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We created the GitHub Teacher Toolbox to give educators free access to the best developer tools in one place. Utilize industry-leading tools in your classroom, at no cost. Automate, monitor, and improve your workflow using resources provided by some of our partners and friends.

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GitHub
GitHub

Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management

Benefit: Self-serve free Team plans to academic organizations you own.

Developer tools

Benefit: Free GitHub Pro plan for Educators.

Developer tools
Name.com
Name.com

Launch your next project with domain names, web hosting, and websites. Our knowledge base and support team are here to help.

Benefit: One free domain name and free Advanced Security (SSL, privacy protection, and more).

Domains
Educative
Educative

Level up on trending coding skills at your own pace with interactive, text-based courses.

Benefit: Get 6 free months of 60+ courses covering in-demand topics like Web Development, Python, Java, and Machine Learning.

Learn
Bootstrap Studio
Bootstrap Studio

Bootstrap Studio is a powerful desktop app for creating responsive websites using the Bootstrap framework.

Benefit: A free license for Bootstrap Studio while you are a teacher.

Developer tools Design
GitKraken
GitKraken

GitKraken Pro Suite: cross-platform Git GUI, Kanban Boards for issue/task tracking, and Timelines for project planning.

Benefit: Access to Pro versions of GitKraken Git GUI, GitKraken Boards and GitKraken Timelines while you're a teacher.

Developer tools
.TECH
.TECH

A powerful domain extension to convey that you belong to the technology industry.

Benefit: One standard .TECH domain free for 1 year and 2 free email accounts with 100 MB free storage.

Domains
EducationHost
EducationHost

Leverage our Web Hosting platform to host assignment & project work.

Benefit: 2GB of storage space, 5GB of bandwidth, and an .educationhost.cloud subdomain free for one year.

Cloud
Termius
Termius

SSH client that works on desktop and mobile. Termius securely syncs data across all your devices.

Benefit: Free access to the Premium plan while you're a teacher. The Premium plan includes sync, SFTP, autocomplete, and many other features.

Mobile Developer tools
Iconscout
Iconscout

Iconscout is design resources marketplace to get high quality icons, illustrations and stock images.

Benefit: Download 60 premium icons per month for 1 year.

Design
Atom
Atom

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

Benefit: Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone.

Developer tools
Testmail
Testmail

Get unlimited email addresses and mailboxes for automating email tests with our powerful APIs.

Benefit: Free Essential plan while you're a teacher.

Developer tools
Next.tech
Next.tech

Learn tech skills and build software directly from your browser with real, online computing environments.

Benefit: 1 year of free access to a library of courses for learning tech skills.

Learn Developer tools
Arduino
Arduino

Empower scientists and artists of the future with creative STEM programs.

Benefit: Free Arduino Create Maker plan for 6 months and discounts on selected hardware.

Infrastructure & APIs Internet of Things
Icons8
Icons8

Icons8 provides design resources: icons, UI illustrations, photos and software to class up your projects.

Benefit: 3-month All Access subscription with icons, photos, illustrations, and music.

Design
HazeOver
HazeOver

Get focused while working on your projects or studying with HazeOver for Mac.

Benefit: Free app license, including minor updates.

Productivity
GoRails
GoRails

Tutorials for web developers learning Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Turbolinks, Stimulus.js, Vue.js, and more.

Benefit: Free access to all videos and lessons for 12 months.

Learn
GitHub Desktop
GitHub Desktop

Reduces frustration and makes Git and GitHub workflows more approachable.

Benefit: Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone.

Developer tools
Twilio
Twilio

Twilio is a developer platform for communications. Software teams use Twilio APIs to add capabilities like voice, video, and messaging to their applications.

Benefit: Up to $100 in Twilio API credits and exclusive in-game items in TwilioQuest.

Datadog
Datadog

Cloud-based infrastructure monitoring.

Benefit: Pro Account, including 10 servers. Free for 2 years.

Security & analytics
Scrapinghub
Scrapinghub

Scrapinghub's Scrapy Cloud is a battle-tested cloud platform for running web crawlers. Manage and automate your web spiders at scale.

Benefit: 1 Free Forever Scrapy Cloud Unit - unlimited team members, projects or requests. Unlimited crawl time and 120 day data retention.

