# Flickr Reviews **Vendor:** Flickr **Category:** [Photo Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/photo-management) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 332 ## About Flickr Flickr is the largest global community united by photography in the world. Fueled by passionate photographers, Flickr offers users the best place for inspiration, connection, storing, and sharing of photos and videos with others. Unlimited Uploads and Worry-Free Photo Backup Upload as many photos as you can take, always at true full resolution. With Auto-Uploadr, quickly and easily back up your entire photo collection from your phone, computer, hard drives, Dropbox, Adobe Lightroom, and more. Advanced Stats Gain an understanding of how people are discovering your Flickr Photos. See which of your photos are trending now, and which have performed the best over the life of your Flickr Pro account. Ad-Free Browsing Enjoy a fully ad-free experience across all of Flickr. Visitors to your account will never see an ad on your photostream, albums, profile, or any of your photos. Premier Product Support Why wait in line for help? Flickr Pros receive top-priority assistance from our world-class support heroes, so you can resolve your questions and get back to your photography. Detailed Privacy Settings Got albums you want to share with friends, family, or no-one at all? Flickr Pros get complete control over privacy settings for all their photos (free accounts are limited to 1,000 uploads, only 50 of which can be private). High-Resolution Uploads Give your content the Pro treatment with 6k photo display options, 10-minute video uploads, and sales links to wherever you host your photo business. ## Flickr Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users love the **community engagement** on Flickr, appreciating the interaction among passionate photographers. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** in Flickr, praising its friendly interface and simple photo editing tools. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy-to-use editing tools** in Flickr, enhancing their photo management experience effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users love the **supportive photography community** on Flickr, enhancing their experience and encouraging interaction. (1 reviews) - Users enjoy the **user-friendly interface** of Flickr, making it easy to navigate and interact within the community. (1 reviews) - Users value Flickr for its **high-resolution image hosting** and community engagement, enhancing their photography experience greatly. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **unlimited storage** on Flickr, making it easy to save and showcase high-quality images. (1 reviews) - Storage Capacity (1 reviews) - User Interface (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **costly limitations** of Flickr confusing, particularly with advanced search filters restricted to Pro users. (1 reviews) - Users find the **excessive advertising** on Flickr's free account distracting and frustrating during their experience. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited storage** on the free account frustrating, impacting their overall experience with Flickr. (1 reviews) - Users find **pop-up ads distracting** on the Flickr free account, impacting their overall experience negatively. (1 reviews) - Users feel the **price issues** impact accessibility of advanced features, restricting casual exploration on Flickr. (1 reviews) - Storage Issues (1 reviews) ## Flickr Reviews ### 1. Streamlined Image Management, Easy to Use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John W. | Web Producer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2026 **What do you like best about Flickr?** I use Flickr for image asset management, and I find it very streamlined for sharing assets among departments. I appreciate how easy it is to organize and embed the albums. The ease of use stands out, and it's particularly easy to embed a feed of images from albums. The initial setup was also very easy. **What do you dislike about Flickr?** Some of the backend management and UX can be slightly confusing for newcomers. **What problems is Flickr solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Flickr for image asset management, which is streamlined for sharing assets among departments, and easy to organize and embed albums. ### 2. Unrivalled Photo Cataloguing with Excellent Metadata Support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kieran F. | Creative Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2026 **What do you like best about Flickr?** Unrivalled for cataloguing my photos, with excellent metadata support. It also has solid tools for limiting access when needed. **What do you dislike about Flickr?** Honestly, the only downside is that a lot of people don’t seem to know about it yet! **What problems is Flickr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cataloguing and showcasing my photography ### 3. A Timeless Platform for Photographers and Visual Creators **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexis S. | Entrepreneur, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Flickr?** Flickr’s ability to host high-resolution images without aggressive compression is one of its biggest strengths. The platform respects visual quality, making it perfect for photographers, designers, and visual storytellers. I also love the organization tools like albums and tags, which make my portfolio easy to navigate. The active community and ability to discover niche content are a huge plus. **What do you dislike about Flickr?** The mobile app experience could be more modern and intuitive—it feels slightly outdated compared to other photo platforms. Also, some advanced search filters are only accessible to Pro users, which limits casual discovery. **What problems is Flickr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage and display of galleries with legacy pictures for life, clients and projects.Flickr gives me a reliable home for my photography portfolio. I use it to showcase high-resolution work to potential clients and collaborators. The platform’s robust tagging system and creative commons licensing options have also helped me get my work discovered and even published elsewhere. ### 4. flicker photo share **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shiva Kumar P. | Sr DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2025 **What do you like best about Flickr?** the best platform to share and show up our creativity to fellow flicker users. **What do you dislike about Flickr?** Flickr once had a vibrant photography community, but it's no longer as active or influential. **What problems is Flickr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Acts as a cloud backup for personal photo collections or professional portfolios ### 5. Flickr shares my values **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom R. | Photographer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Flickr?