Free tools for publishing growth
Every free tool we publish, grouped by the kind of organization you run. Calculators, generators and utilities you can use today — most need no account.
Associations
Membership dues, member records and renewals for associations and nonprofits.
RPM Calculator
What does a thousand readers earn you? Get your revenue per mille instantly — split ad RPM from subscription RPM, and see what a 10% lift is worth per year.
Publisher Metrics
Enter your own registration, paywall, or checkout funnel numbers and compare each stage's conversion rate against a real benchmark — free, no signup.
Journalism Grants Finder
Find active 2026 journalism and media grants, including Press Forward. Filter by country, region and funding type — every grant links its official source.
Association Grants Finder
Find active 2026 grants, tech credits and workforce funding for trade associations and nonprofit membership organizations. Filter by country and applicant type — every grant links its official source.
Association Management Consultants Directory
A vendor-neutral directory of consultants who help associations select and implement AMS platforms, migrate data, and improve membership strategy, governance and events. Filter by country and focus area — no rankings, every listing links to the firm's own site.
Donation Receipt Checker
Sanity-check a charitable donation against IRS substantiation rules — the $250 acknowledgement rule, donor-advised fund (DAF) grants, QCDs and benefit-value proration. Answer a short questionnaire and see each issue linked to its IRS source. Not tax advice.
Grant Reporting Calendar
Track one or more grants' award dates and reporting frequency, then download a combined CSV/Excel tracker and an .ics calendar file with reminders built in. Free — email required to download.
Editorial & Publishing Courses Directory
A vendor-neutral directory of editorial training and publishing courses — copyediting, proofreading, editorial skills, journalism and publishing business. Filter by topic and format; every listing links to the provider. No rankings, no signup.
Paywall Configuration
Configure a paywall for your online content, with modern sign-ins and payment methods like Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Bank Statement Converter
Convert a PDF bank or credit card statement to Excel, CSV, QuickBooks or Xero files. Rows are categorized and balance-checked, scanned statements go through OCR, and nothing is stored.
Receipt Scanner
Batch-scan up to 50 receipt photos or PDFs in your browser — no app. Receipt OCR extracts merchant, date, tax lines and total into a categorized spreadsheet for Excel, QuickBooks or Xero.
Invoice Generator
Create invoices and assign them automatically to customers in your database.
Quote Generator
Build professional quotes and estimates. Add line items, see totals live, and download a polished PDF.
Stripe Fee Calculator
Calculate Stripe fees on any amount — fee split, net payout, gross-up to a target, and what a subscription really costs per year. Domestic, international, and ACH rates.
PayPal Fee Calculator
Calculate PayPal merchant fees by payment method — Checkout, card, or QR — with net payout, gross-up mode, and the annual fee cost on subscriptions.
Square Fee Calculator
Calculate Square processing fees for in-person, online, keyed, and ACH invoice payments — fee split, net payout, gross-up, and recurring-billing cost per year.
Proration Calculator
A subscriber changes plans mid-cycle — what do they owe today? Get the unused credit, prorated charge, net due, and next invoice, with the day-based arithmetic shown line by line.
Link-in-Bio Builder
Build a link-in-bio page and get a unique URL in seconds. Add your links, photo and bio, then share one link everywhere.
Media Kit Template
A free, fillable media kit template for publishers — eight widescreen pages of audience stats, placements, rate card and specs. Set your own brand colors, drop in your photography, then print or export to PDF.
Free AI Chat Widget
Add a free AI chat widget to your website and set up in minutes. It answers readers' questions from your own pages, links every source, and points them to log in or subscribe — one script tag, no account.
Agent-Readiness Scanner
Can an AI agent find your plans, parse your pricing, and reach checkout? Enter your URL and get a graded report from a real crawl of your site — results in seconds.
Traffic Loss Diagnostic
Upload your GA4 and Search Console exports to find which channel is actually down and why, whether organic search lost rankings or just demand, and which content to invest in next.
