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Is it time to re-consider your browser? Top Alternatives to Google Chrome with Pros and Cons

Alternatives to Google Chrome are becoming increasingly popular as users seek improved privacy and performance. If you’re feeling the pinch of data collection or find Chrome slowing down your browsing experience, it may be time to explore your options. This guide will probe into the pros and cons of various web browsers that could better suit your needs while ensuring a more secure and efficient…

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What's your favorite ebook-compatible reading software? Firefox EPUBReader isn't great, but I'm not what, if anything, works better.

Very short answer: for EPUBs, on Windows I use and recommend the Calibre reader, and on iOS I use Marvin but it's dying and no longer downloadable so my fallback recommendation is the native Apple Books app; for PDFs, on Windows I use Sumatra, and on iOS I use GoodReader; for CBZs, I use CDisplayEx on Windows and YACReader on iOS; and I don't use other platforms very often, so I can't speak as authoritatively about those, although Calibre's reader is cross-platform for Windows/Mac/Linux, and YACReader for Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android, so they can serve as at least a minimum baseline of quality against which alternatives can be compared for those platforms.

Longer answer:

First off, I will say: yeah, Firefox EPUBReader isn't great. Neither, really, are most ebook readers. I have yet to find a single one that I'm fully satisfied with. I have an in-progress project to make one that I'm fully satisfied with, but it's been slow, probably isn't going to hit 1.0.0 release before next year at current rates, and isn't going to be actually definitively the best reader on the market for probably months or years post-release even assuming I succeed in my plans to keep up its development. So, for now, selection-of-ebook-readers tends to be very much a matter of choosing the best among a variety of imperfect options.

Formats-wise, there are a lot of ebook formats, but I'm going to collapse my answers down to focusing on just three, for simplicity. Namely: EPUB, PDF, and CBZ.

EPUB is the best representative of the general "reflowable-text ebook designed to display well on a wide variety of screens" genre. Other formats of similar nature exist—Kindle's MOBI and AZW3 formats, for instance (the latter of which is, in essence, just an EPUB in a proprietary Amazon wrapper)—but conversion between formats-in-this-broad-genre is generally pretty easy and not excessively lossy, so you're generally safe to convert to EPUB as needed if you've got different formats-in-this-genre and a reader that doesn't support those formats directly. (And it's rare for a program made by anyone other than Amazon to work for non-EPUB formats-in-this-genre and not for EPUBs.)

PDF is a pretty unique / distinctive format without any widely-used alternatives I'm aware of, unless you count AZW4 (which is a PDF in a proprietary Amazon wrapper). It's the best format I'm aware of for representations of books with rigid non-reflowable text-formatting, as with e.g. TTRPG rulebooks which do complicated things with their art-inserts and sidebars.

And CBZ serves here as a stand-in for the general category of "bunch of images in an archive file of some sort, ordered by filename", which is a common format for comics. CBZ is zip-based, CBR is RAR-based, CB7 is 7-zip-based, et cetera; but they're easy to convert between one another just by extracting one and then re-archiving it in one's preferred format, and CBZ is the most commonly distributed and the most commonly supported by readers, so it's the one I'm going to focus on.

With those prefaces out of the way, here are my comprehensive answers by (platform, format) pair:

Browser, EPUB

I'm unaware of any good currently-available browser-based readers for any of the big ebook formats. I've tried out EPUBReader for Firefox, as well as some other smaller Firefox-based reader extensions, and none of them have impressed me. I haven't tested any Chrome-based readers particularly extensively, but based on some superficial testing I don't have the sense that options are particularly great there either.

This state of affairs feels intuitively wrong to me. The browser is, in a significant sense, the natural home for EPUB-like reflowable-text ebooks, to a greater degree than it's the natural home for a great many of the other things people manage to warp it into being used for; after all, EPUBs are underlyingly made of HTML-file-trees. My own reader-in-progress will be browser-based. But nonetheless, for now, my advice for browser-based readers boils down to "don't use them unless you really need to".

If you do have to use one, EPUBReader is the best extension-based one I've encountered. I have yet to find a good non-extension-based website-based one, but am currently actively in the market for such a thing for slightly-high-context reasons I'll put in the tags.

Browser, PDF

Firefox and Chrome both have built-in PDF readers which are, like, basically functional and fine, even if not actively notably-good. I'm unaware of any browser-based PDF-reading options better than those two.

Browser, CBZ

If there exist any good options here, I'm not aware of them.

Windows, EPUB

Calibre's reader is, unfortunately, the best on the market right now. It doesn't have a very good scrolled display mode, which is a mark against it by my standards, and it's a bit slow to open books and has a general sense of background-clunkiness to its UI, but in terms of the quality with which it displays its content in paginated mode—including relatively-uncommon sorts of content that most readers get wrong, like vertical text—it's pretty unparalleled, and moreover it's got a generally wider range of features and UI-customization options than most readers offer. So overall it's my top recommendation on most axes, despite my issues with it.

There's also Sigil. I very emphatically don't actually recommend Sigil as a reader for most purposes—it's marketed as an EPUB editor, lacks various features one would want in a reader, and has a much higher-clutter UI than one would generally want in a reader—but its preview pane's display engine is even more powerful than Calibre's for certain purposes—it can successfully handle EPUBs which contain video content, for instance, which Calibre falls down on—so it can be a useful backup to have on hand for cases where Calibre's display-capabilities break down.

Windows, PDF

I use SumatraPDF and think it's pretty good. It's very much built for reading, rather than editing / formfilling / etc.; it's fast-to-launch, fast-to-load-pages, not too hard to configure to look nice on most PDFs, and generally lightweight in its UI.

When I need to do fancier things, I fall back on Adobe Reader, which is much more clunky on pretty much every axis for purposes of reading but which supports form-filling and suchlike pretty comprehensively.

(But I haven't explored this field in huge amounts of depth; plausibly there exist better options that I'm unaware of, particularly on the Adobe-reader-ish side of things. (I'd be a bit more surprised if there were something better than SumatraPDF within its niche, for Windows, and very interested in hearing about any such thing if it does exist.))

Windows, CBZ

My usual CBZ-reader for day-to-day use—which I also use for PDF-based comics, since it has various features which are better than SumatraPDF for the comic-reading use case in particular—is an ancient one called CDisplayEx which, despite its age, still manages to be a solid contender for best in its field; it's reasonably performant, it has most of the features I need (good handling of spreads, a toggle for left-to-right versus right-to-left reading, a good set of options for setting how the pages are fit into the monitor, the ability to force it forward by just one page when it's otherwise in two-page mode, et cetera), and in general it's a solid functional bit of software, at least by the standards of its field.

The reason I describe CDisplayEx as only "a solid contender for" best in its field, though, is: recently I had cause to try out YACReader, a reader I tried years ago on Windows and dismissed at the time, on Linux; and it was actually really good, like basically as good as CDisplayEx is on Windows. I haven't tried the more recent versions of YACReader on Windows directly, yet; but it seems pretty plausible that my issues with the older version are now resolved, that the modern Windows version is comparable to the Linux version, and therefore that it's on basically the same level as CDisplayEx quality-wise.

