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Browse 268 open-source and browser-first projects, picked for getting useful work done.

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27 PICKS

Editor’s picks

30 PICKS
Visual Studio Code for the Web Editor’s pick

provides a free, zero-install Microsoft Visual Studio Code experience running entirely in your browser, allowing you to quickly and safely browse source code repositories and make lightweight code changes

Development 192.8k MIT
Godot Web Editor’s pick

Provides a zero-install Godot enviroment that runs entirely in your browser.

Development 117.7k MIT
Algorithm Visualizer Editor’s pick

An interactive online platform for visualizing algorithms from code and learning algorithm behavior through animations.

Development 48.7k MIT
IT-Tools Editor’s pick

Collection of handy online tools for developers, with great UX

Development 40.7k GPL-3.0
Croc Editor’s pick

Easily and securely send things from one computer to another 🐊 πŸ“¦

Utilities 40.4k MIT
CyberChef Editor’s pick

A browser-based β€œcyber” workbench for encoding, decoding, encryption, compression, hashing, parsing, and data analysis recipes.

Privacy & Security 35.9k Apache-2.0
VERT Editor’s pick

File-converter fully in-browser

Utilities 15.6k AGPL-3.0
Piskel Editor’s pick

Easy-to-use sprite editor. It can be used to create game sprites, animations, and pixel-art

Design & Graphics 12.8k Apache-2.0
freemediaheckyeah Editor’s pick

The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!

Lists 12.0k ?
Pixelorama Editor’s pick

Create pixel art in your browser

Design & Graphics 10.4k MIT
draw.io Editor’s pick

A configurable browser-based diagramming and whiteboarding tool for flowcharts, UML, network diagrams, ER diagrams, BPMN, and more.

Design & Graphics 8.3k Apache-2.0
Dillinger Editor’s pick

"The last Markdown editor, ever."

Writing & Docs 8.3k MIT
M3E Canvas Editor’s pick

A browser-based UI prototyping tool for designing Material 3 Expressive app screens, linking interactive flows, and generating prompts for AI coding tools.

Development 8.1k MIT
SVG-Edit Editor’s pick

Powerful SVG-Editor for your browser

Design & Graphics 7.8k MIT
PDFme Editor’s pick

Template designer, PDF viewer, and powerful generation capabilities. Create custom PDFs effortlessly

Productivity 4.8k MIT
EtherCalc Editor’s pick

Spreadsheet for real-time collaborative editing

Productivity 3.0k CPAL-1.0
Method Draw Editor’s pick

Simple and easy-to-use SVG editor experience

Design & Graphics 3.0k MIT
CircuitJS1 Editor’s pick

A browser-based electronic circuit simulator with animated schematics, example circuits, and editable components.

Development 2.4k GPL-2.0
OpenCAD Studio Editor’s pick

A CAD application built with Rust. 2D/3D drawing, DWG/DXF support, and GPU-accelerated rendering

Productivity 2.2k GPL-3.0
openDAW Editor’s pick

next-generation web-based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)

Media 2.1k ?
JustDeleteMe Editor’s pick

A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.

Privacy & Security 1.4k MIT
KiCanvas Editor’s pick

An interactive browser-based viewer for KiCad schematics and PCB boards.

Development 1.1k MIT
BRouter-web Editor’s pick

A web client for the BRouter routing engine, providing OpenStreetMap-based route planning with profile customization and route export.

Utilities 501 MIT
dDocs Editor’s pick

A privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs for rich document editing.

Writing & Docs 416 AGPL-3.0
Notepad PWA Editor’s pick

πŸ“’ An offline capable Notepad PWA

Writing & Docs 381 MIT
Python Tutor Editor’s pick

Visualize code execution step-by-step to better understand programming concepts and debugging.

Development 200 GPL-3.0
dSheets Editor’s pick

dsheets.new is alternative to google sheets & excel.

Productivity 89 AGPL-3.0

Interactive roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help developers grow in their careers

Education 368.0k Custom

A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

Lists 138.1k ?

Real-time global intelligence dashboard. AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness interface

Data & Analytics 87.3k AGPL-3.0-only
AFFiNE

Next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together

Writing & Docs 72.9k MIT

A simple drawing/whiteboarding tool

Design & Graphics 50.5k NC

visualization application that transforms various data formats, such as JSON, YAML, XML and CSV into interactive graphs

Development 44.4k Apache-2.0

media downloader that doesn't piss you off. it's friendly, efficient, and doesn't have ads, trackers, paywalls or other nonsense.