Word Scramble
A free daily word-scramble puzzle with shareable results and a streak counter — then get the embed code to run the same game on your own site and build a daily-visit habit with your readers.
AI Data Agent
Ask any question about your data in plain English and get results in whatever format you prefer.
Subscription Health Report
Generate a subscription health report — retention, churn and revenue analytics across your audience.
Customer Manager
Add customers and manage their print and digital subscriptions, addresses, invoices and payments.
Product Builder
Create physical and digital products and make them go live on your website.
USPS Address Verification
Validate your subscribers' addresses for print delivery with USPS address verification.
Automatic Vendor Payments
Set up vendors, add their payment details, and pay them automatically on schedule.
Newspapers
Reader revenue, print circulation and newsroom funding for daily and weekly titles.
Media Valuation Calculator
Estimate what your publishing business is worth. EBITDA and second-method benchmarks for newspapers, magazines, B2B, newsletters and creator channels.
RPM Calculator
What does a thousand readers earn you? Get your revenue per mille instantly — split ad RPM from subscription RPM, and see what a 10% lift is worth per year.
Publisher Metrics
Enter your own registration, paywall, or checkout funnel numbers and compare each stage's conversion rate against a real benchmark — free, no signup.
Journalism Grants Finder
Find active 2026 journalism and media grants, including Press Forward. Filter by country, region and funding type — every grant links its official source.
Editorial & Publishing Courses Directory
A vendor-neutral directory of editorial training and publishing courses — copyediting, proofreading, editorial skills, journalism and publishing business. Filter by topic and format; every listing links to the provider. No rankings, no signup.
Paywall Configuration
Configure a paywall for your online content, with modern sign-ins and payment methods like Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Bank Statement Converter
Convert a PDF bank or credit card statement to Excel, CSV, QuickBooks or Xero files. Rows are categorized and balance-checked, scanned statements go through OCR, and nothing is stored.
Receipt Scanner
Batch-scan up to 50 receipt photos or PDFs in your browser — no app. Receipt OCR extracts merchant, date, tax lines and total into a categorized spreadsheet for Excel, QuickBooks or Xero.
Invoice Generator
Create invoices and assign them automatically to customers in your database.
Quote Generator
Build professional quotes and estimates. Add line items, see totals live, and download a polished PDF.
Stripe Fee Calculator
Calculate Stripe fees on any amount — fee split, net payout, gross-up to a target, and what a subscription really costs per year. Domestic, international, and ACH rates.
PayPal Fee Calculator
Calculate PayPal merchant fees by payment method — Checkout, card, or QR — with net payout, gross-up mode, and the annual fee cost on subscriptions.
Square Fee Calculator
Calculate Square processing fees for in-person, online, keyed, and ACH invoice payments — fee split, net payout, gross-up, and recurring-billing cost per year.
Proration Calculator
A subscriber changes plans mid-cycle — what do they owe today? Get the unused credit, prorated charge, net due, and next invoice, with the day-based arithmetic shown line by line.
Link-in-Bio Builder
Build a link-in-bio page and get a unique URL in seconds. Add your links, photo and bio, then share one link everywhere.
Media Kit Template
A free, fillable media kit template for publishers — eight widescreen pages of audience stats, placements, rate card and specs. Set your own brand colors, drop in your photography, then print or export to PDF.
Selective AI-Agent Blocking
Generate robots.txt plus Cloudflare, Fastly and Akamai rules that block AI training crawlers while keeping citation crawlers that send you traffic.
Free AI Chat Widget
Add a free AI chat widget to your website and set up in minutes. It answers readers' questions from your own pages, links every source, and points them to log in or subscribe — one script tag, no account.
Agent-Readiness Scanner
Can an AI agent find your plans, parse your pricing, and reach checkout? Enter your URL and get a graded report from a real crawl of your site — results in seconds.
Traffic Loss Diagnostic
Upload your GA4 and Search Console exports to find which channel is actually down and why, whether organic search lost rankings or just demand, and which content to invest in next.