Mac, EPUB/PDF/CBZ

I don't use Mac often enough to have opinions here beyond "start with whatever cross-platform thing is good elsewhere, as a baseline, and go on from there". Don't settle for any EPUB reader on Mac worse than the Calibre one, since Calibre works on Mac. (I've heard vague good things about Apple's native one; maybe it's actually a viable option?) Don't settle for any CBZ reader on Mac worse than YACReader, since YACReader works on Mac. Et cetera. (For PDFs I don't have any advice on what to use even as baseline, unfortunately; for whatever reason, PDF readers, or at least the better ones, seem to tend not to be natively cross-platform.)

Linux, EPUB

For the most part, my advice is the same as Windows: just go with the Calibre reader (and maybe use Sigil as a backup for edge cases). However, if you, like me, prefer scrolled EPUB-reading over paginated EPUB-reading, I'd also suggest checking out Foliate; while it's less powerful than the Calibre reader overall, with fewer features and more propensity towards breaking in edge cases, it's basically functional for normal books lacking unusual/tricky formatting, and, unlike Calibre, it has an actually-good scrolled display mode.

Linux, PDF

I have yet to find any options I'm fully satisfied with here, for the "fast launch and fast rendering and functional lightweight UI" niche that I use SumatraPDF for on Windows. Among the less-good-but-still-functional options I've tried out: SumatraPDF launched via Wine takes a while to start up, but once launched it has the usual nice SumatraPDF featureset. Zathura with the MuPDF backend is very pleasantly-fast, but has a somewhat-unintuitive keyboard-centric control scheme and is hard to configure. And qpdfview offers a nice general-purpose PDF-reading UI, including being quick to launch, but its rendering backend is slower than either Sumatra's or Zathura's so it's less good for paging quickly through large/heavy PDFs.

Linux, CBZ

YACReader, as mentioned previously in the Windows section, is pretty definitively the best option I've found here, and its Linux version is a solid ~equal to CDisplayEx's Windows version. Like CDisplayEx, it's also better than more traditional PDF readers for reading PDF-based comics.

iOS/iPadOS, EPUB

My current main reading app is Marvin. However, it hasn't been updated in years, and is no longer available on the app store, so I'm currently in the process of getting ready to migrate elsewhere in anticipation of Marvin's likely permanent breakage some time in the next few years. Thus I will omit detailed discussion of Marvin and instead discuss the various other at-least-vaguely-comparably-good options on the market.

For general-purpose reading, including scrolled reading if that's your thing, Apple's first-party Books app turns out to be surprisingly good. It's not the best in terms of customization of display-style, but it's basically solidly functional, moreso than the vast majority of the apps on the market.

For reading of books with vertical text in particular, meanwhile, I use Yomu, which is literally the only reader I've encountered to date on any platform which has what I'd consider to be a sensible and high-quality way of handling scrolled reading of vertical-text-containing books. While I don't recommend it for more general purposes, due to awkward handling of EPUBs' tables of contents (namely, kind of ignoring them and doing its own alternate table-of-contents thing it thinks is better), it is extremely good for that particular niche, as well as being more generally solid-aside-from-the-TOC-thing.

iOS/iPadOS, PDF

I use GoodReader. I don't know if it's the best in the market, but it's very solidly good enough for everything I've tried to do with it thus far. It's fast; its UI is good at getting out of my way, while still packing in all the features I want as options when I go looking for them (most frequently switching between two-page-with-front-cover and two-page-without-front-cover display for a given book); also in theory it has a bunch of fancy PDF-editing features for good measure, although in practice I never use those and can't comment on their quality. But, as a reader, it's very solidly good enough for me, and I wish I could get a reader like it for desktop.

iOS/iPadOS, CBZ

YACReader has an iOS version; following the death of my former favorite comic reader for iOS (ComicRack), it's very solidly the best option I'm aware of on the market. (And honestly would be pretty competitive even if ComicRack were still around.) I recommend it here as I do on Linux.

Android, EPUB/PDF/CBZ

It's been years since I've had an Android device, and accordingly have very little substantial advice here. (I'm expecting to move back to Android for my next phone-and-maybe-also-tablet, out of general preferring-open-hardware-and-software-when-practical feelings, but it'll plausibly be a while, because Apple is much better at long-lasting hardware and software than any Android manufacturers I'm aware of.) For EPUB, I recall Moon+ reader was the best option I could find back circa 2015ish, but that's long enough ago that plausibly things have changed substantially at this point. For CBZ, both YACReader and CDisplayEx have Android versions, although I haven't tried either and so can't comment on their quality. For PDF, you're on your own; I have no memories or insights there.

Conclusion

...and that's it. If there are other major platforms on which ebook-reader software can be chosen, I'm failing to think of them currently, and this is what I've got for all platforms I have managed to think of.

In the future... well, I hope my own reader-in-development (slated for 1.0.0 release as a Firefox extension with only EPUB support, with ambitions of eventually expanding to cover other platforms and other formats) will one day join this recommendation-pile, but it's currently not yet in anything resembling a recommendable form. And I hope that there are lots of good reader-development projects in progress that I currently don't know about; but, if there are, I currently don't know about them.

So, overall, this is all I've got! I hope it's helpful.

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Excellent 10+ Tools & Resources for Designers and Agencies in 2025

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Excellent 10+ Tools & Resources for Designers and Agencies in 2025

While it may seem to be admirable, it could turn out to be extremely difficult to rely solely on your own creativity when building a website from scratch. In truth, the ability to build a great website usually depends on the tools you use and in the underpinning those tools help you create. Creativity is still key, but in this case it is the creativity of the designers of those very tools.

To complicate matters, the bar is raised as far as what constitutes a great or “stunning” website in 2025. The definition of “stunning” is no longer solely about its aesthetics. It’s mostly about a website’s efficiency, responsiveness, and adaptability.

From Trafft White Label to WoodMart, the themes and plugins discussed in this article offer the efficiency, responsiveness, and adaptability that is needed to build a competitive and future-ready website.

1. Trafft White Label – Scheduling Solution for Digital Agencies

The essential: The White Label option offers agencies a fully branded, premium booking solution without the time and cost associated with developing software from scratch.

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Trafft White Label users can add value to their service offerings and generate revenue by providing a robust appointment management system while maintaining their own branding. They also benefit from using Trafft by not having to develop the software from scratch and putting in the time and expense involved in doing so.

The end users profit from having an in-house booking solution that  –

is easy to set up and operate.

manages the bulk of their administrative tasks.

eliminates the costs associated with operating a manual booking system.

Trafft’s Divine Beauty and Spa template provides a good an example of where you can experience the power of Trafft’s booking solution firsthand and how easy it would be to customize it for use by any services-providing business.

Customer avg. grade: 4.9/ 5 Capterra, 4.7/ 5 G2

Client review: “Great tool, exceptional service! Trafft has been intuitive to use and implement. I love the look and feel of the program and how it integrates into my websites. All of my support emails have been responded to promptly and with care to provide as much help as possible. I can’t wait to see how the company continues to grow and improve this tool. I have tried many scheduling tools, and Trafft has been the easiest and best to implement. Thank you!”

Immediate help via: YouTube videos, Documentation

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 2. Amelia – Feature Rich Booking Plugin for Appointments and Events

The essential: Amelia’s intuitive interface enables appointment bookings to be managed with minimal effort.

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The Amelia WordPress Booking plugin’s ease in navigability and flexibility makes it indispensable for optimizing business operations and driving growth. Consequently, Amelia has received recognition from industry website users among the thousands of businesses it powers.

