Fribly Editorial
In every project either it was a website, blog, newspaper, app, advertisement, slide or even prints needs photos and images to complement the design. As it is always said “A picture is worth a thousand words”, you might need a new photo for your next project and maybe you’re on a budget. You can spend hours looking for the right image through websites that would cost you more than $5 per image.
In this post we’re going to list 83 websites and services where you can find and download free stock photos & images for commercial and personal purposes and in high resolution premium quality. With each website we’ll give you (of course) the link, short description, number of photos (if we can figure it out) and the license of the photos you can download. But you need to keep an eye for the license of each photo you wish to download and use. If you have any websites that we didn’t list here please be kind and share it with us so we can keep this list updated.
The websites are listed below with no specific order. So let’s get right to it.
1. Unsplash
Over 850,000 free (do-whatever-you-want) high-resolution photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers. With a huge library of photos and thousands more being added each day, chances are you’ll find a photo for you. Find inspiration in the new photos they hand-select every day or use search to find and download free stock photos & images. Unsplash has been used in everything from Apple keynotes to the default theme shipped with WordPress. You’ve probably already seen a photo from Unsplash, you just didn’t know it. Today, Unsplash is a platform fueled by a community that has generously gifted hundreds of thousands of their own photos.
Count: 850,000+ photos
License: Free for commercial use
2. picjumbo
picjumbo is free stock photo site created in 2013 by designer & photographer Viktor Hanacek. In picjumbo you’ll be able to download free stock photos & images for websites and blogs. Download perfect free photos in high resolution. 100% free, no watermark & free for commercial use.
Count: 2400+ photos
License: Free for commercial use
3. Skitterphoto
Skitterphoto was launched in 2014 by amateur photographers with day jobs from Groningen and Drenthe in The Netherlands. They decided to let their pictures go and publish them online on Skitterphoto. Why? Because good quality free photos are hard to find and they had some of their own to share.
They saw photos being used in all corners of the world and this motivated them to make better pictures. Two and a half years later they renewed thier website to allow photographers to upload photos as well.
Count: 4500+ photos
License: All photos on Skitterphoto are public domain
4. Pixabay
Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist – even for commercial purposes.
Count: 922,500+ photos
License: Free for commercial and non-commercial purposes
5. Public Domain Pictures.net
Home for Public Domain Pictures. Here you can download free stock photos & images under the public domain license.
Count: 252,200+ photos
License: All photos are licensed under public domain
6. PNGtree
Pngtree provides millions of PNG transparent images and other graphics resources. Pngtree was founded in Dec 2016. Now, Pngtree have million graphics resources for everyone to download. To build a largest PNG free resource platform in the world, service for all the professional designer and people who have the design skills. Help users save time and process projects efficiently is their mission.
Count: 3,503,600+ PNG, vectors & PSD
License: Free for commercial purposes with attribution
7. FreePhotos.cc
FreePhotos.cc is a free website where you can find and download free stock photos & images for your website or print projects. Search and browse free beautiful stock photos with Creative Commons (CC) licensing. Download royalty free images and use them on your website or print!
Count: Unknown
License: Various creative commons licenses
8. Focusfitness
Get high quality free stock photos for your blog or social media. Free fitness, weight loss, food and drinks, yoga, diet, and exercise stock photos.
Count: 1250+ photos
License: Free for commercial use. No attribution required under public domain
9. PicMelon
PicMelon is handpicked source of high quality license free pictures for designers and bloggers.
Count: 490+ photos
License: Free for personal and for commercial use
10. Burst by Shopify
Burst is a free stock photo platform that is powered by Shopify. Their image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by global community of photographers. Burst to provides designers, developers, bloggers and entrepreneurs with access to beautiful free stock photography. You can use pictures for just about anything — your website, blog or online store, school projects, Instagram ads, facebook posts, desktop backgrounds, client work and more. All photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required.
Count: 7500+ photos
License: free to use for personal or commercial purposes
11.
Provides a collection of high quality images available for free, to help organizations and individuals bring their ideas to life. Whether you are looking for pictures for your blogs, websites, news articles, press releases, power point presentation or business and marketing materials – you are in the right place, browse through thousands of pictures free of charge even for commercial use.