Media 43.8k AGPL-3.0

Create and share beautiful images of your source code

Development 36.1k MIT
ente Paste

Share text between devices securely with QR code or URL

Utilities 29.0k AGPL-3.0

Simply beautiful open-source icons

Development 26.0k MIT

Image compression web app that reduces image sizes through numerous formats

Media 25.9k Apache-2.0

Free SVG icons for popular brands. 3000+ icons, public domain, no signup.

Development 25.9k CC0-1.0

Beautiful & consistent icon toolkit made by the community

Development 24.7k ISC

Browser-based 3D room planner for designing and testing interior layouts.

Design & Graphics 24.3k MIT

A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.

Development 23.8k MIT

A set of over 6000 free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for you to use in your web projects.

Development 21.8k MIT

The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features. Test yourself in various modes, track your progress and improve your speed

Productivity 20.8k GPL-3.0

Creates interactive mind maps from Markdown with a live editor and visualization

Development 13.1k MIT

An open-source, browser-based directory of OSINT tools and resources organized by investigation category.

Lists 12.2k MIT

Share quick reference cheat sheet for developers

Development 10.9k GPL-3.0

Collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks

Productivity 10.2k MIT

Open Source Palantir Alternative

Data & Analytics 9.9k MIT

Find out the cost of adding a new frontend dependency to your project

Development 9.6k MIT

A polyglot web converter

Development 9.2k MIT

The customization marketplace for Windows and programs

Lists 9.1k GPL-3.0

A web interface to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of RAWGraphs core

Data & Analytics 9.0k Apache-2.0

A collection of over 1800 curated icons for services, applications and tools, designed specifically for dashboards and app directories

Design & Graphics 8.8k Apache-2.0

Open source neutral style icon system

Development 8.4k RIL-1.0

The homepage of Phosphor Icons, a flexible icon family for everyone

Development 7.5k MIT

Stay motivated and show off your contribution streak! Display your total contributions, current streak, and longest streak on your GitHub profile README

Data & Analytics 7.1k MIT

Edit, preview and share mermaid charts/diagrams. New implementation of the live editor.

Development 6.8k MIT

A web tool to explore the ASTs generated by various parsers.

Development 6.5k MIT

Shrink SVG sizes dramatically

Development 6.2k MIT

An application for drawing ASCII diagrams

Productivity 5.9k MIT

WebRTC video conferencing platform built on peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture for fast, secure real-time communication with end-to-end privacy

Productivity 4.7k AGPL-3.0

An open source icons library with 1600+ icons, supporting React, React Native, Flutter, Vue, Figma, and Framer.

Development 4.6k MIT

Open source emojis for designers, developers and everyone else!

Development 4.6k CC-BY-SA-4.0

Collaborative JavaScript Debugging App

Development 4.4k MIT
Kroki

diagram rendering service that generates diagrams from text using tools like Mermaid, PlantUML, Graphviz, and more

Development 4.3k MIT

An MCP server plus a CLI tool that indexes local code into a graph database to provide context to AI assistants

Development 4.2k MIT
lookscanned

Turn PDFs and documents into realistic scanned copies, add watermarks, stamps and metadata in a few clicks, with all processing done locally for maximum privacy.

Writing & Docs 3.6k MIT

Professional-grade background patterns and gradients for your websites and apps

Design & Graphics 3.1k MIT
Spliit

Share expenses with your friends and family

Utilities 3.0k MIT

6,100+ SVG icons. Brands, AWS, Azure, GCP, and more. Search, copy, ship.

Design & Graphics 2.7k MIT

Your GitHub, rated out of 99 ⚽

Development 2.6k MIT

A curated library of premium React micro-interactions and transition components powered by Motion.

Development 2.5k ?

Tool that lets you quickly generate clean, professional app icons using customizable shapes, gradients, and glyphs

Design & Graphics 2.4k MIT

Professional video editing, zero installation. Create stunning content in your browser

Media 2.2k MIT
Enclosed

Minimalistic web application designed for sending end-to-end encrypted notes and files

Utilities 2.1k Apache-2.0
OpenMouse

Configures mouse DPI, polling rate, buttons, and RGB

Utilities 2.0k AGPL-3.0

Takes CSV or tab-delimited data from Excel and converts it into several web-friendly formats, include JSON and XML.