Amelia has introduced “Packages”, a game-changing top feature users can use to bundle multiple services into cohesive packages to create a streamlined and convenient booking experience that benefits both the business and its clientele.

Extensive customization options enable businesses to tailor the system to meet their needs. The Tarot Card Reader demo site with its visually captivating and intuitive interface.

Thanks to WooCommerce integration, Amelia provides multiple payment gateways that send invoices and offer online same-day payments.

Customer avg. grade: 4.9/5 on Capterra, 4.7/5 on Trustpilot

Client review: “Amelia is a great booking tool that has a nice look and feel right out of the box. It is a bit overwhelming at first because of the many settings you have but the customer service support is great. I can’t recommend this plugin enough.”

Immediate help via: YouTube videos, Documentation

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3. MapSVG – WordPress Interactive Mapping Plugin

The essential: Map SVG maps can feature all the complexity you want.

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MapSVG offers much more that giving its users the ability to access a map. It is, given the selection of customizable templates that work in concert with its database, what users can do with a map. Access to these  templates allows users to create information windows and maps of any complexity they need. That is what makes  MapSVG unique among and a step or two ahead  of other mapping plugins.

You have at your fingertips:

The ability to display data from WordPress posts, the MapSVG database, CSV files, and APIs.

56 USA and 132 Worldwide vector maps in the database.

A Form Builder for creating custom mapping content and if adding a directory next to a map.

Access to drawing tools for adding clickable areas on images plus the ability to assign custom content to multicolored maps.

Customer avg. grade: 4.5 / 5

Client review: “A fabulous WordPress plugin that gets more feature-rich and powerful month-by-month. Not to mention excellent support and good response times. All-in-all, a 5-star solution for maps on WordPress.”

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos, AI assistant (live chat embedded in the plugin)

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4. Uncode – Creative Theme Known for Its Attractive Concepts

The essential: With Uncode you can make a site that shines.

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Uncode is primarily for web designers and creative enthusiasts who are drawn to it because of its uniqueness in allowing them to tailor every section of a design to fit their special needs.

Another reason is the number of advanced features it has to offer including its 100+ demos or concepts. Check out Uncode’s Classic Twilight Restaurant concept and you will see why.

Features that contribute to Uncode’s attractiveness include:

A Wireframes plugin with its 750+ section templates that can also be used for prototyping and other purposes.

An enhanced Page Builder accompanied by 85 professionally designed modules.

A Content Block for creating replicable sections of content that can be integrated into web pages.

A Dynamic Elements and Options feature that allows access to data from diverse WordPress sources to create custom templates.

Uncode is Compatible with popular plugins like WooCommerce, WPML, HubSpot, and more, and offers free, consistent, and stable updates to ensure compatibility with standards & trends.

Customer avg. grade: 4.89/5 on 3.352 Reviews

Client review: “All is really good!!! Easy and complete!!”

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos, Facebook Group

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5. wpDataTables – Best WordPress Table Plugin

The essential: wpDataTables makes the process of data visualization and representation quick, easy, and effective.

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To call wpDataTables feature rich is an understatement. It has 60+ powerful data management and visualization features to start with. It also has addons that extend its functionality even further. wpDataTables is the ideal solution  for anyone who needs to present data in tables or charts.

WooCommerce integration is a key feature in that it makes wpDataTables an excellent choice for those who want to optimize an online store by including informative visual data presentations.

WooCommerce integration makes it possible for wpDataTable to:

Create or customize product tables like that shown in the WordPress Pricing Table.

Use customizable product tables to augment store functionality.

Simplify tasks to improve user experience.

wpDataTables also makes exploring and analyzing data easier with its robust filtering, sorting, and search functionality.

Customer avg. grade: 4.6/ 5 WordPress

Client review: “I’ve been using it for a while, I like its ability to compile a spreadsheet from multiple sources and I’d like to highlight its performance and filters. The finished list can be easily exported to different formats. Support is simply incredible, patient, dedicated and helpful. I would recommend the wpDataTables plugin to everyone with a clear heart.”

Immediate help via: YouTube videos, Documentation

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6. LayerSlider – Next-Level WordPress Slider and Animation Builder

The essential: LayerSlider transforms websites with stunning animations and powerful features, turning ordinary pages into extraordinary experiences.

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LayerSlider’s versatility makes it easy for users to design animated web content that leaves a lasting positive impression on visitors.

It is particularly noteworthy of the way in which LayerSlider has used the scroll effect to a web designer’s advantage. You’ll see this special effect put to use in newer templates like the Fashion Trends template that also makes clever use of the hover effect.

Other LayerSlider features include:

Add-Ons: Include advanced features like counters, countdowns, error pages, and maintenance mode to elevate your website.

Project Editor: Experience a clean, easy-to-use interface with live previews, Google Fonts support, an extensive icon library, and millions of stock images and videos.

Professional Templates: Find a wide array of slider, popup, and website templates that are fully downloadable and simple to adjust to your style.

Unique Effects: Utilize pre-designed transitions, animation options, and visual effects for impactful, high-quality results.

LayerSlider provides unparalleled flexibility and creative control, whether you’re a designer, marketer, or site owner.

Client review: “The scroll effects make my page come alive – it’s like magic seeing the animations unfold as you scroll.”

Immediate support options: Built-in help in LayerSlider, Ticket System, and Product Manual

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7. Slider Revolution – WordPress Plugin for Creating Professionally-Crafted Visuals

The essential: Slider Revolution makes it easy to create websites that leave the competition in the dust.

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You can’t afford to have your website designs blend in with everyone else’s, which is why you need an innovative solution. While it’s not always easy to consistently adhere to the forefront of web design in your work, Slider Revolution with its ultra-modern templates for sliders, hero page templates, and single-page websites, can help you do so.

Slider Revolution addresses a level of agility and adaptability that makes it possible for any of its users to cope with ongoing changes in web design trends and practices..

Scroll through Slider Revolution’s Creative Portfolio Website slider template for example. Potential visitors just don’t come across websites like this one every day.

Easy-to-digest tutorials accompany the individual templates.

Some of these template designs work best with their intended layout whereas others can be transformed to fit almost any purpose.

The templates are optimized for speed and responsiveness.

It takes but a few clicks from the editing panel to customize content.

The Slider Revolution team adds ultra-modern, responsive, and fully-loaded templates to its library every month.

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos, Ticket Help Desk

Check Out Slider Revolution

8. Blocksy –  Versatile and Super-fast WordPress WooCommerce Theme

The essential: Blocksy gives you all the flexibility you need to create professional-looking websites.

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Blocksy’s total integration with WooCommerce means that you can use this responsive and SEO-ready theme to create any website you have in mind irrespective of its use or niche. In the event you could use a little help in getting a project underway or would simply like to get it off to a fast start, a starter site like Pottery should give you more than a few ideas on how to proceed.

Blocksy’s standout feature is a Header Builder that makes it easy to craft a header that reflects your brand. Each of the header elements offers a range of customization options that allows you to design a header that is user-friendly and engaging.

professionally-crafted Header Pro Elements give you unlimited header design possibilities. All are carefully crafted to match Blocksy’s original design language.

