"<p> </p> <p>Developers are always on the lookout for new tools to add to their toolbelt. The good news is that there are several free services and tools available that can help developers in their work. From hosting to database infrastructure to APIs, there are several free services that can be of great use to developers.</p> <p>In this article, we will look at some of the best free services and tools for developers. We will also provide a brief overview of each service so that you can decide if it is something that you need for your work.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Table of Contents: </strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860263">Major Cloud Providers</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860264">Cloud management solutions</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860265">APIs, Data and ML</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860266">CMS</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860267">CI and CD</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860268">Code Quality</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860269">Design and UI</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860270">Domain</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860271">Email</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860272">Forms</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860273">IDE and Code Editing</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860274">Log Management</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860275">Monitoring</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860276">PaaS</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860277">Docker</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860278">Vagrant</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860279">Testing</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860280">Payment and Billing Integration</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860281">Web Hosting</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860282">Commenting Platforms</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860283">Remote Desktop Tools</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="#_Toc115860284">Game Development</a></strong></li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860263">Major Cloud Providers:</a></strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/"><strong>Google Cloud Platform</strong></a>:</p> </li> </ul> <p>           All customers get free 10 GB storage and up to 1 TB queries per month.</p> <ol> <li><a href="https://colab.research.google.com/">Google Colab</a>: Free Jupyter Notebooks development environment.</li> <li>Cloud Storage: Free 5GB storage and 1GB network egress.</li> <li>BigQuery: 1 TB of querying/month and 10 GB of storage each month.</li> </ol> <p>          More details here: <a href="https://cloud.google.com/free">https://cloud.google.com/free</a></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/"><strong>Amazon Web Services</strong></a>:</p> </li> </ul> <ol> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/">DynamoDB</a>: Free 25GB NoSQL DB</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/">EC2</a>: Free 750 hours per month of t2.micro or t3.micro(available for 12 months)</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/">Elastic Load Balancing</a>: Free 750 hours per month(available for 12months)</li> </ol> <p>        More details here: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/free/"><strong>https://aws.amazon.com/free/</strong></a></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/services/kubernetes-service/"><strong>Microsoft Azure</strong></a>:</p> </li> </ul> <ol> <li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/services/kubernetes-service/">Azure Kubernetes Service</a>: Managed Kubernetes service and free cluster management.</li> <li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/services/cognitive-services/">Cognitive Services</a><strong>: </strong>AI/ML APIs (e.g: Computer Vision, Translator, Face detection, Bots...) with free tier including limited transactions.</li> <li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/services/storage/">Storage</a><strong>:</strong> Free 5GB LRS File or Blob storage for 12 months.</li> </ol> <p>           More details here: <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/free/"><strong>https://azure.microsoft.com/free/</strong></a></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloud/"><strong>Oracle Cloud</strong></a>:</p> </li> </ul> <ol> <li>Databases: 2 DBs, 20 GB each</li> <li>Notifications: 1 million delivery options /month and 1000/month sent emails.</li> <li>Compute: 2 x64-based with 1 GB RAM each, 4 Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as one VM or up to 4 VMs</li> </ol> <p>            More details here: <a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/">https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/</a></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free/"><strong>IBM Cloud</strong></a>:</p> </li> </ul> <ol> <li>Db2 database: Free 100MB of data storage</li> <li>API Connect: 50,000 API calls/month</li> <li>Log Analysis: 500MB of daily log</li> </ol> <p>            More details here: <a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free/"><strong>https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free/</strong></a></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860264">Cloud management solutions:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li><a href="https://www.brainboard.co/" target="_blank">Brainboard</a>: Collaborative solution to build and manage end-to-end cloud infrastructures in a visual way.