INTRODUCTION
I have been on this ever growing platform for quite a while now. Blogging without applications or tools to support you is like farming on a 100 acre plot with only man power. It is laborious and costly. Today, i will like to introduce you to an amazing website that assembles all the tools. It is called STEEMTOOLS.COM
What is Steemtools.com?
Steemtools is a website made by @roelandp and maintained by @transisto which is dedicated to listing apps that are linked to the steem blockchain in activity. It is not an official website to assemble all these apps and as such steemit.inc is independent of steemtools. Nevertheless, steemtools is the only website with such a live update as to the listing of new apps being developed unto steemit.
Why Steemtools.com?
The steem blockchain can be likened to the sea. The sea has several rivers that empty into it. It is so huge that it is constantly being filled by these rivers. But the sea isnt limited to the river flowing in. Rain drops fall into the sea. Waste water enters the sea. You can pour water yourselve into the sea. The steem blockchain has several unlimited entry points just like the sea and keeping track of all the available entry can be tiring. There is therefore a need for data source to list all the entry points and accessory applications for the steem blockchain.
Getting Started On Steemtools.
There are a whole lot of apps being developed on the blockchain. Steemtools has a general listing page and six categorisation. They are author, Curation, Data, Community, Developer, Frontend, Services, and Wallet. 
The Picture above is a screenshot of Steemtools Highlighting the Categorisation.
AUTHOR
Applications that help one in making and writing articles are categorised in the the author category. Writing on steemit can be quite difficult without a knowledge of what markdown is and other tools to help. This category of applications highlights apps developed to assist in making posts easily. Currently, Below is a listing of some of the available tools in the author category.
- Steemimg.com
- Steemstyle.com
- Steemfilter.space and many more.
CURATION
The concept of curation took me a while to grasp after joining steemit. Curating is simply finding undervalued post and voting it up in order to get to its right value which could sometimes be the trending page. Curation comes with rewards and to make the best out of it, there are applications designed to make it easy for you.
Below is a a listing of some of the available tools in the curation category.
- Steemplus
- Steemitrandom
- Curator Pro Feed and many more
DATA
The data category sorts out applications used to explore statistical data such as author rewards made for the week, witness stats, power down estimation dollar value, articles with your name mentioned in and many more. It consist of very useful applications you cannot afford to miss out.Below is a a listing of some of the available tools in the data category.
- Steemnow.com
- Steem-buddy.com
- Steemb.com
COMMUNITY
Steemit is all about communities. @tojukaka will say "tribes are being currently formed on steemit". Communities has members and it should be easy to identify these members. The community category, contains applications that enables steemians to bond and create tighter connections through communication. Below is a a listing of some of the available tools in the community category:
- Steem On Telegram
- Steemit.chat
- Steem.center
- Mapala.net
DEVELOPER
This is for the tech guys on steemit who want to build and help maintain the blockchain. The steem blockchain is an open source application and as such others can add their contributions and build applications freely on the blockchain. The developer category consist of a list of applications that provides data and materials needed to get started in developing your app. Below is a a listing of some of the available tools in the community category:
- Utopian.io
- PHP Client
- Steemdata.com
- Piston.web
FRONTEND
Front-end web development is the practice of producing HTML, CSS and usually JavaScript for a website or Web Application so that a user can see and interact with them directly.
From wikipedia.
In simple words, there is a raw data on the steem blockchain and the frontends are the graphical presentaion of the raw data so that it can be easily understood and used by the everyday user. There are several frontends built on the steem blockchain with the main frontend being steemit.com. Below is a list of some of the frontends on the steem blockchain:
- Dtube.video
- Dmania.lol
- Busy.org and many more
SERVICES
In a huge ecosystem like the steem blockchain, there are applications that provide services such as auto voting, trails, bots and many more. This category list some of the available services on the steem blockchain. Below is a list of some of the services in the service category:
- Radiosteem.com
- Steemarket.com
- Steemdice.net
- Steemauto.com
WALLET
Every cryptocurrency has wallets where the coins are kept. On steem, wallets are very few and below is a list of some of the available wallets for the blockchain.
NB: Steem tools is a weapon that can make you very productive on steemit and also very unproductive as well if not utilised well. It is my advise that you read latest articles about every tool you intend to use before using it in order to make sure it is safe to use. Protect your self by reading and you will forever be successful. Watch out for my detail analysis on each of the tools as i dissect them in my coming write ups.
These steemit tools make my blogging easier most especially @busy.org for posting. Thanks to the creators.
I love using busy.org because of the notification system. It's one of the best frontends
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Such impressively annoying spam you have!
wow hah why would you even write this>??? It wasn't even relevant at ALL lol
thank you for the information, I am a beginner and still have a lot to learn about tools steemit, and this post is very help me
Its my pleasure that it helped you. One of the game changing things I got to know about steemit when I joined earlier on was steemtools. I believes your game is going to change
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There is beauty in learning.keep doing more and share more great work @tj4real
There is excellence written all over this post. Well-done sir
Well-done
Thanks for the complement.
Excellent post @tj4real. Good informatio to us. We needed something like this.
thanks for sharing! exciting posts
application blockchain steem, all access points can be connected quickly.
very useful article.
Thanks for sharing this helpful information. I guess it will be helpful to newbies like me.
brilliant. with all these tools (and the many others yet to be developed) Steemit is sure to catch on fast; to me it is already remarkably user friendly. . . . .soon steemit will recieve the upvote (super mass adoption) it deserves. Thanks to people like you @tj4real
Steemtools entails a lot. I need to learn how this system works. Many thanks.
@tj4real.
WOW @ackza usually just recommended me to D.tube for Youtube, Dsound,audio to replace Soundcloud, Zappl to replace twitter, @steepshot ( or alpha.steepshot.io )( to replace Insrtagra, 9Steepshot as a nice android app! ) and I know there are MANY more services like peerquery.com that is like StackExchange or Yahoo Answers but on Steem where you get PAID to Ask and Answer Questions and then we have Chainbb by @jesta that makes steem like a Oldschool style Forum!
SO anymore I am forgetting
Oh I want to make sure people know about busy.org because it could become the linkedin for steem where we have PROFESSIONAL Atmosphere for WORK and we all upload our RESUMES
Imagine if eac Steem Blog had a RESUME (Kinda like how facebook has people input their work history and have actual confirmed employers cofirm if people did or did not work somewhere and its pretty advanced, we could use all open source tools to manage content with custom Jsons all on our own front ends using steemconnect, and imagine when we have comunities I believe we will get more flexicibility in customizing the sub-steemits (Like subreddits o yes we will get that here )
Hmm. How do these help you? Dtube, Dsound, Zapple.