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A big, curated directory of tools that cost nothing to use, open-source software, no-account web tools, and the genuinely-free tiers of great products. Curated by the Devpuff team.

Documentation & References

14 picks

MDN Web Docs

The definitive reference for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Bookmark it — you'll live here.

DevDocs

Fast, offline-friendly API documentation for dozens of languages in one place.

The Modern JavaScript Tutorial

A thorough, beginner-friendly deep dive into JavaScript from the basics up.

Python Docs

The official Python language and standard-library reference.

W3Schools

Quick, example-first references and try-it editors for the whole web stack.

Can I Use

Check browser support for any HTML, CSS, or JS feature before you ship it.

Devhints

Rico's terse cheat sheets for hundreds of tools, languages, and CLIs.

OverAPI

One page linking out to cheat sheets for every language and framework.

The Rust Book

The official, free, and genuinely excellent guide to learning Rust.

Go by Example

Learn Go through annotated, runnable example programs.

cppreference

The community reference for the C and C++ standard libraries.

PHP Manual

The official PHP reference, famous for its user-contributed notes.

web.dev

Google's guidance on building fast, modern, accessible websites.

roadmap.sh

Community skill-tree roadmaps for frontend, backend, DevOps, and more.

Learn to Code

16 picks

freeCodeCamp

Thousands of hours of free, certification-track coding curriculum.

The Odin Project

A complete, free full-stack curriculum built on real projects.

CS50 (Harvard)

Harvard's legendary intro to computer science, free on the web.

Full Stack Open

University of Helsinki's deep, free modern React and Node course.

The Missing Semester (MIT)

MIT's crash course in the dev tools every course assumes you know.

Exercism

Practice 70+ languages with free exercises and human mentoring.

Khan Academy

Free, approachable lessons in programming and computer science.

MDN Learn Web Development

A structured, free path through the fundamentals of the web.

JavaScript30

Wes Bos's 30 free builds in plain JavaScript — no frameworks.

SQLBolt

Learn SQL through quick, interactive in-browser lessons.

Learn X in Y Minutes

A whirlwind tour of a language, entirely in annotated code.

Kaggle Learn

Free, hands-on micro-courses in Python, ML, and data science.

Microsoft Learn

Free learning paths for .NET, Azure, Python, and more.

The Coding Train

Daniel Shiffman's joyful, free creative-coding video tutorials.

Codecademy

Interactive lessons across many languages, with a solid free tier.

Scrimba

Interactive screencasts you can pause and edit; generous free track.

Practice & Challenges

12 picks

LeetCode

The go-to bank of interview-style algorithm problems; big free tier.

Codewars

Level up by solving community kata and comparing your solutions.

HackerRank

Practice problems and skill certifications across many domains.

Project Euler

Math-flavored programming challenges that reward clever thinking.

Advent of Code

A beloved yearly December puzzle calendar for programmers.

CodinGame

Sharpen your skills by writing code to win games.

Edabit

Bite-sized challenges that build momentum for beginners.

Codeforces

The heart of competitive programming, with frequent contests.

CSES Problem Set

A curated, high-quality problem set for learning algorithms.

Frontend Mentor

Real-world HTML/CSS/JS challenges from professional designs.

Codewell

Practice building UIs from free Figma design files.

Regex Crossword

Learn regular expressions by solving crossword puzzles.

Code Editors & IDEs

12 picks

Visual Studio Code

The free, extensible editor most of the industry now runs on.

VSCodium

Community VS Code builds with none of Microsoft's telemetry.

Neovim

The hyper-extensible, keyboard-driven refork of Vim.

Vim

The ubiquitous modal editor that's on nearly every server.

GNU Emacs

The extensible, self-documenting editor that's also half an OS.

Zed

A blazing-fast, collaborative editor written in Rust; free and open.

Visual Studio Community

Microsoft's full IDE, free for individuals and small teams.

IntelliJ IDEA Community

JetBrains' powerful Java IDE, free in its Community edition.

PyCharm Community

A first-class Python IDE, free in its Community edition.

Eclipse

The long-standing open-source IDE for Java and much more.

Notepad++

The fast, lightweight Windows text and code editor.

Android Studio

Google's official, free IDE for building Android apps.

Playgrounds & Sandboxes

12 picks

CodePen

The social front-end playground for HTML, CSS, and JS.

CodeSandbox

Spin up full web-app environments instantly in the browser.

StackBlitz

Run Node and front-end projects in-browser with WebContainers.