</li> <li><a href="https://www.pulumi.com/" target="_blank">Pulumi</a>: Modern infrastructure as a code platform that lets you use familiar programming languages and tools to build, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure.</li> <li><a href="https://www.terraform.io/" target="_blank">terraform.io</a>: Terraform Cloud. Free remote state management and team collaboration for teams up to five users.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860265">APIs, Data and ML:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li><a href="https://www.abstractapi.com/" target="_blank">Abstract API</a>: API suite for a range of use cases including IP geolocation, gender detection or even email validation.</li> <li><a href="https://algorithmia.com/" target="_blank">algorithmia.com</a>: Free Host for algorithms. Includes free monthly allowance for running algorithms.</li> <li><a href="https://apimocha.com/" target="_blank">API Mocha</a>: A completely free online API mocking tool that allows for up to 500 requests per day. It is fully customizable and allows for download mock rules as a Postman collection.</li> <li><a href="https://apitemplate.io/" target="_blank">APITemplate.io</a>: This tool allows for the auto-generation of images and PDF documents with a simple API or automation tools like Zapier & Airtable. No CSS/HTML required. The free plan comes with 50                     images/month and 3 templates.</li> <li><a href="https://atlastk.org/" target="_blank">Atlas toolkit</a>: This is a lightweight library that can be used to develop single-page web applications that are instantly accessible. It is available for Java, Node.js, Perl, Python and Ruby.</li> <li><a href="https://beeceptor.com/" target="_blank">Beeceptor</a>: This tool allows you to mock a rest API in seconds, fake API response, and much more. The free plan allows for 50 requests per day and comes with a public dashboard and open endpoints.</li> <li><a href="https://conversiontools.io/" target="_blank">Conversion Tools</a>: This is an online file converter that can be used for documents, images, video, audio, and eBooks. The REST API is available, and there are libraries for Node.js, PHP, Python.The paid plans support files up to 50 GB.</li> <li><a href="https://dataminer.io/" target="_blank">Data Miner</a>: A browser extension for data extraction from web pages CSV or Excel. The free plan gives you 500 pages/month.</li> <li><a href="https://db-ip.com/api/free" target="_blank">DB-IP</a>: Free IP geolocation API with 1k request per IP per day.lite database under CC-BY 4.0 License is free too.</li> <li><a href="https://freegeoip.app/" target="_blank">FreeGeoIP.app</a>: Completely free Geo IP information (JSON, CSV, XML). No registration required, 15000 queries per hour rate limit.</li> <li><a href="https://www.ip2location.io/" target="_blank">IP2Location.io</a>: Freemium, fast and reliable IP geolocation API to determine geolocation data like city, coordinates, ISP and so on. Free plan is available with 30k credits per month. Subscribe paid plans for more advanced features or contact us for a personalized plan.</li> <li><a href="https://www.mailboxvalidator.com/" target="_blank">MailboxValidator</a>: Email verification service using real mail server connection to confirm valid email. Free API plan has 300 verifications per month.</li> <li><a href="https://rapidapi.com/" target="_blank">Rapidapi</a>: World’s Largest API Hub Millions of developers find and connect to thousands of APIs, API Development using fun challenges (with solutions!) and interactive examples.</li> <li><a href="https://shrtco.de/docs" target="_blank">shrtcode API</a>: Free URL Shortening API that does not require authorization and has no request limits.</li> <li><a href="https://www.tiny.cloud/" target="_blank">TinyMCE</a>: Rich text editing API with core features free for unlimited usage.</li> <li><a href="https://wit.ai/" target="_blank">wit.ai</a>: NLP for developers.</li> <li><a href="https://numlookupapi.com/" target="_blank">numlookupapi.com</a>: Free phone number validation API - 100k free requests / month.</li> <li><a href="https://happi.dev/" target="_blank">happi.dev</a>: Freemium api services collection (Music, Exchange Rate, Key value store, Language Detection, Password Generator, QRCode Generator, Lyrics). 4000 free API calls per month.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <ol> </ol> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860266">CMS:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>   <a href="https://directus.io/" target="_blank">Directus</a>: Headless CMS. A completely free and open-source platform for managing assets and database content on-prem or in the Cloud. No limitations or paywalls.</li> <li>   <a href="https://frontaid.io/" target="_blank">FrontAid</a>: Headless CMS that stores JSON content directly in your own Git repository. No restrictions.</li> <li>   <a href="https://www.prismic.io/" target="_blank">Prismic</a>: Headless CMS. Content management interface with fully hosted and scalable API. The Community Plan provides 1 user with unlimited API calls, documents, custom types, assets, and locales. Everything that you need for your next project. Bigger free plans available for Open Content/Open Source projects.