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9 Best All-in-One Platforms for Designers 2026

A designer's software bill is the least designed thing most designers own. We built the same four deliverables on nine platforms to find which collapses the stack.

Portfolio Tips

Best Presentation Tools for Designers in 2026

Designers present more than almost any discipline and get the worst tools for it. Then they are judged on the result, by other people who design.

Both platforms publish their fees plainly and both start at 5 percent. The difference is what it costs to reach zero, and it is $39 against $99.

September 22, 202611 min read

Creative Business

Framekit vs Linktree 2026: The 9 Percent Question

Both put eight links on a page in ten minutes. Only one takes 9 percent when someone buys something, and no cheap tier removes it.

September 22, 202611 min read

Website Design

Framekit vs Carrd 2026: When One Page Is Enough

If you need one page, Carrd wins on price and on fees. We publish this anyway, because buying the wrong tool on our recommendation is worse than losing the comparison.

September 22, 202611 min read

Creative Business

Framekit vs PhotoShelter 2026: Archive or Delivery

One is archive infrastructure for organisations that license images. The other is a website with delivery attached. One question about your revenue settles it.

September 22, 202610 min read

Creative Business

Framekit vs Zenfolio 2026: Prints or Portfolio?

Zenfolio takes a flat 7 percent per order. We take nothing, because we sell no prints at all. That is the whole comparison, and your revenue model decides it.

September 22, 202611 min read

Creative Business

How to Run a Brand Shoot From Pitch to Delivery (2026)

A brand shoot is graded on the paperwork around the pictures. Usage terms, a signed shot list and files that match the channel are what the marketing team is measured on.

September 22, 202625 min read

Creative Business

Framekit vs Dropbox 2026: Storage or Delivery?

Dropbox is the cheapest place to keep files and the wrong place to present them. Here is where the line sits, and which of your subscriptions is the redundant one.

September 22, 202610 min read

Portfolio Tips

How to Build a Portfolio With No Client Work (2026)

Nobody can tell from a finished frame whether it was paid for. A portfolio is evidence of judgement, not of employment, which is why a briefed personal project beats a weak client job.

September 22, 202625 min read

Creative Business

Framekit vs WeTransfer 2026: Delivering Client Work

Creative Business

12 Best Budget Tools for Creative Freelancers 2026

Cheap software is decided by the shape of the fee, not the monthly price. Here is a real three-year bill for a freelance creative stack, percentages included, and where a specialist still wins.

September 22, 202630 min read

Creative Business

How to Launch a Digital Product in 2026

A launch is a calendar, not an event. The week that decides the result is the one before anything is for sale, when the list gets built and the page gets proved.

September 22, 202627 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Tools for New Photographers 2026 (Apps Compared)

Every gallery service has a free plan. They are sized on two different axes, gigabytes or galleries, and which one binds first decides whether you deliver two paid jobs before a card is needed, or nine.

A brand deal proposal is three documents wearing one cover: the pitch, the paper and the invoice. Here is which of twelve tools carries which, and why splitting them costs less than any all-in-one.

September 21, 202628 min read

Creative Business

How to Make a Lookbook in 2026 (Step by Step)

A lookbook is not a portfolio. It sells a collection on a deadline, which means a sequence, a spec page with real prices, and a last page a buyer can act on.

September 21, 202624 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Pitch Tools for Content Creators 2026 (Apps)

A creator pitch is three artifacts, not one: the email, the kit and the follow-up. Here is which of twelve tools carries which part, what a full stack costs over a year, and where free genuinely holds.

September 21, 202632 min read

Creative Business

How to Write a Project Proposal as a Freelancer (2026)

A proposal is a scope fence, not a sales brochure. Here are the nine sections, the three ways to present a price, and the exclusions line that ends the revision argument before it starts.

September 21, 202628 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Moodboard and Treatment Tools for Directors 2026

Twelve tools for the two documents every director bids with, ranked by how short the handoff is between the board where you think and the treatment you send.

Per seat, a big seat bundle, or a small flat allowance. Which pricing model you are on decides your bill far more than any feature does. Here are 12 tools costed at four team sizes.

September 21, 202628 min read

Creative Business

How to Pitch a Brand as a Creator (2026)

The pitch is not the deck, it is the email that gets the deck opened. Here are the three email versions, the four-touch follow-up calendar, and how to price a first collaboration.

September 20, 202624 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Video Review Tools for Solo Filmmakers 2026

One person does not need seats, reviewer groups or approval routing. They need the smallest bill that still buys timecoded notes, version stacks and a client who never makes an account.

September 20, 202630 min read

Creative Business

How to Make a Media Kit in 2026 (Step by Step)

A media kit is a sales document, not a stats dump. Here is the eight-slide skeleton, the metrics worth showing at any audience size, and how to put a price in it.

September 20, 202626 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Tools for Wedding Photo and Video 2026

An 18-wedding year with full ceremony edits is 138.4GB and 17.4 hours of video. Here is which platform holds that, what it costs, and why prints may still keep you on two.

September 20, 202629 min read

Creative Business

How to Organize Client Galleries (2026)

Naming and retention are the whole job. Here is the convention that sorts, the four-stage retention schedule, and what three years of unmanaged galleries actually costs you.

September 20, 202624 min read

Creative Business

12 Platforms That Deliver Photos and Video Together 2026

Almost every gallery platform now says it takes video. Almost none of them tells you how big a single file can be. Here is what twelve platforms publish, and what they leave out.

September 20, 202629 min read

Creative Business

How to Get Testimonials From Photography Clients (2026)

Most photographers ask for a testimonial weeks late and in the wrong words. Here is the hour to ask, the four questions that produce a usable quote, and where the quote should live.

September 20, 202625 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Tools for Hybrid Photo and Video Shooters 2026

The camera problem is solved. The handover is not. Twelve tools ranked by whether a hybrid shooter ends the job with one client link or two, with published prices and published file limits.

September 20, 202632 min read

Creative Business

How to Password Protect a Client Gallery (2026)

A password is one of four different controls people call privacy. Here is what each one stops, which platforms offer which, and how to lock a gallery that actually needs locking.

September 20, 202626 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Free Client Delivery Tools 2026 (Apps Compared)

A transfer tool moves bytes and then deletes them. A delivery tool hands over a page that is still there next month. Twelve free tiers, compared on what is left after 30 days.

September 20, 202631 min read

Creative Business

How to Send a Sneak Peek Gallery (2026)

A sneak peek is the one moment your client is guaranteed to post your work. Here is how to size it, time it, brand it and send it, with the settings that decide whether it travels.

September 20, 202625 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Free Creator Tools 2026 (Software and Apps)

Most creator tools are free until you earn something. Here are twelve free tiers ranked by the only question that matters in month six: what does this one take when the money finally arrives?

September 20, 202631 min read

Creative Business

How to Deliver Photos and Video From One Shoot (2026)

Hybrid shooters pay for two platforms and hand the client two links. Here is how to deliver both from one gallery, and the per-file video cap that decides whether you can.

Website, galleries, a preset shop, proposals and video sign-off usually mean five logins and $108 a month. Here is what each all-in-one platform actually folds into one bill, and what it leaves out.

September 19, 202631 min read

Creative Business

Music Video Treatment Template (+ Examples) for 2026

An artist knows the song by heart; your treatment has to show them what they will see in every bar of it. A section-by-section template, a worked song map and the deliverables page most treatments forget.

September 19, 202627 min read

Creative Business

Frame.io Pricing 2026: Plans, Storage and Cheaper Options

Every Frame.io seat buys 2TB of storage along with a login, and reviewers cost nothing. Here is what that means for a solo editor, a three-person studio and a team of five, with every plan read at the source.

September 19, 202627 min read

Creative Business

Wedding Videography Pricing Guide Template (2026 Prices)

What couples really pay for a wedding film in 2026, why the two national averages disagree by $1,693, how to price the sixty hours behind a ten-hour day, and the 20 pages a couple reads before they book.

September 19, 202631 min read

Portfolio Tips

Videographer Portfolio Examples: 19 Sites to Copy (2026)

Fourteen independent filmmaker, editor and production company sites plus five real Framekit customer sites, grouped by the lesson worth stealing: role, niche, credits, price, or product.

September 19, 202629 min read

Creative Business

Stan Store Pricing 2026: What $29 a Month Really Costs

Stan Store charges a flat $29 a month and takes no cut, which is 24% of revenue for a creator selling $150 a month and about 5% for one selling $4,000. Here is the full bill, line by line.

September 19, 202626 min read

Creative Business

Commercial Treatment Template: Win the Triple Bid (2026)

Three directors, one brief, one winner. A slide-by-slide commercial treatment template, the questions each page has to answer, and the tools that build it.

