Quick Read: Search 11,000 Free Stock Photos with Zoomy

Finding high-quality stock photos for your next project can not only be a time-consuming process but also an expensive one.

With digital restriction management, copyright, licenses, and trademarks, we live in an era where we are constantly reminded to be careful to not step on each other's toes. Avoiding such issues can avoid both major headaches and 'time-sinks' when working on a project.

That is exactly where Zoomy App promises to deliver.

Zoomy is a small, yet very useful stock photo aggregator app, drawing together thousands of Public Domain photos from multiple sources. For ease of use the photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, meaning they in the public domain and free of any kind of restriction.

The app is available for Windows, Mac OS X and even Linux (I'm especially happy about this one) and costs of just $4 USD. That is a minimal price to pay for easy access to a vast pool of unrestricted visual goodness. You receive an application token key which you can use in your Zoomy installation.

The application also includes some extra Zoomy-exclusive photos not available via any other sites. Zoomy fetches CC0 photos from over 30 sources, including Unsplash, the Public Domain Archive and others.

Features:

Furthermore, the app also offers the ability to:

• Filter photos by color–10 colors available from warm to cool shades
• Search photos by layout format (Square, Landscape or Portrait) dimensions
• Selected photo can be favorited, downloaded, organized in collections or simply copied by the URL
• Photos can also be searched by tags

You can also visit the original source of the photo, if you ever need to do so.

The interface is simple and organized, offering a responsive experience when exploring the tons of photos Zoomy aggregates.

Having said that, your experience might be compromised to some extent if you have a slow-ish internet connection. As a lot of the stock photos on Zoomy are over 4K in resolution, that might be not surprising.

WordPress Plugin

Interestingly, Zoomy offers also a WordPress plugin which seamlessly integrates the Zoomy library into your WordPress installation.

It is not available yet on the official WordPress.org website, but you can download it from its GitHub repository, and manually add it to your self-hosted WordPress site.

Check out the ReadMe if you struggle with the plugin.

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by Elio Qoshi via SitePoint