Live on web

Free and Forward is live on the web right now — free to start, no card. Also on the App Store and Google Play.

Put it on your phone in about ten seconds

Get it from the App Store or Google Play — or skip the stores entirely: open the app in your phone's browser and save it to your home screen, and it opens with an icon just like any other app.

Step 1 — open the app on your phone

Step 2 — iPhone or iPad (Safari)

  1. Tap the Share button at the bottom of the screen.
  2. Scroll down and tap “Add to Home Screen.”
  3. Tap “Add.” The icon lands with your other apps.

Step 2 — Android (Chrome)

  1. Tap the three-dot menu in the top right.
  2. Tap “Install app” or “Add to home screen.”
  3. Confirm. The icon lands with your other apps.

It's free, it takes seconds, and nothing is shared with probation, parole or any agency. Your document photos are encrypted on your phone before they are uploaded, and we cannot open them.

Stay free. An app designed as a roadmap to keep you on track after coming home from prison or jail.

Free to start · Nothing shared with any agency

The first ninety days decide everything.

Court dates, check-ins, IDs, paperwork, job applications — all of it lands at once, and all of it has a deadline. Free and Forward keeps every piece in one place, in the order it actually has to happen.

Download on the App Store — free on iPhone

Free to start. No card.

✓ 27 steps, in the right order

✓ Resources for credit, insurance, starting a business

✓ Documents encrypted on your phone

✓ Nothing shared with any agency

* Upgrading from free to a paid plan is always cheaper here than through the app stores.

Built by people who have been there

Adam Scrivner, founder of Free and Forward

“I’ve been there. I walked out with a stack of paperwork and no idea where to start.”

“I missed things that mattered — not because I didn’t care, but because it all landed at once and there was no system for any of it.”

“So I built the thing I needed. Never forget the past. Learn from it. Move free and forward.”

Adam Scrivner · Founder & CEO
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Live view from the app launch screen

Free to start. No card.

✓ 27 steps, in the right order

✓ Resources for credit, insurance, starting a business

✓ Documents encrypted on your phone

✓ Nothing shared with any agency

Watch the walkthrough

See how Free and Forward works.

Three and a half minutes, every screen. The 27 steps in the order they have to happen, a calendar that reminds you before every court date and check-in, a document vault that only you can open, and the tools that get you hired — tier by tier, from Free to Premium.

Free to start. No card needed. Every paid plan is a one-time price. Read the screen-by-screen guide →

What's inside

Everything you're juggling, in one place

Free

Three Free and Forward app screens fanned side by side: the goal tracker with a progress bar, the 27-step reentry checklist, and the calendar of check-ins and court dates

Goals, Steps & Calendar

• Pick your goals when you start, then watch the progress bar move

• 27 steps in the order they actually go in, with due dates

• Add your own steps and goals for your situation

• Calendar for check-ins, court dates, work and family

★ Event and deadline reminders are free as phone notifications. Basic adds the same reminders by email

Free

Free and Forward app Essentials screen listing verified help: 211 for local food, housing and health services, Legal Services Corporation for free civil legal aid, and U.S. Courts probation and pretrial information

Resources

• Verified links for housing, benefits, health coverage and legal aid

• 211 for local help, and what your supervision conditions mean

• ID, driver's license, child support, school and job licensing

• Partners for building credit, car insurance and starting a business

• Free on every tier

Basic

Free and Forward app Document Vault screen showing an ID, birth certificate and release papers stored on the device

Document Vault

• Photos of your ID, birth certificate and release papers

• Tagged, so you can find one when you are asked for it

• Encrypted on your phone before it is uploaded

• We store only the encrypted file — we cannot read it

• Nothing shared with any agency

Basic

Free and Forward app Resume Builder screen showing work history, skills and a clean PDF export

Resume Builder

• Build a resume from your phone, in a format employers accept

• Work history, skills, training and certifications

• Room to explain a gap in your work history in your own words

• Exports as a PDF you can email, upload or print

Basic

Free and Forward app turning a photographed pay stub into a PDF with the Export PDF button

Photo to PDF Converter

• Photograph a pay stub, your ID or your release papers

• Comes out as a clean, properly named PDF

• The format POs, landlords, lenders and employers ask for

Plus

Free and Forward app job board listing curated second-chance employers with pay and location

Job Board

• Second-chance employers who hire people with records

• Log every job you apply to — company, role and the date you applied

• Track the status — Applied, Interviewed, Offered, Not selected, Withdrawn

• Add notes as things happen, and set a follow-up date so you know when to chase it

• Saved roles sync across your devices — free on every tier

• Push and email reminders, included from Basic up

Premium

Free and Forward app AI Resume Writer drafting a resume section, including honest wording for a gap in work history

Write with AI

• Drafts your resume and cover letter, including the paragraph about the gap

• Writes letters and emails — to a landlord, an employer, your PO, or to family

• Write the appointment how you'd say it — “my appointment moved until Tuesday” — and it works out the date

• You check the full date on screen before anything is added to your calendar

• Only what you type goes in — nothing is invented, and you read it before you send it

Premium

Free and Forward app Write a Letter screen, addressed to a landlord, with the person's own plain-words notes about applying for an apartment

Write a Letter

• The ones that are hard to start — a landlord, an employer, a probation officer, family

• You type the facts in plain words and it writes the letter

• Only what you write goes in — nothing is invented

• Sign it with your own name or leave it as is

★ 2 AI credits a letter, shown before you run it. Premium starts with 45

Premium

Free and Forward app job match screen scoring verified second-chance employers against the user's resume

Intuitive Job Match

• Ranks every second-chance employer against your resume, your skills and where you are

• Labels each one Strong fit, Good fit or Possible fit, with the percentage — and tells you why it matched

• Filter by state and by trade — construction, food service, retail and more

• Second-chance employers flagged, so you know who actually hires people with records

• Re-run the match whenever your resume changes

How it works

Three questions. Then it builds itself.

