TrustRadius Insights for Pexels are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
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Pexels is a trusted resource for users in need of diverse and modern photography for their websites and content. Users, ranging from startups with limited marketing budgets to full-service marketing agencies, rely on Pexels to find high-quality stock videos and photos for a wide range of purposes. This includes marketing campaigns, pitch deck visuals, social media posts, presentations, ads, blog images, and more. The platform's ease of use and intuitive interface make it simple for users to obtain images, videos, and backgrounds for articles and illustrations. Pexels also enhances the design process by providing a wide selection of royalty-free stock photos and videos in various sizes and orientations. Its valuable collection of high-quality images helps clients visualize designs, improving overall communication and understanding of design concepts. With its vast library of diverse imagery, Pexels is a go-to resource for finding custom and business-related images for various needs such as blog headers and social media posts. Whether it's for commercial use in social media marketing or print materials, or personal use in newsletters or PowerPoint presentations, Pexels remains a reliable source for quality stock imagery that meets a variety of user requirements.
We use Pexels to help create strong visuals for our blog posts, video thumbnails and marketing materials within our company. The problem it helps solve is that we have access to a high-quality array of stock images to use in our business. This way we don’t have to try and reinvent the wheel. Pexels offers a variety to choose from.
Pros
Large stock image library
Easy to find artwork
High-quality imagery
Cons
Sometimes it can be hard to find exactly what you are looking for.
Continue to improve recommendations based on searches a user makes
Tagging could be more in-depth
Likelihood to Recommend
We use Canva to create designs. Pexels integrates with Canva, making the processs for creating visuals extremely easy (and quick). You can use Pexels to find an image or video you want to use and then in just a few clicks, have that image ready in Canva for your piece of media you are creating.
Pexels is great for Royalty Free images and photos. The wide variety of assets they have on their site is amazing. Pexels is helpful in every step when designing. More often than not, I use Pexels when I am creating storyboards and mock ups. Using Pexels helps during the design process and planning.
Pros
Variety of assets
Editable
Easy to use
Cons
Sounds effects
Higher quality videos
Likelihood to Recommend
Pexels is helpful during the planning and strategizing process. I like to use Pexels when storyboarding. I can show my ideas to my team and determine a game plan for the direction of our project. Being able to demonstrate and show images and/or videos is helpful so everyone can be on the same page with our project.
With Pexels I found a simple and pure way to obtain images, videos, and backgrounds that I need to keep my articles well illustrated. It offers a better experience than many other similar platforms. I usually use it while I am writing articles and when I am about to finish the text I go to the site to obtain the images that are related to the main text.
Pros
Media download
Large database
Search accuracy
Cons
Improved detailed search
Search for tiny objects or landscapes
Including new AI capabilities
Likelihood to Recommend
Pexels is well suited for those writing reports, blogs, articles, and social media. I cannot cite any field where Pexels is not suitable. However, if you do not have the necessity of illustrating your writing material I see that Pexels will not help that much. I also cite that even in these situations you can go to Pexels to search for images that can inspire your content and writing style, with emotion or description accuracy.
Finding spectacular images of mountains, landscapes, and waterfalls can be a little time-consuming. We use them in our flyers to give a sense of awe. Pexels has a nice collection of images that is improving. The pictures have improved in quality over the last two years. We wanted to save money, and get clear breath-taking images. Pexels has a huge collection of photographs. We also wanted to download videos to make openers for live streaming. The videos are usually good, and the best ones are shown first. There is a large variety in the quality.
Pros
Search by color
Create collections
Contests
Cons
Filter out pictures
More options in Search
Delete single searches
Likelihood to Recommend
Downloading free photographs and videos is easy with Pexels. The variety and quality are above average. There are mobile apps for the Pexels. You can upload your own pictures, and compete on the leaderboard. If saving money is a top priority, then all the pictures are free at Pexels. Searches are fast and the previews on hover save time.
Pexels has always been one of my go-to sources for stock assets. Stock assets can be SO cheesy and expensive, but Pexels is neither. The models are diverse and modern, and the photography styles are more realistic and photojournalistic and not that awful studio-bright-light-fake look that so many stock companies have used for years. Plus, the search functionality continues to improve all the time.
