⚠️ Before you decide to use one of the free digital tools below, seek the advice of your agency Terms of Service Point of Contact to be sure your agency has already signed a federal-compatible TOS, that the product supports your broader agency mission and goals, and that the TOS is legally appropriate for use by your agency.

See complete implementation guidance on the main Terms of Service page.

Federal Compatible Terms of Service

This is a list of free tools and services that have federal-compatible Terms of Service agreements.

Keep in mind that even though a tool may be on the list, your agency may not have agreed to the TOS for that tool. The federal government doesn’t endorse, sponsor or recommend the products or services on this site or consider them to be superior to any other products or services. Questions? Send an email to digitalgov@gsa.gov

Tool / Service	Agreement
Amazon Appstore Mobile app store	view
AddThis Bookmarking & sharing	view
Bing Search engine	view
Blackberry App World Mobile app store	view
CartoDB Maps for the web – made easy	view
Challenge.gov Government challenge platform	view
ChatWING Website/app chat client	view
ClassMarker Online testing & training platform	view
Cyfe All-in-one dashboard	view
Dialogue App Crowdsourcing & ideation	view
Disqus Universal commenting & social discussion	view
Dipity Multimedia timelines	view
Eventbrite Event Management tool	view
Facebook Social networking	view
Flickr Photo sharing, now owned by SmugMug	view
Flipboard Magazine format social network aggregation	view
Foursquare Location-based software and services	view
GitHub Collaborative software development tool	view
Google Analytics Website analytics tool	view
Google Blogger Blogging software	view
Google Feedburner RSS feed management software	view
Google+ Social network with mulilingual capabilities	view
Google Visualization Display of multimedia, data, maps	view
GovLoop Knowledge network	view
Hackpad Wiki and real-time collaborative documents	view
HootSuite Social media dashboard	view
Hulu Video streaming	view
Hypothesis Web peer review layer	view
IdeaScale Voting & feedback	view
IFTTT A toolkit for using/creating recipes for powerful data integrations	view
Instagram Photo & video sharing service	view
IntenseDebate Social commenting	view
Let's Encrypt HTTPS Certificate Authority	view
LinkedIn Professional networking	view
MapBox Online maps service	view
Medium Publishing platform	view
Mendeley Social networking platform	view
MixedInk Collaborative writing	view
My.ComMetrics Tracking & benchmarking of blogs	view
MySpace Social networking	view
Need to Meet Scheduling app	view
News Genius Wiki & real-time collaborative documents	view
Open Calais Automated metadata	view
Piktochart Create easy-to-use inforgraphics	view
Pinterest Online collections	view
Plotly Graph and share data	view
POP Prototyping on paper	view
Qualtrics Customer experience survey software	view
Quora Question and answer community website	view
Qzzr Create, embed, and share quizzes	view
Roku TV streaming platform	view
Screendoor Online forms	view
Scribd Social publishing	view
Slack Team communication platform	view
Slideshare Presentation sharing	view
Snapchat Social, messaging App	view
Sniply Content sharing	view
SocialOomph Social media productivity tool	view
SocialTwist/TAF4Free Bookmarking & sharing tool	view
Socrata Data hosting	view
SourceForge Open source software development & sharing	view
StackExchange Question and answer communities	view
STCI/VenCorps Challenges, contests & prizes tool	view
Storify Social media curation & publishing platform	view
StumbleUpon Content discovery	view
Survey Analytics Survey software	view
Survey Monkey Survey software	view
Thunderclap Crowd-speaking platform	view
Tint Connect and display social media feeds	view
Trello Collaborate & organize your projects into boards	view
TubeMogul Video analytics & distribution	view
Tumblr Blogging	view
Twitter Social networking service	view
Vine Video sharing service, from Twitter	view
Wikispaces Collaboration	view
WordPress Content Management	view
Yammer Microblogging + team communications	view
Yelp Crowd-sourced local reviews and social networking	view
YouTube Video sharing	view
ZeeMaps maps	view

Inactive Agreements

The list of free tools and services that have stopped providing federal-compatible Terms of Service agreements.

Tool / Service
Asana Collaborative software; mobile- and web-based project management tool
Blip.tv Video sharing
4Q Survey.com Satisfaction measurement tool
Bitly Bookmark, organize & share
CoolIris Video & picture browsing. The company terminated the agreement on 01/01/15 with notice.
CrowdHall Host online interactive town halls
Google Moderator (Has been retired) Social commenting & discussion.
Google Webmaster Tools Analytics and search engine optimization — Google Webmaster Tools has decided not to sign up any new agencies but will honor existing agreements.
Mandrill Transactional email service, by MailChimp, now an add-on for paid monthly MailChimp accounts.
MeetUp Everywhere Social networking platform
Ustream.tv Video broadcasting platform. No longer a free service. Contact Ustream to discuss amendments for their Pro and Enterprise plans.
User Voice Voting, customer & constituent feedback. No longer offers a “free” civic engagement option.