2024 Creator Tools Awards - powered by Contra
Madi 💫
May 29, 2024
· 11 min read
Welcome to the Creator Tools Awards winner gallery and index. Celebrating the best tools powering the jobs of the future, brought to you by Contra, the commission-free freelance platform. At Contra, we are committed to helping our network of freelancers connect with the best tools for running their independent business.
Discover all the categories, winners and honorees below.
Table of Contents:
Key Takeaways
We did our research and every tool got voted on by a community of over 500,000 independent creators. There are over 120 nominated tools and only 30 winners!
The biggest insight is that the thing creators said they love the most about their favorite tools is the community around them. Tools that put community first are really the most successful tools of the future, and thus the most loved. If you haven’t considered having a community for your tool, hope this convinces you!
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Discover all the categories
Design Category
Introducing the winners of the Design category of the Creator Tools Awards. These are tools that help designers automate, streamline, and measure their creative efforts, providing comprehensive solutions for graphic design, prototyping, and animation.
🏅 Fan Favorite: Figma
Figma is a platform built for the entire end-to-end design and development process—so you and your team can go from idea to finished product, together.
🏅 Top Tool: Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Creative Cloud is a set of applications and services from Adobe that gives subscribers access to a collection of software used for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, along with a set of mobile applications and also some optional cloud services.
🏅 Up & Coming: Canva
Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.
Amongst them, we have our Design Honorees:
Engineering Category
Introducing the winners of the Engineering category of the Creator Tools Awards. These tools empower developers to build, test, and deploy applications more effectively, offering robust frameworks, comprehensive libraries, and versatile platforms that simplify and enhance the software development process.
🏅 Fan Favorite: Next.js
Next.js is a React framework that allows you to build server-rendered and static web applications. It is built on top of Node.js and React, and it provides a number of features that make it easy to develop and deploy web applications.
🏅 Top Tool: Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is an open-source CSS framework that allows users to build websites without leaving their HTML. It uses a set of utility classes that can be combined to create designs.
🏅 Up & Coming: Remix
Remix is a full stack web framework that lets you focus on the user interface and work back through web standards to deliver a fast, slick, and resilient user experience. It provides many features and benefits that make it a popular choice among developers.
Amongst them, we have our Engineering Honorees:
Community Management Category
Introducing the winners of the Community Management category of the Creator Tools Awards. These tools help organizations build, manage, and engage with their communities by providing platforms for event management, online forums, and AI-driven community support.
🏅 Fan Favorite: Luma
Luma is a no-code event management software that allows users to create event websites, design registration pages, and create ticketing options. Luma also offers tools for attendee engagement, such as personalized agendas, push notifications, and interactive apps that allow guests to provide feedback and surveys in real time.
🏅 Top Tool: Circle
Circle.so is an online community platform that allows creators and brands to build and grow communities. It's designed to be like a private Facebook for communities, without an algorithm or irrelevant notifications.
Amongst them, we have our Community Management Honorees:
No Code Category
Introducing the winners of the No Code category of the Creator Tools Awards. These tools enable users to create applications and websites without coding, helping to automate, streamline, and improve their development workflows.
🏅 Fan Favorite: Framer
Framer is a design software company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands that develops interactive prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, and the web. Framer's platform is used by a global community of designers to create professional sites. Framer is a Series C startup backed by Accel, Foundation Capital, Atomico, Meritech Capital, WellFound and others.
🏅 Top Tool: Webflow
Webflow is the leading visual development platform for building powerful websites without writing code. From independent designers and creative agencies to Fortune 500 companies, millions worldwide use Webflow to be more nimble, creative, and collaborative. Webflow is a Series C startup backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Tim Draper, and others.
🏅 Up & Coming: FlutterFlow
FlutterFlow is a visual development tool that allows users to create native mobile and web applications without writing code. It's built on top of Google's Flutter framework, an open-source UI toolkit, and uses a drag-and-drop interface.
Amongst them, we have our No Code Honorees:
Marketing & CRM Category
Introducing the winners of the Marketing & CRM category of the Creator Tools Awards. These are tools that help organizations automate, streamline and measure their marketing efforts, including but not limited to CMS, CRM, Social media management.
🏅 Fan Favorite: Flodesk
Flodesk is a marketing tool that helps businesses, entrepreneurs, and creatives create email campaigns and sales pages. It offers email marketing templates, digital sales tools, and analytics.
🏅 Top Tool: Hubspot
HubSpot is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform that helps businesses attract visitors, convert leads, and close customers. It's a business growth management platform that combines tools for marketing, sales, customer service, operations, and content management.
🏅 Up & Coming: ConvertKit
ConvertKit is an email marketing platform designed for online entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, and other creators. It allows users to automate email marketing, collect leads, and sell digital products directly from the platform.
Amongst them, we have our Marketing & CRM Honorees:
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Writing Category
Introducing the winners of the Writing category of the Creator Tools Awards. These tools assist writers in creating, editing, and optimizing content, making the writing process more efficient and improving the quality of their work.
🏅 Fan Favorite: Copy.ai
Copy.ai is an AI-powered writing tool that helps businesses create content faster. It offers over 90 templates and tools, including blog post wizards, essay builders, Instagram captions, and YouTube descriptions. Copy.ai can generate sales copy, digital ads, ecommerce product descriptions, and more. It can also be used as a freestyle copywriting tool to create long-form content, blog posts, and more.
🏅 Top Tool: Grammarly
Grammarly is a digital writing tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze writing and suggest improvements. It can check for grammar, spelling, punctuation, word choice, sentence structure, and plagiarism, and also considers the context of the writing. Grammarly's suggestions include identifying and replacing complicated sentences, refreshing repetitive language, and context-specific suggestions.
🏅 Up & Coming: Content Harmony
Content Harmony is a content marketing software and services company that helps content teams create high-performing content marketing programs. It uses real-time search data to provide recommendations for writers to use in their blog posts, and helps them understand what their audience wants to read.
Amongst them, we have our Writing Honorees:
Madi 💫
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Hi, I'm Madi ✨ I connect independents with resources + support to take control of their independent career! 🚀 In my free time, you can usually find me reading or exploring a local cafe ☕️
