Stock photos are professional-grade photographs that are available for free or bought and sold for a range of purposes. The photographer (or the stock photography distributor) retains ownership of the images and dictates the parameters for how each image can be used. Rather than hire a photographer, you can search a large database of photos and quickly find one that works for your project.
This list was originally crowdsourced by a group of amazing contributors, initiated by NeutralTone and has been filtered for dead links and resources. A huge majority of the licenses will be leaning towards CC0, and covers other related categories such as illustrations, vector graphics, videos, patterns, textures, fonts, color schemes, html templates, sound and music.
163 Awesome Free Stock Photography, Video and Illustration Websites.
Photography (CC0-license)
- ABSFreePic – A high-resolution and absolutely free photos stock site.
- Altphotos – Handpicked free high-resolution photos added daily.
- Barn Images – Barn Images offers you a collection of free high-resolution non-stock photography.
- CC0 Photo – CC0.photo is a project initiated by Raffael Herrmann, which serves you with free photos.
- Creative Commons Search – A meta search across several libraries to find adaptable / editable images
- Crow the Stone – Free photos to use any way you want.
- Cupcake – Free do what ever you want photos by Jonas Nilsson Lee
- FindA.Photo – search through thousands of CC0 photos by keyword and color.
- Free Nature Stock – Royalty-free, use them however you want, Nature Stock Photos.
- Freely Photos – Totally free high quality Christian stock photography.
- Gratisography – Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. New pictures added weekly.
- Jay Mantri – Free pics. Do anything. Make magic.
- Jéshoots – Photos for business or personal use in high resolution for free.
- LibreShot – A collection of hundreds of high quality free stock images for personal or commercial use.
- Life of Pix – Free high-resolution photos, no copyright restrictions. Photographs added weekly.
- Little Visuals – Hi-res images zipped up in your inbox. Use them anyway you want.
- Magdeleine – A selection of free photos curated by Magdeleine
- MMT – New photos by Jeffrey Betts
- Moveast – This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving.
- Negative Space – Stock photos added every week.
- Pexels – 20 new high-quality photos daily.
- Pickupimage – Free download high quality premium free stock images, public domain photos.
- Pixabay – Stock photos, illustrations, vectors and videos.
- Realistic Shots – 7 new photos added every week.
- Skitter Photo – Public domain pictures and stock photos for commercial use.
- Skuawk – Skuawk public domain photos, free, beautiful and artistically loud.
- Snappy Goat – Over 12 million public domain & CC0 licensed images.
- Snapwire Snaps – Commissioned photos from 170,000 of the world’s most talented photographers.
- SpaceX Photos – Promotional SpaceX stock photography.
- Stockified – Free pictures taken in India by Kiran BV and Aditya G Bharadwaj
- Stocksnap – Hundreds of high resolution images added weekly.
- Stokpic – Free Stock Photos For Commercial Use.
- Streetwill – Free hi-res vintage photos to use any way you want.
- The Pic Pac – New pacs on Monday, free pics Tuesday – Sunday.
- Travel Coffee Book – Travel photography.
- Unsplash – User submitted, free high-resolution photos. 10 new photos every 10 days.
Photography (Custom License / Usage – Mostly CC0)
- Bara Art – The world always needs high quality photography! Here they are for you, so make something awesome out of them.
- Compfight.com – An image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research.
- Death to the Stock Photo – Free monthly photos for all your creative needs.
- Designer Pics – Free photographs for personal and commercial by Jeshu John
- Foodies Feed – Free food based images.
- Freerange – Quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use. For free.
- Good Stock Photos – One free to use photo added everyday.
- ISO Republic – ISO Republic provides exclusive free stock photos for creatives.
- Kaboom Pics – Great place to get breathtaking Free Pictures for business or personal projects.
- morgueFile – Free photo archive by creatives, for creatives.
- Photober – Free of charge photo downloading site for personal or commercial use.
- PhotoStockEditor – High-resolution weekly images for Personal & Commercial use.
- Pic Jumbo – Totally free photos for your commercial & personal works.
- Picography – Free hi-resolution photos. Use them however you like.
- Rawpixel – Redefining stock imagery with authentically styled and unique stock photos (Subscribe required).
- Shutteroo – Free high-resolution travel images.
- Split Shire – Real photos for commercial use with no copyright restrictions and a real look.
- Startup Stock Photos – Startup based photography.
Photography (Public Domain)
- Good Free Photos – A large free stock photo site with thousands of public domain photos including landscapes, objects, animals, plants, textures, and many other free photos. All photos taken by the website owner
- Flickr Commons – Flickr’s catalogue of the worlds public photo archives.
