We’re not here to overwhelm you with a dozen portfolio builder options. Instead, we’re giving you the ultimate UGC portfolio toolkit. The top tools to make the process easy and your portfolio top-notch.
From the actual building of a portfolio website that gets you noticed (still the most important step, btw), to creating scroll-stopping visuals and booking calls with dream clients, we’ve rounded up the best of the best. 💅
The best tool for creating your portfolio website
Let’s start with the basics: an app that helps you build the homebase of your online presence, your UGC portfolio website.
Copyfolio
The best tool to create your UGC portfolio is hands down Copyfolio. Because you’ll need something that’s quick and simple to build, can showcase all your top content, and look polished and professional, even if you’re not the best at web design. That’s exactly what Copyfolio offers. It has:
- Customizable templates that make the setup easy
- Designer-made color palettes with the option to create your own
- Video uploads and gorgeous video galleries with rounded corners or mockups
- A built-in writing assistant that fixes your text and makes it on-brand
- Quizzes to figure out your brand personality and tone of voice if you haven’t yet
- Section presets to give you ideas and make portfolio building intuitive
- Easy custom domain setup, where you can buy or connect your own
- Project showcase options for all kinds of user-generated content
And the best part? It’s free to try with no commitments. If you want brands to take you seriously with an aesthetic, responsive UGC portfolio, Copyfolio is the best choice for you.
Give it a try and create a stunning UGC portfolio. ✨
Want all the bells and whistles? You can get Copyfolio Premium for $15/month (or $108/year) if you loved it after you tried.
Designing visuals for your UGC portfolio
To take UGC portfolio building one step further, you should consider designing some custom visuals for your site. Though Copyfolio has a built-in thumbnail designer, so for case studies and link projects, you won’t need another tool. But for the rest, we have two recommendations for you.
Canva
We probably don’t need to introduce Canva: it’s one of the most popular online design tools out there. With a free plan and thousands of templates, it makes it super accessible for anyone to create designs. Apart from the templates, with a Premium plan, you can remove backgrounds, edit photos, recolor things, and more. All that for $15/month or $120/year.
Kittl
If you’re looking for a fun, up-and-coming alternative, take a look at Kittl. It feels like a more polished version of Canva with pro-level templates, great for social graphics or content branding. Looking through their website and templates, it really feels like a breath of fresh air, something different from that typical Canva template look.
They also offer a free plan with limitations, or you can upgrade to their Pro plan for access to vector files, advanced editing, and AI tools for $15/month or $120/year.
Editing videos to showcase your work
It’s not a UGC portfolio without content, videos specifically to showcase. If you’ve been in the game for a while, you probably have your go-to editing setup. But if you’re still figuring it out, don’t stress. We rounded up the best video editing tools to make your work shine and your portfolio pop off.
Capcut or Adobe
The two most popular options for editing UGC videos are CapCut and Adobe Premiere Rush. You can use both of them either on your phone or desktop, and are both pretty intuitive.
Capcut’s popular for the templates and music available in-app, while Premier Rush is popular with creators already familiar with the Adobe ecosystem. The latter also comes with Adobe Express, which gives you Canva-like design tools.
To get the most out of them, you can subscribe to CapCut Pro for $9.99/month or $89.99/year, or to Adobe Express (for Premier Rush) for $9.99/month.
Descript
If you want something more extra than the typical run-of-the-mill video editors, try Descript.
With Descript, you can edit your video like a doc, then make it even better with an AI co-editor, visuals from their media library, and other handy tools. Our favorite is using Descript to create engaging, short clips for socials from a longer-form video.
You can try Descript for free, but to get the most out of it, you’ll need to upgrade. The Hobbyist is $24/month or $192/year.
AI writing assistants for the best portfolio copywriting
As a UGC creator, you probably mostly focus on photography, videos, and all these visual things. So why not get a little copywriting help from AI to perfect your portfolio? Here are our top two tools for that.
Copyfolio’s Writing Assistant
If you’re using Copyfolio to build your portfolio website, you won’t need another tool to perfect your copywriting. Copyfolio has a built-in writing assistant that can not only fix your grammar, shorten your text, or help with SEO, but also make it sound like you.
Once you’ve got your tone of voice, you can apply it to any copy on your portfolio website with just a click. What could be easier than that?
Lex
If you’re looking for more of a collaborative option, take a look at Lex. You can imagine it as an AI-powered, minimalist and distraction-free Google Docs.
It’s not going to write the text by itself (which we wouldn’t want anyway), but it can give you even more in-depth improvements like brevity and cliché checks. It can also give you feedback like a colleague would, so if you’re building your portfolio outside of Copyfolio, definitely give it a try.
Lex has a free plan you can try, but if you want to use premium AI models with less limitations, you need to upgrade to Lex Pro for $24.99/month or $179.88/year.
Showcasing your process with client-ready tools
Most creators upload a few videos and call it a day. But if you really want to stand out, show potential clients what it’s actually like to work with you.
Give them a peek behind the scenes: how you handle approvals, share updates, or report on results. It’s not just about what you create, but how you collaborate that makes you the one they want to book.
The best tool to show how you do client approvals: Planable
As a UGC creator, you’ll have to get your content approved by the client, then edit and iterate as needed. This can be super smooth and easy, or super annoying and simply a hassle. It all depends on your professionalism and the tool you use.
So find a tool that’s easy to use both for you and your clients, and share some snippets in your portfolio about how it looks in action. Our recommendation? Planable.
With no extra steps, it’s easy for you to set up approval requests and easy for your clients to join. Not to mention that you can use Planable for so much more in your work: plan and create posts, schedule your own content, and engage with your followers.
While Planable is free to try, for approvals, you’ll need to upgrade to their Basic plan for $39/month or $396/year. Not as affordable as the other tools on our list, but for the sake of a great client experience, it’s worth considering.
Our top choice for showcasing your reports: Whatagraph
If you’re not only sending your finished content over, but also posting it on your on socials, brands will want to see the stats. And the more data you want to report, the harder it gets to present it nicely. Not wanting to mess up the look of your UGC portfolio, you gotta find a tool that makes reporting both easy and aesthetic.
The best pretty reporting tool is Whatagraph. It can help you create on-brand reports and even give you instant insights (fueled by AI), so it’s more than just a data dump. Originally created for marketing agencies, it has tailored pricing based on your needs, so you’ll need to talk to their sales team to get a quote.
Scheduling appointments with leads and clients
When your portfolio is a banger, leads will be eager to call. And what would be easier for them than clicking a button and booking a discovery call right away? Here are our top two options for that.
Calendly
There’s a good chance Calendly already came to your mind when we brought up appointment scheduling. And it’s for a reason: they’re intuitive and have all the features you could possibly need.
The catch is that you’d need to pay for their Standard plan to create multiple event types and customize them to your personal brand. Right now it costs $12/month or $120/year, depending on the billing cycle you choose. It could definitely be worth it for the professional look and ease it gives, though.
Google Calendar
Did you know that you can now set up appointment booking within Google Calendar too? If you don’t want yet another tool and don’t need fancy customization, it’s a great option. You can create one appointment booking page at no additional cost—or you can upgrade to Business Standard for multiple pages, paid bookings, and other premium features and tools.
Armed with all the best tools to create a UGC portfolio, are you ready to jump in? Don’t think or prep too much, just get started—you’ll realise it’s much easier (and more fun) than you think! Click here to start building your dream portfolio ✨
