People Are Sharing Underrated Websites And You Will Never, Ever Be Bored Again

This truly is the ~world wide~ web.

Ever stare at your screen and get sick of visiting the same websites over and over again? Or, the website is sick of you and has no new content? Say no more.

Thunderbird Films / CBC Television / Netlfix / Via giphy.com

My "Most Visited" sites are mocking me, I know.

Recently, Redditor u/Merlijn-69 decided to ask, "What are underrated websites and what do you use them for?" And, let me tell you, the responses did not disappoint.

So here are some of the best and most underrated websites you can visit:

1. Radio.Garden

Radio.Garden

"Listen to radio around the world." —u/[deleted]

2. Outline

BBC Canada / Via bbc.com, Outline

"It allows you to read the text on websites without seeing their ads." —u/SufferingCartoonist

3. WindowSwap

WindowSwap

"This site lets you view out people's windows from around the world, though the videos aren't live feeds." —u/Daveed84

4. Boil the Frog

Boil The Frog

"An awesome site where you put two music artists in, and it makes a playlist connecting them for you." —u/Axenal713

5. JustWatch

JustWatch

"This allows me to search up a movie or TV show and tells me where it's streaming." —u/Dd1va

6. 10 Minute Mail

10 Minute Mail

"No need to use my own email to read a random website. I made a Reddit account using these emails, and the account is still working fine." —u/Neo_The_bluepill_One

7. ToffeeShare

ToffeeShare

"It lets you share files privately, without size limit, with end-to-end encryption, and without them being stored online." —u/mgca

8. What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner?

What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner?

—u/Captain_melodramatic

9. Photopea

Photopea

"Online image editor with Photoshop feature." —u/gagapangeran

10. myNoise

myNoise

"The man who runs it is a noise engineer, and the site has a ton of different, adjustable soundscapes that can play for hours without truly looping. This is great if you want some background noise. I use it for revision and it is excellent. (The '.net' is important, the '.com' version is a guy stealing all of their work.)" —u/Zak000000

11. Forvo

Forvo

"For when you see a word in a different language (or your own!), and you want to know how it’s pronounced or how it sounds in different accents/dialects. People record themselves saying words and upload it with their general location. I tell everyone I can about this site." —u/AnneListersBottom

12. How Many People Are In Space Right Now?

How Many People Are In Space Right Now?

"I check every few days or at least once a week. The site also normally shows the national flag of each astronaut." —u/UbiquitousMusician

13. chir.ag's Tip of My Tongue

chirag

"It’s really effective and has helped me countless times, I always seem to want a word when I’m writing but forget what the actual word is." —u/AccumulatingBoredom

14. SCI-HUB

SCI-HUB

"If you’re a university student and you need access to paid online journals, this is the website. You put in the DOI of the journal, and it gives you access to that journal. Good website, really helpful for my studies." —u/UNBTBL3

15. WornOnTv

WornOnTV

"They are masters at tracking down the exact clothes actors wear in tv shows. AND they often show a similar cheaper option if your budget is not the same as millionaires." —u/Sarah-loves-cats

16. FutureMe

FutureMe

"You can use it to 'send emails to the future you.' I've been using it for almost three years. It helps put into perspective how much has changed over the course of a year." —u/Daedrakiin100000

17. EROWID

EROWID

"This website is still one of the best websites for unbiased information about recreational drugs. This site has literally saved lives." —u/tbone8352

18. FotoForensics

FotoForensics

"I use it to check if photos are photoshopped." —u/eadgarc

"Be aware that your photos will be used in research and looked at by humans. Don't post anything there you want to be private." —u/contravariant_

19. LightningMaps.org

LightningMaps.org / Imaps.org

"It tells you in real-time where lightning strikes anywhere in the world. Nice to track when there is a thunderstorm where you live." —u/ConsciousnessWizard

20. DeepL

DeepL

"Use DeepL for translations instead of Google Translate. Although language options are still limited, the results are more natural and elegant. I'm a bilingual Chinese/English speaker, and I use this whenever I can't remember how to say a phrase in the other language." —u/melodyduany

21. Ninite

Ninite

"Ninite allows you to pick and choose from a large selection of commonly used programs like Steam, winRAR, and random other things you need while setting up a computer. Once you've selected all the programs you'd like, it will simply install them all with no bullshit. No ads. No cost. No boxes. Nothing! You get one executable, and it installs everything you checked without the hassle of going through each programs hoops." —u/MajikMahn

22. Pointer Pointer

Pointer Pointer

"I mainly use it just to be impressed by the photos and to have a good laugh." —u/Marycate11

23. The Noun Project

The Noun Project

"Need an icon for something and don’t have time to make it yourself? People from all over the world create them and upload them. Great resource for graphic designers. Icons available in SVG or JPEG, and they’re doing stock photos now too." —u/ToothbrushGames

24. camelcamelcamel

camelcamelcamel

"This tracks the price history of something on Amazon so you can see if a sale is actually a good deal." —u/bradgerkemusic

"The Chrome extension Keepa adds this functionality directly onto the Amazon product pages. I've saved a lot of money by seeing items that regularly go on sale. For example, the Instant Pot Duo Nova is regularly $100, but I noticed it went to $50 twice the last three months. I waited a few days and now, sure enough, it's $50 again." —u/dijedil

25. earth.nullschool.net

earth.nullschool.net

"I use it for understanding what's happening with the weather and why. I've turned a lot of farmers on to this visualization over the years and most find it incredibly helpful as a part of their overall habit of weather watching." —u/The206Uber