September 19, 202633 min read

Creative Business

Pixieset Pricing 2026: Every Plan, Fee and Storage Limit

Pixieset sells four separate price ladders, not one. Here is every plan read from its pricing pages in September 2026, the fee rules in the help centre, and a costed year for three kinds of photographer.

Documentary money is bought with access and urgency. This 20-slide documentary pitch deck template shows what each page must prove to a fund, a broadcaster or a crowd, with a worked $240,000 example.

September 19, 202628 min read

Creative Business

Lemon Squeezy vs Stripe (2026): Fees, Tax, Managed Payments

Lemon Squeezy is now a Stripe company and Stripe sells its own merchant of record. We priced one $24 LUT pack to a US buyer and a German buyer on every route to show what each fee actually pays for.

Unlabelled work in progress gets judged as finished work. Here is the frame to put around a rough cut: what to call the version, what the covering note must say, and how to lock the link.

September 18, 202625 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Freelance Video Editor Tools 2026 (Software)

Your editing suite can cost nothing. The four subscriptions wrapped around it are where a freelance editor's software budget actually goes, and that is the half worth arguing about.

September 18, 202632 min read

Creative Business

How to Give Feedback on a Video (2026 Guide)

A guide written for the person typing the notes, not the person cutting the film. Timecode every note, describe the problem instead of the fix, and send one consolidated list from one decision maker.

September 18, 202625 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Tools for Small Video Teams 2026 (Apps Compared)

Almost every review tool a small video team shortlists charges per seat, so the bill grows with the crew. Here is what twelve apps cost for four people, and the one case where paying per seat is still right.

September 18, 202633 min read

Creative Business

How to Set Up a Video Review Workflow (2026)

A workflow is four named states and a rule for who ends each one. Most freelance setups have no state for approved, which is why jobs stall at 90 percent done for three weeks.

September 18, 202622 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Tools for a Solo Photography Business 2026

Every gallery platform counts something different, and the meter you pick decides your annual bill more than the sticker price does. Twelve tools compared on both.

September 18, 202628 min read

Creative Business

How to Stop Endless Client Revisions in 2026

Revision sprawl is a briefing and capture problem, not a client-character problem. Here is the seven-step system that caps rounds, consolidates notes and prices the change nobody agreed to.

September 18, 202622 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Solo Filmmaker Tools 2026 (Software and Apps)

A one-person film business breaks on administration, not features. Twelve tools ranked on what they cost across a year and how many separate accounts you are left running.

September 18, 202628 min read

Creative Business

How to Send a Video to a Client for Review (2026)

August 14, 202613 min read

Creative Business

The 10 Best Qwilr Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Qwilr is $420 per seat a year, and the tier with custom branding has a five-seat minimum. We rebuilt the same proposal in ten alternatives.

August 14, 202617 min read

Creative Business

The 9 Best Loom Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Loom's free plan stops recording at five minutes, which is exactly where a useful walkthrough begins. We recorded the same video in nine alternatives.

August 14, 202616 min read

Website Design

Webflow vs WordPress in 2026: Two Different $25 Plans

Webflow and WordPress.com both have a $25 tier, and it is the tier most people end up on. One of them unlocks a CMS and the other unlocks plugins, which tells you almost everything about how these two platforms think.

August 14, 202616 min read

Creative Business

The 10 Best DocSend Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

DocSend charges $90 a month for each user above three, and has no free tier at all. We sent the same seed deck to 40 investors through ten alternatives.

August 14, 202617 min read

Creative Business

ShootProof vs Zenfolio: Which Wins in 2026?

One of these platforms never takes a cut. The other takes 7% of every order forever. On a modest print year that is the whole comparison.

August 14, 202610 min read

Creative Business

SmugMug vs PhotoShelter: Which Wins in 2026?

Creative Business

Is Pixieset Worth It for Photographers in 2026?

Pixieset is the default client gallery for a reason, and its free plan is the most expensive one in the category if you sell. We priced a full year and worked out exactly who should pay for it.

August 13, 202610 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Client Galleries for Dance Photographers 2026

Recital night means 300 families buying prints. A dancer portfolio shoot means one artist and no store. We tested 11 client galleries across both halves of dance photography.

August 13, 202615 min read

Website Design

The 10 Best Website Builders With a Free Domain in 2026

Almost every builder advertising a free domain means free for twelve months on a paid plan, after which it renews at their rate. A .com renews at $11.08 at a registrar, which is what the offer is actually worth, and it is not what it costs you.

August 13, 202626 min read

Tutorials

How to Create a Client Gallery in 2026 (Step by Step)

Creating a client gallery takes about twenty minutes once you know which six settings matter. This is the step by step process, including the two settings photographers most often get wrong.

August 13, 202610 min read

Creative Business

7 Best Client Galleries for Car Photographers in 2026

A car shoot becomes a listing, a launch deck and a press kit within days. We tested 7 client galleries on per-vehicle structure, turnaround and multi-party delivery.

August 13, 202613 min read

Creative Business

How Much Do Client Galleries Cost in 2026? (Full Breakdown)

Client gallery pricing hides in three places: the subscription, the commission and the cap. We priced every major platform on the same photography business and worked out what each model really costs across a year.

August 13, 202611 min read

Creative Business

Best Client Galleries for Concert Photographers in 2026

A concert photo is worth most the morning after the show. We tested 10 client galleries on overnight delivery, credits, embargoes and getting files to bands, labels and press at once.

August 13, 202614 min read

Creative Business

WeTransfer vs Dropbox for Photographers in 2026 (Tested)

WeTransfer expires links after three days on its free plan. Dropbox keeps them forever and shows your client a list of filenames. We tested both on a 40GB photography delivery and neither is a gallery.

Photographers buy cloud storage for three different jobs and then wonder why one service disappoints. We priced 9 options per terabyte per year and separated backup, working storage and client-facing archive.

August 13, 202621 min read

Creative Business

8 Best Client Galleries for Fine Art Photographers 2026

Fine art delivery is a viewing room, not a proofing gallery. We tested 8 platforms on presentation quality, edition handling and print fulfilment for collectors, galleries and designers.

August 13, 202614 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Watermarking Tools for Photographers in 2026

August 13, 202614 min read

Creative Business

7 Best Password Protected Photo Sharing Tools 2026

Most photo sharing tools call an unguessable link privacy. We tested 7 password protected photo sharing tools on the controls that actually matter: per-gallery passwords, PINs, expiry, download permissions and watermarking.

August 13, 202614 min read

Creative Business

Are Client Galleries Worth It in 2026? An Honest Look

A client gallery costs $100 to $350 a year and replaces something free. Here is the honest arithmetic on what it returns, and the three types of photographer who genuinely should not buy one.

August 13, 202611 min read

Website Design

WordPress vs Squarespace in 2026: The Real Entry Price

Both advertise an entry price that does not include the thing you chose them for. WordPress.com's SEO tools start at $8 and its plugins at $25; Squarespace has no free plan and charges 7 percent on digital products at its cheapest tier.

August 13, 202616 min read

Creative Business

12 Best White Label Client Gallery Tools in 2026

Most tools that advertise white label galleries only let you add your logo to their page. We tested 12 on the four things that actually decide whether a client can tell: the domain, the footer, the email and the checkout.

August 13, 202616 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Client Galleries for Editorial Photographers 2026

A picture editor wants 14 frames by six o'clock, captioned, with clear usage. We tested 12 client galleries on the selects, metadata and embargo problems editorial work creates.

August 13, 202615 min read

Creative Business

9 Best Free Client Gallery Software Tools in 2026

Every free client gallery plan charges you somewhere: a 15% commission, a three-gallery cap, or a vendor logo on your delivery page. We tested 9 free tiers to find which ones a working photographer can actually live on.

August 13, 202615 min read

Creative Business

How to Brand Your Client Gallery in 2026

A gallery is the most-viewed page your studio produces and usually the least branded. Here is what to control, in what order, and what each platform lets you change.

August 13, 202611 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Online Photo Gallery Software Tools in 2026

Online photo gallery software splits into three products that share a name: delivery tools, storefronts and archives. We tested 12 of them on the same 500-image job and ranked them by what they are actually for.

August 13, 202617 min read

Creative Business

The 8 Best Mobile Client Gallery Apps in 2026

Most clients open your gallery on a phone and will never install an app to do it. We tested 8 platforms on what mobile delivery actually looks like, and separated real apps from home-screen shortcuts.

August 13, 202614 min read

Creative Business

11 Best GotPhoto Alternatives for Photographers in 2026

GotPhoto's service fee runs from 12% down to 7%, which on a $40,000 season is between $2,800 and $4,800 a year. We tested 11 alternatives and priced each one against a real volume season.

August 13, 202621 min read

Creative Business

What to Include in a Client Gallery in 2026

A client gallery is not a folder with a nicer background. Here is the complete checklist of what to include, what to leave out, and the four omissions that generate every support email you get.