Count: 1800+ photos & illustrations
License: Free for personal and commercial use
12. Kaboompics
Every month, over 70.000 people from 209 countries visit Kaboompics, a royalty-free service for stock images. Kaboompics provides thousands of pictures without any payment, even for commercial use. To this day the site has gathered over 6 million impressions, and the photos have been downloaded over 4 million times. Kaboompics is one of the most popular source to download free stock photos & images for lifestyle, interior design and specialized bloggers in World.
Count: 10200+ photos
License: Free for commercial and noncommercial use
13. Photogen
Photogen provides free, quality stock photography for both commercial and personal use. The aim is to create a valuable resource for designers, graphic artists, bloggers or anyone who needs a photo or image to enhance their website, presentation, homework or print job.
Count: 1800+ photos
License: Free to use in your work, not for resale or redistribution
14. Stockvault
Stockvault is a free stock photo community where photographers & artists can share their own photos and artwork with people from all over the world. They offer thousands of pictures and illustrations of people, animals, buildings and street photography, beautiful landscapes, plant & flower photos, objects from computers & electronics to food images and jewelry photos. They also have a large collection of free textures ranging from grunge, dirt, paint, rock, plastic, wood and liquid to metallic & rusty surfaces and backgrounds.
Count: 131000+ photos
License: Free, but the usage depends on the image license
15. Public-domain-photos.com
Provides a large collection of public domain stock photos and cliparts in a variety of useful categories.
Count: 5000 photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under public domain
16. PhotoPin
PhotoPin helps bloggers find photos for their blog and makes adding them to their post fast and easy. Just search for any topic using the search box, preview the photo, and click “get photo” to download the photo as well as the proper attribution link. PhotoPin uses the Flickr API and searches creative commons photos to use for your blog.
Count: Millions of photos
License: Various Creative Commons licensed photos
17. Pexels
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover. They have hundreds of thousands free stock photos and every day new high resolution photos are added. All photos are hand-picked from photos uploaded by users or sourced from free image websites.
Count: Unkown
License: Free for commercial and noncommercial use
18. splashbase
Search & discovery platform for free, do what you want, hi resolution photos & videos from different sources.
Count: 8100+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under public domain
19. Everypixel
Everypixel finds the best photos to help creative people save time, money and nerves. It is a powerful search engine that indexes 51 paid and free stock image websites, and allows users to search through a massive database of stock photos in seconds.
Count: 1576900+ photos
License: Various free licenses
20. Rgbstock
Download free stock photos & images from Rgbstock. More than 110,000 stock photos and stock images online. All you need is a free account.
Count: 119,000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial work
21. PngPix
Download free transparent PNG Images, Photos, Pictures, Cliparts and Icons in best quality and high resolution.
Count: 5100+ photos
License: Photos are free to download but there’s no specific license detailed
22. Pickupimage
Pickupimage contains a large collection of free photographs. Download free stock photos & images.
Count: 3600+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain
23. FreeImages
Browse over 300,000 free stock photos and find the perfect royalty-free image quickly. Download free, high quality stock images, for every day or commercial use. No purchase required.
Count: 380000+ photos & illustrations
License: Free for personal and commercial use
24. Picography
Picography has been providing stunning images to millions of people for the past 3 years. It is now one of the top sources for gorgeous, high-resolution, free photos.
You can use any of the free stock photos however and wherever you like, with no attribution required. All photos are CC0 licensed.
Count: 700+ photos
License: Use it for personal or commercial purposes
25. Scatter Jar
Serving creatives free food photographs for personal and commercial projects. Download high resolution free food photos.
Count: 150+ photos
License: Free of charge, for both personal and commercial use
26. Life of Pix
Free high resolution photography. Share and download images freely. Search for pictures by color or format.
Count: 1650+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under public domain
27. IM FREE
Free, only high quality, resources for website building & other design projects. Free images, free icons, free templates.
Count: 5000+ photos
License: Free for commercial use, attribution to the creator is required
28. Magdeleine
Magdeleine.co is a blog that features the best free high-quality stock photographs for your inspiration.
Count: 1170+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under public domain
29. Startup Stock Photos
Free photos for startups, bloggers, publishers, websites, designers, developers, creators, & everyone else. Startup Stock Photos was started as an outlet for photos that were already taken on a regular basis. It’s grown to be much more than that. People and organization all over the world have used these photos to make some really awesome things.