</li> <li>   <a href="https://instawp.com/" target="_blank">InstaWP</a>: Launch a WordPress site in a few seconds. A free tier with: 5 Active Sites, 500 MB Space, 48 hrs Site Expiry.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860267">CI and CD:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>   <a href="https://circleci.com/" target="_blank"><strong>circleci.com</strong></a>: Free for one concurrent build.</li> <li>   <a href="https://layerci.com/" target="_blank"><strong>LayerCI</strong></a>: CI for full stack projects. 1 full stack preview environment with 5GB memory & 3 CPUs.</li> <li>   <a href="https://mergify.io/" target="_blank"><strong>Mergify</strong></a>: workflow automation and merge queue for GitHub. Free for public GitHub repositories.</li> <li>   <a href="https://codemagic.io/" target="_blank"><strong>codemagic.io</strong></a>: Free 500 build minutes/month</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860268">Code Quality:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>   <a href="https://www.codacy.com/" target="_blank"><strong>codacy.com</strong></a>: Automated code reviews for PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Scala, CSS and CoffeeScript, free for unlimited public and private repositories.</li> <li>   <a href="https://sonarcloud.io/" target="_blank"><strong>sonarcloud.io</strong></a>: Automated source code analysis for Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, VB.NET, PHP, Objective-C, Swift, Python, Groovy and many more languages, free for Open Source.</li> <li>   <a href="https://www.deepcode.ai/" target="_blank"><strong>deepcode.ai</strong></a>: DeepCode finds bugs, security vulnerabilities, performance and API issues based on AI. DeepCode's speed of analysis allows us to analyse your code in real time and deliver results when you hit the save button in your IDE. Supported languages are Java, C/C++, JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript. Integrations with GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab. Free for open source and private repositories, free up to         30 developers.</li> <li>   <a href="https://codecov.io/" target="_blank"><strong>codecov.io</strong></a>: Code coverage tool (SaaS), free for Open Source and 1 free private repository.</li> <li>   <a href="https://codebeat.co/" target="_blank"><strong>CodeBeat</strong></a>: Automated Code Review Platform available for many languages. Free forever for public repositories with Slack & E-mail integration.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860269">Design and UI:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>   <a href="https://www.photopea.com/" target="_blank"><strong>photopea.com</strong></a>: A free, advanced online design editor with Adobe Photoshop UI supporting PSD, XCF & Sketch formats (Adobe Photoshop, Gimp and Sketch App).</li> <li>   <a href="https://www.css-gradient.com/" target="_blank"><strong>css-gradient.com</strong></a>: Free tool to easily generate custom cross browser css gradients. In RGB and HEX format.</li> <li>   <a href="https://icons8.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Icons8</strong></a>: Icons, illustrations, photos, music, and design tools. Free Plan offers Limited formats in lower resolution. Link to Icons8 when you use our assets.</li> <li>   <a href="https://picsum.photos/" target="_blank"><strong>Lorem Picsum</strong></a>: A free tool, easy to use, stylish placeholders. Just add your desired image size (width & height) after our URL, and you'll get a random image.</li> <li>   <a href="https://www.pexels.com/" target="_blank"><strong>pexels.com</strong></a>: Free stock photos for commercial use. Has free API that allows you to search photos by keywords.</li> <li>   <a href="https://rive.app/" target="_blank"><strong>Rive</strong></a>: Create and ship beautiful animations to any platform. Free forever for Individuals. The service is a editor which hosts all the graphics on their servers as well. They also provide runtimes for many platforms to run graphics made using Rive.</li> <li>   <a href="https://unsplash.com/" target="_blank"><strong>unsplash.com</strong></a>: Commercial and noncommercial use stock photos (do-whatever-you-want license).</li> <li>   <a href="https://canva.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Canva</strong></a>: Free online design tool for visual content creation.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860270">Domain:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>   <a href="https://www.is-a.dev/" target="_blank"><strong>is-a.dev</strong></a>: Free is-a.dev subdomain for developers.</li> <li>   <a href="https://freenom.com/" target="_blank"><strong>freenom</strong></a>: Free .tk,.ml,.ga,.cf and .gq domain.</li> <li>   <a href="https://nic.eu.org/" target="_blank"><strong>eu.org</strong></a>: Free eu.org domain. Request typically approved within 14 days.</li> <li>   <a href="https://js.org/" target="_blank"><strong>js.org</strong></a>: Free js.org subdomains for GitHub Pages for the JavaScript community.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860271">Email:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>  <a href="https://kickbox.io/" target="_blank"><strong>kickbox.io</strong></a>: Verify 100 emails free, real-time API available.