Best Flickr Tools in 2026: Official Apps, Uploaders and Useful Extras
Flickr is still one of the best homes on the web for photographers, 20 years after we first published this collection of Flickr tools in 2005. Many of the third-party Flickr tools from those days have disappeared, but Flickr itself has kept going under SmugMug, and a solid set of official apps and useful extras still work. Here’s the 2026 toolkit for uploading, organising, finding and sharing Flickr photos.
Quick answer: Use the Flickr app (iOS and Android) or the web uploader for everyday uploads, Flickr Uploadr (Pro) to back up your whole photo library, Lightroom’s built-in Flickr publish service for edited photos, and Flickriver or Openverse to discover and reuse great Flickr images.
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Flickr in 2026: free vs Pro
Flickr was created by Ludicorp in 2004, bought by Yahoo in 2005, and has been owned by SmugMug since 2018. Before choosing tools, know your account limits:
- Free: up to 1,000 photos and videos, with ads.
- Flickr Pro: unlimited full-resolution storage, ad-free browsing, advanced stats, the desktop Uploadr and partner discounts. Prices are roughly $11 a month or $82 a year in the US (higher with tax for international members).
Official Flickr tools
Flickr mobile apps
The free Flickr app for iPhone and Flickr for Android let you upload, browse, edit with filters, and share photos from your phone. Members have noted that a 2026 rebuild of the app dropped some power features, such as batch tag editing, so use the website for bulk organising.
Flickr Uploadr (Pro)
Flickr Uploadr for Windows and Mac automatically backs up your photo folders, external drives and other sources to Flickr at full resolution. It’s available to Pro members only.
Web uploader
Anyone can drag and drop photos at flickr.com/upload, adding titles, tags, albums and licences before publishing.
Upload from Adobe Lightroom
Lightroom Classic has a built-in Flickr publish service. Connect your account once, then drag edited photos into it and click Publish. Edits you make later can be republished in one click.
Organizr and Camera Roll
On the Flickr website, the Camera Roll and Organize tools let you batch-edit titles, tags, dates, privacy and licences, and build albums by dragging photos.
Flickr Tabs for Chrome
The official Flickr Tabs Chrome extension shows a beautiful Flickr photo every time you open a new tab.
Download all your Flickr photos
Want a backup or to move elsewhere? Go to Settings → Your Flickr Data → Request my Flickr data, and Flickr will email you download links for all your photos and metadata.
Useful third-party Flickr tools
- Flickriver: still going strong since 2007. Browse “interesting” Flickr photos, groups, users and tags as an endless river of images, with embeddable widgets.
- Openverse: WordPress’s free search engine for openly licensed images, which includes millions of Creative Commons photos from Flickr. Great for finding images you can legally use on your blog.
- Flickr API: for developers building their own Flickr apps and integrations (free for non-commercial use).
Using Flickr photos on your website
Many Flickr photographers share their work under Creative Commons licences. On any photo page, check the licence shown below the photo. Most CC licences let you reuse the image if you credit the photographer and link to the original. “All rights reserved” photos need the owner’s permission.
For more free image options, see our guides to free stock photo sites and AI art generators. To find where a Flickr photo has been reused online, try a reverse image search engine.
Classic Flickr tools that are gone
Our original 2005 list included dozens of fun mashups that have since shut down, such as Flickr Organizr (the old desktop version), Flump, Compfight, FlickrSync, Fireflix, Bubblr, Gickr, Fastr, Flickrball, ZoneTag and Tagnautica. They were a big part of early Web 2.0 culture, built on the open Flickr API.
Frequently asked questions
Is Flickr still free?
Yes. Free accounts can store up to 1,000 photos and videos. Pro removes the limit.
Is Flickr Uploadr free?
No. The desktop Uploadr is a Pro feature. Free members can upload through the website or mobile app.
Can I use Flickr photos on my blog?
Only if the photo’s licence allows it (usually Creative Commons) or you have the photographer’s permission. Always credit and link back.
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That’s a comprehensive list. Please have a look at PicBackMan, an automated bulk photo & video uploader that lets you backup 1000s of photos and videos to your Flickr account. It is available for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android devices.
For Windows uses I recommend Flicr Fast Downloader:-)
https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/72157639854155274/
Another great Flickr tool is https://imagefinder.co/
PhotoSync is the easiest way to upload and download your Flickr photos and videos. It is a desktop application that automatically synchronizes the photos between your computer and your Flickr account. It monitors a directory on your computer – any changes you make in this directory will automatically be reflected on Flickr. )
there is PhotoRee http://www.photoree.com – great way to search images by keyword an license type, most of them coming from Flickr
If you love flickr like I do, then I have the perfect tool for you: http://www.clicktoapp.com
Only one click and you have every photo from your PC in flickr, a brilliant tool!
Bulkr is an app that download Flickr photos in Bulk. It can also backup your entire stream with a click. More than 50+ million photos have been downloaded with it as of this writing (July 2011).
These are the tools that can make our tasks with photos more easy. Great tools to use.
http://desktopr.blogspot.com/
It helps adding photos to multiple groups at single button click .A great tool!
Thats a great collection of tools!
We have launched a unique widget that lets you surf through your entire photostream within the embed. Its really easy to use and can handle flickr, picasa, facebook and photobucket pics too!
Please find more details here: https://www.afternic.com/forsale/blog.lifeblob.com?utm_source=TDFS_DASLNC&utm_medium=DASLNC&utm_campaign=TDFS_DASLNC&traffic_type=TDFS_DASLNC&traffic_id=daslnc&
Another light weight Flickr tool here…
I published Flickr2Tag that is generate the HTML tag for blogging.
http://flickr2tag.drikin.com/
see detail
http://blog.drikin.com/2010/01/flickr2tag.html
I am looking for a tool which would generate thumbnails (HTML) for a set of photos or pictures that I could post on my website. Right now I have to do it manually for EVERY picture (select the size I want and copy the HTML code). Can’t believe there’s no tool for this!
