This is a curated list of free tools for everything from productivity to hosting to development tools to designing. These tools are all digital i.e., either app, online service, or downloadable software. Most of them are either free or have limited free option that is enough for startups. Feel free to suggest and contribute to this list.
You can find the original list maintained at GitHub at https://github.com/Ibexoft/awesome-startup-tools-list/.
Tech
Git Repos
- GitHub – https://github.com
- BitBucket – https://bitbucket.com
- GitLab – https://gitlab.com
Cloud App Hosting:
- Amazon AWS (Free tier available) – https://aws.amazon.com
- Microsoft Azure (Free tier available) – https://azure.microsoft.com
- Google Cloud (Free tier available) – https://cloud.google.com
- Digital Ocean (Free tier available) – https://digitalocean.com
- Linode (Paid plan) – https://linode.com
- Vultr (Paid plan) – https://vultr.com
- Heroku (Paid plan) – https://www.heroku.com
- BlueHost (Paid plan) – https://www.bluehost.com
- DreamHost (Paid plan) – https://www.dreamhost.com
Static Site Hosting:
- GitHub pages – https://pages.github.com
- Google FireBase – https://firebase.google.com/products/hosting
- Surge – https://surge.sh
- Netlify – https://www.netlify.com
- Vercel – https://vercel.com
DNS, CDN, & SSL:
- CloudFlare – https://www.cloudflare.com/
- ClouDNS – https://cloudns.net/
- Let’s Encrypt – https://letsencrypt.org/
Site Performance Tools:
- Pingdom http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt pingdom.com – Website monitor
- Google Page Insight https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights
- Web Page Performance Test – http://www.webpagetest.org/
- GTMetrix http://gtmetrix.com/
Web Scraping Tools
- Import.io – https://www.import.io/
- Web Hose – https://webhose.io/scraping-tools
- Dexi.io – https://dexi.io/
- Parse Hub – https://www.parsehub.com/
- 80Legs – http://80legs.com/
- Scraping Hub – https://scrapinghub.com/
- Scrapy – https://scrapy.org/
- Scraper – https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scraper/mbigbapnjcgaffohmbkdlecaccepngjd
- Web Scraper – https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-scraper/jnhgnonknehpejjnehehllkliplmbmhn
- Scraping API: https://www.abstractapi.com/web-scraping-api
Development IDE/Editors:
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code – https://code.visualstudio.com/
- Microsoft Visual Studio (IDE) – https://www.visualstudio.com/
- Sublime Text – https://www.sublimetext.com/
- WebStorm – https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
- NetBeans – http://netbeans.org/
- Eclipse – https://eclipse.org/
Development online platforms/IDEs:
- CodeAnywhere – https://codeanywhere.com
- Cloud9 – https://c9.io
- Koding – https://koding.com
- Humanitec – https://humanitec.com
Development Playgrounds
- JSFiddle – https://jsfiddle.net
- Plunker – https://plnkr.co/
- CodePen – http://codepen.io/
- JSBin – https://jsbin.com/
Resource Management Tools
- Respresso – https://respresso.io
Utilities:
- FileZilla – https://filezilla-project.org/
- Laragon – https://laragon.org/
- XAMPP – https://www.apachefriends.org
- WinScp – https://winscp.net
- Putty – http://www.putty.org/
Automated Code Reviews, linting, coding conventions
- Code Climate – https://codeclimate.com
- JSLint – Usually available as plugin for IDEs/Editors
Testing
- Sauce Labs – https://saucelabs.com/
Email Service for Developers
- SendInBlue – https://www.sendinblue.com
- MailGun – http://www.mailgun.com , http://www.mailgun.com/google
- SendGrid – https://sendgrid.com
- MailChimp – https://mailchimp.com
- Mandrill – http://www.mandrill.com/
- AWS SES – https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
- Mail Trap (for testing only) – https://mailtrap.io/
- Email Validation API – https://www.abstractapi.com/email-verification-validation-api
Notification (Push, SMS etc) Service for Developers
- OneSignal – https://onesignal.com
- Pusher – https://pusher.com
- Twilio – https://www.twilio.com
Changelog
- Headway – https://headwayapp.co/
Business, Marketing, Sales, Finance
Idea Validation
- AreYouInterested – https://areyouinterested.co/
Content Management Systems (CMS):
- WordPress – https://www.wordpress.org
- Drupal – https://www.drupal.com
- Joomla – https://www.joomla.org
Ecommerce CMS:
- WooCommerce for WordPress – https://www.woocommerce.com
- Magento – https://www.magento.com
- OpenCart – https://www.opencart.com
- Prestashop – https://www.prestashop.com
- Shopify – https://www.shopify.com
Analytics:
- Google Analytics – https://analytics.google.com
- New Relic https://newrelic.com/
- Inspectlet http://www.inspectlet.com/plans
- Zoom Analytics http://zoomanalytics.co/
