List of image-sharing websites

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This article presents a non-exhaustive list of notable image-sharing websites.

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Active image-sharing websites

NameLocation / Owner / HosterDescription/Focus/Registration requirements IOS wordmark (2017).svg Android Robot Head 2023.svg Windows logo - 2021.svg Other Registered users Storage Space Allowed Per User (standard)
500px Canada / Amazon AWS (hosting)Free, registration requiredYesYesYesChromeOS13,000,000 [1] 7 uploads/week free plan, unlimited for paid accounts
Album2 Oslo, Norway / Sveinung DammenFree 30 day trial, registration required2,000 [2] 150 prints/year
Dayviews Sweden / Dayviews AB (Bilddagboken AB)Free image hosting, registration requiredYesYesYes1,291,500 [3] 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.
DeviantArt United StatesFree 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.44,000,000 [4] Unlimited uploads with 30 MB limit per image for all account types.
Dronestagram FranceFree, 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. [5] YesNoNo30,000 [6]
Facebook United StatesYesYes1BUnlimited
Flickr United States / SmugMug Photologging/hosting

Free registration/Pro service

YesYesYes [7] 112,000,000 (May 2015) [8] Since 20 May 2013, 1TB free, 200MB per image, all photos display, original files downloadable. Starting January 8 of 2019, free accounts will be limited to 1000 images. The 1TB limit for Pro accounts will be removed. [9]
Fotki Estonia [10] / Fotki, Inc.Free registration photo sharing service and communication portal.YesYes1,250,000 [11] 50MB for free, unlimited storage for $30/year. [12]
Geograph Britain and Ireland United Kingdom / Geograph Project LimitedGeo-located Geographical Images whole of Britain and Ireland, free, registration required12,634Unlimited
Google Photos Image and video hosting service.500,000,000 [13] Files use a storage quota (15 GB free).
Instagram United States / Facebook Photologging/Social networking . Registration is required.YesYesYes100,000,000 [14] Owned by Facebook
Imgur United StatesFree image hosting, no registration required.YesYesFrom 9 Feb 2015 all Imgur accounts are treated as Imgur pro accounts. No limits. [15]
Ipernity France [16] Photo, video & blog sharing. Operated by the world's largest non-commercial photo sharing community, without profit interest, advertising, data trading or sale of any content.NoYes2,500,000 [17] 100 GB for €44,90/year (Standard), including unlimited uploads, geo-mapping, picture processing (PicMonkey) and the worlds best integrated translator (DeepL). Basic subscription with reduced limits and features for €22,90/year.
jAlbum Sweden [18] Free hosting of galleries created with Jalbum software.Yes340,000 [19] 30MB of space given for free accounts, upgrade to 1GB space for €19/year.
Photobucket United StatesFree registration service. As of July 2017, payment of $400/year required if hosted images are to be displayed on external sites [20] YesYes50,000,000 [21] 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.
Pinterest United StatesPhoto sharing/social networking11,700,000 [22]
Pixabay Germany [23] Sharing of high-quality public domain photos.
Free to browse and download, registration required to contribute. Includes social networking capabilities.
SecureTribe United StatesFree registration serviceYesNoNoNo13,800,000 [24] Secure photo/video sharing
Shutterfly United StatesFree registration service2,000,000 [25] Free, unlimited picture storage. Shared Albums are limited to 1,000 photos. Full resolution downloads only possible via purchase of archive DVD.
SmugMug United StatesFree search, subscription hosting315,000 [26] "unlimited" storage
Snapfish United States / Hewlett-Packard Free registration service, also provides services for Costco's online photo processing store.90,000,000 [27] unlimited, pay per download
Unsplash Montreal, Quebec / Unsplash, Inc. [28] 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. [29] Yes [30] Unknown
VK RussiaFree, Russian social networkYesYesUnlimited
Wikimedia Commons United StatesFree, Creative Commons license, Public domain [31] YesYesYesUnlimited