Data & Analytics 2.0k MIT

Reverse engineer any repo into it's original prompt

Development 1.9k ?

An online Dart editor with support for console, web, and Flutter apps.

Development 1.9k BSD-3-Clause
Avnac

design editor for posters, layouts, social graphics, and other canvas-based compositions

Design & Graphics 1.6k AGPL-3.0

Send fully encrypted secure notes or files with custom expiration

Privacy & Security 1.5k MIT

A pixel Art & Animation Creation Tool Built using HTML5 Canvas

Design & Graphics 1.5k MIT

App for modular conversion, encoding, and encryption

Privacy & Security 1.5k MIT

A super simple tool to convert your SVG's to 3D models

Design & Graphics 1.5k MIT
PaperKnife

Merge, split, compress, and edit PDFs 100% locally on your device

Utilities 1.5k AGPL-3.0

Powerful video editor right in your browser

Media 1.5k MIT

Online tools provides md2, md5, sha1, sha2, sha512, bas64, html encode / decode functions

Development 1.2k ?

Online SQLite playground

Development 1.1k MIT

A tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

Privacy & Security 1.0k MIT

Image metadata and forensics analysis tool

Privacy & Security 846 MIT

A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools

Development 810 MIT

Transform any GitHub profile into a stunning portfolio in seconds.

Development 641 MIT
Paaster

Secure and user-friendly pastebin with end-to-end encryption and paste history.

Utilities 563 AGPL-3.0
QRazyBox

web-based application (a toolkit), that used to analyzing and recovering damaged QR Code

Utilities 531 MIT
OpenReader

Text-to-speech document reader built with Next.js for EPUB, PDF, TXT, MD, and DOCX with multilingual, synchronized read-along playback

Utilities 515 MIT
e2ecp

Transfer files between machines through the web, through a CLI, or both fully end-to-end encrypted. Made by the dev of croc file transfer

Utilities 507 MIT

200+ layered, atmospheric gradients built from soft blend modes

Design & Graphics 478 MIT

a full server-side Datasette Python web application directly in your browser

Data & Analytics 409 Apache-2.0

Gain deeper insights into your favourite open-source GitHub repositories. Explore star trends showing daily stats.

Data & Analytics 404 MIT
SkySend

Minimalist, end-to-end encrypted, self-hostable file and note sharing.

Utilities 399 AGPL-3.0

collection of cinematic video hero sections Browse, preview, copy & download production-ready backgrounds - instantly

Development 395 MIT

Say goodbye to bulky files! Crush video sizes by 90% with no quality loss, even offline

Media 381 MIT

Modern and feature-rich painting app for the web

Design & Graphics 379 MIT

The Component Gallery is a collection of components from the best Design Systems.

Design & Graphics 348 ?

A web editor to write, run and learn assembly code (X86, MIPS, RISC-V, M68K)

Development 326 AGPL-3.0

Font editor, made for hobbyists and typeface design beginners

Design & Graphics 313 ?

A pomodoro web app with PIP mode, white noise generation, tasks and more!

Productivity 307 MIT
BinThere

Write a note, get a link, share it, and the note self-destructs the moment it's read

Utilities 253 MIT
katb.in

Share text & logs with a short URL

Utilities 206 ?
Giraffile

Share files quickly and securely without relying on cloud servers

Utilities 182 MIT
Sharr

End-to-end encrypted file transfer

Utilities 170 MIT
openplan3d

Design floor plans in an intuitive 2D editor, then instantly preview them in a fully navigable 3D view

Utilities 164 MIT

A suite of random, mostly weird, generative art tools!

Design & Graphics 163 MIT

Progressive resume builder which works offline

Productivity 152 MIT

Learn from 30 historical figures through stories, dialogues, and AI conversation. Nonprofit, no signup.

Education 143 AGPL-3.0

AI inference, packed simply. A blazing-fast, zero-dependency WebGPU runtime to run GGUF models directly in the browser

Productivity 123 Apache-2.0

Analyze huge log files (10GB+). Features JSON prettifier, regex filtering, and bookmarks.

