There are millions of websites on the Internet, and just a single query on Google returns millions of results to choose from, yet sometimes it takes hours to find the right solution to a problem.
This is a post where we list out almost 100 most useful websites on the Internet, these websites are specifically designed to perform a task, fix a problem, automate your work or just let you be more productive.
I recommend you to bookmark this page for future reference.
- About.me: Your Custom Splash page, Create your very own free web page and highlight your talents
- Magic8Ball: Pretty cool website to ask questions about your life, love or work. It’s a fun website that doesn’t fool you with the wrong answer but throws some quotes at you that may motivate you or satisfy your urge to ask that question.
- alternativeTo: Find alternatives to any software, app, or website, and tells the key differences between them to help you choose the suitable one.
- Notion: A powerful task and project management solution for teams to track their work and collaborate efficiently and the Free version is quite capable.
- BoredButton: Feeling bored? Just press the bored button and prepare to be amazed
- BuiltWith: It helps users to find the web technology used to build a site
- Calm: Cool down, relax, breathe and usher in clarity, joy, and peace to your daily life with the mindfulness meditation techniques available at Calm
- Canva: Create beautiful designs for Web or print blog graphics, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and much more
- Cheatography: Build your very own cheat sheet or share one from this huge repository of cheat sheets known as Cheatography
- ClipConverter.cc: Free online media recorder application which allows you to record and convert nearly any audio or video URL ( YouTube, Vimeo) to common formats
- CopyPasteCharacter: Spice up your documents, emails or tweets by copy-pasting special characters from here that do not appear on your keyboard
- Corrupt-a-File: Wish to evade a deadline yet pretend as though all your work was complete? Use this free online service to corrupt a file on purpose and let the computer take all the blame
- Couchsurfing: Global hospitality community which provides a platform for members to the homestay, host travellers, meet others and for making travel a truly social experience
- CV Maker: Helpful website to create professional resumes, CV, and bio-data online for free. Simply fill in your details and generate beautiful PDF and HTML resumes
- Dead Man’s Switch: Is there something that you would wish to tell the people around you, in case something bad were to happen to you? Well Dead Man’s Switchis just the tool you need to send messages long after you are dead
- DeviantArt: World’s largest online social community for artists and art enthusiasts, allowing people to connect through the creation and sharing of art.
- Difference Between: An online knowledge base of articles discussing the differences between similar terms and things
- DistroWatch: Website dedicated to talking about, reviewing and keeping up to date with open source operating systems. Must visit website for Linux enthusiasts
- Documentary Heaven: A really interesting website boasting of a comprehensive collection of documentaries that you can watch for free
- Down For Everyone Or Just Me: As the name pretty much suggests, this website comes in handy when you wish to find out if a website is inaccessible for everyone or just you
- Draw.io: Free online diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, UML, ER and network diagrams.
- DuckDuckGo: A search engine that doesn’t track you or store any personal information
- Duolingo: Looking to learn a new language in a free and fun-filled way? Duolingois one useful website in that case
- Evernote: Most highly rated and indispensable tool for note taking, organizing and archiving
- Feedly: Versatile RSS Reader for organizing, reading and sharing all the information from your favorite sites and blog at one place
- file.io: A snapchat for files
- Fiverr: Freelance marketplace where you can hire people to perform tasks or services for as little as $5
- FutureMe.org: Write a letter to your future self
- GetNotify: Free email tracking service which allows you to determine if your sent mail has been opened and read
- GIPHY: Online database and search engine designed especially for GIFs and animated stickers.
- Goo.gl: URL shortener provided by Google. Bitly is another one of the popular useful websites for URL Shortening and Link Management.
- Goodreads: Find and share the books you love here on the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations
- Google Fonts: An extensive catalog of open source designer web fonts.
- Google Translate: Free service to instantly translate words, phrases and web pages between English and over 100 other languages
- Google Trends: Discover the latest search trends, data and visualizations from Google
- Grammarly: Writing enhancement and plagiarism detection platform to check your spelling and grammar
- Hide My Ass!: VPN service to ensure total online privacy and streaming freedom
- Homestyler: Take the guesswork out of interior decoration and design your home in 3D with this amazing website
- Honey: Automatically search for the best coupon codes and apply them while shopping online
- HowStuffWorks: One of the most amazing websites explaining how everything works along with videos and illustrations. Useful especially for kids of all ages
- HowToPronounce: As the name suggests, it helps you find how a word is pronounced. Here are a few more resources to pronounce names.
- IMDb: Online database of information related to films, tv programs and video games, including cast, production crew, fictional characters, biographies, plot summaries, trivia and reviews
- Imgur: The best place to share and enjoy the most awesome images on the internet
- Instructables: Learn how to make almost anything provided with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, online classes and a vibrant maker community
- Khan Academy: Get access to free online courses with short instructional videos and practice exercises curated by experts. We would also recommend you to check out CodeAcademy, Coursera, and Udemy for even more courses
- Kuler: Cool website for creating color schemes and browsing color combinations
- Listly: The simplest way to create, curate and publish lists in a matter of minutes
- Lynda: The most useful website for access to high-quality video tutorials based on a multitude of fields such as business, software, technology and creative skills
- Mailstrom: Mailstrom helps you clean and manage your inbox. Works with Gmail, Google Apps Email, Outlook, Apple, AOL, Exchange IMAP and any other email service that supports IMAP
- Marker.to: Yellow Highlighter Pen for web pages
- Mathway: Use Mathway to solve mathematical problems ranging from basic algebra to complex calculus. Useful website for students
- Meetup: Online social networking portal for facilitating offline group meetings of people sharing common interests such as books, dance, health, photography and countless others
- MeFancy: Helpful website having Web-based text HTML tools for easily manipulating your text and HTML files
- MIT App Inventor: Develop fully functional Android apps for smartphones and tablets. Great website for newcomers to computer programming
- Netflix: Watch or stream some of the coolest movies & TV shows online on Netflix
- Ninite: Really cool website that automatically installs and updates popular programs on your Windows PC all at once
- Noisli: Helps you focus on your writing or getting stuff done by providing ambience noise (white noise) that has proved to make you more productive.
