What I use:
GrabberRoos: best quilting gloves on the market.
Halo: for small areas : Sharon Schamber's tool.
Super Slider
Bobbin Genie: stops bird nesting of thread at start up.
And a teeny tiny crochet hook size 14 to pull ends of thread into the batting. I leave a long tail so I can pull from a seam, that thread is never coming out.