Customer avg. grade: 5/ 5 from 835 reviews

Client review: “Blocksy is a gem! In this era where user experience, be it for the developers or the end users (website visitors) reigns supreme,  Blocksy is moving the goal posts forward with its focus on versatility, performance, and impeccable design. Blocksy’s attention to user-friendliness, consistency of admin area design which translates to easiness on your eyes, and overall ergonomics,  is second to none.”

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos

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9. WhatFontIs.com – Free AI Powered Font Identifying Tool

The essential: WhatFontIs accurately identifies fonts in seconds using AI.

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WhatFontIs is fast and accurate, easy to use, and you can use it right from the browser or browser extension. WhatFontIs’ audience ranges from first time font searchers to seasoned professionals looking to identify prepared font examples or fonts from any image.

WhatFontIs is not designed to do anything and everything. It does one thing and does it exceptionally well. It  will compare the font in question against the million or so different fonts in its database and come up with a match in 10 seconds or less 90+% of the time.

Submitting a font is easy, and with a Chrome extension it is even easier to do. With the extension it’s simply a matter of clicking on an image containing the font you intend to submit.

Once the font is submitted, the AI-powered search engine goes to work to identify the font and 60 closest matches to that font.

WhatFontIs provides the font name and the name of a website where the font might be purchased. WhatFontIs does not sell fonts.

Immediate help via: YouTube videos

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10. Mobirise AI – Prompt Powered Free Website Builder

The essential: Mobirise enables users to create responsive and visually stunning websites using prompts instead than relying on coding.

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Mobirise AI is designed to generate tailored content, stunning images, and customized layouts based on your specific prompts. When using this free AI-powered website builder you will experience a seamless website creation process that, by combining automation with your personal touch, makes acquiring an online presence easy and effective.

Mobirise AI website builder works as follows:

You initiate the process by submitting your design ideas in terms of simple textual descriptions.

Prompt Mobirise AI and it will create an initial cohesive website structure.

You continue to feed Mobirise AI with more detailed textual descriptions followed by prompting until you have created an initial design to your liking.

It then becomes a matter of refining and adjusting various aspects of your initial design using the AI website builder with its drag and drop functionality to position pre-made blocks to fit your desired layout.

You can then customize block-by-block by replacing placeholder text and images with your own unique content.

Once you are satisfied, you are ready to publish your website.

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos

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11. XStore – Online Store Building WooCommerce Theme

XStore is an all-in-one WooCommerce and WordPress website building solution with no plugins required.

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For starters, XStore is customizable, super-fast, and user-friendly. This WooCommerce and WordPress website building solution can boast of a host of other standout features as well, like the fact that it is fully integrated with Elementor Booster Sales. Many of its users will point to its Full Site Builder as its top feature in that it has enabled them to fully customize key page areas like headers, footers and checkout, cart, and product pages.

XStore also features:

AMP for WooCommerce that dramatically improves mobile loading times.

130+ pre-built websites including this customizable and responsive Furniture website example.

A Grid layout that ensures precise webpage alignment within Elementor. Elementor PRO is not needed when working with the XStore theme.

A built-in mega menu that provides a user-friendly option to highlight deeper content on your site.

A Product Variation Gallery complete with stunning animations and hover effects.

A Child Theme with files.

XStore also fully supports RTL and features full AJAX shop and pagination.

Customer avg. grade: 4.85 / 5

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos

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12. Litho – A Modern, Highly Customizable, Multi-purpose Elementor WordPress Theme

The essential: Litho can be used by agencies, companies, and freelances to create any type of website, portfolio, or blog.

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Litho is a multi-purpose theme that can be used to design any type of website for any type of client. Litho’s host of impressive website building tools and features include:

Full compatibility with Elementor.

The Litho section builder that can be used to customize most page items using Elementor-like header, footer, mini header, archive page / post template, page title and promo popup. Note that in most themes users can only change a page’s body content.

200+ creative elements, a library of 300+ templates, and 37+ home pages that include Litho’s Home SEO Agency one-page website template that features an layout with many potential uses.

A free of cost premium Slider Revolution plugin.

The Litho theme is WooCommerce ready and WPML compatible.

Customer avg. grade: 4.94 / 5

Client review: “Perfect! The theme is so full of options, I love it. And I’m so happy with the support, they are always ready to help. 5 stars both to the templates and the support team!”

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos

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13. Essential Grid – Innovative WordPress Gallery Grid Plugin

The essential: Essential Grid will speed up your workflow when you are creating a grid system that meets your requirements.

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⭐ So you want to learn pixel art? ⭐

🔹 Part 1 of ??? - The Basics!

Edit: Now available in Google Doc format if you don't have a Tumblr account 🥰

Hello, my name is Tofu and I'm a professional pixel artist. I have been supporting myself with freelance pixel art since 2020, when I was let go from my job during the pandemic.

My progress, from 2017 to 2024. IMO the only thing that really matters is time and effort, not some kind of natural talent for art.

This guide will not be comprehensive, as nobody should be expected to read allat. Instead I will lean heavily on my own experience, and share what worked for me, so take everything with a grain of salt. This is a guide, not a tutorial. Cheers!

🔹 Do I need money?

NO!!! Pixel art is one of the most accessible mediums out there.

I still use a mouse because I prefer it to a tablet! You won't be at any disadvantage here if you can't afford the best hardware or software.

Because our canvases are typically very small, you don't need a good PC to run a good brush engine or anything like that.

✨Did you know? One of the most skilled and beloved pixel artists uses MS PAINT! Wow!!

🔹 What software should I use?

Here are some of the most popular programs I see my friends and peers using. Stars show how much I recommend the software for beginners! ⭐

💰 Paid options:

⭐⭐⭐ Aseprite (for PC) - $19.99

This is what I and many other pixel artists use. You may find when applying to jobs that they require some knowledge of Aseprite. Since it has become so popular, companies like that you can swap raw files between artists.

Aseprite is amazingly customizable, with custom skins, scripts and extensions on Itch.io, both free and paid.

If you have ever used any art software before, it has most of the same features and should feel fairly familiar to use. It features a robust animation suite and a tilemap feature, which have saved me thousands of hours of labour in my work. The software is also being updated all the time, and the developers listen to the users. I really recommend Aseprite!

⭐ Photoshop (for PC) - Monthly $$

A decent option for those who already are used to the PS interface. Requires some setup to get it ready for pixel-perfect art, but there are plenty of tutorials for doing so.

Animation is also much more tedious on PS which you may want to consider before investing time!

⭐⭐ ProMotion NG (for PC) - $19.00

An advanced and powerful software which has many features Aseprite does not, including Colour Cycling and animated tiles.

⭐⭐⭐ Pixquare (for iOS) - $7.99 - $19.99 (30% off with code 'tofu'!!)

Probably the best app available for iPad users, in active development, with new features added all the time.

Look! My buddy Jon recommends it highly, and uses it often.

One cool thing about Pixquare is that it takes Aseprite raw files! Many of my friends use it to work on the same project, both in their office and on the go.

⭐ Procreate (for iOS) - $12.99

If you have access to Procreate already, it's a decent option to get used to doing pixel art. It does however require some setup. Artist Pixebo is famously using Procreate, and they have tutorials of their own if you want to learn.

⭐⭐ ReSprite iOS and Android. (free trial, but:) $19.99 premium or $$ monthly

ReSprite is VERY similar in terms of UI to Aseprite, so I can recommend it. They just launched their Android release!

