Best Free Photo Sharing Sites

Flickr

In terms of popularity, audience, and features Flickr is still the top photo sharing sites, used by varied types of users. Despite the limitation in storage capacity for free account, many users continue to use Flickr as their top photo sharing site. Flickr users continues to grow everyday. Interestingly, when users are not discouraged to get a paid account when ever they’ve used up their free storage allocations. I myself was prompted to get a paid unlimited storage account and has been maintaining it for two years now. Meaning paying Flickr around $30+ a year. And it’s not a bad price to pay for unlimited storage, unlimited categories, sets and collections. This business model continues to work for Flickr. And it has made the site the top photo sharing site.

Zooomr

I got a free unlimited storage account from Zooomr when it was still starting out. But I never really get to used it that much. Well, primarily because I have a paid Flickr account. Don’t get me wrong, Zooomr is a very robust and feature-rich photo sharing site, but it lacks the appeal and charisma of Flickr to users. And last time I checked, Zooomr has removed the storage limit for free accounts, so you can upload as much photos as you want.

Picasa Web Albums

Despite donning the Google Brand, Picasa Web Album can’t seem to get the same popularity and usage as the other Google products. It’s a robust photo sharing and uploading site, no doubt about that. But still, I rarely get to encounter people who share photos using Picasa. Anyway, Picasa Web Albums offers free 1GB of storage, a robuts photo search engine, photo tagging, and a companion desktop photo organization tool. And it works well with Blogspot.com, so you can easily blog any photos you upload on your Picasa Web Album.

Photobucket

Photobucket was a popular photo sharing site for online community forums. It offers free 1GB of storage and up to 25GB of monthly bandwith. You’d also get up to 10 custom URLS for your photo albums. It still is a top destination for users who want to share their photos and videos as well.