Tools and Toys
Tools of extremely varying usefulness. Mostly Webapps
Images
| Combine Images | limited to up to a 3x3 square |
| Lowpoly Generator | Makes mosaic-like images from either a palette or an uploaded image |
| Clipping Magic | Background removal tool, best of its kind short of doing it yourself with a layer mask in a graphis editor. Image exports are limited in size but can be servicably large if the original image is big enough |
| Ezgif | Animated GIF editor |
| imgops | Really a directory of tools, but it forwards your image to the tool you select (reverse image search, editing, upload, etc.) |
| IMG Online | JPEG Metadata editing, has other tools if you poke around |
| Gridzzly | Custom grid paper generator |
| Image Online | Various small image tools. It's a different site than img online... |
| Web GB Came | Web app replication of the Gameboy camera |
| Seamless Pattern Checker | |
| Trace.moe | Finds the anime a screenshot is from |
| Photopea | Online photoshop clone. Kinda jank but it opens file formats you wouldn't expect it to and has a decent text tool if you don't have access to desktop software with a good text tool. |
| Picasion | Lets you turn set of static images into a gif |
| Bulk Resize Photos | |
| BIRME | Bulk image resizing |
| Foto Flexer | |
| Lunapic | |
| Patternpad | |
| Tabbied | |
| Peachnuts Button Maker | 88x31 button maker, works like an old dollmaker |
| Hekate2 Button Maker | 88x31 button maker |
| Datakrash Button Maker | 88x31 button maker |
| Ritual.sh Button Maker | 88x31 button maker, warning: page has animation |
| Pride Flag Button Maker | 88x31 pride flag button maker |
| 'BLinkie Maker' Button Maker | Makes 88x31 buttons, not blinkies. Works like an old dollmaker |
| Image Scrubber | Removes exif data and provides tools for scribbling over sensitive details |
| Qwertyaz111's size reference tools | I have absolutely no clue where to put this, but it's a bunch of small tools aimed at helping you visualize the size difference between two characters. Tools are all in Japanese, but fairly intuitive. |
| Noise and Gradient | Generates noisy gradient backgrounds |
| Magick Studio | Image Magick on the web. Does require uploading your images to a server, so consider using it locally if that's a concern for you. |
| Aderpy Meta Tools | Quite varied, covers a lot of things |
| Pattern Monster | |
| NoisePNG | |
| Drawingbots Tools |
Effects
| The JPEG Zone | Deep-fried JPEGs |
| Dithermark | My preferred dithering&posterization tool |
| Pal | 8 color posterization |
| Ditherer | |
| Ordered Dither Maker | Black&white dithering tool that gives you a LOT of control over the process, including making your own dithering patterns |
| Play Dither | |
| Autotracer | A color vector generator. It has a lot of trouble handling poorly suited images, but the effect is honestly charming imho. |
| Dither Image Online | Uses a gradient map |
| Vectorization | B&W vector generator |
| Dither Studio | |
| GB Pic | Make an image look like it was shot on a gameboy camera. Interface is in Japanese |
| Image Glitch Tool | |
| Dither It | |
| Sora's Pixel Converter | Neat usage of posterization and downsampling to create a pixel art effect. Has a small amount of editing tools to clean up or add thamtically appropriate stickers. |
| Backto00 | |
| Fred's ImageMagick Scripts | |
| Scanline Crusher | |
| glitch2 | |
| Atkinson Dither | Very simple tool |
| Content-aware scaling | |
| Anymaking |
Drawing & Painting
| Quickposes | Randomized images for gesture drawing and similar |
| Sketchdaily | Randomized images for gesture drawing and similar |
| Magma | Collaborative drawing |
| Yippe | lets you make 16x16 pixelart that encodes itself into the url |
| mewLAB | simple drawing application making use of the LAB colorspace |
| Avocado Ibuprofen Paint | Funky black and white drawing app |
| Untitled Tile Painter | |
| Escher Sketch | Symmetry art |
| Kleki | Online drawing thing |
| Favicon.cc | Favicon creator and gallery |
| Pixilart | Online low res art tool |
| Photopea | Online photoshop clone. Kinda jank but it opens file formats you wouldn't expect it to and has a decent text tool if you don't have access to desktop software with a good text tool. |
| Piskel | Pixel art editor, seems animation focused |
| Weave Silk | |
| JS KidPix | |
| Paint Toys | |
| JS Paint | XP-era MS Paint in the browser |
| cursor.cc | Cursor designer and gallery |
| FlockMod | |
| Heavypaint | |
