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Macro

Express yourself! Macro is a snazzy enhancement to the everyday Zoom call. Join any Zoom meeting and personalize the look, feel, and interaction of your calls. Macro customizes the meeting interface to break free of the grid gallery. You can have shapes, filters, and reactions, plus they add more constantly from artist collaborations and new themes. Our fav? The profile bubbles change size based on how much you speak on a call. Check out this free, macOS tool for yourself or your whole team!

Open Peeps

Need custom illustrations without the custom price tag? Open Peeps is a hand-drawn, FREE illustration library. It has mix-and-match combinations of everything you could need: Facial expressions, clothing, poses, backgrounds, and objects. These aren’t your typical blob illustrations, they’re charming and expressive with options that are always expanding with more prosthetics, poses, and body types. And did we mention it was free?? The library is under CC0. What are you waiting for, peeps?

Rebrandly

Sometimes you can tell a lot about a brand by the links they share. Crazy long URLs? Ew. Generic short links? Eh. Rebrandly is an easy peasy platform that helps you manage, build, and track your links. It’s not just for short links, Rebrandly has:

Branded URLs
UTM builders
Link retargeting
Mobile deep linking
URL conditional routing
Customizable reports
Browser extension

Put your brand out there, even in your links. Get linking today!

Marpipe

Save hours creating ad variants with Marpipe. Design and deploy dynamic ad sets without any spreadsheets or coding to make variation rules. This platform helps you automate your workflow, creative testing, and publishing. It has everything you would want in a drag and drop, editable design tool that also has an asset library and an artboard generator plugin for Adobe XD. If your team needs a boost in ad testing, check them out!

UpContent

Add some *oomph* to your content strategy, all without writing it yourself. UpContent is a curation platform that discovers millions of articles to choose from and share with your audience. They help you find the most relevant content for your readers so that they convert from followers to customers. Like all good tools, UpContent integrates with your favorite digital channels! Check out a demo to see what your content efforts could be missing.

Lucidpress

When you leave branding in the hands of multiple people or teams, you usually run into rogue, standard-breaking brand treatments. Lucidpress keeps your designs on hand, accurate, and fast to your team, even the non-designers. Real-time file collaboration, template automation, multi-channel publishing, AND software integrations make it perfect for keeping your team on brand. Give it a shot!

Sprig

To build the best content or products, you need user insights. Traditional research tools usually don’t cut it and traditional testing methods can leave you waiting a loooooong time. But to pull a trigger on a project without data? Risky business. Sprig is a research platform that has video interviews, concept tests, and micro-surveys from actual users. Even better, they have templates and audience targeting tools that help out even the most rookie of researchers. Get started and see what it’s all about for free!

Rename It

Get your assets in gear! Layers and boards can be a pain to organize if you’ve gone too deep in the weeds. Rename It is a simple Adobe XD, Figma, or Sketch plug-in that may just give you a sigh of relief the next time you’re sorting your shtuff. Batch rename layers and artboards based on sequence, current boards, or size with just a few shortcut keyboard strokes.

Carrd

Ever needed a single web page for something? A landing page? a quick site? a bio page? Carrd lets you build one-page sites for pretty much anything you need! This guy makes responsive, single-page sites on the fly. There are plenty of templates to get you started, so if you ever needed something to go live in a pinch, Carrd might become your very best friend.