JSFiddle

The original quick-and-dirty web snippet playground.

Replit

Code in 50+ languages from the browser; generous free tier.

PlayCode

A fast JS and TypeScript playground with instant live preview.

TypeScript Playground

Experiment with TypeScript and see the compiled JS instantly.

Compiler Explorer

See exactly what assembly your C, C++, or Rust compiles to.

DB Fiddle

Test SQL against Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite in the browser.

RegExr

Build, test, and learn regular expressions interactively.

Wandbox

An online compiler supporting many languages and versions.

Val Town

Write and run small serverless functions from the browser; free tier.

Version Control & Git

12 picks

Git

The distributed version control system underneath everything.

GitHub

Host repos and collaborate; free for public and private repos.

GitLab

Git hosting with a full built-in CI/CD platform; free tier.

Codeberg

Community-run, nonprofit Git hosting powered by Forgejo.

Bitbucket

Atlassian's Git hosting, free for small teams.

GitHub Desktop

A friendly, free GUI for everyday Git workflows.

Sourcetree

A free, polished Git desktop client for Mac and Windows.

Lazygit

A fast terminal UI for Git that makes staging a joy.

Learn Git Branching

Master Git branching through a visual, interactive game.

Oh Shit, Git!?!

Plain-English recipes for undoing common Git mistakes.

Gitea

A lightweight, self-hostable Git service you fully own.

Semantic Commit Messages

A simple spec for writing consistent, readable commit history.

Terminal & Command Line

16 picks

Windows Terminal

Microsoft's modern, tabbed, GPU-accelerated terminal.

iTerm2

The powerful terminal replacement for macOS.

Oh My Zsh

A delightful framework for managing your Zsh configuration.

Starship

A fast, minimal, endlessly customizable cross-shell prompt.

tmux

Split, detach, and persist terminal sessions like a pro.

fzf

A blazing-fast general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.

ripgrep

Search code recursively at ludicrous speed. Retires grep.

bat

A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

eza

A modern, colorful, Git-aware replacement for ls.

fd

A simple, fast, and friendly alternative to find.

zoxide

A smarter cd that learns your most-used directories.

htop

An interactive, colorful process viewer for the terminal.

tldr pages

Community cheat sheets with practical examples for CLI commands.

jq

The command-line JSON processor you'll reach for constantly.

curl

The universal command-line tool for transferring data with URLs.

Warp

A modern terminal with blocks and built-in AI; free tier.

API Development & Testing

12 picks

Hoppscotch

A fast, open-source, in-browser API client. Nothing to install.

Postman

The industry-standard API client, with a capable free tier.

Insomnia

A clean open-source REST, GraphQL, and gRPC client.

Bruno

An offline-first, Git-friendly API client; fully open source.

Swagger Editor

Design and document OpenAPI specs right in the browser.

webhook.site

Instantly inspect and debug incoming webhooks and requests.

Beeceptor

Mock REST APIs and inspect requests in seconds; free tier.

Mockoon

Design and run mock APIs locally in one open-source app.

JSONPlaceholder

A free fake REST API for prototyping and tutorials.

Reqres

A hosted REST API returning real responses for your tests.

httpbin

A simple HTTP request-and-response service for testing clients.

grpcurl

Like curl, but for gRPC — call and explore services from the shell.

Databases & Backend

16 picks

Supabase

Open-source Firebase alternative: Postgres, auth, storage; free tier.

Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching and scale-to-zero; free tier.

PocketBase

One Go binary: database, auth, and realtime. Free and open source.

Appwrite

An open-source backend platform with a generous free tier.

Firebase

Google's app backend with a free Spark plan to start.

Turso

Edge-hosted SQLite (libSQL) with a generous free tier.

MongoDB Atlas

Managed MongoDB with a free 512 MB shared cluster.

Upstash

Serverless Redis and Kafka billed per request; free tier.

PostgreSQL

The world's most advanced open-source relational database.

SQLite

The zero-config, embedded database that's quietly everywhere.

Redis

The open-source in-memory data store for caches and queues.

MariaDB

A community-developed, open-source fork of MySQL.

Prisma

A type-safe, open-source ORM for Node and TypeScript.

DBeaver

A free, universal desktop client for virtually any database.

Beekeeper Studio

A modern, open-source SQL editor and database manager.

pgAdmin

The full-featured open-source admin tool for PostgreSQL.

