The Most Useful Free Sites and Apps on the Internet

ryanmaynard

ryanmaynard

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I'm going to use this as a good example of evergreen content that we can continually add to along the way.

https://archive.is - Take a snapshot of a page that will exist even of the original is gone.
https://archive.ph - Take a snapshot of an article behind a paywall
https://fast.com - Check the current speed of your internet connection
https://speedtest.net - Another internet connection speed test
https://screenshot.guru - Take hi-res screenshots of web pages on mobile and desktop
https://dictation.io - accurate and quick voice recognition in your browser using Google Speech API
https://reverse.photos - Tineye alternative - reverse image search
https://copychar.cc - copy special characters and emojis that are not on your keyboard
https://noisli.com - ambient noises to help you improve focus and boost productivity
https://iconfinder.com - millions of icons for all kinds of projects.
https://jotti.org - scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses
https://wolframalpha.com - STEM search enginer, in that it will break down math and science problems into their steps to explain how it arrived at the answer.
https://unsplash.com - free stock images
https://videos.pexels.com - free stock HD videos
https://everytimezone.com - a less confusing view of world time zones
https://fonts.google.com - best collection of open source free fonts that you can use anywhere without restrictions
 
https://color.adobe.com - Color ideas, palettes, extract colors from images
https://lmgtfy.com - For when your friend is too lazy to Google on their own
https://faxzero.com - Send an online fax for free
https://squoosh.app - compress images on the fly
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com - Find out if your favorite site is offline or not
https://builtwith.com - find the host, email provider, cms, and frameworks used in building a site or app
https://gtmetrix.com - Tool for measuring website performance
https://codebeautify.org - Source code formatter, JSON beautifier, XML viewer, Hex converters, and more
https://10minutemail.com - create a disposable email address
https://sharklasers.com - create a disposable email address
https://mockaroo.com - create mock data for excel
 
https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/main/ - Google Admin Toolbox
https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/ - Dig
https://observatory.mozilla.org/ - Mozilla Observatory
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ - Mozilla Developer Network Docs
https://devdocs.io/ - Developer documentation
https://cdnjs.com/ - Free and open-source CDN serving 12.5% of all sites and 200 billion requests per month
https://www.wappalyzer.com/ - Like Builtwith, a tool to see what components a site or app was build with.
https://css-tricks.com/ - CSS Tricks to learn as a frontend dev
https://jex.im/regulex/ - Javascript regular expression visualizer
https://smalldev.tools/ - Small, useful dev tools
https://roadmap.sh/ - Generate developer roadmaps for your career
https://metatags.io/ - Meta tags toolkit
 
 
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