🆓 Free options:

⭐⭐⭐ Libresprite (for PC)

Libresprite is an alternative to Aseprite. It is very, very similar, to the point where documentation for Aseprite will be helpful to Libresprite users.

⭐⭐ Pixilart (for PC and mobile)

A free in-browser app, and also a mobile app! It is tied to the website Pixilart, where artists upload and share their work. A good option for those also looking to get involved in a community.

⭐⭐ Dotpict (for mobile)

Dotpict is similar to Pixilart, with a mobile app tied to a website, but it's a Japanese service. Did you know that in Japanese, pixel art is called 'Dot Art'? Dotpict can be a great way to connect with a different community of pixel artists! They also have prompts and challenges often.

🔹 So I got my software, now what?

◽Nice! Now it's time for the basics of pixel art.

❗ WAIT ❗ Before this section, I want to add a little disclaimer. All of these rules/guidelines can be broken at will, and some 'no-nos' can look amazing when done intentionally.

The pixel-art fundamentals can be exceedingly helpful to new artists, who may feel lost or overwhelmed by choice. But if you feel they restrict you too harshly, don't force yourself! At the end of the day it's your art, and you shouldn't try to contort yourself into what people think a pixel artist 'should be'. What matters is your own artistic expression. 💕👍

◽Phew! With that out of the way...

🔸"The Rules"

There are few hard 'rules' of pixel art, mostly about scaling and exporting. Some of these things will frequently trip up newbies if they aren't aware, and are easy to overlook.

🔹Scaling method

There are a couple ways of scaling your art. The default in most art programs, and the entire internet, is Bi-linear scaling, which usually works out fine for most purposes. But as pixel artists, we need a different method.

Both are scaled up x10. See the difference?

On the left is scaled using Bilinear, and on the right is using Nearest-Neighbor. We love seeing those pixels stay crisp and clean, so we use nearest-neighbor. 

(Most pixel-art programs have nearest-neighbor enabled by default! So this may not apply to you, but it's important to know.)

🔹Mixels

Mixels are when there are different (mixed) pixel sizes in the same image.

Here I have scaled up my art- the left is 200%, and the right is 150%. Yuck!

As we can see, the "pixel" sizes end up different. We generally try to scale our work by multiples of 100 - 200%, 300% etc. rather than 150%. At larger scales however, the minute differences in pixel sizes are hardly noticeable!

Mixels are also sometimes seen when an artist scales up their work, then continues drawing on it with a 1 pixel brush.

Many would say that this is not great looking! This type of pixels can be indicative of a beginner artist. But there are plenty of creative pixel artists out there who mixels intentionally, making something modern and cool.

🔹Saving Your Files

We usually save our still images as .PNGs as they don’t create any JPEG artifacts or loss of quality. It's a little hard to see here, but there are some artifacts, and it looks a little blurry. It also makes the art very hard to work with if we are importing a JPEG.

For animations .GIF is good, but be careful of the 256 colour limit. Try to avoid using too many blending mode layers or gradients when working with animations. If you aren’t careful, your animation could flash afterwards, as the .GIF tries to reduce colours wherever it can. It doesn’t look great!

Here's an old piece from 2021 where I experienced .GIF lossiness, because I used gradients and transparency, resulting in way too many colours.

🔹Pixel Art Fundamentals - Techniques and Jargon

❗❗Confused about Jaggies? Anti-Aliasing? Banding? Dithering? THIS THREAD is for you❗❗ << it's a link, click it!!

As far as I'm concerned, this is THE tutorial of all time for understanding pixel art. These are techniques created and named by the community of people who actually put the list together, some of the best pixel artists alive currently. Please read it!!

🔸How To Learn

Okay, so you have your software, and you're all ready to start. But maybe you need some more guidance? Try these tutorials and resources! It can be helpful to work along with a tutorial until you build your confidence up.

⭐⭐ Pixel Logic (A Digital Book) - $10 A very comprehensive visual guide book by a very skilled and established artist in the industry. I own a copy myself.

⭐⭐⭐ StudioMiniBoss - free A collection of visual tutorials, by the artist that worked on Celeste! When starting out, if I got stuck, I would go and scour his tutorials and see how he did it.

⭐ Lospec Tutorials - free A very large collection of various tutorials from all over the internet. There is a lot to sift through here if you have the time.

⭐⭐⭐ Cyangmou's Tutorials - free (tipping optional) Cyangmou is one of the most respected and accomplished modern pixel artists, and he has amassed a HUGE collection of free and incredibly well-educated visual tutorials. He also hosts an educational stream every week on Twitch called 'pixelart for beginners'.

⭐⭐⭐ Youtube Tutorials - free There are hundreds, if not thousands of tutorials on YouTube, but it can be tricky to find the good ones. My personal recommendations are MortMort, Brandon, and AdamCYounis- these guys really know what they're talking about!

🔸 How to choose a canvas size

When looking at pixel art turorials, we may see people suggest things like 16x16, 32x32 and 64x64. These are standard sizes for pixel art games with tiles. However, if you're just making a drawing, you don't necessarily need to use a standard canvas size like that.

What I like to think about when choosing a canvas size for my illustrations is 'what features do I think it is important to represent?' And make my canvas as small as possible, while still leaving room for my most important elements.

Imagine I have characters in a scene like this:

I made my canvas as small as possible (232 x 314), but just big enough to represent the features and have them be recognizable (it's Good Omens fanart 😤)!! If I had made it any bigger, I would be working on it for ever, due to how much more foliage I would have to render.

If you want to do an illustration and you're not sure, just start at somewhere around 100x100 - 200x200 and go from there.

It's perfectly okay to crop your canvas, or scale it up, or crunch your art down at any point if you think you need a different size. I do it all the time! It only takes a bit of cleanup to get you back to where you were.

🔸Where To Post

Outside of just regular socials, Twitter, Tumblr, Deviantart, Instagram etc, there are a few places that lean more towards pixel art that you might not have heard of.

⭐ Lospec Lospec is a low-res focused art website. Some pieces get given a 'monthly masterpiece' award. Not incredibly active, but I believe there are more features being added often.

⭐⭐ Pixilart Pixilart is a very popular pixel art community, with an app tied to it. The community tends to lean on the young side, so this is a low-pressure place to post with an relaxed vibe.

⭐⭐ Pixeljoint Pixeljoint is one of the big, old-school pixel art websites. You can only upload your art unscaled (1x) because there is a built-in zoom viewer. It has a bit of a reputation for being elitist (back in the 00s it was), but in my experience it's not like that any more. This is a fine place for a pixel artist to post if they are really interested in learning, and the history. The Hall of Fame has some of the most famous / impressive pixel art pieces that paved the way for the work we are doing today.

⭐⭐⭐ Cafe Dot Cafe Dot is my art server so I'm a little biased here. 🍵 It was created during the recent social media turbulence. We wanted a place to post art with no algorithms, and no NFT or AI chuds. We have a heavy no-self-promotion rule, and are more interested in community than skill or exclusivity. The other thing is that we have some kind of verification system- you must apply to be a Creator before you can post in the Art feed, or use voice. This helps combat the people who just want to self-promo and dip, or cause trouble, as well as weed out AI/NFT people. Until then, you are still welcome to post in any of the threads or channels. There is a lot to do in Cafe Dot. I host events weekly, so check the threads!