Free Hosting & Deployment

16 picks

Vercel

Frontend cloud with instant deploys and previews; strong free tier.

Netlify

Deploy static sites and functions from Git; generous free tier.

Cloudflare Pages

Static and full-stack hosting with unlimited free bandwidth.

Cloudflare Workers

Serverless functions at the edge; 100k requests a day free.

GitHub Pages

Host static sites straight from a GitHub repository, free.

GitLab Pages

Serve static sites from any GitLab repository, free.

Render

Deploy web apps, static sites, and services; free tier.

Deno Deploy

Deploy JavaScript and TypeScript to the edge; free tier.

Koyeb

A serverless platform to deploy apps globally; free tier.

Surge

Publish static sites from the command line in seconds, free.

Firebase Hosting

Fast, secure static hosting on the free Spark plan.

Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Always-Free Arm VMs and databases — surprisingly generous.

Streamlit Community Cloud

Deploy Python data apps straight from GitHub, free.

Hugging Face Spaces

Host ML demos free with Gradio, Streamlit, or Docker.

Neocities

Free static web hosting with a friendly, retro-web community.

InfinityFree

Truly free PHP and MySQL web hosting with no forced ads.

DevOps & Containers

16 picks

Docker

Package and run apps in containers; free Desktop for personal use.

Podman

A daemonless, open-source container engine and Docker alternative.

GitHub Actions

Automate builds, tests, and deploys with generous free minutes.

Kubernetes

The open-source system for orchestrating containers at scale.

Terraform

Define and provision infrastructure as code, open source.

Ansible

Automate configuration and deployment with simple YAML.

Portainer

A friendly web UI for Docker and Kubernetes; free Community edition.

k3s

A lightweight, certified Kubernetes for edge and local dev.

Minikube

Run a local single-node Kubernetes cluster for learning.

Grafana

Beautiful open-source dashboards for metrics and logs.

Prometheus

The open-source standard for metrics and alerting.

Nginx

The high-performance open-source web server and reverse proxy.

Caddy

A web server with automatic HTTPS out of the box.

act

Run your GitHub Actions locally before you push.

Uptime Kuma

A self-hosted, open-source uptime monitor with a slick UI.

Dependabot

Automated dependency updates, free and built into GitHub.

AI Coding Assistants

12 picks

GitHub Copilot

AI completions and chat in your editor, with a free monthly tier.

Windsurf (Codeium)

Free, unlimited AI autocomplete and chat for every major IDE.

Continue

An open-source AI assistant you can point at any model.

Cursor

An AI-first editor built on VS Code, with a usable hobby tier.

Amazon Q Developer

AWS's AI coding companion, free for individual use.

Cody (Sourcegraph)

Codebase-aware AI chat and autocomplete; free tier.

Gemini Code Assist

Google's AI coding assistant with a free individual tier.

Ollama

Run open LLMs like Llama and Qwen locally — free and offline.

LM Studio

Discover, download, and run local LLMs with a friendly GUI.

Aider

Pair-program with an LLM directly in your terminal; open source.

Cline

An open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code.

Tabby

A self-hosted, open-source AI coding assistant you control.

Design & Prototyping

14 picks

Figma

The collaborative interface design tool; a strong free tier.

Penpot

The open-source design and prototyping tool for teams.

Excalidraw

Sketch clean, hand-drawn-style diagrams and wireframes, free.

tldraw

A tiny, delightful, open-source infinite whiteboard.

draw.io

Free, no-limits diagramming that saves wherever you like.

Canva

Drag-and-drop graphics for social, slides, and more; free tier.

Lunacy

A free, full-featured design app with built-in assets.

Photopea

A free, browser-based Photoshop clone that opens PSD files.

GIMP

The venerable open-source image editor for photo work.

Inkscape

A powerful open-source vector graphics editor.

Krita

A pro-grade open-source painting and illustration studio.

Coolors

Generate and explore color palettes in seconds.

Realtime Colors

Preview a full palette live on a real UI before you commit.

Whimsical

Flowcharts, wireframes, and mind maps; free tier.

Icons, Fonts & Illustrations

16 picks

Google Fonts

Hundreds of open-source font families, free for anything.

Font Awesome

The web's most popular icon set, with a big free library.

Lucide

A clean, consistent, open-source icon set (a Feather fork).

Heroicons

Crisp, MIT-licensed SVG icons from the Tailwind team.

Tabler Icons

Over 5,000 free, open-source SVG icons.

