List of image-sharing websites

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

Active image-sharing websites

Name	Location / Owner / Hoster	Description/Focus/Registration requirements				Other	Registered users	Storage Space Allowed Per User
500px	Canada / Amazon AWS	Free, registration required				ChromeOS	13000000	7 uploads/week free plan, unlimited for paid accounts
Cloudinary	San Jose, California	Free, registration required, subscription option to provides additional limits and features.					10000	3 Users / 1 Account, 25 monthly credits for free plan
Dayviews	Sweden / Dayviews AB	Free image hosting, registration required					1291500	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.					44000000	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.					30000
Facebook	United States		Yes	Yes			1B	Unlimited
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					112000000	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.					1250000	50MB for free, unlimited storage for $30/year.
Geograph Britain and Ireland	United Kingdom / Geograph Project Limited	Geo-located Geographical Images whole of Britain and Ireland, free, registration required					12634	Unlimited
Google Photos		Image and video hosting service.					500000000	Files use a storage quota.
Instagram	United States / Facebook	Photologging/Social networking. Registration is required.					100000000	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, including unlimited uploads, geo-mapping, picture processing and the worlds best integrated translator. Basic subscription with reduced limits and features for €22,90/year.
jAlbum	Sweden	Free hosting of galleries created with jAlbum software.					340000	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 sites					50000000	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. No size restrictions with Pro account.
Pinterest	United States	Photo sharing/social networking					11700000	Unknown
Pixabay	Germany	Sharing of high-quality public domain photos. Free to browse and download, registration required to contribute. Includes social networking capabilities.					Unknown	Unknown
SecureTribe	United States	Free registration service					13800000	Secure photo/video sharing
Shutterfly	United States	Free registration service					2000000	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					315000	"unlimited" storage
Snapfish	United States / Hewlett-Packard	Free registration service, also provides services for Costco's online photo processing store.					90000000	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	Unknown
VK	Russia	Free, Russian social network	Yes	Yes				Unlimited
Wikimedia Commons	United States	Free, Creative Commons license, Public domain	Yes	Yes	Yes			Unlimited

Defunct photo-sharing websites

Name	Location/Owner	Description/Focus/Registration requirements	Date closed	Status/Notes	Registered users	Storage Space Allowed Per User
Album2	Oslo, Norway / Sveinung Dammen	Free 30 day trial, registration required	2021	Domain is for sale via godaddy.com	2000	150 prints/year
Zooomr	United States / BlueBridge Technologies Group	No registration service since 2007.		Users are no longer accepted.	100000	Unlimited uploads and unlimited storage for ALL users.
Radar.net		Free registration.		Radar shut down on May 26, 2010 at noon.	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.	20000000	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.	180000	10GB
Kodak Gallery	United States	Free registration service, archiving photo service for $25/year.			20000000	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.		All old user photos from accounts not migrated to Shutterfly were deleted. Webshots still operates in other fields, and is owned by Threefold Photos.	32000000	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.	636000	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			19000000	Unlimited uploads for all users; 5MB per image
Bayimg	Sweden / 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			4700000	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.
yfrog	United States / ImageShack	Twitter 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
* 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 vs. numeric identifiers
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