Awesome Stock Resources

A curated list of awesome stock photography, video and illustration websites.
I try my best to maintain this repository and keep it up-to-date but if you spot a broken link or a resource which isn't listed, please, feel free to make a pull request.
Table of Contents
Photography
CC0-license
All the resources below have specifically specified that their content is ©️ CC0-licensed.
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ABSFreePic - A high-resolution and absolutely free photos stock site.
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Altphotos - Handpicked free high-resolution photos added daily.
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Barn Images - Barn Images offers you a collection of free high-resolution non-stock photography.
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CC0 Photo - CC0.photo is a project initiated by Raffael Herrmann, which serves you with free photos.
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Creative Commons Search - A meta search across several libraries to find adaptable / editable images
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Crow the Stone - Free photos to use any way you want.
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Cupcake - Free do what ever you want photos by Jonas Nilsson Lee.
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Epicantus - Hi-resolution photos added every week.
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Fancy Crave - Two new images added every day.
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FindA.Photo - search through thousands of CC0 photos by keyword and color.
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Free Nature Stock - Royalty-free, use them however you want, Nature Stock Photos.
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Freely Photos - Totally free high quality Christian stock photography.
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Furious Camera - Free Life Hi-Fi Photos for use on your personal and commercial projects. New photo every day.
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Gratisography - Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. New pictures added weekly.
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Jay Mantri - Free pics. Do anything. Make magic.
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Jéshoots - Photos for business or personal use in high resolution for free.
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LibreShot - A collection of hundreds of high quality free stock images for personal or commercial use.
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Life of Pix - Free high-resolution photos, no copyright restrictions. Photographs added weekly.
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Little Visuals - Hi-res images zipped up in your inbox. Use them anyway you want.
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Magdeleine - A selection of free photos curated by Magdeleine.
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MMT - New photos by Jeffrey Betts added every week.
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Moveast - This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving.
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Negative Space - Stock photos added every week.
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Pexels - 20 new high-quality photos daily.
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Photo Crops - Five high resolution photos added every week, sometimes more.
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Pickle Jar - High-resolution images of everyday india. One new image every day.
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Pickupimage - Free download high quality premium free stock images, public domain photos.
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Pixabay - Stock photos, illustrations, vectors and videos.
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Realgraphy - Authentic Non-Stock Photos for Free. Forever.
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Realistic Shots - 7 new photos added every week.
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Skitter Photo - Public domain pictures and stock photos for commercial use.
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Skuawk - Skuawk public domain photos, free, beautiful and artistically loud.
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Snappy Goat - Over 12 million public domain & CC0 licensed images.
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Snapwire Snaps - Commissioned photos from 170,000 of the world's most talented photographers.
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SpaceX Photos - Promotional SpaceX stock photography.
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Splashbase - Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos.
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Stock Image Point - Free stock photos. 20 pictures added every month.
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Stockified - Free pictures taken in India by Kiran BV and Aditya G Bharadwaj.
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Stocksnap - Hundreds of high resolution images added weekly.
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Stokpic - Free Stock Photos For Commercial Use.
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Streetwill - Free hi-res vintage photos to use any way you want.
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The Pic Pac - New pacs on Monday, free pics Tuesday - Sunday.
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Travel Coffee Book - Travel photography.
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Unsplash - User submitted, free high-resolution photos. 10 new photos every 10 days.
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Wesaturate - A collection of completely free CC0 images in RAW and JPG formats.
Custom License / Usage
These following photography resources are those who have declared their own usage and restriction terms. These can be found by clicking the (license) link next to the resource.
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Bara Art - ©️ The world always needs high quality photography! Here they are for you, so make something awesome out of them.
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Compfight.com - ©️ An image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research.
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Death to the Stock Photo - ©️ Free monthly photos for all your creative needs.
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Designer Pics - ©️ Free photographs for personal and commercial by Jeshu John.
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Foodies Feed - Free food based images. ©️.
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Freerange - ©️ Quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use. For free.
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Good Stock Photos - ©️ One free to use photo added everyday.
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ISO Republic - ©️ ISO Republic provides exclusive free stock photos for creatives.
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Kaboom Pics - ©️ Great place to get breathtaking Free Pictures for business or personal projects.
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morgueFile - ©️ Free photo archive by creatives, for creatives.
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Photober - ©️ Free of charge photo downloading site for personal or commercial use.
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PhotoStockEditor - ©️ High-resolution weekly images for Personal & Commercial use.
