List of image-sharing websites

This is a non-exhaustive list of major image-sharing websites.

Active image-sharing websites

Name Location / Owner / Hoster Description/Focus/Registration requirements Other Registered users Storage Space Allowed Per User (standard) Global Alexa[1] page ranking
500px Canada / Amazon AWS (hosting) Free, registration required Yes Yes Yes Chrome OS 1,500,000[2] 20 uploads/week free plan, unlimited for paid accounts 1,359[3]
Album2 Oslo, Norway / Sveinung Dammen Free 30 day trial, registration required 2,000[4] 150 prints/year 19,109,091[5]
Dayviews Sweden / Dayviews AB (Bilddagboken AB) Free image hosting, registration required Yes Yes Yes 1,291,500[6] Unlimited storage for 547×410 pix reduced images, also unlimited resolution and size for paying BDB HD users, costing approximately equivalent to $10.50 a year. 31,374[7]
DeviantArt United States Free image hosting, registration required. Subscription option provides additional services, and unlocks hidden features. Generally allows art-specific content only, as the service is not a generic image hosting service. 25,000,000[8] Unlimited uploads with 30 MB limit per image for all account types. 152[9]
Dronestagram France / Free, Dronestagram is a photo sharing community dedicated to drone photography. The site that has been described as "Instagram for drones", allows hobbyists to share their geo-referenced aerial photos and videos.[10] Yes No No 30,000[11] 171,974[12]
Flickr United States / Yahoo! Open (Yahoo! login) Yes Yes Yes[13] 87,000,000 (May 2013)[14] Since 20 May 2013, 1TB free, 200MB per image, all photos display, original files downloadable.

Old limits: 300MB monthly upload limit (30MB per photo),[15] max 200 images viewable (free account[16]). If a free account is inactive for 90 consecutive days, it may be deleted.[17])

124[18]
Fotki Estonia[19] / Fotki, Inc. Free registration photo sharing service and communication portal. Yes Yes 1,250,000[20] 50MB for free, unlimited storage for $30/year.[21] 8,732[22]
Fotolog United States Photoblogging. Popular in South America. Yes Yes 15,000,000[23] The free version is ad-supported, and limits users to uploading one picture per day. Paying members can upload up to six pictures a day. 5,483[24]
Geograph Britain and Ireland United Kingdom / Geograph Project Limited Geo-located Geographical Images whole of Britain and Ireland, free, registration required 12,634 Unlimited 71,717[25]
GifBoom United States / TapMojo LLC[26] Sharing of animated GIFs. Login through Twitter or Facebook. Yes Yes Unknown Unknown 175,061[27]
Google Photos Image and video storage service. Shared albums possible with Picasa (discontinued) and Google Plus. Unlimited for small and medium files. Large files (Larger than 16MP and 1080P) use a storage quota, or can be converted to medium size.
Instagram United States / Facebook Photo sharing service. Registration is required. Yes Yes Yes 100,000,000[28] Owned by Facebook 26[29]
Imgur United States Free image hosting, no registration required. Yes Yes Unknown From 9 Feb 2015 all Imgur accounts are treated as Imgur pro accounts. No limits.[30] 36[31]
Ipernity France[32] Photo/video sharing, groups, blog. Yes Unknown Unlimited image display/storage for €25/year (2016); 200MB/month upload, only last 200 displayed with free account. 30,232[33]
jAlbum Sweden[34] Free hosting of galleries created with Jalbum software. Yes 340,000[35] 30MB of space given for free accounts, upgrade to 1GB space for €19/year. 42,783[36]
Photobucket United States Free registration service. As of July 2017, payment of $400/year required if hosted images are to be displayed on external sites[37] Yes Yes 50,000,000[38] With a free account, the user can use up to 10GB of bandwidth per month and 2GB storage. Unlimited free storage, 1MB per photo and 10 minutes per video (with image size restrictions). No size restrictions with Pro account. 347[39]
Pinterest United States Photo sharing/social networking 11,700,000[40] Unknown 32[41]
Pixabay Germany[42] Sharing of high-quality public domain photos.
Free to browse and download, registration required to contribute. Includes social networking capabilities.
Unknown Unknown 1,235[43]
Shutterfly United States Free registration service 2,000,000[44] Free, unlimited picture storage. Shared Albums are limited to 1,000 photos. Full resolution downloads only possible via purchase of archive DVD. 1,080[45]
SmugMug United States Free search, subscription hosting 315,000[46] "unlimited" storage 2,327[47]
Snapfish United States / Hewlett-Packard Free registration service, also provides services for Costco's online photo processing store. 90,000,000[48] unlimited, pay per download 5,888[49]
TinyPic United States / PhotoBucket Free image hosting, no registration required Yes Unknown No known limit, but largest image dimension limited to 1600 pixels. 1,395[50]
Unsplash Montreal, Quebec / Unsplash, Inc.[51] Free, registration required to upload pictures. Unsplash license only. It's similar to CC0, but the user can't use the pictures to replicate a similar or competing service.[52] Yes [53] Unknown Unknown 1,942[54]
Name Location / Owner / Hoster Description/Focus/Registration requirements Other Registered users Storage Space Allowed Per User (standard) Global Alexa[1] page ranking

