Are you a blogger? Ebook writer? Always looking for incredible (and FREE) images for your website?
I’ve found the best websites to get free images online to use for your stock photo needs.
In 2014, I was purchasing every single photo for my blogs and client projects. Crazy right? Here is a list of the 35+ best stock photos sites:
Unsplash
One of my top “go to” websites for great images. Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos that allows you to search for the right photo and use for personal and commercial use.
LibreStock
LibreStock is an aggregator of many of the free stock photo websites. It’s nice to use because you can search for a keyword and it will scrape stock sites and show you the best results in their database.
Cupcake – by Jonas Nilsson Lee
Jonas Nilsson Lee created a website where he showcases photos free to use photos for personal and commercial use.
Fancycrave
This is a free stock photos site by a designer and photographer. Every day they publish two high-resolution photos that you can use for your personal and commercial projects.
Death to the Stock Photo
Used by Entrepreneur, Buffer and Pinterest — Death to the Stock Photo is one of the best. This site will send you a fresh pack of photos to your inbox each month, with awesome stories to match.
Foodies Feed
Are you needing free images of food in high-resolution? Foodies feed is your place to find them.
Super Famous
Superfamous is the Los Angeles-based studio of Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.
Free Refe Real Life Photos
Royalty-free, high-quality, natural looking photos of landscapes, people and technology.
Gratisography
Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects.
Jay Mantri
Free pics. do anything.. make magic — 7 free photos uploaded every Thursday.
Jeshoots
Photos for business or personal use in high resolution for free.
Life of Pix
Free high-resolution photos with no copyright restrictions. With new photos added weekly, you can be sure to find something you’re looking for in their gallery.
Pic Jumbo
Choose from a huge gallery of totally free photos for your commercial & personal works. Pick from the variety of categories to find the photo that fits your needs.
Pixabay
Pick from over 310,000 free photos, vectors and art illustrations. You can use any Pixabay image without attribution in digital and printed form, even for commercial applications.
Raumrot
500+ stunning lifestyle imagery for modern creatives. One of my favorite sources for photos that I’ve never seen before.
Snapwire Snaps
On Snapwire Snaps, you get 7 free photos every 7 days. Snapwire Snaps is part of the Snapwire family which sells stock photos.
SplashBase
Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos. SplashBase aggregates many of the sites mentioned on this post and puts them in a searchable format.
SplitShire
Delicious free stock photos for personal & commercial use.
Startup Stock Photos
Filter through incredible startup environment photos for your next blog post. These galleries are clean, professional, startup office typical type photos.
StockSnap
One of the best sources for beautiful free stock photos. Hundreds of high resolution images added weekly to StockSnap which makes it one to keep returning back to for fresh content.
StokPic
‘Not everyone has hundreds of dollars For Stock Photos’ — And so StockPic has totally free photos for personal and commercial use.
The Pattern Library
Not exactly stock photos but still free and awesome. The Pattern Library is an on going project shared by the most talented designers out there. And it’s all there for you to use freely in your designs.
Other free stock sites that you can check out once you run out of options from above are:
- Little Visuals
- The Stocks
- Magdeleine.co
- Authentic Snaps – Some free but it looks like $10 a month for he majority.
- Pexels
- New Old Stock – Stock photos from the past.
- IM FREE – Attribution to the creator is required on this site.
- CompFight
- Morgue File
- Travel Coffee Book
- ISO Republic
- WeFunction
- Bucketlistly
- StockUp
- Mazwai – Free HD video clips & footages
What about all those photo sites that charged for their photos? Sites like iStock, PhotoDune, Deposit Photos and hundreds of others are still the place to go for high-quality photos. In fact, these sites have elements like people’s faces, illustrations and commercial photography that you will not find on the free sites mentioned below.
Disclaimer: I’ve gone through and checked that these sites allow for personal and commercial use. That’s why I built this list in the first place. With that said, please double check the website before using it for commercial use to confirm that you have the rights. They are usually very transparent about the use of their photos.
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Hi, i find this new free stock image… http://www.photostockeditor.com,
Best!!!
Thanks, I hadn’t see that yet.
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Hi,
Also check out http://www.goodfreephotos.com for thousands of unique public domain photos, appreciate it if you would add it to your site. Thanks.
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Such a great resource you have here John, really helpful of you to take the time to research it and put it together.
Thanks for including Unsplash – very much appreciated by the whole team 🙂
Great post John. I was going to put together a blog post similar to this. But my research led me to yours. I don’t think I can top that list. So I’ll just use your blog post as a resource to link to. Thanks.
Thanks for this post, it caught my interest; on of all places Pinterest. Just the info I needed to help with one of my searches. I am preparing to launch a new blog and really appreciate the list provided.
Hi John,
Have you heard about rawpixel? You’ve probably seen our images all over the place. We’re the leading stock photo contributor in the world. We’ve just launched our website where we give away the best free design resources out there. We’d be stoked if you could add us to this list.
Check us out on http://www.rawpixel.com. Looking forward to you joining our community of creatives.
Cheers.
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Thanks for the great list! Please also check out the world’s largest collection of free, public domain/CCO images, https://snappygoat.com/ ,with 14 Million Public Domain/CC0 stock images, clip-art, historical photos and more, all in one searchable database. It includes an easy to use meme-maker.
Nice list! Try also http://monisphoto.com