Website rankings

Discover noteworthy websites based on real visits, favorites, and community feedback.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art CollectionThe online collection of The Met in New York: over 492,000 public-domain artwork images and metadata for the entire collection released under CC0, free to search and download, with a keyless open API and a weekly-updated CSV dataset.137 views000 2

MobbinA Singapore-based UI/UX reference library of screenshots, flows, and motion videos from real, shipped apps and websites, searchable by screen pattern, UI element, and in-screenshot text; the full library and AI search require a paid plan.173 views000 3

PrintablesA free 3D printing model library and maker community run by Czech printer manufacturer Prusa Research: over a million models downloadable without an account, per-model license labels, and Prusameters points redeemable for real filament.89 views000 4

Stellarium WebThe browser-based edition of the open-source Stellarium planetarium: nothing to install, just open a page to see a real-time sky for any time and place, with planets, constellations, deep-sky objects, and upcoming celestial events.76 views000 5

Every Noise at OnceA music discovery site that maps Spotify's 6,291 genres as a clickable acoustic scatter plot — every genre name plays a sample and links to artist maps and playlists; the map has been a static snapshot since late 2023.59 views000 6

iconfontA Chinese vector icon platform run by Alibaba's Alimama experience team, offering icon search, multi-format downloads, icon-font generation and team project workflows, plus illustrations, Lottie animations and official fonts.91 views000 7

Neal.funA collection of interactive web projects by American indie developer Neal Agarwal: dozens of free browser games and visual experiments such as The Password Game, Infinite Craft and The Deep Sea, all instantly playable with no account.68 views000 8Recent (formerly Godly)Recent is a daily-curated design inspiration platform covering websites, interfaces, branding, and motion, with tech-stack annotations per entry. Its predecessor was Godly, a web design gallery from 2021; godly.website now redirects here.82 views000 9

WindyWindy is an interactive global weather visualization platform from a Czech team, layering wind, radar, satellite and air quality on an animated map, with ECMWF, GFS and ICON model comparison. Core features are free, no account required.50 views000 10

FreesoundFreesound is a collaborative sound library run by the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, hosting 700,000+ Creative Commons–licensed sounds to search, preview in the browser and download for free.46 views000 11

AwwwardsA web design award platform run by Awwwards Online SL since 2009. An international jury scores submitted sites on design, usability, creativity, and content, up to Site of the Year. Browsing is free; submission is paid.101 views000 12HowLongToBeatCrowdsourced database of video game completion times by playstyle — main story, main plus extras, completionist — with community ratings and backlog tracking. Online since 2011, owned by IGN since 2021; 92.5K releases as of 2026-09-02.64 views000 13Radio GardenA non-profit research project for discovering live radio worldwide on a rotatable 3D globe, listing more than 40,000 channels as of 2024.32 views000 14bilibiliChinese video community defined by its danmaku bullet comments: creator-made PUGV videos, licensed anime, films, and documentaries, plus live streaming and games. Founded in 2009 as Mikufans, listed on Nasdaq and HKEX; 371M MAU in Q2 2026.178 views000 15

Have I Been PwnedA data breach lookup service by security researcher Troy Hunt. Enter an email address to see whether it appears in known breaches, check passwords against leaked corpora, and get breach alerts. Core searches are free and need no account.56 views000 16

Digital Dunhuang (数字敦煌)The Dunhuang Academy's official digitization project; its resource library freely publishes whole-cave high-resolution images and panoramas of 30 caves, alongside an open material library, in Chinese and English.46 views000 17

ReferoRefero is a reference library of real product interfaces: 142,000+ screenshots from 400+ web and iOS products, searchable by page type, user flow, UX pattern, and UI element.41 views000 18

Chinese Text ProjectOpen-access digital library of premodern Chinese texts maintained by Donald Sturgeon since 2006: over 30,000 titles focused on pre-Qin and Han works, with aligned Chinese-English parallel texts, a dictionary, source scans, and an open API.39 views000 19

MuscleWikiMuscleWiki is a free online exercise library. Click any muscle on its interactive body map to see matching exercises with short filmed video demos and step-by-step instructions — no account needed.59 views000 20

ZhihuChina's largest Q&A-inspired content community (per the company), built around long-form answers, columns, roundtables, the paid Yanxuan membership and the Zhida AI search. Homepage and hot list require sign-in; Explore pages are public.56 views000 21

