39 of the best websites from r/InternetIsBeautiful
r/InternetIsBeautiful is the subreddit where people share websites that are cool, useful or just beautifully made. These are some of the gems that surfaced there.
Reddit threads scroll away and links rot. Here the best finds from r/InternetIsBeautiful are in one place, each one opened and checked by a person.
Updated · 39 sites · hand-checked
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2. Arnis
Pick any place on a map and get a Minecraft world of it, with real streets, buildings and terrain from OpenStreetMap.
- Games & Play
- Open source
- arnismc.com
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3. Space Type Generator
Type a word and bend it into spinning coils, ribbons and stacked loops of kinetic type. A playground for motion typography with endless sliders.
- Design & Type
- Free
- spacetypegenerator.com
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4. PairDrop
AirDrop for every device. Open the page on two phones or laptops on the same network and send files peer to peer, nothing stored on a server.
- Everyday Tools
- Open source
- pairdrop.net
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5. Servier Medical Art
Thousands of clean medical and biology illustrations, from cells to organs to lab gear, free to use in slides and papers under CC BY.
- Science & Space
- Free
- smart.servier.com
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6. Make My Drive Fun
Enter a start and end point and get the odd roadside attractions, viewpoints and detours worth stopping for along the way.
- Maps & Earth
- Free
- makemydrivefun.com
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7. Class Central
A search engine for online courses across every university and platform, with reviews and a list of the ones that are actually free.
- Learn
- Free
- classcentral.com
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8. generals.io
Fast real-time strategy on a grid hidden in fog. Grow your army, take cities, and find the enemy general before they find yours.
- Games & Play
- Free
- generals.io
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9. musictheory.net
Short, clear lessons on notes, scales and chords, plus drills and ear trainers. The site music teachers have pointed students to for twenty years.
- Learn
- Free
- musictheory.net
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10. WebAIM Contrast Checker
Paste two colours, get the WCAG contrast ratio and a pass or fail. The definitive quick answer.
- Design & Type
- Free
- webaim.org
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12. The Pudding
Visual essays answering questions nobody thought to ask — how pockets differ by gender, what makes a rap lyric rhyme. Journalism you scroll through rather than read.
- Read & Archive
- Free
- pudding.cool
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13. Are.na
Collect and connect images, links and text into channels. A calm, ad-free alternative to moodboards.
- Read & Archive
- Freemium
- are.na
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14. Khan Academy
Free, structured courses from arithmetic to art history, with practice that adapts to you.
- Learn
- Free
- khanacademy.org
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15. Javalab
Hundreds of small, clear simulations of physics, chemistry and earth science, from pendulums to tides.
- Science & Space
- Free
- javalab.org
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16. Old Maps Online
Search historical maps by place and date across hundreds of library collections at once.
- Maps & Earth
- Free
- oldmapsonline.org
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17. explainshell
Paste a shell command and get every flag and argument annotated with the matching line from the man page.
- Developer
- Free
- explainshell.com
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18. Instructables
Step-by-step photo guides for making almost anything, from furniture to robots to cakes, written by the people who made them.
- Learn
- Free
- instructables.com
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19. WiFi Map
Over a hundred million crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspots and passwords on a map, handy when abroad.
- Maps & Earth
- Freemium
- wifimap.io
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20. Tooooools
Lo-fi effects for images and video: dithering, halftones, gradient maps and patterns, with no sign-up and no watermark.
- Design & Type
- Free
- tooooools.app
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21. Jackson Pollock
Move your mouse and paint drips across the screen, faster for thinner lines. Click to change colour. An internet art piece from 2003 that still works.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- jacksonpollock.org
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22. gradient.horse
Draw a horse, any horse, and watch it gallop across the screen with everyone else's drawings.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- gradient.horse
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23. Animagraffs
Long animated infographics that take apart a car engine, a fire truck or a city's water system and show every moving piece working.
- Learn
- Free
- animagraffs.com
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24. FutureMe
Write an email to yourself and pick a date years from now for it to arrive. Running since 2002, with public letters to read.
- Fun & Weird
- Freemium
- futureme.org
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25. GG.deals
Compare PC game prices across official stores and key shops, with price history, bundles and deal alerts.
- Everyday Tools
- Free
- gg.deals
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26. 100,000 Stars
Zoom out from the Sun through a 3D map of our stellar neighbourhood, with over a hundred thousand real stars to click on.
- Science & Space
- Free
- stars.chromeexperiments.com
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27. Realtime Colors
Try a colour scheme and fonts on a full sample website instead of isolated swatches. Randomise, lock, check contrast and export when it looks right.
- Design & Type
- Free
- realtimecolors.com
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28. Virtual Vacation
Pick a city and walk, drive or fly through it in first-person video, or drop into a live street feed.
- Maps & Earth
- Free
- virtualvacation.us
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29. Supercook
Tick off what is in your fridge and cupboard and it finds recipes you can make right now without going shopping.
- Everyday Tools
- Free
- supercook.com
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30. Mult.dev
Animate a travel route on a map, plane or car following the line, and export it as a video for your stories.
- Maps & Earth
- Freemium
- mult.dev
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31. TopoExport
Draw a box on the map and download that terrain as a 3D model or contour lines, ready for 3D printing or CAD.
- Maps & Earth
- Freemium
- app.topoexport.com
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33. MDN Web Docs
The reference for HTML, CSS and JavaScript that actually gets updated. Documentation the whole web agrees on.
- Developer
- Free
- developer.mozilla.org
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34. 2048
Slide numbered tiles and merge them until you reach 2048. The original, by the developer who made the game that ate 2014.
- Games & Play
- Open source
- play2048.co
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35. The Public Domain Review
Essays curating the strangest and loveliest things that have fallen out of copyright.
- Read & Archive
- Donation
- publicdomainreview.org
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36. Rijksstudio
Download seven hundred thousand works from the Rijksmuseum in extraordinary resolution, free to reuse.
- Read & Archive
- Free
- rijksmuseum.nl
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37. Playback.fm
The top songs of every year since 1900, with charts and videos. Pick your birth year and listen.
- Music & Audio
- Free
- playback.fm
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38. The Marginalian
Maria Popova's decades-long reading diary: long, careful essays threading poets, scientists and letter-writers together, with no ads and no sponsors of any kind.
- Read & Archive
- Donation
- themarginalian.org
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39. Haikei
Generate layered waves, blobs, blurred gradients and low-poly backgrounds as SVG. Every shape has sliders and a randomise button.
- Design & Type
- Free
- haikei.app
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What is r/InternetIsBeautiful?
A Reddit community for sharing websites that are cool, useful, creative or interesting. Posts link straight to the site rather than to an article about it.
What are the best websites from r/InternetIsBeautiful?
Favourites include The Pudding, 100,000 Stars, Old Maps Online and PairDrop. Every one on this page has a link and a short description.
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