Free Stock Photos: 27 Websites With Totally Free Images

Molly Roberts

Last updated on November 11th, 2022

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Free Stock Photos: 27 Websites With Totally Free Images

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Finding stock images that are free and worth using can be really difficult and time-consuming.

I have probably spent at least a hundred hours searching stock photos that are actually free and don’t have any watermarks on them.

If you’re still using Google to find free stock images, I’ve news for you: there are sites that act as search engines for free stock photos. These sites only offer stock photos that are completely free. You don’t have to worry about credit for any picture you download from any of these sites.

Here’s a list of the best free stock photos websites:

A Note About Licensing

All the sites below offer high-resolution free stock photos that you can use for both personal as well as commercial projects.

Most of them license their images under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. It allows you to do whatever you want with the images without asking for permission.

But it is always a good idea to check the license yourself before downloading and using any images from these sites.

Pixabay

Pixabay is my favorite free stock photo site. It has one of the largest collections. It also offers more than just stock photos. You can also get illustrations, vectors, and videos on this site. And all these are completely free.

Offers free videos and photos.
Over 890,000 free images to choose from.
All images and videos are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license.
Offers an advanced search option.

SplitShire

What I love about SplitShire is that its images are much different than any other website. The quality of the images you find on the website is much better than most other sites. To be fair, most other sites on this list allow anyone and everyone to upload pictures.

By the way, SplitShire is great if you want wallpapers for your computer:

High-resolution images.
New photos are added almost daily.
Images are licensed under a custom license. You are allowed to use them however you see fit, but you are not allowed to redistribute them or sell them as is.
A large number of categories to choose from.
Offers an option to search images.

Unsplash

High-Resolution photos
Offers thousands of free stock images for commercial use.
A large variety of stock photos is available.
Has a search option.
All images on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero License. It means you can do whatever you want with these images without asking for permission.
Features 10 photos every week.

Pexels

High-resolution images.
You can search by keywords, tags, or even color.
New photos are added daily.
All images are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license. You are allowed to modify or use the images however you want without permission or attribution.

Jay Mantri

All images are licensed under a CC0 license.
Jay uploads 7 new photos every week on Thursday.
High-resolution images.

StockSnap.io

Hundreds of new high-resolution photos are uploaded daily.
Offers a wide variety of images.
More than hundreds of thousands of free stock photos.
Offers a search option.
All photos on the are licensed under CC0 license.

SkitterPhotos

Offers free high-resolution public domain images.
All pictures are licensed under Creative Commons CC0 license.
Thousands of copyright-free stock photos to choose from.

Gratisography

This site is the best place to look for weird photos. The guy who takes the pictures seems like a really fun guy. He’s always taking crazy, funny-looking pictures.

New pictures are added weekly.
All images on the site are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license.

Negative Space

Negative space is one of the oldest free stock photo sites. They have been around a really long time and have a huge collection of free pictures that are released under the CC0 license. You can use these pictures however you want, without the need for attribution. You can also modify them however you want and even sell those modifications to your clients.

Images are offered under a large number of categories.
New photos are added every week.
All images are licensed under Creative Commons CC0 license.
Hundreds of pictures to choose from.

Magdeleine

Although the site hasn’t been updated in a while, Magdeleine has a large collection of free stock photos.

Most of the pictures are licensed under CC0, but some of the pictures require attribution.
A new High-Resolution photo is added every day.

Life of Pix

Free High-Resolution images licensed under CC0 license.
New photos are added every week.
Features 10 awesome photographs every week selected by the team.

StokPic

Free for personal as well as commercial use.
Do whatever you want with the images. No Attribution Required.
You cannot redistribute the images without permission.
New photos are added every two weeks.

FancyCrave

Hundreds of free stock photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license.
A lot of image categories to choose from.
Two new photos are added every day.

CupCake

Thousands of copyright-free photos.
All images are licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 license.

KaboomPics

KaboomPics has a lot of beautiful stock photos. You won’t find such stock photos on almost any other site.

Hundreds of free high-quality images that you can use for both personal and commercial projects.
While redistribution of the images without permission is not allowed, you can use them however you see fit.

Little Visuals

While the owner of the site passed away a few years ago, the site still contains a lot of high-resolution free stock photos.
All the images on this site are released under the Creative Commons CC0 license.

New Old Stock

There’s not enough you can say about this site. It’s one of a kind. It offers copyright-free pictures from the old times. You’ll only find old vintage photos on this site that are free of any known copyright restrictions. The photos are pretty amazing. I spent almost an hour just looking at the beautiful pictures on this site.

New Old Stock is a collection of Vintage Photos free of known copyright restrictions.
Most of the pictures on the site are free of any copyright restrictions, but it is still a good idea to check the license before using the images.

Picography

All free images are released under a Creative Commons Zero license.
You can use the images however you want without asking for permission.
A wide variety of royalty-free stock photos.

Glyphs.co

Glyphs.co offers a huge amount of free stock photos licensed under the CC0 license.
A large number of categories are available.

Skuawk

Plenty of free high-resolution stock photos are licensed under Creative Commons CC0.
A lot of categories to choose from.

LibreShot

All images are licensed under a CC0 license and can be used for both your personal and commercial projects.
1500+ free high-quality photos are available.