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Pic Jumbo - ©️ Totally free photos for your commercial & personal works.
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Picography - ©️ Free hi-resolution photos. Use them however you like.
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Rawpixel - ©️ Redefining stock imagery with authentically styled and unique stock photos (Subscribe required).
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Shutteroo - ©️ Free high-resolution travel images.
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Split Shire - ©️ Real photos for commercial use with no copyright restrictions and a real look.
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Startup Stock Photos - ©️ Startup based photography.
Public Domain
A collection of links to public domain photography resources.
Attribution Required licenses
The photographs on the following resources require Attribution unless otherwise stated on the website itself. These use a mixture of license, all of which have been linked to next to them.
Unspecified License
These resources haven't specified any formal terms of use or licenses.
Illustration
A collection of illustration resources which contain a mixture of historical archive, contemporary and public domain assets.
Vector Graphics
A collection of resources which contain stock graphical elements which don't fit in the other sections.
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AMCharts - Free SVG Maps - ©️ A directory of free non-commercial, attribution licensed SVG maps in two level of details: High and low.
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Facebook Design Resource - ©️ A collection for design resources from Facebook including iOS9 GUI and various popular device templates.
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Freepik - ©️ Find free vectors, PSD, icons and photos.
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FreeVectors.net - ©️ A fun little community of vector lovers who share free vector graphics.
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Logo Dust - ©️ Free CC Attribution 4.0 logo designs for your projects.
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Mega Doodles Pack - ©️ Free and big CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 vector pack with hand-drawn doodles for presentations, social media, blog posts and so on.
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Sketch Repo - ©️ Sketch Repo is a great place to discover Sketch App resources for your next design project.
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Vecteezy - ©️ Discover & download free vector art from a community of Illustrators.
Videos
A selection of websites offering high quality video stock.
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Coverr - ©️ Beautiful, free, CC0 licensed videos for your homepage. 7 new videos every Monday.
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Life of Vids - ©️ Free royalty-free videos, clips & loops.
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Mazwai - Great collection of free creative commons HD video clips & footages. Check each video for licensing terms.
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Pexels Videos - ©️ Completely free, CC0 licensed stock videos.
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Pond5 - Download thousands of historic media files (videos, audio, images and 3d models) for your creative projects.
completely free.
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Videezy - ©️ Free stock videos, 4k footage, and free HD video clips.
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Vidsplay - ©️ Free HD stock footage (Attribution required).
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VYOO - ©️ Beautiful, Free Vertical Videos.
Patterns
A mixture of CSS and image based pattern resources.
Textures
Websites offering images suitable for texturing objects for 3D graphics.
Fonts
A mixture of free and open source font resources.
Icons
Icon Fonts
A collection for icon font resources, most of which also include SVGs, which can be used in your interface and website designs.
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Appa Sariicon ©️ 147 8-bit retro style webfont icons for web and mobile
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Batch Icons - ©️ Icon set of 300+ icons, which is part of inuit.css.
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Devicons - ©️ Meet Devicons, an iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds(sic). 100+ icons ready to use in your next project.
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Iconfinder - Iconfinder provides beautiful icons to millions of designers and developers. Most icons are available under attribution. See individual licenses for more details.
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Font Awesome - ©️ MIT licensed icon font.
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Fontello - ©️ - Fontello is a tool to quickly pack vector images into webfonts. Also includes a section of stock icons.
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Foundation Icon Fonts 3 - ©️ An icon font from Zurb, the people behind the Foundation framework.
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IcoMoon - ©️ Custom built and crisp icon fonts, done right.
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Ionicons - ©️ The premium icon font for Ionic Framework. 100% free and open source.
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Ligature Symbols - ©️ Really clean icon set including all major topics.
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Linea - ©️ A free outline iconset featuring 730+ Icons.
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Material Design Icons - ©️ Google's Material Icons.
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Octicons - ©️ GitHub's Icons.
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Open Iconic - ©️ (font) ©️ (icons) Icon set with 223 marks in SVG.
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Pathlove Icons - ©️ 100+ cute and vibrant icons. Free for personal and commercial use; attribution required.
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Social Stackicons - ©️ Icon set with over 60 social brands.
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Standart - Standart: free SVG icons for use in your project.
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Topcoat Icons - ©️ Icons by Topcoat.
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Typicons - ©️ (font) ©️ (icons) Rounded icon set with 336 icons.
