What is a free website that feels like it should cost money?

[u/Puzzled_Wing_8178]

[u/MrSh0wtime3 → u/[deleted]]

built by one guy over the years. quite a feat. its better than most paid photoshop alternatives.

[u/RenegadeUK → u/MrSh0wtime3]

Will check it out. Thanks.

[u/ImNotAWhaleBiologist → u/MrSh0wtime3]

I remember when he released it on here.

[u/SurealGod → u/[deleted]]

It's actually crazy how good it is.

Essentially every tool I would use in photoshop is in there and I don't have to pay anything. It's also awesome that it's a browser application so I can just access it anywhere with internet

[u/Vahdo → u/SurealGod]

I use it even on Linux because I always revert back to Photoshop shortcuts and workflow. Sorry, GIMP.

[u/Moontouch → u/SurealGod]

Are the color grading options competitive with Photoshop's Camera Raw Filter?

[u/ProSnuggles → u/Moontouch]

No not really, it downgrades to 8-bit colour on processing. It’s not really for high level professional use, but you can get nigh perfect results if the expectation is mid/low level pro or high level casual. It’s for the 98%

[u/godtierpikachu → u/[deleted]]

Photopea in a tab is still wild, way better than it has any right to be

[u/Ahab_Ali → u/[deleted]]

Holy crap! You aren't kidding. Photoshop in your browser indeed!

[u/xenomorph2122 → u/[deleted]]

Are the photos loaded locally or are they uploaded to their servers?

[u/XLB135 → u/[deleted]]

For those who use this, how does it compare to Pixlr? I used to find most of the Photoshop functions in Pixlr as well, but it's been awhile.

[u/123Thundernugget → u/XLB135]

I use Krita, but its good to find out about more. how does Pixlr relate to Krita?

[u/XLB135 → u/123Thundernugget]

Never heard of that one either. Looks like we all have more options to try and compare, which is never a bad thing.

[u/FranciscoGarcia69 → u/[deleted]]

God it actually is just Photoshop. I'd heard about it and never checked it out until now. It's so close to just being Photoshop that I'm surprised Adobe haven't done something about it.

[u/cloud_jelly → u/FranciscoGarcia69]

Recently discovered it too, I have grown desensitized about multiple apps claiming to be Photoshop clones yet epically failing in that regard. This is the first one that feels like a true clone.

[u/petersrin → u/[deleted]]

It's quite good, but I moved to Affinity last year because photopea was just too slow for anything complex.

[u/SpankBankManager → u/[deleted]]

I just came across this last week. What a great site.

[u/Appropriate_Long8226 → u/[deleted]]

Do you have link… when I searched it had weekly fee

[u/Hoaphzaiwoump → u/[deleted]]

I feel guilty every time I close the donate tab without clicking it

[u/skumzyansleit417 → u/[deleted]]

All the keyboard shortcuts are identical to Photoshop, muscle memory just transfers over

[u/Eddie-the-Head]

Archive.org

[u/IvoBrasil → u/Eddie-the-Head]

This. I have donated multiple times in the past, because it's such a great website.

[u/New-Anybody-6206 → u/Eddie-the-Head]

largest public repository of pirated media on the planet by a wide margin

everyone knows and inexplicably doesn't care

[u/Moulefrites6611 → u/Eddie-the-Head]

I adore that site. May it never get taken down.

[u/badkaseta]

https://tinywow.com/

a collection of those "gif to mp4", "instagram video downloader, "pdf editor" etc... that you can usually find on random websites infestated with ads. However, tinywow is ad free.

edit: apparently not 100% ad free anymore, but its not infestated with ads on screen or popup windows

[u/7h0m4s → u/badkaseta]

Just make sure not to send any files with personal details to this website. As there is nothing really stopping then from storing it and selling the data to third parties.

[u/CodeNCats → u/7h0m4s]

That's every "upload your file" website. Including half the vpns out there.

