TrustRadius Insights for Pixabay are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Wide variety of images: Users appreciate the wide range of images, illustrations, and vectors available on Pixabay. Many reviewers have stated that unlike many competitors who lump them all together, Pixabay makes it easy for users to find what they are looking for.
High-quality content: The quality of images and music provided by Pixabay is highly praised by users. They appreciate the professional and high-resolution content available on the platform. Several reviewers have mentioned that this high-quality content enhances their projects.
Free for commercial use: Users highly value the fact that Pixabay provides free images, videos, and music for both commercial and personal use. This advantage has been mentioned by a significant number of reviewers who appreciate being able to access a wide range of assets without worrying about copyright issues.
1. Pixabay is great for getting royalty-free images for every use. 2. There are illustrations for every use case like e-commerce and doctors. 3. Music is also available to use in promo videos and tests. 4. 4k Videos can be used for designing UI, apps, and websites. 5. We can use all the assets everywhere.
Pros
Image assets
Videos
illustrations
Music
Cons
Search
Filter
Explore
category or group for assets
Likelihood to Recommend
1. When we need royalty-free images, videos, music, illustrations, or vectors. 2. To show our assets like images, and video music. 3. To Explore the available images or videos or music. 4. It is not well suited if want a set like a set of illustrations for doctor-patient UI. 5. Not available any customisations in illustrations.
Pixabay is the most portal for images, videos, and photos. I use this for several years for my project, internet website, and content creation. I suggest using this portal, to use immediately photos in several formats. Very useful is the video, also in several formats ready to use for your website, blog, and creation. There is also an app, that you can use directly from your smartphone. This is my website where you can see several images that I download from Pixabay. A tip that comes to mind, it would be useful to have images associated with tags and more free images related to digital education. But I realize that it is too tied to my work but it would make the research more targeted and punctual.
Pros
Quick to find pictures
A huge database
Professional content
Cons
Introduce tags
Likelihood to Recommend
If you create content on social media or websites or you are a blogger, Pixabay is fundamental and cannot be missed.
Our company was building a learning app for mobiles that required a lot of illustrative graphics, gifs, and videos. We had to make sure it was cleared for usage in a way that was appropriate for our needs when sending the content out worldwide, and Pixabay gave us some great options of stock images to use.
Pros
Range
Cost
Quality
Cons
Searching
Likelihood to Recommend
Pixabay is the perfect budget option for people needing stock images, they have a great range of content on their site that can be used for a variety of stuff. Their rules on licensing are clearly laid out in layman's terms rather than being buried in a paragraph which I also massively appreciated!
I use Pixabay to populate images on slide decks for internal presentations, company videos, and self-paced e-learning courses. If I do not have a corresponding image to a concept, then Pixabay is where I go to find high-quality images that I am confident can be used both internally and externally.
Pros
Provides a library of high resolution images.
Tags images with a number of words and phrases.
Very simple user interface.
Cons
The images can often feel "too corporate" or "too on the nose".
Many of the camera angles are constantly repeated. This is not an issue of the angle is "straight on," but the more creative angles are bizarrely repetitive.
The emotional spectrum of the images is limited. Not much nuance. Every emotion is depicted at full force.
Likelihood to Recommend
Pixabay is great when you need to quickly get a presentation or a visual element completed and you are lacking imagery. The images are almost always safe for any work environment, they are high quality, and downloading is very simple. Pixabay is not great when a visual representation requires great specificity. The image offering can be very generic.
I use Pixabay to search for free imagery on any design projects I have for multiple clients.
Pros
Good search tool
Cons
Need to improve its library of stock imagery
More natural and dynamic shots
More professional and modern illustration and vectors
Likelihood to Recommend
Pixabay is a very user-friendly searching system and filter tool. However, the imagery has not improved, expanded, or developed to include more diverse, energetic, or natural photography. Many of the imagery available are images I can already find on other paying images sites and can be quite posed. I have found I use Pixabay less and less over the years due to this and use other sites more as they have a more extensive image library on a more diverse range of topics and industries.
I need to find photos and videos for social media that are not copyrighted. This includes weekly postings on social media, as well as photos that may be used in a course or for ads. It addresses finding some photos and videos that everyone else isn't always using. Sometimes people use Canva so often that you see their photos everywhere and it doesn't let your brand show. I also needed to find music for some podcast advertising and there is a plethora of styles available.
Pros
They have such a great variety of different types of media to use.
I love that they have more than just photos and video to use.
The quality of their images and music is very professional.
Cons
One thing that kind of sticks out is that with so much to choose from, you can feel overwhelmed.
Some of the photos I sometimes can find separately by googling. In the music business, it seems like many photos rotate on the web so there isn't as much to pick from.
I didn't see an option for more vertical videos for use in Instagram or TikTok.
Likelihood to Recommend
It would be fantastic for professional-looking posts on Instagram, Facebook, websites, or maybe even as part of a YouTube video. I also think that any music that is used with VoiceOver could be fabulous because it could be used with presentations or as part of social media postings. It probably wouldn't be used as much for background on Zoom or to use video without either a voice-over or other text as part of it. I don't think the music should be used where someone thinks that you wrote it, so make sure that it is used with a VoiceOver or in a context where you can give credit to the composer.