</li> <li>  <a href="https://mailazy.com/" target="_blank"><strong>mailazy.com</strong></a>: Mailazy is the only simple transactional email service you’ll need. 10500 emails/month free forever (350 emails/day sending limit).</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.mail-tester.com/" target="_blank"><strong>mail-tester.com</strong></a>: Test if email's dns/spf/dkim/dmarc settings are correct, 20 free/month.</li> <li>  <a href="https://mailboxlayer.com/" target="_blank"><strong>mailboxlayer.com</strong></a>: Email validation and verification JSON API for developers. 1,000 free API requests/month.</li> <li>  <a href="https://mailcatcher.me/" target="_blank"><strong>mailcatcher.me</strong></a>: Catches mail and serves it through a web interface.</li> <li>  <a href="https://mailchimp.com/" target="_blank"><strong>mailchimp.com</strong></a>: 2,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails/month free.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.mailerlite.com/" target="_blank"><strong>MailerLite.com</strong></a>: 1,000 subscribers/month, 12,000 emails/month free.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.mailersend.com/" target="_blank"><strong>MailerSend.com</strong></a>: Email API, SMTP, 12,000 emails/month free for transactional emails.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.mailinator.com/" target="_blank"><strong>mailinator.com</strong></a>: Free, public, email system where you can use any inbox you want.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.mailjet.com/" target="_blank"><strong>mailjet.com</strong></a>: 6,000 emails/month free (200 emails daily sending limit).</li> <li>  <a href="https://mailtrap.io/" target="_blank"><strong>mailtrap.io</strong></a>: Fake SMTP server for development, free plan with 1 inbox, 50 messages, no team member, 2 emails/second, no forward rules.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.sender.net/" target="_blank"><strong>Sender</strong></a>: Up to 15 000 emails/month - Up to 2 500 subscribers.</li> <li>  <a href="https://sendgrid.com/" target="_blank"><strong>sendgrid.com</strong></a>: 100 emails/day and 2,000 contacts free.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.sendinblue.com/" target="_blank"><strong>sendinblue.com</strong></a>: Free 9,000 emails/month.</li> <li>  <a href="https://hottempmail.com/" target="_blank"><strong>HotTempMail</strong></a>: Unlimited free temp email or disposable temporary email addresses. Autoexpires in one day.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860272">Forms:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>  <a href="https://form-data.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Form-Data</strong></a>: No-code forms backend. Spam filter, email notification and auto-respond, webhooks, zapier, redirects, AJAX or POST and more. Free plan offers unlimited forms, 20 submissions/month and additional      2000 submissions with Form-Data badge.</li> <li>  <a href="https://web3forms.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Web3Forms</strong></a>: Contact forms for Static & JAMStack Websites without writing backend code. Free plan allows Unlimited Forms, Unlimited Domains & 250 Submissions per month.</li> <li>  <a href="https://formsubmit.co/" target="_blank"><strong>Formsubmit.co</strong></a>: Easy form endpoints for your HTML forms. Free Forever. No registration required.</li> <li>  <a href="https://heyform.net/" target="_blank"><strong>HeyForm.net</strong></a>: Drag and drop online form builder. Free tier lets you create unlimited forms and collect unlimited submissions. Comes with pre-built templates, anti-spam, and 100MB file storage.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860273">IDE and Code Editing:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>   <a href="https://www.jsdelivr.com/" target="_blank"><strong>jsdelivr.com</strong></a>: A free, fast, and reliable CDN for open source. Supports npm, GitHub, WordPress, Deno, and more.</li> <li>   <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Cloudflare</strong></a>: <ol> <li>CDN along with free SSL</li> <li>Free DNS for unlimited number of domains</li> <li>Firewall rules and page rules</li> <li>Analytics</li> <li>Email forwarding</li> </ol> </li> <li>   <a href="https://workers.cloudflare.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Cloudflare Workers</strong></a>: Deploy serverless code for free on Cloudflare's global network. 100,000 free requests per day with a workers.dev subdomain.</li> <li>   <a href="https://unpkg.com/" target="_blank"><strong>UNPKG</strong></a>: CDN for everything on npm</li> <li>   <a href="https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/" target="_blank"><strong>bootstrapcdn.com</strong></a>: CDN for bootstrap, bootswatch and fontawesome.io.</li> <li>   <a href="https://cdnjs.com/" target="_blank"><strong>cdnjs.com</strong></a>: The simplest, fastest, and most reliable content delivery available. cdnjs is a free and open-source CDN service powered by Cloudflare, used by over 11% of all websites.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860274">Log Management:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>   <a href="https://www.humio.com/" target="_blank"><strong>humio.com</strong></a>: Get up to 16 GB/day of free data retention for up to 7 days.</li> <li>   <a href="https://www.manageengine.com/cloud-log-management" target="_blank"><strong>ManageEngine Log360 Cloud</strong></a>: A log management service powered by Manage Engine. The free plan offers 50 GB of storage with 1 month retention.