August 13, 202611 min read

Website Design

Wix vs Webflow in 2026: The Free Tier and the Cliff

August 13, 202611 min read

Creative Business

9 Best Client Galleries for Travel Photographers in 2026

Travel photographers deliver from hotel wifi to clients in three time zones, then licence the same frames for years afterwards. We tested 9 client galleries on upload resilience, archive search, licensing and print revenue.

August 13, 202615 min read

Creative Business

10 Best Client Galleries for Architectural Photos in 2026

One architecture shoot gets shared with the architect, the developer, the contractor, the interior designer and two PR agencies. We tested 10 client galleries on the sharing, licensing and archive problems that creates.

August 13, 202615 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Client Galleries for Videographers in 2026 (Tested)

Videographers deliver three things at once: the film, the stills, and a stack of social cutdowns. Most client galleries handle one of them. We tested 11 platforms on a full wedding-film delivery and priced a year of storage against each.

August 13, 202616 min read

Creative Business

Client Gallery vs Google Drive: Which Wins in 2026?

Google Drive is free and everybody has it. A client gallery costs money and looks like a studio. We compared both on real delivery jobs to find where the free option genuinely wins and where it quietly costs you work.

August 13, 202612 min read

Creative Business

7 Best Client Galleries for Branding Photographers 2026

A branding shoot is not delivered once. The client returns to it every week for a year, pulling images for social, decks and their site. We tested 7 client galleries on whether they can be a living brand library rather than a one-time handoff.

August 13, 202615 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Client Galleries for Food Photographers in 2026

Food photography clients are restaurants, brands, and agencies who need crops, not prints. We tested 12 client galleries on colour handling, multi-crop delivery, and licensing to find which fit commercial food work.

August 13, 202615 min read

Creative Business

Payhip vs Gumroad in 2026: Which Keeps More of Your Money?

Both are free to start and they are not close on cost. On a $19 preset pack Gumroad's all-in cut is 17.1 percent against Payhip's 9.5 percent, and Payhip pays out the moment the sale completes while Gumroad holds a $100 minimum balance.

August 13, 202617 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Client Galleries for Product Photographers 2026

Product photography delivery is a data problem wearing a photography costume. Ninety SKUs, four angles each, filenames that must survive intact, and a brand team that approves in rounds. We tested 12 client galleries on exactly that.

August 13, 202616 min read

Creative Business

Should You Give Clients RAW Files? (2026 Guide)

Clients ask for RAW files more often than they used to, and most photographers answer badly. Here is when releasing them is right, what to charge, and the contract clause that ends the argument before it starts.

August 13, 202612 min read

Creative Business

8 Best Client Galleries for Headshot Photographers 2026

Headshot photography has a delivery problem nobody designs for: forty individual subjects, one HR contact, and a retouch selection that has to happen before anyone gets a file. We tested 8 client galleries on exactly that job.

August 13, 202615 min read

Creative Business

9 Best Client Galleries With Custom Domains in 2026

Most gallery platforms sell a custom domain that is really a CNAME subdomain they control. We tested 9 platforms to find which ones put the gallery on a site you actually own, and what happens to each URL when you leave.

August 13, 202615 min read

Creative Business

10 Best Client Galleries for School Photographers 2026

School photography lives or dies on two numbers: how many parents actually order, and what percentage the platform keeps. We tested 10 client galleries on a 600-student day and priced a full year against each fee model.

August 13, 202622 min read

Creative Business

How Long Should Client Galleries Stay Online in 2026?

Most photographers expire galleries after 30 days to save storage, then lose the reprint order that arrives in month fourteen. Here is the evidence-based archive policy, and how to write it into your contract.

A fashion gallery goes to a team, not a client, and only two of ten tools preserved the credit we embedded. We tested them on embargo, versions and metadata.

August 13, 202626 min read

Website Design

The 11 Best Personal Website Builders in 2026 (Tested)

A personal website is the page that appears when somebody searches your name, which makes it a ten-year asset bought on a one-year promotion. We built the same site on eleven builders and priced what happens in year two, when the free domain stops being free.

August 13, 202631 min read

Creative Business

8 Best Client Galleries for Pet Photographers in 2026

A reminder that a gallery expires, sent to someone whose dog died last week, ends a business by word of mouth. We tested eight tools on prints and automation.

August 13, 202625 min read

AI Tools

The 14 Best Presentation Software Tools in 2026 (Tested)

Presentation software is the one tool creatives pay for and never compare. We built the same 18-slide client deck in 13 of them, opened every share link on a phone, priced a year of each, and set them against Framekit Slides, the one built for treatments, lookbooks and pitch decks.

August 13, 202642 min read

AI Tools

The 11 Best AI Presentation Makers in 2026 (Tested)

Every AI presentation maker gives you a free trial measured in credits, and almost none of them tell you what a deck costs. We ran the same brief through 10 of them, did the arithmetic, and set them against Framekit Slides, the one built for treatments and lookbooks.

August 13, 202633 min read

Creative Business

The 10 Best Free Presentation Software Tools in 2026

Free presentation software is rarely free in the way you assume. We built the same client deck on 9 free plans, rated our own on the same rubric, and recorded exactly what each one takes from you instead of money.

August 13, 202632 min read

Creative Business

The 12 Best PowerPoint Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Leaving PowerPoint is easy. Leaving it without losing your fonts, your animations and your ability to send a .pptx back is the hard part. We moved the same deck into 12 alternatives, logged every failure, and ranked them for people who make creative decks.

August 13, 202633 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Google Slides Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

August 13, 202617 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 8 Best Lookbook Software Tools in 2026 (Tested)

A lookbook is judged on image quality and opened on a phone, and most lookbook tools are optimised for neither. We built the same 24-page lookbook in 8 tools.

August 13, 202616 min read

Creative Business

The 11 Best Storyboard Software Tools in 2026 (Tested)

We boarded the same 32-panel commercial in 10 tools to find which ones make an animatic in minutes, which need drawing skill, and what each actually costs.

August 13, 202617 min read

Creative Business

Canva vs Google Slides in 2026: Which Should You Use?

Canva makes the better-looking deck and Google Slides makes the better-behaved one. We built the same 18-slide deck in both and compared what each costs you.

August 13, 202611 min read

AI Tools

Gamma vs Canva in 2026: Which Deck Tool Should You Use?

Gamma writes your first draft in a minute and Canva makes the better final deck. We built the same 14-slide deck in both and priced a year of each.

August 13, 202611 min read

Creative Business

How to Make a Pitch Deck in 2026 (Step by Step)

Most rejected decks fail on the same four slides. Here is the 11-slide structure investors expect, what belongs on each one, and how long the whole thing should take.

August 13, 202610 min read

Creative Business

How to Write a Film Treatment in 2026 (Step by Step)

A treatment wins the job before anything is shot. Here are the eight sections it needs, how long each should be, and why the format you send it in decides half of it.

August 13, 202610 min read

Creative Business

8 Best Presentation Tools for Creative Agencies in 2026

Agencies do not have a slide problem, they have a consistency problem across eight people. We tested 7 presentation tools, scored an eighth, and compared brand control, review and seat cost.

August 13, 202615 min read

Creative Business

The 11 Best Pitch Deck Templates in 2026 (Free and Paid)

A template saves you a weekend and can cost you the room if an investor has seen it forty times. Here are 11 sources, what each costs, and when to skip templates.

August 13, 202613 min read

Creative Business

The 8 Best Interactive Presentation Tools in 2026 (Tested)

Interactive presentation tools split into two kinds: live audience polling and documents that respond when read alone. We tested 8 and priced every one.

August 13, 202615 min read

Portfolio Tips

6 Best Presentation Tools for Photographers in 2026

Photographers are judged on the images in the deck, and most presentation tools quietly degrade them. We built the same 18-slide pitch in 6 tools and checked.

August 13, 202614 min read

Creative Business

The 9 Best Presentation Tools for Freelancers in 2026

Most presentation comparisons price tools for teams. We priced 9 of them for exactly one person and found the cheapest credible stack costs about $108 a year.

August 13, 202615 min read

Creative Business

Pitch vs Canva in 2026: Which Deck Tool Is Better?

Canva makes the better-looking deck and Pitch tells you what happened after you sent it. We built the same 16-slide deck in both and priced a team of five.

August 13, 202611 min read

Creative Business

How to Present Design Work to Clients in 2026

Most design work is rejected in the presentation rather than in the design. Here is a structure that holds up, and why sending three options is usually a mistake.

August 13, 202610 min read

Creative Business

Shopify vs Gumroad in 2026: Which Is Actually Cheaper?