⭐⭐/r/pixelart The pixel art subreddit is pretty active! I've also heard some of my friends found work through posting here, so it's worth a try if you're looking. However, it is still Reddit- so if you're sensitive to rude people, or criticism you didn't ask for, you may want to avoid this one. Lol

🔸 Where To Find Work

You need money? I got you! As someone who mostly gets scouted on social media, I can share a few tips with you:

Put your email / portfolio in your bio Recruiters don't have all that much time to find artists, make it as easy as possible for someone to find your important information!

Clean up your profile If your profile feed is all full of memes, most people will just tab out rather than sift through. Doesn't apply as much to Tumblr if you have an art tag people can look at.

Post regularly, and repost Activity beats everything in the social media game. It's like rolling the dice, and the more you post the more chances you have. You have to have no shame, it's all business baby

Outside of just posting regularly and hoping people reach out to you, it can be hard to know where to look. Here are a few places you can sign up to and post around on.

/r/INAT INAT (I Need A Team) is a subreddit for finding a team to work with. You can post your portfolio here, or browse for people who need artists.

/r/GameDevClassifieds Same as above, but specifically for game-related projects.

Remote Game Jobs / Work With Indies Like Indeed but for game jobs. Browse them often, or get email notifications.

VGen VGen is a website specifically for commissions. You need a code from another verified artist before you can upgrade your account and sell, so ask around on social media or ask your friends. Once your account is upgraded, you can make a 'menu' of services people can purchase, and they send you an offer which you are able to accept, decline, or counter.

The evil websites of doom: Fiverr and Upwork I don't recommend them!! They take a big cut of your profit, and the sites are teeming with NFT and AI people hoping to make a quick buck. The site is also extremely oversaturated and competitive, resulting in a race to the bottom (the cheapest, the fastest, doing the most for the least). Imagine the kind of clients who go to these websites, looking for the cheapest option. But if you're really desperate...

🔸 Community

I do really recommend getting involved in a community. Finding like-minded friends can help you stay motivated to keep drawing. One day, those friends you met when you were just starting out may become your peers in the industry. Making friends is a game changer!

Discord servers Nowadays, the forums of old are mostly abandoned, and people split off into many different servers. Cafe Dot, Pixel Art Discord (PAD), and if you can stomach scrolling past all the AI slop, you can browse Discord servers here.

Twitch Streams Twitch has kind of a bad reputation for being home to some of the more edgy gamers online, but the pixel art community is extremely welcoming and inclusive. Some of the people I met on Twitch are my friends to this day, and we've even worked together on different projects! Browse pixel art streams here, or follow some I recommend: NickWoz, JDZombi, CupOhJoe, GrayLure, LumpyTouch, FrankiePixelShow, MortMort, Sodor, NateyCakes, NyuraKim, ShinySeabass, I could go on for ever really... There are a lot of good eggs on Pixel Art Twitch.

🔸 Other Helpful Websites

Palettes Lospec has a huge collection of user-made palettes, for any artist who has trouble choosing their colours, or just wants to try something fun. Rejected Palettes is full of palettes that didn't quite make it onto Lospec, ran by people who believe there are no bad colours.

The Spriters Resource TSR is an incredible website where users can upload spritesheets and tilesets from games. You can browse for your favourite childhood game, and see how they made it! This website has helped me so much in understanding how game assets come together in a scene.

VGMaps Similar to the above, except there are entire maps laid out how they would be played. This is incredible if you have to do level design, or for mocking up a scene for fun.

Game UI Database Not pixel-art specific, but UI is a very challenging part of graphics, so this site can be a game-changer for finding good references!

Retronator A digital newspaper for pixel-art lovers! New game releases, tutorials, and artworks!

Itch.io A website where people can upload, games, assets, tools... An amazing hub for game devs and game fans alike. A few of my favourite tools: Tiled, PICO-8, Pixel Composer, Juice FX, Magic Pencil for Aseprite

🔸 The End?

This is just part 1 for now, so please drop me a follow to see any more guides I release in the future. I plan on doing some writeups on how I choose colours, how to practise, and more!

I'm not an expert by any means, but everything I did to get to where I am is outlined in this guide. Pixel art is my passion, my job and my hobby! I want pixel art to be recognized everywhere as an art-form, a medium of its own outside of game-art or computer graphics!

This guide took me a long time, and took a lot of research and experience. Consider following me or supporting me if you are feeling generous.

And good luck to all the fledgling pixel artists, I hope you'll continue and have fun. I hope my guide helped you, and don't hesitate to send me an ask if you have any questions! 💕

My other tutorials (so far): How to draw Simple Grass for a game Hue Shifting

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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

Edit: Yes, this also works on mobile!

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

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The Role of VPNs in Gaming: A Game-Changer in the Virtual Arena

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Struggling to keep up with content creation using ChatGPT? This video explores 10 ChatGPT Chrome Extensions.

These ChatGPT Chrome Extensions will help you churn out unique content and speed-up your workflow!

From pre-made templates to voice recognition and search engine integration. These extensions offer a variety of functionalities to boost your productivity.

Chrome extensions will work on most chrome based browsers including Brave, Opera, Vivaldi and others.

Here are the ChatGPT Chrome Extensions covered in this video:

1️⃣ Keywords Everywhere Generate SEO friendly content with structured keyword research templates.

2️⃣ YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude Summarize YouTube videos for repurposing content and learning.

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7️⃣ Replai Craft engaging replies for Twitter and LinkedIn posts using AI.

8️⃣ & 9️⃣ Talk to ChatGPT & Promptheus ChatGPT using your voice and listen to the responses.

🔟 AIPRM Library of 3600+ curated prompt templates for various content creation needs.

At the end I will show how to speed up your workflow using ChatGPT Prompt Templates and the ChatGPT Desktop App.

You don't need to type a prompt every single time! Instead copy/ paste the prompt from the template, replace the keywords and hit enter.

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What's Fingerprint and how it's used to identify you

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When you browse the internet websites collects some data of your computer or mobile phone( your time zone, your screen size, canvas fingerprint, webgl…) and they use it to assign you a fingerprint. In this way they know who you are in more websites. You may be wondering:”How do I stop it?”. You’re here to find it out. I’ll do a version for Gecko browsers because they’re known for their security…

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I'm just imagining helping Gaz upgrade the firewalls on the personal tech of the 141, and accidentally catching glimpses of their search history.

Like, it's not like you're actively trying to look. But the program you're updating has to check all of the websites/servers the 141 has been perusing. If anything is compromised you need to know, Laswell needs to be informed, etc.

Despite his name, Soap's history is bar far the dirtiest and most extensive. His searches consist of pretty much everything that a normal weirdo guy would look up. You're able to ignore most of it but you notice he'd cleared part of his browser data at some point and well...you couldn't help yourself. You check and immediately regret it.

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You can't bear to see any more so you delete the rest of his search data for him and move on.

Gaz's search history is surprisingly very normal. You almost snort at how much of a difference it is compared to Soap's. You also come to the realization that he probably already cleared and deleted his history. Then you also realize he probably knows you're looking at everyone's history and probably chose to leave these behind. You feel your face grow hot as you glance down the very short list.

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You huff and keep going, next is Price. You breathe a sigh of relief, he only has a couple searches and none of them have demeaning expletives in them. You spare them a passing glance.