Phosphor Icons

A flexible icon family with multiple weights, free to use.

Iconify

One framework to use 200,000+ icons from every popular set.

Simple Icons

Free SVG brand and logo icons for popular companies.

SVG Repo

Search 500,000+ free, optimizable vector icons.

unDraw

Open-source illustrations you can recolor to your brand.

Storyset

Free, customizable, animatable illustrations by Freepik.

Font Squirrel

Hand-picked fonts that are truly free for commercial use.

Fontsource

Self-host open-source fonts via npm, with no external requests.

DaFont

A huge archive of free display and novelty fonts.

IconMonstr

Simple, free icons in one clean, consistent style.

The Noun Project

A vast icon library, free to use with attribution.

Stock Media & Image Tools

13 picks

Unsplash

Beautiful, high-resolution photos, free with no attribution.

Pexels

Free stock photos and videos under a permissive license.

Pixabay

Free photos, vectors, illustrations, and music.

Coverr

Free stock video footage for your sites and projects.

Mixkit

Free video clips, music tracks, and sound effects.

Freesound

A giant collaborative library of Creative Commons audio.

Lorem Picsum

Easy placeholder images by URL for mockups.

DiceBear

Generate fun, free avatar images from any seed string.

Squoosh

Compress and convert images in the browser, by Google.

TinyPNG

Shrink PNG and JPEG files with smart lossy compression.

SVGOMG

Optimize and clean up SVG files with a live preview.

remove.bg

Erase image backgrounds automatically; free with limits.

Haikei

Generate free SVG blobs, waves, and gradient backgrounds.

CSS & Frontend Utilities

15 picks

Tailwind CSS

The utility-first CSS framework, open source and everywhere.

CSS-Tricks

Deep articles and the famous Complete Guide to Flexbox.

Flexbox Froggy

Learn CSS Flexbox by helping frogs to their lily pads.

Grid Garden

Learn CSS Grid by growing a little carrot garden.

cubic-bezier

Craft and preview CSS easing curves visually.

Animista

Browse and generate ready-to-use CSS animations.

CSS Gradient

Design CSS gradients with a live, copyable preview.

Get Waves

Generate SVG wave shapes for section dividers.

Shadows Brumm

Build smooth, layered CSS box-shadows visually.

Fancy Border Radius

Play with organic blob shapes via border-radius.

Clippy

Generate CSS clip-path shapes visually.

Type Scale

Preview and export a harmonious modular type scale.

Modern Font Stacks

System-font stacks that load instantly with no downloads.

Open Props

A set of drop-in CSS custom properties (design tokens).

Autoprefixer

Paste CSS and get the right vendor prefixes added for you.

Testing, Performance & A11y

14 picks

Playwright

Reliable end-to-end browser testing from Microsoft; open source.

Cypress

Developer-friendly end-to-end testing; open-source core.

Vitest

A blazing-fast unit-test runner for Vite projects.

Jest

The batteries-included JavaScript testing framework.

Testing Library

Test UIs the way your users actually use them.

Selenium

The long-standing standard for browser automation.

Storybook

Build, document, and test UI components in isolation.

Lighthouse

Audit performance, accessibility, and SEO inside Chrome.

PageSpeed Insights

Google's free real-world and lab web-performance report.

WebPageTest

Deep, waterfall-level web performance testing, free.

WAVE

Visual accessibility evaluation for any web page.

axe DevTools

Catch accessibility issues right in your browser.

k6

Developer-centric load testing written as code; open source.

Responsively App

Preview your site on many device sizes at once; open source.

Security & Privacy

13 picks

OWASP ZAP

The world's most popular free web-app security scanner.

Have I Been Pwned

Check whether your accounts appear in known data breaches.

Wireshark

The de facto standard network protocol analyzer.

Nmap

The classic open-source network and port scanner.

Burp Suite Community

The go-to web security testing proxy; free Community edition.

Bitwarden

Open-source password manager with a genuinely free tier.

KeePassXC

A fully offline, open-source password vault you own.

Mozilla HTTP Observatory

Scan your site's security headers and get fixes.

SSL Labs

Grade any site's TLS/SSL configuration in depth.

Security Headers

A quick grade of your HTTP response security headers.

Gitleaks

Scan repositories for hard-coded secrets and API keys.

VirusTotal

Scan files and URLs against dozens of engines, free.

Trivy

Scan containers and code for vulnerabilities; open source.

