This article presents a non-exhaustive list of notable image-sharing websites.
Active image-sharing websites
Name Location / Owner / Hoster Description/Focus/Registration requirementsOther Registered users Storage Space Allowed Per User (standard) 500px Canada / Amazon AWS (hosting) Free, registration required ChromeOS 500px 7 uploads/week free plan, unlimited for paid accounts Cloudinary San Jose, California Free, registration required, subscription option to provides additional limits and features. 3 Users / 1 Account, 25 monthly credits for free plan Dayviews Sweden / Dayviews AB (Bilddagboken AB) Free image hosting, registration required 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 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. Unlimited uploads with 30 MB limit per image for all account types. 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. FacebookUnited StatesYesYes1BUnlimited Flickr Founded in Vancouver, Canada. Since it has been purchased by entities in the United States with the current owner being SmugMug.Photologging/hosting
Free registration/Pro service (May 2015) 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. Fotki Estonia / Fotki, Inc. Free registration photo sharing service and communication portal. Fotki 50MB for free, unlimited storage for $30/year.Geograph Britain and IrelandUnited Kingdom / Geograph Project LimitedGeo-located Geographical Images whole of Britain and Ireland, free, registration requiredUnlimitedGoogle PhotosImage and video hosting service.Files use a storage quota (15 GB free). Instagram United States / Facebook Photologging/Social networking . Registration is required. Owned by Facebook Imgur United States Free image hosting, no registration required. Unknown From 9 Feb 2015 all Imgur accounts are treated as Imgur pro accounts. No limits. Ipernity France 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. 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 Free hosting of galleries created with jAlbum software. 30MB of space given for free accounts, upgrade to 1GB space for €19/year. Photobucket United States Free registration service. As of July 2017, payment of $400/year required if hosted images are to be displayed on external siteshttp://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/articles/115010128088-What-users-are-affected-by-the-changes-to-our-3rd-Party-Hosting-policies- Photobucket policy page regarding the change. Retrieved 2017-07-28. Photobucket reaches 50M users (as of August 29, 2007) 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 States Photo sharing/social networking UnknownPixabayGermanySharing of high-quality public domain photos.Free to browse and download, registration required to contribute. Includes social networking capabilities. UnknownUnknown Pixelfed Federated (ActivityPub) Free, open-source, decentralized photo sharing. Privacy-focused and ad-free. Part of the Fediverse. Registration required. Varies by instance. SecureTribe United States Free registration service Secure photo/video sharing Shutterfly United States Free registration service SEC 10-K filing (served over 2M customers as of 2007-12-31) Free, unlimited picture storage. Shared Albums are limited to 1,000 photos. Full resolution downloads only possible via purchase of archive DVD. SmugMug United States Free search, subscription hosting "unlimited" storage Snapfish United States / Hewlett-Packard Free registration service, also provides services for Costco's online photo processing store. Snapfish.com AboutUs (July 2012) unlimited, pay per download Unsplash Founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by Unsplash, Inc. While still operated in Montreal, it is now owned by United States based Getty Images. 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. Unknown UnknownVKRussiaFree, Russian social networkYesYesUnlimited Wikimedia Commons United StatesFree, Creative Commons license, Public domainYesYesYesUnlimited
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) Album2 Oslo, Norway / Sveinung Dammen Free 30 day trial, registration required2021Domain is for sale via godaddy.com 150 prints/yearZooomr United States / BlueBridge Technologies Group No registration service since 2007. Users are no longer accepted. Unlimited uploads and unlimited storage for ALL users. Radar.net Free registration. Radar shut down on May 26, 2010 at noon (PDT). Unknown ? GazoPa Bloom Flower photo sharing service Unknown ? Fotopic.net UK/Snappy Designs Ltd Unknown Ovi Share Finland / Nokia Nokia's multimedia sharing service, formerly called Twango.Service closed on May 30, 2012. Other Nokia services still available with the registered account. unlimited, pay per download MobileMe Web Gallery United States / Apple Inc. Subscription service.Ended 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. 10GB (standard level)Kodak Gallery United States Free registration service, archiving photo service for $25/year.(Closed down on July 2, 2012; all accounts moved over to Shutterfly) Kodak Gallery 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 States Free registration service.(Discontinued on December 1, 2012, including paid service.)All old user photos from accounts not migrated to Shutterfly were deleted. Webshots still operates in other fields, and is owned by Threefold Photos. One 800×600 image per day Pixorial United States Personal photo and video sharing platform.Registration required. Free subscription available.No new accounts being accepted. 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.Lockerz United States Free registration service Unlimited uploads for all users; 5MB per imageBayimgSweden / The Pirate Bay Free image hosting, no registration required, uncensored Temporarily reopened in 2016 for file recovery. imm.io United States / Autodesk Free image hosting, images removed if not viewed in the last 30 days. Unknown Streamzoo United States Mobile photosocial game, free registration service, unlimited storage and sharing, available on Apple iOS, Android and Web All services stopped and photos deleted. Unknown Unlimited Trovebox United States / Wide Angle Labs, Inc. Free image hosting, registration required. Subscription option provides additional features. Unknown 100 photo uploads per month for free users, unlimited for Pro accounts. 30MB per photo. Panoramio Headquartered in Switzerland / Google Free registration service Unlimited provided the photos comply with the Google Earth Photo Acceptance Policy. Phanfare United States / Carbonite Subscription-based photo sharing Phanfare and SmugMug have worked out a transition plan. Unlimited storage. Subscription accounts only. Bought out by Carbonite. yfrogUnited States / ImageShackTwitter photo sharing. Registration required. holds approximately 29% of the Twitter photo sharing market.? TinyPic United States / PhotoBucket Free image hosting, no registration required All services stopped. Uploaded photos downloadable up until September 19, 2019. Unknown No known limit, but largest image dimension limited to 1600 pixels.
Comparison of photo-sharing websites Legend: File formats: the image or video formats allowed for uploading IPTC support: support for the IPTC image header Yes - IPTC headers are read upon upload and exposed via the web interface; properties such as captions and keywords are written back to the IPTC header and saved along with the photo when downloading or e-mailing it Some - IPTC headers are read but information added via the web interface is not saved back to the IPTC header; or, IPTC headers are lost on resizing Tags/keywords: the ability to add to and search by tags or keywords Comments: the ability of users to leave comments on the photo Yes - full control over who can leave comments (friends, registered users, non-registered users) Some - users must register with the website to leave comments Rating: Yes - star rating: the ability to rate photos numerically, usually on a scale from 1 to 5 Some - thumbs up/down rating, "mark as favorite", or a rating system accessible only to logged-in users Download originals: Yes - anyone can download the original photo Some - only photos of "pro" members can be downloaded Notes/annotations: the ability to overlay textual notes to areas of a photo Friendly URLs: human-readable URLs (e.g. /photos/greece_album/athens.jpg) vs. numeric identifiers (MemViewImage.asp?AID=5610943&IID=205062034&INUM=5&ICT=5&IPP=16) Subscriptions Some - RSS feeds and web interface Yes - RSS feeds, web interface, plus photo updates can be sent by e-mail to non-registered members