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40 useful websites you should know about

The everyday tools people keep sharing in "websites you should know" videos, without the video. Each one does one job very well, right in your browser.

Bookmark the ones you need. You will be glad of them the next time a PDF refuses to shrink or a background needs to vanish.

Updated · 40 sites · hand-checked

  1. 1. TinyWow

    Hundreds of single-purpose PDF, image and video tools behind one search box, free and without an account.

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  2. 2. Squoosh

    Compress images with a side-by-side slider so you can see exactly what quality you are trading away.

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  3. 3. remove.bg

    Cuts the background out of an image in about three seconds, usually better than you would by hand.

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  4. 4. Photopea

    A full Photoshop-class image editor in a browser tab. Opens PSD, XCF, Sketch and RAW files.

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  5. 5. cobalt

    Paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, SoundCloud and many others and save the video or audio. No ads, no tracking, nothing else on the page.

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  6. 6. 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.

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  7. 7. Ninite

    Tick the Windows apps you want and get one installer that sets them all up silently, declining every toolbar. The first thing to run on a new PC.

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  8. 8. Have I Been Pwned

    Check whether your email has appeared in a known breach, from the person who catalogues them.

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  9. 9. DeepL Translator

    Translations that read as if a person wrote them, with alternative phrasings one click away. The one to use when tone matters.

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  10. 10. iLovePDF

    Merge, split, compress, sign and convert PDFs in the browser. The quickest fix for most PDF chores.

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  11. 11. 123apps

    A shelf of small browser tools for cutting audio, trimming video, recording the screen and converting PDFs.

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  12. 12. Wolfram Alpha

    A computational knowledge engine that answers questions with worked steps rather than links.

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  13. 13. archive.today

    Paste a URL and it freezes the page as both a screenshot and a text copy that stays up after the original goes down. Catches plenty the Wayback Machine misses.

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  14. 14. OneLook

    A reverse dictionary: describe a word you can't remember and it finds it. Also searches a thousand dictionaries at once and finds rhymes and related words.

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  15. 15. time.is

    The exact time anywhere, plus how far off your own clock is. Ugly, perfect, always right.

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  16. 16. Down for Everyone or Just Me

    Settles the argument about whether the site is down or your wifi is broken.

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  17. 17. Cleanup.pictures

    Paint over an object in a photo and it disappears, with the background plausibly filled in.

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  18. 18. Vocal Remover

    Drop in a song and get the vocals and the instrumental as separate tracks. Also has pitch, tempo and key tools for karaoke and practice.

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  19. 19. Excalidraw

    A hand-drawn-feeling virtual whiteboard. Diagrams that look deliberately rough, shareable in one link.

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  20. 20. AlternativeTo

    Crowdsourced alternatives to any piece of software, filterable by licence and platform.

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  21. 21. MyFridgeFood

    Tick off what is in your fridge and cupboards and get recipes you can make right now.

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  22. 22. Goblin Tools

    Small helpers built for neurodivergent brains. Magic ToDo breaks a scary task into tiny steps, and others judge the tone of a message or estimate time.

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  23. 23. Can You Run It

    Pick a game and it checks your PC against the minimum and recommended specs, then tells you what to upgrade.

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  24. 24. delphitools

    Small everyday tools for images, text and colour that run entirely in your browser. No logins and no data collection.

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  25. 25. DIY Printable Generators

    Make printable word searches, crosswords, bingo cards and tartan patterns from your own words and colours.

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  26. 26. Keepa

    Price history charts for nearly every Amazon product, so you can tell a real deal from a fake discount and set drop alerts.

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  27. 27. PerlerBeads

    Turn any picture into a fuse-bead pattern with a bead count per colour, mapped to Perler, Hama and Artkal palettes.

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  28. 28. Posterizer

    Turn a photo into a wall-sized halftone poster split across ordinary printer pages, ready to print and tape together.

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  29. 29. Reactive Resume

    A free résumé builder with no ads or tracking. Pick a template, fill it in and export to PDF, or host it yourself.

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  30. 30. SimplePDF

    Fill in, edit and sign a PDF entirely in your browser. No account and no watermark, and the file never leaves your computer.

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  31. 31. DAREBEE

    Thousands of illustrated home workouts and programs that need no equipment, all free and funded by donations.

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  32. 32. DriftGuard

    Plug in a gamepad and see exactly how much its sticks drift, with live visualisations and calibration help.

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  33. 33. Fingerprint

    Type a username, email or phone number and see which of 700+ platforms it turns up on. A sobering look at your footprint.

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  34. 34. GG.deals

    Compare PC game prices across official stores and key shops, with price history, bundles and deal alerts.

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  35. 35. Globfone

    Make phone calls and send texts to most countries straight from the browser, with daily free credits.

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  36. 36. iLoveIMG

    Crop, resize, compress, convert and watermark images in bulk, right in the browser.

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  37. 37. IsThereAnyDeal

    Track PC game prices across dozens of stores, with price history and alerts for when something hits a new low.

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  38. 38. Max Intel

    A free OSINT toolkit in the browser: username, email and phone lookups, domain recon and image forensics in one place.

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  39. 39. Namelix

    Type a few words about a project and get pages of short, brandable names with domain availability and a logo sketch.

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  40. 40. Pic2Map

    Upload a photo and see on a map where it was taken, from its hidden EXIF data. Eye-opening about what your pictures give away.

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Questions

What are the most useful websites on the internet?

For everyday jobs: TinyWow and iLovePDF for files, Squoosh for images, Photopea as a free Photoshop, DeepL for translation and Ninite for installing apps.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Everything here works in a browser tab. Several, like Squoosh and PairDrop, never even upload your files.

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