Developer Utilities

16 picks

regex101

Build and debug regular expressions with live explanations. Indispensable.

DevToys

A Swiss-army knife of offline dev utilities for your desktop.

IT Tools

100+ handy, ad-free online tools in one open-source site.

JSON Crack

Turn any JSON into an explorable node graph.

Crontab Guru

Write and understand cron schedules in plain English.

jwt.io

Decode, verify, and inspect JSON Web Tokens.

Transform Tools

Convert between JSON, TS, YAML, GraphQL, and dozens more.

CyberChef

The cyber Swiss-army knife for encoding and data operations.

Carbon

Create beautiful images of your source code to share.

ray.so

Generate elegant code screenshots in seconds.

Diffchecker

Spot the differences between two texts or files.

Mockaroo

Generate realistic fake test data in many formats.

Bundlephobia

See the real cost of adding any npm package.

Epoch Converter

Convert Unix timestamps to and from human dates.

Shields.io

Generate the crisp status badges you see on every README.

readme.so

Build a polished project README with a visual editor.

Free APIs & Data

12 picks

Public APIs

A massive, categorized directory of free APIs for any project.

Free for Developers

The definitive list of free tiers across developer services.

Awesome

The index of curated awesome lists on nearly every topic.

REST Countries

Free data about every country: flags, currencies, borders.

Open-Meteo

A free, no-key weather API for hobby projects.

PokeAPI

All the Pokemon data you could want, free and keyless.

Open Trivia DB

A free API of trivia questions for building quiz apps.

NASA APIs

Free access to NASA imagery and space data.

Frankfurter

A free, no-key currency exchange-rate API.

Nominatim

Free geocoding powered by OpenStreetMap.

Data.gov

Hundreds of thousands of free U.S. government datasets.

Kaggle Datasets

A huge community trove of free datasets to build on.

Frameworks & Libraries

23 picks

React

The library for building user interfaces, component by component.

Vue.js

An approachable, performant framework for building web UIs.

Angular

Google's full-featured TypeScript framework for large web apps.

Svelte

A compiler-first framework that ships little to no runtime.

SolidJS

Fine-grained reactive UI with a familiar, React-like API.

Preact

A tiny 3kB alternative to React with the same modern API.

Alpine.js

Sprinkle interactivity into your HTML with a tiny framework.

htmx

Access AJAX and WebSockets straight from HTML attributes.

Lit

A simple library for building fast, lightweight web components.

Qwik

A resumable framework built for instant-loading web apps.

Next.js

The React framework for production, from Vercel; open source.

Nuxt

The intuitive Vue framework for full-stack web apps.

Astro

Build fast, content-focused sites that ship zero JS by default.

Remix

A full-stack React framework focused on web standards.

SvelteKit

The official application framework for building with Svelte.

Django

The Python web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

Ruby on Rails

The batteries-included framework that made web dev productive.

Laravel

The PHP framework for web artisans, with a huge ecosystem.

Express

The minimal, unopinionated web framework for Node.js.

FastAPI

A modern, fast Python framework for building APIs.

NestJS

A progressive Node.js framework for scalable server apps.

Flask

A lightweight Python micro-framework for the web.

Spring

The most widely used framework for building Java applications.

Static Sites & CMS

16 picks

Hugo

The world's fastest static site generator, written in Go.

Jekyll

The blog-aware static site generator behind GitHub Pages.

Eleventy (11ty)

A simpler, zero-config static site generator for any template.

Docusaurus

Build documentation sites fast, powered by React and Markdown.

Gatsby

A React-based framework for fast, data-driven static sites.

Zola

A fast static site generator in a single Rust binary.

Hexo

A fast, simple blog framework powered by Node.js.

Nextra

Build docs and blogs with Next.js and Markdown.

WordPress

The open-source CMS that powers a huge share of the web.

Ghost

An open-source platform for publishing and newsletters.

Strapi

The leading open-source headless CMS for any frontend.

Directus

An open-source headless CMS that wraps any SQL database.

Decap CMS

A Git-based, open-source CMS for static sites.

Payload

A code-first, open-source headless CMS and app framework.

Sanity

A flexible headless CMS with a generous free tier.

Contentful

An API-first headless CMS with a free community tier.

Mobile & Cross-Platform

14 picks

Flutter

Google's toolkit for building apps for mobile, web, and desktop.

React Native

Build native mobile apps using React and JavaScript.

Expo

A framework that makes React Native painless; free tier.

Ionic

Build cross-platform apps with web tech and one codebase.

