CloutStack: tools that help creators make money

43 platforms for editing, publishing, selling and getting paid, each listed with what it costs, who it suits and what its users made of it.

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Frame.io

Storage

Where an editor and a client argue about a cut, on the timecode

Free, then $15Free tierVisit

Gleam

Giveaways

Giveaways with the entry rules enforced and the draw done for you

Free, then $29Free tierVisit

Uppbeat

Music

Music for video with a free tier that clears copyright claims

Free, then $6.99Free tierVisit

Submagic

Captions

Captions, b-roll and hooks added to a vertical clip in a minute

Free, then $19Free tierVisit

HeyGen

AI video

A presenter generated from a script, in thirty languages

Free, then $29Free tierVisit

Bonsai

Legal

Contracts, proposals and invoices for people who bill clients

From $15Visit

Trello

Projects

Boards and cards for people who will not fill in a project plan

Free, then $6Free tierVisit

Wave

Accounting

Invoicing and bookkeeping that costs nothing until you want it automated

Free, then $19Free tierVisit

Envato Elements

Stock assets

Unlimited stock video, music, fonts and templates on one subscription

From $16.50Visit

MailerLite

Email marketing

Email marketing that stays cheap as the list gets big

Free, then $12Free tierVisit

Wistia

Video hosting

Video hosting for video your own site depends on

Free, then $79Free tierVisit

Carrd

Websites

One-page sites that take an evening and cost less than lunch

Free, then $19Free tierVisit

Calendly

Booking

A booking page that reads your calendar and ends the back and forth

Free, then $10Free tierVisit

Otter.ai

Transcription

Transcripts of calls and recordings, searchable afterwards

Free, then $16.99Free tierVisit

Loom

Screen recording

Screen and camera recordings that go out as a link, not a file

Free, then $18Free tierVisit

Poppy AI

AI tools

A visual canvas that turns your source material into scripts and posts

Talk to salesVisit

DoorFee

Community

Paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel attached

Free, then $28Free tierVisit

LaunchPass

Community

Charge for access to a Discord, Slack or Telegram community

Free, then $29Free tierVisit

Passionfroot

Brand deals

A booking page for brand deals, with pricing and contracts

FreeVisit

Notion

Scheduling

Where most creators end up planning everything

Free, then $12Free tierVisit

Streamlabs

Streaming

Streaming software with alerts, overlays and tipping

Free, then $19Free tierVisit

ElevenLabs

AI tools

Voice generation and dubbing that holds up in published work

Free, then $6Free tierVisit

Teachable

Courses

Host and sell courses with coaching and payments included

From $39Visit
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About CloutStack

CloutStack is a directory of the software people use to make a living from an audience. Editing and publishing, newsletters and memberships, contracts and tax, and the parts nobody warns you about until the first invoice.

Every listing says what a tool costs, who it suits and who should skip it. Tools are added by us and submitted by the people who build them, who write the listing themselves, and a person reads each submission before it goes live. Every star on the site comes from somebody who used the tool. We do not rate anything.

Some links earn us a commission and some listings are paid placements, which are labelled. Neither changes what a review says or where a tool ranks. See the disclosure for how we make money.

Common questions

What counts as a creator tool?

Anything somebody uses to make, grow or get paid for work they publish. That covers the obvious ones like video editors and newsletter platforms, and the ones people find out about later: contracts, bookkeeping, tax, and getting paid across borders.

How do tools get listed?

Two ways. We add them ourselves, or the people who build them submit them and write the listing. Either way a person reads it before it goes live, and anything submitted has to be a real product a creator could sign up for today.

Does it cost anything to be listed?

No, if you display our badge on your site. We check that it is still there, and the listing stays free for as long as it is. If you would rather not link out, a one-time fee lists you without the badge.

Where do the ratings come from?

Every star on this site comes from people who used the tool and left a review. We do not score anything ourselves. A tool nobody has reviewed shows no star at all, which is most of them today, and that is the honest state of a young directory rather than a gap we would rather fill with a number of our own.

Can a company pay for a better rating?

No. Nobody can buy a rating, because the rating is other people's reviews and we do not touch them. Paid placement does exist, it is labelled wherever it appears, and a featured listing sits at the top of a category page. What a listing says and what its reviewers said are not for sale.

How often is it updated?

New tools are added continuously, and a listing carries the date its details were last checked. Pricing changes faster than anything else, so if you spot something out of date there is a link on every page to tell us.