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Free illustrated repair manuals for phones, laptops, cars and appliances, plus teardowns that name and shame every glued-in battery.
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iFixit sits in DIY & Life Hacks under Learn, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Build guides, repair databases and instruction sites for physical tasks. The internet at its most straightforwardly useful.
Yes. iFixit is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use iFixit without signing up for anything.
Yes. iFixit works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Step-by-step build guides for anything from a bookshelf to a plasma cutter, written by the people who actually made the thing.
Daily tips on doing ordinary things slightly better, running since 2005 and still occasionally genuinely surprising.
The maker movement's own magazine: projects, tool reviews and the long-running argument about what counts as making something.
Millions of product manuals as PDFs, for the appliance whose paperwork went in the recycling back in 2011.
Merge, split, compress, rotate, sign and convert PDFs from a single page. Covers nearly everything Acrobat charges a subscription for.
The canonical crowd-ranked list of 250 films, weighted to resist review bombing. A reliable way to spot the gap in your viewing.
Every meme template with the text boxes already in the right places, and no watermark once you find the setting.
A calendar of every conjunction, eclipse and meteor shower coming up, with charts drawn for your own location.
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