- New Old Stock – Vintage photos from the public archive. of known copyright restrictions.
- NYPL Digital Collections – 180.000 items are Public Domain since January 6th 2016 Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse
- Project Apollo Archive – High-resolution Apollo imagery scanned by NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
- Public Domain Archive – New stock photos every single week.
Photography (Attribution Required licenses)
- Albumarium (CC0) – The “best” place to find & share beautiful images.
- BucketListly (Free creative commons (Attribution-NonCommercial)) – A free creative common collection of travel photos anyone can use.
- IM Creator (Free for commercial use) – Also includes Website templates and icons. Some CC0-licensed. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ works, check the license before use.
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (CC0) – Graphics and photos of space and spaceflight.
- PhotoEverywhere (CC0) – Globe-trot our collection of high resolution Travel Stock Images More than 3600 photos that are Free to use and ready for instant download.
- Superfamous (CC0) – Superfamous CC BY 3.0 licensed images by Folkert Gorter
- UKBlackTech (CC0) – Photographers of British based BAME (Black, Asian, and minority ethnic
- Women of Color in Tech (CC0) – Licensed picture from Women of Color in Tech.
Photography (Unspecified License)
- Freejpg – Free image bank for commercial and editorial use.
- Titania foto – The free image database
- Mockup World – A mixture of free and premium mockup in-situation templates.
Illustration
- Biodiversity Heritage Library – A mix of Public Domain and Attribution (CC BY 2.0) licenses. Nearly 150,000 exquisite, historical illustrations of life on Earth. (CC0 / CC by 2.0)
- British Library Illustration Archive – The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons offer access to millions of public domain images. (CC0)
- Old Book Illustrations – A massive collection of illustrations from old books. (CC0)
- unDraw – Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create. (CC0)
Vector Graphics
- AMCharts – Free SVG Maps – A directory of free non-commercial, attribution licensed SVG maps in two level of details: High and low. (CC0)
- Freepik – Find free vectors, PSD, icons and photos. (CC0)
- FreeVectors.net – A fun little community of vector lovers who share free vector graphics. (CC0)
- Mega Doodles Pack – Free and big CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 vector pack with hand-drawn doodles for presentations, social media, blog posts and so on. (CC0)
- Sketch Repo – Sketch Repo is a great place to discover Sketch App resources for your next design project. (CC0)
- Vecteezy – Discover & download free vector art from a community of Illustrators. (CC0)
Videos
- Coverr – Beautiful, free, CC0 licensed videos for your homepage. 7 new videos every Monday. (CC0)
- Life of Vids – Free royalty-free videos, clips & loops. (CC0)
- Mazwai – Great collection of free creative commons HD video clips & footages. Check each video for licensing terms. (CC 3.0 (with attribution) / Mazwai License (no attribution) )
- Pexels Videos – Completely free, CC0 licensed stock videos. (CC0)
- Pond5 – Download thousands of historic media files (videos, audio, images and 3d models) for your creative projects. Completely free. (Public Domain)
- Videezy – Free stock videos, 4k footage, and free HD video clips. (CC0)
- Vidsplay – Free HD stock footage (Attribution required). (CC0)
- VYOO – Beautiful, Free Vertical Videos. (CC0)
Patterns
- CSS3 Patterns Gallery – CSS3 based repeatable patterns.
- Hero Patterns – A collection of free CC Attribution 4.0 repeatable SVG background patterns.
- Low Poly Images – Collection of low poly image generators.
- Subtle Patterns – Image based background textures and patterns.
- The Pattern Library – A collection of bold, bright and funky repeatable patterns.
- UI Gradients – Nice, subtle linear gradients to use in your designs.
Textures
- TextureHaven – High quality set of textures with CC0 license. (CC0)
Fonts
- Beautiful Web Type – A showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.
- Brick – Webfonts that actually look good.
- Font Fabric – Font Fabric’s free fonts.
- Font Squirrel – Handpicked fonts free for commercial use.
- Google Fonts – Interactive directory of free hosted application programming interfaces for web fonts.
- Open Type Foundry – A new platform for open-source fonts in a noise-free environment.
- The League of Movable Type – Open-source type foundry.
- Canva Font Combinations (Type Genius) – Fantastic type pairing tool.
Icons (Fonts)
- Appa Sariicon – 147 8-bit retro style webfont icons for web and mobile (SIL OFL 1.1)
- Devicons – Meet Devicons, an iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds(sic). 100+ icons ready to use in your next project. (CC0)
- Iconfinder – Iconfinder provides beautiful icons to millions of designers and developers. Most icons are available under attribution. See individual licenses for more details. (Free for personal use, requires attribution.)
