Learn to ship software like a pro. There's no substitute for hands-on experience. But for most students, real world tools can be cost-prohibitive. That's why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our partners and friends: to give students free access to the best developer tools in one place so they can learn by doing.
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With Canva, anyone can create professional looking graphics and designs. Featuring thousands of templates and an easy to use editor.
Benefit: Free 12 month subscription of Canva's Pro tier.
DesignAffordable registration, hosting, and domain management
Benefit: 1 year domain name registration on the .me TLD.
Benefit: 1 year SSL certificate.
DomainsLaunch 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).
DomainsAccess to Microsoft Azure cloud services and learning resources – no credit card required
Benefit: Free access to 25+ Microsoft Azure cloud services plus $100 in Azure credit.
CloudPowerful collaboration, code review, and code management
Benefit: Free GitHub Pro while you are a student.
Developer toolsProfessional desktop IDEs: IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and more.
Benefit: A free subscription for students, to be renewed annually.
Developer toolsLevel 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.
LearnSimple cloud hosting, built for developers
Benefit: $50 in platform credit for new users.
CloudBootstrap 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 student.
Developer tools DesignAdvance your skills with in-depth JavaScript, Node.js & front-end engineering courses.
Benefit: Free 6-months access to all courses and workshops.
LearnAccomplish your creative goals using the world’s leading real-time development platform, used to create half of the world’s games.
Benefit: Unity Student Plan free while you are a student.
Game developmentA flexible, easy-to-use platform to deploy, run, and manage your apps.
Benefit: One free Hobby Dyno for up to two years.
CloudA 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
DomainsLearn HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Python in just 30 days!
Benefit: Free 30-day One Month subscription.
LearnLeverage our Web Hosting platform to host assignment & project work.
Benefit: Designer package for free for 1 year & discounted upgrade offers.
CloudIconscout is design resources marketplace to get high quality icons, illustrations and stock images.
Benefit: Download 60 premium icons per month for 1 year.
DesignSSH 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 student.
Mobile Developer toolsDataCamp helps companies and individuals make better use of data. Our users build data fluency while learning from the world’s top data scientists.
Benefit: Free 3-month individual subscription for students.
LearnWith PomoDone, hack and track your time and boost your productivity by applying Pomodoro technique to your workflow -- eliminate distraction, sharpen focus and prevent burnout.
Benefit: PomoDone Lite plan free for 2-years.
ProductivityGitHub Campus Experts are students who build technical communities on campus, with training and support from GitHub.
Benefit: Apply to become part of the program while you’re a student.
LearnTurnkey data centre services for the hosting of critical IT infrastructure systems.
Benefit: Free single unit server colocation package free for 12 months.
Internet of Things CloudLearn tech skills and build software directly from your browser with real, online computing environments.
Benefit: Free access to all interactive courses and cloud computing environments for 12 months.
Learn Developer toolsGitKraken 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 student.
Developer toolsA general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era.
Benefit: $200 in MongoDB Atlas Credits, plus access to MongoDB Compass and MongoDB University including free certification.
Infrastructure & APIsA powerful browser and developer tool that lets developers and designers make better websites and web apps in less time.
Benefit: Polypane free for 1 year.
Developer tools DesignIcons8 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.
DesignGet unlimited email addresses and mailboxes for automating email tests with our powerful APIs.
Benefit: Free Essential plan while you're a student.
Developer toolsA hackable text editor for the 21st Century
Benefit: Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone.
Developer toolsAn online IDE that lets you instantly code in over fifty languages. Start learning, building, collaborating and hosting all in one place.
Benefit: Hacker plan, includes unlimited private repls and multiplayer invites. Free for six months.
Learn Developer toolsInteractive forms, surveys & quizzes to engage and grow your audience
Benefit: Free professional plan for 1 year.
Marketing DesignGet focused while working on your projects or studying with HazeOver for Mac.
Benefit: Free app license, including minor updates.
ProductivityBuild iOS applications with drag & drop.
Benefit: Kodika Unlimited Pro subscription free for 6 months.
Mobile Developer tools DesignInterview Cake makes coding interviews a piece of cake with practice questions, data structures and algorithms reference pages, cheat sheets, and more.
Benefit: Access to the full coding interview prep course for 3 weeks.
LearnA server for your static websites and HTML forms.
Benefit: Free basic plan while you are a student.
Infrastructure & APIsTutorials 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.
LearnReduces frustration and makes Git and GitHub workflows more approachable.
Benefit: Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone.
Developer toolsEmpower 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 ThingsLearn Fundamentals of Web Development to launch your career as a developer
Benefit: 1 month of access to a web development course.
LearnPowerful APIs that enable you to send, receive and track email effortlessly.
Benefit: 20,000 free emails and 100 free email validations each month for up to 12 months.
