like the shortcut to photoshop, cropping out pictures from the background in seconds to use on a free blank template under applications that edit pictures and videos. It practically removes backgrounds 100% Automatically in just seconds and renders them transparent for free.
9- 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗮
Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos, and more. This is mostly for those who don’t have laptops or computers to design infographics on Photoshop, Indesign, Corel Draw, or Illustrator. It’s a quick graphics design application for passionate visual branders.
10- 𝗛𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲
It’s a social media management platform used to enhance your social media management as it’s currently the leading social media dashboard. With just a click and a single interface, platform users can do the simple stuff like curate cool content and schedule posts up to managing team members and measuring ROI.
Away from these highlighted mobile applications used as tools to facilitate blogging it’s important to know that there are substitutes for each of these applications especially if you don’t master how these work. Every blogger who’s equally intentional about creating content for their blogs will go an extra mile beyond having just these applications. Owning a computer and other software too to complement this will be excellent. For someone like me, there is software I use like Illustrator, Photoshop, and MailChimp.