There is a growing number of websites that provide really great high-quality and, most importantly, totally free-to-use stock photos.
From experience trawling through these sites some of them are far better than others. The below list of 5 are in our opinion the best ones out there.
For a site to make our list they must have a few things going for them! The first and most important thing is search functionality. A lot of these new free stock sites provide no search functionality which essentially renders them useless if you are looking for a particular image type. The second thing we often look for in order to save time are sites that allow us to search several different collections at once.
All The Free Stock
The list of lists. It contains links to pretty much all the free stock photo sites out there. However, as I’ve mentioned some are better than others, so you will still need to read on to see which of them are the most useful.
Splashbase (Unsplash)
Unsplash is amazing and was probably the first great free stock photo site. The only issue with it is that there is no search functionality. Thankfully the good people over at Splashbase have created a search enabled version of Unsplash! It also includes several other free stock photo sites in it’s search results.
StockUp
Another great meta search site similar to Splashbase with a slightly different list of sites searched.
Pexels
Another great site that doesn’t appear in the StockUp or Splashbase search result lists but is always worth a look.
FindA.Photo
What’s really great about this site is that it gives you the ability to browse photos by colour! This is a really useful feature that you will find on very few sites.