</li> <li>   <a href="https://www.sumologic.com/" target="_blank"><strong>sumologic.com</strong></a>: Free up to 500 MB/day, with 7 days retention.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860275">Monitoring:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>   <a href="https://blackfire.io/" target="_blank"><strong>blackfire.io</strong></a>: Blackfire is a SaaS-delivered Application Performance Solution. The free Hacker plan includes PHP only.</li> <li>   <a href="https://grafana.com/products/cloud/" target="_blank"><strong>Grafana Cloud</strong></a>: Grafana Cloud is a composable observability platform, integrating metrics and logs with Grafana. The free plan includes 3 users, 10 dashboards, 100 alerts, and 14 days retention for both metrics storage in Prometheus and Graphite (10,000 series) and logs storage in Loki (50 GB).</li> <li>  <a href="https://cloudsploit.com/" target="_blank"><strong>cloudsploit.com</strong></a>: AWS security and configuration monitoring. The free plan includes unlimited on-demand scans, unlimited users, and unlimited stored accounts. The subscription plan adds automated scanning  and API access.</li> <li>  <a href="https://cronitor.io/" target="_blank"><strong>cronitor.io</strong></a>: offers a free tier with 5 monitors.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/" target="_blank"><strong>datadoghq.com</strong></a>: is free for up to 5 nodes.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860276">PaaS:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>  <a href="https://railway.app/" target="_blank"><strong>Railway</strong></a>: Railway is an infrastructure platform where you can provision infrastructure, develop with that infrastructure locally, and then deploy to the cloud. The free tier includes 1GB Disk, 512 MB RAM, and is limited to $5 or 500 hours of usage monthly.</li> <li>  <a href="https://mogenius.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Mogenius</strong></a>: Easily deploy any service, from static website to advanced microservice architectures. It’s a managed hyper-scaling cloud resources, Kubernetes, CI/CD and security from Cloudflare.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.pythonanywhere.com/" target="_blank"><strong>pythonanywhere.com</strong></a>: Cloud Python app hosting. The beginner account is free and includes 1 Python web application at your-username.pythonanywhere.com domain, 512 MB private file storage, and one MySQL database.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860277">Docker:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>   <a href="https://container-registry.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Container Registry Service</strong></a>: A container management solution Harbor-based. The free tier offers 1 GB of storage for private repositories.</li> <li>   <a href="https://hub.docker.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Docker Hub</strong></a>: One free private repository and unlimited public repositories to host and store Docker images.</li> <li>   <a href="https://labs.play-with-docker.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Play with Docker</strong></a>: A free, interactive, and fun-to-use playground to learn Docker.</li> <li>   <a href="https://quay.io/" target="_blank"><strong>quay.io</strong></a>: An unlimited free public repository to build and store container images.</li> <li>   <a href="https://platform9.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Platform9</strong></a>: A managed Kubernetes service. The free plan offers management capabilities for up to 3 clusters & 20 nodes. Note: you must provide the cluster infrastructure yourself.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860278">Vagrant:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>   <a href="https://app.vagrantup.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Vagrant Cloud</strong></a>: HashiCorp's Vagrant Cloud. A Vagrant box hosting service.</li> <li>   <a href="https://www.vagrantbox.es/" target="_blank"><strong>Vagrantbox.es</strong></a>: An alternative public box index.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860279">Testing:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>  <a href="https://appetize.io/" target="_blank"><strong>Appetize</strong></a>: A service to test your Android & iOS apps in a cloud-based Android phone/tablet emulator and iPhone/iPad simulator directly in your browser. The free tier includes 1 concurrent session with 100 minutes usage per month. There is no size limit on apps.</li> <li>  <a href="https://percy.io/" target="_blank"><strong>percy.io</strong></a>: A web app visual testing tool that can be used for static sites, style guides, component libraries, and more. It offers unlimited team members, a demo app, and unlimited projects, with 5,000 snapshots per month.</li> <li>  <a href="https://applitools.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Applitools.com</strong></a>: A visual validation tool for web, native mobile, and desktop apps that integrates with almost all automation solutions and remote runners.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860280">Payment and Billing Integration:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>   <a href="https://currencyapi.net/" target="_blank"><strong>CurrencyApi</strong></a>: A JSON and XML-based currency rates API that offers live currency rates for physical and crypto currencies. The free tier offers 1,250 API requests per month.