** Flickr is clearly focused on photography and supporting a global community of photographers and photo consumers. I like that Flickr has been doing photography for as long as I have! Their environmental awareness initiatives are meaningful and important. In addition to their online presence, the Flickr team is a great group of people who successfully connected a community of photographers at a recent event hosted in NYC. The platform’s offering of unlimited uploads, high-quality image resolution, and intuitive image organization options truly sets it apart, making it an essential tool for both professional and amateur photographers. **What do you dislike about Flickr?** While Flickr offers many great features, there are a few aspects that could be improved. The ads inserted between photos in the free version can diminish the viewing experience. Additionally, there's a noticeable disparity between some of the legacy website design and the more modern mobile app design, which can be jarring for users who switch between the two. Despite uploading hundreds of high-quality photos, the level of engagement on my work has been disappointingly low. Lastly, my Explore feed often features too many boring landscape and nature photos, when I'm really looking for more diverse content including portraits, fashion, and street. **What problems is Flickr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Uploading entire photosets from events and photowalks, featuring high quality images, and getting my work out there to a broader audience. ### 6. Amazing site with an incredible community that helps me find inspiration and put my art out there. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joel W. | Insurance Broker, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Flickr?** I like the community that is involved with the site and sharing photos while discovering new photographers thru the Flickr features. I like that I can save all my photos to the site and that its super simple to do and what photos I want shown can get out there fast. I go through using the site often to find ideas and inspoiration in what I capture. **What do you dislike about Flickr?** i wish the app had more attention to it. i would like more features on the app to make it more user friendly. **What problems is Flickr solving and how is that benefiting you?** its helping me solve photo storage issues. its a safe place to keep my photos as they were taken so i forever have my photos at the original size. ### 7. Best photos sharing app **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mohamed e. | Admin specialist , Hospitality, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Flickr?** the best thing that i like about flicker is the community of photographers and how they are interacting with each others i also lik the built in photo editing tools its very easy to use the interface is very freindly and make it easy for daily usage **What do you dislike about Flickr?** if you are using the free account the ads can be distracting limited storage with the free account some users are spamming and using clickbait **What problems is Flickr solving and how is that benefiting you?** external storage for my data and helping me interact with many talented peers and making new freinds with the same hobby ### 8. *It was* A good old friend you can trust with your photos **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikolina M. | SEO, WordPress & Content Marketing Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Flickr?** The best feature Flicker has is allowing the image owner to choose the licence for sharing the image. Everyone can see it, but you don't risk ending up published on some blog. **What do you dislike about Flickr?** The recent changes had hidden many functionalities that were previously free behind a paywall that didn't exist at all. On the upside, the extra cash has brought improvements in design and ease of use. The paywall I mentioned some time ago seems to have gotten worse. Flickr was many people's favourite place to share and collect images - now it's a hurdle race. **What problems is Flickr solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Flickr personally and professionally. Personally for sharing my work, and professionally for sourcing photos that are typically difficult to find elsewhere. This second option has become impossible, but I'm not deleting it. Instead, I want others to see it as a part of the history. ### 9. Keep creatives and photography safe and secure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jishma B. | Junior Ecommerce Executive, Luxury Goods & Jewelry, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Flickr?** Flickr is a user friendly platform to keep photos safely. We can upload and keep high quality images in flickr. The flickr community is one of the best feature of this platform they are supportive and professionals in the area. The UI helps to navigate through different creatives from different people across the globe will give a perfect user experience. Having zapier integration is a plus to connect with wordpress. Flickr can be used daily for design and creative refereances also. We can do the implementation quickly with wordpress. **What do you dislike about Flickr?** There are ads in the free version and customer support is delay sometimes other than that there is nothing to dislike **What problems is Flickr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Flickr to manage photos and creatives of our organisation. Flickr is an easy to use platform where we can securely store credentials. Our business sometimes need to have url of photos need to be hosted so in that situations we upload photos in flickr and send to our prospects. This is a simple and smooth tool. ### 10. Platform for sharing and storing designs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Flickr?** A platform for sharing and storing designs. The Flickr community is large and we can take inspiration from them. Allows integration helps to organise the photos and videos in a single place. User interface is cool and easy to switch between different creatives. Also helps to get clickable links to share design projects. Overall the product sounds good for me **What do you dislike about Flickr?** We are using a free version of Flickr and it have ads which is usual for any free tool so nothing to dislike **What problems is Flickr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to store photos in a single place and can be access and share with others. I used it for my personal use and used for my professional use to store designs. 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