Good on a phone

Kaomoji, dongers and text faces sorted by category, with a copy button attached to every single one of them.

Cleaner and more factual than its rivals, strongest on geography and history, and mercifully free of which-character quizzes.

Turn any photograph into a jigsaw of up to three hundred pieces, then send the link to a relative who will finish it faster.

Drags the guts of a JPEG around with three sliders, producing the smeared colour blocks that only broken files make.

Straightforward celebrity photo blogging updated hourly, with none of the editorialising the rest of the genre insists on.

Japanese home cooking explained for people without a Japanese pantry, with substitutions that do not quietly ruin the dish.

Tells you which streaming service in your country actually has the film, and whether it is included or a rental.

The quiz platform from every classroom and every away-day, with a free tier and a room code that anybody can join in seconds.

The channel that turned the Backrooms into found footage, shot with unnervingly good camera work and almost no music.

Thousands of Japanese emoticons sorted by emotion, running from mild confusion all the way to full table flipping.

Seattle public radio with the famous in-studio live sessions, a human DJ on air at all hours and a playlist page that credits everything.

One golf hole a day, built to look trivial and then take nine attempts, with a score everybody can compare.

Baking recipes given by weight, with a hotline-grade troubleshooting blog attached. Where to go when a loaf has gone wrong.

Documentation of the vast Victorian asylums built to one architectural theory of curing madness, most now empty or demolished.

Anime and manga tracker with a friendly interface and a public API, run as an open-source project rather than an ad business.

A tidy portal of casual browser games with an unusual amount of care given to which ones are actually finished.

Painting app with layers, symmetry and a genuinely good brush engine, loading instantly and uploading nothing anywhere.

The reference desk of internet culture, with sourced origins and dates for jokes you never knew had a paper trail.

Start with one enormous dot; every pass of the cursor splits it into four, until the pixels resolve into a picture.

Jason Kottke has been posting the interesting bits of the web since 1998, with no algorithm involved at any point.

Retail history blog named after the ghost outline a shop sign leaves behind, mapping the slow decline of the American mall.

Tarot taught properly, with free card meanings, a clean illustrated deck and lessons that never ask you to believe anything.

Gossip written as media criticism, tracking how celebrity stories get placed and who stands to benefit from the placing.

Free audio courses that teach by making you work out the grammar yourself, made by one person with no adverts.

Two decades of listening data turned into recommendations, similar-artist chains and neighbours with suspiciously identical taste.

Fitts, Hick, Jakob and the rest, each with a plain explanation and a poster you will end up printing out.

French satire named by scrambling Le Figaro, and taken seriously by French social media with depressing regularity.

The 1979 economics lesson still intact — buy lemons, read the forecast, set a price, discover the weather has opinions.

The Lenny face and its several hundred descendants, catalogued and one click away from your clipboard.

Turns a question into a link that mimes typing it into a search box, for colleagues who never quite learn.

Log films, rate them, and read reviews by people trying to be funny rather than professional. The social network cinema deserved.

Looks like a plain platformer until the floor vanishes, the ceiling drops and the exit walks away. Trolling you is the actual mechanic.

Photographs, manuscripts, sheet music and film from the largest library in the world, mostly free to reuse.

Thematic collections captured around elections, disasters and cultural moments, chosen by librarians rather than by a crawler.

Public domain books read aloud by volunteers, free to download, uneven in quality and endless in supply.

Free chess with no adverts, no account required and an analysis engine better than the paid ones, funded entirely by donations.

Millions of chess tactics pulled from real games and served at exactly your rating, entirely free and with no account required.

Enter your birthday and watch a live tally of the heartbeats, blinks and steps you have got through so far.

Daily tips on doing ordinary things slightly better, running since 2005 and still occasionally genuinely surprising.

Hundreds of small text translators — pirate, medieval, wingdings, uwu — plus a builder for making your own.

Read and listen to real material while tapping unknown words, which quietly become your review deck.

Wikipedia's running audit of the things almost everyone believes and almost nobody has ever checked.

Wikipedia's index of its own indexes, which is either a long-running joke or the purest expression of the site.

Start with four elements and work towards seven hundred, most of which are jokes you only understand on arrival.

Fakes a phone's live activity banner — a food delivery, a match score, a boarding pass — for screenshots and mockups.

Cameras pointed at geysers, glaciers, harbours and whichever volcano is currently misbehaving, plus a northern lights feed in winter.

Thousands of taper-recorded live concerts released with the bands' blessing, going back to the reel-to-reel era and free to stream.

Daily science news with a weakness for the strange finds — mummies, deep sea oddities, cosmic near misses.