Infrastructure & APIsWeb and mobile payments, built for developers
Benefit: Waived transaction fees on first $1000 in revenue processed.
Infrastructure & APIsCloud-based infrastructure monitoring.
Benefit: Pro Account, including 10 servers. Free for 2 years.
Security & analyticsModern, collaborative SQL editor for your team — write queries, visualize data, and share your results.
Benefit: Free Premium subscription for PopSQL while you're a student.
Developer toolsTwilio is a developer platform for communications. Software teams use Twilio APIs to add capabilities like voice, video, and messaging to their applications.
Benefit: $50 in Twilio API credits and exclusive in-game items in TwilioQuest.
Imgbot is a GitHub App that automatically optimizes your images.
Benefit: Free image optimization for all your public and private projects while you are a student.
Infrastructure & APIsJoin an exclusive developer community and learn Full Stack web-development with no long-term commitments.
Benefit: One free month of Covalence's Atomic Plan.
LearnTrack errors in every language, framework, and library.
Benefit: 500,000 events/month with unlimited projects and members while you're a student.
Developer tools Infrastructure & APIsStatic code analyzer for Python and Go. Detect bug risks, anti-patterns and security vulnerabilities.
Benefit: Free Pro subscription for students.
Developer toolsLearn Web Development from the premier coding bootcamp for launching developers.
Benefit: Free one-month membership to Community-Powered Bootcamp.
LearnA cross-platform development tool for making native apps for the Desktop.
Benefit: Xojo Desktop license free while you are a student.
Developer tools DesignScrapinghub'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 toolsLicense and sell your software securely.
Benefit: 10 licenses and any number of end-users for free for students.
Infrastructure & APIs Developer toolsCloud-based password manager.
Benefit: Dashlane Premium free for 6 months.
ProductivityCode performance measurement tool. Find & fix bottlenecks.
Benefit: Free Profiler subscription for students.
Security & analyticsTest 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 toolsAn online IDE for GitHub that provides a complete dev environment with a single click.
Benefit: Free personal plan subscription for six months for students.
Learn Developer toolsAdafruit is an open-source hardware and open-source educational electronics company based in NYC, USA.
Benefit: One year of Adafruit IO+ and discounts on selected hardware.
Infrastructure & APIs Internet of ThingsNeve’s mobile-first approach, compatibility with AMP and popular page-builders makes website building accessible for everyone.
Benefit: Free year of Neve Agency WordPress theme exclusively for students.
Infrastructure & APIs DesignContinuous integration platform for open source and private projects
Benefit: Private builds for free while you're a student.
Infrastructure & APIs Developer toolsPrivacy-friendly analytics with a simple interface and API.
Benefit: Starter plan free for one year, including 100k page views per month.
Marketing Infrastructure & APIsKaltura VPaaS simplifies building smart, interactive VOD, Live and real-time video experiences and apps at global scale
Benefit: $10K/year in Kaltura VPaaS credits while you are a student.
Infrastructure & APIsIntegrate your marketing and analytics tools with one click.
Benefit: Free Freshpaint Growth Plan while you are a student.
Infrastructure & APIs MarketingPowerful Git client for iPhone & iPad.
Benefit: All Pro features for free while you are a student.
Mobile Developer toolsThe 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 toolsDeepScan is a platform for building better and more reliable JavaScript apps.
Benefit: Free 6-month trial while you are a student.
Developer toolsMaster Symfony and PHP with video tutorials and code challenges.
Benefit: Free 3-month subscription for students.
LearnLive chat, behavioural funnels, newsletters, and in-app surveys for SaaS.
Benefit: Customerly Pro free for 6 months.
Marketing Infrastructure & APIsAutomate daily stand-ups, follow-ups, retrospectives, surveys and feedback for your team.
Benefit: DailyBot Business plan free for 10 users for 6 months.
ProductivityPerform automated and live interactive cross browser testing on 2000+ real browsers and operating systems online.
Benefit: Free LambdaTest Live Plan for one year.
Developer toolsHelping developers, designers, and startups to launch their apps on the App Store.
Benefit: Jaamly Startup plan free for 6 months.
MarketingTranslation management service for web, desktop and mobile apps.
Benefit: Free Professional Plan containing 10,000 text segments for students.
Productivity Infrastructure & APIs Developer toolsBetter Code Hub provides a definition of done for code quality and actionable refactoring feedback for every push and pull request.
Benefit: A free upgrade to an Individual license to analyse your personal private repos.
Developer toolsAn open and powerful platform for spatial data analysis, visualization, and application creation.
Benefit: Free account upgrades with increased database storage, real time data, Location Data Services Credits, and premium features for 2 years.
Infrastructure & APIsSimple but powerful IDE for multiple SQL databases.
Benefit: Access to most Standard Subscription features for 1 year.