Defunct photo-sharing websites

These also include sites that may still operate, but do not accept new users. Listed in chronological order of shutdown.
NameLocation/Owner
(if any)		Description/Focus/Registration requirementsDate closedStatus/Notes Registered users Storage Space Allowed Per User (standard)
Zooomr United States / BlueBridge Technologies GroupNo registration service since 2007.2007Users are no longer accepted.100,000Unlimited uploads and unlimited storage for ALL users.
Radar.net Free registration.May 26, 2010Radar shut down on May 26, 2010 at noon (PDT). [32]  ?
GazoPa Bloom Flower photo sharing service2011 ?
Fotopic.net UK/Snappy Designs LtdMarch 8, 2011
Ovi Share Finland / Nokia Nokia's multimedia sharing service, formerly called Twango.
Service closed on May 30, 2012.		May 30, 2012Other Nokia services still available with the registered account. [33] 20,000,000unlimited, pay per download
MobileMe Web GalleryUnited States / Apple Inc. Subscription service.
Ended June 30, 2012		June 30, 2012For 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 [34] 10GB (standard level)
Kodak Gallery United StatesFree 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 [35] 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.
Webshots United StatesFree registration service.
(Discontinued on December 1, 2012, including paid service.)		December 1, 2012All 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 [36] One 800×600 image per day
Pixorial United StatesPersonal photo and video sharing platform.
Registration required. Free subscription available.		July 18, 2014No new accounts being accepted.636,000Free 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.
Lockerz United StatesFree registration service201419,000,000 [37] Unlimited uploads for all users; 5MB per image
Bayimg Sweden / The Pirate Bay Free image hosting, no registration required, uncensored2014 [38] Temporarily reopened in 2016 for file recovery. [38]
imm.io United States / Autodesk Free image hosting, images removed if not viewed in the last 30 days.February 3, 2014 [39]
Streamzoo United StatesMobile photosocial game, free registration service, unlimited storage and sharing, available on Apple iOS, Android and WebMarch 21, 2014All services stopped and photos deleted.Unlimited
Trovebox United States / Wide Angle Labs, Inc. [40] Free image hosting, registration required. Subscription option provides additional features.March 31, 2015100 photo uploads per month for free users, unlimited for Pro accounts. 30MB per photo.
Panoramio Headquartered in Switzerland / Google Free registration serviceNovember 4, 20164,700,000Unlimited provided the photos comply with the Google Earth Photo Acceptance Policy.
Phanfare United States / Carbonite Subscription-based photo sharingMay 28, 2017Phanfare and SmugMug have worked out a transition plan. [41] Unlimited storage. Subscription accounts only. Bought out by Carbonite.
yfrog United States / ImageShack Twitter photo sharing. Registration required. As of 2011 holds approximately 29% of the Twitter photo sharing market. [42] [43] ?
TinyPic United States / PhotoBucket Free image hosting, no registration requiredSeptember 9, 2019All services stopped. Uploaded photos downloadable up until September 19, 2019.No known limit, but largest image dimension limited to 1600 pixels.

Comparison of photo-sharing websites

Legend:

NameFile formatsUploadFolder/ album structureLimitations IPTC supportTags/ keywordsCommentsRatingDownload originalsNotesGeo- taggingFriendly URLsAPICustom layoutSubscriptions
Flickr JPEG, GIF, PNG, (TIFF displayed as JPEG, compressed up to 58:1 for a 16bpc TIFF)collections contain albumsAfter 20 MAY 2013, 1TB free, 200MB per image, all photos display, original files downloadable.Some [48] YesSomeSome [49] Some [50] arbitrary notesYesNo Flickr Services NoRSS
Fotki Animated GIF, [51] JPEG, PNG; [52] BMP and TIFF are converted to JPEGe-mail, FTP, Java, browser (mass/fetch from URL; upload one photo at a time), desktop app (basic), desktop image viewershierarchical folders contain folders or albums50MB for non-paying users; can get 20MB extra/month; filenames are truncated to 34 charactersSome [48] YesYes [53] NoSome [54] NoYesSome [55] Fotki full help registered users [56] RSS, [57] Web [58]
ImageShack [ needs update ] JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, mkv, mp4, MOV, AVI, MPEG, wm, 3gp, flvbrowser (one at a time), browser (multiple, zipped)flat slideshowsfree users: 5GB storage 5MB/image limit; subscribers: 3MB/image limitNo [59] Some [60] SomeYesNoNoSome
OneDrive JPEG, ?HTTP, Silverlightalbums100MB per photo [61] (7GB total)NoYesSome [62] SomeYes [63] YesNoNoYes [64] NoNo
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, [65] or F-Spot on Linux flat albumsUnlimited for photos smaller than a certain resolution; 1GB free for larger photos; Additional storage for monthly fee. [66] Some [48] [67] YesSomeNoYes [68] face recognitionYesfriendly album/path, numeric filenameNoRSS
Shutterfly JPEG onlyFlash batchflat albumsNo, even Exif support is incomplete via desktop app (Shutterfly Studio)SomeNoNomultiple templates
SmugMug JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, Video 12MB per Photo (Standard/Power), 24MB per Photo (Pro and during 14 day trial)Some [48] YesYes [69] Yes [70] Yes [71] NoYesYesYes [72] Yes
Snapfish JPEG onlyNoNo?No$0.25/photoNo
Webshots JPEG, ?5,400 photos, 540 videosNoYesSome [62] Some [73] Some [74] NoNoNo

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