Flickr is a popular online photo management and sharing platform where users can store their photos and albums in original resolution. Till now, users could upload an unlimited number of photos on Flickr under 1 TB free storage. But, after the recent acquisition, Flickr is going to end the 1 TB free storage in favor of 1,000 photos limit. Starting from January 8th, 2019, free users won’t be able to upload photos over 1,000 photos limit. If existing free users have more than 1,000 photos in their library, from February 5th, 2019, Flickr will start deleting their photos from oldest to newer until it reaches 1,000 photos.
In this article, I covered 8 alternatives to Flickr with free unlimited photo storage. If you have over 1,000 photos on Flickr, you can migrate to these services and keep all your photos safe. Some of these services can directly fetch photos from your Flickr account. But for the rest of them, you have to upload your photos manually by downloading them from Flickr.
There are multiple ways to download your photos from Flickr. You can use third-party tools like Bulk Flickr Downloader to download your photos, or you can download your Flickr data from the Account section under Flickr Settings. From there, you can create an archive of all your Flickr data including photos, videos, account settings, etc. Depending on your Flickr library, from a couple of minutes to an hour or so, you’ll get an email when your archive is ready to download. The data in the archive won’t be organized as per your Flickr library so, consider other options if you don’t want to re-organize all your Flickr data.
If all your Flickr photos are organized in albums, you can also download each of your albums separately from Album section. Do note that, this won’t include any photo/video which is not organized in an album. Once, you have all your photos from Flickr, you can store them to any of the following services:
8 Alternatives To Flickr With Free Unlimited Photo Storage:
Shutterfly
Shutterfly is an online photo management platform where you can create photo books, personalized cards, share photos, and more. You can upload unlimited photos to Shutterfly and organize your photo library in albums. You can add photos in the batch and can also upload an entire folder at once. It has a neat dashboard which you can personalize to change the grid size and sort photos by date.
Here are the main highlights of Shutterfly:
- Upload unlimited photos with batch and folder upload
- Create albums to organize photos
- Rich Photo Viewer with Slideshow
- Photo Editing
- Add tags, location, and caption
- Tag people in photos
- Share via, email, Facebook, or URL
- Available on Android and iOS
Imgur
Imgur is an online image hosting and sharing platform that can be a nice alternative to Flickr. This service also offers unlimited photo upload which you can keep private to yourself or can share them with the Imgur community. Instead of having albums, this service has Posts. Just like an album, you can create a post here and add photos to that to keep your photo library organized. After creating posts, you can change to albums from the Albums section under your Imgur account.
Here are the main highlights of Imgur:
- Upload unlimited photos in the batch
- Upload photos from local storage or fetch using URLs
- Create separate posts to organize photos
- Built-in Meme Generator
- Add tags and mentions
- Add age restriction on photos
- Get embed code for each photo
- Share photos using shareable URL
- Available on Android and iOS
Google Photos
Google Photos is another good Flickr alternative to store all your photos in one place. It is a photo sharing and storage service by Google. It allows you to store an unlimited number of photos and videos with a 16 MegaPixel resolution limit on Photos and 1080p resolution limit on videos. If any photo/video surpasses those limit then storage is count against your Google Drive quota.
Here are the main highlights of Google Photos:
- Upload unlimited photos and videos (save in high resolution)
- Upload photos from local storage or auto-sync from your computer and smartphone
- Intelligently sort photos by location, person, etc.
- Assistant with AI features
- Slideshow
- Built-in Photo Editing and Filters
- Shared albums
- Easily share photos and albums
- Available on Android, iOS, Windows, and MacOS
ImageVenue
ImageVenue is a free image hosting service that can serve as a free Flickr alternative with unlimited photo upload. This website supports JPEG and JPG file formats with a maximum file size limit of 6 MB. When you upload photos to this website, it asks you to specify whether the photos are safe for family or not. Here, you can create galleries (similar to albums) to organized your image under your ImageVenue account. You can also upload photos without having an account and generate URLs to link photos to on a web page. This website is not ideal to store your personal photos.
Here are the main highlights of ImageVenue:
- Upload unlimited photos in the batch
- Create Gallery (folder) to organize photos
- Add age restriction for family safe content
- Interlink photos for the slideshow
- Resize photos while uploading
- Link clickable thumbnails of your photo on a web page
SnapFish
SnapFish is a digital photo printing service where you can upload your photos and order digital prints. You can use this service to store all your photos online. This service offers unlimited photo storage and allows you to add photos from various other platforms as well. You can directly fetch photos from your Flickr account and save them to SnapFish. This website has a neat and responsive dashboard where you can sort your uploads by photos, albums, and upload date.
Here are the main highlights of SnapFish:
- Upload unlimited photos
- Add photos from Computer, Facebook, Instagram, Google Photo
- Directly fetch photos and albums from Flickr
- Select photo resolution for upload
- Create albums to organize photos
- Share albums with others
- Make photo book, canvas, and cards with your photos
- Share albums via email, link, or Facebook
500Px
The next Flickr alternative service on this list is 500Px. It is an online photography network where people from all around the world share their photos. You can use this services to publically save your photo collection online. Here, you can upload photos in batch with original resolution. This service doesn’t have albums; all your photos are stored together arranged by upload date and anyone on the 500Px can search and view your photos. This platform is ideal to showcase your work online; one should not use it to store personal photos.
Here are the main highlights of 500Px:
- Upload unlimited photos
- No photo album option
- Add licensing, description, and tags to photos
- Set photo category and add watermark
- Add/Edit EXIF data
- Publish photo to 500Px community
Facebook can also be used as an alternative to Flickr. You can upload unlimited photos and videos to your Facebook account and store them online. You can create albums and organizing your photos and videos as per your liking. It lets you add up to 1,000 photos per album. Moreover, you can add 50 contributors to an album each of them can upload up to 200 photos which push the regular album limit to 10,000. Being a social media platform Facebook lets you easily share your photos and albums with friends and gives you the control over your audience. You can also save personal photos on Facebook by keeping them private.
Here are the main highlights of Facebook:
- Upload unlimited photos and videos
- Organize photos/videos in albums
- Add contributors to albums
- Add tags and mention people
- Built-in photo filters
- Easily Share photos with friends
- Choose the audience for your photos
- Available on Android and iOS
Just like Facebook, Instagram can also be used to store photos online. It’s a decent social media platform to save your personal memories and easily share them with friends. You can quickly upload photos to Instagram and enhance them using its photo filters. You can use Instagram to showcase your work and add hashtags to reach more audience. The downsides of Instagram to be used as a Flickr alternative are being a smartphone only platform and lack of albums support.
Here are the main highlights of Instagram:
- Upload unlimited photos (max. 10 photos per post)
- No photo albums
- Built-in Photo Filters
- Add tags and mentions
- Share photos with others via a shareable link
- Available on Android and iOS only
Closing Words:
These are the 8 alternatives to Flicker that offer free unlimited photo storage. Depending on your needs and purpose, you can use any of these websites to store your Flickr photos before it starts deleting them. Go check them out yourself and let us know which one you choose and why.
