235 Must-Have Third-Party Social Media Tools for 2025 [Curated Guide]

235 Third-Party Social-Media Utilities: A Plain-English Field Guide for Curious Graduates (No hype, no jargon, only what you can actually use today) “ Imagine Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, Mastodon, Snapchat, Threads, X, and YouTube as ten giant toy boxes. This article hands you 235 working, non-sketchy tools—open-source or freemium—that let you download, schedule, analyze, remix, or completely replace the official apps. Everything is current to July 2025 and pulled from one public list that is automatically checked every week for dead links. Contents Why Third-Party Tools Matter (and When They Don’t) One-Minute Road-Map: Pick the Right Tool in Four …