Developer toolsDatree is a git-based rules engine for enforcing best development practices, coding standards, and security policies on every commit.
Benefit: Free Pro subscription while you are a student.
Developer toolsConnect to the world of blockchains through Blockchair’s professional APIs — supports most major cryptocurrencies.
Benefit: 100,000 free requests.
Infrastructure & APIsCodecov makes it easy to implement code coverage to develop healthier code
Benefit: Free access to Codecov on public and private repositories.
Developer toolsRemote pair programming and team collaboration tool.
Benefit: Free Premium subscription while you're a student, to be renewed every 6 months.
Developer tools ProductivityMetrics, dunning, and engagement tools for SaaS & subscription businesses.
Benefit: Get Baremetrics for free up to $2.5k Monthly Recurring Revenue while you are a student.
MarketingSecurity suite for your website - firewall, malware scanner & managed bug bounty platform.
Benefit: 6 month access to website firewall & malware scanner
Security & analyticsBest open source Java framework for building Progressive Web Applications.
Benefit: Free Pro subscription license to access the commercial components and tools.
Infrastructure & APIsPOEditor is a highly scalable localization management platform for teams.
Benefit: Plus Plan for free for one year.
Infrastructure & APIs Developer toolsA powerful visualization tool that uses Predictive Analytics to identify social patterns in your code, detect delivery risks and manage technical debt.
Benefit: A free Student account to analyze private GitHub repositories.
Security & analyticsAn integrated modelling environment for the specification and development of reactive, event-driven systems based on the concept of state machines.
Benefit: Yakindu Professional Edition free for 1 year.
LearnWith Restyled, automatically re-format Pull Requests to have consistent style.
Benefit: Run Restyled for free on private repositories while you're a student.
Developer toolsHosted search API that provides support from front end to back end frameworks and libraries.
Benefit: 100k records and 1 million operations, valid for 1 year.
Infrastructure & APIsLearn feature flags with the industry leading feature flag service.
Benefit: 1000 feature flags, ∞ users for free.
Infrastructure & APIs Developer toolsSOFY automates your software testing, uses machine learning to create tests, suggests test scenarios based on product changes, customer usage data and runs at scale.
Benefit: 6 months of free website and mobile app testing.
Mobile Developer toolsThe 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 & analyticsBuild powerful web applications in Visual Studio with C# or VB.NET.
Benefit: Free Wisej Developer license plus free updates for a year.
Infrastructure & APIsProductivity plugin for SQL Server Management Studio for writing maintainable SQL scripts and faster navigation.
Benefit: Free standard license for students.
Developer toolsA 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 a student.
Infrastructure & APIsCrowdin is a cloud-based solution that streamlines localization management.
Benefit: Bronze plan for 1 year.
Productivity Infrastructure & APIs Developer toolsMake any website multilingual and manage your translations through a single platform.
Benefit: Free 1-year Pro Plan giving you access to unlimited languages + up to 200k translated words.
Infrastructure & APIs Developer toolsAccessLint brings automated web accessibility testing into your development workflow.
Benefit: Unlimited use for public and private repositories while you are a student.
Developer toolsMaximize your engineering team's productivity by automatically analyzing every pull request.
Benefit: Sider Standard Plan free while you are a student.
Developer toolsWe help you deliver code confidently by showing which parts of your code aren’t covered by your test suite.
Benefit: Free coverage for unlimited private repos on your personal account.
Developer toolsThe easiest way to engage your mobile & web app users via push notifications.
Benefit: Free Premium account for 6 months.
Infrastructure & APIsStoryscript is a top-level, cloud native programming language that helps you orchestrate data flow seamlessly between microservices.
Benefit: Free access to the Business Plan for the first year.
Infrastructure & APIsA cloud-based translation management system built to accelerate the development of multilingual digital products.
Benefit: Phrase Lite Plan free for up to 12 months for students.
Infrastructure & APIs Developer toolsA versatile uploading & encoding API to automate any file conversion.
Benefit: The Startup plan for free, including 10GB of encoding credit.
Developer tools Infrastructure & APIsLog management platform that offers aggregation, monitoring, and analysis of server and application logs at any volume, from any source.
Benefit: Up to 50 GB/month of log storage with 14 day retention for one year.
Security & analyticsError, crash and performance monitoring for web and mobile apps.
Benefit: Startup Platform plan, free for one year.
Security & analyticsApp Store analytics, optimization, and intelligence.
Benefit: Free access to the Grow plan for 1 year.
MarketingBoost your database performance by automatically optimizing your SQL queries.
Benefit: Free 6-month subscription to the Basic plan.
Developer toolsLocalization platform that easily integrates with your code base.
Benefit: Free 6-month subscription to the Starter plan.
Infrastructure & APIs Developer toolsCheck out projects, tutorials and stories from other students or add your own creation in the Student Gallery.
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