Gumroad charges nothing monthly and takes roughly 12.9 percent plus 80 cents once card processing is included. Shopify charges a flat plan and 1.9 percent. On a 59-unit digital product the crossover arrives at about three sales a month, which is far sooner than almost anyone expects.

August 12, 202618 min read

Creative Business

Circle vs Podia 2026: Community Pricing Compared

Both platforms sell community, courses and memberships on one bill. They meter completely different things, and on price alone one of them wins at every revenue level we tested.

August 12, 202615 min read

Creative Business

Payhip vs Podia 2026: Which Is Cheaper, and When

Both platforms sell digital products, courses and memberships. One has a free plan and one does not, and the point where the paid platform becomes the cheaper platform is further away than either pricing page suggests.

August 12, 202614 min read

Website Design

Squarespace vs Webflow in 2026: An Honest Comparison

Webflow restructured its site plans and the tier above Premium is now a $2,500 a month contract. Squarespace quietly runs a second transaction fee on digital products. We compared both on one 12-page studio site with a project archive and one thing for sale.

August 12, 202620 min read

Creative Business

Thinkific vs Teachable 2026: The Real Cost Compared

These two platforms charge for opposite things. One taxes your sales and then stops, the other never touches your sales but taxes your branding. Which is cheaper depends on a number you can calculate in a minute.

August 12, 202616 min read

Creative Business

Ko-fi vs Buy Me a Coffee in 2026: Which Takes Less?

Both platforms look like a 5% tip jar with a shop attached. They are not the same deal, and which one takes less of your money changes twice as your income grows.

August 12, 202616 min read

Creative Business

Teachable vs Kajabi in 2026: The Real Cost Compared

Teachable looks four times cheaper than Kajabi until you read the transaction fee. We priced the same $249 course at four monthly volumes across every tier of both platforms to find where each one actually wins, and where the entry plans quietly stop being the cheap option.

August 12, 202620 min read

Creative Business

The 11 Best Ko-fi Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

We compared 11 platforms against Ko-fi on the three things creators actually earn from: one-off tips, recurring memberships, and digital product sales. The right answer changes depending on which of the three pays your rent.

August 12, 202633 min read

Portfolio Tips

9 Best Website Builders for Comic Artists in 2026

Page 40 makes no sense before page 39, yet almost every builder treats work as a gallery. We tested nine options on sequence, archives and reader ownership.

August 12, 202625 min read

Portfolio Tips

11 Best Website Builders for Concept Artists in 2026

Process is now provenance as well as proof of skill. We tested eleven options on sequences, discovery and what selling brushes and artbooks actually costs.

August 12, 202625 min read

Website Design

The 9 Best Link in Bio Tools in 2026 (Tested)

The link in bio stopped being a list of links and became a storefront, and the two category leaders now take 9 percent of what you sell through it. We ran one $39 preset pack through nine tools to find where that fee disappears and what it costs to escape it.

August 12, 202629 min read

Portfolio Tips

8 Best Website Builders for VFX Artists in 2026 (Tested)

The better your recent VFX work, the less of it you can show. We tested eight options on breakdowns, shot lists and where a reel nobody can upload should live.

We took one creator selling a $249 course at $4,000 a month and ran the real monthly cost across ten Kajabi alternatives. The surprise is that several cheaper-looking platforms cost two to three times more than Kajabi at that volume, because a percentage never stops growing.

August 12, 202633 min read

Portfolio Tips

8 Best Website Builders for Film Composers in 2026

A one-stop cue licenses in one signature, and almost no composer says so on their site. We tested eight builders on tone-first presentation and direct licensing.

August 12, 202624 min read

Website Design

Best Website Builders for Social Media Managers 2026

A personal account proves you can post. It does not prove you took a gym from 900 to 11,000 followers in eight months. There is nowhere on a social platform to put the facts that win retainers.

August 12, 202613 min read

Portfolio Tips

9 Best Website Builders for Sound Designers in 2026

You cannot put sound in a grid, and no browser will play it unprompted. We tested nine builders on audio handling, A/B demos and what selling a pack really costs.

August 12, 202624 min read

Creative Business

11 Ways to Make Money as a Video Editor in 2026

An editor subcontracting for an editor who works for a production company who works for an agency is four layers from the money. Each layer costs roughly a third of the fee.

August 12, 202616 min read

Creative Business

The 11 Best Platforms to Sell Ebooks in 2026 (Tested)

We listed the same illustrated 96-page guide, priced at $29, on eleven platforms to sell ebooks and tracked what actually reached the author on each sale. The answer splits cleanly by whether you need readers you do not have or margin on readers you already do.

August 12, 202636 min read

Website Design

10 Best Website Builders for Drone Photographers 2026

A drone site has to prove you are allowed to do the job before it shows a single frame. We tested ten builders on delivery capacity, video caps and credentials.

August 12, 202626 min read

Creative Business

8 Best Tools to Sell Digital Products on Pinterest 2026

Pins peak months after publication and every pin is a separate door. That makes selling on Pinterest a landing-page problem, not a checkout problem.

August 12, 202614 min read

Website Design

9 Best Website Builders for Production Companies 2026

A production company site is read by a producer building a shortlist. We tested nine builders on team access, protecting unreleased work and case-study structure.

A YouTube channel needs a site for four things: an email list you own, a media kit sponsors can read, a store with a low fee, and a URL that survives the algorithm. We ranked 9 builders on exactly that.

August 11, 202616 min read

Portfolio Tips

11 Best Website Builders for Animators in 2026

An animator's portfolio has to move before anyone clicks. We tested eleven builders on motion handling, discovery and what selling a rig pack actually costs.

August 11, 202625 min read

Creative Business

Free Graphic Design Tools in 2026 (Apps Compared)

A free design tier no longer limits what you can draw. It limits how much you can keep: Figma Starter holds 3 files. Twelve tools ranked by where the free plan stops and what passing it costs.

August 11, 202630 min read

Website Design

Squarespace vs Adobe Portfolio 2026: Which Is Better?

Delivering a 6-minute cut to ten reviewers three times each costs 18 cents of actual hosting. Everything above that is the review layer. We tested 10 options on both halves.

August 11, 202620 min read

Creative Business

The 12 Best Creative Proofing Tools in 2026 (Tested)

A campaign is a film, a poster, a landing page and a set of ads. We tested 12 proofing tools to find whether one system beats three specialists, and where consolidation actually costs you.

Every other guide in this series treats the transaction fee as the whole cost. For business buyers it is a rounding error next to the deal you lose because procurement could not pay you.

August 10, 202624 min read

Creative Business

8 Best Tax Software Picks for Freelance Creatives (2026)

TaxAct's own page lists freelance and self-employed income among the things that fall outside free federal filing. Two products decline to play that game entirely.

August 10, 202624 min read

Creative Business

10 Best Piracy Protection Tools for Digital Products 2026

This category sells against a number nobody can measure. So instead of estimating losses, we priced each protection layer and separated what it definitely does from what it cannot.

August 10, 202625 min read

Creative Business

8 Best Tools to Sell Digital Products on TikTok 2026

The useful number for a TikTok seller is not the platform fee, it is revenue per thousand views - and at that scale the fee structure that works is the opposite of the one everyone recommends.

August 10, 202625 min read

AI Tools

11 Best AI Interior Design Tools in 2026 (Tested)

Nobody generates one image of a room and shows it to a client. Every tool prices per generated image, so the number on the pricing page is roughly a quarter of what a deliverable room costs.

August 10, 202628 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Tools to Sell Digital Products on Instagram 2026

Instagram cannot sell digital products natively, so every tool here is a workaround for two constraints: one link, and an in-app browser that behaves unlike any other.

August 10, 202626 min read

Creative Business

Ten Ways to Sell Digital Products Without a Website 2026

Going website-free is genuinely the right call at the start, and it has a precise expiry date. We calculated where each method crosses over.

August 10, 202626 min read

Creative Business

10 Best Platforms to Sell Digital Products in Europe 2026

Two things decide a European seller's margin and neither appears in a normal platform comparison: which payment button the buyer clicks, and which country they click it from.

August 10, 202627 min read

Creative Business

The 25 Best Digital Products to Sell in 2026 (Ranked)

Most lists of digital product ideas rank things by how exciting they sound. This one ranks them by what an hour of your work is likely to return, and says plainly where those estimates come from.

August 10, 202627 min read

AI Tools

9 Best Video Compression Tools in 2026 (We Tested Them All)

The encoders are shared. x264 and x265 sit underneath most of these products, free and paid alike, which is why the top of this ranking costs nothing.

August 10, 202625 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Platforms to Sell Digital Planners in 2026

Every guide in this category says to move off the marketplace once you have an audience. For digital planners specifically, the arithmetic does not support that, and it is worth understanding why.

August 10, 202626 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Places to Sell AI Prompts in 2026 (We Tested)

A prompt pack stops working when the model changes, which is roughly three times a year. That makes update delivery worth more than commission, and almost nothing in this category is built for it.