Developer tools
Gitpod
Gitpod

An online IDE for GitHub that provides a complete dev environment with a single click.

Benefit: Free personal plan subscription for six months for teachers.

Learn Developer tools
Tower
Tower

The Git client that brings all of Git and GitHub's power to the desktop, for Mac and Windows.

Benefit: Free Pro account for 1 year.

Developer tools
BrowserStack
BrowserStack

Test your web apps with BrowserStack's Real Device Cloud, which gives you instant access to 2000+ browsers and real iOS and Android devices.

Benefit: Free Automate Mobile Plan for 1 parallel and 1 user for 1 year.

Developer tools
Cryptolens
Cryptolens

License and sell your software securely.

Benefit: Free access to all features of Cryptolens for teaching purposes.

Infrastructure & APIs Developer tools
SymfonyCasts
SymfonyCasts

Master Symfony and PHP with video tutorials and code challenges.

Benefit: Free 3-month subscription for educators.

Learn
CodeScene
CodeScene

A powerful visualization tool that uses Predictive Analytics to identify social patterns in your code, detect delivery risks and manage technical debt.

Benefit: Free Medium plan to analyze private GitHub repositories.

Security & analytics
ConfigCat
ConfigCat

Learn feature flags with the industry leading feature flag service.

Benefit: Unlimited ConfigCat Products, including 10 feature flags, and 3 permission groups per product, with unlimited team size for teachers.

Infrastructure & APIs Developer tools
SQLGate
SQLGate

Simple but powerful IDE for multiple SQL databases.

Benefit: Access to most Standard Subscription features for 1 year.

Developer tools
POEditor
POEditor

POEditor is a highly scalable localization management platform for teams.

Benefit: Plus Plan for free for 6 months.

Infrastructure & APIs Developer tools
Honeybadger
Honeybadger

The web developer's secret weapon: exception, uptime, and cron monitoring that's so awesome, you'll wish your site had more errors.

Benefit: Free Small account for 1 year.

Security & analytics
SQLSmash
SQLSmash

Productivity plugin for SQL Server Management Studio for writing maintainable SQL scripts and faster navigation.

Benefit: Free standard license for educators.

Developer tools
PushBots
PushBots

The easiest way to engage your mobile & web app users via push notifications.

Benefit: Free Premium account for 6 months.

Infrastructure & APIs
GitHub Swag
GitHub Swag

The coolest official GitHub gear.

Benefit: Free Git cheat sheets, Markdown guides, and, of course, GitHub stickers for your students.

Learn
NetLicensing
NetLicensing

A cost-effective and integrated Licensing-as-a-Service (LaaS) solution for your software on any platform from Desktop to IoT and SaaS.

Benefit: Basic Plan for free while you are an educator.

Infrastructure & APIs
Transloadit
Transloadit

A versatile uploading & encoding API to automate any file conversion.

Benefit: The Startup plan for free, including 10GB of encoding credit.

Infrastructure & APIs Developer tools
Crowdin
Crowdin

Crowdin is a cloud-based solution that streamlines localization management.

Benefit: Bronze plan for 1 year.

Productivity Infrastructure & APIs Developer tools
Phrase
Phrase

A cloud-based translation management system built to accelerate the development of multilingual digital products.

Benefit: Phrase Lite Plan free for up to 6 months for teachers.

Infrastructure & APIs Developer tools
Weglot
Weglot

Make any website multilingual and manage your translations through a single platform.

Benefit: Free 1-year Pro Plan giving you access to 5 translated languages + up to 200k words.

Developer tools Infrastructure & APIs
EverSQL
EverSQL

Boost your database performance by automatically optimizing your SQL queries.

Benefit: Free 6-month subscription to the Basic plan.

Developer tools
Appfigures
Appfigures

App Store analytics, optimization, and intelligence.

Benefit: Free access to the Grow plan for 1 year.

Marketing
GitHub Classroom
GitHub Classroom

With GitHub Classroom you can set up the industry-standard workflow and free up your time to focus on teaching.

Benefit: Free for everyone.

Learn
GitHub Campus Advisors
GitHub Campus Advisors

Become a GitHub Campus Advisor. Master Git and GitHub and champion the use of real-world tools at your school.

Benefit: Complete the training on the GitHub Campus Advisors website, then apply to become part of the program.

Learn

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