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Openverse

A search engine for openly licensed images and audio.

Visit Openverse4.5

  • Rating

    4.5 / 5

  • Pricing

    Free

  • Difficulty

    Beginner

  • Works on

    Web

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What is Openverse?

Openverse is a free, open-source search engine for more than 800 million openly licensed and public domain images and audio tracks, run as part of the WordPress project. You can filter by licence and use one-click attribution, though it advises checking each work's licence before reuse.

Pros: what Openverse does well

  • Hundreds of millions of free works
  • Filter by licence type
  • One-click attribution text

Cons: where it falls short

  • Licence details are not verified for you
  • Image quality varies a lot

Who Openverse is for

Bloggers, students and creators who need free images or sounds they can legally reuse.

Who can skip it

Teams that already pay for a stock media library.

Openverse alternatives

Not sold on Openverse? These do a similar job, and each card says what it has in common.

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1000UserGuide

Focus: user acquisition, marketing channels and indie developer. Shares open source with Openverse. Rated 4.7 (Openverse: 4.5).

WebsiteFreeWeb
4.7Visit

Awesome LLM

Focus: llm, awesome list and papers. Shares open source with Openverse. Rated 4.7 (Openverse: 4.5).

WebsiteFreeWeb
4.7Visit

Free for Dev

Focus: free tiers, developer tools and directory. Shares open source with Openverse. Rated 4.7 (Openverse: 4.5).

WebsiteFreeWeb
4.7Visit

Free alternatives to Openverse

Want to spend nothing? These free picks cover similar ground.

Aliens Eye

Focus: osint, username search and social media. Shares open source with Openverse. Adds Linux. Rated 4.6 (Openverse: 4.5).

WebsiteFreeWeb, Linux
4.6Visit

F-Droid

Focus: android, app store and privacy. Shares open source with Openverse. Adds Android. Rated 4.6 (Openverse: 4.5).

WebsiteFreeWeb, Android
4.6Visit

Freesound

Focus: sound effects, audio and samples. Shares creative commons with Openverse. Rated 4.6 (Openverse: 4.5).

WebsiteFreeWeb
4.6Visit

selfh.st

Focus: self-hosted, app directory and alternatives. Shares open source with Openverse. Rated 4.6 (Openverse: 4.5).

WebsiteFreeWeb
4.6Visit
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