400+ Free Tools & Free Resources For Digital Entrepreneurs

FREE WEBSITE

• HTML5 UP: Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates.

• Bootswatch: Free themes for Bootstrap.

• Templated: A collection of 845 free CSS & HTML5 site templates.

• WordPress.org | WordPress.com: Create your new website for free.

• Strikingly: Free, unlimited mobile optimized websites for strikingly domains.

• Layers: A WordPress site builder so simple. It’s free, forever.

• Bootstrap Zero: The largest open-source, free Bootstrap template collection.

• Landing Harbor: Promote your mobile app with a free landing page.

FREE BRANDING & LOGO

• Logaster: Professional online logo maker & generator.

• Hipster Logo Generator: It’s Hip, It’s Current, It’s Stylish, It’s Hipster.

• Squarespace Free Logo: You can download free low-res version for free.

• Signature Maker: A free web based tool that creates your handwritten digital signature.

FREE INVOICE

• Invoice to me: Free Invoice Generator.

• Free Invoice Generator: Alternative free invoice generator.

• Slimvoice: Insanely simple invoices.

• Wave: Free & easy accounting, invoicing and more.

• Invoice.to: Free invoice generator.

FREE LEGAL DOCS

• Kiss: Free legal docs for startup founders and investor.

• Docracy: An open collection of free legal documents.

• Shake: Create, sign and send legally binding agreements in seconds. Free for personal use.

FREE IDEA MANAGEMENT

• Experiment Board: Test your startup idea without wasting time or money.

• Germ.io: Get from idea to execution.

• Skitch: Your ideas become reality faster.

FREE BUSINESS / PROJECT NAME GENERATORS

• The Name App: Find an available name for your brilliant idea.

• Naminum: Discover a perfect company name.

• Short Domain Search: Find short, available single-word domain names.

• Wordoid: Pick a short and catchy name for your business.

• Hipster Business Name: Hipster business name generator.

• Impossibility: The best domain name generator ever.

• Lean Domain Search: Find a domain name for your website in seconds.

• Domainr: Fast, free, domain name search, short URLs.

FREE WRITING / BLOGGING

• Hemingway: Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.

• Grammarly: Finds & corrects mistakes of your writing.

• Medium: Everyone’s stories and ideas.

• ZenPen: The minimal writing tool of web.

• Liberio: Simple eBook creation and publishing right from Google Drive.

• Editorial Calendar: See all your posts, drag & drop to manage your blog.

• Story Wars: Writing stories together.

• WP Hide Post: Control the visibility of items on your blog.

• Social Locker: Ask visitors “to pay” for your content with a tweet, etc.

• Egg Timer: Set a time and bookmark it for repeated use.

• BlankPage: Writing made simple.

• Wattpad: The world’s largest community for readers and writers.

• Known: A single site for the content you create.

• Wattpad: The world’s largest community for readers and writers.

• Dbook: Structured and collaborative writing for large documents.

• CoSchedule: Blog post headline analyzer.

• A5.gg: When you return your text will still be here.

• Free Summarizer: Summarize any text online in just a few seconds.

FIND (TRENDING) CONTENT (IDEAS)

• Portent: Content idea generator.

• Google Trends: A new way of displaying trending searches.

• Buzzsumo: Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.

• Hubspot Blog Topic Generator: Custom blog ideas.

• Swayy: Discover the most engaging content. Free for 1 dashboard user.

• Others: Google+ What’s Hot | Twitter Trending | Quora | Reddit |

• Ruzzit: Find the most shared content on the web.

FREE SEO + WEBSITE ANALYZERS

• Open Site Explorer: A comprehensive tool for link analysis.

• Ahrefs: Site explorer & backlink checker.

• Quick Sprout: Complete analysis of your website.

• WordPress SEO by Yoast: Have a fully optimized WordPress site.

• SEO Site Checkup: Check your website’s SEO problems for free.

• Hubspot Marketing Grader: Grade your marketing.

