When comparing Flickr vs Pixpa, the Slant community recommends Pixpa for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud photo storage and portfolio services?” Pixpa is ranked 2nd while Flickr is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Pixpa is:
Pixpa offers unlimited storage and bandwidth for your photographs on all the plans.
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Pros
Pro Can be set to auto-upload images
Flickr has an app on Windows, OSX, iOS and Android, called Flickr Uploadr (available for download in the tools section) that can automatically upload images to Flickr. It can even pull images from external drives and other cloud storage services such as iCloud.
Pro Photos are backed up elsewhere
I mainly use Google Photos and keep separate local backup of all my photos, but also use the IOS app which transfers all new photos onto Flickr storage as well.
Pro Good search
Flickr is capable of searching images by a combination of content, color, shape, depth of field, style, pattern, size, license and other options.
Pro Built-in image recognition
Flickr will automatically attempt to figure out the contents of a picture and tag them appropriately. This will allow you to look for, for example, all images of flowers, bridges or butterflies.
Pro Unlimited storage and bandwidth
Pixpa offers unlimited storage and bandwidth for your photographs on all the plans.
Pro Beautiful themes for professional photographers
Pixpa has more than 20 pre-built multipurpose themes for creative pros.
Pro Allows password-protected galleries
Pro Integrated blogging
Pro DIY pagebuilder for creating custom pages
Pixpa offers drag-and-drop functionality for creating custom pages. There are more than 300 pre-built, ready to use content blocks for building a custom webpage on a site.
Pro 12 gallery layouts
Choose from multiple gallery layouts to showcase your work the way you want.
Pro Responsive websites for mobile
Works on all mobile devices.
Pro No coding required
Drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to build a professional website.
Pro Cost-effective
All plans allow unlimited images and bandwidth.
Pro Fast and secure
All websites are hosted on secure and scalable cloud infrastructure ensuring up-time and fast delivery.
Pro Easy WYSIWYG editor
The PageBuilder offered by Pixpa is very easy to use and has custom content blocks which can be incorporated in any custom page you build for your website . The Drag and Drop functionality is helps here as well.
Pro Client proofing
Pixpa allows you to create private galleries for clients. It gets pretty easy for clients to select images and give feedback. The service allows easy workflows.
Pro Brilliant SEO capabilities
Supports automatic sitemap.xml generation, automatic robots.txt generation, meta data for each page or sub-page on website, SEO friendly URLs, optimized images with proper alt tags and description.
Cons
Con No offline view
While Google Photos and iCloud Photo Library allow you to select if you want to keep local copies of your photos, Flickr only allow you to view your photos online.
Con There are limits on file sizes
Images can't be more than 200MB a piece and each video can't take up more than 1GB of space.
Con No support for lossless file formats
Photos can only be saved as .jpg, .gif (non-animated) and .png files.
Con The web builder currently supports desktop only
Pixpa websites are responsive and work well on all mobile devices. The website builder though is optimized to work on desktops.
Con Third-party account required for commerce
Unlike many other solution, there's no built-in commerce solution.
Con Inconvenient website building
No drag and drop or WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor is available for building the website. All properties have to be set and saved in the backend before it's possible to view the result that in and of itself has to be viewed in a separate browser window. Getting a site just right takes a lot of back and forth between refreshing the preview window and editing details in the backend.
Con Expensive
Pricing starts at $10 per month for the Starter Package up to $20 per month for the Plus Package. Yearly billing offers a discount of 20%.