Steemit is pretty much still in its infancy (launched in March 2016), so we have to rely on all sorts of tools and addons to improve our steemit experience. If you want to know your current voting power percentage, how much someone's upvote is worth or even send a small gift to each of your loyal followers and don't want to do it one-by-one because that would take a gazillion years, you would have to use a tool, that's how it works at the moment. Maybe sometime in the future we won't have to use these external tools and have them built-in directly into the steemit platform. That remains to be seen. Until then, let's take a look at the best tools and addons out there for you to enhance your steemit experience.

❂ SteemD

What is SteemD?

The most important tool out there for checking out A LOT of hidden information about your account as well as checking your voting power, steem power, who upvoted your posts, when and with what percentage, steem transfers, whom you voted for witness and many many more functions.

How to use it?

To check your SteemD profile, you have to go to https://steemd.com/@your-username (replace Hive account@your-username with your username if that wasn't obvious enough)

How do I use this tool?

Check my voting power
Check incoming transactions and their attached memo without having to go to "Wallet" (mostly when I'm on mobile)
Checking who upvoted my posts and with what percentage

❂ Steemit More Info

What is Steemit More Info?

Steemit More Info is an awesome browser addon created by Hive account@armandocat that adds new tabs with custom information DIRECTLY into steemit. It's still an early version and it has its hiccups, but even so, an extremely useful addon. It shows your voting power, how many posts you upvoted today, recent upvoters of your posts and how much $ they added to it, your recent upvotes and whole lot more features. You can even sort posts into a grid or have a floating bar with the posts tags, date, author and number of upvotes so you can easily upvote or resteem that post. If you worry about your account's security, the code is readily available up on github. This addon is safe and won't steal your private information.
Check THIS post from its creator Hive account@armandocat to find all about Steemit More Info.

How to use it?

Google Chrome → DOWNLOAD LINK

Mozilla Firefox → DOWNLOAD LINK

In the Settings tab you can enable or disable features of this tool

How do I use this addon?

Check my voting power
Check how much my upvote is worth
Check recent upvotes (incoming or outgoing)
Faster upvote/resteem via floating bar
Sort front page posts into a grid
Fast access to tools via Links tab

❂ SteemStats

What is SteemStats?

A tool that offers you a lot of features like current voting power, estimated future curation rewards, who had the upvote with the most impact on your posts and a whole lot more features that would take a long time to list here.

How to use it?

Enter your steemit username (or someone's else username) on the SteemStats website on the left side.

How do I use it?

Check estimates of future curation rewards
Check who had the upvote with the most impact on my former posts

❂ SteemNow

What is SteemNow?

SteemNow is a tool mainly used to check how much a steemian's %upvote is worth. It also shows you that steemian's voting power, latest upvotes, curation rewards, author rewards and latest posts.

How to use it?

You type a username in the box and press Save. It will show you how much an upvote from that person is worth and you can drag the slider to whatever percentage you want to check on.

How do I use it?

Check how much an upvote is worth before bidding for an upvote from a bot

❂ Bidder analyzer

What is Bidder analyzer?

You can use this tool to calculate how much $ you are going to get before bidding on an upvote from a bot and how much time left until the next upvoting session.

How to use it?

Go to this website and add the bot's account name and how much $ would you want to bid and press Calculate. After a few seconds, it will tell you how many people already bid since the last upvoting session, what %upvote you are going to get and how much is that worth.

How do I use it?

To get a profit when I bid for bot upvotes

❂ Tipper

What is Tipper?

Tipper is an automated tool for those who want to reward their followers by giving them a tip. You can use it to promote your posts, a new tool, a new bot or reaching a follower milestone for example. The downside is that it charges you a fee of 0.001 SBD / tip sent, but the upside is that you don't have to send hundreds of transactions one-by-one.

How to use it?

On this website add (in order):

Your account name
Your private active key
amount of SBD you want to send (for each of your follower)
acceptable hours since the followers became inactive (if you input 2 hours, the followers that aren't active in the last 2 hours will not receive anything)
tip message, can include links here if you want to promote something
click on Calculate fee and wait a few seconds; it will tell you how much SBD you have to pay (fee included) and how many followers will receive your tip
click on Tip/Transfer to send followers a tip

How do I use it?

To promote my new posts and increase the number of upvotes I receive while maintaining a good and close relation with my followers (and it works)

❂ Steemit dead followers

What is Steemit dead followers?

A tool to track who are your dead followers. Dead followers are the ones that haven't logged in for a long time.

How to use it?

Enter your username on this website: Steemit dead followers

How do I use it?

To track what percentage of my followers haven't logged in for over a month.

❂ SteemVoter

What is SteemVoter?
SteemVoter is a tool for automatic upvote on posts created by steemians of your choosing.

How to use it?

Go to the SteemVoter website and click on Sign up
Create your account and click on Add account
Fill up the first field with your username and the second field with your private posting key (you can find it under Wallet→Permissions).
After, click on Rules and add the user you want SteemVoter to automatically upvote, voting power 1-100% and upvote delay. Click on Save rule

How do I use it?

Automatic curation
Auto upvote on daily "upvote to get a share of the payout" type of posts

❂ Dtube

What is Dtube?

Dtube is like YouTube, but made for steem. Any video you post on Dtube will also create a post on steemit with the exact same title and description. Also, any upvote you receive on the video will show up on the post and viceversa, same goes with replies.

How do use it?

Go to the Dtube platform and log in (check this video I made some time ago about how to log in to Dtube) then start posting videos.

How do I use it?

I don't really use it as I don't create videos, but if I would make videos, Dtube would be the way to go.

❂ Streemian

What is Streemian?

Best tool out there to set up a curation trail. You can follow great curators like Hive account@curie Hive account@papa-pepper Hive account@xeroc or Hive account@ats-david , cross-posting with your Reddit account and also schedule your posts.

How to use it?

Follow this in-depth guide from Hive account@scrooger that explains Streemian better than I will ever do.

Hod do I use it?

Follow great curators
Schedule my posts to go live whenever I want to
Cross-posting

Other tools you may like

SteemFollower

SteemFollower is a tool created to get you more followers. You follow a steemian from a generated list of members and you get 1 point that is converted into a follower for you at a 1:1 ratio. It also has a extra reward system where you can upvote posts submitted by members and you get back profitable upvotes on your recent post.