Douban（豆瓣）A Chinese online database and interest community for books, films and music, launched in 2005, where user ratings and reviews aggregate on subject pages that anyone can browse without an account.47 views000 22

Zdic (汉典)Free online Chinese dictionary launched in 2004: each entry combines the Kangxi Dictionary, Shuowen Jiezi, Mandarin Dictionary, phonology, dialects, and glyph origins on one page, plus classical text, poetry, and calligraphy sub-sites.45 views000 23

ExcalidrawAn open-source virtual whiteboard with a hand-drawn feel — sketch diagrams for free without signing up, with real-time collaboration and end-to-end encryption.25 views000 24

PairDropOpen-source, browser-based file transfer: devices on the same network discover each other automatically and send files peer-to-peer over WebRTC; pairing and temporary rooms extend transfers across networks. No signup, no installation.37 views000 25

LibriVoxA volunteer-narrated library of free public domain audiobooks, offering more than twenty thousand completed titles for streaming and download, with all recordings dedicated to the public domain in the United States.23 views000 26

MyAnimeListLaunched in 2004, MyAnimeList is the largest English-language anime and manga database and community: user-maintained entries, 1–10 scoring, twice-daily weighted rankings, and an official API. Owned by Tokyo-based Gaudiy since May 2025.34 views000 27Fonts In UseAn independent public archive of typography that indexes real-world uses of typefaces by font, industry, format, and period, with public submissions reviewed by an editorial team.46 views000 28

China University MOOC（中国大学MOOC）A Chinese MOOC platform launched in 2014 by Higher Education Press (icourse) and NetEase under the Ministry of Education's elite open-course program; courses are free to study, with paid verified certificates.43 views000 29

Internet ArchiveA US non-profit digital library known for the Wayback Machine web archive, with free collections of texts, audio, video, and software.23 views000 30

Hacker NewsY Combinator's technology news community, created by Paul Graham in 2007, where users submit links and text posts that are ranked by votes and time decay; known for its minimalist interface and reading without registration.39 views000 31

itch.ioAn open marketplace for indie games launched in 2013, where anyone can publish without approval, developers set the platform's own revenue share (0–100%, default 10%), and game jams are a core community ritual.38 views000 32

earthAn animated globe by Tokyo engineer Cameron Beccario, online since 2013, that turns NOAA, NASA and Copernicus forecasts into flowing maps of wind, temperature, pressure, currents, waves, aerosols and aurora, zoomable to city level.19 views000 33

arXivA free, open-access preprint archive hosting over three million scholarly articles across eight subject areas including physics, mathematics and computer science. Reading requires no registration; content is not peer reviewed.32 views000 34

CosmosCosmos is a visual-inspiration platform for saving images, links and notes into private or shared collections, with retrieval by color or visual similarity. Free, on web, iOS and Android.32 views000 35LandbookLandbook is a human-curated website design gallery updated daily with full-page screenshots, plus collections for sections, motion, and OG images, and a template marketplace. Browsing is free with ads; Pro removes ads and unlocks filtering.31 views000 36

WhoSampledLondon-born database, launched in 2008, mapping how songs connect through samples, interpolations, covers, and remixes; entries are community-submitted and human-moderated, 1.37M+ songs as of 2026-09-02. Owned by Spotify since 2025.30 views000 37

MusicBrainzAn open music encyclopedia run by the nonprofit MetaBrainz Foundation — a volunteer-maintained structured music metadata database whose core data is public domain (CC0), with a free API, full data downloads, and the Picard tagging app.29 views000 38

Standard EbooksVolunteer-driven project producing carefully typeset, proofread public domain ebooks from Project Gutenberg transcriptions with public domain cover art; every title is free in epub, azw3, and kepub, dedicated to the public domain.29 views000 39

GhostfolioPrivacy-first, open source portfolio tracker: record stocks, ETFs and crypto across platforms to see net worth, performance and allocation, with X-ray analysis and FIRE calculator. AGPL-3.0, self-hostable; cloud Premium $48/yr.24 views000 40

NowcoderA Chinese job-hunting prep platform for new graduates and programmers, combining real company written tests, online coding practice and contests, an interview-experience community, and campus recruiting info.53 views000 41