Create & Assign Vendors
Add new vendors to the system and use integrated AI to assign them automatically to your print subscribers.
Word Scramble
A free daily word-scramble puzzle with shareable results and a streak counter — then get the embed code to run the same game on your own site and build a daily-visit habit with your readers.
AI Data Agent
Ask any question about your data in plain English and get results in whatever format you prefer.
Subscription Health Report
Generate a subscription health report — retention, churn and revenue analytics across your audience.
Customer Manager
Add customers and manage their print and digital subscriptions, addresses, invoices and payments.
Product Builder
Create physical and digital products and make them go live on your website.
USPS Address Verification
Validate your subscribers' addresses for print delivery with USPS address verification.
Fulfillment Generator
Generate fulfillments for your print deliveries and hand clean files to your printer.
Automatic Vendor Payments
Set up vendors, add their payment details, and pay them automatically on schedule.
Magazines
Subscriptions, fulfillment and audience growth for consumer and B2B magazines.
Media Valuation Calculator
Estimate what your publishing business is worth. EBITDA and second-method benchmarks for newspapers, magazines, B2B, newsletters and creator channels.
RPM Calculator
What does a thousand readers earn you? Get your revenue per mille instantly — split ad RPM from subscription RPM, and see what a 10% lift is worth per year.
Publisher Metrics
Enter your own registration, paywall, or checkout funnel numbers and compare each stage's conversion rate against a real benchmark — free, no signup.
Journalism Grants Finder
Find active 2026 journalism and media grants, including Press Forward. Filter by country, region and funding type — every grant links its official source.
Editorial & Publishing Courses Directory
A vendor-neutral directory of editorial training and publishing courses — copyediting, proofreading, editorial skills, journalism and publishing business. Filter by topic and format; every listing links to the provider. No rankings, no signup.
Paywall Configuration
Configure a paywall for your online content, with modern sign-ins and payment methods like Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Bank Statement Converter
Convert a PDF bank or credit card statement to Excel, CSV, QuickBooks or Xero files. Rows are categorized and balance-checked, scanned statements go through OCR, and nothing is stored.
Receipt Scanner
Batch-scan up to 50 receipt photos or PDFs in your browser — no app. Receipt OCR extracts merchant, date, tax lines and total into a categorized spreadsheet for Excel, QuickBooks or Xero.
Invoice Generator
Create invoices and assign them automatically to customers in your database.
Quote Generator
Build professional quotes and estimates. Add line items, see totals live, and download a polished PDF.
Stripe Fee Calculator
Calculate Stripe fees on any amount — fee split, net payout, gross-up to a target, and what a subscription really costs per year. Domestic, international, and ACH rates.
PayPal Fee Calculator
Calculate PayPal merchant fees by payment method — Checkout, card, or QR — with net payout, gross-up mode, and the annual fee cost on subscriptions.
Square Fee Calculator
Calculate Square processing fees for in-person, online, keyed, and ACH invoice payments — fee split, net payout, gross-up, and recurring-billing cost per year.
Proration Calculator
A subscriber changes plans mid-cycle — what do they owe today? Get the unused credit, prorated charge, net due, and next invoice, with the day-based arithmetic shown line by line.
Link-in-Bio Builder
Build a link-in-bio page and get a unique URL in seconds. Add your links, photo and bio, then share one link everywhere.
Media Kit Template
A free, fillable media kit template for publishers — eight widescreen pages of audience stats, placements, rate card and specs. Set your own brand colors, drop in your photography, then print or export to PDF.
Selective AI-Agent Blocking
Generate robots.txt plus Cloudflare, Fastly and Akamai rules that block AI training crawlers while keeping citation crawlers that send you traffic.
Free AI Chat Widget
Add a free AI chat widget to your website and set up in minutes. It answers readers' questions from your own pages, links every source, and points them to log in or subscribe — one script tag, no account.
Agent-Readiness Scanner
Can an AI agent find your plans, parse your pricing, and reach checkout? Enter your URL and get a graded report from a real crawl of your site — results in seconds.