Capacitor

Wrap any web app into a native iOS, Android, or desktop app.

NativeScript

Build truly native apps with JavaScript, Angular, or Vue.

Tauri

Build tiny, fast desktop and mobile apps with a web frontend.

Electron

Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript and HTML.

.NET MAUI

Microsoft's framework for cross-platform native apps in C#.

Kotlin Multiplatform

Share code across Android, iOS, and more with Kotlin.

Kivy

An open-source Python framework for cross-platform apps.

Framework7

Build iOS and Android apps with HTML, CSS, and JS.

Apache Cordova

Package web apps as mobile apps with a plugin ecosystem.

Xcode

Apple's free IDE for building iOS and macOS apps.

Game Development

14 picks

Godot Engine

A fully free, open-source engine for 2D and 3D games.

Unity

The popular game engine, free on its Personal plan.

Unreal Engine

A AAA-grade engine, free until you earn serious revenue.

Phaser

A fast, free HTML5 framework for 2D browser games.

LÖVE

A delightful open-source framework for 2D games in Lua.

Bevy

A refreshingly simple, open-source game engine in Rust.

raylib

A simple, open-source C library for game programming.

Defold

A free, cross-platform engine for 2D games.

Pygame

The classic Python library for writing games.

Three.js

The go-to open-source library for 3D graphics on the web.

Babylon.js

A powerful, open-source 3D engine for the browser.

PlayCanvas

An open-source 3D engine with a collaborative web editor.

Cocos Creator

A free engine for 2D and 3D games across platforms.

KAPLAY

A fun, beginner-friendly JavaScript library for making games.

Data Science & ML

20 picks

Jupyter

Interactive notebooks for code, data, and visualization.

Google Colab

Free hosted Jupyter notebooks with GPUs, from Google.

Anaconda

The popular Python and R distribution for data science.

pandas

The essential Python library for data analysis.

NumPy

The foundation for numerical computing in Python.

scikit-learn

Simple, efficient tools for machine learning in Python.

PyTorch

The open-source deep-learning framework researchers love.

TensorFlow

Google's end-to-end open-source machine-learning platform.

Keras

A high-level, friendly API for building neural networks.

Matplotlib

The foundational plotting library for Python.

Plotly

Interactive, open-source graphing for Python and beyond.

R Project

The free language and environment for statistical computing.

RStudio (Posit)

The premier IDE for R, free in its open-source edition.

Apache Spark

The open-source engine for large-scale data processing.

KNIME

Build data-science workflows visually, free and open.

Orange

Open-source visual programming for data mining.

spaCy

Industrial-strength natural language processing in Python.

OpenCV

The open-source library for computer vision.

Gradio

Build and share ML demos with a few lines of Python.

DVC

Git-like version control for datasets and ML models.

AI & LLM Tools

15 picks

ChatGPT

OpenAI's conversational assistant, with a capable free tier.

Claude

Anthropic's helpful AI assistant, free to use with limits.

Google Gemini

Google's multimodal AI assistant, free to start.

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft's free AI assistant, powered by GPT models.

Perplexity

An AI answer engine that cites its sources; free tier.

Google AI Studio

Prototype with Gemini models in the browser, free to start.

DeepSeek

A strong open-weight AI chat model, free to use.

Mistral Le Chat

A fast AI assistant from Mistral, free to use.

Groq

Run open models at very high speed; free playground.

Poe

Chat with many AI models in one place; free tier.

NotebookLM

Turn your sources into an AI research assistant, free.

ComfyUI

A powerful, node-based open-source UI for image generation.

Whisper

OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text model.

Jan

An open-source, offline ChatGPT alternative you run locally.

OpenRouter

One API for many LLMs, with free models available.

Monitoring & Analytics

14 picks

Sentry

Error and performance monitoring with a free developer tier.

PostHog

Open-source product analytics with a generous free tier.

Plausible

Lightweight, privacy-friendly analytics; open source to self-host.

Umami

A simple, open-source, privacy-focused analytics tool.

Matomo

The open-source, self-hostable Google Analytics alternative.

Netdata

Real-time infrastructure monitoring; open source and free.

GoAccess

A real-time web log analyzer that runs in your terminal.

OpenTelemetry

The open standard for traces, metrics, and logs.

GlitchTip

An open-source, Sentry-compatible error tracker.

Grafana Loki

A cost-effective, open-source log aggregation system.

