Best 20+ Tools for Academic Researchers in 2025

Listmonk is an email marketing platform that you install and run on your own server. Unlike cloud services such as Mailchimp, you download and host it yourself, which means you own all your data and pay no monthly fees.

SMTP.com is an email delivery platform that sends your business emails through their servers instead of your own. This means better delivery rates because they maintain good relationships with email providers and follow all the technical rules needed for emails to land in inboxes.

Amazon SES is a service that sends and receives emails for your business through the internet. Instead of running your own email server, you use Amazon's system to handle everything. You can send marketing campaigns, order updates, password resets, or any other emails your application needs.

Postmark is an email delivery service that sends your automated emails using modern technology. You can connect it to your website or app through their API or SMTP settings, and it handles the rest. Unlike regular email services, Postmark specializes in transactional emails - the important messages your customers expect right away.

SMTP2Go is a tool that sends your emails through its secure servers instead of your regular email system. This helps avoid problems like emails going to spam or getting blocked by internet providers.

ImprovMX is a cloud-based email forwarding tool that connects your custom domain to your existing email inbox. Instead of setting up complicated email servers or paying for expensive hosting, you simply point your domain to ImprovMX and create email aliases that forward to your personal email.

Kap is a desktop screen recording application exclusively for Mac computers. It allows you to capture your screen activity and save it in different formats like GIF, MP4, WebM, or APNG. The application lives in your menu bar and activates quickly with a keyboard shortcut.

Snapify is a web-based screen recording platform that captures your screen activity, webcam, and audio simultaneously. You can use it to create video messages, tutorials, product demos, or bug reports in seconds. The tool runs entirely online, so there is no software to install on your computer.

Docsie is a tool that helps you create and organize documentation for your products, services, or internal processes. You can write guides, manuals, and help articles in one place, then publish them to a website where your team or customers can find answers.

DeepDocs is a GitHub AI agent that maintains your technical documentation in perfect sync with your codebase. When you commit code changes, it scans your entire repository to find documentation that needs updates and makes the necessary changes automatically.