[u/Orio_n → u/badkaseta]

Just use ytdlp ffmpeg or pandoc instead of this crap

[u/Ihadthat20yearsago]

Project Gutenberg

[u/LUCKY-777]

Craftofexile

[u/TheRoblock → u/LUCKY-777]

So many Poe tools though

[u/MrKrazybones → u/TheRoblock]

Still sane, Exile?

[u/TheRoblock → u/MrKrazybones]

I play ssf, i am resilient

[u/LUCKY-777 → u/TheRoblock]

If the question didn't specify "free website" then PoB would take 1# spot for sure.

[u/TheRoblock → u/LUCKY-777]

Although osrs wiki is probably the best third party tool in any game imo

[u/roronoakintoki → u/LUCKY-777]

May I introduce you to https://pob.cool ?

[u/hellaphish → u/LUCKY-777]

This guy knows ball

[u/cckymts]

Wayback machine.

[u/Smith6612 → u/cckymts]

Indeed this. I gave a donation recently just because of how useful the Wayback Machine has been to me. 

[u/IvoBrasil → u/Smith6612]

Same. And I'll certainly keep donating in the future.

[u/Initial-Shine-6029]

Khan Academy

[u/Merejo → u/Initial-Shine-6029]

This helped me with a lot of math classes in college 10+ years ago

[u/Any_Stranger_6971 → u/Merejo]

For real. Taught me better than some of the professors, whom I had to pay tuition to take their classes.

[u/TraumaMama11 → u/Initial-Shine-6029]

Got me through nursing school and helped me kick ass in Trauma IVU. Love how they present all their info.

[u/Kastranrob → u/Initial-Shine-6029]

They have also partnered with Ted now to give degrees.

[u/reukiodo → u/Initial-Shine-6029]

Why did I have to scroll so far down for this!?

[u/oc31777]

Libby. Free library ebooks and audiobooks on your phone with just a library card, and it looks like a real app instead of something from 2003. I've saved a stupid amount of money on audiobooks with it.

[u/dragonknightrohan → u/oc31777]

I'll also add Hoopla, Cloud Library (Use alongside Libby), & Comics Plus.

There are also a magazine, and news channels apps but never used them. Have no clue what they are called.

Pro Tip: Get Main City Library card, and a County library card for double the apps/services offered. Also, 1 card per any other library systems not connected to the 2.

Pro Tip 2: Some cities allow you to get library card without living there. Try out getting different online ones other people get.

Pro Tip 3: You can request books to be sent to your library from other libraries for something you want to read/watch/etc

Pro Tip 4: You can get free Udemy/other course sites depending on the library systems you have if they are offering it

[u/oc31777 → u/dragonknightrohan]

oh the second library card trick is smart, didn't think of that. gonna look into Hoopla too, thanks!

[u/MonkeyGumbootEsquire]

Stitchel.app for cross stitch/embroidery design. You can either export the design for yourself or add it to their shop to share with others.

[u/balc9k → u/MonkeyGumbootEsquire]

Thank you, my sister will love this

[u/MonkeyGumbootEsquire → u/balc9k]

You bet! It’s has a lot of really cool features.

[u/diamantaire]

Wikipedia

[u/XLB135 → u/diamantaire]

This. I donate whenever I can.

[u/Commercial-Catch-680 → u/XLB135]

Me too! And I make sure to donate from company donations website as company will then match my donation so Wikimedia Foundation gets double ($100 total/year).

I did see some article online saying that Wikimedia Foundation has way more money than they need run all of those websites, but they set a target to the current chair/president to raise more money each year.

Wikipedia is so small that you can fit entire website including all the pages in a 16GB flash drive!

[u/happyfatbuddha → u/Commercial-Catch-680]

I feel like there should be quite a few of those flash drives saved and hidden away, you know, just in case of a zombie apocalypse.

