Host an image as a link.
Drop a JPG, PNG, or WebP and get a clean URL. Perfect for forum posts, design handoffs, and anywhere you'd otherwise paste a screenshot.
Key points
- Upload an image (JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, or SVG) and get a public link in seconds, no signup.
- The image serves exactly as uploaded, full resolution, with no compression and no watermark.
- Viewers see the image full size in the browser, with no account and no download step.
- Free plan covers ten active images at 25MB each. Most photographs are well under 5MB.
Hosting an image as a link sounds trivial until you actually try to do it. Imgur compresses photos. Twitter and Reddit auto-crop the preview. iCloud Photo Sharing wants the recipient signed in. Google Photos albums expire when you forget about them. NudgeHost is the boring, reliable middle. Drop the file, get a URL, and the URL still works two years later.
There's a small privacy detail that often gets missed. JPGs from a phone carry EXIF metadata including the camera model, the exact date and time, and (if your location services were on) the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken. NudgeHost stores the file exactly as you upload it and does not strip this, so check before sharing a photo publicly. Every major phone and desktop OS can remove location data on export; do that first if the metadata shouldn't travel.
For images that will live on the web, especially in pages you build yourself, file size matters. A 4MB iPhone photo can usually become a 400KB WebP without any visible quality loss; for screenshots, you can compress a PNG to WebP the same way. Photographs in HEIC (the format iPhones save in by default) won't open on non-Apple devices, so convert HEIC to JPG before hosting and the photo opens anywhere. If the image is really a vector logo or icon, you can publish an SVG for the cleaner long-term result.
No watermark, no signup, on the free plan. The 25MB free-plan limit covers every photograph anyone produces without a medium-format camera. For a whole gallery, zip the images and upload a ZIP for a single shareable link, or stick them inside an HTML layout and host an HTML file instead. Custom domains and link expiry are on Pro.
Drop a file here and get a shareable link in seconds.
Try it freeFrequently asked questions
Does NudgeHost compress my image?
No. The image is served at the resolution and quality you uploaded. If you want a lighter file, convert it before uploading.
Will EXIF metadata be stripped?
No. The file is stored byte-for-byte as uploaded, metadata included. Remove location data before uploading if the image is going somewhere public; every major OS has an export option that does it.
What about animated GIFs?
GIFs work, but for animations longer than a few seconds, hosting as MP4 is dramatically smaller. The MP4 hosting page covers the trade-off.
Can I hotlink the image from another site?
No. The share link opens a viewer page rather than serving the raw image file, so it won't work inside an img tag elsewhere. It's built for sharing with people, not embedding.
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