Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TerraShift: What does +2°C (or -20°C) look like on Earth?
I built an interactive 3D globe to visualize climate change. Drag a temperature slider from -40°C to +40°C, set a timeframe (10 to 10,000 years), and watch sea levels rise, ice sheets melt, vegetation shift, and coastlines flood... per-pixel from real elevation and satellite data. Click anywhere on the globe to see projected snowfall changes for that location. --- I'm an amateur weather nerd who spends a lot of time on caltopo.com and windy.com tracking snow/ice conditions. I wanted to build something fun to imagine where I could go ski during an ice age. I used Google Deep Research…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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#ShowYourStripes▲140Visualize 100+ years of climate change where you live ❄️🌎🔥
2019 · showyourstripes.info · its alternatives →
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Watch time unfold and witness 40 years of planetary change
2021 · earth.google.com · its alternatives →
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Global Temperature Change WebGL</i> is an experiment that tries to illustrate how global temperatures on earth have changed between 1850 and 2016.
2016 · callumprentice.github.io · its alternatives →
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Apr 2026 · ssta.willhelps.org · its alternatives →
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2021 · weatherspark.com · its alternatives →
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Earth looked very different long ago. Search for addresses across 750 million years of Earth
2018 · dinosaurpictures.org · its alternatives →
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EarthGuessr▲192I built it as a way to practice programming. There are probably much better alternatives out there.
2025 · earthguessr.com · 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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Weather app for expats showing °C and °F side-by-side
2018 · apps.apple.com · 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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I made a web app to generate 3D models of real places on earth from land cover and elevation data. Click anywhere on the map to get a polygon, and then click "generate". It should work at most scales, but if your watershed or region selection is too large, the result can be less exciting because it's so flat. As a warning, the 3D models can sometimes be too much for my phone. It's nicer on desktop. I'm still working better on mobile support. The land cover data I'm using gives a cool effect, but at some point I'd like to add in global imagery and clouds. The backend is a Python thread…
2025 · topography.jessekv.com · its alternatives →
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It's free to play on steam, but you'll need a computer with a dedicated graphics card. I just released a new version after first releasing it 18 months ago. It's been a hard slog to scrounge time as it's not my day job but that's life. There's a ton of obvious improvements in the future (weather systems, temperature, varying rainfall, ice/snow, more biomes, more plate tectonics, lava, etc) but all suggestions/feedback is welcome.
2023 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Globe of History▲189I built Globe of History — an interactive 3D visualization of 6,000 years of human events, mapped onto the Earth’s surface. It includes 5,000+ data points covering wars, inventions, assassinations, natural disasters, and philosophers — spanning 4000 BCE → 2025 CE. The main goal was to build a visual entry point into history — not a database, but a way to instantly sense density and continuity over time. Stack / Process Python for scraping structured event data from Wikipedia/Wikidata Gemini 2.0 Flash for AI-based enrichment and multi-stage verification Mapbox GL JS + React (Vite)…
Nov 2025 · globeofhistory.com · its alternatives →
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Antiweather▲98What's the weather like at opposite points on Earth?
2018 · bennettfeely.com · its alternatives →
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A hobby project of mine that was surprisingly easy to put together! I love waking up and seeing the freshly generated image.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HotOrCold▲101Know how much it went hotter/colder than yesterday
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built an OSINT tool called Weather2Geo that helps locate where a screenshot was taken based on the weather widget data visible (e.g. temp, condition, and local time in the taskbar). People often post these without realizing how specific those values can be in combination. It works by comparing the given weather condition, temperature, and time against current data from thousands of cities. It’s timezone-aware, supports fuzzy matching, and groups results geographically to reduce noise. It’s most effective on recent screenshots, ideally taken within the last hour—since weather and…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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After Ice▲79See the effects of sea levels rising with GPS & AR
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Embed a snow effect on your website with one line of code (~1.3kB), and add some Christmas magic to your websites. A quick weekend project :)
2022 · embed.im · its alternatives →
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UpToWhere▲28The idea came to me after spotting the sea peeking through mountains on a drive near Barcelona. It left me wondering what else was visible from different locations. Some of the features I later added include 3D maps, sun path calculation, adjustable elevation (calculate from a drone/plane POV), and mountain detection. To celebrate the launch, the first 100 HN users can get 1 month of free premium access with the code: UTWfirst100. I’d love your feedback, questions, and suggestions. What would you use this for? What features would you like to see?
2025 · uptowhere.com · its alternatives →
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Something I've been working on this weekend: visualising climate change in the Netherlands. https://koenvangilst.nl/blog/rising-temperatures I particularly liked the heatmap with monthly temperature data since the 1900s. It's a lot of scrolling, but you can clearly see that climate is accelerating since the '90s.
2023 · koenvangilst.nl · its alternatives →
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