# Pexels Reviews **Vendor:** Pexels **Category:** [Stock Photos Websites](https://www.g2.com/categories/stock-photos) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 112 ## About Pexels Pexels is a free photo and video library that helps creative people bring their stories and ideas to life. From small businesses to nonprofits, marketers to designers, millions of people all over the world rely on our community of photographers for fresh, authentic, and diverse imagery. ## Pexels Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users love the **vibrant range of high-quality images** on Pexels, perfect for enhancing digital promotions and presentations. (2 reviews) - Users love the **vibrant range of high-quality images** on Pexels, enhancing their digital promotions and presentations. (2 reviews) - Users value the **high quality** of Pexels' images, enhancing their digital promotions and providing excellent client experiences. (2 reviews) - Users love the **affordable high-quality images** on Pexels, perfect for promoting their businesses creatively. (1 reviews) - Users love the **vibrant collection quality** of Pexels, making it easy to find and showcase stunning images. (1 reviews) - Users love the **vast collection of high-quality images** on Pexels, enhancing their creative projects effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Customer Support (1 reviews) - Design (1 reviews) - Users find Pexels to be incredibly **user-friendly** , making it easier to find and download high-quality images. (1 reviews) - Easy Search (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find some images on Pexels to be **repetitive** , as they appear across multiple platforms frequently. (1 reviews) - Users note the presence of **repetitive content** on Pexels, with some images commonly found across different platforms. (1 reviews) ## Pexels Reviews ### 1. A Huge Library of Free Photos with Handy Built-In Canva Editing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew W. | Sales Administration Support, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2026 **What do you like best about Pexels?** I like that I can search and find all sorts of royalty/licence-free photos. I also like that people can contribute their own photos, and that they’re free to use while still giving people the option to donate to a specific photographer. Another thing I appreciate is that it has Canva built in for photo/image modifications, since I use Canva as well. There are a lot of pictures available, and I mainly use it to download images for blog posts, our website, and social media posts. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Sometimes it’s hard to find the photos I’m really looking for. A lot of the time, I notice that the images I want are being shared through another paid website, even though they’re featured on Pexels. I’m not sure why that happens—maybe it’s the parent company—but I do like that Pexels is free to start with, and that you can choose to pay specific contributors if you want to. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the problem of having to purchase individual photo licences or bulk licences just to get images I can use for marketing materials, social media, etc. It also helps me find a wide variety of photos, so I can present different options to managers. ### 2. Using Pexels at my work place **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitya K. | Event Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2025 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels is a great platform for stock images and photos. I use its high-quality materials photos for my digital promotions, brochure and wedding flyers. Using Pexels helps to make a enormous presentation by which we can help out clients to give best experience. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** So far I am using Pexels I haven't find any thing wrong about it. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since I am an event Manager at FNP events my work is to market our company and build great relationship with client by the pexels I get best quality stock footage videos and photos that helps me create something unique and new idea for the wedding. Every wedding is unique so I belive to keep every theme unique and should not be repeated. By the help of pexels it gets so easy for me. ### 3. Detailed experience for using pexels **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raiyan R. | Sales Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels has vibrant range of high quality images which are free I have used various of the raw images for my car detailing studio showcase. I love the huge collection and library of the photos. In pexels website it is very easy to categorise and and get the perfect image for my car detailing studio. I also edit those photos with canva and promote various offers in celebration months. In short Pexels is really great platform for those small medium business who needs creativity to promote their business digitally. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I have been using pexels for more than 5 months but still didn't find any problems or hindrance in that but yeah some pictures in platform are very common and being used at various image platforms. Aprt from it I haven't find any problems or issues in it. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pexels is solving various challenges in my work my business runs with with various promotions and digital marketing for that I need various new stock photos and pictures and through pexels these new stock photos are just in fingertip so since I have encountered this software. Selection of new photos are way easy now. ### 4. Amazing Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2025 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Truly impressed by their support, they resolved a few issues I had where I needed some pictures to be removed and they took several extra miles to help me even though I didn't ask for that level of support. They truly cared for me to feel comfortable and I haven't experienced this level of support in years! **What do you dislike about Pexels?** It would be great if I can find images of the same model/person/session in an easy way. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a diverse amout of stock photos for the same scene/scenario/person ### 5. Pexels helps users in collecting some of the best digital work available on internet **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Umesh K. | IT Team, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Pexels?