Open Food FactsA crowdsourced food database where a barcode scan returns ingredient lists, nutrition tables and Nutri-Score style ratings; everything is published under the ODbL license by a French nonprofit.21 views000 42

flomoflomo is a Chinese card-note service for frictionless, chat-like capture — jot via WeChat or full-platform apps, then resurface notes with tags and daily review. Free tier; PRO/MAX plans.47 views000 43

LichessA free, ad-free, open-source online chess platform with games at every time control, 8 variants, tactical puzzles, engine analysis, tournament broadcasts and collaborative study tools, run by a French non-profit association.45 views000 44MIT OpenCourseWareMIT's project to publish its course materials free online: syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, exams, and video lectures with no registration. Announced in 2001, launched in 2002; 2,585 courses as of 2026-09-02, all under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.19 views000 45

MonkeytypeA free, open-source typing test and practice website known for its minimal design and unusually deep customization, with multiple test modes, hundreds of language word lists, and optional accounts for tracking progress.43 views000 46

Zoom EarthAn interactive weather map layering near-real-time satellite imagery, radar, forecasts, hurricane tracks and wildfire hotspots on one map — no account needed. Built by Neave Interactive on NOAA, NASA and EUMETSAT data.41 views000 47

tldrawA free online whiteboard that works the moment you open it: infinite canvas, hand-drawn strokes, no account needed, saved in the browser. It also showcases the source-available tldraw SDK behind ClickUp Whiteboards and other products.41 views000 48Bartosz CiechanowskiPersonal site of Polish engineer Bartosz Ciechanowski: long technical essays with hands-on real-time simulations explaining GPS, mechanical watches, engines, sound and the Moon. Free, no account, English.16 views000 49

Khan AcademyA free online learning platform run by a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit, offering courses from pre-K through early college plus official free SAT, LSAT, and MCAT prep — no ads, funded by donations.34 views000 50

Lapa NinjaA landing page design archive curated since 2015, keeping 7,300+ real pages as full-page screenshots, scroll-through videos, and font and color metadata. Browsing and search are free; accounts add Boards, and Pro removes limits.33 views000 51

Shidian GujiA free digital reading and editing platform for pre-modern Chinese books by Douyin Group (ByteDance) and Peking University, offering full-text search, page-image comparison and machine-assisted translation across 73,000+ titles.33 views000 52

Project GutenbergThe oldest eBook library on the Internet, founded in 1971, offering works whose U.S. copyright has expired — free, no registration, readable online or downloadable as EPUB, Kindle, and plain text.33 views000 53

DeepSeekAI assistant from Hangzhou-based DeepSeek, free to use on web and mobile after sign-up, with DeepThink reasoning and web search; model weights are open-licensed and the API is low-cost.33 views000 54NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)Since June 1995, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) has published a daily astronomy image with a professional astronomer's explanation. The archive is searchable back to day one, with an open API and a public submission channel.31 views000 55

DiaAI-native Chromium browser from The Browser Company (now part of Atlassian): the address bar doubles as an AI prompt with context from your tabs and work tools. Free tier has no AI; plans from $20/month; Apple Silicon Mac only.31 views000 56

PixsoOnline UI design and prototyping platform by Shenzhen-based Bosi Yunchuang (Wondershare ecosystem). Whiteboard, design, prototype and handoff in one workspace, with Figma/Sketch import and an AI assistant. Free tier.31 views000 57

NumbeoA crowdsourced cost-of-living and quality-of-life database launched in 2009, covering prices, rents and purchasing-power indices for 12,000+ cities. Free to browse with a comparison tool and paid API; data is not official statistics.30 views000 58AlternativeToA crowdsourced directory of software alternatives run by Swedish company 27 Kilobyte AB since 2009. As of 2026-09-02 it lists 152,162 apps, filterable by platform, license, and price, ranked by more than two million user opinions.30 views000 59

NASA Eyes on the Solar SystemA browser-based 3D solar system simulation from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: driven by real mission data, it replays 150+ NASA mission trajectories from 1950 to 2050, free with no account; sibling apps cover asteroids and exoplanets.29 views000 60

ClaudeAnthropic's AI assistant and agent platform: chat, writing, coding, web search, Artifacts, and file creation on web, desktop, and mobile; paid plans add the Claude Code and Cowork agents. Launched March 2023; free plan, Pro from $20/month.12 views000 61

ForvoA crowdsourced pronunciation dictionary with native-speaker recordings for nearly 6 million words in 430+ languages, filterable by accent with community voting. Listening is free; contributing requires an account; non-commercial use only.25 views000 62