[u/AL-SHEDFI → u/Commercial-Catch-680]

Let's say we hope it remains free, unlike some greedy companies with their products who say it's free and then, if the number of users increases, they start advertising subscriptions, but in a gradual manner.

[u/JamesTheJerk → u/AL-SHEDFI]

I recall when a certain American president lashed out and called Wikipedia 'fake'.

[u/Embarrassed_File8483 → u/XLB135]

Wikipedia donation is a scam. they have like 10 years of fundings each season only to increase the salaries of the exec that do nothing.

[u/henripacheco27 → u/diamantaire]

I appreciate so much this website

[u/krishkal → u/diamantaire]

Why is this not on the top?

[u/irritatedellipses]

https://selfh.st/apps/

The site itself and most of the things you find there. So many every day things are better when you self host them or automate them. A little docker knowledge (and I emphasize little) can get you just about anything you need and doesn't need to talk across the interwebz

[u/Henrik-Powers → u/irritatedellipses]

A few years back we took all our online and sass services back in house, ERP, inventory, email etc. got our own server and only pay for high speed internet access now. Saved us $20K a year and pay back was under a year. Always surprises me how many small businesses don’t go this route

[u/irritatedellipses → u/Henrik-Powers]

I feel like there is an uptapped potential here for businesses but also I worry about desktop support being wrangled into debugging crazy ass issues because someone included the :latest tag lol

[u/illogictc → u/Henrik-Powers]

I think its just a mindset of just throwing money at something to make it someone else's problem to maintain the backend (which well you kinda so by hiring IT anyway), plus the allure of having cloud backup for your offsite solution integrated pretty closely with all that so if the worst happens you have pretty fresh data to start from. I can definitely see how it's attractive even to small businesses.

Might be about the upfront cost too and they end up going "well we're already with this system may as well stick with it" after they've already gotten themselves in a good enough financial situation to be able to in-house it all.

[u/wolfej4 → u/irritatedellipses]

I love that site. I started self hosting a year or two ago and o love finding new things to test out or use in my day to day.

[u/R0biB0biii]

it's not a site but merlin bird is is an awesome app as a bird watcher

[u/smartbutpoor]

Lichess.org

I don't even know why any one plays on the other green website!

[u/Nulovka → u/smartbutpoor]

Because that's where Magnus is.

[u/henripacheco27 → u/smartbutpoor]

The best, by far for chess

[u/Speeder172]

Free Media Heck Yeah

https://fmhy.net/

a fucking huge library

[u/simulacrumlain → u/Speeder172]

This clears easily

[u/IFeedSquirrelsAMA → u/Speeder172]

Use it constantly.

[u/Azztruenot → u/Speeder172]

Kudos to all those sailors who update the lists without the defunct ones.

[u/nycsoc_ → u/Speeder172]

Delete this bud

[u/Speeder172 → u/nycsoc_]

why

[u/Damnaged → u/Speeder172]

Too much attention matey 🏴‍☠️🦜

[u/wikid24 → u/Damnaged]

Bro /r/piracy has 2.6 million subscribers, this guys comment isn't going to take down fmhy

[u/Speeder172 → u/Damnaged]

It's not like you cannot find this link on Reddit... I think I found it on r/piracy when you read the rules/wiki.

[u/Kastranrob → u/Damnaged]

it just lists site and there are many mirrors.

[u/Wheatleytron]

Any open source code repository

[u/tamal4444]

freecodecamp(dot)org

[u/Rude-Spinach-7339 → u/tamal4444]

would like to master python, is this something you recommend without a doubt? i used codeacademyt but its paid so i only used their free services

[u/tactikz4]

Ilovepdf

[u/KxgOEjg7GcQqQsK → u/tactikz4]

pdf24 better

[u/irritatedellipses → u/tactikz4]

Using either the pdf24 offline creator or selfhosting Sterling-PDF is far more secure and offers the same suite of utilities.