| Kreska | |
| Icomoon | Vector editor aimed at making icons |
| Drawboard Cafe | Public collaborative drawing board |
| GoyaPixel | |
| Minipaint | |
| Pixelorama | |
| Pixelcraft | |
| Perfect Freehand | |
| Andala | |
| Grid Paint | |
| nitripaint | Has an animated mascot in the corner I can't figure out how to hide, but it's neat |
| Sumo Paint | |
| Quilt Draw | |
| Sketch Paint |
Text
| Ellipsus | collaborative writing |
| 750 Words | Digital morning pages |
| One Word | One word prompt, one minute time limit |
| Shape Catcher | Search unicode characters by drawing them |
| Ohwrite | Low pressure word sprints |
| Little Webby Press | Like a SSG but for ebooks (okay, it also makes a site as a two-for-one deal) |
| Cipher Tools | Information about and web implementations of various ciphers |
| ASCII Flow | ASCII art helper |
| L-Lists | Collaborative list making |
| Online Tools - Find Duplicate List Items | This site is extremely annoying but unfortunately has actual functional and useful tools |
| Vivliostyle | CSS typesetting |
| Wordsprints | |
| Regexr | Really good interface for tinkering with building a regex pattern |
| WordCounter | |
| I Love PDF | PDF editing |
| Seventh Sanctum | Random name generators and similar |
| Pandoc | Browser version of Pandoc, for easy document conversion |
| Text Mechanic | Various text manipulation tools |
| IT Tools | Small data manipulation tools aimed at developers |
| Cyber Chef | Small data manipulation tools aimed at developers |
| Defuddle | Gets you a page's main content as markdown, like a sort of readability mode. Apparently for Youtube videos, it'll get you the subtitles? |
| Alphabetizer | |
| JSON Lint | Finds issues in your JSON file |
| What Unicode Character Is This? | |
| Language is a Virus |
Video
| Lossless Cut | Shorten videos without re-encoding |
| Video Cropper | |
| Videogrep | Lets you clip out all instances of a certain word or phrase from a video |
| Pikimov | |
| Invidious | Alternate Youtube frontend |
Audio
| talkmodachi | Tomodachi Life/Miitomo TTS |
| MP3 Merger with Chapters |
Downloading
| Line Sticker Ripper | Can get out of region sticker packs |
| Cobalt | image/video/audio from various sources |
| Youtube-dl Frontends | List of GUI frontends for yt-dlp |
| Wayback Machine Youtube Downloader | Tries to download a deleted video via the Internet Archive |
| Find Youtube Video | Similar to the above but with more archive sources. Will also give you metadata if it can't find the video. |
| Dezoomify | Rips 'zoomable' images |
| Singlefile | Web pages |
| Ficlab | Fanfic downloader with a lot of formatting options |
Social Media
| Slurp | Better data imports for Masodon-compatible software |
| Fossilphant | SSG for your social media exports (supports mastodon and bluesky, may support other mastodon-compatible software if the format is similar enough?) |
| Mastodon Data Viewer | viewing interface for Mastodon data exports, particularly large ones |
| Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet! | Art bot creation platform for Mastodon |
| Activity Bot | Activitypub bot with built-in server |
| Posty | Turns a mastodon archive into a static site |
| Mastodon Instance Blog Previewer | Tool to try and show you any connections you'll lose if you migrate to a given Mastodon instance. |
| Findtags | Better tag search for Tumblr |
| Simple Twitter Archiver | Converter to make your Twitter archive easier to browse |
Website Creation & Maintenance
| CSS Generators | Various CSS effects, including pure CSS backgrounds |
| CSS Pattern Generator | More pure CSS patterns |
| CSS Gradient Generator | |
| Dead Link Checker | Manual scans are free, but automated are paid |
| HTML Cleaner | Assorted HTML processing. Can strip inline styles |
| Pagefind | Site search for your static site |
| WAVE Accessibility Checker | Helps you check for accessibility issues with your site. |
| CSS Analyzer | |
| Super Designer | Lots of tools for web design, many of which are for generating backgrounds using pure CSS or SVGs |
| Fancy Border Radius Generator | Helps you make really weird shapes with CSS |
| Zonelets | System for making a blog on a static site, makes heavy use of JS |
| CSS Gradient | Generates code for CSS gradients for you |
| Favicon.cc | Favicon creator and gallery |
| Webdesign Assistant | A bunch of CSS helpers and JS scripts, has a background generator that lets you play with transparent textures |