August 10, 202626 min read

Creative Business

8 Best Places to Sell Photo Overlays and Textures 2026

More than half of overlay revenue arrives in a single quarter. That changes which fee model wins, and every comparison of these venues assumes a steady month.

August 10, 202626 min read

Creative Business

Best Places to Sell Mockups Online in 2026 (Tested)

Mockups are the heaviest thing most designers sell, and file size rules out more venues than price does. We started from the gigabytes and worked backwards.

August 10, 202626 min read

Creative Business

10 Best Stock Photo Sites in 2026 (We Tested Them All)

You are not buying a photograph, you are buying a legal promise, and the price tracks the size of that promise rather than the quality of the image.

August 10, 202627 min read

Creative Business

10 Best Places to Sell Icons and Illustrations 2026

Half this category sells your work for a price you set and half pays you a fraction of a pool nobody discloses. Those two things cannot be compared, so we stopped pretending they can.

August 10, 202627 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Places to Sell Web Templates in 2026

Template buyers ask questions, and on most marketplaces answering them is an obligation rather than a courtesy. That labour is the largest cost in this category and it appears on no pricing page.

August 10, 202627 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Places to Sell Procreate Brushes in 2026

Brush packs are the cheapest thing creators sell, which makes them the most expensive thing to process. The fix is not a better platform - it is a bigger bundle.

August 10, 202627 min read

Creative Business

10 Best Places to Sell Photoshop Actions in 2026

Actions are cheap, easy to copy and bought by people who will ask whether they work in their version. Those three facts decide where you should sell them more than any fee table does.

August 10, 202630 min read

Creative Business

The 12 Best Video Review Tools in 2026 (We Tested Them All)

Most video review tools charge per member, so a three-person edit pays three times for one project. We tested 12 of them on the same 6-minute brand film, priced every one for a real team, and re-verified the field in September 2026.

August 10, 202622 min read

Creative Business

Best Checkout Tools for Selling Digital Products in 2026

The features this category is sold on - order bumps, one-click upsells, cart recovery - are frequently not on the plan you are quoted. We priced what it costs to actually get them.

August 9, 202630 min read

Creative Business

9 Best Membership Platforms for Creators in 2026

Percentage pricing and flat pricing cross over at a specific member count, and every platform in this category knows where its own crossover sits. We calculated all nine.

August 9, 202631 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Subscription Billing Platforms for Creators 2026

A membership priced at ten dollars is the worst case for every fee structure in this category, because the fixed per-transaction charge alone is three percent. We priced eleven platforms against exactly that.

August 9, 202632 min read

AI Tools

9 Best Blender Alternatives in 2026 (Priced Per Frame)

The licence price is the smaller half of the bill. Five render nodes add a reported $1,645 a year under Redshift and nothing at all under Blender, and crossing $100,000 of revenue multiplies your software cost by roughly six.

August 9, 202628 min read

Creative Business

10 Best Affiliate Software for Digital Products 2026

Every comparison of affiliate software ranks it on the monthly fee, which is the smallest number in the equation. We priced the software and the commission together, because that is what an affiliate program actually costs you.

August 9, 202632 min read

Creative Business

9 Best Digital Product Delivery Tools in 2026 (Tested)

Almost every guide to these tools compares feature lists. We compared the only thing that breaks first: what happens when a thousand people download two gigabytes each in the same month.

August 9, 202633 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Payment Processors for Digital Products 2026

Every processor quotes a headline rate and then charges you four more times: cross-border, conversion, disputes, payouts. We priced twelve options against one $29 pack, in dollars and in euros, and the spread on take-home was wider than the headline rates suggest.

August 9, 202634 min read

Website Design

Best Web Hosting for Photographers 2026: 10 Hosts, 1 Builder

Hosting is priced for sites with many visitors and little data. A photography portfolio is the exact opposite, which is why reaching 50GB at one major host means buying 400,000 monthly visits.

August 9, 202629 min read

AI Tools

11 Best YouTube Thumbnail Makers in 2026

YouTube's own A/B test is free, and it picks the winner on watch time rather than clicks, which penalises exactly the clickbait the rest of this category optimises for.

August 9, 202631 min read

Creative Business

8 Best Motion Graphics Template Sites (2026)

Subscription template licences attach to projects, not to downloads, so cancelling without registering leaves you with files you may not legally use. We priced every marketplace and read the terms.

August 9, 202631 min read

AI Tools

9 Best AI Music Generators for Video in 2026

One vendor keeps the copyright in your tracks on both its free and its first paid tier. We priced every tool by the cost of a track you can legally put in a client video.

Compressing 10,000 images costs $85.50 through the most popular API, $59 once through a desktop app, and nothing at all through four free tools. The bigger saving is not compression at all.

August 9, 202632 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Photo Book Printing Services in 2026

A consumer photo book lists at $36.49 and routinely sells for $7.80, while professional labs will not quote you at all without an account. We priced the same 40-page hardcover everywhere it was possible.

August 9, 202633 min read

AI Tools

11 Best AI Logo Makers in 2026 (Tested)

Every AI logo maker is free to design and charges at download, and at one popular service the $20 package is a low-resolution PNG with a coloured background. We followed all eleven checkouts to the real price.

August 9, 202633 min read

AI Tools

9 Best Mockup Generators in 2026 (Tested)

Half the guides in this category still recommend a tool Canva closed in September 2024, and most free tiers export below the resolution a business card needs. We measured every export against what printing actually requires.

August 9, 202632 min read

AI Tools

10 Best Background Remover Tools in 2026 (Tested)

Background removal is a solved problem and the prices have not caught up. We ran the same forty images through ten tools and found a 1,000-cutout bill ranging from nothing to $270 for output we could not tell apart.

August 9, 202632 min read

AI Tools

12 Best AI Headshot Generators in 2026 (Tested)

Every AI headshot service sells you a big pack of images, and you only ever publish one. We ran identical selfies through twelve of them and priced each by the picture you would actually use.

August 9, 202632 min read

AI Tools

8 Best After Effects Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

The free After Effects alternative every list still recommends was discontinued in January 2025, and the best motion design app in the category quietly became free in April 2026. We built the same 30-second piece in all eight.

August 9, 202634 min read

AI Tools

11 Best Illustrator Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

We drew the same brand package, complete with CMYK print output, in eleven Illustrator alternatives and priced each one per delivered logo package. Four produce professional client deliverables for $0.00.

August 9, 202635 min read

AI Tools

10 Best Procreate Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Procreate costs $12.99 once and runs on exactly one kind of device. We drew the same layered illustration in ten alternatives across iPad, Android and desktop, and priced what it takes to cover every device you actually own.

August 9, 202633 min read

AI Tools

9 Best AI Video Upscaling Tools in 2026 (Tested)

Topaz stopped selling a perpetual licence, DaVinci Resolve Studio hides the best value at $295 once, and one popular plan covers about ten minutes of video a month. We tested all nine and converted every price to cost per upscaled minute.

August 9, 202633 min read

AI Tools

12 Best Photoshop Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Affinity went from $169.99 to free, Apple bundled Pixelmator Pro into a subscription, and two old favourites stopped shipping updates. We tested all 12 on the same twenty-frame retouching job and priced every one over five years.

August 8, 202634 min read

Creative Business

The 9 Best Free Video Review Tools in 2026 (Tested)

Free video review tiers are not more or less generous than one another, they are generous in different directions, and the one that suits you is decided by which limit you hit first. We ran the same review round through eight of them, added our own from its published limits, and mapped exactly where each one stops: two projects, five files a month, two or three gigabytes, two users, or sixty days of history.

August 8, 202624 min read

Creative Business

The 11 Best Frame.io Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Video review tools are priced from nothing to nearly eight hundred dollars a month, and they all describe themselves the same way. That spread is not a quality gradient: it is different buyers being sold different products under one label. We compared eleven of them, ran the same review round through the ten competitors, and added our own from its published features, to work out which one you are.

August 8, 202625 min read

Creative Business

The 6 Best Website Feedback Tools in 2026 (Tested)

The person who has to use a website feedback tool is your client, and half the vendors in this category charge for that person while half include them for nothing. We ran the same round of client comments through six tools on the same staging site, then priced each one for a freelancer and for a five-project agency, and the seat model turned out to matter more than any feature.

August 7, 202626 min read

Creative Business

The 9 Best Video Hosting Platforms in 2026 (Tested)

We took one workload, ten hours of video and ten thousand views a month, and priced it on eight hosting platforms using their own published rates, then added a ninth built for delivering video to clients rather than audiences. The answer runs from about three dollars a month to seventy-nine for delivery a viewer could not tell apart, because what the expensive platforms sell is the player, the analytics, and the seat rather than the bandwidth.