• SimilarWeb: Analyze website statistics for any domain.

• Alexa Ranking: Analytical insights to analyze any site’s rank.

• SERPs Rank Checker: Free keyword rank & SERP checker.

• OpenLinkProfiler: The freshest backlinks, for free.

• Keywordtool.io: Free alternative to Google Keyword Planner.

• Google: Analytics | Keyword Planner | Webmaster Tools | Trends |

• Nibbler: Test any website.

• Browseo: How search engines see your website.

• Broken Links: Find broken links, redirects & more.

• Copyscape: Search for copies of your page on the web.

• Google Pagespeed Insights: Check the performance of your site.

• Pingdom: Test & the load time of a site.

• GTMetrics: Analyze your page’s speed performance.

• Moz Local: Check your local listings on Google, Bing, and others.

• XML Sitemaps: Sitemap generator that creates XML & HTML variants.

• Shopify E-commerce Report: Get your free Ecommerce report.

• W3C validator: Easy-to-use markup validation service.

   
FREE IMAGE OPTIMIZERS

• TinyJPG | TinyPNG: Compress images.

• Compressor.io: Optimize and compress your images online.

• Kraken: Optimize your images & accelerate your websites.

• ImageOptimizer: Resize, compress and optimize your image files.

• ImageOptim: Makes images take up less disk space & load faster.

• Smush.it: Image optimizer WordPress plugin.

• Dunnnk: Beautiful mockups.

• InstaMockup: Create beautiful screenshots of your app or website.

FREE IMAGE EDITORS

• Canva: Amazingly simple graphic design for bloggers.

• Pixlr: Pixlr Editor is a robust browser photo editor.

• Skitch: Get your point across with fewer words.

• Easel.ly: Empowers anyone to create & share powerful visuals.

• Social Image Resizer Tool: Create optimized images for social media.

• Placeit: Free product mockups & templates.

• Recite: Turn a quote into a visual masterpiece.

• Meme Generator: The first online meme generator.

• Pablo: Design engaging images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds.

FREE EMAIL MANAGEMENT

• Contact form 7: Famous WordPress plugin to collect email addresses.

• Mailchimp: Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free.

• ManyContactsBar: Free contact form sits on top of your website.

• Hello Bar: Get more email subscribers.

• Sumome List Builder: Collect email addresses with light box popover.

• Scroll Triggered Box: Boost your conversion rates — WordPress only.

• Sumome Scroll Box: Capture more email addresses, politely.

• Mandrill: The fastest way to deliver email. Free 12K emails/month.

• Mailgun: The Email Service For Developers. Free 10K emails/month.

• Sendgrid: Delivers your transactional and marketing email. Free 12K emails/month.

• Sendinblue: Free 9K emails/month.

• Mailtrack: The best free email tracking solution.

• Beefree: Free Email editor to build responsive design messages.

• Canned Emails: A minimal site with prewritten emails.

FREE GUIDES & COURSES

• Primer: No-nonsense, jargon-free marketing lessons (by Google).

• KeepYourFriendsClose: A free e-book about maximizing Customer Lifetime Value.

• Pricing Course: A free 9-day course on charging what you’re worth.

• Email Course for Sponsorships: How to get sponsorships for anything.

• Startup Sales Course: A free course to help you become a better marketer.

• Build an online course: A free course to help you build an online course.

• MailCharts: A FREE email course to help you become a better marketer.

• FirstSiteGuide: The beginner’s guide to successful blogging.

FREE SOCIAL MEDIA + COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT

• WriteRack: The best way to tweetstorm.

• Spruce: Make Twitter ready images in seconds.

• Click To Tweet: Get more shares on your content.

• MyTweetLinks: Increases Twitter traffic.

• Latergram: Easily plan & schedule your Instagram posts.

• WordPress Pin it Button for Images: Add a “Pin It” button.

• SharedCount: Track URL shares, likes, tweets, and more.

