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)

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

Step 2 — Android (Chrome)

Tap the three-dot menu in the top right.
Tap “Install app” or “Add to home screen.”
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.

No phone? No problem

Sign in from any computer

You do not need a smartphone to use Free and Forward. Your account works from any web browser — a library computer, a workforce center, a family member's laptop, a computer at your program or halfway house. Everything backs up to your account, with your document photos stored encrypted, so whatever you set up on one device is already there on the next one. And a real keyboard makes writing a resume far easier than a phone screen ever will.

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What you can do from a computer

Your checklist and calendar

Every step, due date, court date and check-in, exactly as it appears on a phone. Add and tick things off from the browser.

Resume and cover letters

This is the one worth doing on a computer. A real keyboard, a bigger screen, and a printer nearby at most libraries.

Job board and applications

Browse employers who hire people with records, and keep the tracker current so you know what you sent and when to follow up.

What we can't read

Photos of your documents. Those are encrypted on the device you add them from, before they are uploaded, so nothing readable ends up on the library computer either — which is the point.

Using a shared or public computer

Worth knowing if the computer is not yours:

Sign out when you are finished

Closing the browser window is not the same as signing out. Use the sign-out button so the next person cannot open your account.

Say no if the browser offers to save your password

On a shared machine that leaves your password behind for whoever sits down next.

Nobody is watching what you type

Nothing you enter goes to any officer, court or agency, from a computer or a phone. That does not change based on whose device you are sitting at.

Available now

Web sign-in works today

The browser version is live right now. Open app.freeandforward.com on any computer and sign in with the same account you use on a phone — your checklist, calendar and resume are already there. If anything does not work, email contact@freeandforward.com and we will fix it.

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