26. Free Campsites

Free Campsites

"I just used this to road trip from LA to Seattle to Denver through Montana/Wyoming and back. It allowed me to just drive and drive to my heart’s content and reliably find somewhere nearby to park overnight. Also, the Bureau of Land Management spots that are remote." —u/TarHeel-DSH

27. PDF Drive

PDFDrive

"This site has a pretty cool collection of free ebooks without registering." —u/BenTennyson2101

28. NaturalReader

NaturalReader

"It's basically a text-to-speech site that lets you copy and paste passages into a text box, and then the computer will read it back to you. I use this when I need to type out papers, short stories, or any other lengthy piece of writing as a way of proofreading. It's nice to use this because then you can hear your errors read aloud." —u/ThrowRA29208

"I use it when I have a lot of reading assignments for college, and I don't have time to really get to them all. Instead, I want to listen to a reading while I clean or something." —u/dontforgethetrailmix

29. all8's Tap for BPM

all8

"Basically tap any key on your keyboard in time to some music to find its beats per minute (BPM). The way that this site averages your taps is incredibly helpful.

I use a lot of high-end music software and none of them have a 'tap to find tempo' function as simple and user-friendly as this little site." —u/sidewalkbob

30. FutureTimeline.net

FutureTimeline.net

"Easiest way to spend an hour or two learning about our history and the future." —u/granticusmaximusrex

31. removebg

Victoria Vouloumanos / BuzzFeed, removebg

"It does a pretty solid job at removing the background of any image. You can even just Ctrl + V." —u/venosenz

32. IMSLP Petrucci Music Library

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library

"It's a library of public domain classical sheet music. You can pretty much find any classical music over 100 years old. I stopped buying sheet music when I discovered it. Plus, it's pretty easy to send music to students during e-class in lockdown." —u/elenifan

33. Historical Currency Conversions

Historical Currency Conversions

"When I am reading or watching something set in another time that mentions cost or value, I immediately use this site to see how monetary values from the past stack up in today’s money. It allows for different currencies, as well." —u/loverlyone

34. Ravelry

Ravelry

"If you're a knitter or crocheter, you can use this site to see literally hundreds of thousands of patterns (some are free, some are paid patterns) and projects that others have made using the patterns in different yarns and colors. You can look up yarn and find what others have made with it and what others have to say about it.

"It has a great community and lots of groups for all kinds of topics. There are always knowledgeable people able to help work out a problem or fix errors you may run into working on your projects. Anyone who likes to stitch or knows someone who likes to stitch should know about it, as it's a great place of resources and inspiration." —u/DinahTook

35. RunPee

RunPee

"It tells you the best time for a bathroom break during a movie and gives a brief description of what you would miss." —u/BigWar0609

36. GetHuman

GetHuman

"A place where the Internet will find you a phone number to call to get a human for customer service. If they can’t find one, they will wait in the hold queue for you." —u/[deleted]

37. Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs

Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs

"The commentary is the funniest." —u/rodentinafrica

38. IRS Free File

IRS

"If you're in the US and you earn below a certain threshold — currently around $69,000 — you can get free software to help you file your taxes. There's an IRS website that walks you through the process, and you'll use exactly the same software you might already be paying a shitload of money for. For real: These companies are legally obligated to make their software available for free, in return for the US government not setting up its own free software and completely dismantling the market." —u/Portarossa

"Hasan Minhaj did a piece about this. Even set up a website that copies TurboTax's website exactly. It's called TurboTax Sucks Ass." —u/slaphisface

39. Internet Archive

Internet Archive

"I always love an opportunity to be able to talk about the Internet Archive, because it is such a wonderful and free resource for so many things. It has millions of free downloads for music, movies, books, software, etc. One very popular example is a very large catalog of Grateful Dead recordings.

There is also The Internet Arcade, where you can play a lot of classic games, along with the Console Living Room, which is similar. They have access to tons of old PC games, too, and you can even play the original Oregon Trail online. There's a lot more in their software section, too.

It also has The WayBack Machine, which has archived more than 486 billion web pages so you can go back and see how websites were years ago." —u/-eDgAR-

40. A Soft Murmur

A Soft Murmur

"This lets you play all kinds of soothing background noises, like rain, wind, birdsong, waves, and rolling thunder. You can also overlay them to make your perfect background mix, which is perfect if you want to relax to the gentle sounds of a coffee shop on fire." —u/Portarossa

41. Removeddit

Removeddit

"This shows you the content of most removed posts and comments on Reddit." —u/LegateLaurie

42. Atomic Rockets

Atomic Rockets

"Atomic Rockets is fucking amazing — both for the real physics and math, and as an overview of technologies, concepts, and problems depicted in science-fiction, always with examples and relevant quotes. Plus, there's RocketCat." —u/faraway_hotel

43. Donjon

Donjon

"You can auto-generate dungeon maps, world maps, names, or any kind of thing you need for a quick D&D game. There's also this for generating city maps." —u/dethb0y

44. Flightradar24

Flightradar24

"The site tracks airplane movements all over the world. Sometimes, I even look myself up when I am on an airplane. There's also Great Circle Mapper to calculate distances between airports on the great circle (it has some other neat features, too)." —u/c082

45. Stellarium

Stellarium

"It's kinda like Google Earth for the sky, planets, and stars. Love that tool." —u/c082

Know any underrated sites? Share in the comments below!