We fed the same sixty-two-minute recorded interview to six AI clipping tools and asked each for five captioned vertical clips. The comparison covers what the AI actually chooses, what free tiers export, and why the caption quality matters more than the clip selection.

August 7, 202628 min read

Creative Business

What a Creative Software Stack Costs in 2026

We priced three real creative business stacks, a solo photographer, a two-person studio, and a filmmaker, using figures read on vendor pricing pages in August 2026. The cheapest complete stack costs nothing, the default one costs thousands, and the difference is not capability.

We logged the same two-week freelance sprint, three clients and 47.5 hours, in nine time tracking apps to find which ones survive contact with real client work. The comparison covers free tier limits, the renewal price jumps nobody warns you about, automatic tracking, and invoicing.

August 6, 202640 min read

Website Design

The 10 Best Figma Alternatives in 2026 (We Tested)

We rebuilt the same nine-screen portfolio design kit in 10 Figma alternatives to find which ones replace Figma and which only look like they do. The comparison covers file ownership, real per-seat cost, offline work, handoff, and the one tool that died mid-test.

August 6, 202642 min read

AI Tools

The 12 Best Mind Mapping Tools in 2026 (We Tested All)

We rebuilt the same 47-node project plan in 12 leading mind mapping tools to find which ones actually change how you think, not just how you draw. The comparison covers AI features, collaboration, export, what the free tiers really cost, and who each tool is wrong for.

Every email platform charges you per subscriber, but a photography list only converts twice a year. We priced 11 tools at 1,000, 5,000 and 25,000 subscribers against published August 2026 pricing, and checked which ones bill you for unsubscribes.

August 5, 202620 min read

Creative Business

8 Best Contract and Proposal Tools for Creatives 2026

August 5, 202644 min read

Creative Business

10 Best Photo Retouching Services for 2026 (Tested)

Outsourced editing is sold per image, per shoot, or per month, and almost nobody compares it against the hourly cost of editing yourself. We priced 10 photo retouching services on the same 600-frame wedding delivery and against 25 weddings a year of your own time.

August 5, 202643 min read

Creative Business

8 Best Podcast Hosting Platforms for Creators in 2026

Every podcast host sells you storage, but the thing you are actually renting is the RSS feed URL that Apple and Spotify point at. We compared 8 platforms on how uploads and downloads are metered, what monetisation costs you, and whether your 301 redirect outlives your subscription.

August 5, 202644 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Accounting Software Picks for Creatives 2026

Creative income is lumpy and the deductions are gear, mileage, and a home studio, which is exactly where generic bookkeeping software falls over. We compared 12 accounting tools on entry-tier paywalls, bank feeds, depreciation handling, multi-currency, and export.

August 5, 202644 min read

Creative Business

13 Best Stock Footage Sites to License From in 2026

Every stock footage site sells you the same thing: permission, written down. We compared 13 of them on cost per 4K clip, broadcast and paid-advertising rights, indemnity ceilings, and the question almost nobody checks - whether the clips you already downloaded stay licensed after you cancel.

Stripe charges 2.9% plus 30 cents per US card charge, which is $1.00 on a $24 preset pack and an effective 8.9% on a $5 one. The surprises live elsewhere: refunds that keep the fee, $15 disputes, and the tax work no processor does for you.

July 30, 202622 min read

Creative Business

Gumroad vs Etsy for Digital Products in 2026: The Real Math

On a direct $24 sale Etsy keeps $2.73 in fees and Gumroad $3.90 once its separate card processing is counted. Let the marketplace claim credit for the order and Etsy takes $6.33, Gumroad $7.20. The real comparison is not the headline rate, it is whose traffic you sell on.

July 30, 202621 min read

Portfolio Tips

Is Adobe Portfolio Worth It in 2026? An Honest Review

Adobe Portfolio costs nothing extra with Creative Cloud: 12 themes, up to 5 sites, Lightroom sync, and a custom domain. It also has no store, no client galleries, no blog, and the site goes offline 14 days after you cancel Creative Cloud. Here is who free is actually good for.

July 30, 202617 min read

Portfolio Tips

Is Pixieset Worth It in 2026? An Honest Review

Pixieset's paid plans start at $8 a month and its free plan takes 15% of every store sale. For a photographer selling $4,000 a year through galleries, staying free costs $600. Here is exactly when Pixieset earns its price and when it does not.

July 30, 202619 min read

Creative Business

How to SEO a Photography Website in 2026

Most photography portfolios rank for exactly one thing: the photographer's own name. Here is the specific work that changes that, in the order it pays off.

July 29, 202615 min read

Website Design

Webflow vs Framer in 2026: Which Should You Use?

Webflow bills on two axes and lets you export your code. Framer meters CMS collections and bandwidth and does not. Neither of those facts is on the pricing page you were comparing.

July 29, 202616 min read

Website Design

9 Best Website Builders for Wedding Videographers 2026

A wedding film is the least website-friendly thing a creative can sell: heavy, slow to load, and hosted somewhere else. We built the same videographer site on 9 platforms to find which handles it best.

July 29, 202621 min read

Website Design

Is Squarespace Worth It for Photographers in 2026?

Squarespace costs about $228 a year, takes 7% of digital sales on the Basic plan, and does not deliver client galleries. Here is exactly when it is worth it and when it is not.

July 29, 202615 min read

Creative Business

Pic-Time vs Pixieset in 2026: Which Sells More?

Both take 15% on their free plans. Pic-Time's paid tier costs about $180 a year more than Pixieset's and sells for you while you sleep. Whether that pays is a number you can calculate.

July 29, 202617 min read

Creative Business

Gumroad Fees Explained: What You Pay in 2026

Gumroad's fee is 10% plus 50 cents per transaction plus card processing, and 30% when a buyer finds you through Discover. On a $5 product that flat 50 cents alone is 10%. Here is every line of the stack.

July 29, 202616 min read

Website Design

Squarespace vs Wix for Photographers in 2026

Squarespace charges 7% on digital content on its Basic plan; Wix will not let you change template after you publish. We compared both on the things that actually bite photographers in year two.

July 29, 202617 min read

Creative Business

Gumroad vs Payhip in 2026: Which Keeps More?

On a $19 product, Gumroad's 10% plus 50 cents is a 12.6% cut before processing. Payhip's free plan takes about 5%. Over 200 sales a year that gap is $290, and the fee is only the third most important difference.

July 29, 202617 min read

Creative Business

Pixieset vs ShootProof in 2026: Which Is Better?

Pixieset charges 15% on free-plan print sales; ShootProof charges 0% on every plan. That single difference is worth $720 a year on a modest print business, and it is not the only place these two split.

July 29, 202616 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 12 Best Website Builders for Writers in 2026 (Tested)

Substack takes 10% of your subscription revenue; Ghost takes none. And the publication that ran your best piece can delete its archive tomorrow. We tested 12 website builders for writers on fees, clip permanence, and who owns the reader.

July 29, 202620 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 11 Best Portfolio Websites for Students in 2026 (Tested)

Your university web space disappears when you graduate, and so does every link on your CV. We tested 11 portfolio websites for students on free plans, custom domains, and what actually survives the day your account is deactivated.

July 29, 202620 min read

AI Tools

12 Best AI Tools for Designers in 2026 (Tested)

Most AI design roundups list image generators and stop. We tested 12 AI tools across research, imagery, wireframing, and actually shipping the site, and priced three realistic annual stacks for a working designer.

July 29, 202621 min read

Website Design

11 Best Framer Alternatives in 2026 (We Tested Them All)

Framer's Pro plan is $30 a month until your eleventh CMS collection costs another $40. We tested 11 Framer alternatives on what they charge as a site grows, and who each one actually suits.

July 28, 202621 min read

Website Design

12 Best Website Builders for Creative Agencies in 2026

A three-person studio running ten client sites pays $4,116 a year on Webflow and $1,848 on Duda. We tested 12 website builders for creative agencies on seats, white-label, client billing, and what happens at handoff.

July 28, 202621 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Places to Sell Digital Templates in 2026 (Tested)

On 1 July 2026 Envato cut its top authors from 87.5% to a flat 50%. We compared 11 places to sell digital templates on what each one actually leaves you on a $29 sale, who owns the buyer, and how fast you get paid.

July 28, 202621 min read

Creative Business

The 12 Best Places to Sell 3D Models in 2026 (Tested)

The same $79 model pays you $31.60 on one marketplace and $76.41 from your own store. We compared 12 places to sell 3D models on royalty rate, exclusivity terms, audience, and what each one actually leaves in your account.

July 28, 202621 min read

Website Design

13 Best Free Website Builders in 2026 (We Tested Them All)

Free means five different things across these platforms: ad-supported, site-capped, domain-locked, or genuinely free. We tested 13 free website builders and priced what each one costs the day you need it to look professional.