Pros
Realistic, non-cheesy photos and videos.
Easy to filter results based on orientation.
Search by hex code and color! GAME CHANGER!
Simple explanation of license terms.
FREE!
Cons
To be honest, I can't think of anything.
The search functionality and explore options are robust!
Likelihood to Recommend
1. Small businesses with small or non-existent budgets still need assets to create content 2. Individual content makers or freelancers who need stock assets 3. Corporate eLearning wants to modernize and replace all old-fashioned, outdated, brightly lit studio photos with more realistic and relevant imagery that will resonate with modern audiences and learners.
I've used Pexels for many different purposes over the years. One of the main areas was in helping clients imagine how their designs would look with different photographic styles and depicting different ideas. Before this, we would have issues with clients disliking designs because they couldn't envision them within the context of seeing photography that was relevant to them. Pexels really helped be able to visually describe ideas.
Pros
Search returns are accurate to what I'm looking for
Collections of images are very helpful for finding inspiration
Images are varied in style and can be well adapted
Cons
Making ads less prominent
Having collections based on industry
Being able to export with different presets and styles
Likelihood to Recommend
Pexels is great for being able to quickly find and test how images work within a design or brand and using them as visual references for clients. It's great when you need more natural-looking images which have nuance and depth to them. The ideas behind photos are less literal and more evocative of lifestyle and feeling so are well suited to a lot of brands that champion those values. It's not so great when you need something super specific or more 'stock image' looking. So, more corporate companies may find less helpful results.
Pexels has been a very reliable resource in our organization for high-quality stock images and videos. We use these resources commercially for social media marketing, paid advertising banners, and on our clients' websites for blog images and more. Pexels provides a vast library to choose from and has authentic imagery and videos from contributors.
Pros
High-quality videos and images
Easy of use
Copyright-free images
Rich in resources
Cons
Sometimes its difficult to find resources for particular search terms.
Does not contain much vectors.
Likelihood to Recommend
We were doing social media marketing for one of our clients and the niche was culinary. We could not find good-quality videos for them and most of them were copyrighted. But then we came across Pexels and they had beautiful videos in 4K and they were free. Even after downloading the quality of the videos was not compromised.
We have used Pexels to create an internal Marketing video for our CX department. We were in need of video materials that were generic, but specific enough. We were mostly looking for material with people in it. The scope was a one minute video, that was meant to inspire people. Pexels solved our need for materials, since it has a large library of content.
Pros
Preview mode while hovering
Suggestions in search
Download CTA
Website speed
Cons
Sometimes the search functionality didn't work, needed to refresh my page
More filter possibilities
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it's really suited when you need generic video content to create video's. Sometimes it misses series of the same sort, but it's perfect for unique shots. Since we did not use licensed material, I cannot advice anything around account / payments. But I do recommend this platform to at least get inspired. When going commercial it can be your go to place.
I use Pexels for finding free images, artwork, illustrations, and videos. They are mostly for our publications such as blog posts, brochures, and white papers.
Pros
You can create collections with the photos you save.
You can filter by orientation, size or even colour code.
And you can download it in custom size (it doesn't corrupt the original ratio which is a great feature).
Cons
More content for translation or language sector would be great.
It would be better if the download count is more visible, instead of in the `more info` section.
Categorisation system could be improved.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's a great tool for free images as well as videos if you don't want to spend any money. It's especially good for publications as they are very high quality. And the filtering is great as well which means you won't spend too much time finding the right image. But if your sector is very niche, maybe you won't be able to find so many options.
VU
Verified User
Project Manager in Professional Services (1-10 employees)
As a full-service marketing agency, we produce marketing and web content, which needs a lot of variable photos on a tight budget set by our clients. We use Pexels as a source of high-quality stock photos for illustration purposes. The majority of the photos are completely free of charge and fully sufficient for our purpose.
Pros
Quantity of photos
Quality and variety
User interface and search engine
Cons
Limited database for expert topics (e.g. dermatology).
No option to pay for premium content - affiliates to iStock.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very useful for general topics and natural-looking photos, on the other hand for very specific topics or local photography you will have to pay for overpriced photos from iStock, here Pexels is not sufficient. Overall, I can highly recommend for every topic to at least try the Pexels options.