• How Many Shares Count how many shares a URL has across most social networks, all in one place.

• Justunfollow: Follow / unfollow people on Twitter & Instagram.

• SocialRank: Identify, organize, and manage your followers on Twitter.

• Klout: Social media influence score on browser extension.

• Ritetag: Instant hashtag analysis.

• Social Analytics: Interactions for a URL on most social platforms.

• Buffer Free Plan: Schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+.

• Bitly: Create, share, and track shortened links.

• Filament: A free beautiful and customizable sharing bar.

• Addthis: Get more shares, follows and conversions.

• Sumome Share: Auto-optimizes your share buttons for max traffic.

• Digg Digg: Your all in one share buttons plugin.

• Disqus: Build a community of active readers & commenters.

• App Review Monitor: App reviews delivered to Slack and your inbox.

• Presskit Generator: Generate a Press Kit for your iOS App for free.

• Free Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.

FREE CUSTOMER SERVICE & SURVEYS

• Typeform: Free beautiful online survey & form builder.

• Tally: Create polls in no time.

• Free Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.

• Batch: The first-ever 100% free engagement platform for mobile apps.

• Helprace: Customer service tool. Free for up to 3 agents for small support teams.

A/B TESTS & GROWTH HACKING

• Petit Hacks: Acquisition, retention, & revenue hacks used by companies.

• Optimizely: One optimization platform for websites and mobile apps.

• Hello Bar: Tool for A/B testing different CTAs & power words.

• GrowthHackers: Unlocking growth. Together.

FREE DESIGN RESOURCES

• Freebbble: High-quality design freebies from Dribbble.

• Dribbble: Dribbble search results for “freebie”. An absolute freebie treasure.

• Graphic Burger: Tasty design resources made with care for each pixel.

• Pixel Buddha: Free and premium resources for professional community.

• Premium Pixels: Free Stuff for Creative Folk.

• Fribbble: Free PSD resources by Dribbblers curated by Gilbert Pellegrom.

• Freebiesbug: Latest free PSDs & other resources for designers.

• 365 Psd: Download a free psd every day.

• Dbf: Dribbble & Behance best design freebies.

• Marvel: Free resources from designers we love.

• UI Space: High quality hand-crafted Freebies for awesome people.

• Free Section of Pixeden: Free design resources.

• Free Section of Creative Market: Freebies coming out every Monday.

• Teehan+Lax: iOS 8 GUI PSD (iPhone 6).

• Teehan+Lax: iPad GUI PSD.

• Freepik: iFree graphic resources for everyone.

• Tech&All: PSD, Tech News, and other resources for free.

• Tethr: The most beautiful IOS design KIT ever.

• Web3Canvas: PSD Freebies, HTML Snippets, Inspirations & Tutorials.

• SketchAppResources: Free graphical resources.

• Placeit Freebies: Freebies delivered right to your Dropbox.

COLOR PICKERS

• Material Palette: Generate & export your Material Design color palette.

• New Flat UI Color Picker: Best flat colors for UI design.

• Flat UI Colors: Beautiful flat colors.

• Coolors: Super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.

• Skala Color: An extraordinary color picker for designers and developers.

• Material UI Colors: Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.

• Colorful Gradients: Gradients automatically created by a computer.

• Adaptive Backgrounds: Extract dominant colors from images.

• Brand Colors: Colors used by famous brands.

• Paletton: The color scheme designer.

• 0 to 255: A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.

• Colour Lovers: Create & share colors, palettes, and patterns.

• Adobe Color CC: Color combinations from the Kuler community.

• Bootflat: Perfect colors for flat designs.

• Hex Colorrrs: Hex to RGB converter.

• Get UI Colors: Get awesome UI colors.

• Coleure: Smart color picker.

• Colllor: Color palette generator.

• Palette for Chrome: Creates a color palette from any image.

• PLTTS: Free color picker.

INSPIRATION

• MaterialUp: Daily material design inspiration.