I like animating images in GIF formats. Try using WeGif. The animated photos there made by users look awesome.
I’ve created a site at that allows you to create fully customisable embeddable Google Maps from your Flickr Photosets for use in your website or blog, or for sharing on Facebook or twitter.
Wanted to share Lurvely.com with folks. Its a site for discovering spectacular photography on Flickr.
I want to create a slide show with Flickr…but be able to show captions for each photo. I know Flickr’s slide show mode does not support captions.
Hi, I want to inproduce my application “Flickr Explorer with EXIF” that lets you view Flickr Explored photos for any day you choose (or go random) with the photo EXIF data.
URL:
You can also search by Tags, Photo description or by flickr user id to view the person’s most interesting photos again with EXIF.
This is intended as a learnign tool for photographers who can understand photographs better by looking the technical information contained in EXIF.
I have created a tutorial to
Download Flickr Photos in Batch
Flickr Explorer with EXIF data
Flickr Explore is an amazing source for finding good photographs. Unfortunately Flickr does not provide a direct way to view the EXIF information of the photos in Explore. This information is very useful for photographers to fully understand the techniques used in capturing the image. This application will capture the EXIF information of the Explored photos for any day.
I have just published a new application that will download images from Flickr on to digital photo frames.
http://www.flickr2frame.com
I have found it invaluable for keeping my family updated with photos of our daughter.
Thanks,
Steve
Flickr Tools – Flickr is good, but we want more. We want to convert images to flash galleries, make puzzles from our photos, search for Creative Commons content and see what we can use, we want to integrate, optimize and pimp our Flickr profile, and the huge collection of tools offered here should keep you busy for a few days days.
Hi,
I have written a tool that generates images of a user-defined size using randomly selected flickr photos. I have called it frigtool – flickr random image generating tool – and it can be found at .
Hope it proves useful for those looking for random images to fill space somewhere!
Thanks for compiling such a useful list by the way, certainly plenty of cool apps out there.
Does anyone built a photo aggregator site using flickr, picasa and facebook photos ?
Hello everyone…
I developed FlickrGroupPoster , a tool to post photos in groups in a batch way !
Hope you find it usefull
Really great colelction of flickr tools ,bookmarked .Thanks for sharing
Browse Flickr photos of the world in a fast and fresh google maps: http://www.mypicsmap.com
Mashup which allows people to browse through list of “Birds of the world”, categorized by continent and country. When you click a bird name link, photos matching the bird name are retrieved from Flickr and shown.
The link didn’t show in my previous comment. Here’s the link: . Free download!
After working frequently and tediously on sorting out thousands of pictures on my cameras, hard drives, and Flickr website, I got tired of the tedious and error-prone job and therefore created this tool to help streamline the process…
I’ve built a new flickr tool called “Blackmagic”, which is similar to “on black” but with some features that make it much more convenient to use,
I created a Flash based widget: https://roytanck.com/ you might like to check out…
HoudahGeo for Mac OS X Tiger & Leopard allows for geocoding photos and uploading to Flickr
Is there a tool or a way that will let me look at a flickr user and see what photos they have looked at recently?
I’ve recently put together a mash-up JavaScript slideshow of the day’s popular images from Flickr and deviantART, as well as the most recent images on FFFFOUND:
https://gimmeshiny.com/
It’s not strictly just Flickr, but I think it fits in this list. Anyway, check it out… it’s kind of addictive. :-)
Hiya!
We made a really fun Flickr app called Time Capsule. Would love to have it added to your list!
https://www.parabo.press:443/?from=pj
Amit
forgot the link in my last post :)
“Flickr Contacts Feed Exporter”
maybe somebody already knows another one. i couldn’t really find one, so i coded one :)
it lets you export all your contact’s feed urls as plain text or OPML file which you can import into a Feed reader of your choice.
hope somebody finds it useful
Hi all,
i have just created a new flickr application with the flickr api:
Schillr http://www.schillerlocke.de is an application that converts stereoscopic 3-D images from flickr into different output modes, e.g into parallel viewing mode, cross viewing mode or anaglyph mode (for red/cyan glasses).
wow too many i using ImagePut https://www.vidroid.com/imageput/ application, you can use for bulk sharing images to free(no registration) fast hosting like this one also i using for generate web albums.
FlickrOla! is an Adobe AIR application that gives you an update of your Flickr contacts’ photostream in a small window in the bottom right corner of your screen.
https://notjustsushi.wordpress.com/flickrola/
Wanted to share my site http://ww1.lurvely.com/ with folks. It’s about discovering great photography from Flickr. You can fave and see your faves from Flickr. Photos are organized by interestingness so you see the photographers best work first. Enjoy.
Check out my first API app.
Flickr Quick Links lets you lock down your account and just share selcted pictures in Large and/ or Original sizes.
Thanks for posting these links. I am looking for a tool, which can download photos alongwith their tags. Most of the tools can download based on tag/s, but not all other associated tags.
We’ve just released PicMarkr Pro (http://picmarkrpro.com) – a software that lets you to replace your Flickr photos with watermarked copies.