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You raise a brow. Thigh high models, you could understand, but "paddling"? Like...spanking? With a paddle? You swallow thickly and shake your head. The shibari makes you wince too. Figuring out your Captain was into rope bondage and spanking was too much knowledge for one person.

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And, just like you'd expected, Ghost had no search history. You breathe a sigh of relief and do a sweep of the rest of his phone. Nothing. No recently viewed caches, cookies, pictures, or anything. The phone was so well taken care of it might as well have been brand new. You went back to the main browsing page, but before you could close out the app, you notice the page has a bookmark. You open up the bookmark tab and low and behold, there's two links. They look shady but you check them out anyway.

The first one is a cam site. The host of the channel is offline, but judging by their many saved livestreams, they're very active. You decide to turn back, but a very specific thumbnail catches your eye. It's the cammer, but with their mouth stuffed full of a random man's cock. It wouldn't have stopped you in your tracks if a) the man's leg tattoo didn't look so familiar and b) if the cammer didn't look suspiciously like you.

You immediately clear all of the data on the phone, essentially factory resetting it. When Gaz comes back into the tech closet you shove at his chest. He just chuckles and shrugs.

You're never doing this again.

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Submissions will go live tomorrow, June 1st 2025, 5PM EST / 9PM GMT. Sorry for the late update. Purged songs can be found here.

Also, please don't force yourself to wake up at an ungodly hour just to submit!! This will be happening every month at rotating times to accommodate different timezones. Take care of yourselves!

Quick reminders about the rules (general, not tailored to more specific situations)

DLC and bonus albums not featured in the original game but as extensions of the game franchise are allowed.

Songs that were not created for the purpose of being associated with the game/game franchise are not allowed.

In general, any Idol rhythm/gacha rhythm game song is not allowed. If your rhythm game does not meet the above criteria it is very likely allowed.

Songs from games that have been publicly released in any capacity within the last 3 months are not allowed.

Songs from itch.io games, roblox games, visual novels, arcade games, browser games, flash games, etc, are all allowed provided you can credit the composer/artist behind the track. A title should be submitted if it exists, but the song does not need a title to be permissible. The songs must follow bullet 2 (must be created for the purpose of their association with the game).

Fangames and mods are allowed, just indicate the source game as well as the name of the mod/fangame. Songs submitted from fangames/mods should be original compositions and not remixes of songs from the original game.

Additional questions about the rules can be asked below and I will do my best to answer them. Please ask them under this post, not in my inbox.

For those unaware of the purge referred to above:

There is nothing wrong with the purged songs, and they are all eligible to be resubmitted during this new submission period. They were published so anyone curious about whether or not their song was purged can look for it and resubmit it if they so choose.

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10 Best AI Accessibility Tools for Websites (January 2025)

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10 Best AI Accessibility Tools for Websites (January 2025)

Web accessibility has become essential for businesses as digital inclusion moves from optional to mandatory. With over 1 billion people worldwide living with disabilities and increasing legal requirements around digital accessibility, organizations need effective tools to make their online presence accessible to everyone.

Here are some of the top leading AI-powered accessibility solutions that help businesses create inclusive digital experiences while maintaining compliance with accessibility standards.

UserWay brings AI-powered accessibility to websites through an intelligent widget that automatically enhances the online experience for users with disabilities. This smart solution transforms website code in real-time, ensuring compliance with major accessibility standards like WCAG 2.1 & 2.2 and ADA.

The system’s intelligence comes through its automatic detection and correction capabilities. It scans website code and makes precise adjustments without requiring technical expertise from site owners. Each visitor can access tailored accessibility profiles designed for specific needs – from motor impairments to visual challenges to cognitive differences. The widget acts as an intelligent interpreter, translating website content into formats that work for each user’s unique requirements.

Major brands like Payoneer, Fujitsu, and Kodak have seen concrete results from implementing UserWay. A case study by Natural Intelligence showed notable improvements in key metrics – higher click-through rates, lower bounce rates, and better conversion numbers. Beyond performance gains, UserWay also offers peace of mind through a $10,000 monetary pledge for annual Pro Widget customers, supporting them against potential accessibility challenges.

Key features:

Automated code analysis and correction system that maintains WCAG and ADA compliance

Specialized accessibility profiles addressing different disability types and user needs

Multi-language support framework serving over 50 languages worldwide

Privacy-focused architecture with ISO 27001 certification

Built-in legal protection system including documentation and support

Visit UserWay →

accessiBe brings together AI, machine learning, and computer vision to make websites naturally accessible to everyone. Their system works continuously in the background, intelligently adapting web content to meet diverse accessibility needs while keeping websites compliant with WCAG 2.1 and ADA standards.

The platform operates through two interconnected systems. The accessibility interface acts as a smart control center, giving users precise control over their browsing experience – from adjusting fonts and colors to optimizing navigation patterns. Meanwhile, the AI engine works invisibly, analyzing webpage elements to understand their purpose and function. This dual approach creates a seamless experience where websites naturally adapt to each user’s needs, whether they are using screen readers, keyboard navigation, or other assistive technologies.

With over 100,000 websites worldwide putting their trust in accessiBe, the platform has become a cornerstone of digital inclusion. The system’s development involved direct collaboration with users who have disabilities, ensuring it addresses real-world challenges effectively. For businesses, this translates to expanded reach and reduced legal risk, all through a solution that works continuously to maintain accessibility as websites evolve.

Key features:

AI-powered contextual analysis system for automatic content adaptation

Image recognition engine providing detailed alternative text descriptions

Daily monitoring framework ensuring continuous compliance

Customizable interface supporting various disability profiles

Built-in litigation support package with comprehensive documentation

Visit accessiBe →

Stark offers teams a unified platform that brings inclusivity into every stage of product development. This intelligent suite works seamlessly across popular design and development environments like Figma, Sketch, and GitHub.

The platform takes a proactive approach to accessibility. Rather than waiting until the end of development to address issues, Stark’s AI-powered system catches potential barriers as early as the first design draft. This early detection proves transformative – teams using Stark report fixing accessibility issues up to 10 times faster than with traditional methods, while reducing 56% of issues that typically slip into code where fixes become significantly more costly.

The world’s leading companies, from ambitious startups to Fortune 100 enterprises, have made Stark their foundation for digital accessibility compliance. The system’s GDPR and SOC2-certified platform provides real-time insights and continuous monitoring across design files, code repositories, and live products. For teams of all sizes, this means having a central hub where designers, developers, and product managers can collaborate effectively on creating inclusive digital experiences.

Key features:

Integrated accessibility testing system working across major design and development tools

AI-powered suggestion engine for rapid issue detection and resolution

Real-time monitoring framework providing continuous compliance insights

Role-specific toolsets supporting different team members’ needs

Enterprise-grade security architecture with zero-trust policy

Visit Stark →

AudioEye brings a mix of intelligent automation and human expertise to web accessibility, creating digital spaces where every visitor can fully engage with content. This platform goes beyond simple fixes, combining AI-driven solutions with insights from certified experts and members of the disability community.

The system operates through a three-layered approach to digital inclusion. First, active monitoring continuously scans web pages as visitors interact with them, gathering real-time insights about accessibility challenges. Then, a powerful automation engine instantly addresses common barriers, while certified experts craft custom solutions for more nuanced issues. This dual approach creates a dynamic shield against accessibility gaps, with the platform’s proven ability to reduce valid legal claims by 67% compared to other solutions.

