Pixabay

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Pakistan
1 review
5 helpful votes
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A legal (yet, illegal in every sense) extortion letter from Getty Images ignited my need to find another source of genuinely free images online. Hence, ended up finding this awesome free source of truly free images online i. E. pixabay.com. I fear all the time that such a great source could easily be bought (gobbled up) by greedy and infamous businesses i. E. Getty and we will have to find some other source for genuinely free images. Until that happens, let's all enjoy the free ride.

Date of experience: October 27, 2016
Kentucky
6 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Pixabay is amazing!
February 29, 2024

Pixabay offers a vast collection of high-quality downloadable photos. Their website is user-friendly, and finding the perfect image for inspiration or storytelling is effortless! I always turn to Pixabay for images.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Poland
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I haven't actually contributed to the site myself but its pretty good if you're just looking for photos for various practice projects. The pics are of good quality and can be downloaded in various sizes.

Date of experience: November 9, 2018
Texas
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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Disappointed!
August 17, 2017

I looked on pixabay for pics I could use on the website I'm building, after a google search of leading sites. To my dismay not one of my searches produced anything. Total waste of time. Customer service is a joke, no help whats so ever and rude. I would not recommend pixabay to anyone.

Date of experience: August 17, 2017
Wisconsin
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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I used this once for a small generic graphic. It had been planted by a scam troll operation out of southern California. They claimed to own the rights and threatened to sue. It all came to nothing but was a big unpleasant hassle. They didn't really own the absolute rights but were able to produce superficial documentation. They had uploaded the file to Pixabay as bait for the unwitting. I think there may be a lot of similar baits planted across the entire site. Be really careful if you use any of this stuff.

Date of experience: May 6, 2019
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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They say to log in so no robot verifications. So you do and then every other download you have to go through a series of several verifications! Site is a joke as far as a valid site. Too bad because there are good pictures, but you can only look at them unless you enjoy fighting with the poor quality pictures you have to fight to find what they're asking for. If they only want you to download 1, then say so. Don't play games!

Date of experience: August 7, 2019
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I came across this website as a Social Media manage in need of a great number of images of good quality on a daily basis and this website has half a million of them. Not only that, if you have good images lurking on your computer you are prepared to share with the community, this is the place to do it. The website is wonderfully simple to use, the owners are very responsive to users's suggestions and all in all, it's a great site. I love it!

Date of experience: January 18, 2016
Connecticut
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This is the best
June 8, 2016

I, too, was threatened with a lawsuit from Getty. I'm usually very careful and the one time, I wasn't, well, I learned my lesson.
I absolutely love this site. I downloaded several images and sent them to my graphic designer to be used in my promotional items! I'm so happy with this site. I can use their images without the worry of a lawsuit. And I love that I can contribute to artists who I like.

Date of experience: June 8, 2016
Belgium
6 reviews
38 helpful votes
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Let me tell you about my living hell first of all. I innocently uploaded a picture for my blog from google images. It had no copyright or 'this belongs to' so I assumed I was allowed to use it.
Fast forward to today: I've had threatening letters from Getty images to sue me for thousands and they are demanding payment for me using 'their image' They still haven't given me proof that it the image belongs to them. Anyway in my distress I found thousands of people are in this position. On reasearch I came across pixabay a royalty free site with amazing photos and vectors. The community are friendly and helpful which is why I want to share their site with you. Please don't just upload images from the net as they are not 'free'. Safeguard yourselves and go to legitimate websites like this one and download images hassle free.

Date of experience: December 18, 2015
Arizona
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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All fine
March 1, 2018

- the pic database is huge
- you can get "tips" from other users
- easy to use query tools with different categories
- you have to put in captcha only if you're an unregistered user

Date of experience: March 1, 2018

Overview

Pixabay has a rating of 3.7 stars from 13 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Pixabay ranks 10th among Stock Photos sites.

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