Development 123 MIT

Edit diagrams from textual descriptions!

Development 115 MIT

Design organic, flowing gradients by sculpting a bezier-patched lattice in real-time WebGL. Export to images, video, code, or as editable project files

Design & Graphics 113 MIT

Curated protocols, assets, and tools for the modern archivist.

Lists 111 ?

Real-time ASCII art camera that transforms your webcam feed into glowing terminal aesthetics. Built with React + Canvas API

Design & Graphics 104 MIT
Browserpad

Plain text editor in the browser.

Writing & Docs 87 ISC

Removes metadata from supported formats in-browser using WASM

Privacy & Security 87 MIT

GitHub Gists are the fastest way to share code, notes, and snippets. But they look terrible. This fixes that.

Development 86 ?

A serverless, zero-setup Python notebook environment

Development 71 MIT

Lightweight, local-first habit tracker designed to respect your privacy

Productivity 64 AGPL-3.0

helps developers, especially beginners in open source, understand large repositories faster without getting lost trying to figure out where to start

Development 61 MIT
Clip Fish

App for quickly sharing links, text snippets, and files.

Utilities 59 MIT
kPaste

Private end-to-end encrypted pastebin

Utilities 57 GPL-3.0

Real-time app for conducting a remote sprint retrospective meeting

Productivity 55 AGPL-3.0

Redact the non essential info from the spanish National Identification Document

Privacy & Security 54 GPL-3.0

Provides a board for quick little notes post-it like

Productivity 47 PHU

Distraction free YouTube client without any recommendations, no shorts, no auto-play, no home screen videos, no now trending feeds

Media 36 NC

Build a professional CV in a few minutes and download it as a PDF

Writing & Docs 27 MIT

An online creation tool for LALR and LR(1) parsers to learn how language theory works

Development 27 ?
EasyPeasyCV

resume builder designed for professionals who value privacy, flexibility, and control over their data

Writing & Docs 24 MIT

Verilog simulator built by compiling Icarus Verilog to WebAssembly. No server, no install: edit, compile, simulate, view waveforms, and synthesize to a gate-level or RTL schematic

Development 24 GPL-2.0

web application that provides a suite of image processing tools

Design & Graphics 23 MIT

Bi-directional visual editor for Mermaid.js flowcharts

Productivity 23 MIT
Pandoc WASM

Convert documents without leaving the browser.

Utilities 22 MIT

A tool for sanitizing logs, stack traces, config snippets, and terminal output before you paste them into GitHub issues, support tickets, Slack, or AI chats.

Privacy & Security 21 MIT

Turns TypeScript algorithm functions into step-by-step visual stories

Education 21 MIT
OwnCardly

Digital business cards you actually own

Utilities 20 MIT
ErikrafT Drop

Fast file-transfer solution with support for Tor, and LAN messaging

Utilities 20 GPL-3.0

Clear, in-depth guides to everything from how a computer boots up to how the internet, databases, and AI really work

Education 19 CC-BY-SA-4.0
Texturinator

Procedural texture and volume generation toolkit for volumetric rendering, terrain generation

Utilities 18 ?

A live AsciiDoc editor with real-time preview, syntax highlighting, and export functionality.

Writing & Docs 18 Apache-2.0
Jobber

Dynamic Job Search RSS Feed Generator

Utilities 16 MIT

Query files like CSV, JSON, and Parquet directly in the browser

Data & Analytics 15 MIT

A web app that enables you to search the Apple App Store in your browser and view app meta-data.

Development 15 MIT
DropSilk

Modern, privacy-focused, peer-to-peer file transfer application built with WebRTC with screen-share and chat functionality

Utilities 14 GPL-3.0
ToolsAtZero

A workbench of 52 everyday utilities (PDF manipulation, image processing, dev tools)

Utilities 14 NC

An interactive tool for visualizing relational database schemas in 3D.

Data & Analytics 14 MIT

3D satellite tracker with orbit visualization, pass predictions, and antenna rotator control (GS-232, EasyComm, Hamlib)

Data & Analytics 12 AGPL-3.0
Relay

WebRTC peer-to-peer file transfer

Utilities 12 MIT

Allows you to see deleted reddit posts, private profiles and profile stats (top subreddits, activity heatmap, common words used)

Data & Analytics 12 MIT
EditoraPDF

A minimal PDF. Note: doesn't modify existing PDF text.