</li> <li>   <a href="https://adapty.io/" target="_blank"><strong>Adapty.io</strong></a>: An all-in-one solution with an open-source SDK for mobile in-app subscription integration to iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Unity, or web apps. It is free up to $10k in monthly revenue.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.revenuecat.com/" target="_blank"><strong>RevenueCat</strong></a>: A hosted backend solution for in-app purchases and subscriptions (iOS and Android). It is free up to $10k/mo in tracked revenue.</li> <li>  <a href="https://vatlayer.com/" target="_blank"><strong>vatlayer</strong></a>: An instant VAT number validation and EU VAT rates API, with a free 100 API requests per month.</li> <li>  <a href="https://mailpop.in/" target="_blank"><strong>MailPopin</strong></a>: Get the most of your Stripe notifications with contextualized information.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.namiml.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Nami ML</strong></a>: Complete platform for in-app purchases and subscriptions on iOS and Android, including no-code paywalls, CRM, and analytics. Free for all base features to run an IAP business.</li> </ol> <h2> </h2> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860281">Web Hosting:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>  <a href="https://freehostingnoads.net/" target="_blank"><strong>Free Hosting</strong></a>: Free Hosting With PHP 5, Perl, CGI, MySQL, FTP, File Manager, POP E-Mail, free sub-domains, free domain hosting, DNS Zone Editor, Web Site Statistics, FREE Online Support and many more features not offered by other free hosts.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.netlify.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Netlify</strong></a>: Builds, deploy and hosts static site/app free for, 100 GB data and 100 GB/month bandwidth.</li> <li>  <a href="https://sourceforge.net/" target="_blank"><strong>SourceForge</strong></a>: Find, Create and Publish Open Source software for free.</li> <li>  <a href="https://vercel.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Vercel</strong></a>: Build, deploy, and host web apps with free SSL, global CDN, and unique Preview URLs each time you git push. Perfect for Next.js and other Static Site Generators.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.awardspace.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Awardspace.com</strong></a>: Free web hosting + a free short domain, PHP, MySQL, App Installer, Email Sending & No Ads.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.alwaysdata.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Alwaysdata</strong></a>: 100 MB free web hosting with support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, MongoDB, PHP, Python, Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Java, Deno, custom web servers (access via FTP, WebDAV and SSH , mailbox, mailing list and app installer included).</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860282">Commenting Platforms:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>  <a href="https://disqus.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Disqus</strong></a>: Disqus is a networked community platform used by hundreds of thousands of sites all over the web.</li> <li>  <a href="https://graphcomment.com/" target="_blank"><strong>GraphComment</strong></a>: GraphComment is a comments platform that helps you build an active community from website’s audience.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860283">Remote Desktop Tools:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>  <a href="https://getscreen.me/" target="_blank"><strong>Getscreen.me</strong></a>: Free for 2 devices, no limits on the number and duration of sessions.</li> <li>  <a href="https://remsupp.com/" target="_blank"><strong>RemSupp</strong></a>: On-demand support and permanent access to devices (2 sessions/day for free).</li> <li>  <a href="https://rustdesk.com/" target="_blank"><strong>RustDesk</strong></a>: Open source virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone!</li> </ol> <p> </p> <h3><strong><a name="_Toc115860284">Game Development:</a></strong></h3> <ol> <li>  <a href="https://itch.io/game-assets" target="_blank"><strong>itch.io</strong></a>: Free/Paid assets like sprites, tile sets, character packs, ...</li> <li>  <a href="https://gamedevmarket.net/" target="_blank"><strong>GameDevMarket</strong></a>: Free/Paid assets like 2D, 3D, Audio, GUI.</li> <li>  <a href="https://www.3dassets.one/" target="_blank"><strong>3Dassets.one</strong></a>: Over 8,000 free/paid 3D models, and PBR materials for making textures.</li> <li>  <a href="https://opengameart.org/" target="_blank"><strong>OpenGameArt</strong></a>: OpenSource Game Assets like music, sounds, sprites, gifs, ...</li> <li>  <a href="https://lospec.com/" target="_blank"><strong>LoSpec</strong></a>: Online tools for creating pixel art and other restrictive digital art, lots of tutorials/pallet list available to choose for your games.</li> <li>  <a href="https://rive.app/community/" target="_blank"><strong>Rive</strong></a>: Community assets as well as create your own game assets using its free plan.</li> <li>  <a href="https://poly.pizza/" target="_blank"><strong>Poly Pizza</strong></a>: Free low poly 3D assets.</li> </ol>"