Best Shutterstock Alternatives and Competitors (2026)

Yes you nailed it! I'm not sure why they peace meal their products so much, but I'm still very happy with their service.

It took me a little time to dig and realize that this company has multiple portals. They own VectorGrove, Unlimphotos, and YayImages. YayImages seems more like their premier hub where you can download everything within the same portal, including stock video, photos/images, and vector images all in the same portal, and it's good quality stuff, and therefore they charge more money and limit your downloads per-day. Then they have separate portals strictly for Images (Unlimphotos) and strictly for vector images (VectorGrove). I'm not sure if they own DepositPhotos though. YayImages shares the same image database with Unlimphotos and VectorGrove....however you can get EVERYTHING within YayImages, while Unlimphotos only offers photos and VectorGrove only offers vector images as I mentioned.

So once I figured out how these folks are selling their digital assets, I went and purchased a lifetime deal that I found for YayImages that has a cap of 10 downloads per day, and then I got their VectorGrove deal (30 downloads per day I think) and this Unlimphotos deal (35 downloads per day).

I'm not angry or upset about how they break-up their portals and sell this digital content though...good on them for making more money and all that. The quality of their image library is fantastic and I'm actually pleased with the amount of various image downloads that I can get per-day based on how much I paid for each service. Since I purchased each product separately, I can now download more of each time of each asset than if I only purchased a YayImages subscription. I generally reserve my YayImages downloads for stock video, Unlimphotos for photos obviously, and VectorGrove for vector images. Once again, it's all good quality stuff, so I'm very happy with what I have and I think that these folks have earned my money and I recommend that others make the purchase as well, depending on your needs. It would have saved me more time though if this company just makes a matrix of their various services and costs and downloads-per-day, and is more up-front about it so that people don't have to waste time wondering which products to buy.

To reiterate though, at this point I have zero complaints and I'm very happy. I hope this maybe helps others in the future.