About two minutes. Answer three questions about your situation and the checklist assembles around what you told it.

Start Free

Start Free

Step 01

Tell it your goals

Your release date, what you want to get done, and the kind of work you can do. Then put a first goal or appointment straight on your calendar, so day one already has something on it. No card needed to start.

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Step 02

The checklist builds itself

Twenty-seven steps reorder around your answers, with real due dates and the lead time each one actually takes.

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Step 03

Reminders do the rest

Court dates, check-ins and deadlines land on your calendar, and you can set a reminder on any event for free — delivered by the phone app. Deadline reminders on checklist steps are free too, as app notifications; Basic adds the same reminders by email.

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Pricing

Free to start. No card.

One-time purchase

Compare all tiers

NO SUBSCRIPTION

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to start

Free

Everything you need to keep track of dates and deadlines. No card, no time limit.

Start Free

Start Free

What you get:

Included

27-step reentry checklist

Included

Goal setting with tracked progress

Included

Customized to your situation

Included

Calendar with event reminders — free in the phone app

Included

Resources directory, tailored to your state

Included

Nothing shared with any agency

Not included

Cloud backup and sync — English and Español

$9.99/

one time

Basic

Adds the document vault, photo-to-PDF and the resume builder. One payment, no renewal.

Get Basic

Get Basic

Everything in Free, plus:

Included

Document vault — ID, birth certificate, release papers

Included

Resume builder

Included

Photo to PDF — the file an office will accept

Included

Deadline reminders by email

Not included

Encrypted on your phone before it backs up — we can't open it

Not included

Combine documents into one PDF

$24.99/

one time

Plus

The job-search tier: curated employers, an application tracker and full data export.

Get Plus

Get Plus

Everything in Basic, plus:

Included

Job board — curated second-chance employers, with pay and location

Included

Application tracker — company, role, date applied

Included

Status on every application: applied, interviewed, offered

Included

Follow-up reminders — 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month

Included

Export all your data

Not included

PDF export

$34.99/

one time

Premium

Adds the AI that writes the things nobody teaches you how to say. One payment, no renewal.

Get Premium

Get Premium

Everything in Plus, plus:

Included

AI resume and cover letter — a gap in work history handled the right way

Included

Letter writer — landlord, employer, probation officer, family

Included

AI Match — employers ranked against your resume, skills and location

Included

Type an appointment in plain words — it lands on your calendar

Included

45 AI credits included · 50 more for $9.99, one time · never expire

Buying here costs less than buying inside the app. Already own a tier? You pay only the difference to move up — on this website, Basic to Plus is $15.00, Basic to Premium is $25.00 and Plus to Premium is $10.00. Premium includes 45 AI credits, powered by OpenAI — anything written costs 2, an appointment costs 1, and every screen shows the cost before you run it. Out of credits? 50 more for $9.99, one time. Credits never expire.

In-app upgrades. Already bought a tier in the app? You pay about the difference to move up: from Basic ($12.99) to Plus ($32.49), you pay $19.49; from Basic ($12.99) to Premium ($45.49), you pay $32.49; from Plus ($32.49) to Premium ($45.49), you pay $12.99. The upgrade credit never expires.

Sign up here first, then sign in on the app — that skips the store fee. You keep $3.00 on Basic, $7.50 on Plus and $10.50 on Premium.

What we will never do

Built so that using it can never be used against you.

This is the first question everyone asks. Here is the answer, in writing.

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Nothing goes to any officer or agency

Not your checklist, not your location, not whether you opened the app. There is no agency-facing view. It does not exist.

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Your documents are encrypted on your phone

Your document photos are encrypted on your phone before they are uploaded. We store only the encrypted file. The key that opens it is created on your device and is never sent to us — if you lose both your account password and your recovery key, no one, including us, can open those files. That is true on every tier.

No tracking

Nothing is tracked or reported

No location, no GPS, no check-in log. Reminders run off dates you entered, not where your phone is. Your checklist and calendar are stored so they follow you between devices — we never build a report from them, and no officer or agency can see them.

Delete everything

You can erase all of it, any time

One tap clears your checklist, documents and history off the device. The encrypted backups are deleted with it, and everything else in your account is deleted within 30 days.

The numbers

Why this matters

Missed appointments and lost paperwork drive a large share of technical violations. This is a national figure; individual states vary widely. Source: CSG Justice Center, Supervision Violations and Their Impact on Incarceration (2025 report, 2023 data).

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Why we built this

We’ve been there.

I'm Adam, founder of Free and Forward. I went the wrong way at a point in my life and ended up incarcerated. When I got out, I walked into a halfway house with a stack of paperwork and no idea where to start.

Adam Scrivner, founder of Free and Forward

Adam

Founder & CEO

“Never forget the past. Learn from it. Move free and forward.”

I lost track. I missed things that mattered — not because I didn't care, but because it all landed at once and there was no system for any of it.

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Adam

Founder & CEO

“There are people there for you when you get out.”

Case managers, family, people who genuinely want you to make it. They're just not there to hold your hand through every deadline — and it isn't their job to be.

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Adam

Founder & CEO

“So we built the thing we needed.”

Everything in one place, free where it matters most, with paid features kept cheap and one-time — because the goal was always to help, not to build a business off people starting with nothing.

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Get the app

Everything in one place, one step at a time.

Never forget the past. Learn from it. Move free and forward.

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Get in touch

Questions? We answer them.

Free and Forward LLC · Enfield, Connecticut. Not affiliated with any government agency, court, or supervision authority.

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info@freeandforward.com

Phone

860-730-1189

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