The internet is full of wonderful places. We have compiled a list of the most useful, incredible, and unique websites you probably have not heard of.
I am sure you are going to bookmark some of these lesser-known but incredibly useful websites. Some websites will help you to be effective and productive, some will make you say WOW and for others, you will say ‘I Wish I Knew These Earlier’.
50+ Most Amazing and Useful Websites on Internet
1. FlightRadar24.Com
Ever wondered where the airplane over your head is flying to? Track it down on an amazing web-based flight tracker FlightRader24. You can even check flight tracks, origins, destinations, aircraft types, positions, altitudes, flight numbers, headings, and speeds of flights in real-time. It’s really stunning.
2. PostImages.org
This is a very light and fast image hosting website where you can upload photos/screenshots and get a link to share with anyone you want. Imgur.com and Tinypic.com are alternatives.
3. 10MinuteMail.com
When you first arrive at the homepage, you see a temporary email address that has been created just for you and is good for 10 minutes. This could be useful if you don’t want to share your private email or fight spam. Crazymailing.com is an alternative.
4. TinyPNG.com
With the help of MSPaint, we can accurately set the size of images, but changing the file size may be very challenging. The free online tool tinypng.com can be used in this situation to help you reduce file size while maintaining nearly the same quality.
5. En.Akinator.com
A fun guessing game, pretty much accurate. You have to think of a real or fictional character in your mind. The website will ask a few simple questions you have to answer and then it tells who were you thinking of in your mind.
6. Canva.com
Canva is a very popular and useful free online graphic design tool where you can design business cards, logos, Banners, menus, etc using drag and drop features and inbuilt layouts. Bloggers often use it to create images for their posts.
VistaCreate is another great tool for creating eye-catching graphic designs for small businesses, bloggers and influencers. You can use any of 75 000+ pre-made templates or create one yourself. Apart from ready-to-go designs, you can get advantage of such tools as background remover, image converter, video resizer and lots more.
7. IsItDownRightNow.com
The first thing that comes to mind when a website fails to load is that there may be a problem with your computer, browser, etc. This might not be the case. The website may be down for everyone else. Enter the URL of the website at isitdownrightnow.com and hit enter to see if it’s down for everyone or just you.
8. Mathway.com
Mathway can be a very useful website for both students and teachers. They provide amazing tools for students to help them understand and solve maths problems. Trigonometry, calculus, graphing, finite math, algebra, and statistics are some of the areas they cover.
9. SmallPDF.com
The website smallpdf.com is extremely helpful. It enables editing PDFs, merging PDFs, splitting PDFs, converting PDFs to other formats like pptx, and converting other formats of files to PDF. And it’s free. Zamzar.com and pdfEscape.com are incredible alternatives.
10. Typing.com
Typing.com is a great website for learning touch typing. Improve your typing skills by playing typing games and typing tests. TypingClub.com is a similar website you can try.
11. RainyMood.com
Visit this website and click on the play button. You will feel like it’s raining outside. MyNoise.net is another similar useful website.
12. JustDeleteMe.xyz
Sometimes you want to delete your account from a popular website and you don’t find that “Delete” button you can click on. There’s a chance that justdeleteme.xyz has that delete button. It’s a directory of direct deletion links to popular websites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. You can permanently delete your account from different web services.
13. LogoMaker.com
Simply enter the name and tagline of your business to access hundreds of logo designs curated for your brand. Other useful websites for logo making are LogoGarden.com, Freelogoservices.com, Tailorbrands, Looka.com, and LogoCrisp.com. There are free logo maker tools as well as paid ones.
14. Trends.Google.com
What’s trending in your region? Google knows it all. Google Trends displays what topics or stories are trending in a particular area. How can it be useful? You can get ideas for what to write if you blog or write. You can see popular search queries on Google Trends.
15. Homestyler.com
Homestyler is an amazing room layout website where you can design your office or room. You can try different furniture placements virtually and use your space very effectively in real.
16. CoolThings.com
The world is full of amazing things. Cool products, cool car stuff, cool news stories, or cool whatever, you get all awesome things to read about on coolthings.com.
17. HowManyPeopleAreInSpaceRightNow.com
Pretty self-explanatory. It tells how many people are in space right now with their name, country, and no. of days in space.
18. GeoGuessr.com
The website will show you a random picture from google earth and you have to guess where the place is in the world by clicking on the world map. The website then tells you the right answer and how far the place is actually from where you marked on the map. You can also compete against others. It’s a fun way to explore the world.
19. AirPano.com
Hope you would enjoy the virtual tour of the world’s most amazing places. They have a vast collection of High-resolution 360° panoramas and videos of incredible places on the planet. Another similar and useful website is 360cities.net.
20. Radio.Garden
Radio.Garden is yet another incredible website that deserves to be included. This website opens with an interactive world map that is covered in numerous green dots. Green dots represent live radio stations. Any green dot on the map can be clicked to start a radio station.