- Office Online: Collaborate for free with the online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote
- OldVersion: Find older versions of the software. Sometimes you need an older version of the software for compatibility issues.
- OneSignal: Free notification service for your app and website.
- Pastebin: Paste snippets of text online for a set period of time. Great tool for coders to share snippets of source code or log files
- Pexels Videos: Find free stock footage for your website, promo video or anything else
- Pixlr: Free Powerful online photo editor similar to Photoshop with access to a huge amount of creative effects, overlays, and borders
- Plunker: Online community for creating, collaborating on and sharing your web development ideas
- Pocket: Quickly save, discover and recommend the best, most interesting stories on the Web all in one place via Pocket
- Prezi: Use Prezi to make the most dynamic and engaging presentations ever
- Print-Friendly: Make a Printer-friendly & PDF version of any webpage
- Printable Paper: A collection of printable papers that come in really handy
- Privnote: Share a confidential note via a web link that will self-destruct after it is read by your intended recipient
- Product Chart: Discover the perfect product for yourself with this website’s innovative & interactive product comparison charts
- Project Naptha: Highlight, Copy, Edit and Translate text from within images themselves. Must visit the website!
- Public Domain Torrents: Who said torrents are always supposed to be illegal? Use Public Domain Torrents to access thousand of class and B-movie downloads via BitTorrent
- Quora: It’s like Yahoo Answers, but better, the quality of Answers is much better, sometimes better than Wikipedia Articles, since the answers sometimes come from people with first-hand experience.
- Rainy Mood: Relish the experience of rain while sleeping, studying or relaxing via this really cool website.
- Random.org: Generate true random numbers. Useful for holding drawings, lotteries, scientific applications and lots more
- Reddit: Fondly called the front page of the internet, Reddit is the most powerful social news aggregation, web content rating and discussion website
- RunPee: Need to use the restroom while watching a movie without missing out on major plot points? Use Runpee to find out when to go and what happened while you were away
- Safe Web: Visit this website to find out if a website that you are interested in is safe to visit or not
- Scribble Maps: Easily create & share your own custom maps for sharing with your friends or embedding on websites
- Share By Link: Free file sharing tool with unlimited upload and download limit
- Shodan: Search Engine for Internet-connected devices such as web cams, routers, servers etc.
- Similarsites: Find useful websites that are similar, related or alternatives to the one that you are currently browsing
- Slideshare: Youtube for Slideshows. Upload, share and discover presentations on your favorite topics on this website
- Smallpdf: Platform for converting and editing pdf files with solutions to a host of other PDF problems as well
- Squirt.io: Interesting tool that enables you to read web pages more than 200% faster than your normal best reading speed
- Stack Exchange: Network of useful websites for questions and answers on varied fields, with each site covering a specific topic.
- StumbleUpon: Bored as hell? Use StumbleUpon to discover new and cool websites, photos and videos across the Web.
- System Requirements Lab: Find out if your computer can run a game or not and whether it meets or exceeds the system requirements
- Tall Tweets: Write tweets longer than 140 characters, created by Blogger Amit Aggarwal.
- TeamViewer: Connect to remote desktops, provide remote support and collaborate with online meeting and video conferencing. You will find Join.me to be yet another tool which is pretty efficient when it comes to collaboration
- TED: Watch and get inspired by influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity with subtitles in over a 100 languages
- Tunefind: Helps you find a tune you overheard somewhere
- TypeRacer: Improve your typing speed by racing against others
- unfurlr: Find the original URL hiding behind a short link
- Urban Dictionary: An online dictionary of slang words and phrases commonly used by millennials.
- Useful Interweb: A website which helps you discover other useful websites
- Wayback Machine: Determine how a web page looked at different points in the past or archive your own web page
- What’s My IP Address: Lookup the public IP address of your computer or router assigned by your ISP
- WhatTheFont: Ever seen a font that you liked very much but failed to recognize? Well, just upload an image of it to WhatTheFont and bid adieu to this problem
- Wolfram Alpha: Online service for finding answers to all your factual queries and doubts
- WornOnTV.net: Fix your fashion with this website, find outfits and accessories similar to the ones worn by your favourite movie and TV stars
Planet Express: There are many amazing products that are only available in the US. E-commerce sites do not ship the items worldwide. Planet Express gives you a local US address where you can get your stuff delivered, and then Planet Express takes care of delivering your package to your address, with insurance.
- Addiction Group: It is a group dedicated to helping individuals suffering from substance abuse and preventing new cases. Medical professionals review every fact-based piece of content published on our site.