Looking to watermark photos free to protect your images from content theft?
Whether you want to download free watermark software, or prefer to watermark online, I’ve got you covered!
Here’s the Ultimate List of websites where you can watermark photos free!
Each listing first specifies whether you’ll watermark online or download software, then you’ll see the website address. Each site works a bit differently, so check out a couple. Click on each heading to visit the site. If you’ve tried any, please give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down!
How to Watermark Photos FREE!
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Frank Woodman says
Great info to have. Protecting our online properties is harder than ever, and pictures are especially easy to pilfer. So hats off for a good set of sites and tools that can help.
Louise Myers says
Hey Frank, thanks so much for reading and commenting! I appreciate your support!
Donna says
Louise, I am a beginner but need to watermark some paintings to show online that my husband did. Which website would be the easiest for a computer novice…nothing to intricate or I am lost. I do not want his artwork to be ripped off.
Louise Myers says
Hi Donna!
I’d suggest trying PicMarkr or WaterMarquee. Be sure to upload the smallest images that show the work – be aware that there WILL be people who downlaod the images, and watermarks are easy to remove. You can read this article for more info on protecting images: https://louisem.com/1854/can-you-protect-images-from-copyright-infringement
Best!
Louise
Carol says
Great info as usual! I really like number 6 as it has lots of options.
Louise Myers says
Thanks Carol, I appreciate getting a recommendation!
Mark Knight says
I’m planning to post some photos on my site and looking for the ways to add watermark, the information on this article definitely helps. Thank you !
Louise Myers says
Glad you enjoyed the post, Mark!
Vitor Sequeira says
Hi Louise,
thanks for your great work on it.
i’ll try Visual Watermark – it seems very good and has high rates in cnet and softpedia.
Regards
Louise Myers says
Hi Vitor!
Appreciate your visit and comment. Enjoy!
Sreejesh says
Wow, great list, I loved the tool you embeded to show the list. It was worth the visit to your blog, I got both the useful tools to watermark and an awesome list making tool.
Louise Myers says
Terrific Sreejesh! I’m glad you got some good info, and I appreciate your comment!
bratari shamballa says
i think the best solution to watermark the images still remaining photoshop or imagemagick
i use them since awhile and im very happy
Louise Myers says
Absolutely Bratari! If you have the images open already in an image editor like Photoshop, watermark them right then. Saves time!
Have a great day!
Hossein T says
hi dear louise , good time
sorry , How can I add watermark to some special pages while other pages without watermark in word2007?
Louise Myers says
I’m sorry Hossein, I don’t work with Word. These watermark tools are for photos and other images.
Best of luck with it!
Andrew says
Hello. Recently I created a page from within my personal Facebook profile. The page is to show friends and family some stuff I´m selling. My idea is to label the pictures as things get sold. I´ve been looking all over for online image editing tools for adding watermarks to photos on this page, but all these tools will only allow me to edit my profile pictures, but the ones in the page won´t be listed or appear anywhere. Any ideas on how to deal with this problem?
Louise Myers says
Hi Andrew. I think you’re wanting to add a watermark (or “sold” verbiage) to photos that are already on Facebook? I don’t know of a way to do that.
You could add it in a comment or the description, or just delete the photo.
cek TEKAPE Gan says
wonderful list…. 😀
Louise Myers says
Glad you enjoyed it! I’m surprised by the immense popularity of this post. So glad you’re finding it useful!
Ashley Danielle says
Really enjoyed your article. Visual Watermark was my fav!!
Louise Myers says
Thanks Ashley!
Crystal says
I was wondering if you knew how to add a symbol to the watermark. Like the name and a little symbol like a small diamond or something.
Louise Myers says
Hey Crystal,
I doubt that any of these free programs would allow you to do that easily. You’d probably need to create an art file that you could overlay in a graphics program, or on pixlr.com.
Ivan Ross says
Most fonts have special symbols. You can access them by pressing a shortcut on your keyboard or using a special app – Character Map.
Both Windows and Mac have programs that show a complete list of all available characters. On Windows, it’s under Start – All Programs – Accessories – System Tools – Character Map menu item. Start it. Find a symbol you want, click the Select button. Then click Copy to save the symbol into your clipboard. Switch to the watermarking program and paste the symbol (Ctrl + V) in a text field.
This will work for every program you have. Should it be Microsoft Word or Google Chrome.
Louise Myers says
That’s a fantastic tip, thanks Ivan!
When I need symbols, I usually just paste in a symbol font, but this will be more flexible. I just never remember how to find those secret characters on Mac!
I prefer to believe it’s from being blond rather than senile 😉
Ivan Ross says
There is also shortcuts for these symbols. For example, on Mac copyright symbol is Alt + G.
Louise Myers says
That one I know oh-so-well 😉 It’s the shapes and smileys that I’m not sure about on Mac. We don’t have all the keyboard codes with strings of numbers – at least I’m not aware of it!
Some icons sent from Windows aren’t recognized on Mac as well.
Anders Pedersen says
Hi Louise
I have made a free online watermarker, and a free for personal use (windows only) watermarker and I was wondering if you might consider adding my site to the list http://www.watermark-image.com ?
/Anders
Louise Myers says
Sure, I will do that. Thanks Anders!
obat penghilang bekas jerawat says
waw, I was really wondering if you knew how to add a symbol to the watermark. Like the name and a little symbol like a small diamond or something.
Louise Myers says
If you don’t have a symbol font, try googling “special characters.”
I’m not on a PC so I don’t know if this will work, but it’s worth a try!
Rechel Chua says
Louise, thanks for this list of watermark software, its hard for us this days to secure out photos online, since I am studying to be a photographer, watermarking software is so important, thanks so much!