Count: 120+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under public domain
UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS: 500,000+ Design Assets
30. ISO Republic
An independent website that provides curated collections of the best high-resolution CC0 photos and videos. ISO Republic offers highly curated collections of stock images and videos that you can use both personally and commercially.
Count: 5000+ photos
License: Free to use for personal and commercial projects
31. Gratisography
The world’s quirkiest collection of free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. All completely free of copyright restrictions. New photos added every week!
Count: 440+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial projects
32.
StockSnap provides high quality and high resolution stock images free from all copyright restrictions (CC0) – no attribution required. StockSnap curates only the highest quality images from a huge pool of submissions, then make them available for browsing, download and use, entirely for free. You can use StockSnap’s tag-based category system to help you browse and locate the images that convey the right mood, feeling, sense, or content for your needs.
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License: Free for personal and commercial use under public domain
33. StickPNG
StickPNG is a vibrant community of creative people sharing transparent PNG images which you can download for free and use in your personal non-commercial or educational projects.
Count: 33000+ images
License: Free for personal non-commercial or educational projects
34. DesignersPics
Fee Hi-Res photos for your personal & commercial use. Attribution not required. All of these photographs are captured by Jeshu John and you can use them for your personal and commercial works absolutely free.
Count: 135+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial works
35. FootyRenders
FootyRenders.com was created in early 2013 striving to be the number 1 source for football renders online, collecting renders from many render creators all around the internet. With renders published every day, they now have over 13000 renders on website in total.
Count: 14900+ photos
License: Free to use for non-commercial use
36. travelcoffeebook.com
Sharing beautiful travel moments. All photos are listed under cc0. That means you can do whatever you want with them.
Count: 220+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under public domain
37. StockPhotos.io
StockPhotos.io is a high quality, high resolution public domain and Creative Commons licensed professional free stock photos sharing community. All photos displayed in this site are allowed to make commercial use of the work as long as you give proper credits to the authors.
Count: 27000+ images
License: Free for personal and commercial use
38. EPICVA
Totally free high resolution images for commercial projects. All EPICVA photos are free for use and always will be.
Count: 1900+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial projects
39. NegativeSpace
NegativeSpace is about creating communities: A community of photographers who want to share their beautiful photography using a CC0 license. Also a community of online visitors who want to use their beautiful, free high-resolution images without any restrictions.
Count: 2400+ photos
License: All the photos (and their raw image files) are made available under the Creative Commons CC0 license
40. LibreStock
LibreStock scans and indexes the best free photos from the top stock sites, so that you can find that perfect image much, much quicker.
Count: 59000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial purposes
41. Libreshot
Free fine art and ordinary photography. Free images for blogs or websites even for commercial use. No need to mention the author.
Count: 2400+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial purposes under Public Domain
42. GoodStockPhotos
Search & download free stock photos to use on your website, blog, social media, app, print design, or anywhere you want for personal or commercial use.
Count: 1000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use
43. Foodiesfeed
Foodiesfeed is a resource of awesome naturally looking food photos that are completely free to download. Food photographers from all around the world share their photos under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license to help accomplish the ultimate goal of Foodiesfeed, to make the online space related to food more beautiful and eliminate all the ugly sterile stock photos that people still keep using.
Count: 1200+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial under the Creative Commons Zero (CCO)
44. 4 Free Photos
4 Free Photos provides a large collection of free photos for personal and commercial use.
Count: 7000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
45. Free Nature Stock
Download Royalty-free Nature Stock Photos. Free Nature Stock was created by Adrian Pelletier. All photos published on Free Nature Stock are licensed under Creative Commons Zero. You are free to use the photos however you want, even in commercial work, without the need for permission or attribution. In short: do whatever you want.
Count: 1500+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
46. cc0.photo
CC0.photo is a project initiated by Raffael Herrmann, which serves you with free photos. cc0.photo is your source for totally free photos. All pictures on this site are licensed under CC0 license, which means that they’re dedicated to public domain.
Count: 850+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
47. Stokpic
Download as many hi-res images as you like and use them for your commercial projects. Signup & they will send you 10 images every 10 days direct to your inbox.
