Best Freemium Developer Tools

Ranked by community votes · Freemium only

Cowinx

Invisible AI copilot for technical interviews

#1 Ranked

Pushpen

Pushpen automatically generates and updates your README, changelog, API docs, and onboarding guides from every GitHub push

2 ratings

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Decispher

Decispher captures engineering decisions from Slack, GitHub, and Jira, records every AI coding session with Branch Story, and serves it all to your agents via MCP

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Caputchin

Caputchin replaces the surveillance circus with games

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Docker

Container application development and deployment platform

8.5

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Guideless

Guideless captures your flow and turns it into a narrated video guide — ready to share or embed

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Angular

JavaScript framework for building scalable web applications

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Zed — Your last next editor

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter

7.5

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Microsoft Visual Studio

Integrated development environment for software developers and teams

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HelixDB | The Database for AI Memory

Knowledge graphs, vectors, temporal, and full-text search in one Rust engine — for agent memory, RAG, and company brains

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Eclipse

Open-source software framework for building and integrating applications

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Amazon ElastiCache

Serverless caching service with microsecond latency and open-source compatibility

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Axure

Cloud-based software design tool for creating UX prototypes

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CodeProphet

AI-powered code generation and analysis tool

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CodeScene

Code analysis and quality insights tool

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Saucony Guide ISO

Supportive running shoe with Everun Continuous Cushioning

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Kindra

Find Kindra official logos, images, digital and brand assets with usage guidelines on Brandfolder

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Intellicode by Microsoft

AI-assisted code completion extension for Visual Studio Code

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Cycling-UK Route Planner

Find cycle-friendly routes with our route planner

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Travis CI

Automated continuous integration and deployment tool for software development

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GenoPal

Explore your ancestry through DNA testing and connect with global relatives.

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Facebook BERT

Open-source natural language processing library based on the BERT model

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CodeAnywhere

Save time by deploying a development environment in seconds

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Amazon Web Services, Inc.

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser

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Ghost Inspector

Automated browser testing for websites and web applications

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Telerik Test Studio

Automated testing software for web and desktop applications

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Microsoft Visual SourceSafe

File-level version control system for small software development projects

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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch

Visual Studio development tool for building business applications

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FireDaemon

operating system service management application

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Flexpde

Multiphysics software for solving partial differential equations

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Sparksee

Graph database for robust data management and analysis

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CADKEY

CADKEY is a 2D/3D mechanical CAD software application released for various DOS, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Originally released

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Geneious

Bioinformatics software for molecular biology and sequence analysis

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PC-Lint

Static analysis tool for C and C++ code

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VisualSVN Server

Easy-to-use Subversion server for Windows

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Insure++

Automated C++ memory leak detection and debugging tool

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Parasoft Virtualize

AI-powered service virtualization for software testing

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VisualSVN

Subversion integration plugin for Visual Studio

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Giveaway of the Day

Daily free licensed software downloads

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.NET Reflector

.NET Code Decompiler and Analyzer

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InterBase

Ultra-fast embeddable SQL database with advanced data security and synchronization

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Death in the Clouds

From seat No

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Zenon Software

Die zenon Softwareplattform, von Industriesoftware-Experte COPA-DATA entwickelt, ist die ultimative Gesamtlösung für die digitale Transformation

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C++ AMP

Accelerates C++ code execution on GPU hardware

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ModelSim

Functional simulator for electronic design automation

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bolt.new

Build and scale high-performing websites & apps using your words

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Kimi AI with K3

Try Kimi K3 to build playable multiplayer and 3D games, create consulting grade slides, and run parallel tasks with Swarm and Goal to get more work done

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PgDog

PgDog is an open-source connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL

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Arkor

Arkor is an agent-native TypeScript framework and managed runtime for training open-weight models

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v0 by Vercel

Your collaborative AI assistant to design, iterate, and scale full-stack applications for the web