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Free Business Growth Toolkit

Free website, marketing, design, finance, and translation tools & resources

Welcome to the Growth Trendz resource library with free business tools for startups. Whether you are a startup founder, a marketing manager, or a creative lead, looking to launch a new website, planning your digital marketing strategy, developing your brand identity, or managing your business finances, you’ll find best free business tools online for small businesses to help you grow. Explore our curated collection of free business tools across our core specialties.

Best Free Website Design & Development Resources

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Website Names, Platforms & Builders

Namecheck: Instantly verify the availability of your brand name across dozens of domain extensions and social media handles to ensure a consistent online identity.

WordPress: A free, open-source Content Management System (CMS) used to build and manage websites and blogs without coding.

Google Sites: A free, web-based tool from Google for creating professional websites without coding.

Elementor: The most popular drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress, allowing you to create high-end, custom designs without writing a single line of code.

Website Performance:

Google PageSpeed Insights: Analyzes your site’s performance on both mobile and desktop and provides actionable suggestions to improve user experience.

GTmetrix: A detailed performance monitoring tool that grades your site’s speed using Core Web Vitals and visualizes page load timelines

Ahrefs Traffic Checker: Estimates any website’s monthly search traffic and reveals its top-performing organic keywords and competitors.

Neil Patel Website Traffic Checker: Offers a comprehensive overview of a site’s SEO health, including domain authority, backlink counts, and social media shares.

Website Security & Backup:

Limit Login Attempts Reloaded: This WordPress plugin protects your site against brute-force attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts allowed from a single IP address.

WPvivid Backup & Migration: Free WordPress backup plugin for full site backups, scheduled backups, migration with generous free features, which are often premium-only in other plugins.

Web Accessibility:

WCAG 2.2 Checklist: An easy-to-follow guide to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, helping you meet the latest international standards for digital inclusivity.

Accessibility Statement Guide (2025): A modern resource providing the latest templates and examples for writing a professional accessibility statement for your digital property.

Accessibility Checker: A comprehensive auditing tool that scans your website for accessibility violations and provides a roadmap for achieving legal compliance.

WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool: Identifies accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors directly on your page to ensure inclusivity.

Contrast Checker: A simple tool to calculate the brightness ratio between foreground and background colors for text against WCAG standards.

Adobe Color Contrast Analyzer: An advanced designer-focused tool that checks color pairings against WCAG standards for optimal visual accessibility.

Venngage Color Palette Generator: Create beautiful, WCAG-compliant color schemes specifically designed to be legible for users with color blindness or visual impairments.

Best Free Digital Marketing Resources

Website Analytics

Google Analytics: A powerful platform for tracking website traffic, measuring user engagement, and understanding how visitors interact with your content.

Google Tag Manager (GTM): A free tool to add, update, and manage marketing and analytics code snippets (tags) on websites and mobile apps from a single interface.

Google Search Console: Essential for monitoring your site’s performance in search results, fixing indexing issues, and optimizing your organic performance.

Matomo: A free, privacy-focused, open-source analytics alternative to Google Analytics that gives you 100% data ownership while tracking visitor behavior.

Keywords & Search Engine Optimization ( SEO)

Google Trends: Analyze the popularity of search queries across different regions and languages to stay ahead of trending topics and consumer interests.

Google Keyword Planner: Research high-value keywords and get bid estimates to build effective SEO and paid advertising campaigns.

Ubersuggest: An all-in-one SEO tool that provides keyword suggestions, daily rank tracking, and site audit reports to improve your search visibility.

Answer the Public: Visualizes the specific questions and phrases people search for, making it easy to create content that directly answers user intent.

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools: A free diagnostic tool that audits your website for technical SEO issues and monitors your backlink profile.

Yoast: The industry-standard WordPress plugin that guides you through on-page optimization, readability checks, and technical SEO basics.

All in One SEO (AIOSEO): A comprehensive WordPress toolkit that simplifies technical SEO tasks like XML sitemaps, schema markup, and local SEO.

Social, Email & Text Marketing

Buffer: A user-friendly social media management tool to schedule posts and analyze performance across multiple platforms from one dashboard (manage up to 3 social channels with 10 scheduled posts per channel for free).

Zoho Social (Free Edition): An excellent choice for consistent posting that allows unlimited publishing to 6 social channels (including LinkedIn and Google Business) for a single brand.

HubSpot CRM & Marketing Hub: A centralized database to manage your customer relationships, track sales pipelines, and power your email marketing efforts (Free plan offers lite versions of select tools with 1,000 contacts)

Mailchimp: An all-in-one marketing platform (with a free plan for up to 250 contacts and no SMS addon) that helps you design, send, and automate professional email and text campaigns for your audience, and create lead generation forms.

Mailerlite: A robust, high-deliverability alternative that offers generous free features and advanced automation workflows with a free plan for 500 subscribers.

Social Media Content Calendar Template: Free Social Media Calendar Template from HubSpot for every platform

Free Graphic Design Resources Online

Free Templates

Canva: Drag-and-drop design tool with 250,000+ templates for logo, social media graphics, presentations, marketing materials, business cards, websites and much more. 

Adobe Express (adobe.com/express) – Free design tool with Adobe Fonts and Stock photos

Graphics & Photo Editing

GIMP: Free open-source photo editing software (Photoshop alternative)

Inkscape: Free vector graphics editor (Illustrator alternative)

Figma: Professional collaborative design tool with free plan

Remove.bg: Free background removal tool

Color Palette

Adobe Color: Free color palette generator and color wheel

Coolors: Fast color palette generator

Free Stock Photos, Illustrations & Icons

Unsplash: Free high-quality stock photos

Pexels: Free stock photos and videos

Pixabay: Free images, videos, and music

Canva: Free images, videos, music, illustrations and icons

Vecteezy: Free photos, videos and vector illustrations

Flaticon: Free vector icons and stickers

Typography

Font Squirrel: Free commercial fonts

Google Fonts: Free web fonts library

Font Pair: A curated library of header and body font pairings

Px to Rem Converter: A free tool to convert static pixel values into scalable rem units

Free Financial Planning & Analysis Resources

SCORE Templates: The non-profit organization SCORE provides a gallery of free, downloadable templates for business plans, financial statements, and forecasts.

Wave: Free accounting software for freelancers and small business owners with features such as invoicing and receipt scanning, expense tracking, generation of financial reports (e.g., profit-and-loss statements) etc.

Investor.gov Calculators: This government site provides simple, free calculators for specific functions like compound interest, savings goals, and required minimum distributions for retirement planning.

Free Translation Tools

Google Translate: Free translation in 100+ languages, including Urdu and Punjabi (Shahmukhi & Gurmukhi)

Bing Translator: Free Microsoft translation service

DeepL Translator: High-quality free translation in 32 languages

QuillBot Translate: Free translation tool for 52 languages (5,000 characters)

Yandex Translate: Free translation for 100+ languages with image translation

iTranslate: Free translation app for mobile devices

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