Pexels Reviews 

Pexels is excellent! I can't say enough. Have used this site for years now, and it's easy, straightforward, and fast! It has saved me so much time. Even though the pics are free, I always leave a donation - I recommend this site to so many people.
Other photo sites are complicated and take you from one window to the next before you get what you want - then they want to charge you somewhere down the line. Yuk! Total waste of time.
Keep up the great work Pexels! You rock!!!

Pexels actually provides stock and B-roll footage featuring Black people, including simple things like Black hands, which is a huge relief compared to other platforms like Pixabay or Coverr.co. The selection is solid, easy to find, and free to use. Definitely deserves 5 stars for supporting diverse creators.

5/10 When I had a website I used these pictures.
Not only that there were limited amounts of good pictures to use, some of them seemed kinda inapropriate. Although I do understand most of the inapropriate pictures are not uploaded by Pexels, I feel that they should filter out the inapropriate ones.
Example: Buttocks
Not good for kids under 8

*Interesting Idea*
Love the idea of quality sharing platform for photos and videos.

*Chaotic Curation*
Unfortunately the curation seams arbitrary and the mysterious 'curation team' removes content without providing a reason.

*Unprofessional Customer Service*
Customer service was stringing me along with standard platitudes for 2+ days without actually reading my ticket or reaching out to the curation team.

Good quality images, no sign up, no spam. What more could you want. 5*

This website is totally amazing and you guys don't think about it because it's very natural and easy. It would be great if we could change the image size without having to click on it.

From using the site, it's good for exposure but poorly designed and extremely glitchy. A lot of things are often not working.

Wish it was better

I just found this website and it's crazy good. I could find videos I needed easily just by typing a word or two. Really amazing website, I would recommend!

Well, you can improve by not telling lies. There's no "free content" in this site, once for every shabby picture offered you are asked for a "donation", among other botheration such as being asked a report about how and where you used a photo directly in your own mail box! My friends, FREE is FREE, not to be used as a bait.

Tagging doesn't work and customer service hasn't responded for months even after trying to reach out to them many times.

the entire site is pointless, if you cant edit and upload your own designs, why am i gonna download a stock video for if i cant do anything with it.

Yes I know! I agreed to put my images on Pexels for FREE download but I maybe wrongly expected to have donations from at least a few of the downloads. I have been on the site for about a year, uploaded approximately 250 images, have received 1.5 million view and a little more than 5000 downloads and received one donation for $5.00. If you submit images to this site don't expect anything from the freeloaders that download your images to better their own businesses.

As far a Pexels themselves it is not bad if you are shopping for free images. the biggest problem is searching. the Database is screwed up.. you search for something specific and you get more irrelevant results than what you searched for. An the stats.. not sure if they are correct or even close. I have seen contributors with only a few images and millions of views per month?? questionable. I have removed all of my images except 3 and I will watch and see what the status do on my profile. Don' set your exceptions too high

I find this website quite valuable because it provides beautiful free photographs that people can use for free, even for commercial purposes.

Absolutley diabolical site! Constantly crashes constantly freezes! It may be FREE but there’s a reason!! I urge you ALL to avoid this site do not listen to the fools who recommend this site!! Very frustrating to use!!! Awful awful awful!!! Stay away!

There are many scammers claiming that use of Pexels photos violate copyrights. When I contacted Pexels with a recent violation notice, they did nothing about it. When I had the same issue with Unsplash photos, Unsplash was familiar with the scam and took care of the scammer immediately. I've stopped using Pexels as they do not support their users. They should stand behind their photos, but don't. Now I have a copyright mess to clean up with no help from Pexels. Use them at your own risk!

Politilized garbage

Pexels really has a big and beautiful stock of images. Pretty much everything you can find is top quality but there is one, big issue. THE DAMN SEARCH ENGINE. How do i type "cycling at sunset" and literally get lots of wedding pictures and 0 images about a bicycle? come on pexels... no way i can't find a single image matching my keyword in a 80.000+ stock database.

To Pexels,

I am a Pexels user. Although Pexels would be amazing, there are some situations when your application needs to be upgraded. The following might be improved:

1. The video is taking a long time to upload. There is still a processing notification that you must await. Hopefully, it will be improved.

2. When I submit a picture or video challenge, why does it take so long for me to be able to see the images or videos in the submission tab? Hopefully, it will be improved.

3. Why is there no action to delete the photo or video immediately in the deletion part when I wish to remove it? To simply delete the photo/video you want to remove, the URL must be refreshed. Hopefully, it will be improved.

4. It took a long time for you to respond to our complaints and issues, and I hope that this will be changed.

5. Please make it possible for the creators to earn more than simply the donation button. Hopefully, it will be improved.

That’s all. Thank you!

Love Pexels! Use it regularly and it appears to be growing fast.