--- title: iStock Reviews meta\_title: 'iStock Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 117 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how iStock works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.5 review\_count: 117 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Stock Media url: https://www.g2.com/categories/stock-media --- ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Shutterstock](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shutterstock") Shutterstock 4.4/5(656) ](https://www.g2.com/products/shutterstock-shutterstock/reviews) [ ![Storyblocks](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Storyblocks") Storyblocks 4.6/5(429) ](https://www.g2.com/products/storyblocks/reviews) [ ![Adobe Stock](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adobe Stock") Adobe Stock 4.3/5(194) ](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-adobe-stock/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/getty-images-istock/competitors/alternatives) # iStock Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by iStock but has limited features. Are you part of the iStock team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Founded in 2000, iStock created the crowd-sourced stock industry and became the original source for user-generated stock photos, vectors and illustrations, and video clips. For more than 15 years, we've given our artists a platform to make money with their passions by licensing their stock content to businesses and individuals around the world for use in a wide variety of projects. Today we remain an industry leader and key destination for creative business professionals who want to make a big impact without breaking the bank. We believe that imagery has the power to move the world. We also believe that our customers deserve the very best stock content - that's why we're proud to offer millions of bold, unique stock images you can only get from us. iStock is part of the Getty Images family of companies. * * * Seller [Getty Images](https://www.g2.com/sellers/getty-images-d633a9b3-4f86-4f1d-8b52-2988afad1bb7) Discussions [iStock Community](https://www.g2.com/products/getty-images-istock/discuss) Languages Supported Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Anne Flanagan (Head of Communications, Getty Images) Show More ## Typical Contract Price Pricing provided by BetterCloud and others. $$k - $$k Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing](/auth/linkedin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g2.com%2Fproducts%2Fgetty-images-istock%2Freviews%3Fexpanded%3Distock-review-11773856) ## User Insights Average based on 117 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management") AN Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/15/2022 "High quality and reliable stock images" 4.5/5 What do you like best about iStock? iStock has extremely high quality stock images, a wide variety of niche images useful for businesses, and an easy-to-access user interface that makes the experience positive for users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStock? iStock can tend to be a bit expensive so it might cost a decent amount of money to purchase a variety of images. You have to be very precise about the photos you're purchasing, and make informed decisions before buying one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStock solving and how is that benefiting you? I'm building a new website and need lots of new images to show the elements of each page. I need the images to be diverse, modern, and effective at telling a narrative. iStock helps me with that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite LG Laura G. Bussiness Owner Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/28/2022 "Great selection of quality stock imagery" 4.5/5 What do you like best about iStock? I like the boards collections, the large amount of quality stock imagery and the credit pricing options -which allow you to buy even 1 image. I like that there is stock videos available for website use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStock? sometimes the pricing for some images are more expensive because they are part of the signatures collections. There are no free images. Can't download a single music item without a premium subscription. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering iStock: If you looking for quality and unique imagery and videos then iStock has a large selection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStock solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps me find quality imagery for use on my clients websites, branding materials and I can share the boards with my clients to make their selections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Abhinav D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abhinav D.") AD Abhinav D. Creative strategy manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/28/2022 "Need non-generic stock images - This is the website to go." 4/5 What do you like best about iStock? It is not different from its competitors. But, the pricing, the quality and the way they have segmented their images is brilliant. You will find images for almost everything on the platform. The search engine within the website works very well and you do not need to waste time in finding the perfect image. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStock? The fact that the platform doesn't have a lot of graphics. There are graphics, but not a lot of them as compared to the competitors. This hinders my process sometimes and I have to resort to Shutterstock and other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering iStock: Go for the service, it is better, if not similar to Shutterstock and the images are fresh, not overused. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStock solving and how is that benefiting you? Images! All sorts of images! You can get almost anything here. The biggest benefit is that they also have images from different ethnicities, as compared to the competitors who focus mainly on a certain colour of images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rohith D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rohith D.") RD Rohith D. Junior Graphic Designer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/30/2021 "iStock; Quality images and videos." 4/5 What do you like best about iStock? 1. Istock dashboard is excellent and well organized. 2. Istock search filter is accurate and displays good results. We can even refine images with this option. 3. IStock has a wide variety of images with them. 4. IStock has excellent videos, photos, illustrations. 5. IStock is useful for people who can pay for the images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStock? 1. Pay per image in iStock is very expensive. 2. Monthy Subscription is also quite expensive compared to Pexels, which are giving images for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering iStock: iStock has quality images, but the pricing is expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStock solving and how is that benefiting you? 1. iStock is a lifesaver for many people who do not find proper images because iStock has all the pictures. 2. We can use iStock videos to create content for our social media pages. 3. Often, we won't get the images we want, but in iStock, we can find them in 4K definition images. 