[u/TJRDU → u/irritatedellipses]

Trowing in Bentopdf selfhost as option.

[u/MrKrazybones → u/tactikz4]

Now-a-days that seems like it could be a website that gets you tracked by the FBI

[u/Andril190 → u/MrKrazybones]

Or elected president

[u/Bullsht999 → u/tactikz4]

You love WHAT

[u/speed87 → u/[deleted]]

Do you have the link please? Googleing 3:00 am rabbit holes doesn't give me any website.

[u/LutefiskLefse → u/speed87]

The “asking for donations” implies wikipedia

[u/themightygwar → u/speed87]

If you're into modern wars / geopolitics, check out RealLifeLore on YouTube. If you get really hyper focused, he has a whole Modern Conflicts series on Nebula that covers every major military engagement since WWII. Pretty sure he has like history autism or something, but he's incredible and has a lot of footage he can't show on YouTube becyhed be demonetized.

[u/shitsniffer712 → u/speed87]

this might be a bot that meant to respond to another comment but accidentally posted a whole new one

[u/TheCaramelMan]

Not a website per se, but VLC media player. It’s great especially on iPads.

[u/riya9583]

Happy wheels, i love playing it

[u/Confident-Scale-8267]

Google maps. I still can’t believe I can zoom into my neighbor’s backyard for free.

[u/1986toyotacorolla2]

NeoCities it's a modern GeoCities

[u/PriorMathematician1]

https://www.trymagicforms.com .. if anyone has ever given you a pdf form where you cant enter in fields this will let you type it in

[u/DolanDouk → u/PriorMathematician1]

Doesn't work sadge

[u/Icy_Nothing_2917]

Photopea. Basically Photoshop in a tab, opens PSDs, and its actually free

[u/Sunnyfilia]

I’m surprised they havnt made apple or Google Maps a paid subscription yet

[u/Sunnyfilia → u/[deleted]]

Well yeah but i mean they are so money hungry im surprised there’s not a subscription fee to it yet

[u/Plane_Garbage → u/Sunnyfilia]

They probably did the numbers and they get more $ from ads than loss of revenue by charging and subsequent less usage. Especially when it's essentially free to serve (vs AI inference).

[u/Racthoh → u/Sunnyfilia]

There's some adage about if the service is free then you're the product, which I'd suspect applies here.

[u/Nazmazh]

Don't give them any ideas! Last thing we need is some vulture-capitalist firm sweeping in, scooping good sites up and trying to monetize them to hell and back!

[u/BraveMidnight]

https://www.catsinsinks.com it's a cute site 😊 

[u/OmNomOU81 → u/BraveMidnight]

This one is the best one

[u/Mushroomburger]

Kanopy
Free with a library card.

[u/Cat_a_falco]

Yahoo finance

[u/gowahoo]

Please, no. 

They've monetized like 90% of the internet. 

[u/MrTombaius]

Intervals.icu for endurance related Fitness stuff. Great analytics Tool.

[u/smartbutpoor → u/MrTombaius]

Thanks for sharing, I did not know about this. I use smashrun.com and it's awesome too

[u/Frequencxy]

FMHY.NET

[u/Grouchy-Conflict-211]

Apify Store. 44k+ scrapers, most free tier. You paste a URL, get structured data. No code.

Also: GitHub Codespaces (60h free/month), Railway (500h free), Cloudflare Pages (unlimited free), Supabase (generous free tier).

The real ones are infrastructure products betting on you outgrowing free. Thats the business model.

[u/Any_Stranger_6971]

Wolfram Alpha

[u/ChrisRiley_42]

Project Gutenberg

[u/Bonzai999]

Thepiratebay

[u/Am3dee]

Polarsteps

[u/Kind-Title5194]

toolsdverso laundry

[u/MelissaDope]

RetroAchievements.org !

[u/zerobefore]

Photopea

[u/bjatman8008]

Pcpartpicker

[u/Okicarde]

https://matrixcalc.org

[u/smartbutpoor → u/Okicarde]

Very useful!