Traffic Loss Diagnostic
Upload your GA4 and Search Console exports to find which channel is actually down and why, whether organic search lost rankings or just demand, and which content to invest in next.
Create & Assign Vendors
Add new vendors to the system and use integrated AI to assign them automatically to your print subscribers.
Word Scramble
A free daily word-scramble puzzle with shareable results and a streak counter — then get the embed code to run the same game on your own site and build a daily-visit habit with your readers.
AI Data Agent
Ask any question about your data in plain English and get results in whatever format you prefer.
Subscription Health Report
Generate a subscription health report — retention, churn and revenue analytics across your audience.
Customer Manager
Add customers and manage their print and digital subscriptions, addresses, invoices and payments.
Product Builder
Create physical and digital products and make them go live on your website.
USPS Address Verification
Validate your subscribers' addresses for print delivery with USPS address verification.
Fulfillment Generator
Generate fulfillments for your print deliveries and hand clean files to your printer.
Automatic Vendor Payments
Set up vendors, add their payment details, and pay them automatically on schedule.
Personal Finance
Money calculators anyone can use — no publishing account needed.
Donation Receipt Checker
Sanity-check a charitable donation against IRS substantiation rules — the $250 acknowledgement rule, donor-advised fund (DAF) grants, QCDs and benefit-value proration. Answer a short questionnaire and see each issue linked to its IRS source. Not tax advice.
Bank Statement Converter
Convert a PDF bank or credit card statement to Excel, CSV, QuickBooks or Xero files. Rows are categorized and balance-checked, scanned statements go through OCR, and nothing is stored.
Receipt Scanner
Batch-scan up to 50 receipt photos or PDFs in your browser — no app. Receipt OCR extracts merchant, date, tax lines and total into a categorized spreadsheet for Excel, QuickBooks or Xero.
CoastFIRE Calculator
Find the portfolio you'd need invested today to coast to retirement with zero new contributions. Interactive chart, year-by-year projection, shareable link.
Income Tax Calculator
Estimate your federal income tax for the US, Canada, or UK. See your marginal and effective rate, a bracket-by-bracket breakdown, and your after-tax income — no signup required.
IRR Calculator
Get the internal rate of return on any series of cash flows — annual, quarterly, or monthly — with an NPV check at your own discount rate. Matches Excel's IRR(), no signup required.
Every free tool, A–Z
The complete list — every published tool, once each.
Agent-Readiness Scanner
Can an AI agent find your plans, parse your pricing, and reach checkout? Enter your URL and get a graded report from a real crawl of your site — results in seconds.
AI Data Agent
Ask any question about your data in plain English and get results in whatever format you prefer.
Association Grants Finder
Find active 2026 grants, tech credits and workforce funding for trade associations and nonprofit membership organizations. Filter by country and applicant type — every grant links its official source.
Association Management Consultants Directory
A vendor-neutral directory of consultants who help associations select and implement AMS platforms, migrate data, and improve membership strategy, governance and events. Filter by country and focus area — no rankings, every listing links to the firm's own site.
Automatic Vendor Payments
Set up vendors, add their payment details, and pay them automatically on schedule.
Bank Statement Converter
Convert a PDF bank or credit card statement to Excel, CSV, QuickBooks or Xero files. Rows are categorized and balance-checked, scanned statements go through OCR, and nothing is stored.
CoastFIRE Calculator
Find the portfolio you'd need invested today to coast to retirement with zero new contributions. Interactive chart, year-by-year projection, shareable link.
Create & Assign Vendors
Add new vendors to the system and use integrated AI to assign them automatically to your print subscribers.
Customer Manager
Add customers and manage their print and digital subscriptions, addresses, invoices and payments.
Donation Receipt Checker
Sanity-check a charitable donation against IRS substantiation rules — the $250 acknowledgement rule, donor-advised fund (DAF) grants, QCDs and benefit-value proration. Answer a short questionnaire and see each issue linked to its IRS source. Not tax advice.
