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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About DigitalOcean
Simple cloud hosting, built for developers
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$100 in platform credit for new users.
CloudAbout Name.com
Best-in-class domains, email, and hosting
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One free domain name and free Advanced Security (SSL, privacy protection, and more).
DomainsAbout Educative
Level up on trending coding skills at your own pace with interactive, text-based courses.
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Get 6 free months of 60+ courses covering in-demand topics like Web Development, Python, Java, and Machine Learning.
LearnAbout Bootstrap Studio
Bootstrap Studio is a powerful desktop app for creating responsive websites using the Bootstrap framework.
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A free license for Bootstrap Studio while you are a teacher.
Design Developer toolsAbout Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials
Free developer tools, cloud services and training from Microsoft.
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Visual Studio Community, Visual Studio Community for Mac, access to Pluralsight training, 1 free year of Azure services with $200 credit for the 1st month and more.
Cloud Developer tools LearnAbout .TECH
A powerful domain extension to convey that you belong to the technology industry.
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One standard .TECH domain free for 1 year and 2 free email accounts with 100 MB free storage.
DomainsAbout GitHub
Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management
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Upgrade your academic organization to GitHub Team
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Free GitHub Pro plan for Educators.
Developer toolsAbout Termius
SSH client that works on desktop and mobile. Termius securely syncs data across all your devices.
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Free access to the Premium plan while you're a teacher. The Premium plan includes sync, SFTP, autocomplete, and many other features.
Developer tools MobileAbout Iconscout
Iconscout is design resources marketplace to get high quality icons, illustrations and stock images.
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Download 60 premium icons per month for 1 year.
DesignAbout GitKraken
GitKraken Client is the most popular Git client for Windows, Mac & Linux, offering both a GUI and terminal interface. Deep integration with GitHub repos and issues enable interactive pull request management and issue management directly in the client.
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Access to Pro versions of GitKraken Git GUI, GitKraken Boards and GitKraken Timelines while you're a teacher.
Developer toolsAbout Testmail
Get unlimited email addresses and mailboxes for automating email tests with our powerful APIs.
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Free Essential plan while you're a teacher.
Developer toolsAbout Icons8
Icons8 provides design resources: icons, UI illustrations, photos and software to class up your projects.
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3-month All Access subscription with icons, photos, illustrations, and music.
DesignAbout Atom
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
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Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone.
Developer toolsAbout Arduino
Empower scientists and artists of the future with creative STEM programs.
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Free Arduino Create Maker plan for 6 months and discounts on selected hardware.
Internet of Things Infrastructure & APIsAbout Twilio
Twilio is a developer platform for communications. Software teams use Twilio APIs to add capabilities like voice, video, and messaging to their applications.
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Up to $100 in Twilio API credits and exclusive in-game items in TwilioQuest. The credit can only be applied to new Twilio accounts.
About New Relic
New Relic is an observability platform that helps fully understand how to improve your software.
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Free New Relic while you are an educator ($300/month value)
Developer tools CloudAbout GoRails
Tutorials for web developers learning Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Turbolinks, Stimulus.js, Vue.js, and more.
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Free access to all videos and lessons for 12 months.
LearnAbout HazeOver
Get focused while working on your projects or studying with HazeOver for Mac.
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Free app license, including minor updates.
ProductivityAbout Tower
The Git client that brings all of Git and GitHub's power to the desktop, for Mac and Windows.
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Free license for Tower Pro while you are a teacher.
Developer toolsAbout Datadog
Cloud-based infrastructure monitoring.
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Pro Account, including 10 servers. Free for 2 years.
Security & analyticsAbout 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.
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Free Automate Mobile Plan for 1 parallel and 1 user for 1 year.
Developer toolsAbout GitHub Desktop
Reduces frustration and makes Git and GitHub workflows more approachable.
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Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone.
Developer toolsAbout Zyte
Zyte's Scrapy Cloud is a battle-tested cloud platform for running web crawlers. Manage and automate your web spiders at scale.
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1 Free Forever Scrapy Cloud Unit - unlimited team members, projects or requests. Unlimited crawl time and 120 day data retention.
Developer toolsAbout Gitpod
Always ready to code - spin up fresh, automated dev environments for each task, in the cloud, in seconds.
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Free personal plan subscription for six months for teachers.
Developer tools LearnAbout Cryptolens
License and sell your software securely.
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Free access to all features of Cryptolens for teaching purposes.
Developer tools Infrastructure & APIsAbout Blackfire
Code performance measurement tool. Find & fix bottlenecks.
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Free Profiler subscription for students and teachers.
About SymfonyCasts
Master Symfony and PHP with video tutorials and code challenges.
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Free 3-month subscription for educators.
LearnAbout Transloadit
A versatile uploading & encoding API to automate any file conversion.
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The Startup plan for free, including 10GB of encoding credit.
Infrastructure & APIs Developer toolsAbout ConfigCat
Learn feature flags with the industry leading feature flag service.
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Unlimited ConfigCat Products, including 10 feature flags, and 3 permission groups per product, with unlimited team size for teachers.
Developer tools Infrastructure & APIsAbout PushBots
The easiest way to engage your mobile & web app users via push notifications.
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Free Premium account for 6 months.
Infrastructure & APIsAbout Honeybadger
The web developer's secret weapon: exception, uptime, and cron monitoring that's so awesome, you'll wish your site had more errors.
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Free Small account for 1 year.
Security & analyticsAbout SQLGate
Simple but powerful IDE for multiple SQL databases.
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Access to most Standard Subscription features for 1 year.
Developer toolsAbout GitHub Swag
The coolest official GitHub gear.
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Free Git cheat sheets, Markdown guides, and, of course, GitHub stickers for your students.
LearnAbout POEditor
POEditor is a highly scalable localization management platform for teams.
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Plus Plan for free for 6 months.
Developer tools Infrastructure & APIsAbout EverSQL
Boost your database performance by automatically optimizing your SQL queries.
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Free 6-month subscription to the Basic plan.
Developer toolsAbout SQLSmash
Productivity plugin for SQL Server Management Studio for writing maintainable SQL scripts and faster navigation.
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Free standard license for educators.
Developer toolsAbout Phrase
A cloud-based software localization platform built to accelerate the development of multilingual digital products.
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Phrase Basic plan free for up to 6 months for teachers.
Developer tools Infrastructure & APIsAbout Appfigures
App Store analytics, optimization, and intelligence.
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Free access to analytics tracking, alerts, and the complete line of App Store Optimization tools for one year.
MarketingAbout NetLicensing
A cost-effective and integrated Licensing-as-a-Service (LaaS) solution for your software on any platform from Desktop to IoT and SaaS.
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Basic Plan for free while you are an educator.
Infrastructure & APIsAbout Crowdin
Crowdin is a cloud-based solution that streamlines localization management.
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Bronze plan for 1 year.
Developer tools Infrastructure & APIs ProductivityAbout GitHub Classroom
With GitHub Classroom you can set up the industry-standard workflow and free up your time to focus on teaching.
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Free for everyone.
LearnAbout GitHub Campus Advisors
Become a GitHub Campus Advisor. Master Git and GitHub and champion the use of real-world tools at your school.
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Complete the training on the GitHub Campus Advisors website, then apply to become part of the program.
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