Pixabay is a free photo-sharing platform that enables its users to discover illustrations, high-quality photographs and vectors from a repository of more than 750,000 files. Additionally, users can contribute to the website with their own images. The company was launched in Germany in 2010 and has become one of the world’s most popular websites since then.
Alternatives to Pixabay
Unsplash
Company: Unsplash, Inc | Founder: Mikael Cho | CEO: Mikael Cho | Since: 2013
Unsplash is a website that provides free access to copyright-free photographs. It originated in 2013 as a Tumblr post and since then it has evolved into one of the industry’s top photography communities, having reached an impressive 1 billion photo…
Shutterstock
Company: Shutterstock, Inc. | Founder: Jon Oringer | CEO: Jon Oringer | Since: 2003
Shutterstock is a leading provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos and music. Its over 100,000 contributors have contributed over 125 million images and 2 million video clips, with tens of thousands of new images being added each week.…
Pexels
Company: Pexels GmbH | Founder: Bruno Joseph, Ingo Joseph | Since: 2014
Pexels is a website that provides high quality free stock photos. All published pictures are high quality and licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license. The site obtains photos from their community of photographers, as well as sources such as…
Wallbase
Company: Wallhaven | Founder: Yotoon
Wallbase was the go-to wallpaper site for wallpaper lovers. Unfortunately, when Wallbase admin Yotoon became MIA in 2014, the site also met its demise later on. The members who remained worked together to form Wallhaven.com. The images (photographs or illustrations)…
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