Defunct photo-sharing websites

These also include sites that may still operate, but do not accept new users. Listed in chronological order of shutdown.
Name Location/Owner
(if any)
Description/Focus/Registration requirements Date closed Status/Notes Registered users Storage Space Allowed Per User (standard) Global Alexa[1] page ranking
GazoPa Bloom closed Flower photo sharing service Unknown ? 323,778
Zooomr United States / BlueBridge Technologies Group No registration service since 2007. 2007 Users are no longer accepted. 100,000 Unlimited uploads and unlimited storage for ALL users. 215,127[55]
Radar.net Free registration. May 26, 2010 Radar shut down on May 26, 2010 at noon (PDT).[56] Unknown ? 1,928,528[57]
Fotopic.net UK/Snappy Designs Ltd March 8, 2011 Unknown 914,303
Ovi Share Finland / Nokia Nokia's multimedia sharing service, formerly called Twango.
Service closed on May 30, 2012.
May 30, 2012 Other Nokia services still available with the registered account.[58] 20,000,000 unlimited, pay per download 3,769[59]
MobileMe Web Gallery United States / Apple Inc. Subscription service.
Ended June 30, 2012
June 30, 2012 For an advertised "limited time", data was still able to be retrieved from MobileMe until July 31, 2012, when the site finally closed completely. Services moved to iCloud on June 30. 180,000[60] 10GB (standard level) 31,440[61]
Kodak Gallery United States Free registration service, archiving photo service for $25/year. July 2, 2012 (Closed down on July 2, 2012; all accounts moved over to Shutterfly) 20,000,000[62] Used to be unlimited low-resolution, paid users can download high-res images that they've uploaded. New minimum purchase requirements 3/09: $4.99/yr for 2GB or less, $19.99/yr for more than 2GB. 253,332[63]
Webshots United States Free registration service.
(Discontinued on December 1, 2012, including paid service.)
December 1, 2012 All old user photos from accounts not migrated to Shutterfly were deleted. Webshots still operates in other fields, and is owned by Threefold Photos. 32,000,000[64] One 800×600 image per day 8,647[65]
Pixorial United States Personal photo and video sharing platform.
Registration required. Free subscription available.
July 18, 2014 No new accounts being accepted. 636,000 Free subscription available with 7 GB of storage for photos or videos. No limits on resolution of images or length of videos. Additional paid subscriptions available with increased storage. Unlimited uploads of photos or videos. 127,486[66]
imm.io United States / Autodesk Free image hosting, images removed if not viewed in the last 30 days. February 3, 2014[67] Unknown 16,952[68]
Lockerz United States Free registration service 2014 19,000,000[69] Unlimited uploads for all users; 5MB per image 1,669[70]
Streamzoo United States Mobile photosocial game, free registration service, unlimited storage and sharing, available on Apple iOS, Android and Web March 21, 2014 All services stopped and photos deleted. Unknown Unlimited 107,088[71]
Trovebox United States / Wide Angle Labs, Inc.[72] Free image hosting, registration required. Subscription option provides additional features. March 31, 2015 Unknown 100 photo uploads per month for free users, unlimited for Pro accounts. 30MB per photo. 409,288[73]
Panoramio Headquartered in Switzerland / Google Free registration service November 4, 2016 4,700,000 Unlimited provided the photos comply with the Google Earth Photo Acceptance Policy. 2,339[74]
yfrog United States / ImageShack Twitter photo sharing. Registration required. As of 2011 holds approximately 29% of the Twitter photo sharing market.[75][76] 80,152[77]
Bayimg Sweden / The Pirate Bay Free image hosting, no registration required, uncensored 2014[78] 161,773[79]
Phanfare United States / Carbonite Subscription-based photo sharing May 28, 2017 Phanfare and SmugMug have worked out a transition plan.[80] Unlimited storage. Subscription accounts only. Bought out by Carbonite. 65,346[81]