21. Numbeo.com
If you planning to move to another city, this website might be very useful for you. Just enter the names of any two cities and you can see the difference in markets, transportation, rent per month, childcare, utilities, food, and a lot more between the two cities. You can also compare traffic, quality of life, property prices, pollution, and crime rate between any 2 cities.
22. Gutenberg.org
Gutenberg.org is a collection of 60000+ free and popular ebooks. No registration, no any fee. Read online or download them.
23. Duolingo.com
Duolingo helps you learn some of the world’s most popular languages like French, Irish, German, Italian and Dutch for free in a very effective and fun way. Memrise.com is another good website to get the same thing done.
24. SuperCook.com
SuperCook is a zero-waste recipe generator. Just select what ingredients you have at home and supercook will search and show you all the recipes you can make with those available ingredients. You can also try out MyFridgeFood.com .
25. RulesOfThumb.org
“If the moon is full, it will rise at the same time that the sun is setting.” “Most people wear 20% of their wardrobe 80% of the time.” Want to read more rules of thumb? Rulesofthumb.org is there for you.
26. JSFiddle.net
I have used this website a lot to check output of a code. You can test and share your HTML, Javascript, and CSS on JSFiddle.
27. KhanAcademy.org
If you want to learn something outside the class, you might find khanacademy.org very useful. They offer free courses, videos, practice exercises, etc enabling learners study in their own time.
28. CommonSenseMedia.org
If you are a parent and want to check whether a movie has appropriate content for your child, then you should check ratings on common sense media. They evaluate films based on a variety of criteria, including consumerism, violence, educational value, age suitability, and language.
29. UMarkOnline.com
You put a lot of effort into making images, so they need to be protected. Umarkonline.com helps you to add watermarks to images and lets you control transparency, placement of watermarks, etc. for free. You can also download their software for PCs.
30. Unshorten.it
Is the short URL you’re opening really going to lead to a useful page, or will it rob you of your money instead? You can check where a short URL would take you to. Unshorten is a simple and useful website to check the original links hidden behind short URLs.
31. IconFinder.com
Browse 2450000+ SVG icons, perhaps the largest collection of free and paid icons on the internet.
32. PrintWhatYouLike.com
Very interesting as well as useful website. Just enter the URL of a webpage and print whatever part you want to print without junk stuff on the page. You can also save desired part of a webpage in PDF or HTML format.
33. OnlineOCR.net
This website lets you convert scanned PDF to word. You can also extract text from images and the output file will be editable.
34. GTmetrix.com
If you have a website, you probably have used this website to analyze the speed of your website. It analyze the loading speed of the website and suggests you the solutions to make it faster. Google Pagespeed and Pingdom.com are great alternatives.
35. Ted.com
Ted.com have Motivational talks videos with powerful messages covering almost all topics can help you rediscover your life. Checkout TheDoLectures.com for more inspiring talks.
36. Vocabulary.com
As its name suggests, vocabulary.com is a systematic and fun way to improve English vocab. It explains words like you are learning from your favorite teacher.
37. TodayIFoundOut.com
Learn something new every day. TodayIFoundOut.com provides well researched ‘interesting facts’ articles. Don’t know what to read. Click on Green Surprise Me button. TheFactSite.com and Facts.net are other popular sites in this category.
38. PowerSearchingWithGoogle
We use Google a lot. If you learn just one thing(how to find things fast and effectively on google), it will alone save you a lot of time in life. Improve your Google search skills with powersearchingwithgoogle.com .
39. Lumosity.com
This website lets you engage in brain games designed by neuroscientist to improve your core cognitive abilities.
40. StackExchange.com
Stack Exchange is a big network of 133 Question and Answer communities such as stack overflow and superuser.com . Reddit.com and Quora.com are other two big Q&A sites. Get all your queries answered.
41. WolframAlpha.com
This website is absolutely incredible and astounding. Type in any question and you get your answer. I have tried that. The motto of this website is to make all systematic knowledge computable.
42. Instructables.com
Instructables is a Do-It-Yourself website where you find step by step instructions about making anything and ‘anything’ can be anything including a bag or a school project or a boat, mostly homemade creative stuff. Makezine.com and DoItYourself.com are other two great places to look for home improvement and repair ideas.
43. KickStarter.com
If you have a great idea in your mind but you don’t have enough support and resources(like money) to turn your idea into reality then Kickstarter is for you. Post your project on Kickstarter and interested people will help you bring your project to life. Indiegogo is another popular crowdfunding website.
44. Gifs.com
Animated GIFs are taking over. It is very easy to make animated GIF from any youtube video using Gifs.com . Enter URL of the youtube video and start making Gif with a lot of customization options.
45. Whois.com
Find out some important details about any website/domain name such as registrant name, address and phone numbers. Another similar and useful website is Who.is .
This is not the end. We will keep adding useful websites to this list. If you ever visited a website which you think is really unique and helpful, please let us know via comments.
Hi Sudhir, thanks for sharing such an amazing list of useful websites here. really an useful post. Thanks for sharing this useful list with us.
very useful and amazing list. Keep doing your good work bro.