Count: 350+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use
48. Refe
Always free high-quality imagery for your projects. Perfect for aspiring designers, bloggers and freelancers.
Count: 440+ photos
License: Free for personal or commercial purposes
49. New Old Stock
Vintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions. Recapturing History.
Count: 80+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use with some limitations
50. The Pic Pac
The Pic Pac is a free stock image website. It came about because 1) I love taking pictures and 2) I am a designer who loves a good stock image but hate paying a ton of money. Who doesn’t? Every Monday a new ‘pac’ of images is released for purchase. There will be a cool (I hope) theme for each pack. My hope is that they supply you with a hefty amount of good quality stock photos at a not so hefty price. Then Tuesday-Sunday one image from that week’s ‘pac’ is released for free, completely free. No strings attached. Do whatever you want with the photos! Each pic will match the pac’s theme. Pic Pac, get it? I know, clever.
Count: 630+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
51. Visual Hunt
High quality free photos in one place. They hunt for the best free images from many online sources and pull them all together in one spot. Most of the photos are CC0 license (do whatever you want). Additionally they offer all Creative Commons and Public Domain photos from sources like Flickr and make it possible to embed them directly from the website.
Count: 354,190,000+ Creative Commons Photos & 135,700+ CC0 – 100% Free High Quality Photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
52. SplitShire
Free Stock Photos for commercial use. There are 1000 free stock photos on SplitShire.
Count: 1,000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use
53. Stock Up
Stock Up works by aggregating dozens of free stock photo websites. Stock Up only includes stock photo websites that explicitly give then permission in return they link back to their website. Stock Up indexes 33,073 photos from 31 different free stock photo websites.
Count: 25,000+ photos
License: Most photos are Creative Commons 0. Some are public domain
54. Moveast
This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving that decided that every photo should be used for free. Help yourselves and use them wherever you want (CC0)
Count: 250+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
55. DesignRush Public Domain Images
New 100% Free Stock Photos. Every. Single. Week. Everything you need for your creative projects, all public domain images.
Count: 350+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
56. JESHOOTS
Jeshoots is a photobank where you can download original thematic photos and mockups by Jan Vasek for free. By using the photos, you have an opportunity to make your work more original. Photos are for 100% free and is guaranteed that there are no 3rd parties which could have some licenses.
Count: 780+ photos
License: Free for personal or commercial projects
57. Free Travel Photos
A free creative common collection of over 8000 travel photos from all over the world anyone can use. All photos taken by Pete Rojwongsuriya.
Count: 8000+ photos
License: Free for personal use only with attribution
58. Moment (MMT)
Moment (MMT) provides free CC0 photography for personal and commercial use on websites, projects, themes, apps, and more. The content spans many categories, including nature, city scenes, workspaces, and macro photography. These photos can be freely downloaded, used, and redistributed for both personal and commercial purposes.
Count: 780+ photos
License: Free for both personal and commercial use under CC0 license
59. FindAPhoto
Search and browse by keyword and color in 10,000 completely free stock photos from Unsplash, Jay Mantri, and many more.
Count: 10,000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
60. PLiXS
Plixs is an online photo community to support all Photographers and other creative enthusiasm peoples. All images on this site can be used absolutely freely for personal and even for commercial designs, often without asking for attributions.
Count: 5600+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
61. Dreamstime Free Stock Photos
One of the largest collection of royalty-free and Creative Commons CC0 stock photos and high quality free images.
Count: 170,000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
62. PurePNG
PurePNG is a free to use PNG gallery where you can download high quality transparent CC0 PNG images without any background. From cliparts to people over logos and effects with more than 28000 transparent free high resolution PNG photos on line.
Count: 30,000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
63. Imageric
Download thousands of amazing copyright-free images. All photos are free to download for personal and commercial use, no attribution required.
Count: 2250+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
64. Compfight
Compfight is an image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research. They make good use of the flickr API, but aren’t affiliated with flickr.
Count: 1,000,000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
65. Free Photography by Daria
Finding images that carry the right message usually takes hours. All of them are free for personal & commercial use.
Count: 650+ photos
License: Free for personal & commercial use
66. Snapwire Snaps
Snapwire Snaps provides 7 free beautiful photos every 7 days. You can download free stock photos & images that are provided every week.