• FLTDSGN: Daily showcase of the best flat UI design websites and apps.

• Site Inspire: Web design inspiration.

• UI Cloud: The largest user interface design database in the world.

• Moodboard: Build a beautiful moodboard and share the result.

• Crayon: The most comprehensive collection of marketing designs.

• Land-Book: Product landing pages gallery.

• Ocean: A community of designers sharing feedback.

• Dribbble: Show and tell for designers.

• Behance: Showcase & discover creative work.

• Pttrns: 1 Mobile user interface patterns.

• Flat UI Design: Useful Pinterest board.

• Awwwards: The awards for design, creativity and innovation.

• The Starter Kit: Curated resources for developers and designers.

• One Page Love: Resource for one-page website inspiration.

• UI Parade: User interface design tools and design inspiration.

• The Best Designs: The best of web design.

• Agile Designers: Best resources for designers & developers.

• Niice: A search engine with taste.

FREE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

• Stock Up: Best free stock photo websites in one place.

• Pexels: Best free photos in one place.

• All The Free Stock: Free stock images, icons, and videos.

• Unsplash: Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.

• Splashbase: Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos.

• Startup Stock Photos: Go. Make something.

• Jay Mantri: Free pics. do anything (CC0). Make magic.

• Moveast: This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving east.

• Travel Coffee Book: Sharing beautiful travel moments.

• Designers Pics: Free photographs for your personal & commercial use.

• Death to the Stock Photo: Free photos sent to you every month.

• Foodie’s Feed: Free food pictures in hi-res.

• Mazwai: Free creative commons HD video clips & footages.

• Jéshoots: New modern free photos.

• Super Famous: Photos by Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.

• Pixabay: Free high-quality images.

• Super Famous: Photos by Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.

• Picography: Free hi-resolution photos.

• Pixabay: Free high-quality images.

• Magdeleine: A free high-resolution photo every day.

• Snapographic: Free stock photos for personal & commercial use.

• Little Visuals: 7 hi-res images in your inbox every 7 days.

• Splitshire: Delicious free stock photos.

• New Old Stock: Vintage photos from the public archives.

• Picjumbo: Totally free photos.

• Life of Pix: Free high-resolution photos.

• Gratisography: Free high-resolution photos.

• Getrefe: Free photos.

• IM Free: A curated collection of free resources.

• Cupcake: A photographer’s treat by Jonas Nilsson Lee.

• The Pattern Library Free patterns for your projects.

• Public Domain Archive: New 100% free stock photos.

• ISO Republic: High-quality, free photos for creatives.

• Stokpic: Totally free photos.

• Kaboompics: The best way to get free photos.

• Function: Free photo packs.

• MMT: Free stock photos by Jeffrey Betts.

• Paul Jarvis: Free high-resolution photos.

• Lock & Stock Photos: Free stock photos for you.

• Raumrot: Free high-resolution picture.

• Bucketlistly: A free creative common collection of travel photos.

• Some more websites: Free Digital Photos | Morguefile | Public Domain Pictures | Free

Stockvault | ImageFree | Rgbstock | Dreamstime | FreeImages | FreeRangeImages |

FreePhotosBank

• StockSnap: Beautiful free stock photos.

• Unfinished Business: Free stock photos featuring Vince Vaughn.

• Free Nature Stock: Royalty-free Nature Stock Photos. Use them however you want.

FREE TYPOGRAPHY

• TypeGenius: Find the perfect font combo for your next project.

• Font Squirrel: 100% free commercial fonts.

• FontFaceNinja: Browser extension to find the web fonts a site uses.

• Google Fonts: Free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.

• Beautiful Web Type: Best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.

• DaFont: Archive of freely downloadable fonts.

• 1001 Free Fonts: A huge selection of free fonts.

• FontPark: The web’s largest archive of free fonts.

• Font-to-width: Fit pieces of text snugly within their containers.

• Adobe Edge Fonts: The free, easy way to get started with web fonts.

