If you’re looking for high-quality stock photos that won’t break the banks, this article is for you!
We collected the 10 best sites for free stock photos that you can use for marketing, social media, and more. Each site has high-quality stock photos that are free to use for personal, editorial or commercial purposes.
The 10 Best Sites for Free Stock Photos
Unsplash
Unsplash is based on a community of photographers who upload their high-quality images for you to use, completely free! The site has more than 1 million images from 157,866 photographers. The site is clean and easy to use. You don’t need to pay, but you can say “thanks” to the photographer by following their profile or messaging them through the platform.
Pexels
Pexels is a free stock photo and video website for bloggers, marketers, and creators. Anyone can contribute to the database, and each image is free to download with no strings attached. If you create an account, you can curate collections of images, keep track of everything you’ve downloaded, and more.
Burst
Shopify created a free stock photo library with thousands of images that are perfect for e-commerce. You can easily browse their collections or search for a topic and then download your image in high-resolution.
Reshot
Reshot’s mission is to “unify creators via a free exchange of the world’s best visual content.” They have a huge catalogue of free stock photos. If you’re looking for beautiful, artistic (and never tacky) free images, this is the site for you.
New Old Stock
If you need images with a vintage feel, New Old Stock will be your new favorite site. It’s a free online database of vintage photographs with no copyright restrictions. Best of all? Each image is optimized, cropped, and edited for quick and easy use.
StyledStock
Searching for bright, feminine, and modern stock images? Look no further than StyledStock. The site has a collection of free stock photos perfect for the modern blogger or designer. Think flatlays and high-quality images of shoes, accessories, and beauty products.
StockSnap
StockSnap has an enormous, ever-expanding database of free stock images that they select from open submissions. Every image is completely free to use, even for commercial purposes! The stock photo categories include business, travel, fitness, nature, wedding and more.
Gratisography
Gratisography was started by photographer Ryan McGuire. What makes Gratisography different from most stock photo sites is the emphasis on quality, not quantity. According to their site, “We curate only the most interesting pictures, the ones with a personality, a perspective, a story to tell.”
ScatterJar
If you’re looking for food photography so delicious it rivals the NYT cooking instagram, then ScatterJar is the site for you. These free stock photos are all of beautiful food, drinks, and ingredients. Scrolling through all of them is guaranteed to make you hungry.
Pixabay
Pixabay has nearly 2 million free stock photos, as well as illustrations, vector graphics, film footage and music. All images can be copied, modified, distributed, and used how you see fit– even for commercial purposes!