Over 126,000 leading brands have chosen AudioEye as their path to digital inclusion. The platform’s comprehensive toolkit – from developer testing resources to custom legal responses – makes it the top-rated solution for ease of setup according to G2’s 2024 rankings. For businesses aiming to welcome all visitors, including the one in six people globally living with disabilities, AudioEye transforms accessibility from a technical requirement into a seamless part of the digital experience.

Key features:

Real-time monitoring system that adapts to user interactions

Hybrid automation engine combining AI fixes with expert solutions

Custom code development framework for complex accessibility challenges

Comprehensive legal support package with custom response services

Developer toolkit enabling proactive accessibility testing

Visit AudioEye →

Allyable takes digital accessibility beyond checkbox compliance by offering enterprises an AI-powered system. Their integrated platform combines automation with personalized expert guidance, creating digital spaces where technology and human insight work together.

The platform uses a modular ecosystem of solutions. The Ally360™ hub serves as a central command center, with real-time accessibility insights. But what sets Allyable apart is their approach to guiding teams through a thoughtful transition, starting with hands-on management and gradually building client teams’ expertise through A11yAcademy™ training and ongoing support.

With over 1.2 billion people worldwide living with disabilities, Allyable’s impact extends beyond technical compliance. Their system integrates seamlessly into existing workflows through a single line of code, connecting with popular tools like Jira and GitHub. For enterprises looking to improve digital inclusion while protecting against rising compliance challenges, Allyable’s mix of AI and human expertise creates a pathway to lasting accessibility.

Key features:

All-in-one accessibility hub providing real-time monitoring

Expert-guided transition system building team independence

Specialized training academy developing internal accessibility expertise

Single-line integration framework connecting with major development tools

Comprehensive security architecture protecting sensitive data

Visit Allyable →

Read Easy.ai transforms complex content into clear, digestible information for individuals with reading challenges. The system converts intricate language patterns into more approachable forms while preserving the essential meaning.

The platform offers versatile deployment across digital spaces. Through a Chrome extension, it functions as an invisible reading companion, instantly adapting website text on demand. For content creators, it embeds seamlessly into Microsoft Office as a thoughtful guide, offering real-time insights about readability and suggesting ways to make text more inclusive. Meanwhile, developers can tap into these capabilities through an API to implement it directly into their applications.

The numbers tell a compelling story about Read Easy.ai’s potential impact. In the US alone, 54% of adults read below a sixth-grade level, while across Europe, 20-25% of the population faces functional literacy challenges. By supporting multiple languages including English, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Portuguese, Read Easy.ai opens digital doors for millions who might otherwise struggle with online content, turning complex text into clear communication.

Key features:

AI-powered text analysis engine that maintains meaning while reducing complexity

Multi-platform integration system working across browsers and applications

Real-time feedback framework for content creators

Developer toolkit enabling custom accessibility solutions

Multi-language support system serving diverse global audiences

Visit Read Easy.ai →

Siteimprove offers organizations tools to proactively find and fix accessibility issues. The platform combines accessibility checking with AI-powered recommendations to improve website accessibility.

The platform includes an automated tool that checks web pages and PDF documents against WCAG 2.2 standards. For teams focused on digital accessibility, Siteimprove provides insights about accessibility issues and guidance for improvements. Their Frontier platform offers training resources to build accessibility knowledge across organizations.

Through built-in dashboards and reporting tools, organizations can monitor their accessibility efforts. The platform supplements automated checks with AI suggestions, helping teams address identified issues.

Key features:

Web page and PDF accessibility checking tools

AI-powered recommendations

Accessibility progress tracking tools

Educational resources for teams

Organization-wide training platform

Visit Siteimprove →

Evinced uses AI and machine learning to find website accessibility problems through visual analysis rather than just code review. This visual approach helps catch issues that traditional accessibility tools miss, including problems typically found only through manual testing.

The system works differently from standard accessibility scanners. When examining a website, it processes screens like a sighted person would, then groups related accessibility issues together. This means instead of producing hundreds of individual bug reports, Evinced identifies common patterns that developers can fix systematically. The platform integrates with existing development tools including Selenium and Cypress for web testing, plus XCUITest and Espresso for mobile apps.

Major development teams rely on Evinced’s suite of tools to catch accessibility issues early in their process. The platform tracks each problem from discovery through resolution, preventing duplicate reports while measuring fix times. This systematic approach helps teams identify and resolve accessibility barriers more efficiently than traditional testing methods.

Key features:

Visual AI analysis that finds issues beyond code scanning

Smart clustering system for related accessibility problems

Issue tracking framework across development cycles

Integration tools for major testing platforms

Complete toolkit spanning design through deployment

Visit Evinced →

RAMP offers web teams a systematic approach to finding and fixing accessibility issues across websites. The platform focuses on achieving compliance with ADA and WCAG standards through automated scanning and guided remediation.

The system works through a four-part process: discovery, understanding, fixing, and compliance monitoring. RAMP’s automated scanner identifies WCAG violations site-wide, while their browser extension shows issues directly on the page. For each problem found, RAMP provides detailed instructions, code snippets, and a task management system that integrates with Jira. Their A11y Center helps organizations track progress and manage accessibility statements.

Key features:

Site-wide scanning system for WCAG violations

Browser extension showing real-time accessibility issues

Task management system with expert remediation guides

Jira integration for streamlined workflow

Compliance tracking center with accessibility statement tools

Visit RAMP →

Equally AI offers an AI engine that works continuously to identify and resolve accessibility barriers while maintaining human oversight for accuracy.

The system’s core strength lies in its 24-hour monitoring cycle. Every day, it scans websites for new content and potential accessibility issues, automatically addressing concerns across WCAG, ADA, and EAA standards. For users, this means having access to customizable accessibility profiles that address specific needs – from vision impairments to cognitive disabilities, ADHD to dyslexia. Website owners can seamlessly integrate these features through popular platforms like WordPress, Wix, Shopify, and Webflow.

Major companies rely on Equally AI to streamline their accessibility efforts. By tackling over 50 common accessibility barriers, Equally AI helps organizations build websites that welcome all users while protecting against compliance risks.

Key features:

AI-powered accessibility correction system

Daily content monitoring and issue detection

Customizable profiles for different accessibility needs

Multi-platform integration framework

Automated compliance documentation tools

Visit Equally AI →

Building a More Accessible Digital Future

Recent data reveals a significant gap in digital accessibility: 89% of users with disabilities still face daily barriers online, despite the growing sophistication of AI-powered solutions. This disconnect between available tools and user experience highlights an essential truth – while AI offers powerful automation and monitoring capabilities, technology alone cannot bridge the accessibility divide.

The business implications are compelling and immediate. With 62% of users ready to switch to more accessible competitors and 51% actively seeking accessible alternatives, organizations can no longer treat accessibility as optional. These AI tools represent different approaches to solving the accessibility challenge – from automated remediation and real-time monitoring to development integration and compliance tracking. Yet their effectiveness ultimately depends on meaningful implementation and ongoing commitment.

As we move through 2025, organizations must shift from viewing accessibility as a compliance checkbox to recognizing it as a fundamental aspect of user experience and business success. Companies that combine these AI capabilities with genuine dedication to inclusion will not just meet legal requirements – they will gain a significant competitive advantage.