• Typekit:  A limited collection of fonts to use on a website or in applications.

FREE ICONS

• Fontello: Icon fonts generator.

• Flat Icon: A search engine for 16000+ glyph vector icons.

• Material Design Icons: 750 Free open-source glyphs by Google.

• Font Awesome: The iconic font and CSS toolkit.

• Glyphsearch: Search for icons from other icon databases.

• MakeAppIcon: Generate App Icons of all sizes with a click.

• Endless Icons: Free flat icons and creative stuff.

• Ico Moon: 4000+ free vector icons, icon generator.

• The Noun Project: Thousands of glyph icons from different artists.

• Perfect Icons: A social icon creation tool.

• Icon Finder: Free icon section of the website.

• Free Round Icons: Doodle Set | Flat Set | Vector Line Set

• Icon Sweets: 60 free vector Photoshop icons.

• Make Appicon: Generate App Icons of ALL sizes with a click.

• App Icon Template: Royalty free app icon creator for iOS, OS X and Android.

• SmartIcons: Download 1450 premium icons for free.

• Ego Icons: 100 Free vector icons with a clean look and feel.

• FlatIcons: Free flat icon customizer, royalty free.

• To(icon): Free icons.

FREE USEFUL STUFF

• UI Names: Generate random names for use in designs and mockups.

• UI Faces: Find and generate sample avatars for user interfaces.

• Copy Paste Character: Click to copy.

• Window Resizer: See how it looks on various screen resolutions.

• Sonics: Free packs of UI sounds and sound effects delivered to your inbox every month.

FREE DEVELOP / CODE THINGS

• Hive: First free unlimited cloud service in the world.

• GitHub: Build software better, together.

• BitBucket: Git and Mercurial code management for teams

• Chisel: Chisel offers an unlimited number of fossil repositories.

• Visual Studio: Comprehensive collection of developer tools and services.

• Landscape: Landscape is an early warning system for your Python codebase.

• Swiftype: Add great search to any website. Free with limitations.

• Keen.io: Gather all the data you want & start getting the answers you need.

• Coveralls: Test coverage history and statistics.

• LingoHub: Free for Small Teams, Open Source usage and Educational projects.

• Codacy: Continuous Static Analysis designed to complement your unit tests.

• Searchcode: Search over 20 billion lines of code.

• TinyCert: Free SSL certificates for your startup.

• StartSSL: Free SSL certificates.

• Opbeat: The first ops platform for developers. Free for small teams.

• Pingdom: Website monitoring. Free for one website.

• Rollbar: Full-stack error monitoring for all apps in any language.

• Loggly: Simplify Log Management Forever. Free for one user.

• Devport: Get your developer portfolio.

• Getting Real: The smarter way to build web apps. A free book by 37signals.

• Peek: Get a free, 5-minute video of someone using your site.

• Creator: Build better Ionic apps, faster.

• DevFreeCasts: A huge collection of free screencasts for developers.

• Cody: A free library of HTML, CSS, JS nuggets.

BACKGROUND SOUND TO FOCUS

• Noisli: Background noise & color generator.

• Noizio: Ambient sound equalizer for relax or productivity.

• Defonic: Combine the sounds of the world into a melody.

• Designers.mx: Curated playlists by designers, for designers.

• Coffitivity: Stream the sounds of a coffee shop at work.

• Octave: A free library of UI sounds, handmade for iOS.

• Free Sound: Huge database of free audio snippets, samples, + recordings.

• Sonics: Free packs of UI sounds and sound effects delivered to your inbox every month.

• Deep Focus: Spotify’s famous playlist to focus.

AVOID DISTRACTION

• Self Control: Mac: free application to help you avoid distracting websites.

• Cold Turkey: Windows: temporarily block yourself off distracting websites.

ORGANIZE & COLLABORATE

• Trello: Keeps track of everything.

• Evernote: The workspace for your life’s work.

• Dropbox: Free space up to 2GB.