4. We can edit the videos in iStock the way we want, which is excellent. 5. The board's tool in iStock, allows saving images and video clips. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite TB Tashan B. Video Editor Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/12/2021 "You can find tons of stock media here" 4.5/5 What do you like best about iStock? There are many stock images, video, sounds and other media to choose from at iStock. They have an always increasing supply of stock media. There are several subscription plans we can choose from on top of the pay-per-item type of deal. They often have promotions for new users or for certain types of media. The image quality is mostly professional and they offer various resolutions to download. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStock? Though there is often a large quantity of stock media for every general topic, I think there isn't enough artistic or unique items that stand out from the rest. Most of the stock images and video I've used are generic and seem too lifeless to use in more significant posts and content we published. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStock solving and how is that benefiting you? iStock gives us a way to acquire images, video and music without having to produce them on our own. We are taken through simple purchase and downloading instructions. Everyone on my team can use iStock without any problems. They have a support team that can help us satisfactorily when technical issues do occur. Our published content looks much better and gets better interactions and responses when we use iStock media compared to not using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Patrick S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Patrick S.") PS Patrick S. Digital Marketer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/27/2022 "Their subscription is a scam, meant to trick you into paying more for images than they're worth" 0/5 What do you like best about iStock? The images are fine,but you can find good ones elsewhere aren't sold with deceptive strategies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStock? iStock is a scam. After your subscription ends you will lose any unused downloads but they will still charge you for each one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStock solving and how is that benefiting you? Nothing. I'm done with them. I wouldn't invite anyone to use them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![David B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "David B.") DB David B. Director of Production Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/9/2021 "A good subscription for a reasonable price" 3.5/5 What do you like best about iStock? I like the variety of assets they provide, you can find video, imagery, illustrations and vectors to create your own graphics. We have a subscription and we typically pay it off for the year with one client project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStock? The quality may not always be quite as high as some of the other sites featuring stock but you can usually find some assets that will work well for your project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStock solving and how is that benefiting you? We were looking for help finding video and photo assets to incorporate into some of our projects and we were running out of the sites we usually used. We found assets that worked perfectly and kept the client happy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/2/2021 "A great resources for photos, videos" 4/5 What do you like best about iStock? I like being able to search for stock imagery and videos to use for my design projects. I like being able to choose between horizontal and vertical layout, as well as the new search features that include number of people, age, and ethnicity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStock? The search functionality is limiting. It can be hard to find good results for more abstract ideas and sometimes the results that come up don't seem to match the search terms at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStock solving and how is that benefiting you? It is allowing us to create designs with royalty free stock images. By downloading new images each time, we keep our designs fresh and up-to-date. It helps us to create quality artwork. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Angela Mariea O.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Angela Mariea O.") AO Angela Mariea O. Freelance Graphic Designer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/12/2020 "Getty Review" 5/5 What do you like best about iStock? What I like best it's easy to find and a wide range of selections to choose from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStock? What I like the least is a variety of old style pic and brands. I have 105 year old grandmother and trying to find pic that depict her ethnicity of Black, African and Indian , I had to search a little harder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStock solving and how is that benefiting you? Problems I'm solving with Getty Images is having a one stop shop at my fingertips for Zoom, Google Docs, WhatsApp and Messenger meetings. I've realized the images are sharp, royalty free and pairs well with technical devices for seminars, presentations and speaking engagements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 12/13/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite GD Gregg D. Marketing Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/17/2021 "Large variety of images overall but is it best suited for B2C not B2B" 1.5/5 What do you like best about iStock? There is a large variety of images and some exclusive images. There is a number of filters available to help you zero in on the image you want. They also have popular categories and image sets bookmarked on the homepage. You can also search the full library without signing up for a subscription. Most of the images in the essential collection will fit the need, or you can step up to the signature plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about iStock? The depth of images is lacking. You can find an image similiar to what you are looking for, but seeing similiar images grouped together is a hit and miss. Which brings us to the search feature. It's not bad, but it pulls in random images that have no corrolation to the search terms. Like an image of a wheelbarrow with pots when you search for a sprinkler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering iStock: Start with the Credit packs and see if it meets you needs. Yes they are expensive, but it's better than being stuck with an annual subscription you cannot cancel. We jumped straight to the subscritpion (attempting to save money) just to find out it doesn't meet our needs and we cannot cancel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is iStock solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using iStock for stock images in our Business to Business advertising. The images have been great for our various marketing campaigns and sales initatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about iStock? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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