Better Stack

Uptime monitoring and log management with a free tier.

Ackee

A self-hosted, privacy-focused analytics tool.

Countly

Product analytics with an open-source community edition.

Healthchecks

Cron-job and background-task monitoring; free tier.

Networking & Tunnels

12 picks

ngrok

Expose your localhost to the internet with a public URL; free tier.

Cloudflare Tunnel

Securely expose local services without opening ports, free.

localtunnel

Share your local server with a public URL; open source.

localhost.run

Instantly tunnel localhost to a public URL, no install.

Tailscale

A zero-config mesh VPN for your devices; free personal plan.

WireGuard

A fast, modern, open-source VPN protocol.

mkcert

Make locally-trusted HTTPS certificates with one command.

mitmproxy

An interactive, open-source HTTPS proxy for inspecting traffic.

Termshark

A terminal UI for analyzing packet captures like Wireshark.

OpenVPN

The established open-source VPN solution.

bore

A tiny, modern, open-source TCP tunnel written in Rust.

Pinggy

Get a public URL for localhost with one SSH command; free tier.

No-Code & Automation

12 picks

n8n

A fair-code workflow automation tool you can self-host free.

Node-RED

Wire together devices and APIs with a visual flow editor.

Appsmith

Build internal tools fast; open source and self-hostable.

Budibase

Build internal apps and workflows; open source.

ToolJet

An open-source low-code platform for internal tools.

Automatisch

An open-source Zapier alternative you fully control.

Activepieces

Open-source, no-code automation and AI workflows.

Windmill

Turn scripts into workflows and internal UIs; open source.

Huginn

Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf.

Zapier

Connect thousands of apps into automations; free tier.

Make

A visual platform for automating work; free tier.

IFTTT

Simple 'if this then that' automations; free tier.

Documentation & Diagrams

14 picks

Mermaid

Generate diagrams and charts from text, right in Markdown.

PlantUML

Create UML and other diagrams from a simple text language.

MkDocs

A fast static site generator geared toward project docs.

Read the Docs

Host and version your project documentation for free.

Docsify

Generate a docs site on the fly with no build step.

Slidev

Presentation slides for developers, written in Markdown.

Marp

Create slide decks from Markdown; open source.

dbdiagram.io

Draw database ER diagrams quickly from simple code.

DrawSQL

Design and share database diagrams; free tier.

Sphinx

The powerful documentation generator behind Python's docs.

Doxygen

Generate documentation from annotated C++ and other sources.

Swimm

Docs that live in your codebase and stay current; free tier.

Mintlify

Beautiful docs from Markdown; free for open source.

Redoc

Render OpenAPI specs as clean, three-panel API docs.

CSS Frameworks & UI Kits

18 picks

Bootstrap

The world's most popular CSS framework for responsive sites.

Bulma

A modern, Flexbox-based CSS framework with no JavaScript.

Pico CSS

Elegant styles for semantic HTML with minimal classes.

Foundation

A responsive front-end framework for any device.

UIkit

A lightweight, modular front-end framework.

Materialize

A CSS framework based on Google's Material Design.

Water.css

A drop-in, class-less stylesheet for plain HTML.

Simple.css

A class-less framework to make plain HTML look good.

daisyUI

Tailwind CSS components you can drop straight in.

Flowbite

Open-source UI components built on Tailwind CSS.

shadcn/ui

Copy-paste, accessible React components you own the code for.

Material UI (MUI)

React components implementing Material Design; free core.

Chakra UI

A simple, modular, accessible React component library.

Ant Design

An enterprise-grade React UI design language and components.

Radix UI

Unstyled, accessible primitives for building design systems.

Headless UI

Unstyled, accessible UI components for React and Vue.

PrimeReact

A rich set of open-source UI components for React.

Mantine

A full-featured React components and hooks library.

Color & Gradient Tools

12 picks

Adobe Color

Build color schemes and extract palettes from images.

Color Hunt

A curated feed of beautiful, ready-to-use color palettes.

Paletton

Design color schemes using color-theory relationships.

Colormind

Generate palettes with a deep-learning color model.

Khroma

An AI tool that learns which colors you like.

Happy Hues

Palette inspiration shown in a real UI context.

uiGradients

A handpicked collection of beautiful CSS gradients.

Gradient Magic

A gallery of unusual, generated CSS gradients.

WebAIM Contrast Checker

Check color contrast against accessibility standards.

Colorable

Test text and background color pairs for contrast.