- Font Awesome – MIT licensed icon font. (CC0)
- Fontello – Fontello is a tool to quickly pack vector images into webfonts. Also includes a section of stock icons. (CC0)
- Foundation Icon Fonts 3 – An icon font from Zurb, the people behind the Foundation framework. (CC0)
- IcoMoon – Custom built and crisp icon fonts, done right. (CC0)
- Ionicons – The premium icon font for Ionic Framework. 100% free and open source. (CC0)
- Ligature Symbols – Really clean icon set including all major topics. (CC0)
- Linea – A free outline iconset featuring 730+ Icons. (CC0)
- Material Design Icons – Google’s Material Icons. (CC0)
- Octicons – GitHub’s Icons. (CC0)
- Open Iconic – Icon set with 223 marks in SVG. (CC0 (font))
- Pathlove Icons – 100+ cute and vibrant icons. Free for personal and commercial use; attribution required. (CC0)
- Social Stackicons – Icon set with over 60 social brands. (CC0)
- Standart – Standart: free SVG icons for use in your project. (Various licenses)
- Topcoat Icons – Icons by Topcoat (CC0)
- Typicons – Rounded icon set with 336 icons. (CC0 (font))
- Weather Icons – Weather Icons is the only icon font and CSS with 222 weather themed icons. (SIL OFL 1.1)
- WeLoveIconFonts – A free & open source icon fonts hosting service (like Google Web Fonts, but icon fonts only). (Free & open source icon fonts hosting service)
Icons (Packages and Collections)
- Entypo – Carefully crafted iconset by Daniel Bruce (CC0)
- Game Icons – A growing collection of SVG icons aimed mostly at video games. (CC0)
- Heroicons – Beautiful, free SVG icons from the makers of Tailwind CSS. (CC0)
- Iconmonstr – A huge selection of icons in SVG and PNG format. (CC0)
- Maps Icon – Mapsicon is a free collection of maps for nearly every country in the world, available in 11 different sizes, ranging from 16×16 pixels to 1024×1024 pixels, as well as .svg format. (CC0)
- Material Design Icons – A collections of free, material design style icons. (Free)
- Simple Icons – SVG icons for popular brands. (CC0)
- The Noun Project – Over 150,000 icons designed by creators from around the world. Free users must give credit to the creator. Free users must give credit to the creator. (CC0)
Colors
- 0to255 – A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.
- 0xrgb – A minimalistic color picker for well-known palettes (Material, iOS, FlatUI, Metro, Tango, Solarized).
- Bootflat – Bootflat Flat UI color picker is a project digging the Flat Color Picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
- Brand Colors – Official color codes for the world’s biggest brands.
- Color Hunt – A place to discover, create, and share color palettes.
- Colorful Gradients – Gradients automatically created by a computer. 48 times daily.
- CoolHue 2.0 – Coolest handpicked Gradient Palette and Swatch.
- Colour Lovers – A creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns.
- Coolors – The super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
- Flat UI Colors – Flat color picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
- Material Design Colors – Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.
- Material Palette – Generate & export your Material Design color palette.
Aggregated Content
- All The Free Stock – One stop resource for free stock images, videos, sounds and more.
- Avopix – More than 15 000 absolutely free stock photos and vectors.
- Libre Stock – Search engine for stock photo websites.
- Stock Up – Searching 9,301 (and counting) free stock photos across 25 websites.
- The Stocks – The best royalty free stock photos in one place.
HTML Templates
- Bootswatch – Free themes for Bootstrap. (CC0)
- HTML5 Rocket – Free HTML5 site templates. (CC0)
- HTML5 Up – HTML5 UP makes spiffy HTML5 site templates. (CC0)
- Start Bootstrap – Free Bootstrap templates and themes. (CC0)
- Themezy – Free WordPress themes and website templates. (CC0)
Sounds & Music
- Bensound – Royalty free music by Bensound. (CC0)
- ccMixter – ccMixter.org offers over 30,000 original tracks that can be used freely in YouTube videos, remixes, mobile apps, games, and more. (CC0)
- Free Loops – Free loops and audio clip. (CC0)
- Free Music Archive – An interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU (CC0)
- Freesound – Collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings and bleeps. (CC0)
- Internet Archive’s Netlabels Collection – Netlabels collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable. (CC0)
- Sound Image – Over 1000 tracks of free music and sound effects for your projects by Eric Matyas. (CC0)
- SoundBible – Thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds. (CC0)
- WOWA – Download Royalty Free Music for YouTube Videos, Podcasts and Apps. No Copyright CC0 Music inspired by Unsplash. (CC0)