July 28, 202620 min read

AI Tools

The 12 Best AI Tools for Filmmakers in 2026 (Tested)

Most AI filmmaking roundups list generators and stop. We tested 12 AI tools across script breakdown, edit, colour, sound, restoration, and delivery, and priced a realistic annual stack for an independent filmmaker.

July 28, 202621 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 11 Best Dribbble Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Dribbble charges a subscription and then takes a cut of the client work it sends you. We tested 11 Dribbble alternatives on leads, fees, portfolio depth, and who owns the relationship when the project closes.

July 28, 202621 min read

Creative Business

The 12 Best Places to Sell Sample Packs in 2026 (Tested)

A $29 sample pack pays you $23.20 on Bandcamp and $27.86 from your own store. We compared 12 places to sell sample packs on fees, reach, payout speed, and who owns the customer when the download finishes.

July 28, 202620 min read

Website Design

The 10 Best Website Builders for Artists in 2026 (Tested)

Most artist website platforms are really print-selling systems with a website attached, and they price accordingly. We tested 10 website builders for artists on gallery quality, print fulfilment, commission, and what each one actually costs a working painter.

July 28, 202620 min read

Creative Business

The 11 Best Places to Sell Stock Footage in 2026 (Tested)

Shutterstock pays 15% at the entry level. Your own site pays about 92%. We compared 11 places to sell stock footage on royalty rate, exclusivity, buyer volume, and what each one actually leaves in your account.

July 28, 202621 min read

Website Design

12 Best Webflow Alternatives in 2026 (We Tested Them All)

Webflow's plan is $15 a month. The thirty hours you spend learning it are not. We tested 12 Webflow alternatives on learning curve, real annual cost, CMS depth, and client handoff so you can pick the one that matches how much building you actually want to do.

July 28, 202622 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 11 Best Behance Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Behance costs nothing and takes something anyway: the URL, the search result for your own name, and the client who clicks a competitor in your related-projects rail. We tested 11 Behance alternatives on ownership, discovery, and what each one lets you keep.

July 28, 202621 min read

Creative Business

6 Best Website Builders for Musicians in 2026

At $1,000 a month of digital sales, Bandcamp's revenue share costs about $1,800 a year and a commission-free site costs about $180. We compared six website builders for musicians on the cut they take, the music-specific features they include, and what a working artist actually pays.

Sports photography splits in two: a portfolio that lands assignments, and galleries that deliver a team's shoot. We tested 7 website builders for sports photographers on both, plus the high-volume tools built for youth leagues.

July 21, 202617 min read

Website Design

Framekit vs Adobe Portfolio: Which Wins in 2026?

Adobe Portfolio comes free with your Creative Cloud subscription, and that free is doing a lot of work. We compare Framekit and Adobe Portfolio on design, ownership, selling, and galleries to find which fits a creative business in 2026.

July 21, 202612 min read

Portfolio Tips

8 Best Website Builders for Headshot Photographers 2026

Headshots are booked by corporate teams and actors and delivered as digital files for LinkedIn and casting - so the site has to book, proof, and deliver online, not sell prints. We tested 8 website builders for headshot photographers.

July 21, 202617 min read

Website Design

The 7 Best Strikingly Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Strikingly made a simple site fast and free, and it still looks like the year you built it, with a basic store and little room to grow. We tested 7 Strikingly alternatives that keep the simplicity and add a modern, sellable site you own.

July 21, 202615 min read

Portfolio Tips

8 Best Website Builders for Newborn Photographers 2026

Newborn clients book while still pregnant and buy while sleep-deprived, so the site has to convert early and the gallery has to sell without effort. We tested 8 website builders for newborn photographers on booking, delivery, and print and album sales.

July 21, 202617 min read

Portfolio Tips

7 Best Cargo Collective Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Cargo Collective makes gorgeous, art-directed portfolios and asks you to art-direct them, page by page, with no real store attached. We tested 7 Cargo Collective alternatives on design control, ownership, selling, and cost.

A folder of color grades can earn between jobs. Here is how to package LUTs as .cube packs, price them, and sell from a store you own without losing a cut to a marketplace.

July 20, 202612 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Client Galleries for Real Estate Photographers 2026

Real estate delivery is a race: the agent needs MLS-ready photos today. We compared 12 client galleries for real estate photographers on turnaround, agent access, bulk downloads, and cost per listing.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

14 Best Client Galleries for Event Photographers 2026

Event work means thousands of photos and hundreds of guests all wanting theirs now. We compared 14 client galleries for event photographers on upload speed, guest access, storage, and per-sale fees.

July 16, 202621 min read

Creative Business

How to Start Selling Digital Products in 2026

The barrier to selling a digital product is not the technology - it is knowing the steps. This guide walks you through all six, from picking a product to your first sale, using a real $24 preset pack as the example.

July 16, 202618 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Client Galleries for Newborn Photographers 2026

Newborn income lives in the prints and albums, not just the session fee, so the gallery that sells them beautifully matters. We compared 11 client galleries for newborn photographers on delivery, print sales, and presentation.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

10 Best Client Galleries for Boudoir Photographers 2026

In boudoir, privacy is not a feature - it is the whole business. We compared 10 client galleries for boudoir photographers on privacy controls, discreet delivery, and album sales.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Client Galleries for Portrait Photographers 2026

For portraits, the gallery is where the print sale happens - or does not. We compared 11 client galleries for portrait photographers on proofing, wall-art upsells, favoriting, and repeat bookings.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

How Much Does It Cost to Sell Digital Products in 2026?

The platform's fee decides your margin more than your price does. We break down what it really costs to sell digital products online in 2026 - from 0% to 26% per sale - across 9 platforms.

July 16, 202619 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Client Galleries for Senior Photographers 2026

Senior work sells prints to whole families and markets itself when seniors share - so the gallery is a print store and a referral engine. We compared 11 client galleries for senior photographers.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

9 Best AI Tools for Photographers 2026

AI's real gift to photographers is not generating images - it is giving back the hours lost to culling and editing. We compared 9 AI tools for photographers by the job each one does, from Aftershoot to Framekit.

July 16, 202619 min read

Creative Business

How to Deliver Photos to Clients in 2026

How you deliver the photos is the last thing a client experiences of working with you - and a chance to sell prints. This step-by-step guide covers delivering photos to clients professionally in 2026.

July 16, 202618 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Client Galleries for Family Photographers 2026

Family photography is a repeat business - the fall session rebooks next year, and grandparents buy the prints. We compared 12 client galleries for family photographers on delivery, print and card sales, and retention.

Podia bundles courses, products, and email - but if you sell products more than you teach, you pay for course tools you never use. We tested 13 alternatives on fees, delivery, and design.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

9 Best Tools to Sell Online Courses 2026

Selling a real video course needs lessons, student logins, and progress tracking - not just a checkout. We compared 9 tools to sell online courses on features, transaction fees, and who each one fits.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

14 Best Platforms for Selling Digital Art in 2026

Art is judged on sight and sold on margin, yet most platforms show your work in a grid and keep most of the price. We tested 14 platforms for selling digital art on commission, presentation, and reaching buyers who actually pay.

Contracts, invoices, and booking follow-ups eat the evenings a photographer should spend shooting or living. We ranked 9 studio management tools on the full client journey - inquiry to paid - and named where each one fits.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

The 14 Best Payhip Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Payhip is cheap and easy, but every Payhip store looks like a Payhip store. We tested 14 alternatives on fees, design control, VAT, and whether you can build a real website around the store.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

11 Best Photography Business Tools 2026

No single app runs a photography business - you run a stack, and it adds up fast. We compared 11 photography business tools across website, galleries, CRM, editing, accounting, and email, and mapped where each one earns its place.

July 16, 202619 min read

Creative Business

The 12 Best Platforms to Sell LUTs in 2026 (Tested)

LUTs sell on a look, so presentation matters as much as fees - and they are cheap, so flat per-sale fees bite. We tested 12 platforms on fees, .cube delivery, previews, and reaching your video audience.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

13 Best Zero-Commission Selling Platforms 2026 (Tested)

Zero-commission usually means zero platform fee, not zero cost - you still pay processing, and often a subscription to reach 0%. We tested 13 platforms on the real fee math to find which genuinely let you keep 100%.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

12 Best Website Builders to Sell Digital Products 2026

Most website builders treat digital downloads as an afterthought bolted onto a physical store. We tested 12 builders on transaction fees, automatic delivery, checkout, and whether the store looks like yours or theirs.

July 16, 202621 min read

Creative Business

The 13 Best Gumroad Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Gumroad takes 10% plus 50 cents of every sale, plus processing, on a page that carries its brand. We tested 13 alternatives on fees, payouts, and ownership to find which let you keep more of what you earn.

