How to Find 50 Useful Websites

Ever feel like you are one useful website away from solving a problem? This list rounds up 50 free tools that feel like the internet's hidden toolbox.

From free research papers to background removal to temporary emails, there is something here for almost everything.

Tutorial

1. Open unpaywall.org. Free research papers.
2. Open openlibrary.org. Borrow books online.
3. Open doaj.org. Free academic journals.
4. Open alternativeto.net. App alternatives.
5. Open justwatch.com. Find where to stream.
6. Open archive.org. Internet archives.
7. Open gutenberg.org. 70K+ free books.
8. Open openstax.org. Free textbooks.
9. Open openculture.com. Free courses.
10. Open wolframalpha.com. Solve complex problems.
11. Open photopea.com. Photoshop alternative.
12. Open squoosh.app. Compress images.
13. Open remove.bg. Remove backgrounds.
14. Open cleanup.pictures. Remove objects.
15. Open unscreen.com. Remove video backgrounds.
16. Open carbon.now.sh. Beautiful code images.
17. Open ray.so. Code screenshots.
18. Open shots.so. Product mockups.
19. Open smartmockups.com. Create mockups.
20. Open haveibeenpwned.com. Check data breaches.
21. Open virustotal.com. Scan files & URLs.
22. Open privnote.com. Self-destructing notes.
23. Open temp-mail.org. Temporary email.
24. Open file.io. Temporary file sharing.
25. Open archive.ph. Save webpages.
26. Open similarsites.com. Find similar websites.
27. Open radio.garden. Explore global radio.
28. Open everynoise.com. Discover music genres.
29. Open tunefind.com. Find songs from shows.
30. Open musicforprogramming.net. Focus music.
31. Open mynoise.net. Custom background sounds.
32. Open coffitivity.com. Café ambience.
33. Open elicit.org. Research assistant.
34. Open consensus.app. Research-backed answers.
35. Open connectedpapers.com. Research connections.
36. Open semanticscholar.org. Academic search.
37. Open scispace.com. Understand research papers.
38. Open summarize.tech. YouTube summaries.
39. Open phind.com. AI for developers.
40. Open regex101.com. Test regex.
41. Open codebeautify.org. Format code.
42. Open jsonformatter.org. Format JSON.
43. Open explainshell.com. Understand terminal commands.
44. Open raindrop.io. Bookmark manager.
45. Open downdetector.com. Check outages.
46. Open tineye.com. Reverse image search.
47. Open fast.com. Internet speed test.
48. Open smallpdf.com. PDF tools.
49. Open ilovepdf.com. Merge/split PDFs.
50. Open 10minutemail.com. Temporary email.

Wrapping Up

Now you have a full toolbox of free sites to pull from. Bookmark the ones that fit your daily work, and you will save yourself a lot of searching later. Start with the tool that solves your most annoying problem right now.