Utilities 12 MIT

A collection of open-source developer tools for everyday tasks - encoders, decoders, generators, converters, and more.

Development 12 Apache-2.0

Go-to resource for gaining insights into pentesting, bug bounty hunting, and scripting

Education 12 ?

Simple and modern web-based logic gate simulator

Development 11 MIT

A free, browser-based tool for analyzing, querying, and repairing broken or oversized CSV files

Development 10 ?

Get the highest resolution favicon for any domain or look up a service icon by name.

Development 10 ?

A markdown to PDF converter & live previewer

Writing & Docs 10 MIT

A huge, searchable collection of 200+ local-first developer tools for everyday text, data, and format tasks.

Development 9 MIT

collaborative whiteboard for drawing and note-taking

Design & Graphics 9 MIT

Text editor that highlights poor wording in real-time - and makes you write better

Writing & Docs 8 GPL-3.0

Datamosh your photos and videos, glitch effects in sync with music.

Design & Graphics 7 MIT

Recording looper and analysis tool designed for musicians who want to transcribe music or learn songs by ear

Media 6 GPL-3.0

feature-rich color picker and analysis tool

Design & Graphics 6 MIT

Create a full color palette from a base color and export it to CSS, Tailwind and SVG

Design & Graphics 5 MIT

Link words across a translation, then export the diagram.

Design & Graphics 5 MIT
Keyfont

Convert and inspect fonts locally in your browser

Utilities 5 Custom

Pixel-perfect dithering utility. Drop an image, dial in the settings, ship a dither

Design & Graphics 4 ?

Local image and video filters with shaders, on an infinite canvas

Design & Graphics 4 MIT

A client-side web utility to scale, crop, and tile images onto sheets of paper for printing at exact real-world dimensions.

Design & Graphics 4 MIT
ReadLocal

A Markdown reader that reads .md files & folders

Utilities 4 ?
fmtly

General developer tools

Development 4 MIT
zkdrop

Secure, temporary, and minimal file sharing with zero-knowledge encryption

Utilities 3 AGPL-3.0

A visual cubic-bezier curve editor for crafting custom CSS easing functions

Development 3 ?

static, explanation-first quiz catalog for self-learners, with public quizzes, private local imports, and an AI-first quiz format

Education 3 MIT

Generate images, compress photos, upscale pictures, and remove backgrounds

Media 2 MIT
s-2-v

A simple collection of video processing tools

Media 2 ?
EditorPilot

AI writing assistant that lives entirely in your browser

Writing & Docs 2 ?
qTransfer

Easly connects 2 browsers to transfer files

Utilities 2 ?
Ul0

Free URL shortener that lets you create branded short links with custom domains, QR codes, click analytics, and an easy-to-use dashboard

Utilities 2 ?

Use Ai models right now, for free and privately, without setup.

Productivity 2 MIT

Browser-based parametric 3D CAD modeler with AI-powered tools and native Inventor file parsing

Productivity 2 MIT
Tiny Image

Compress, convert, resize, and optimize images & SVGs offline, all in your local browser. No uploads, no limits, no account.

Utilities 2 ?

Draw easing curves on a visual graph, preview them on a live shape, and export to CSS, GSAP, SVG, JavaScript, Flutter, Jetpack Compose, iOS and Android.

Development 2 MIT

A modern web application for looking up E-number food additives with comprehensive data from Open Food Facts

Utilities 1 CC-BY-SA-3.0

DDL into interactive entity-relationship diagrams instantly

Development 1 MIT
FIT Stats

View and analyze FIT/GPX tracks right in the browser: bulk upload, map, summary, metrics and charts

Utilities 1 ?

HTML, CSS, JS editor & playground

Development 1 NC

Helps analyze how text is split into tokens for different GPT and OpenAI model encodings, and estimate cost impact per model.

Development 1 GPL-3.0

Convert any Unicode symbol, emoji, or glyph into a custom favicon

Design & Graphics MIT
Sarx

Enter your stats once and get a full picture of your health: what your numbers mean, where your goals should be, and the knowledge to back it up

Utilities ?

A Dynamic HTML Email Builder from templates

Productivity MIT

Stock market simulator for practicing trades with virtual money across stocks, crypto, forex, and futures.

Education ?

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