• Yanado: Tasks management inside Gmail.

• Wetransfer: Free transfer up to 2GB.

• Drp.io: Free, fast, private and easy image and file hosting.

• Pocket: View later, put it in Pocket.

• Raindrop: Mac app for bookmarking and reading it later.

• Flowdock: Free for teams of five and non-profits.

• Typetalk: Share and discuss ideas with your team through instant messaging.

• Slack: Free for unlimited users with few limited features.

• HipChat: Free for unlimited users with few limited features.

• Google Hangouts: Bring conversations to life with photos, emoji and group video calls.

• Voveet: Simple, free 3D conference calls. Experience the difference.

• FreeBusy: Eliminate coordination headaches when you need to schedule a meeting.

• RealTimeBoard: Your regular whiteboard, re-thought for the best online experience.

• Witkit: Witkit is the secure platform for teams. 50GB of free encrypted data storage.

• Any.do: Get things done with your team.

• Asana: Teamwork without email.

• GoToMeeting: Online meetings without the hassle.

DIGITAL NOMADS & REMOTE WORKING

• Founded X Startup Stats: Find the best country to build your startup in

• Teleport: Startup Cities: Discover and budget your next move to 100+ startup cities.

• Nomad House: Houses around the world for nomads to live and work together.

• Workfrom: Coffee, Wi-Fi and good vibes.

• Lastroom: Simplifying your team travel management

• Nomadlist: The best cities to live and work remotely.

• What’s It Like: Helping travelers figure out WHEN to go.

• Nomad Jobs: The best remote jobs at the best startups.

DISCOVER TOOLS & STARTUPS

• Product Hunt: Curation of the best new products, every day.

• Angellist: Where the world meets startups.

• Beta List: Discover and get early access to tomorrow’s startups.

• StartupLi.st: Find. Follow. Recommend startups.

• Startups List: Collections of the best startups in different places.

• Erli Bird: Where great new products are born.

BUILD TOGETHER

• Assembly: Co-create new ideas no matter where they are.

• CoFoundersLab: Find a co-founder in any city, any industry.

• Founder2be: Find a co-founder for your startup.

LEARN

• Coursera: Free online classes from 80+ top universities & organizations.

• Khan Academy: Free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

• Skillshare: Unlock your creativity with free online classes & projects.

• Codecademy: Learn to code interactively, for free.

• How to start a startup: As an Audio Podcast or As Online Course

• Startup Notes: Startup School invites amazing founders to tell their story.

• The How: Learn from entrepreneurs.

• Launch This Year: Guide to help you launch your online business.

• Closed Club: Browse shut-down start-ups & learn why they closed.

• Startup Talks: A curated collection of startup related videos.

• Rocketship.fm: Learn from successful entrepreneurs each week.

• reSRC.io: All free programming learning resources.

• The Lean LaunchPad: How to Build a Startup.

• TalentBuddy: Learn to code.

• Mixergy: Learn from proven entrepreneurs.

• Hackdesign: Receive a design lesson in your inbox each week.

NEWSLETTERS THAT DON’T SUCK

• Email1K: A free 30 day course to double your email list.

• Design for Hackers: 12 weeks of design learning, right in your inbox.

• Startup Digest: Personalized newsletter for all things startup in your area.

• Mattermark Daily: Curated newsletter from investors & founders.

• ChargeWhatYou’reWorth: Free course on charging what you’re worth.

• Product Psychology: Lessons on User Behavior.

• UX Newsletter: Tales of researching, designing, and building.

• UX Design Weekly: Best user experience design links every week.

USEFUL

• Foundrs: Co-founder equity calculator.

• Ad Spend Calculator: Should my startup pay to advertise?

• HowMuchToMakeAnApp: Calculate the cost of a mobile application.

• App vs. Website: Should you build an app or website?

• Pitcherific: Pitcherific helps you create, train, and improve your pitch.

• Startup Equity Calculator: Figure out how much equity to grant new hires in seconds.