SuperCookCheck off the ingredients you already have, and get recipes you can cook right now — each result links out to the source site. Free and registration-free reverse recipe search.24 views000 63

Google ScholarGoogle's free scholarly search engine, launched in 2004, indexing papers, theses, books, preprints, patents and US case law across publishers, with citation tracing, author profiles and venue metrics. Search needs no account.24 views000 64

BoardGameGeekBoard game database and community launched in January 2000, built almost entirely by its users: 150,000+ games with ratings, reviews, and images for ~4 million registered users, plus the BGG Rank, the hobby's most cited leaderboard.24 views000 65

Can I UseA free reference for checking browser support of front-end web technologies, with per-version support tables, usage statistics, known issues and openly licensed data.19 views000 66

iNaturalistA nonprofit citizen science platform for biodiversity: photograph wild species to get computer vision suggestions and community identifications; research-grade observations flow into databases such as GBIF. Free, with mobile apps.19 views000 67

IT ToolsAn open-source, free collection of 86 online tools for developers and IT professionals: hashing, encoding, format conversion and network calculators, all running in the browser. No signup; self-hostable via one Docker command.19 views000 68

Metaso (秘塔AI搜索)A Chinese AI search engine by Shanghai Metaso that answers questions with ad-free, source-cited structured summaries, including academic search and a free Deep Research mode.19 views000 69

BandLabA free online DAW and music creation community from Singapore's BandLab Technologies: record, mix, and collaborate in a browser or app with a royalty-free sound library and instant mastering; membership adds distribution and promotion.79 views000 70

Kling AIKuaishou's AI video generation platform: text-to-video, image-to-video, native 4K, motion transfer and digital humans in browser and mobile apps, plus a per-second API. Launched June 2024; 100M+ users as of June 2026.76 views000 71

Google Arts & CultureGoogle's online culture platform built with 2,000+ museums and archives: gigapixel artwork images, Street View walkthroughs and curated exhibitions, free in the browser. Began as Google Art Project in 2011, renamed in 2016.18 views000 72

IMDbAmazon-owned database of movies, TV shows, video games and the people behind them, covering 12M+ titles and 16M+ names, best known for weighted user ratings and Top 250 charts. Free and ad-supported; most data is user-contributed.18 views000 73

Online-Go.com (OGS)A free online Go (baduk) server in the browser: real-time and correspondence games, spectating and game study, roughly 59,000 user-made tsumego puzzles, an interactive beginner course and tournaments, with an AGPL-licensed web client.17 views000 74

UnsplashUnsplash is a Canadian stock photo platform with 8.7 million free, commercially usable high-resolution photos and illustrations, no account needed to download, plus a developer API and paid Unsplash+ tier; owned by Getty Images since 2021.17 views000 75

PerplexityPerplexity is an AI answer engine that responds to questions with direct, source-cited answers instead of a list of links. Core features are free; Pro and Max subscriptions unlock stronger models and higher limits.17 views000 76The Book of ShadersA free online introduction to fragment shaders with live editable code examples, from basics to generative design and ray marching. In 14 languages including Chinese, developed on GitHub.17 views000 77

MSD Manuals (Consumer Version)The free online consumer edition of the MSD Manuals, a medical reference first published in 1899. Written and reviewed by medical experts, no registration or ads, with an official Chinese edition at msdmanuals.cn.16 views000 78

Reactive ResumeA free, open-source (MIT) resume builder with no ads or tracking, offering 15 templates, 55 interface languages, an in-browser ATS checker, and job application tracking; self-hostable with Docker, AI features require your own API key.16 views000 79

BandcampOnline record store and music community where artists and labels sell digital music, vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and merch directly to fans. Launched in 2008, it takes 15% on digital and 10% on physical sales; on average 82% reaches artists.16 views000 80

Goblin ToolsGoblin Tools is a free set of single-task AI mini-tools: break overwhelming tasks into small steps, rewrite tone, judge emotion, estimate time and more. Made for neurodivergent users, free forever with no ads, in 70+ languages.15 views000 81Learn Git BranchingAn open-source browser app for learning Git visually: ~34 levels plus a free sandbox, with a commit tree that animates as you type real commands. MIT-licensed, in Simplified and Traditional Chinese.14 views000 82

