Free & no signup to try

The Free Photo Gallery
Creator That Does the Work

Upload a ZIP of your photos. AI writes titles, alt text, and tags for every image. Get a beautiful shareable gallery at its own URL.

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✓ No credit card  ·  ✓ No design skills needed  ·  ✓ First gallery free forever
Four steps to your gallery
01
Create a gallery
Sign up free and give your gallery a title and custom URL slug.
02
Upload a ZIP
Compress your JPEGs, PNGs, or WebPs into a .zip and upload. Up to 350 MB.
03
Run the AI
Click Start Processing. AI reads every photo and writes titles, alt text, and tags.
04
Share the link
Your gallery is live at its own URL. Share anywhere — no viewer login needed.
What you get free
free plan — no credit card

Everything you need for your first gallery

  • 1 gallery with up to 50 images
  • AI-generated titles, alt text, and tags for every photo
  • Shareable gallery URL at /g/your-slug
  • Lightbox viewer with keyboard and swipe navigation
  • ZIP download of your gallery
  • Public / private toggle
  • WebP image optimisation — 3 sizes per photo
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What makes zipgallery different
ai_powered
AI writes the metadata
No manual titling or tagging. AI-generated metadata looks at every photo and generates a title, alt text, and keyword tags automatically.
zip_upload
Batch upload via ZIP
Compress your whole folder of photos and upload in one go. Nested folders work. Up to 350 MB per upload, multiple uploads per gallery.
shareable
Clean shareable URL
Every gallery lives at a readable URL like /g/your-gallery-name. Viewers need no account to open it.
optimised
Auto image optimisation
Photos are automatically resized into thumbnail, medium, and large variants and converted to WebP for fast loading on any connection.
seo_ready
SEO-friendly by default
Gallery pages have proper title tags, meta descriptions, Open Graph tags, and structured data. AI alt text helps images appear in Google Image Search.
embeddable
Embed anywhere
Paste your gallery URL into WordPress, Squarespace, or any iframe-supporting platform and it embeds automatically. Works with Gutenberg and Elementor.
Zipgallery vs other free gallery tools
tool ai metadata zip upload custom url embed viewer login free tier
ZipGallery ✓ AI-generated metadata ✓ 350 MB ✓ /g/slug ✓ iframe ✓ not required 1 gallery, 50 photos
Google Photos ✕ none ✕ no ✕ random URL ✕ no embed ~ sometimes prompted 15 GB storage
Flickr ✕ manual only ✕ no zip ~ partial ✕ limited ~ encouraged 1,000 photos
Imgur ✕ none ✕ no zip ✕ no ~ limited ✓ not required Limited albums
SmugMug ✕ none ~ folder import ✓ custom domain ✓ embed ✓ not required 14-day trial only
What to look for in a free gallery tool

What actually matters when choosing a free gallery creator

Most free photo gallery tools were built before AI was viable for image analysis. That means they rely entirely on you to write titles, alt text, and tags for every photo. For 10 photos, that's annoying. For 100 photos, that's hours of work you'll probably skip — leaving your gallery with generic filenames as titles and no alt text.

Alt text matters for two reasons: accessibility (screen readers rely on it) and SEO (Google uses it to understand and rank images). A gallery full of "IMG_4821.jpg" titles is invisible to both search engines and assistants.

ZipGallery is the only free gallery creator that automatically generates this metadata using AI. For every photo you upload, AI-generated metadata writes a descriptive title, a full alt text paragraph, and a set of keyword tags. This takes about as long as the upload itself — with no manual effort from you.

Beyond metadata, look for: a clean viewer that works on mobile without an app, a shareable URL that doesn't require viewers to sign up, and privacy controls so you can keep some galleries private until they're ready.

Create your gallery free

No design skills. No manual tagging. Upload a ZIP, run AI, share a link. Your first gallery is free forever.

create free account → see how it works