There are much more features as well (batch resizing, rotating, import photos from Flickr etc)
It would be even better if that list is divided into “Official”, “Windows-only”, “Linux-only”, “Multi-platform”, and “Web-based”. At present, there are very few Linux tools for Flickr; making it rather tedious to have to read through the entire list only to find that there’s no tool listed here that supports Linux and does what I want…
Here’s a site I built to “Map A Set” from flickr and embed in your website or blog: http://mapaset.4bcj.com
It will allow you to put a map on your website based on a set. I use it for trips, I create a new blog post with an iframe in it of mapaset and then as I upload pictures to the set on flickr, everyone can see where I’ve been for the day.
Does anybody know of an application that could prompt you to select from a list of required tags before adding your own tags? Trying to get 14,000 images in our office onto flickr. There are 90 employees and we would like to have them pick from a list of required ‘basic’ tags when they upload and then add any additional tags afterward. Let me know!
Here’s a fullscreen flickr account viewer we just created. You can download for free, or simply use by putting your flickr username in the form and hitting Submit:
And for those of you who want to manage photos on your desktop without waiting for browser refresh (read smart caching) and also upload and transfer photos between different sites, may i suggest NitroDesk (www.nitrodesk.com)
You can also keep folders on your pc in sync with your flickr collections (photos automatically synchronized between two)
I’d like to also add my new website – FotoViewr – https://www.fotoviewr.com/ It’s a 3D photo gallery for Flickr and Facebook photos. You can easily create a photo gallery which you can embed in your website in seconds. No sign up or registration required.
Hi,
I would like to show you my new website offering upload services to Hi5, MySpace and Flickr using any mobile phone. People are sending photos using MMS to a regular email address where they first registered their mobile email address.
Thanks,
DRAGOS.
http://www.mmsface.com
Contacts Activity look at your contacts faves and comments on your last photos….
You should have a look at this flash tool http://yoove.net/flickr-tickr/
extremely long list! well done.
You missed FlickrShop – the Photoshop plugin for uploading image / photos to Flickr.
The good thing is that it’s for Mac and for Windows.
And it’s free for up to 3 uploads a day! I think this is pretty cool.
Liked FAlbum!
I shall use FAlbum on its site.
Thank you!
automatically search your photos at Flickr for location information and plot the photos on your own Trippermap, on your own website. where is cool
Hi there, I am the author of smark the flickr tagging tool, and I wanted to let you know of my latest tool.
Rate people’s photos on Flickr, Picasa Web, and Smugmug (coming soon).
flickrBox JS is a mashup of Flickr APIs and Lightbox JS v2.0. You can search for photographs on Flickr using a very wide variety of search parameters and the results are presented using the excellent and very popular Lightbox JS v2.0 library. All parameters are optional and if values are not specified, defaults will be used where applicable.
You can create custom advanced photo calendars with http://www.WizCalendar.com
Maybe you want to list Taggl ). It’s a tag based search engine that simultaneously searches Flickr content as well as content from other sites that use tags such as YouTube. Especially the “tag drill down” feature is cool: it shows a cloud of related tags after a search, with their relative frequency, and allows you to “drill down” within your search results using those tags, with a single click!
I guess that Flickr video has come about, many more tools will become available.
thousandpics.com displays the most recent 1000 flickr explore photos, on a single page. Now thats a time saver!
i would add https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=nFlickrViewer , a remote admin tool for nflickrviewer and asp.net
Flishr is a great windows application which covers all your needs with Flickr. You can download,Upload and search with just a few clicks. You can also create collections and add those favorite photos to your local collection and export the list of URLs for your collection in an XML file. So you may browse hundreds of photos and select the photos you like and finally download down in just a few seconds. Finally Flishr is Free to download and use.
If you want us to add any more features please provide your comment at: https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=flishr&e=com
Tx. Flishr Team
One of my favorite tools is Meaning (Merkitys Meaning) from Merkitys,
It is an application for Symbian S60 smart phones. I believe it was the first program of it’s kind. It allows tagging and describing pictures when taken, automatic uploading, automatic context tags that include geotagging using GPS, cell towers, and locality information even without GPS (user entered for cells or provided by the cell phone carrier in some cases).
It hasn’t been updated for more than a year now, but works great in my experience.
A Flash 9-based Cover Flow Slideshow Viewer for Flickr photos, just like iTunes / iPhone: https://work.tinou.com/
-t
Phlogre is a tool that firstly had to be the better FlickrUploadr but then it grew up to a fullfledged photo organizer.
Still in alpha but with every day and every new release it matures more and more.
It’s open source, for Windows, uses .Net & SQLite
Here it is:
I would like to announce the availability of the Flickr Hive Mind data mining tool:
http://fiveprime.org/flickr_hvmnd.cgi
Flickr Hive Mind is a data mining tool for the Flickr photography database, allowing search by: metadata tags; Flickr photography groups; Flickr users, contacts, and favorites; text annotation; the Flickr Explore algorithm for interestingness. Flickr Hive Mind can also be an effective tool to identify stock photography with licenses that allow non-commercial (and sometimes) commercial use. Finally, Flickr Hive Mind supports authentication to Flickr, thus enabling your content filtering preferences.
Smark (http://smark.us), which has been on this list for quite some time, now includes a group management feature. While using Smark to tag photos, you can also quickly submit them to multiple groups simultaneously. Other new features include dynamic tag suggestions, auto-completion, and improve status indicators.
A really nice Apple TV like scrolling flickr photo viewer that defaults to flickr explore, but click in the lower right to add your own photos:
We’ve done small web-app called PicMarkr: http://picmarkr.com
PicMarkr lets users to add custom watermark (image, text or tile) to any picture, online and free.
Just released yet another flickr photo browser: http://www.flickrbrowser.com
Has some interesting options, such as showing camera info for each photo.
http://www.photoree.com
Photoree is a collaborative image recommendation system.
