Imgur alternative.
No account. Links that last.

Why people look for an Imgur alternative

In April 2023 Imgur announced new Terms of Service, effective 15 May 2023. In its own words, it would be “focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content”, and it is “not able to assign anonymous uploads to an account” [1] [2] [3]. Since that update, “explicit content is no longer permitted on Imgur” [4].

Imgur’s help centre also lists its upload limits: still images up to 50 MB, animated images and videos up to 200 MB, videos no longer than 180 seconds, PNG files over 5 MB converted to JPEG, and still images over 1 MB (anonymous) or 5 MB (account holders) lossily compressed [5].

If you share screenshots, photos or forum images and want links that do not depend on an account, a post or a time limit, BasePic is built for that.

What BasePic gives you

• No account. Upload from the home page, from ShareX, from the Windows app, from a forum or blog with the website plugin, or through the API.
• Up to 2 GB per file — photos, videos and any other file, such as ZIP or PDF. Programs such as .exe are not accepted.
• Original quality. The file you upload is the file people download. iPhone HEIC photos are turned into JPG so they open everywhere.
• No expiry unless you choose one. Keep files is Forever by default; you can pick auto-delete after 1 day, 7 days, 30 days or 1 year.
• Two links for every upload: a short link to a page with a preview, and a direct link to the file that ends in its name, such as https://basepic.com/vqSvesFU/beach.jpg.
• Embed codes: BBCode, HTML and Markdown, full size or as a linked thumbnail — on the card right after the upload and on the short link page.
• Private by default. No public gallery; uploads are not listed anywhere and their pages are hidden from search engines. GPS location is removed from photos and phone videos before they go online.
• Formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, BMP, TIFF, JXL and RAW (DNG, CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, ORF, RW2, RAF); videos MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, AVI and more; any other file as a file.

How to move your images to BasePic

1. Save your images

   Download the images you want to keep from where they are now. Imgur’s help describes a Download image option on each image in a post [5].

2. Upload them all at once

   On the home page select or drop all of them together. Each image gets its own short link and direct link.

3. Copy the links

   Copy all short URLs copies every link; Copy all for forum copies BBCode for all images at once. For HTML or Markdown open Embed codes on a card.

4. Replace the old links

   Paste the new links or codes into your posts, pages and chats. The direct link works wherever an image address is expected.

BasePic, Imgur, ImgBB and Postimages

Only what each service states on its own pages, checked on 26 October 2026. A dash means it was not checked there — not that the service lacks it. Limits change; check the service’s page before you rely on it.

Limits and rules

• Free, no sign-up and no watermark. Per IP address: 60 uploads an hour, 300 a day and 2 GB a day. Each file up to 2 GB.
• Upload only files you have the right to share. Illegal content is removed — see the Terms of Use.
• Delete any upload from the short link page in the browser you uploaded from.

Sources

Checked on 26 October 2026. Statements about other services are quoted from their own pages.

1. Imgur Help Center, “Imgur Terms of Service Update” — help.imgur.com
2. PetaPixel, “Imgur is Banning Explicit Content and Wiping Images Not Linked to Users”, 20 April 2023 — petapixel.com
3. Windows Central, “Major unpopular changes are coming to free image host Imgur”, 20 April 2023 — windowscentral.com
4. Imgur Help Center, “Explicit content on Imgur” — help.imgur.com
5. Imgur Help Center, “What files can I upload? Is there a size limit?” — help.imgur.com
6. ImgBB home page — imgbb.com
7. Postimages home page — postimages.org