- LiveSession – https://livesession.io/
Accounting & Finance
- Wave Apps – https://www.waveapps.com
CRM:
- HubSpot CRM – https://www.hubspot.com/products/crm
- Capsule CRM – https://capsulecrm.com
- Insightly – https://www.insightly.com
- Bitrix24 (CRM version) – https://www.bitrix24.com/tools/crm/
- Google Contacts (can be used as lightweight CRM) – http://contacts.google.com
Team Chat
- Slack – https://slack.com/
- Microsoft Teams – https://teams.microsoft.com/
- Mattermost – https://mattermost.com/
- Rocket.Chat – https://rocket.chat/
- Twist – https://twist.com/
Customer Support/Live Chat:
- Zendesk Chat (formerly Zopim) – https://www.zopim.com/
- Olark – https://www.olark.com/
- Facebook Messenger – https://web.facebook.com/business/products/messenger-for-business
- WhatsApp for Business – https://www.whatsapp.com/
Social Media
- Facebook – http://facebook.com
- Twitter – http://twitter.com
- LinkedIn – http://linkedin.com
- Instagram – http://instagram.com
- Pinterest – https://www.pinterest.com/
- YouTube – http://youtube.com
Sales & Marketing:
- HubSpot – https://www.hubspot.com/
- Website Grader by HubSpot http://grader.com
- Buffer App – https://buffer.com
- HootSuite – https://hootsuite.com
- TweetDeck – https://tweetdeck.twitter.com
- CrowdFire – https://www.crowdfireapp.com
- Ubersuggest – http://ubersuggest.org/
- Visual Website Optimizer – https://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/
- Tweriod – http://www.tweriod.com/
- My Site Auditor – http://mysiteauditor.com
- Free traffic increase – http://www.10khits.com/
- WooBox – http://woobox.com/
- Add Shoppers – http://addshoppers.com
- BuzzSumo – http://buzzsumo.com/
- Static html app – https://statichtmlapp.com/
- Hashtagify – http://hashtagify.me/
- Ritetag – http://ritetag.com/
- Tagboard – https://tagboard.com/
- Trendsmap – http://trendsmap.com/
- Shortstack – http://www.shortstack.com
- Post Planner – http://www.postplanner.com/
Productivity, Management, Organization
Note-taking & Reading:
- Microsoft OneNote – https://www.onenote.com/
- Google Keep – https://keep.google.com/
- Evernote – https://evernote.com/
- Pocket – https://getpocket.com
Project/Task Management:
- Jira – https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
- Asana – https://asana.com
- Trello – https://trello.com
- Airtable – https://airtable.com
- Basecamp – https://basecamp.com
- Wrike – https://www.wrike.com
- ClickUp – https://clickup.com
- Monday – https://monday.com
- Meister Task – https://meistertask.com
- Pivotal Tracker – https://www.pivotaltracker.com
- Microsoft Todo – https://todo.microsoft.com (Replacing Wunderlist)
- Todoist – https://todoist.com
- Taskade – https://www.taskade.com
- Nozbe – https://nozbe.com
- I Done This https://idonethis.com
Attendance, Time Tracking and Management:
- Toggl – https://toggl.com/
- PrimaERP – https://primaerp.com
- ClockIt – https://clockit.io/
- Bitrix24 HR System – https://www.bitrix24.com/uses/free-hr-system.php
- Pomodoro Technique – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
Graphics, Design, and Media
Video making:
- Biteable – https://biteable.com
- Powtoon – https://www.powtoon.com
- Animoto – http://animoto.com/
- Openshot – https://www.openshot.org
Stock Photos/Illustrations:
- Unsplash – https://unsplash.com
- Pexels – https://www.pexels.com/
- Shopify Burst – https://burst.shopify.com/
- Place Image (Stock photos generator) – http://placeimg.com/
- Undraw – https://undraw.co/illustrations
- DrawKit – https://www.drawkit.io/
- Excalidraw – https://excalidraw.com/
- Icons8 – https://icons8.com/
Online Logo:
- Shopify Logo Maker – https://www.shopify.com/tools/logo-maker
- Logo Joy – https://logojoy.com
- Logaster – https://www.logaster.com/
- Cool Text – http://cooltext.com/
- Online Logo Maker 24 – http://onlinelogomaker24.com
- Free Logo Services – http://freelogoservices.com
- Graphic Springs – http://graphicsprings.com
- Design Mantic – http://designmantic.com
- Zillion Designs – http://zilliondesigns.com
- Logo Maker – http://logomaker.com
Designing & Editing:
- Pagemodo http://www.pagemodo.com
- Canva – https://www.canva.com
- Snappa – https://snappa.com
- Photoshop – http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html
- Photoshop Express – http://www.photoshop.com/tools
- Pixlr – https://pixlr.com/
- Fotor – http://www.fotor.com/
- Create GIF – http://gifbrewery.com/
- Stamp creator – http://www.speedystamps.co.uk/
- Method Draw (SVG Editor) – http://editor.method.ac
- AConvert (Image to SVG Converter) – https://www.aconvert.com/image/png-to-svg/
- Image Compression and Optimization API – https://www.abstractapi.com/image-processing-optimization-api