It intelligently adapts to your preferences and taste, selecting the best images that may interest you.
Currently aggregates images from Flickr.
I love the flickr sudoku too. Thank you very much
This is a nice page. I’ve been wondering how long Flickr has been around. I’m usually behind on the technology; one of my professors in grad school used to talk about the risk- and technology-averse people. I’ve considered myself to be one of them, but now that I know it’s a challenge I go for it. Today I’m giving a workshop on photo-sharing applications, and this page might prove useful, although it might have been more useful to have found it earlier. Great information and wonderful links to the many, many tools available.
The URL of the application is: https://fitgran.com/
(the URL is a bit hidden in my previous mail, so I posted to clarify)
Enjoy.
A new application tags photos automatically using face recognition. It finds the faces in the photos and displays them to you. You can also train the system to automatically recognize people.
It would be great if you can add this application to your list.
hello guys, I have lost my ‘add photo’ doohicky above the comment box- I have a new PC and i can’t find this tool anywhere. I am using VISTA now. If anybody remembers where i can find this, please let me know- I would appreciate any help. Thanks.
I love the flickr sudoku too. Thank you very much..
You might be interested in Flolcatr (http://flolcatr.com), which I made for Yahoo Hack U at Carnegie Mellon a few weeks back. It’s kind of like a turing test for lolcats, which pulls photos from Flickr to generatively create new lolcats.
Hi, I’m looking for a tool to put on the group page that i am an admin for, that will place the group members on a map. Anyone know of one? Just thinking how cool it would be to show where our members are from.
Does anyone know about any tool that allows you to view pictures that users have set as Private?
Btw, job well done.
flickr fight. application just for fun ;)
fantastic list.
i’m after a tool to batch rename the titles of all of my images to “img” or “pic” in one hit.
any ideas ?
man. so many choices… are there any simple, non flash viewers for websites? i’m still searching, but figured i’d ask. i need to have a client update/add images in flickr, and have them automatically update on their website since they can’t mess with any web code, and we want to avoid flash for their older non-web-saavy clients. no slideshow, but more of a thumbnail based, with descriptions. thanks, j
Check out Mobypicture.com. There is now Flickr and Twitter integration. This enables users to post directly to their Moby, Twitter and Flick accounts from their mobile phone or from email.
Sorry. I’m reposting my comment because there was a wrong URL on the previous comment:
FlickrSync is a photo synchronization application for flickr users. It displays your local folders and your flickr sets and it can establish synchronization rules between them. This way you can manage all your photos locally and FlickrSync will keep them updated in flickr.
The new version which was just released is available for download at Codeplex
You can also take a look at the FlickrSync Website which has a detailed explanation of all the features.
flickr is a great tool for photos. I love it!!
GratePic, a cross platform tool for posting, commenting and rating photos on flickr
http://gratepic.sourceforge.net/
How can I download all my photo’s from flickr at one shoot in orginal size???
a problem i am having and i am wondering if someone here knows about it is that i cant see a list of the files i have uploaded to flickr already so now i am comparing from batch uploads and it seems like i didn’t upload everything but i wanted to know if theres an easy way to figure out which i haven’t yet?
Create a collage using your flickr account with one click…just by pasting the URL. More features coming in a few days.
I created a new Flickr viewer web-app site called Flickriver – it allows viewing Flickr photos as an infinite “river of photos”.
https://www.flickriver.com/
Flickriver offers several views that are currently not available on Flickr like “most interesting user or group photos”. There’s also a badge maker, greasemonkey script and several additional goodies :)
-Alex
If you want to compare your Flickr images based on a set of specific tags and visualize which images share multiple tags, then please visit wwwww.searchcrystal.com and specifically
http://searchcrystal.com/. You can embed a searchCrystal Widget of your Flickr images on your blog or web site. No registration is required and the widget lets you browse your Flickr tags, where a tag can be copied and used to fetch a new set of Flickr images with this tag.
We’ve created a tool that gives you a very fast ajax interface for tagging pictures on Flickr. It allows you to use keyboard shortcuts for navigation, precaches images to provide fast response times, and requires no registration at all. Please use it and let us know what you think! http://smark.us
I have created an open source Flickr Image Gallery build on the Dojo Ajax toolkit. You can get it at
Is there a tool that can allow you to see photos that users have set as Private?
Hi,
please consider my Statr for Flickr application.
Statr for Flickr collects data through api calls and allows you to track and plot page views statistics for your Flickr account. Graphs are automatically updated on a daily basis and can be linked from external websites.
http://linuxinside.org/flickr/
Maybe I’m just missing it in the huge list above, but has anyone come up with a tool yet for mass or batch deleting contacts rather than having to go into each buddy icon and deleting the contact that way? Thanks!
A new great Flickr tool for your collection: imageloopR
https://www.makemyassignments.com/
users can get their favourite Flickr photos (from users, groups, friends, contacts, anyone) in a customized slideshow for personal websites or blogs. The best thing about the tool: Flickr photos will be updated automatically! So the user gets fresh photos every day!
Congratulations for your great and helpful Flickr collection!
Just published my application for editing tags offline. The application is rTagger. You can get it from .
I created it because I had to edit the tags on a 5000 photo collection and I couldn’t imagine trying to do it using the web site.
Flickranks.com is very useful and fun.
Flickrank is a ranking system, which is determined by various factors such as The number and ratio of Photos in Explor, Contacts, Comments and so on. The site is very useful to check the popularity of a user.
Please Add Flickranks to your list! Thanks.
steeevs flickr projects website has moved to
http://steeev.freehostia.com/flickr/
and theres some new greasemonkey scripts, including:
Flickr users in this photo
Flickr inline forum post editor
Flickr Group Pool admin warn and delete
FlickrSearcher ver 1.6 with Flashr and Flickr open api,
This is a flash application. It thanks.
