Today I’m sharing my AppSumo review. This article is sponsored by AppSumo but reflects my honest opinion.
I want to tell you about a platform I use to improve Making Sense of Cents.
AppSumo partners with software companies to offer exceptional, limited-time deals on tools that help entrepreneurs, small business owners, and freelancers grow and scale their businesses. Since launching in 2011, AppSumo has run 1,600 deals and saved customers more than $500,000,000.
Yes — that number is accurate.
Tools that normally cost hundreds per month sometimes appear in the AppSumo store for limited periods at price points like $49. AppSumo has helped launch well-known services such as Dropbox, MailChimp, and Evernote. You can find tools for social media automation, SEO, site design and development, and many other areas.
How AppSumo Works
My first reaction when I saw an AppSumo offer was, “How can this tool drop from $700 to $49?” It felt almost too good to be true. Here’s the explanation:
AppSumo partners with software startups that want greater visibility and useful feedback from their community, known as Sumo-lings. The AppSumo team works with the company for months to prepare a launch to their audience of over a million people. In exchange for exposure, many startups offer deeply discounted lifetime or multi-year licenses to AppSumo customers, which is how those steep discounts are possible.
What’s In Store Right Now
Many readers ask what I use for social media images for platforms like Facebook and Pinterest.
AppSumo recently featured a deal I’m excited about: StockUnlimited, a large stock asset library with over 1,000,000 premium items. Three years of access to StockUnlimited normally costs about $684, but AppSumo offered it for $49 for 3 years during a limited promotion.
For bloggers, this kind of deal is extremely valuable. StockUnlimited provides royalty-free images as well as an integrated editor for customizing and editing SVG and JPG files (including layers), making it simple to create polished graphics every time.
You can create custom visuals for blog posts, social media in various sizes, and ads.
StockUnlimited also includes a wide range of fonts and an audio library, making it useful for nearly any visual or multimedia project.
I use StockUnlimited to create graphics like the examples below and find it very user-friendly and straightforward.
In the image above I also used another tool I purchased through AppSumo — RelayThat.
Pinterest favors fresh pins rather than repeatedly reusing the same images. RelayThat streamlines creating many new pin variations quickly and easily. Although that specific deal has ended, AppSumo lists new tools frequently, so it’s worth checking regularly.
Here’s a snapshot of RelayThat in action.
If you want StockUnlimited, visit AppSumo while the offer is active and purchase a license (one code equals three years of access) for the promotional price. AppSumo deals typically run for 2–4 weeks, so act quickly if you’re interested.
As an additional incentive, AppSumo sometimes offers extra discounts via referral links. If a referral promotion is available, you may receive an additional percentage off your order when you use a host’s referral link.
Click here to check current AppSumo offers and see if StockUnlimited or similar tools are available now.