July 16, 202621 min read

Creative Business

The 14 Best Platforms to Sell Presets in 2026 (Tested)

Presets are cheap, so flat per-sale fees quietly eat a fifth of every order. We tested 14 platforms to sell presets and LUTs on fees, payout speed, and delivery to find which keeps the most money in your pocket.

July 16, 202621 min read

Creative Business

The 13 Best Print Fulfilment Options for Photographers 2026

Print sales should be passive income, not another job packing boxes. We compared 13 print fulfilment options for photographers on margins, lab quality, shipping, and how well each plugs into your galleries.

July 16, 202620 min read

Creative Business

The 12 Best Ways to Deliver Client Photos in 2026

How you hand over photos is part of what you deliver. We compared 12 ways to deliver client photos on professionalism, speed, cost, and whether the method wins you repeat work.

July 16, 202619 min read

Creative Business

The 13 Best SmugMug Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

May 19, 202611 min read

Portfolio Tips

How Many Photos Should a Portfolio Have? (2026)

Most creatives think a bigger portfolio is a safer one. It is the opposite. Here is how many photos a portfolio should actually have, and why the right number is smaller than you expect.

May 19, 202610 min read

Creative Business

How to Get Your First Photography Clients in 2026

People keep saying your photos are good. Nobody has paid you for them yet. That gap is not a skill problem, it is a marketing one, and this is the step-by-step way to close it.

May 19, 202612 min read

Website Design

Website vs Instagram: What Each Does for Creatives (2026)

The day Instagram reach collapses, or an account gets locked, every creative learns the same lesson. Website vs Instagram is not really a choice. Here is what each one actually does, and why you need both.

May 19, 202611 min read

Creative Business

How to Build a Content Creator Media Kit Website (2026)

May 19, 202611 min read

Website Design

How to Make a Free Portfolio Website (No Subscription, 2026)

Half the tools that rank for free portfolio website mean a 14-day trial. This step-by-step guide shows how to build a genuinely free portfolio site, with no subscription, and what the one honest optional cost really is.

May 19, 202611 min read

Portfolio Tips

11 Portfolio Mistakes That Cost Creatives Clients in 2026

Most lost work is not lost to better talent. It is lost to small, invisible portfolio mistakes that make a ready-to-hire client hesitate and leave. Here are 11 of them, and how to fix each one.

May 19, 202613 min read

Creative Business

Does Your Creative Business Need a Website in 2026?

If your whole business runs through Instagram DMs and a booking app, a website can feel optional. The honest answer depends on three things, and this guide walks through each one for makeup artists, tattoo artists, and stylists.

May 19, 202612 min read

Creative Business

The 8 Cheapest Website Builders for Creatives 2026

The cheapest website builder is rarely the one with the lowest monthly price. We compared 8 builders on real 3-year cost to find the true value pick for creatives.

May 18, 202612 min read

Website Design

Best Free Website Builders for Photographers (2026)

Free photography website builders all gate something. We tested 7 of them on what the free plan really gives you, and what it quietly takes away.

May 18, 202611 min read

Website Design

The 7 Best Vimeo Alternatives for Filmmakers 2026

Vimeo got expensive and crowded. We tested 7 Vimeo alternatives, from pure video hosts to portfolio builders, to find the best home for a filmmaker reel in 2026.

May 18, 202611 min read

Creative Business

The 9 Best Linktree Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Linktree is a link list, not a website. We tested 9 Linktree alternatives, from better link in bio tools to full website builders, to find what to use when a single page of links stops doing the job.

May 18, 202612 min read

AI Tools

The 8 Best B12 Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

B12 bundles scheduling and intake for service businesses, but the design is generic and the price climbs fast. We tested 8 alternatives on design quality, value, and features to find the ones worth switching to.

May 18, 202612 min read

AI Tools

The 6 Best Dorik Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Dorik is a clean, low-cost AI website builder, but its AI is shallow and the component library is thin. We tested 6 alternatives on design depth, performance, and cost to find the ones worth switching to.

May 18, 202611 min read

AI Tools

The 9 Best Durable Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Durable builds a small-business website in under a minute, but the design is shallow and you cannot export the site. We tested 9 alternatives on design quality, performance, and real cost to find the ones worth switching to.

May 18, 202612 min read

Website Design

The 7 Best Carbonmade Alternatives in 2026

Carbonmade is a charming, playful portfolio builder, but its design engine and performance have not kept pace. We tested 7 alternatives on AI design quality, mobile speed, and real cost to find the ones worth switching to.

May 18, 202611 min read

Creative Business

The 13 Best Pixieset Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Photographers leave Pixieset for two reasons: the 15% commission on the free plan and a website builder that feels like an afterthought. We compared 13 alternatives on fees, storage, galleries, and whether each can replace more than just Pixieset.

May 18, 202619 min read

Website Design

The 7 Best Pixpa Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Pixpa is cheap and bundles a lot, but the design feels generic and pages can drag. We tested 7 Pixpa alternatives on AI design, speed, and value for creatives.

May 18, 202612 min read

Website Design

The 8 Best Format Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Format is a solid portfolio builder, but its design feels dated and its plans get pricey. We tested 8 Format alternatives on AI design, speed, and cost to find the best fit for creatives.

May 18, 202612 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 6 Best Website Builders for Motion Designers 2026

Behance and Dribbble compress your reels and own your audience. We tested 6 website builders for motion designers on video playback, load speed, and design quality to find the best place to host your own site.

ArtStation is a feed, not a home. We tested 5 builders to find the best 3D artist portfolio website for showing renders and turntables on a fast site you own.

May 18, 202611 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 8 Best Website Builders for UX Designers in 2026

Hiring managers read case studies, not screenshots. We tested 8 website builders to find the best UX designer portfolio website for landing roles with deep, no-code case studies.

May 18, 202612 min read

Creative Business

The 6 Best Website Builders for UGC Creators (2026)

A link-in-bio is not a media kit. We tested 6 website builders to find the best UGC creator portfolio website for showcasing reels, rate cards, and brand results that actually close deals.

May 18, 202611 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 5 Best Website Builders for Tattoo Artists in 2026

Tattoo artists run their whole business out of the Instagram DMs, and the price of that is answering the same five questions forty times a week. A good website answers them once. We ranked five builders on how well they do that job.

May 18, 202613 min read

Tutorials

How to Move From Instagram to Your Own Website (2026)

Instagram is rented land. The algorithm decides who sees your work, you cannot be found on Google, and one suspension can wipe your business. This step-by-step guide moves you from an Instagram-only presence to a live owned website in a weekend.

May 18, 202612 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 6 Best Architecture Portfolio Website Builders 2026

An architecture portfolio is judged by other architects, and they judge for rigour, not pretty renders. We ranked 6 website builders on whether they can tell a project as concept, drawings, and built work.

May 18, 202613 min read

Website Design

The 9 Best Adobe Portfolio Alternatives in 2026 (Tested)

Adobe Portfolio feels free because it is bundled with Creative Cloud. That is the trap: the day you stop paying Adobe, your whole site goes dark. We tested 9 alternatives that you can actually own.

A real estate photographer needs two things online: a marketing site that wins agent clients and an ordering platform that delivers MLS-ready photos. We tested 7 builders on agent-facing design, gallery speed, and honest 3-year cost.

May 18, 202615 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 7 Best Website Builders for Portrait Photographers 2026

A stranger lands on your portrait photography website and decides in seconds whether they trust you to photograph them. We tested 7 builders on whether your style survives the template and how fast a nervous first-time client can book.

May 18, 202614 min read

Portfolio Tips

Website Builders for Product Photographers (2026)

A product photographer's client is a brand, and a brand hires on consistency across many SKUs. We tested 7 builders on showing a large, consistent body of work fast and on selling presets and guides without a marketplace cut.

May 18, 202614 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 7 Best Website Builders for Food Photographers 2026

Food photography is where image beauty and image weight collide hardest. We tested 7 builders on whether a portfolio can stay mouth-watering at full quality and still load fast enough to trigger appetite on the first phone scroll.

May 18, 202614 min read

Portfolio Tips

Website Builders for Family Photographers (2026)

Family and newborn photography is a referral-and-repeat business, so your website has two unusual jobs: make a referred parent trust a stranger, and let a past client rebook in two taps. We tested 7 builders on warmth, booking friction, and honest 3-year cost.

May 18, 202614 min read

Portfolio Tips

The 7 Best Website Builders for Travel Photographers 2026

A travel photographer earns from prints, licensing, workshops, assignments, and stock all at once. We tested 7 builders on whether one site can carry every income stream, rank globally, and do justice to landscape work, without becoming a Frankenstein of plugins.

Freelancers can spend over $1,000 across five years on website subscriptions. We ranked the most affordable website builders for freelancers on true 5-year cost, not monthly price.

January 13, 202610 min read

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