Click download
http://cfs3.tistory.com/upload_control/download.blog?fhandle=YmxvZzQ1NTA4QGZzMy50aXN0b3J5LmNvbTovYXR0YWNoLzIvMjI3LmV4ZQ%3D%3D
Application information
http://jasu.tistory.com/199
… and yet another Flickr tool:
A friend of mine just posted this page. It’s pretty nifty, and I thought you’d appreciate it.
https://www.wisegeek.com/how-can-i-find-the-average-color-in-a-photograph.htm
Best,
Lindsay
Hi all, this is a very big collection of Flickr tools. I will try some of these tools now. It saves me some time to get all this links from you here. Thanks you so much for it. Ronald from Anwaltskanzlei Strafrecht
Is there a way to upload a picture and have it identifed when you do not know what it is?
I made a tool to retrieve original size of any flickr photo so check it out:
I noticed a linux virtual drive mapper, that would be ace for win.
The biggest collection of Flickr tools i ever found in the world wide web. It takes some time to find this webside, but your site is very good an completed. Thank you so much for post all this links. Henry
I add credit text line to my Flickr photos using the auto watermarker at http://www.macrophotos.net
They also have a neat profile widget generator.
AlphaLearnr
Flickr Mashup which helps children to learn English Alphabet through photos
You can now create color schemes with flickr phstos.
I would like to be able to know how many times my Flickr photo display was viewed – Individual photo tracking is fine, but what about the tracking those peple who view the entire collection and maybe open only a few or comment on only one. I’d like to know there was that type of activity. is there a tool for that?
Ray
I have noticed on flickr that some have larger thumbnail pictures on their pages. As most pictures look better larger, I was wondering how you do it?
Thanks!
Jason
Hi QOT – Would you add the Flickr Notifier to your list?
http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2007/03/windows-flickr-notifier-first-rss.html
It pops up a thumbnail of new images, from any Flickr feed, in the lower-right corner of your desktop. (For Windows.)
Hi,
It occurred to me that older photos very rarely get seen as no one ever really browses past the first page or two of a photo stream. So, I wrote a little application which randomly selects photos from a group of your choice. It’s available on the web here:
Hopefully some people will find it useful!
Michael
Hey there!
This is a really cool list! I found many great Flickr tools here….
I just created the “FauxtoBooth Composr”, a Java-based application that helps you combine single images into “FauxtoBooth” strips… or any other kinds of tiled/mosaic images.
Check it out….. :)
I’ve recently announced Group Trackr, a Flickr API-based tool to track growth statistics for public Flickr groups.
Thought you guys may want to take a look at it.
I just released slideshowr
It’s a Flash-based full-screen Flickr photo slideshow intended for long-term dedicated screens (like digital picture frames) that cycles through the latest photos from a user-specified photostream and presents them using optional and customizable pans, zooms, fades, and title/description text.
check out:
http://www.flickr4writer.com
http://www.flickr4outlook.com
http://www.flickr4word.com
Hi. I have a vocabulary learning website that uses the Flickr API, its called WordMingle.
My “must have” tool is PicLens (from http://www.piclens.com). This should definitely be added to the list above.
PicLens allows you to get an awesome “cinematic” view of the Flickr pictures. PicLens got some really great reviews in MacWorld, TechCrunch, and bunch of blogs.
Someone told me there is a program that lets you see who has linked to one of your Flickr shots. I didn’t see it in your cool and extensive list but I may not understand all the terms or how such a program would be described. Any help?
I just released UploadrXL.
It’s a full featured upload application that uploads your photos, adds them to your sets and/or groups. It adds tags and a description based upon the EXIF/IPTC tags or your own values.
Don’t forget iTag.
iTag is all about adding captions and keywords to your photos *before* you upload your photos.
So all your original jpegs on your local hard drive have the same keywords as the uploaded copies.
(Flickr recogises the data in the IPTC section of the JPEG file and automatically adds the data during upload – so you only tag once)
cheers!
is there a cropping tool anywhere on flickr or on a third party site?
THX Share~
Nice list, good job,
can you please add this http://gickr.com – creating animated gifs from your flickr photos
You may want this one too http://kin.klever.net/fireflix/
Is there any tool for adding frames to your Flickr Images.
I would appreciate if anyone could help me with it.
cheers
satish
My contribution:
A web-based (nothing to download) slideshow viewer that’ll display photos in LARGE or ORIGINAL size. Allows searching by tag and/or user, sorting, randomization.
Flickr Groups Organiser.
Lets you tag/categorise your groups, making it easier to sort your groups list.
https://steeev.f2o.org/404.php
how about this?
http://webdev.yuan.cc/gmif/
How can I have a very small film strip of the latest 5 flickr photos in my flickr account integrated into a page on my own website?
splashr:
doesn’t seem to work or exist(?) anymore,
had a splashr gallery running, now the splashr site and gallery faded away.
do anybody knows why?
Flickr Contacts Organiser – A cool way to organise your flickr contacts via user tagging. You can read more about it here: https://www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/72157594237161996/
And you can get the script here:
http://steeev.cfdeveloper.co.uk/flickr/
Slideshowr lets you make arbitrary slide shows, shows the photo titles, and plays music.
Absolutely cool list – awesome!!! Exactly what i was looking for.
Hi I wonder if theres a tool that lists your photo data into a text file. My main requirement is to find out which images are on my hdd but NOT on flickr in a particular set. This is tricky when managing huge sets.
I noticed a linux virtual drive mapper, that would be ace for win.
