10 Tools for Blogtober to Use in 2026

Last updated on 17 July 2026

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With Blogtober right around the corner, you’re probably trying to figure out if you’ll take part this year. Is it something that you’re going to priotirse or at least give it ago? And how are you going to go about it?

Before I dive into some tools for Blogtober that I think will be helpful for, let’s just run through a few of the things you need to know.

What is Blogtober?

Blogobter is a blogging challenge that takes place in October. The idea is to write a blog post idea, thus having 31 blog posts published by the end of the month. That’s a lot of blog posts.

How do I do Blogtober?

You simply decide you’re doing it! Set yourself a schedule, writing time, and get those blog posts out there into the world. You can join in with communities online doing it, too, for that accountability. Check out Instagram hashtags or have a search on places like Facebook groups and even Threads.

What is your Get Back to Blogging Blogtober Challenge?

The Get Back to Blogging Blogtober Challenge was a challenge I started in 2022, a variation on the classic blogtober challenge, which I actually think isn’t that helpful for bloggers. You can learn more about that and sign up for updates for the next time I run it (or similar!) > Blogtober Challenge: Everything You Need to Know

But if you have decided to give Blogtober a go this year, then that is great! It’s good to challenge ourselves sometimes, for sure.

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10 Tools for Blogtober You Could Try This Year

There are lots of things you can do to help you with Blogtober, but over the years I’ve both taken part in the challenge and those like it, and for my normal blogging routines, I’ve discovered some tools are super helpful and enable me to get.stuff.done. Here are some of the tools for Blogtober I recommend checking out, with some alternatives, too.

Here are some of the things you need to make Blogtober work for you:

1. Blog Post Idea Vault
2. Content Planner
3. Ubbersuggest
4. Google Docs
5. Grammarly
6. Canva
7. Unsplash
8. Mailerlite
9. Metricool
10. Google Analytics

Blog Post Idea Vault

Having a list of blog posts that you can draw from for your Blogtober challenge is going to make everything so much more streamlined for. Whether you check out the Blog Post Idea Vault or you use a different list of blog posts, make sure you have one. Even better if you use your planner (next) to plan out your blog posts so that you can strategically interconnect them, too.

👉🏻 Alternative: 350+ Best Blog Post Ideas for Blogtober

Content Planner

Make sure you have a content planner of some sort! Here’s the one I’ve made and use every single day > Blogger’s Content Planner.

Whether you have a digital content calendar or planner like this one, or you have a paper version, it doesn’t matter. Planning ahead for Blogtober is going to save you, promise.

After many years of doing Blogtober and not actually having a plan for so many of those years, I can tell you, hand on heart, that planning out your blog posts in a planner or calendar is going to be one of the best things you can do for yourself.

👉🏻 Alternative: Trello, Notion, your own planner, or paper calendar

Ubbersuggest

Okay, so you don’t need to use Ubersuggest, but I recommend having a keyword tool like it on hand. Knowing which words people are using to find your content is going to be the difference between you just putting content out there into the world for a month and people actually finding your blog posts.

👉🏻 Alternative: Keysearch, SEMrush, and Ahrefs are some other ones you could check out. These vary between free, limited searches for free, and paid.

Google Docs

Google Docs is such a brilliant and easy place to write up your blog posts. Especially if you want a backup of your blog posts. You can, of course, write them straight into your blogging platform (WordPress, Squarespace, etc) but if you’re a little like me and you write some of your blog posts and then go away and come back to it, or have ideas while you’re on the go … sometimes it’s easier to have quick access via Google Docs than faffing around with trying to open WordPress.

👉🏻 Alternative: Your blog platform, but also check out tools like Notion or Evernote, or even Microsoft Word online. Any text-based tool you can use where you can write your blog posts.

Grammarly

For spelling and grammar. I love having Grammarly set up on my computer. It means that, hopefully, most of the time, my grammar and spelling are correct in my blog posts. There’s nothing worse than reading a great blog post but then getting distracted by poor grammar or glaring spelling mistakes.

(And yes, I know there will be many a blog post here that has errors, but we’re only human right? That’s why it’s a good idea to have a tool that will at least point out the major ones for you.)

👉🏻 Alternative: Rely on the spell check on your computer, or check out the Hemingway App for another alternative.

Canva

Canva is life. I absolutely love it. But why have I listed it here in these tools for Blogtober? If you’ll note the first image in the blog post – it had writing on it. And I did that on Canva. In fact, there are lots of graphics and images I used on my blog and in my blog posts that I’ve created on Canva.

If you don’t use infographics, like adding text to images, or including things like charts or graphs in your blog posts, then you might need Canva. But if you do, then it’s a great tool to use.

👉🏻 Alternative: You can check out these Canva alternatives here.

Unsplash

If you have Canva, then you might just use the images that are inside that platform. But if you don’t, or you want to shake it up a little bit, then Unsplash is a great place to find beautiful free images that you can use in your blog posts. While most of them are free to use, there are some only available in Unsplash Pro. But you can easily see which ones are free and paid for.

👉🏻 Alternative: Adobe Stock, Pexels, Dupe, and Burst are good alternatives.

Mailerlite

If you’re a blogger and you don’t have an email list yet, can I encourage you to set one up? Why? You don’t own your social media. That’s one of the biggies. This means if Facebook or Instagram or TikTok decides to pull the plug one day, there go all your connections to those people who follow you and your blog.

With an email list, you own it. It’s yours. If your mail provider calls it quits, you can take your list with you. You can learn more about email lists for bloggers here.

But I digress! I love Mailerlite for my emails – it’s simple to use, and it means I can send emails about my new blog posts out to those interested. There’s a free version, with some limitations, but if you have a small list, it’s a great place to start.

👉🏻 Alternative: There are SO many alternatives. You just need to find the ones that work for you, and what you ultimately need it for. Here are a few alternatives to Mailerlite: ActiveCampaign and Kit (formerly ConvertKit).

Metricool

So you’ve written all your Blogtober blog posts and perhaps you’ve sent them to your email list too. But what about that social media following? You gotta let them know about it, right? If you’re scheduling your blog posts ahead of time, then you can do the same for your social media content.

In fact, I recommend it. You can read why here.

But finding a social media scheduler like Metricool is going to be your saving grace when it comes to Blogtober. You don’t want to be scrambling to get your social posts out there.

👉🏻 Alternative: Facebook Schedular, Buffer, Planoly, CoSchedule, and Later are all ones you could check out.

Google Analytics

One of the other great tools for Blogtober that I recommend you have up your sleeve – and heck, for all times of the year! – is Google Analytics. This is going to allow you to see where your traffic is coming from, which posts are doing really well, which ones might need to be updated to help drive some more traffic, and how your Blogtober posts are doing in general.

👉🏻 Alternative: Google Search Console for a bit of a less overwhelming way to see some stats. Just note that they’re from Google only. Google Analytics will give you a better sense of where your traffic is coming from.

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Of course, you may find that you don’t need all these tools for blogtober, but they’re a great starting point if you want to have the best chance of achieving what you want to achieve.

And there are plenty of other options than just the ones I’ve listed, too. In fact, if you have another suggestion or you use a different digital tool for the blogtober challenge, let me know in the comments!