Comparison of photo-sharing websites

Legend:

Name File formats Upload Folder/ album structure Limitations IPTC support Tags/ keywords Comments Rating Download originals Notes Geo- tagging Friendly URLs API Custom layout Subscriptions
Flickr JPEG, GIF, PNG, (TIFF displayed as JPEG, compressed up to 58:1 for a 16bpc TIFF) collections contain albums After 20 MAY 2013, 1TB free, 200MB per image, all photos display, original files downloadable. Some[83] Yes Some Some[84] Some[85] arbitrary notes Yes No Flickr Services No RSS
Fotki Animated GIF,[86] JPEG, PNG;[87] BMP and TIFF are converted to JPEG e-mail, FTP, Java, browser (mass/fetch from URL; upload one photo at a time), desktop app (basic), desktop image viewers hierarchical folders contain folders or albums 50MB for non-paying users; can get 20MB extra/month; filenames are truncated to 34 characters Some[83] Yes Yes[88] No Some[89] No Yes Some[90] Fotki full help registered users[91] RSS,[92] Web [93]
ImageShack JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, mkv, mp4, MOV, AVI, MPEG, wm, 3gp, flv browser (one at a time), browser (multiple, zipped) flat slideshows free users: 5GB storage 5MB/image limit; subscribers: 3MB/image limit No[94] Some[95] Some Yes No No Some
OneDrive JPEG, ? HTTP, Silverlight albums 100MB per photo (7GB total) No Yes Some[96] Some Yes[97] Yes No No Yes[98] No No
Picasa Web Albums Animated GIF, JPEG, PNG browser, Google+, Picasa, Exporter for iPhoto, the Aperture to Picasa Web Albums plug-in, Uploader on Mac OS X,[99] or F-Spot on Linux flat albums Unlimited for photos smaller than a certain resolution; 1GB free for larger photos; Additional storage for monthly fee.[100] Some[83][101] Yes Some No Yes[102] face recognition Yes friendly album/path, numeric filename No RSS
Shutterfly JPEG only Flash batch flat albums No, even Exif support is incomplete via desktop app (Shutterfly Studio) Some No No multiple templates
SmugMug JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, Video 12MB per Photo (Standard/Power), 24MB per Photo (Pro and during 14 day trial) Some[83] Yes Yes[103] Yes[104] Yes[105] No Yes Yes Yes[106] Yes
Snapfish JPEG only No No ? No $0.25/photo No
Webshots JPEG, ? 5,400 photos, 540 videos No Yes Some[96] Some[107] Some[108] No No No

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