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Free Tools That Solve Annoyingly Specific Problems
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items Some problems are too small to deserve this much of your time. If something makes you think “surely there’s a tool for this,” there probably is—and someone on the internet has already made it free. The kind of shortcuts you forget about until the exa...
Found the perfect app and then discovered its most useful feature lives behind $12.99 a month? Search its name here before automatically subscribing. You can filter the alternatives by free, open-source, web, iPhone, Android, Mac or Windows—and occas...
Find a Free Alternative Before Paying for Another App
You finally agree on a movie, then spend the next ten minutes opening Netflix, Prime, Disney+ and everything else just trying to find the thing. Search it once here and see which services have it in your country, whether it’s included with a subscrip...
Find Where That Movie Is Streaming Without Opening Six Apps
The washing machine is flashing a mysterious E17. The coffee maker needs descaling. The oven clock has somehow entered another dimension. Before pressing random buttons and hoping for character development, search the model number here. There are mil...
For the Manual You Definitely Threw Away Three Years Ago
Some things are impossible to describe without sounding slightly unhinged: “green plant with waxy leaves,” “those shoes with the weird silver buckle,” “tiny symbol on this label.” Give Google Lens the photo instead. It can identify objects, plants an...
When You Can See It but Have Absolutely No Idea What to Google
“Your parcel could not be delivered.” “Your account will be suspended.” “Is this you in this photo?” When a link feels just believable enough to make you curious, curiosity doesn’t need to be the thing that opens it. Paste the URL into VirusTotal ins...
That Weird Link in the Text Message? Check It Before You Touch It
“3 p.m. for me is… 9 a.m. for her? Unless daylight saving changed? Wait, did theirs change already?” Add everyone’s cities and the date, and this lays the local times next to each other so you can find an hour that doesn’t accidentally invite someone...
Stop Doing Time-Zone Math in Your Head
You find exactly the study you need and then meet the cheerful little “Purchase PDF for $42” button. Unpaywall checks whether the same paper has a legal open-access copy sitting in a university or government repository. When it finds one, you get the...
There May Be a Free Version of That Research Paper
A site refuses to load and suddenly you’re restarting Wi-Fi, switching browsers and questioning every piece of technology you own. Before troubleshooting your entire house, check whether other people can reach it. If it’s down for everyone, congratul...
Check Whether a Website Is Down—or Just Hates You Personally
You have HEIC; the form wants JPG. Someone sent MOV; you need MP4. Your document is perfectly usable everywhere except the one place you need to upload it. A good file converter is one of those deeply unexciting tools that becomes the best website on...
That File Is the Wrong Format Because Of Course It Is
A new laptop is exciting right up until you remember it has none of the little programs that made the old one usable. Instead of downloading your browser, messaging apps, media player, utilities and file tools one by one, tick everything you want and...
Update All Those Windows Apps Without Visiting Twelve Websites
That email address you’ve been using since 2014 has probably lived a much more eventful life than you realize. Type it in and see whether it appeared in a known data breach, which site leaked it and what kind of information was exposed. Much more use...
Check If Your Email Has Been Caught in a Data Breach
Packing from memory works beautifully until you arrive with three pairs of shoes and no phone charger. Start with a proper master list, delete what your trip doesn’t need and add the weirdly specific things yours does. The useful bit is seeing catego...
Pack From a List Instead of That 2 A.M. “What Am I Forgetting?” Feeling
Tiny subscriptions are remarkably good at staying tiny until you put them in the same room. Add the streaming, cloud storage, apps, memberships and annual plans you’ve stopped mentally counting and see one monthly and yearly number. No bank access ne...
When “It’s Only $4.99” Happens Twelve Times a Month
You find the perfect dress, room, artwork or beauty shot…and the trail ends at a repost of a repost with no useful information attached. TinEye searches using the image itself, then lets you look for earlier appearances, altered copies and larger ver...
Find the Original When Pinterest Has Lost the Plot
One person paid for dinner, another booked the hotel, someone covered the taxi and nobody remembers who bought breakfast. Put the shared expenses in as they happen and let Splitwise keep the running balance. Much nicer than ending a trip with twelve ...
Because “I Think I Owe You €17?” Is Not a System
The annoying version of dinner is having food but apparently no ingredients that form a recognizable meal. Start with what needs using up—those mushrooms, half a lemon, eggs, spinach, whatever is staring back at you—and search for recipes around the ...
Tell It What’s in Your Fridge, Not What You Want to Cook
A sofa can look completely reasonable in your head and absolutely enormous once it’s blocking half the doorway. Draw the room to scale, add furniture and test different layouts in 2D or 3D before recruiting someone to help move the bed “just a little...
See If the Furniture Fits Before Moving It Twice
Sometimes you don’t love the dress, room or photo—you love what the colors are doing together. Upload the image and Adobe pulls out the dominant and accent shades, then gives you the actual HEX/RGB values. Suddenly “that dusty pink with that weird pe...
Steal the Color Palette From Something You Love
A crossed-out $129 next to $79 has a way of making $79 feel urgent. Price history puts the drama back into perspective: was it genuinely $129 for months, or does it mysteriously become “$129” every time a sale starts? Checking the old price before ge...
That 40% Off Tag Might Be Lying to You
A medium in one store can fit like a small somewhere else and somehow become a large by the next tab. SizeCharter lets you enter your actual measurements—or a size that fits you well in a brand you already know—and compares that against sizing from b...
Because “I’m Usually a Medium” Means Almost Nothing Online