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40 "Free Forever" Tools for Developers

hrishikesh1990 on January 07, 2021

Hey everyone, I am Hrishikesh, co-founder of Flexiple, an exclusive freelance network for developers & designers. I am forever on the lookout...
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Konstantin Bogomolov

Great list, thank you! Few more good services, which you can use for free: uptime.onl/ for simple website monitoring, datadoghq.com/ for webserver resources monitoring, bugsnag.com/ for bugs tracking.

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hrishikesh1990

Thanks! I will add the suggestions you mentioned as well.

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Stefan Wuthrich

Really a great list. Tks

As a beta tester, you can get FREE access to my JIRA for Remote Teams omnited.com

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hrishikesh1990

Thanks for the suggestion Stefan :)

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Alex Kaul

One more productivity tool that is forever free & open-source: Freeter
And here is a story on how I boosted my productivity with it: dev.to/alexk/how-i-boosted-my-prod...

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Michiel Hendriks

These are all services, and thus no free tools. You pay at least with the data you provide. And for how long you can use the tool depends on the whims of the provider of this service.
So yes, the quotes on "free" and "forever" are not to be taken lightly.

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RealToughCandy.io • Edited

Definitely a useful list. Thanks for the bug and time trackers.

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hrishikesh1990

Cheers :)

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Adrian Matei

I would like to suggest Codever for dev bookmarks and code snippets management.

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Marcel Cruz

Awesome list, thanks for sharing!

In case you're interested, I've put up a bunch of developer tools on devresourc.es, so feel free to check them out too! :)

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Mahmoud Ahmed

This great article shows positive 2020 outcomes

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Gayatri Sachdeva

Would like to suggest DronaHQ a low code internal tool builder that just announced a free developer plan.

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Julia Moskaliuk

Hello, I use this time tracker tmetric.com/

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Jonas from Postmodern Work

Good initiative!

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hrishikesh1990

Thanks!

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Tomzur 🚀✌️

For local development, you can use DevKinsta a completely free tool with macOS and Windows support (Linux is coming) kinsta.com/devkinsta/

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Anibal

I want to add some that I use:
Uptimerobot.com
Trincheradev.com
Timeneye.com
Clickup.com

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Agnieszka Stec

Thanks for the article, will definitely try out the Code Time :)

Hope it's ok to suggest for consideration a code collaboration tool we've been developing at GitLive: git.live/