Now a days, many companies offer Student License Program to distribute free softwares to students. All students around the globe can easily apply to get access to corresponding software licenses. While signing up for such offers, you need to use your email address provided by your college. However, if you don't have one, then you can still redeem the offers by submitting photos of your college ID card. Few companies are listed below which offers free softwares:

GitHub have collaborated with different companies to provide best developer tools, known as Student Developer Pack, free for students. With this student pack, you get premium features of Github, Atom IDE, AWS Credits, $50 DigitalOcean credits, Premium accounts of DataDog, Stripe, Thinkful, Unreal Engine, Travis CI, transifex, Taplytics, SendGrid, Hackhands, GitKraken, Flatiron School and much more. You also get a free .me domain name on namecheap.

Build your first web or mobile app with Azure for Students Starter. High school and secondary students—start building in the cloud now with free Azure services and professional developer tools. No credit card required. Get started with coding or boost your programming skills with access to free Azure services and software like Visual Studio Code. Bring your ideas to life using flexible tools and the cloud. Get access to free learning paths and labs to improve your coding skills. Whether you’re just starting out or have some coding experience, Microsoft Learn has a path for you.

Access cloud content, training, collaboration tools, the Job Board and AWS technology at no cost by joining AWS Educate today. AWS Educate is a grant program for educators, academic researchers and students. Qualified students can earn a series of Amazon Web Services (AWS) certifications, gaining important proficiencies as they enter the information technology (IT) workforce. All students have access to the AWS Educate Student Portal and free Online Labs, along with a grant of USD $35 in AWS credits. If the student is a member of an organization that has joined AWS Educate, they are eligible for a grant of $100 in AWS credits.

JetBrains is one of the prominent software company. It has developed more than 20+ developer tools. IntelliJ, Phpstorm, PyCharm and WebStorm are the popular tools among developers. To use JetBrains applications, you have to purchase annual subscription which is quite costly. However, JetBrains offers free license of its developer tools while you are student. Tools for Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Objective-C or .NET are available.

Bootstrap studio is a powerful desktop application for creating responsive websites using the Bootstrap framework. It comes with built-in components which you can drag and drop to create responsive websites. The cost of application is $25 (Standard Version) and $60 (Lifetime) which you can acquire while you are still a student and also extend it for a year later.

If you are interested in Mobile App Development, Xamarin can help you build cross platform mobile applications. With Xamarin, you can build native iOS, Android, and Windows apps.

InVision is one of the powerful prototyping tool popular among designer community. With this application, you can add animations, gestures and transitions to transform your designs into clickable, interactive prototypes.

LastPass is one of the popular password management application. A student can get 6 months Premium features which allows unlimited sync to unlimited devices including smartphones and tablets.

Tableau is an industry leading BI tool that focuses on data visualization, dashboarding and data discovery.

Vertabelo is an online clean and easy database design tool. It provides 100% free academic accounts for teachers and students who are teaching or learning database modelling.

Microsoft offers Microsoft Office 365 to the students for free. To avail the offer, you need to signup using your school email address.