51 Game-Changing Websites You’ll Wish You Knew Sooner
The internet is full of powerful tools, but most of us keep using the same few websites every day.
What if you could edit photos without Photoshop, find free books, check suspicious files, understand research papers, create diagrams, compress PDFs and discover where a movie is streaming—all from your browser?
This week, we’ve collected 51 incredibly useful websites that can make your daily work faster and easier.
Here are the highlights. 👇
🎬 Watch, Read and Learn
These websites can help you find movies, explore old webpages, read free books and learn from leading universities.
🔹 JustWatch — Find where a movie or series is streaming
🔹 Internet Archive — Explore old websites, books, videos and software
🔹 Archive.ph — Save a permanent copy of a webpage
🔹 Project Gutenberg — Read thousands of classic books for free
🔹 Open Culture — Discover free courses, books and films
🔹 MIT OpenCourseWare — Access MIT learning materials free
🔹 AlternativeTo — Find alternatives to paid software
🔹 SimilarSites — Discover websites similar to your favourites
🔹 TinyWow — Use hundreds of free online tools
🖼️ Create and Edit Without Photoshop
Need a quick design, photo edit or colour palette? These tools can help.
🎨 Photopea — Edit images directly in your browser
🎨 Remove.bg — Remove image backgrounds automatically
🎨 Cleanup.pictures — Remove unwanted objects from photos
🎨 Canva Video Background Remover — Remove video backgrounds
🎨 Squoosh — Compress images without losing too much quality
🎨 Unsplash — Find high-quality photographs
🎨 unDraw — Download customisable illustrations
🎨 Coolors — Generate beautiful colour palettes
💻 Smart Tools for Coders
You don’t have to be an expert developer to use these websites.
⚡ Carbon — Turn code into attractive images
⚡ Ray.so — Create stylish code screenshots
⚡ Regex101 — Test regular expressions safely
⚡ JSON Formatter — Make messy JSON readable
⚡ Code Beautify — Format and clean code
⚡ ExplainShell — Understand complicated terminal commands
⚡ Phind — Search technical and coding questions with AI
⚡ Excalidraw — Create quick diagrams and flowcharts
📦 Mockups and Presentations
Make your screenshots, products and ideas look more professional.
📱 Shots.so — Turn screenshots into polished visuals
📱 Canva Mockup Generator — Preview designs on phones, clothing and products
📱 Whimsical — Build flowcharts, mind maps and wireframes
🔐 Privacy and Online Safety
These websites can help you stay safer online.
🛡️ Have I Been Pwned — Check whether your email appeared in a data breach
🛡️ VirusTotal — Scan suspicious files and links
🛡️ Privnote — Send notes that disappear after reading
🛡️ Temp-Mail — Create a temporary email address
🛡️ File.io — Share files through a temporary link
⚠️ Avoid uploading confidential, financial or identity documents to unfamiliar online tools.
🎧 Music, Focus and Discovery
Need background music, calming sounds or something new to explore?
🎵 Radio Garden — Listen to live radio stations around the world
🎵 Every Noise at Once — Explore unusual music genres
🎵 Tunefind — Find songs used in movies and TV shows
🎵 Music for Programming — Listen to music for focused work
🎵 myNoise — Create customised soundscapes
🎵 Coffitivity — Recreate the sound of a coffee shop
🔬 Research and Study Tools
Students, teachers and researchers should bookmark this section.
📚 Elicit — Find and compare research papers
📚 Consensus — Ask questions and search scientific evidence
📚 Connected Papers — See how research papers are connected
📚 Semantic Scholar — Search academic literature
📚 SciSpace — Understand difficult research papers
📚 Sifu Yik — Discover AI tips, prompts and updates
📚 Desmos — Use a powerful graphing calculator
🛠️ Everyday Tools You’ll Use Again
These simple websites can save time during everyday work.
✅ Smallpdf — Edit, compress and convert PDFs
✅ iLovePDF — Merge, split and organise PDFs
✅ DeepL — Translate text naturally
✅ TinEye — Search the internet using an image
✅ Fast.com — Check your internet speed instantly
🌟 Our Top Five Picks
Not sure where to begin? Start with these:
TinyWow for quick online tasks
Photopea for image editing
VirusTotal for checking suspicious links
Elicit for research
iLovePDF for PDF work
You may not need all 51 websites today, but the right one could save you hours when a problem suddenly appears.
Bookmark the page and share it with someone who enjoys discovering useful technology.
Which website surprised you the most?
Until next time,
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