SMZDM (Shenme Zhide Mai)SMZDM (smzdm.com) is one of China's largest consumer decision communities and shopping-guide platforms, aggregating user-submitted deals, product reviews, and buying guides for Chinese e-commerce.57 views000 83

Page FlowsA library of recorded user flows from 300+ real apps across iOS, Android, web and email, with step-by-step annotations and searchable screenshots. Some flows are free to watch; full access requires a subscription.13 views000 84

MidjourneyA subscription-only AI image and video generator from San Francisco's Midjourney, Inc. A text prompt returns four images to upscale, vary, repaint, extend, or animate into short clips. Open beta since July 2022; no free tier.13 views000 85

RaycastRaycast is a keyboard-first launcher and productivity suite: app and file search, clipboard history, window management, a store of community extensions and a paid AI assistant. Founded 2020 in London; on macOS, Windows and iOS.13 views000 86

Laws of UXA UX psychology reference by product designer Jon Yablonski: 30 psychology laws relevant to interface design as visual cards, each with design takeaways, real product examples, and cited academic origins. Free, in five languages.12 views000 87

ParticleParticle is an AI news product by former Twitter engineers: it clusters coverage of the same event into one Story with AI summaries, opposing viewpoints, and a political-spectrum map, linking to original reporting. Free, optional Particle+.11 views000 88

DiscogsA crowdsourced record database with an integrated second-hand marketplace, online since 2000; as of September 2026 it lists more than 19 million releases, plus collection tools, a public API, and CC0 data exports.47 views000 89

Zen BrowserA free, open-source Firefox-based desktop browser (MPL-2.0) maintained by a volunteer community. Built around vertical tabs, with Workspaces, Compact Mode, Split View and Glance; no telemetry; funded by donations. Still officially beta.47 views000 90

KimiMoonshot AI's assistant: chat, deep research, slides/docs/website generation and coding from one prompt box, on web, apps, desktop and API. Open-weight K models; K3 (July 2026) is the largest open-weight model at 2.8T parameters.42 views000 91

ReadymagA browser-based no-code design tool by Readymag Inc., launched in 2013. Freeform canvas, precise typography and interaction effects suit portfolios and editorial sites. Free plan publishes one site; custom domains need a subscription.9 views000 92

SuperlistTo-do list and notes app from the Wunderlist team: lists are rich documents mixing tasks, text, and images, with sharing, Gmail/Slack/GitHub integrations, AI voice and meeting notes. Free tier; paid plans from $59/yr per person.9 views000 93

ObsidianLocal-first Markdown notes and knowledge base from Canada's Dynalist Inc. Notes stay on your device as plain text, linked into a graph, extensible via 7,500+ community plugins. Free even for commercial use; Sync and Publish cost extra.39 views000 94

DoubaoByteDance's AI assistant for China: chat, search, writing, PPT and image/video generation, voice calls, and an office agent on web, desktop, and mobile. Launched August 2023; ~172M MAU (QuestMobile). Free tier; Pro plans RMB 68–500/month.39 views000 95

Luma Dream MachineLuma AI's creative platform: in-house Ray video models with multi-keyframe camera control, 1080p and 16-bit HDR/EXR output, and video modification, plus third-party models like Veo and Kling. Launched June 2024; Plus from $30/month.39 views000 96

FWAFWA (Favourite Website Awards) is a UK website and digital creativity award naming one FWA of the Day since May 2000, via a 500+ member international jury voting on paid entries. Browsing is free; judging is watchable live.36 views000 97

TEDA nonprofit-run video platform built around short conference talks. As of 2026-09-02 the TED.com library indexes 7,641 free talks with volunteer-made subtitles in 115 languages, alongside the TEDx network, TED-Ed lessons, and 25+ podcasts.8 views000 98

HeptabaseA visual note-taking and PKM app by Taiwan-based Hepta Platforms: cards on whiteboards, PDF annotation, web clipping, Readwise sync, and AI Q&A. Paid-only, from $8.99/month billed yearly, with a 7-day free trial.34 views000 99

GhosttyGhostty is a free, open-source terminal emulator pairing GPU-accelerated rendering with platform-native UI on macOS and Linux. Started by HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto, written mainly in Zig, MIT licensed.33 views000 100

OllamaDownload and run open-weight LLMs such as Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, and Gemma on macOS, Windows, and Linux, with a desktop app, CLI, and local OpenAI-compatible API. Local usage is free; cloud models are billed per token.32 views000