Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to himawari.js
Real-time images of Earth from the Himawari-8 satellite
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. himawari.js launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Himawari-8 Wallpaper Bot: Fresh images of the whole Earth from space, every 10 minutes - himawari-8.py
2015 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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Load a gorgeous satellite image in every new Chrome tab
2014 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Histography.io▲157Interactive history timeline from the Big Bang to 2015.
2015 · histography.io · its alternatives →
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This is a service I've built to provide equirectangular cloud maps of the whole Earth, updated every 3 hours, for free. It's based on infrared and visible light data from EUMETSAT, processed to enhance the clouds and try to reduce the impact of surface temperatures on the final image. I built it because it's surprisingly hard to find these kinds of images in a format that's useful to developers and hobbyists. I was building a 3D ISS tracker and wanted to include live clouds but couldn't find anything good, so I got sidetracked, and here we are.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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User interfaces▲132A daily delightful curation of User Interface animations.
2015 · userinterfaces.io · its alternatives →
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This is a little hobby project that I hope you enjoy. You can see where the International Space Station is now, with live HD video from NASA, on a realistic 3D globe. The positions of the sun and moon are also accurate, though distances aren't to scale. The clouds are also near-realtime; I span that out into a separate project at https://clouds.matteason.co.uk, where the cloud images I create from EUMETSAT data are freely available. I've got more features almost ready to go, like the ability to turn off all UI, toggleable clouds and turning off the day/night cycle I'd love for…
2024 · iss.matteason.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Built With▲95See Technologies Behind Websites in Real-Time
2014 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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A browser-killing tribute to GeoCities
2015 · cameronsworld.net · its alternatives →
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PixelSpace▲68A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system
2014 · joshworth.com · its alternatives →
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Terrapattern▲77A visual search tool for satellite imagery
2016 · terrapattern.com · its alternatives →
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