I’m looing for a tool to replace an image without loosing the “Views” and the “Comments”.
Thx
I’ve just created a new site for browsing flickr photos by location:
worldinpictures.org
Either enter a latitude/longitude or a place name and get a selection of nearby images.
Um, i forgot to post the URL to the ecards system:
https://www.frameshow.com/ecards.htm
Hi, i wanted you to know that we made our free frameshow ecards system to “download” images from Flickr and “upload” them to Flickr accounts.
A user can create (“frame”) an ecard using our (free) web tool using photos from her own computer, from a remote site using a web address or from her Flickr account and then send it via email as an ecard or save it to her Flickr account :-).
Since i’ve spent around two weeks trying to make this thing work, i would like to hear any comments you may have :-P.
beonr, new widget for flickr:
While you already mention one Flickr favorites downloader on this page, I’d still like to add a link to my own: FlickrFaves For one, it is a cross-platform Java tool (the other is Windows-only). Secondly, it also allows you to download those of you favorites that you only have access to when you are logged in (the program gets read permission for your photos). Try it out, it’s easy, useful and free!
If you own a Nabaztag (a wifi enabled plastic rabbit), you can use the service nabazr to get it to read the latest comments posted to your public photos and sets on flickr.
Hello,
I’ve just made this web app.
Flickr Color Selectr
https://slightlyblue.com/
It’s like the existing Flickr Color Pickr app, but non flash, but AJAX,
and selects only Creative Commons licensed photos.
love to hear anything from you.
I looked for a flickr tip, but maybe I’m searching the wrong words… I have a few photos though not ‘interesting worthy’, but yet they are steadly climbing up in hits. Is there a flickr gadget that I can use to see if my photos are linked somewhere else on the web??
Is there a way to upload a picture and have it identifed when you do not know what it is? When someone shows you a picture and wants you to guess what it is, it would be handy to have a way to identify the picture when you give up.
Shameless plug for my FlickrPanel. Allows you to view various Flickr photo’s within the Desktop Sidebar application
I wonder if you have gone across . It’s a good presentation using your flickr photos.
I currently use Gallery to host my photos. In an effort to keep it sync’d with flickr, I’m looking for a script that will take the RSS feed from the Gallery (which there is a hack for so it is formatted like a flickr RSS feed) and on a daily basis email new photos to the flickr upload address.
I’d like to recommend the new Bubbles Flickr Uploader, really cool, you open up flickr and simply drag-n-drop your photos into it.
I need an application or tool that can extract all flickr tags and number of photos using each one…any one have a solution. Don’t care about the images or the links, just the tags themselves.
Here’s an updated Flickr Interestingness RSS feed to replace the defunct one (comment 17):
http://feeds.feedburner.com/flickr_interestingness
Thanks for collecting all thise links.
Here is another tool some people may find useful: FlickrViewer is an extension to the popular SimpleVIewer (a flash photo viewing tool), and is free etc.
Hi all
I’m looking for a hack that will display the tile of my pictures in the Flcikr badge as well as other infos (date , comments, notes)
My badge is located here:
if you can guide me i would appreciate
A new site has been launched. It’s called dumpr.net and it’s the home of many toys for flickr. Make sure you try it out. New tools every week!
Here is a new Flickr Flash Jigsaw puzzle application. You search Flickr using tags and then select an image to create a jigsaw.
For anyone tired of adding notes to mosaics by hand,
Flickr Goodies – Notes Generatr
I just say this link in digg, it allows you to scroll flickr images in an up down position, looked simple and cool.
http://salpet.com/?p=14
Want to use Flickr photos of letters, numbers and punctuation to generate a FlicrkFont? Need to create zany fun headings? Feel like annoying your readers with pointless eye candy? Got just a few minutes to knock together a ransom note?
Check out:
FlickrFont
This gaudy hack uses Flickr’s JSON feed to create a dynamic font based on pooled images. If you’re game, you can turn any HTML elements into a refreshing and unique pictorial representation of text using CSS. Eg
<p class="FlickrFont">This text will get flickrised</p>Read more on Freshblog
I would just like to invite everyone to have a look at our Flickr presentation engine at .
Hi,
I’ve made a new site that finds the coolest photos on flickr using the power of the collective conciousness. It’s much simpler than meticulously rating them, you are presented with two photos, and you click the one that’s better. From the results of a bunch of people all doing that, we can figure out which photos are the best of the day. It’s still pretty beta at this stage, there are a bunch of features I’d like to add. But go check it out, I’d love to hear what people think. I find it totally addictive.
http://www.bettr.net
Great Collection but my tool is missing ;-)
It’s a so called Memory Game, programmed in Java.
http://blog.wilkening.info/?p=36
Hi!
just another addon: “geotagr” (to geotag photos in Flickr) >>> https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=beeloop&e=com from https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=beeloop&e=com
Enjoy,
Enrique Alvarez
Check out MarketBlast…
It utilizes Flickr to host images for your eBay ads. It has a slick Flickr uploader feature.
https://marketblast.com/beta_login.php
You missed this one: https://github.com/dan-coulter/phpflickr
I think this one deserves to be added:
http://www.phixr.com
Take a look at FlickrFly (http://www.roblog.com/flickrfly-docs/) – add a link to your geotagged Flickr image so you can fly to that position in Google Earth.
Also see GETrackr (http://www.roblog.com/getrackr-docs/) for a way of generating geotags using Google Earth.
This page is a great resource, thanks for putting in the time and effort to update it.
I would be grateful if you could add to your list of tools my Travelr tool which lets you display your Flickr photos geographically on a world map:
we’ve just released a new Flickr toy.
