8 Free Tools for Photographers (No Sign-Up, Nothing Uploaded)
Free browser tools for photographers: gallery QR cards, batch watermarks, Instagram crops and carousel splits, HEIC to JPG, photo location removal, a storage cost calculator, a contract template and an MLS resizer.
Short answer
GalleryLink has eight free tools for photographers at gallerylink.live/tools: a gallery QR code maker, batch watermarking, an Instagram crop and carousel splitter, a HEIC to JPG converter, a photo location remover, a gallery storage cost calculator, a photography contract template and an MLS photo resizer. They run in your browser, so photos are never uploaded, and none needs an account.
Most of the small jobs around a shoot don't need Photoshop, a subscription or another account: putting a name on a batch of previews, making a QR card for a wedding table, getting an iPhone photo to open on a client's Windows laptop. We built eight free tools for exactly those jobs. Every one runs in your browser, so your photos are never uploaded, and none asks you to sign up.
Here is what each one does, and when it's worth using.
1. Gallery QR code maker
Make a QR code for any link: a client gallery, your website, a booking page. Download it as a plain code (PNG or SVG), or as a printable 4×6 card or A4 poster with your cover photo and a title. Use it for wedding table cards so guests can find the photos, a sign at an event, open house flyers, or the back of print packaging.
The codes are static: the link is written into the code itself, with no redirect service in between, so they never expire. Print a test first and scan it with two different phones before ordering a batch.
2. Batch watermark
Watermark up to 40 photos at once with your name or your logo. Choose a corner, the centre, or a tiled pattern across the frame, then set the size and opacity. You get full-size JPEGs back in one ZIP. Watermark previews, proofs and social posts; leave final client deliveries and MLS listing photos clean. Our guide to watermarking client photos covers when it helps and when it doesn't.
3. Instagram crop and carousel splitter
Instagram's grid now shows posts as tall 3:4 rectangles. The Instagram tool crops a batch to 3:4, 4:5, square or story size, and lets you drag each frame to choose what stays in. Its second mode splits a panorama into a seamless carousel of up to 20 slides, numbered so they upload in order. The sizes and rules are in our Instagram sizes guide.
4. HEIC to JPG converter
iPhones save photos as HEIC, which many Windows computers, older apps and upload forms can't open. Convert a batch to JPG at full resolution, or resize to 2048 or 1600 pixels on the long edge. It's handy when a client sends you phone photos for an album or a second shooter's iPhone frames need to join the set.
5. Remove photo location
Phones and many cameras save the GPS position of every photo inside the file. Check what your photos give away (location, date, camera, serial number), then remove just the location or all the metadata. For JPEGs it works without re-compressing, so the image itself doesn't change, and it reads each file back to confirm the location is gone. It matters most for newborn, family and boudoir sessions at a client's home; we explain why in how to remove location from photos.
6. Gallery storage cost calculator
Gallery platforms charge by storage, and galleries pile up. Put in your shoots a year, the average gallery size and how long you keep galleries online, and the calculator shows the plan you'd need and the yearly cost on Pixieset, ShootProof, Pic-Time and Google Drive with GalleryLink, using each company's published prices from October 2026. It compares storage cost only: the others include print stores that GalleryLink doesn't have. For the full picture, see Pixieset alternatives compared.
7. Photography contract template
Answer a short form for a wedding, portrait, event, commercial or real estate shoot and get a plain-English contract: fees, retainer, cancellation, delivery, copyright and licence, portfolio use, liability and signatures. Anything you leave blank stays highlighted in brackets. Download it as PDF or text, or copy it into your own document. It is a starting point, not legal advice; our guide to what to include in a photography contract explains each section.
8. MLS photo resizer
For real estate photographers: resize listing photos to the sizes MLS boards accept (2048 or 3000 pixels on the long edge), saved as sRGB JPEG under 3 MB, with metadata stripped. It now reads iPhone HEIC files too.
Why they're free
Because nothing is uploaded, the tools cost almost nothing to run, whether ten people use them or ten thousand. They exist for the same reason GalleryLink does: the jobs between the shoot and the delivery should take minutes, not an afternoon. When the photos are ready, GalleryLink turns the Google Drive folder they're in into a gallery your client opens with one link.
All the tools are listed at gallerylink.live/tools. If there's a job you keep doing by hand that belongs there, tell us.