IN-CLOUD GALLERIES COMPARISON

Andreas Geest Palma

SmugMugSmugMug is a paid photo-sharing website and image hosting service which allows users to upload both HD photos and videos to their SmugMug sites. Launched in 2002, the company offers a toolset which facilitates the selling of digital and print media for amateur and professional photographers.

FlickrFlickr (pronounced "flicker") is an image hosting and video hosting website, and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.

ImageShackImageShack is a subscription-based image hosting website headquartered at Los Gatos, California. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, ImageShack was the fourth fastest growing web brand in July 2006.Although ImageShack previously had a subscription service, the majority of its revenue was produced from advertising related to its free image hosting.[3] In January 2014, ImageShack announced that it was switching to a subscription based service, and would no longer offer free uploads.

MinusMinus is a revolutionary chat and photo experience that lets you travel the world and meet new friends.Life is full of surprises and you never know who you will meet on Minus! Fly around the world in the palm of your hand. We want to less the distance between strangers, and bring people closer together through chat and photos.

PhotobucketPhotobucket is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community dedicated to preserving and sharing the entire photo and video lifecycle. Photobucket hosts more than 10 billion images from 100 million registered members, who upload more than four million images and videos per day from the Web and connected digital devices. The website was founded in 2003 and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007. In December 2009, Fox's parent company, News Corp sold Photobucket to Seattle mobile imaging startup Ontela.

ComparisionSmugMug

Flickr Imageshack

Minus Photobucket

Maximum number of galleries

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited unlimited

unlimited

Maximum capacity (MB)

unlimited

TB 1,5TB 10GB 500MB

Allows customizing?

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Titles at the pictures?

No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Labels Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Private Galleries

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Download allowed

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Spanish No Yes No No No

Catalan No No No No No

Personal RatingSmugMug

Flickr

Imageshack

Minus

Photobucket

User-friendly 7 8 7 4 7

Speed 8 9 7 4 8

Design 6 9 8 7 8

Global 7 9 8 5 7