Top Social Media Tools to Try in 2019

Now that 2019 is here and in full swing, you might be looking for new social media tools to add to your marketing stack. According to Scott Brinker of the Chief Marketing Technologist Blog, there are now more than 5,000 tools in the marketing technology landscape. So where do you start?

The best new social media tools to try in 2019

Here’s an overview of all the 20 social media tools (not arranged in any order). Feel free to click on any that catches your eye to skip to it !

I’m sure I’m missing some of the great new social media tools out there. If you know of any, it’ll be great if you could share them in the comments section.

1. Crello

– A simplified graphic design tool with 10,000 free templates

• Price: Free (with some design elements at $0.99)
• Description: Crello is a new, free graphic design tool for creating social media, web, and print images. It provides 10,000 free design templates and millions of stock images and free design elements.
• How to use Crello: You can either create a graphic from scratch or use one of Crello’s nicely-created templates. Using drag-and-drop, you can easily add, edit, and move design elements around on your graphic.

Here’s what a Product Hunter has to say:

2. Fastory

– Craft stunning Instagram stories, share them everywhere

• Price: Free or enterprise pricing
• Description: Fastory is like Canva for Stories, as a Product Hunter described it. It’s an online graphics editor that allows you to create animated or static stories easily.
• How to use Fastory: The Fastory editor will guide you through three simple steps to create an engaging story.

Choose an animation for your text
Choose or upload a video or photo
Add your logo

When you “publish” your stories on Fastory, it will send the stories to your email. You can then download them on your mobile phone and upload onto Instagram or Snapchat.

Here’s what a Product Hunter has to say:

3. Storyheap

– Manage your Snapchat & Instagram Stories

• Price: $49 per month, $99 per month, or $199 per month (with a 7-day free trial)
• Description: Storyheap might be the only tool around that lets you manage your Instagram and Snapchat Stories — create, schedule, and analyze your stories — from a single dashboard.
• How to use Storyheap: Storyheap works like most social media management tools, except that it focuses on stories only. To schedule a story, upload an image or video and select your posting time. Storyheap will then add that story to your queue. Besides creating and scheduling stories, you can also see the performance of your stories (e.g. views and screenshots) and the growth of your accounts (e.g. followers, average views, and open rate).

Here’s what a Product Hunter has to say:

4. Botletter

– Send newsletters on Facebook Messenger

• Price: Free (for 1,000 messages every month), $23.50 per month, $53.60 per month, $85.50 per month, or custom pricing
• Description: Facebook Messenger is growing as a promising marketing channel. With Botletter, you can grow your Messenger subscriber list, send your subscribers messages on Messenger (or botletters), and analyze your performance.
• How to use Botletter: Using Botletter is very similar to using most email marketing tools. The main difference is that while you send emails with email marketing tools, you send Messenger messages with Botletter. Besides crafting your message, you can also add a Messenger card with an image, title, and call-to-action.

Here’s what a Product Hunter has to say:

5. PixelMe

– URL shortener for savvy marketers

• Price: $10 per month, $29 per month, $79 per month, or custom pricing (with a 7-day free trial)
• Description: PixelMe is an URL shortener that allows you to include a retargeting pixel in a link. When people click on your PixelMe links, you’ll be able to retarget them with ads on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and more.
• How to use PixelMe: All you have to do to set up your PixelMe account is to add the pixel IDs of the ad platforms you want to use. For example, for Facebook ads, that would be the Facebook Pixel. Once you have done that, simply copy and paste your link into PixelMe and let it generate a shortened link for you. Now, share away! When enough people click on that link, you’ll be able to create a custom audience in the ad platforms and retarget them with a very relevant ad.

Here’s what a Product Hunter has to say:

6. Promo

– The easiest way to create marketing videos, from Slidely

• Price: $49 per month, $99 per month, $199 per month, $359 per month, or enterprise pricing (You can try the editor for free and pay only when you want to download any videos.)
• Description: Promo claims to be the easiest video maker on the market (and many Product Hunters agree with the ease of use). With a library of over 2.8 million premium video clips and licensed music, Promo can help you create high-quality videos in just a few minutes.
• How to use Promo: To get started, you can search and choose a video from Promo’s massive library or upload your own video clips. Promo’s videos come with nicely designed text placeholders so all you have to do next is enter your copy and logo. Promo would have even picked a music for you (though, you can change it if you want to).

Here’s what a Product Hunter has to say:

7. Typito

– Create stunning videos fast, easy, and online

• Price: Free, $5 per month, $30 per month, or enterprise pricing (with a 7-day free trial. You can pay $5 per video to remove the Typito watermark.)
• Description: Typito has been described as “Canva for video”. Its drag-and-drop interface allows you to quickly create engaging videos with beautiful typography, images, and videos.
• How to use Typito: Once you upload your video clips and images to Typito, you can easily add text, icons, and music to your video. With its simple interface, you can change the text style, change the font, drag and move it around, and more. In addition, you can convert your video into a landscape video, a square video, a letterbox video, or a vertical video with just a click. (We found that our square and letterbox videos receive the higher average engagements, views, and completion rate on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter than our landscape videos.)

Here’s what a Product Hunter has to say:

8. Anchor Videos

– Magically transform audio to video and share it anywhere

• Price: Free
• Description: Anchor Videos is a new feature in Anchor, a popular audio network app, which allows you to turn your audio recordings into beautifully animated videos with your transcript.
• How to use Anchor Videos: Once you have recorded your audio using the Anchor app, tap on the video button. Anchor will instantly transcript your audio and let you share an animated video of your audio and transcript to the various social media platforms. You’ll be able to check and edit the transcript before creating the video.

Here’s what a Product Hunter has to say:

What are your favourite new social media tools?

I believe there are many great new social media tools that I’ve missed and left out from this blog post.

About the Author

Ramiz Al Jalbani

Ramiz is a content writer and a supply chain professional focused on IT and Trading. He has a wide experience of using the new and latest technology to trade businesses. A true Middle Eastern and South Asian Market insider, Ramiz shares his thoughts and opinions in the form of weekly essays that you can subscribe to via subscribing to blog of Ava IT Solutions or email. He has written numerous essays, articles and blogs which have been featured and quoted in different journals around the globe. The topics range from Digital Marketing, Social Media Trends, Technology Trends and Integration of Business Processes to IT.