It is called Bubblr and you can create comic strips using images from Flickr by adding bubbles to them. You can also upload your own images.
Note that it is still in beta version, we’ve detected some bugs, but now we think there is an enough stable version.
I have written a program to change the desktop wallpaper based on tags entered. Pictures are downloaded from Flickr obviously, check it out at https://bouncingknee.com/ Thanks
Hello everyone. I’d like to suggest checking out my app called sprinklr. It allows you to quickly add your photos to many groups as well as see the group posting rules without leaving the page.
you can use sprinklr here http://ericappel.net/sprinklr
I would appreciate being added to the list as well.
Thanks,
Eric
How about a few Google Homepage Modules for Flickr? I think Homepage modules are a great place to keep my favorite Flickrs.
Hi! Great list. Might I suggest adding Slideroll, which just recently added Flickr integration. thanks!
Hi, could I humbly suggest a link to my new flickr app, called h4ppier photos? It helps people find photos that are not already in sets and/or filter by date. Once they find a group of photos they can then add them to a new or existing set or tag them.
http://www.h4ppy.com/h4ppier-photos.php
Thankyou!
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know about matchr, the flickr puzzle game. given 8 flickr tags and 16 randomly selected pictures, users have to find each set of two pictures that have a tag in common.
Best,
Ryan
Good list. I recently finished a greasemonkey/creammonkey script that adds lightbox functionality to websites that link to images. While it is not specifically for Flickr, it does work quite nicely on the site. I call it Greased Lightbox. If you think it fits in this list, I would be happy for you to add it.
I have created a site called Groupr (it’s different than the Groupr listed above and I have contacted Jeremy about this). The purpose of the site is to provide a quick interface for adding photos to many groups at a time. The interface also allows people to quickly see the text of the group information pages so they will know the rules for posting in the groups.
The site is at
Hi. Would you please consider adding Flickr TagMan to your comprehensive Flickr list? It’s a hangman game for Flickr tags. When you guess a tag, you’ll see some photos from the tag as the “reward” for winning a game.
Hi there…
Under the Official Flickr Tools area, the “Send To Flickr” Bookmarklet no longer exists, and hasn’t for many months.
Just an FYI…
Great site, by the way!
Hello there,
I just wanted to let you know about a Flickr application a friend and I wrote. It is called Groupr. It allows you to view the five most recent photos from all of a user’s groups. We would appreciate a link from your site.
Thanks much!
Jeremy
John’s Background Switcher – aside from having an unimaginative name – is a fully featured wallpaper changing utility that has myriad options to select photos from flickr as well as your local PC.
Any feedback and / or suggestions are most welcome!
Flickrlilli is a modest tool I built to enable searching Creative Commons content on Flickr. It differs from the default Flickr interface in that you can search by all CC license types at once.
See it at:
http://flickrlilli.org.uk/.
Cheers.
I FOUND NEW TOOL using Flickr API.
flickr and WEBIMAGER
Hi, great collection!
but I think you missed two more applications
http://www.pimpampum.net/memry and pimpampum.net/phrasr
Wow, it’s incredible how many Flickr tools exist already.
May I suggest another one, at Pageflakes we feature a Flickr Widget which allows users to browse pics from a Flickr tag right from their personal startpage.
Feedback appreciated!
Hi All,
I just finished an application that lets you view Flickr photos on your phone. It should work on most MIDP2.0 enabled phones. Check it out at spahk.com
I just put up a flickr->iPhoto photocast system so you can subscribe to your flickr photos in iPhoto v6+.
It’s at photocastr.com
It’s still alpha, but it works well and I’m adding features.
flickrtop is another approach to explore interestingness. Back to August 2004 for every day until now one of the 20 most interesting photos will be selected and displayed in this ‘best of’-browser.
Today I created a Flickr Sets RSS Feed Engine. Enjoy!
I did a run down on a few Flash / Flickr tools a little while back… I don’t think that they have made it on to your list so here it is:
http://www.kelvinluck.com/article/made-with-flashr
Hi guys. I just made a widget to browse through photos on Flickr and it’s called Wickr. It’s available for download here.
There’s also a website I made for Wickr here. :)
quickr pickr
Is there a tool to see if your pics made it in the explore selection? It would be nice. :)
I have made a program to to download flickr photos from your contacts.
You can check it at http://www.fon.com.ar
Its name is Portable Flickr
Hello,
We just released our first stable version of our external flickr image viewer in flash. What a word ! :)
It’s open-source so everyone can customize it to its needs. Users who don’t know flash can customize it trough a config xml file. Very easy.
It would be cool if you could add us to the list..
–> website download
http://two-point-o.blogspot.com/ –> development blog
Help for adding content to our support wiki or development of the flapi viewer is always welcome.
Thanks,
The flapi team.
Great list!
I have just checked some of he tools and right now Flickr Importr is very useful for me. Flickr Importr handles the title, description and the tagging in a wonderful way. It uses some of the IPTC tags (well known as Photoshop file information).
I have posted a little review on my blog: Review of Flickr Importr by Markus Merz … I am sure the review will be updated in the near future.
If you plan to use Flickr Importr you should also have a look at PixVue … that is a great free image management software which integrates into Wndows explorer … best of all it comes with an awesome free IPTC editor … the link is in my review.
Markus
Great collection of tools! Really encourages the belief that users of Flickr are part of a community.
Check out my How to: Flikr Intro
http://www.benbishop.me.uk/software/how-to-flickr-into/
Nice post. And very popular blog (a lot of comments).
Good work.
There are other sites which offers photo storage, but in fact flickr is the best.
For Xanga posting you should try QuickrFlickr.com
A quickr way to generate HTML code of Flickr pictures for use in Xanga.