Editorial & Publishing Courses Directory
A vendor-neutral directory of editorial training and publishing courses — copyediting, proofreading, editorial skills, journalism and publishing business. Filter by topic and format; every listing links to the provider. No rankings, no signup.
Free AI Chat Widget
Add a free AI chat widget to your website and set up in minutes. It answers readers' questions from your own pages, links every source, and points them to log in or subscribe — one script tag, no account.
Fulfillment Generator
Generate fulfillments for your print deliveries and hand clean files to your printer.
Grant Reporting Calendar
Track one or more grants' award dates and reporting frequency, then download a combined CSV/Excel tracker and an .ics calendar file with reminders built in. Free — email required to download.
Income Tax Calculator
Estimate your federal income tax for the US, Canada, or UK. See your marginal and effective rate, a bracket-by-bracket breakdown, and your after-tax income — no signup required.
Invoice Generator
Create invoices and assign them automatically to customers in your database.
IRR Calculator
Get the internal rate of return on any series of cash flows — annual, quarterly, or monthly — with an NPV check at your own discount rate. Matches Excel's IRR(), no signup required.
Journalism Grants Finder
Find active 2026 journalism and media grants, including Press Forward. Filter by country, region and funding type — every grant links its official source.
Link-in-Bio Builder
Build a link-in-bio page and get a unique URL in seconds. Add your links, photo and bio, then share one link everywhere.
Media Kit Template
A free, fillable media kit template for publishers — eight widescreen pages of audience stats, placements, rate card and specs. Set your own brand colors, drop in your photography, then print or export to PDF.
Media Valuation Calculator
Estimate what your publishing business is worth. EBITDA and second-method benchmarks for newspapers, magazines, B2B, newsletters and creator channels.
PayPal Fee Calculator
Calculate PayPal merchant fees by payment method — Checkout, card, or QR — with net payout, gross-up mode, and the annual fee cost on subscriptions.
Paywall Configuration
Configure a paywall for your online content, with modern sign-ins and payment methods like Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Product Builder
Create physical and digital products and make them go live on your website.
Proration Calculator
A subscriber changes plans mid-cycle — what do they owe today? Get the unused credit, prorated charge, net due, and next invoice, with the day-based arithmetic shown line by line.
Publisher Metrics
Enter your own registration, paywall, or checkout funnel numbers and compare each stage's conversion rate against a real benchmark — free, no signup.
Quote Generator
Build professional quotes and estimates. Add line items, see totals live, and download a polished PDF.
Receipt Scanner
Batch-scan up to 50 receipt photos or PDFs in your browser — no app. Receipt OCR extracts merchant, date, tax lines and total into a categorized spreadsheet for Excel, QuickBooks or Xero.
RPM Calculator
What does a thousand readers earn you? Get your revenue per mille instantly — split ad RPM from subscription RPM, and see what a 10% lift is worth per year.
Selective AI-Agent Blocking
Generate robots.txt plus Cloudflare, Fastly and Akamai rules that block AI training crawlers while keeping citation crawlers that send you traffic.
Square Fee Calculator
Calculate Square processing fees for in-person, online, keyed, and ACH invoice payments — fee split, net payout, gross-up, and recurring-billing cost per year.
Stripe Fee Calculator
Calculate Stripe fees on any amount — fee split, net payout, gross-up to a target, and what a subscription really costs per year. Domestic, international, and ACH rates.
Subscription Health Report
Generate a subscription health report — retention, churn and revenue analytics across your audience.
Traffic Loss Diagnostic
Upload your GA4 and Search Console exports to find which channel is actually down and why, whether organic search lost rankings or just demand, and which content to invest in next.
USPS Address Verification
Validate your subscribers' addresses for print delivery with USPS address verification.
Word Scramble
A free daily word-scramble puzzle with shareable results and a streak counter — then get the embed code to run the same game on your own site and build a daily-visit habit with your readers.
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