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Weather Icons - Weather Icons is the only icon font and CSS with 222 weather themed icons.
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WeLoveIconFonts – A free & open source icon fonts hosting service (like Google Web Fonts, but icon fonts only).
Icons Packages and Collections
A collection for SVG icon resources which can be used in your interface and website designs.
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Entypo - ©️ Carefully crafted iconset by Daniel Bruce.
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Game Icons - ©️ A growing collection of SVG icons aimed mostly at video games.
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Heroicons - ©️ Beautiful, free SVG icons from the makers of Tailwind CSS.
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Iconmonstr - ©️ A huge selection of icons in SVG and PNG format.
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Maps Icon - ©️ Mapsicon is a free collection of maps for nearly every country in the world, available in 11 different sizes, ranging from 16x16 pixels to 1024x1024 pixels, as well as .svg format.
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Material Design Icons - A collections of free, material design style icons.
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Simple Icons - ©️ SVG icons for popular brands.
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The Noun Project - ©️ Over 150,000 icons designed by creators from around the world. Free users must give credit to the creator.
Colors
A selection of websites offering color schemes.
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0to255 - A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.
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0xrgb - A minimalistic color picker for well-known palettes (Material, iOS, FlatUI, Metro, Tango, Solarized).
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Bootflat - Bootflat Flat UI color picker is a project digging the Flat Color Picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
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Brand Colors - Official color codes for the world's biggest brands.
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Coleure - Simple app for grabbing & tweaking colors you see on screen.
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Color Hunt - A place to discover, create, and share color palettes.
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Colorful Gradients - Gradients automatically created by a computer. 48 times daily.
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CoolHue 2.0 - Coolest handpicked Gradient Palette and Swatch.
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Colour Lovers - A creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns.
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Coolors - The super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
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Flat UI Colors - Flat color picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
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LOLColors - A nice curated color palette inspiration resource.
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Material Design Colors - Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.
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Material Palette - Generate & export your Material Design color palette.
Aggregated Content
A liberal mixture of content aggregated from other free resources and made available at one central point.
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All The Free Stock - One stop resource for free stock images, videos, sounds and more.
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Avopix - More than 15 000 absolutely free stock photos and vectors.
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Libre Stock - Search engine for stock photo websites.
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Stock Up - Searching 9,301 (and counting) free stock photos across 25 websites.
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The Stocks - The best royalty free stock photos in one place.
HTML Templates
Various different websites offering free HTML templates and themes.
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Bootswatch - ©️ Free themes for Bootstrap.
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HTML5 Rocket - ©️ Free HTML5 site templates.
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HTML5 Up - ©️ HTML5 UP makes spiffy HTML5 site templates.
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Start Bootstrap - ©️ Free Bootstrap templates and themes.
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Templated - ©️ A collection of 850 free CSS and HTML5 site templates, designed & built by Cherry + AJ and released under the Creative Commons.
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Themezy - ©️ Free WordPress themes and website templates.
Sounds & Music
Free resources for stock sound and music to be used on creative projects
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Bensound - ©️ Royalty free music by Bensound.
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ccMixter - ©️ ccMixter.org offers over 30,000 original tracks that can be used freely in YouTube videos, remixes, mobile apps, games, and more.
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Free Loops - ©️ Free loops and audio clip.
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Free Music Archive - ©️ An interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.
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Freesound - ©️ Collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings and bleeps.
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Internet Archive’s Netlabels Collection - ©️ Netlabels collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable.
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Jamendo - ©️ Independent music community with a large collect of creative commons licensed music.
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Jukedeck - ©️ Machine learning powered royalty-free original music.
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Sound Image - ©️ Over 1000 tracks of free music and sound effects for your projects by Eric Matyas.
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SoundBible - ©️ Thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds.
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WOWA - ©️ Download Royalty Free Music for YouTube Videos, Podcasts and Apps. No Copyright CC0 Music inspired by Unsplash.
Paid Resources
And last, but not least, a selection of the best paid resources.
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Adobe Stock - Photos, Illustrations, Vectors.
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Fotolia - Photos, Illustrations, Vectors, Videos.
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Inky Deals - Premium resources at insane discounts.
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Shutterstock - Photos, Vectors, Editorial, Footages, Music.
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Stocksy - "Cliché-free" Photos.
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Graphic River - Hand-reviewed graphic assets from a community of designers.
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License

To the extent possible under law, Tony Phipps has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.