Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Today I'll show the best 5 free tools for YouTubers to help you grow and manage your YouTube channel. People are often wonder: What programs do YouTubers use? So here's a list of a few of my favorites programs, websites, and tools that YouTubers use to come up with video ideas, and make better videos! These can even help you brand your YouTube channel - Hope you all enjoy, thanks for watching!

First Tool: Google Trends
If you want to grow as a YouTuber, then you should make videos that people are searching for. Figuring out what's popular can be tough, so you can use Google Trends to see what kind of videos to make, and to help you come up with good video ideas for YouTube.

You can type in the idea you’re thinking about to see if it’s popular and has a chance of doing well on your channel. It will show you other related search terms on YouTube, which is cool as it can help you when come up with good tags for your own YouTube videos or brainstorm future ideas!

Check it out here: trends.google.com

Second Tool: Google Keep
This is a productivity tool which is useful for keeping notes and lists of tasks you may be working on or still need to complete. Google Keep is also available on Android and iOS too, and everything is saved through the cloud, so you can access your work on all your devices.

Check it out here: keep.google.com

As a YouTuber, this is great for making notes about videos you want to work on, maybe planning out what you want to do in them, or how you want to start them, etc. Tools like this can be life changing in a positive way if you actually start using them daily.

Third Tool: Photopea
This is basically a FREE web-based alternative of Photoshop. Anything youc an do on Photoshop, you can do on this website. So if you watch any Photoshop tutorials to get better as designing, you can actually apply everything you learn from those videos on Photopea itself.

Check it out here: photopea.com

Some of my Photopea Tutorials:
How To Make Thumbnails For FREE (2020): youtu.be/HSou3MaejBo
Make A FREE YouTube Logo! (2020): youtu.be/TS9WKjg8wac

Fourth Tool: Audacity
This is a free audio editing and recording software. You can record voice overs and commentaries using this app, but also edit any pre-recorded audio files too. Just drag your audio file into Audacity and you can do cool things when editing like remove any background noise from your microphone (things like fans, etc.) and when you’re done, you can export it, then go to your editing software and replace the old audio with the new one.

Check it out here: audacityteam.org

Some of my Audacity Tutorials:
How to Record a Commentary Video (2020): youtu.be/o07oZsPMRI8
How To Make Your Mic Sound Professional (2020): youtu.be/kJfSrIAFtD0

Fifth Tool: Tubebuddy
TubeBuddy is a fantastic browser extension that will help you manage and optimize your YouTube channel to help you get more views on YouTube in 2020! I only scratched the surface of what you can do with TubeBuddy in the preview during this video, but check out my full guide on the extension linked below to learn more.

TubeBuddy detailed guide: youtu.be/W3aaH6LMoa4

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