** The platform pexels is quite unique and interesting as it has huge library of stock photos and videos which are clicked by some of the best photographers all over the world and this platform also helps their users to download all these photos in high resolutions that too free of cost. The images that they provide are very professional and mostly used by our digital team for multiple marketing campaigns. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Pexels is one of the oldest plaform providing free digital content with good resolutions but after using for few years it became difficult for us to get new images and content related to our business and gradually the content started saturating without any new images and video updates later on it became hell of a tasks for our team to select best photos. This is what I found can be something which should be improved by their team. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly the accessibility of pexels is great as it work well in web version which is easy to access from any part of the world also they have apps for android and iOS devices which makes the selection and downloading process even more easy just their apps have small lagging issues which impacts the user's overall experience, rest everything is great in pexels and it is worth of giving a try. ### 6. Pexels helps us to get some free stock photos **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivam K. | Social Media Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Pexels?** The best part of Pexels is that it provides all the content under creative commons zero which means that all the content can be used for personal and professional purposes without the fear of copyrights. As they daily updates their photos and videos content so we mostly get fresh digital work whenever we need to do promotions. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** All the photos and videos on the platform are not of that high definition some of the content gets published by newbies and looks unprofessional. When we do niche search for photos then we realised that they have limited photos for some specific types of keywords which is better in other platforms. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main advantage that we get after using pixels is that it can easily collaborate with other third-party platforms and can be accessed from anywhere across the world with even slow internet connections which makes it more scalable in the long run for small businesses like us ### 7. Pexels Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melhick Asrat A. | Health Care Advisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels offers quality high definition pictures and videos free of charge. There are numerous catagories to choose from. It has a simple and user friendly interphase.Additionally, the contents are accuratly tagged which makes browsing and selecting pictures and videos easy and fun. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I have not come across any feature I disliked. I have had a great experience using pexels! **Recommendations to others considering Pexels:** It is an excellent platform, and I strongly recommend it to anyone looking for high definition, quality, and royalty-free media. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Pexels, I create pretty fun and quality posts and content without spending money. I found an excellent source for my company's social media posts and videos. ### 8. My experience with Pexels **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Apeksha J. | Hospital Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** As a hospital manager, part of my responsibilities includes sourcing high-quality photos from individuals that effectively represent various healthcare issues for departmental posters. Pexels, a vast platform with millions of photos, offers a convenient solution for selecting impactful images that directly convey the desired health concerns. Utilizing Pexels, I can create compelling campaigns to raise awareness within the hospital. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** There is nothing to dislike about Pexels it's a huge platform for raw images which are also free to use. Some of the photos are in the paid version but the choices are so enormous only thing I felt since using this software is that sometimes the photos are overused by a few people and there is no check on that. So the uniqueness of the pictures sometimes just vanishes. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pexels offers a platform for our hospitals to showcase our expertise through photography. We can share professionally captured images of our state-of-the-art facilities, compassionate staff, advanced medical equipment, and successful patient outcomes. Such visual content can instill trust and confidence in potential patients, leading to an increase in patient inquiries and appointments. Overall, Pexels can contribute to our hospital's business growth by providing a rich repository of visuals that can be leveraged for marketing, awareness campaigns, and showcasing expertise. ### 9. Free and High Quality **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vanshaj P. | Founder, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels provides free high-quality stock pictures. Easy to use UI for beginners. The stock of photos is regularly updated which lets the user keep up with the ongoing trend **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Sometimes, the pictures on Pexels don't fit the keywords you are looking for. Some pictures lack creativity and are not always culturally relevant. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Pexels are the primary stock image provider for my websites ranging from consultancy firms to food delivery applications. Good for experimenting phase as we don't have to spend extra money on pictures for beta and pre-beta testing phases ### 10. Get high-quality images for personal and commercial use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit K. | Head of Information Technology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** The Pexels is a platform that provides a high range of stock photos and videos that too free of cost. I mostly use these photos for my business needs because for making some attractive digital designs you need some high-definition digital content and accessibility of which has only become possible for us through this platform only. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** The platform is great but there are some photos that are a little old and also seem disappointing in terms of their quality because Pexels is only famous for providing high-definition Digital content and when you get some photos so dull that you just want to take help some other platform. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** The best part that is benefiting us most is that all of its images are copyrighted free and you can use them as much as you want without getting any issues of someone spamming your content as far as you are using its content for a good purpose. The platform is great and should be tried by personal and commercial users too. ### 11. Best website to find high quality images **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nutan B. | Owner | Blogger | Web Designer | SEO Professional, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** I have been using Pexels for years, it gives me quality images. I'm a web developer and digital marketing specialist by profession. I use a lot of images for building websites, for designing social media posts, and my social profiles. This saves me a lot of time. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I was looking for some Indian food images which are not easily available on Pexels. It'll be nice if all the rare images are added too. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was very helpful for building websites with nice background images, integrating with some graphic design tools, and making creative social media posts. ### 12. Completely free and high-quality stock **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Genesis P. | Auxiliar de RR. HH., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** What I like most about Pexels is its ease of use and intuitive interface. It allows me to search and download images in a matter of seconds and directly. Pexels gives me the option to edit them with Canva, which I think is great. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I would like it to have a paid version, as this way there could be more exclusivity with the photographs. In my case, I always edit the material from Pexel to try to maintain some originality. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** It offers a wide variety of free photos and videos for designers, content creators, and anyone who needs high-quality images for their projects. The quality of the available images is exceptional, with options for all kinds of themes and styles. ### 13. High quality stock photos and videos for personal and commercial use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manmeet S. | Brand management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** pexels is a platform for stock photos and videos which are of highest quality.Stock images are free to use and they update their library very often.The website works very well on desktop and mobile both. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** So far i don't have much against pexels just that they don't have any vector images. Their app does need some work as it lags sometimes. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pexels help access the best high quality stock images which i can use in my daily business to bring in customers.These stock images draw customers attention in seconds . ### 14. User Exprience of Pexels **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshita D. | Digital Marketing Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels is a huge platform for stock photography and videos platform. I can access free high-quality images and videos that can be used in my advertisement campaigns. I love it because of its easy-to-use interface and its search functionality which can give me the exact option which fits my campaigns. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** There is not so much to dislike about pexels since it's a huge platform of stock images and videos but still, I found that sometimes images needed to be monitored by quality control or something some vague images were uploaded to the site. also pexels do not give an editing option so videos I need to use extra software to edit photos or videos. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pexels has a huge stock of photographs and being a marketing manager my job role is to run different marketing campaigns since I work in the Automobile industry where looks matter a lot. If I can develop new concept posters banners flyers I need different stock photos which can be more authentic and creative to be used in promotional campaigns. pexels helped a lot in provifing some extra ordinary car stock phots and its interior photos so without them it would be difficult to get that high-quality pictures. ### 15. Pexels Is Great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels has a large library of stock photos that are realisitic, organic, and have worked very well in creative marketing that my consultancy has done for clients. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I did not dislike anything but some other services seem to have more culturally relevant images which is important for my firm because we focus multicultural marketing and assist clients that work in the DEI space so Pexels is great for that. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Need stock photos to create marketing assets primarily including websites, landing pages, presentation decks, branded social media assets and viseos. Pexels is a fun resource to use - they alwayshave cool photos. ### 16. Best ever platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arnold N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Pexels?** It's user friendly. It's easier than all the other platforms. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Nothing it's great. I love using your platform. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** All my commercials and movies and reel. ### 17. A Comprehensive Review of Pexels – Free and High Quality Stock Photos for Every Need **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roselyn E. | Social Media Marketing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** I like that Pexels offers a wide variety of high-quality images that are free to use and easy to find. Additionally, the website's user experience is intuitive and easy to navigate. Finally, Pexels is constantly updating its library with new and unique images, so I can always find the perfect image for my project. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** One of the main drawbacks of Pexels is that the images are often stock images which can be quite generic and lack creativity. Additionally, some of the images can be quite low quality, making them unsuitable for professional or commercial use. Also, the search function can be quite limited, making it difficult to find the exact image you are looking for. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pexels is a great tool for social media managers, as it provides a library of stunning, high-quality photos for free. This is a huge benefit for businesses looking to create high-quality visuals for their social media campaigns, as it eliminates the need to pay for stock photography. Not only does Pexels provide great visuals, but it also makes it incredibly easy to search for the perfect photo with its simple, intuitive search engine. As a social media manager, I have found Pexels to be a great resource for creating engaging visuals for my clients. The high-quality photos enable me to easily create beautiful visuals that stand out from the competition. In addition, Pexels makes it easy to search for the perfect photo, saving me time and hassle. Overall, I would highly recommend Pexels to any social media manager looking for a great library of free, high-quality photos. It has been an invaluable resource in my work, and I look forward to using it in the future. ### 18. Best quality photo available free of cost **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek G. | Sales Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** The platform has lots of free high-definition photos that can be used on any digital platform. The photos are of high quality and the user will get these photos almost from all the different domains in pexels. It also works on Mobile as well as desktop devices with the same efficiency. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** One thing which is surely needed to improve by pexels is their app developed for Android version which seems to be of no use because and it lags a lot sometimes then gets shut down by itself. Rest all seems to be great on pexels. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** The platform helps to get high-quality digital content that is unique and quickly accessible from anywhere. We download the photos related to our business domain and then use them for lots of graphic and ad creation purposes. ### 19. An excellent bank of free photos **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricardo José Ochoa R. | Diseño web y marketing digital, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** I like that the interface is clean, practical, easy to use, and easy to find photos and visual material. I also like the possibility of selecting the photo size before downloading. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Sometimes it isn't easy to find some kind of photos because it is more focused on photos of people in very idyllic situations or just a lot of pictures with the same visual style. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Find photos and footage quickly for use in website prototypes or advertising campaigns. ### 20. Wide range of graphics, high quality content **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mundo D. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** The pictures are absolutely professional, high quality and it has a very wide range of pictures. Useful for website design, advertisement, etc. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** You can always ask for more variety, but the free plan is excellent. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many times we don't have models or our clients don't have their own graphic material, Pexel covers this. ### 21. Excellent Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek B. | E-commerce , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** I discovered a straightforward and uncomplicated method with Pexels to get the photographs, videos, and backgrounds I require to keep my projects well-illustrated. Compared to many other comparable platforms, it provides a superior experience. I frequently use it when I do my tasks, and then when I am about to complete it, I visit the website to get the photographs that fit with the primary text. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Delete the images. More search options Remove individual searches Better multi-word searches ought should be possible. For previously obtained information, a saved personal collection may be handy. B2B stock photos may be preferable. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** To arrange your work for various projects, create collections. Search through all of your downloaded photos.  Observe the photographers you enjoy. Discover a tailored homepage featuring the newest creations from your favorites, like pictures and movies. ### 22. A perfect website to find quality stock videos and images. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mario C. | Diseñador web, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** You can get some really cool material, in my case, as I work as a community manager, I use it for my posts very often and it gives them a lot of quality. Plus, it's all free. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Perhaps to add a small caveat, it's that sometimes if you put things in Spanish there's little variety, but by putting the translation in English, you often find more photos. But it's a small "but." The truth is, I have nothing bad to say. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes it much easier for me to have quality images and videos for my social media posts. I am much more productive and the result is much more professional than when I had to search on Google for royalty-free images. ### 23. Easy to Use and find pictures and Videos **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chandni A. | Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** The best thing is that we can find videos as well along with photos. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** We couldn't find vectors and icons on it and also the images sizes are so heavy. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is ideal for using free stock photos and videos for users, entrepreneurs, startups & youtubers. ### 24. For businesses on a tight budget, this is the place for photos **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Velvet S. | Communications Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** All photos are free at Pexels, and the site has numerous choices for any subject you're looking for. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Some photos can be mis-categorized by the individual uploading them, so searching and finding the right could take some time. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** My nonprofit is on a tight budget and Pexels solves that problem. Photos are high resolution, making sizing so much easier. ### 25. Pexels the store digital content **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankit S. | Marketing Team, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** The best thing about pexels is that it works on web version as well as it has its own app. The user than download multiple images through the website. Most of the images are of high definition and also free of cost. It has variety of content for image downloading. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** The platform is great and very useful but the app I have used is not that well optimized as the web version. It has some bugs and shows nothing sometimes. There are also some particular domains which images you won't find on pexels. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pexels helps us to access the best high-definition photos and illustrations which are of multipurpose use for our company. We work on digital content for better customer engagement and maintain customer relations with the company through online digital promotions. ### 26. Great platform and software to import and export HD photos **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul R. | Product Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels is a website which provides free high-definition images and content. The platform works fine on desktops and has an app for Android phones for giving users a better experience while working on it. It provides images and videos of different genres what ever a user can need they can get it all on the pexels in just few clicks. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Working on pexels is great but as I am an Android user so I am most reliable on the app version but the app is buggy and doesn't work smoothly like the browser version and needs to be updated frequently. Sometimes whenever you click on download it gets closes by itself and then starts again which is a little disturbing while doing some professional working on it. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is providing lots of premium-level content free of cost and availing them would have taken a lot of money. So, it is one of the best platforms which is useful for me and my business on a daily basis. Most of the pictures are used for online ads and paid promotions which directly enhances the company's engagement with customers. This a great recommendation for users looking for a premium level platform. ### 27. The platform where I can grab photos for free without worrying of copywrite. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janet R. | Account Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** It has a lot of Photos and Videos that I can use in times I am editing photos and videos for advertisements. I don't have to worry about copywritng in grabbing pictures or videos. There are a lot of photos to choose from. I can search for different categories that I need and find them. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Though there are a lot of photos that I can grab for free, there are photos that I need to pay for. Well, I understand if not all images are for free. Hoping to get more pictures that I can grab for free. **Recommendations to others considering Pexels:** You can use Pexels in times when you need photos or videos for your projects, ads or anything. There are a lot of photos and videos to choose from. It is safe to get and use and has no worries in copywrites. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** So far, I don't have a problem yet in using this. Downloading is very easy and convenient. I hope to get more photos based on the type of photo I need since this platform is handy in my editing of the products I need to advertise. ### 28. Good Website for getting stunning pictures. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** 1. It contains many photos and videos that I can use when editing photos and videos for promotional material. 2. I can search for images using separate categories such as landscape,4K High Definition, portrait, etc. 3. It is reliable to collect images and use, and there are no issues with copywrites. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** There are a lot of photos and videos to choose from. But it is not complimentary. You have to pay for the pictures and videos as Pay Per Image. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** While downloading files from the Pexels website, it suggests a size that allows me to get pictures in the format I need, such as png/jpg/mp3 and mp4. Pexels photos are high definition and have excellent contracts, so when used in websites and graphic design, they help draw customers' attention to posts. ### 29. An Unlimited Resource Of Free-To-Use Pictures **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Micah L. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** The fact that there are so many free images available across all different styles and uses **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I wish there was an easier way to find the exact picture I want. Maybe more keyword must be required for a creator to upload? **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me scale content in our company. ### 30. Good free stock photos **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** There are plenty of good stock photos available on the site. It's nice to use when you're looking for a more organic-looking photo rather than a staged paid photo. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Some searches are too specific and Pexels doesn't have the images available. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using stock photos for free and not using Adobe stock credits. ### 31. Pexels is the best place to get Free Stock Photos and Videos **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Marketing Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Being a marketer you are required to create attention-grabbing, good-looking, aesthetic posts and it is not always possible to create the pictures yourself. That's when Pexels comes to the rescue. I have been using Pexels to get Free Stock photos and videos to use for my posts. With a little bit of editing, you can turn already great-looking pictures/videos to look even better. Since Pexels allows everyone to upload photos and videos, you can never run out of posts. It also allows you to download photos in multiple sizes which saves the bandwidth by downloading a smaller size when needed. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I don't think there are any downsides to using Pexels. It is basically a free marketplace that gives you photos and videos to use for your posts. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pexels allows me to get unlimited access to free, high-quality photos and videos that I can use for my posts. This allows me to create posts fast and post them on our socials. With the help of good posts and compelling copy, we secure leads for our software. ### 32. One of the GO-TO's for stock photo. A PEXELS review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rune E. | Strategic Media Positioning and Client Acquisition at AgencyDeluxe.com, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** What I like the most about Pexels is the simplicity. Most stock phot sites have a ton of clutter, on average. Pexels, are not that. It's purely, "this is what you're looking for, and here you can find it". Easy navigation. Images, Videos, Zoom backgrounds and more. It's all there and the fact that it is free, is the kicker as many BUY stock photos. With Pexels, you can browse and download a LOT for free. Two thumbs up **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Although I love Pexels, there's one thing I can say that limits my use of it. That is the amount of images. I would have loved it we could select even more images or videos. Given that it is free, the server capacity will take a toll if it was as chock full as a paid resource. So my only thing to note that I dislike, is the limitation of graphics. I am quite savvy when it comes to my use of them. So this should not apply to most. **Recommendations to others considering Pexels:** For a stock photo site, it is a contender. It is free. It has a great selection to choose from. Several themed images. And it's easy to use, with simple navigation. User-friendly is what it is. I'd highly recommend this site to anyone looking for stock footage and images. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving the problem of getting an image fast without needing to register for an account and submit my credit card and be a victim of endless promotions like some other sites. The benefit of using Pexels is that ew can go to the site, find an image, video, Zoom background, fast... And start using it after we have an account. It does require us to login, but that is ok. They are friendly. And they don't do push marketing as far as I can tell. ### 33. Best Expereince **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hamza A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** The media library of Pexels is pretty much organized. Its easy-to-search function allows users to go through a variety of media for their projects. Pexels availibity on different devices like Android and IOS. The function that I liked a lot is the Pexels Leaderboard, where users can find the top contributors' work. It's just FREE everything. You can get fine-quality images and videos. The best part is, that you don't even need to attribute the owner for their work, and it's copyright-free. The last thing that I like the most is that users can always support the contributor for their work. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I don't think there is any factor that I don't like about Pexels. I think there should be an option for Advanced Search. It'll be a lot helpful regarding what specific kind of Image/Video the user is looking for. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pexels have introduced a feature where any user can participate in a challenge and can work on their improvements and have some good experience too. The platform is constantly improving this feature and it has been a major factor for many professionals' expertise. ### 34. Provides high quality copyright free photos and videos. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** HARSH P. | Web developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels provides the best high-quality royalty-free photos and videos that we can use in our projects. the UI of the website is very good and it also lets you easily download the content without any hassle it also helps the content providers. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** There is nothing that I dislike about the Pexels. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pexels is solving the problem of finding good quality royalty-free photos by providing a huge library of royalty-free photos and videos. ### 35. Royalty Free Images **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chasity N. | Property Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Pexels?** There are many topics available to search for. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Some topics could have a better variety of images available. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pexels provides us with free images to use in our digital designs and ads. ### 36. Best website to get copyright free photos and videos. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishvjit S. | Backend Developer Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** I love Pexels because it provides so many copyright-free high-definition photos and videos. It's best to use Pexels in making low-budget websites or for personal portfolio websites. I honestly like the category feature for the images and videos. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I do not dislike anything related to Pexels. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped me when I was making my personal portfolio website, it provided me with so many copyright-free background images for my website and I used them for my website. ### 37. Great Website to get Stock images **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Himanshu D. | Web developer intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** It provides a diverse selection of free high-quality, visually attractive stock images for free, with no copyright restrictions. It also includes credit information for the portraits. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** It cannot be easy to find required images using keywords. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** The site's structure and response are perfect and simple to use, so there are no negative points. The variety and quality of photographs submitted on Pexels are amazing, including the 4K High Definition quality of the footage and photos. The website is highly user-friendly and straightforward, saving time for searching. ### 38. Pretty good stock photos for awesome price point (free!) **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels is great for getting stock photos quickly and simply – they have a decent range of topics and categories, so I can generally find what I need. I also love how they feature each creator front and center so you know exactly who you're getting images from and can donate to/support that creator. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I've been using Pexels for a really long time for a multitude of different projects & topic areas..... and sometimes I feel like I've scrolled past every image on their website. Obviously, as a free, independent stock photo website, they won't have the same range and depth as sites like Adobe Stock or Getty Images. So just go in knowing things may get a little repetitive. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick and simple stock images for myriad projects, including professional presentations, blog posts, emails, and sometimes even social media content. It's very quick and effective. ### 39. Best for high quality stock photos and videos. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Utkarsh s. | Freelance Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels is the website where one can get free stock photos and videos. This website contains millions of high-quality photos and videos and that too for free. The User interface of the website is just amazing and we can find anything very easily. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** There isn't anything to dislike about this website as it has quality content that too for free. **Recommendations to others considering Pexels:** If you are looking for a platform that provides you stock photos and footages, then pexels is best. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me in getting ideas for designing and making videos for my clients. Overall it helps me in my freelancing work on upwork and in editing my youtube videos. Pexels has become part of my work. ### 40. Best Free Website for get Free Stock Videos & Photos **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parwinder K. | UI/UX Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels is the website where you can get free stock footage as well as videos. There are too many features to explain. Let's Discuss 1) Home screen is designed very well, it shows the search box, some categories, and some random stocks. 2) Searching is very easy and you can get both photos and videos in your single search. 3) You can discover stuff by collections, topics etc. 4) It's totally free you do not have to pay for anything but if you want, you can give credit to the photographer. 5) You can also upload your own stock and share your talent with the world. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I am a big fan of this website and have nothing much to dislike but have a few points to mention here. 1) It would be great if they have some vector illustrations category. 2) All the photos are photoshopped. So, it's a little bit hard to edit or manipulate the images as per our needs. **Recommendations to others considering Pexels:** Pexels is a good website for those who are looking for some free stock footage and videos for their personnel work and commercial work. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Pexels for creating impactful imagery on my websites and mobile apps. The video also helps me while coding. High-Quality stock is available so no issue finding images over here. ### 41. best stock image software to use..!!!!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Surbhi G. | Interior Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** The best software out there if you want to add free stock images and videos to your work and projects. It offers a wide collection of images and provides fast and informative search options. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** There is nothing to dislike but a suggestion - the tool can provide some better integration techniques or methods to be used within many different tools too. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use pexels to integrate images and videos into my 3d and normal designs. As an interior designer and content creator, I have to always get demo content for my video showcases of interior designs. Pexels is benefitting greatly by providing this content for free and so easily accessible. ### 42. Need a free image that has a unique style? **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keegan B. | Marketing associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Love that you can find most images that you need and usually in a unique style if you find a specific user that is posting a lot of similar content. In those scenarios, you can build a whole library of similar styles of images. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Sometimes you can't find exactly what you want and the search bar sometimes does not understand the search terms if you're being too specific, you need to instead be very broad with your searches. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can't always go out and take pictures yourself and a free domain like Pexels allows you to showcase what you want or give your creative content that extra pizzaz that you would otherwise not have! ### 43. Best place for getting stock photos **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivam S. | Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels have such an awesome and wide library. I always get what I want or something close to it. I also like the fact that all the artists and creators get credit for their photos and designs to whom donations can be done as a way of appreciation. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** I have been using Pexels for a while now and there is nothing that I dislike about it. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pexels provide a creative and very diverse range of photos and it's very handy when you are searching for imagery for your designs. ### 44. The image filter that Pexels has is magnificent. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ligia C. | Publicity, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels has many things that I like, first of all it is free, you have an infinite bank of high quality images published by professionals who know how to do their job, it also has a great and practical search bar in which the protagonist are the filters so searching for images through them is extremely simple and the last thing is the ability to license your photos by adding an extra layer and copyright security, and only those who have paid for the protected photos can make free use of them. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** The only bad thing is that due to the free nature of the platform its content is limited, of quality but limited. **Recommendations to others considering Pexels:** The content is limited but no doubt you will find thousands of photos that fit your content at zero price. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** No doubt the images I have obtained from pexels have helped me in countless tasks and projects, including serving as wallpapers for certain presentations, also to decorate certain documents of a graphic nature, as well as for our advertising campaigns. ### 45. Pexels Free Photos and Videos; **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels is the best app to download copyright-free images and videos. It is helpful while preparing project reports and video presentations. Pay per image is free in Pexels which makes this is amazing software. Stock images are great in the Pexels, there are millions of images of our choice. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Amazing Website which is helping the community, no dislikes about this software. **Recommendations to others considering Pexels:** One-stop app for content using free stock videos and images. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** Excellent user interface and dashboard. Easy and fast to download ultra-high definition videos and images. Easy to upload images to Pexels community and contribute. Videos are great and unique we frequently use them in our blogs. ### 46. One of the best software to download stock videos for youtube channels or other purposes. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shankarsan K. | Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** It has amazing collections of the best stock photos and especially stock videos that are completely free to use and can be downloaded in any format. It has some wide variety of videos in any category like health, fittness, motivation etc. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Truly speaking, i don't fell it has any thing that i dislike till now because i have used nearly 100-150 videos in total in my all youtube videos till now and i always find the stock videos that i am searching for. It takes the videos to a different level. **Recommendations to others considering Pexels:** It's completely free and has a ton of great footages that u can use in youtube and any other platforms and can be surely monetized, so just try it out once and i can guarantee u that u will love it. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my all videos i need stock videos to make them more attractive and appealing, and for the motivational videos the stock videos are completely used throughout the video, and from all of then 95% of the stock videos are used only from pexel. So it is completely necessary for me and my clients and it takes my videos to an other level. ### 47. Decent range of high-quality stock photos **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** For pretty basic stock photo needs, Pexels is the place to go — they're all incredibly high-quality images. Plus, the site is very user friendly and makes it easy to find alternatives for whatever you're looking for. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** While Pexels is my preferred option for a general stock photo (think simple nature shots, a restaurant or coffee shop, etc.) I've found myself running into the same set of pictures over and over when I try to search for more specific shots. The lack of range can be a little frustrating, but I always find myself returning to Pexels for daily usage. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** My team uses Pexels for stock images for the marketing content we publish. Blog images, slide deck images, even images for our marketing website. It's one of the best free sources of stock photo content. ### 48. Awesome collection of photos and videos **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anamay S. | Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** This is the best platform to find awesome photos and videos for your projects and it is free. It is easy to use and provides a huge collection of different categories. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** There is nothing that I dislike about pexels. it is an awesome platform, very easy to use and understand. **Recommendations to others considering Pexels:** Highly recommended. It is a great source of various categories of photos and videos. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am in constant need of pictures and videos related to my various projects. I use pexels for fulfiling my project's needs. ### 49. High Quality Images & Videos! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mehak C. | Digital Marketing Executive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Pexels?** Pexels provides a huge library of high quality images and videos to choose from. It is easy to search for what you are looking and all the images and videos are free! **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Overall pexels has been very helpful so there is nothing to dislike. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using the images and videos in our ads,social media postings and on websites. You will always find the image you are looking for! ### 50. Pexels; High Quality Images for free of cost **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Pexels?** 1. I am using Pexels to download high-quality images. 2. The Images are copyright-free and are best in image quality. 3. The User Interface is elegant, and users can make out the features available here. 4. You can group the photos and create a collection. 5. Users can contribute to the Pexels community. Which I feel is a great feature. 6. Pexels also provides copy-right free videos, which we use in our daily projects. **What do you dislike about Pexels?** Pexels Community is contributing thier part in a great way, I don't have dislikes about this website. **Recommendations to others considering Pexels:** Best website/ application for high-definition images for free. Recommended to the users, can easily use in the project presentation. **What problems is Pexels solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Pexels is our one-stop website to download copyright-free images and videos; we don't have to go to several websites to find HD images and videos. 2. Pexles is also available in a mobile application, so we can easily use it. 3. We can discover trending topics in Pexels in the search bar, which we feel is a great feature. 4. Pixels has a wide range of photo and video collections. 5. 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