Louise Myers says
I’m glad this was helpful, Rechel! Best of luck to you in your photography career.
SJ Valdez says
Thanks for this post, Louise! Number 8 worked for me. 🙂
Louise Myers says
Wonderful! Glad you found it helpful 🙂
utsav says
Hi Louise…!!!
Great work… I google for best watermark and it shows me a list of Watermark software. I confused which is best?
Then I head over to your website and I found my answer. Just Downloaded Visual watermark.
Thanks for sharing
Louise Myers says
Hey Utsav, so glad this was helpful! Thanks for your kind comment.
Euphonos says
Hello Louise,
Thanks for this interesting & wonderful post. I came across while looking for some tools coz I had plans to have my photography blog 🙂
Louise Myers says
You are most welcome, Euphonos (lovely sounding name, right? 🙂 )
Best wishes on your photography blog!
S L says
for video I recommended Aoao Video Watermark Pro. its easy to use. 🙂
Louise Myers says
Thanks for the tip!
Woo says
Hi, Louise Myers,
which software should i use to detect watermark in an image ?
Thanks
Louise Myers says
Hi Woo,
Watermarks are visible, so you don’t need software. If it’s metadata you’re after, several Adobe programs can read it, like Photoshop and Bridge. A Google search will net you some websites. I haven’t used them so I can’t recommend one.
Louise
CZ says
“Watermarks are visible”
This is not true of audio files. How can they be detected?
Louise Myers says
Hey CZ, my specialty is graphics, and I couldn’t tell you about audio. Sorry.
Katherine Brady says
Hello Louise. Maybe you can help me? I used paint in my windows program to add a text box to many pictures thinking it would act as a watermark. Not ever doing this before, I made the mistake of not checking it out first and now half these pictures are marked with no way to remove the text box. The paint program has no way to remove them, and in my photo program I cannot return it to original. Is there a way to remove these text boxes without ruining my beautiful photos? Thank you for any help you can give to me.
Louise Myers says
Hi Katherine,
Unfortunately, if you can’t remove the text boxes in the program that created them, I really don’t know how you would do it.
Any chance you have a backup copy of your photos on your phone, camera, or elsewhere? Sorry I couldn’t help.
Julia Richard says
Just an awesome article 🙂
Louise Myers says
So glad you enjoyed it, Julia!
I Gede Wisaksono says
What about Watermark Factory 2 ?
Louise Myers says
Looks like that one isn’t free permanently? If it is, give me the link and I’ll be happy to add it!
SHAHID says
wonderful list…. 😀
Louise Myers says
Thanks Shahid!
Susan Ballard says
I use iWatermark on my Mac, Windows tablet and iPhone and it works great! It’s definitely my favorite and I believe they have versions for Mac, Windows, Android and iOS. Check it out 🙂
Louise Myers says
Thanks for the recommendation, Susan! Since the post is only FREE apps, I can’t add it, but it’s nice to hear you like it.
Anick says
What if I want to be your intern!!!
Any way great to have such an informative writings.
Louise Myers says
I’ll keep that in mind, Anick, if I should want an intern. Thanks!
Patrick says
Awesome, lets see what works … I am trying Visualwatermark.com … hope it will be exactly what I am looking for ..
Cheers!
Louise Myers says
Best of luck with it, Patrick!
Salim says
I like this software so much.
Louise Myers says
I’m happy to hear that, Salim!
Amin Ahmadi says
I would be glad if you can also review the free app that I released for this same purpose recently. It’s called Picture Stamper and is available for Mac and Windows.
http://amin-ahmadi.com/picture-stamper/
Louise Myers says
Looks good Amin, I have added it to the list. Thanks!
Dumaji says
Thanks for sharing. I have started using this website for adding watermark.
Robert Jacko says
Hello! We have released our first version of free watermarking tool at watermark.top. It has few interesting features and might be useful for many. Tool is new and still under development. I hope you would like it 🙂 tips and comments are highly appreciated! Thank you.
Robert
Garg Ankit says
UMark is a notable tool I had been using since long to watermark my images for copyright protection. On similar grounds, I’d like to introduce you to Canva. Give it a try. Is it worth adding to this list?
Louise Myers says
Hi Garg,
I’ve written about Canva many times. I think of it as a lot more than a watermark tool, but it certainly could be used for that.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Lee says
Thanks for sharing!
VisualWatermark is very good and I have been using it for a while. But I got a better tool from GOTD a few days ago named PT Watermark. After using it a few days, now I feel it’s probably the best (both in quality and efficiency) watermarking software in the market. Hope you like it too 🙂
Nicho says
Water marquee, cdWorks and umark are one of the best watermark
software to use. You have listed almost all the good software to use for watermark. Thanks for sharing your valuable information.
Leona says
I’m using cdWorks Photo Helper too. I can not only watermark my photos, but also manage EXIF data and edit picture data. Good one!
Sojeong Kim says
I tried several of them you mentioned and did not work for me; I like to put my site name on my photos exactly right bottom corner with specific margin. It failed when the width and height ratio changes. But, I do not want to change one by one using photo shop or any app.
I couldn’t find one doing exactly like that.
So, I just developed one. If it’s simple text watermark (I do not support image yet), this must work for many with one click. I spent two week on this and does not want to use it myself.
I put it into windows app store with “Bulk Photo Editor”. (only for windows 10)
Please let me know if it’s worth to improve further with rotation, image watermark..
Thank you,
Kiran says
Hi,
Great list and I request you to add this site also to the list which has great options to watermark images.
Louise Myers says
If a real human being visits the post they could add it to the queue for possible inclusion. We don’t allow bot comments or links in comments.