| Colorzilla Gradient Editor | CSS gradient helper, has some weird and neat things like the ability to upload an image which it will then attempt to make a gradient out of |
| Bennett Feely | A couple of site helpers and toys. Has a CSS clipping path generator and CSS-only backgrounds. |
| Dr. Link Check | another dead link checker with different limits |
| Doodle Nerd | assorted, design focused |
| Contrast Triangle | Contrast checker for sites that remove underlines from their links |
| Image Map Generator | |
| RuSShdown | Helps generate an RSS feed for your site |
| WebAIM Contrast Checker | |
| CSS Warp | CSS Text paths |
| Who Can Use | Simulates various vision problems so you can get a better idea of how bad your color scheme is |
| cursor.cc | Cursor designer and gallery |
| CSS Stripes Generator | |
| SVG Wave Generator | |
| Gradient Style HDR Gradients | CSS Gradients that take advantage of HDR if available |
| Patternizer | Fancy CSS stripes |
Fonts & Typography
| Wordmark | Quick font previewing |
| Variable Fonts | Lets you try out the font's variable features |
| What the Font | Font identification |
| FontDrop | Shows what a given font can do |
| Everything Fonts | Miscellaneous small font tools |
| BitfontMaker2 | Pixel font creator with a gallery. The gallery can be filtered by license. |
| BitFontReader | Import tool for Bit Fontmaker2 |
| Fount | Tells you what font your browser is displaying, even if its not what the site intends for you to see |
| CSS Warp | CSS Text paths |
| Calligraphr | Fonts from handwriting, free version limits the amount of characters |
| Pixel Font Converter | Turns a spritesheet into a TTF font |
| FontSee | Font previewer |
| FontForge | Font creation and editing tool |
| Identifont | Font search engine |
| FontStruct | Font creation tool, has a gallery of fonts people have made with it, can be filtered by license |
| Opentype Feature Freezer | Tool to forcibly enable fancy opentype features in software that doesn't support it |
| Fonternate | Browser extension to preview locally installed fonts on the current page |
| WhatFontIs | Font identification |
| Font Style Matcher | Helps pick a fallback font that won't be jarring when your web font loads |
| Fontbob | Font creator with a gallery. Free version of the app is limited in the glyphs you're allowed to create |
| Tiff | Font comparison |
| WOFFer | Converts to and from WOFF format |
Colors
| oklch.fyi | Information about the oklch colorspace, along with a few tools related to it. |
| Sessions.edu Color Palette Generator | |
| Coolors | Color palette generator |
| Paletton | Color palette generator |
| Color Designer | |
| Golden Paint Mixer | Simulates acryllic paint mixing using real paint colors. Only works in chrome-based browsers? |
| HTML Color Codes | Color picker that gives you all relevant formats for CSS |
| ColorSpace | Automatic palette based on single color |
| Image Color Picker | |
| Pro Color Harmonies | Weird palette creation toy |
| HTML Color Picker | Color picker that outputs color codes compatible with CSS |
| Colour Lovers | Also has seamless pattern generation tools |
| Palette Generator | |
| WebAIM Contrast Checker | |
| Who Can Use | Simulates various vision problems so you can get a better idea of how bad your color scheme is |
| Random a11y | Random colorscheme that meets minimum contrast recommendations. Some may still be difficult to look at. |
| Colourcode | |
| Leonardo | Intended for UIs |
| Data Color Picker | Intended for data visualization |
| Poline | Colorscheme generator. Really weird and charming |
| Scale | Generates color scales |
| Color-ramp | Another color ramp generator |
| Colorsinspo | |
| Inclusive Colors | |
| FettePalette | |
| Hue Tools | |
| Cohesive Colors | |
| Parametric Color Mixer | |
| Colorkit | |
| Shadowlord | |
| I Want Hue | |
| Huetone | |
| Huesnap | |
| Colorpeek | Share, preview, convert CSS colors |
| Pigment |
Productivity & Organization
| Pomodor | |
| Take a Five | Self-destructing tabs |
| Pomofocus |
Time & Scheduling
| Seasonal Clock | |
| Internet Time | Simple tools relating to swatch internet time |
| Decimal Internet Time | An attempt to make a more neutral universal time system |
| Discord Timestamp Generator | |
| strftime | Time formatting strings |
| Time and Date | Various tools |
Misc.
| Dice Substitutions | Instructions on how to use a D6 to replace any other die |
| Dice Roller | |
| AnyDice | Dice probability |