Count: 1250+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
67. Reshot
Uniquely free photos. Tons of handpicked, non-stocky images. Yours to use as you wish.
Count: 1000+ photos
License: Free to use, both for commercial and noncommercial purposes
68. freestocks.org
freestocks.org – a collection of free high-resolution stock photos. freestocks.org offers royalty-free stock images for both Commercial and Personal Projects under the CC0 license. Freestocks.org images are not your cliché free stock images worn out a long time ago but rather a source of photos that are fresh, up-to-date and versatile in style, so that they are fit for everybody’s everyday use as well as for more complex and specified projects.
Count: 1600+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
69. Styled Stock
Feminine stock photography. Beautiful FREE styled stock image for your projects. Photos are free for commercial or personal use.
Count: 96+ photos
License: Free for any commercial or non-commercial purposes
70. Foter
Foter uses the Flickr API and searches Creative Commons photos. They are not associated with Flickr in any way, other than powering our search results using their API.
Count: 1,000,000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
71. Realistic Shots
Download free stock photos & images (high resolution) for personal and commercial use.
Count: 250+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Public Domain License
72. Fancycrave
Fancycrave provides stunning free images you can use anywhere. Fancycrave provides stunning stock images helping thousands of creators all over the world to easily create beautiful products and designs. If you want quality over quantity, this is the right place.
Count: 1300+ photos
License: Free including commercial purposes
73. Morguefile
Free images for creatives, by creatives. Morguefile contains over 350,000 free stock photos for commercial use. Morguefile is a free photo archive “for creatives, by creatives.” Founded by Michael Connors in the early Internet days of 1996, the site was created to serve as a free image exchange for creative professionals and teachers to use in their work. This same mission remains true today. The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals.
Count: 7500+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use
74. nappy
nappy is a website dedicated to providing free, beautiful, high-res photography of black and brown people to creatives, startups, brands, and agencies. nappy makes it easy for companies to be purposeful about representation in their designs, presentations, and advertisements.
Count: 700+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license
75. FreePixels
Since 2005 FreePixels.com offers free high resolution photos that you can use for your personal and commercial projects. Discover free stock photos that can be downloaded and used in any project, both personal and commercial. No attribution required.
Count: 3000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial under Public Domain License
76. openphoto
The Open Photo Project is a photo sharing platform created in 1998. Contributors have offered their images free of charge under terms of Creative Commons licensing.
Count: 20000+ photos
License: Free for personal, educational, or commercial project under Attribution-ShareAlike
77. PIXNIO
A repository for high quality public domain photos (no rights reserved images). All photos on this site are explicitly placed in the public domain. You can use any image from this site for whatever you want, use it freely for any personal and commercial use.
Count: 8000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial under Public Domain License
78. Alegri Photos
Download free stock photos & images for commercial use.
Count: 2800+ photos
License: Free for presonal and commercial use
79. Freerange Stock
Freerange Stock is one of the best providers of free high resolution stock images and illustrations. Their goal is to provide quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use. For free.
Count: 10000+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use
80. Barnimages
Find only quality photography that’s fresh, with nothing that duplicates the stock photography you’ll generally find elsewhere. They call their collection “non-stock,” and they add new free images every week. Beautiful high-resolution photography for everyone. Free for personal and commercial use. Attribution is not required but appreciated.
Count: 2300+ photos
License: Free for commercial and non-commercial purposes
81. 55mm
A collection that offers a variety of images from various authors and they are all licensed under CC0. Which means you can use photos for almost anything (blogs, articles, books, websites, apps, etc) including commercial and personal use without a worry in the world.
Count: 70+
License: Free for personal and commercial under Public Domain License
82. freemagebank
freemagebank.com is your source to download free stock photos & images for personal and commercial use.
Count: 480+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use
83. Moveast
This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving that decided that every photo should be used for free. Help yourself and use them wherever you want (CC0)
Count: 190+ photos
License: Free for personal and commercial use under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license
That’s all for now. Don’t forget that we’ll keep this list updated as we can, so if you have any additions, suggestions or complaints please don’t hesitate to tell us in the comments below.
Thanks for sharing this inspiring article which can help many to decide on the choices they make to get images for their blogs or websites.