The famous tools get all the attention. Everyone knows Figma, Notion, Canva — and everyone's been through the onboarding tooltip sequence for at least one of them. The less famous tools sit quietly in a small group's bookmarks bars, solving the same problems for a much smaller audience.
This is a first look at five of those quieter tools. None of them are particularly new — some have been running for years — but all of them remain genuinely underrated. They're free online tools that require no sign up at all. They solve specific problems well. And they're almost certainly not in the "popular apps" section of any app store or Product Hunt digest.
Apply Professional Glitch Effects to Images and Video in Your Browser
There's a visual aesthetic that takes real work to achieve conventionally: controlled image distortion. Pixelation, chromatic aberration, scanlines, color channel displacement, datamoshing. These effects appear in music videos, editorial photography, and album art — and they typically require specific Premiere plugins, After Effects knowledge, or a tedious blend-mode process in Photoshop.
PhotoMosh does all of this in a browser tab. Drop in an image or short video, and you get 27 effect presets — jitter, strobe, bleed, ghost, bloom, kaleidoscope, and more — that you can chain together and animate in real time. Each effect has independent controls for intensity, size, and animation. The results export as JPG, GIF, or WebM video.