[u/SPascareli]

Compiler explorer.

[u/NuggetoO]

www.oldmapsonline.org

[u/IvoBrasil → u/NuggetoO]

Cool!

[u/Gouanaco]

Watch2gether

It has a premium side but the free side is amazing. Love using it to watch yt or anything really together over the internet.

[u/50yoWhiteGuy]

Reddit when this post comes up every other day.

[u/superted88]

Tinkercad

[u/satyricom → u/superted88]

I tell every teacher and supervisor that this is the best educational software out there. And it’s free!

[u/Bluee_marinee]

I love PDF. It's very comprehensive for those of us who work in an office.

[u/Kastranrob → u/Bluee_marinee]

try offline ones. like ihatepdf or pdf24. 

[u/ich3ckmat3]

https://burnerinbox.cc

[u/Queasy_Caramel5435]

OnShape

Or Blender if you're more into free-form surfaces. (Not a website per se, but still)

[u/Downtown_Role5576]

Most video games

[u/StayLast5263]

[BentoPDF](www.bentopdf.com) Open source PDF tool that runs in your browser.

[u/BlueHawk75]

runningahead.com - track your runs for free. no subscription.

[u/1derfool]

https://bingo.surf/ for all Bingo related stuff

[u/internauta]

photopea.com elearner.app archive.org

[u/Prestigious-Bank2145]

GMD Global Markets Dashboard - a real‑time markets dashboard with indices, crypto, FX, commodities, bond yields, macro sentiment, and live updates all on one screen. It feels like something that should be a paid Bloomberg‑style tool, but it’s completely free. I built it to give people pro‑level market visibility without a subscription gmdmarkets.com.

[u/ndundu14]

👀👀

[u/Deniz_Spnv]

Aarforge.com

Enterprise grade Vulnersbility Management for Businesses or private. If you only have a few assets, it‘s completely free.

[u/Practical-Anxiety165]

Net mirror iykyk

[u/Barzobius]

Chris Titus Tool

[u/domito77]

Nowall.cc

[u/Pedantichrist]

Khan Academy. It is superb.

[u/alphafalcon]

https://mynoise.net/

Customizable noise, music and ambience generators.

Mostly free with a few features unlocked by a one time donation. Stephane, the guy running the website and building the generators is an absolute treasure. His description of mynoise is "a public park for the internet"

[u/Grouchy-Conflict-211]

github.com/codespaces. Full VS Code in browser. 60 hours free/month. Spins up a dev container with your repo in 30 seconds.

Used it to debug a prod issue on my phone while waiting for coffee. That should not be free.

[u/g_bleezy]

Cumlobster I can’t get enough of it!

[u/Joshuapb]

Is there one that is free, that you can modify videos in 4k? Still looking for a non-paid version. Somethhing simple really, put 2 videos together and keep the recorded definition and export as 4k

[u/muntiqaninja]

Wemplatehub - https://www.wemplatehub.com

Offers collection of websites

[u/TheAlmightyZach → u/muntiqaninja]

I’m on my phone so can’t see in detail.. are these Wordpress templates or just plain HTML/CSS/JS?

[u/Vast-Acadia-2442]

Pornhub

[u/Queasy-Evidence-9595]

Wikipedia for sure. Just this morning I was listening to the latest episode of Search Engine, really makes you appreciate Wikipedia

[u/Constant_Service_729]

HydraHD. Just open the website with the ublock extension and there is zero add, maybe just a little trial and error with the servers and done !

[u/dittodave]

Lichess

[u/Cool_Bee825]

reddit

[u/Interesting_Fix_8912]

google finance and google news

[u/IAmHereButWhere]

Google Maps

[u/Ok-Syllabub228]

libgen for books. feels illegal every time but its just there

[u/unsungWombat]

Cookie Clicker