ColorSpace

Generate matching palettes and gradients from one color.

Color Designer

Build palettes, gradients, and shades from any color.

Fonts & Typography

12 picks

Fontshare

Quality fonts, free for personal and commercial use.

Bunny Fonts

A privacy-first, drop-in replacement for Google Fonts.

Fontjoy

Generate font pairings with deep learning.

Typewolf

See how popular typefaces are used in the wild.

Font Pair

Beautiful Google Font pairings, ready to use.

League of Moveable Type

Well-made, open-source typefaces.

Velvetyne

A collective releasing experimental, libre fonts.

Google Webfonts Helper

Download and self-host any Google Font easily.

Wakamai Fondue

Drop in a font file and see everything it can do.

Transfonter

Convert and generate @font-face web-font kits.

FontDrop

Inspect a font file's glyphs and features in the browser.

V-Fonts

A catalog of variable fonts to explore and test.

Package Managers & Registries

15 picks

npm

The default package registry and manager for Node.js.

Yarn

A fast, reliable package manager for JavaScript.

pnpm

A fast, disk-efficient package manager for Node.

Bun

A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime and package manager.

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS and Linux.

Chocolatey

The package manager for Windows, with a free tier.

Scoop

A command-line installer for Windows software.

winget

Microsoft's official package manager for Windows.

PyPI

The Python Package Index — where pip installs from.

crates.io

The Rust community's package registry.

RubyGems

The package registry and manager for Ruby.

Packagist

The main Composer package repository for PHP.

NuGet

The package manager and gallery for .NET.

nvm

Install and switch between Node.js versions easily.

asdf

One CLI to manage versions of many languages and tools.

Communities & Q&A

10 picks

Stack Overflow

The Q&A site where most coding answers already live.

DEV Community

A friendly, open community for developers to write and share.

Hashnode

Start a developer blog on your own domain, free.

Hacker News

The daily pulse of startups and tech, from Y Combinator.

Lobsters

A focused, computing-oriented link-sharing community.

r/programming

Reddit's long-running hub for programming discussion.

CodeNewbie

A supportive community for people learning to code.

daily.dev

A browser feed of the best developer news and articles.

Stack Exchange

A network of Q&A sites spanning far beyond programming.

freeCodeCamp Forum

A large, welcoming forum for learners and mentors.

Browser DevTools & Extensions

12 picks

React Developer Tools

Inspect React component trees and props in your browser.

Redux DevTools

Time-travel debug your Redux state changes.

Vue.js devtools

Inspect and debug Vue apps in the browser.

Wappalyzer

Reveal the technologies any website is built with.

JSONView

Pretty-print and browse JSON responses in your browser.

WhatFont

Identify the fonts on any web page by hovering.

ColorZilla

An eyedropper, color picker, and gradient generator extension.

VisBug

Google's open-source browser design-debug toolbar.

Pesticide

Outline every element to debug your CSS layout.

CSS Peeper

Inspect a site's colors, fonts, and assets visually.

Web Developer

A classic toolbar of web-developer utilities.

React Scan

Highlight React components that render too often.

Email for Developers

10 picks

Resend

A developer-first email API with a free tier.

Mailtrap

Capture and inspect test emails safely; free tier.

Mailpit

A tiny, self-hosted SMTP tester with a web UI.

MailHog

An open-source email-testing tool for developers.

Ethereal Email

A free, fake SMTP service for capturing test emails.

Brevo

Send transactional email and more; 300 a day free.

Mailgun

A powerful email API for developers; free tier.

MailerSend

A transactional email service with a free hobby tier.

Postmark

Reliable transactional email with a free developer plan.

smtp4dev

A local SMTP server that traps mail for testing.

Data Formats & Converters

12 picks

Quicktype

Generate types and models in any language from JSON.

JSON Schema Validator

Validate JSON against a JSON Schema online.

CSVJSON

Convert between CSV and JSON in the browser.

curlconverter

Turn a curl command into code in many languages.

AST Explorer

Inspect the abstract syntax tree of your code.

Babel REPL

See how Babel transpiles your modern JavaScript.

JSON Editor Online

View, edit, and format JSON in a split-pane editor.

SQLFormat

Format and beautify messy SQL queries.

Beautifier.io

Format and beautify JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Online YAML Tools

Convert YAML to JSON and back, instantly online.

Base64 Image

Convert images to Base64 data URIs online.

StackEdit

A full-featured, in-browser Markdown editor.

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