I just added deskFlickr v1.0 which rotates your desktop wallpaper based on tags. It has a nice UI and minimizes to the system tray.
try the new flickrBuddy to explore and download your contacts most interesting pictures :D
look at this, a website to see a specific user most interesting pictures
The imapix most interesting.
To generate one:
generate
Hey, I’ve got a few php scripts folks might be interested in.
A tag cloud script
A calendar script
Well after a few weeks of hard work and learning PHP I am ready to release a full working version of the FlickrSavr for Mac OS X. This version includes many improvments over the previous, and finally allows user interaction. More information and the download can be found at aloi.org. Let me know what you think!!
I’m happy to announce the launch of Flickrmap.com.
Flickrmap.com is a web service that allows you to put a flash based world map on your own website or blog. Flickrmap will then automatically search your photos at Flickr for location information and plot the photos on your own Flickrmap, on your own website.
It’s as simple as tagging your photos with a city and country name!
Flickrmap also supports photos that have been geotagged or photos that have location data encoded in their EXIF properties. There’s currently 94389 geotagged photos at Flickr.
Check out the website and let me know what you think. Please suggest any ideas you might have for new features.
My flickrframe Dashboard widget uses the Flickr API to serve up a stream of flickr pics in a little frame on your Dashboard.
A new simple desktop wallpaper changer is available: FlickrWallpaper based on .Net 1.1 (no FlickrNet API required).
This handy tool just downloads a random interesting photo based on a set of tags you provide.
Nice Collection.
Worth visiting.
Congratulations for such an excellent effort.
Flickr AutoDownloadr is a free tool to view Flickr photos from one user in a fullscreen slideshow (Windows). Handy for showing off photos to a group of friends with a laptop and TV. It can also display random Interesting pictures from Flickr.
This is a great list; I’m glad to see someone has compiled all of these resources together. I found this page looking for a Flickr rating system and was disappointed to find that the one on here didn’t seem to work (I registered, but never received by password nor any responses from the support alias). I would love to see a rating system built into Flickr and until then would like to see a third party tool built to assist in this.
To this end, I built my own using the .NET API. This was originally intended for my own personal use but then I opened it up to my friends and it’s been relatively popular. It’s definitely in beta but seems to function better than any other rating tools out there so I’m submitting it for inclusion here.
Feedback welcome, of course. Hopefully Flickr builds this in sooner than later.
ShoZu is an application for Symbian phones (Java and MS soon) that makes uploading photos, descriptions and tags to Flickr very simple.
flickr interestingness RSS/Atom feed
http://feeds.feedburner.com/InterestingFlickr
Keep an eye out for a sharing tool from Cognima which allows users of certain cameraphones to have there pictures tagged and shared to Flickr with no intervention.
I’m using a beta and it’s amazing. You take a picture somewhere with no network coverage (like on the tube), put your phone back in your pocket and finish commuting to work.
Log on on to your desktop at work, check your Flickr home and the picture you took is there already.
All the best
Dug
http://www.3e.org/flickr/notinsets.php lets you view which of your photos do not belong to any sets
http://www.3e.org/flickr/datesort.php sorts the photos in a set by date taken, a feature sorely lacking from Organizr
http://www.3e.org/flickr/mysetshow.php lets you browse a big-screen slideshow of a set
loads of useful flickr related scripts
I want to create a slide show with Flickr…but be able to show captions for each photo. I know Flickr’s slide show mode does not support captions. So I’m wondering if there is any work-around. How do you “tell a story” with a group of Flickr photos? Thanks!
Greasemonkey user scripts with the tag flickr
From Userscripts.org
Dunck.us has a frequently updated list of Greasemonkey scripts. It might be good to add that to your official list above. There are currently 20 scripts listed for Flickr.
Hi,
There’s a Flickr WordPress plugin on alias.ouvaton.org to mashup Flickr photos with reBlog.
This site contains streetArt, retro and typo reblogging.
Cheers,
Alx
You can upload pictures directly from Motorola i860 to flickr with the location of the photo stamped in tags as well as a link to a map in the comments. here is one of my pictures:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gadgeteer/20579604/
The phone adds tags of the city, state, and zip code of where the picture was taken as well as adding a link to a MapQuest map of the location. To enter your flickr email press # *your pin* 8 7 5 0 # from the first start-up screen. So if your pin is 1234 you would press the keys # 1 2 3 4 8 7 5 0 # and a screen will pop-up that lets you enter your flickr email and password
Hi. Great post.
For those of you that blog & are Flickr members —There is a ring devoted to just that.
As of today there are 95 members of Blogs That Flickr. I joined and it’s been great.
You place a small code snippet on your site & visitors can surf other sites within the ring.
You can check out the Blogs That Flickr homepage for more info. The owner has also posted a great list of flickr related links. Cheers!
Hi,
I just launched a new tool, Delivr:
Love to know what folks think.
Cheers
Don’t forget GEOsnapper.com. It allows you to geo-tag your photos and see them marked on a map. It can easily import all your Flickr photos and you dont even need a GPS to do the tagging. Just enter an address or click on a map.
Anyone know of a good way to export Adobe Photoshop tags into Flickr directly, without have to retag everything?
You should update your post to reflect the new price changes and additions. Nice comprehensive post!
don’t forget FlickFolio… a somewhat-complete script to create an offsite gallery / portfolio via the Flickr API.
Hi! Great posting here! In my stats I see that quite a few people really use your article and I think that something like this is good to give people an impression of how powerful flickr in fact is. Your article is great and I hope, my contribution (“Basic Guidelines for Tagging”) will make it even better ;-)
M.