How to use imagebin.ca

What is imagebin?

imagebin.ca is a free, fast image host. Drop in a picture and you get a shareable link in seconds — no account required. It’s built for sharing screenshots, photos, and graphics anywhere you can paste a link: chats, forums, issue trackers, social posts, or your own website.

imagebin is part of the bin family (alongside pastebin.ca, filebin.ca and others). If you make a free account on any of them, the same sign-in works everywhere — it simply raises your limits and keeps a tidy list of everything you’ve uploaded.

How it works

1. You upload an image. Drag it onto the page or use the Choose images button.
2. We store it and give you a link. Every image gets a short address you can share. Anonymous links last 90 days; signed-in uploads stay until you delete them.
3. We make fast thumbnails. When your image appears in a list or preview, we serve a small, optimised version from a global cache so pages load quickly — the full-quality original is always one click away.
4. You share it however you like. Copy a direct link, grab ready-made Markdown, or download the file again anytime.

Public vs private

Every image is either public or private. This is the most important choice to understand, so here’s exactly what each one means.

By default, new uploads are public. You can flip any single upload to private before you send it, or set private by default once in your account so every new image starts private. See the how-tos below.

How-to guides

Upload an image

1. Go to the homepage.
2. Drag an image file onto the drop area or use Choose images to browse for a file.
3. Review the optional details, then choose Upload. When it’s done, your image and its links appear.

Share your image

1. Open the link shown beside the completed upload, or find the image in your account while signed in.
2. Use Direct link to share the image itself, Markdown to paste into docs/issues that support it, or Download to save the stored image.
3. Click the Copy button next to a link to copy it to your clipboard.

Make an upload private (or public)

1. Before uploading, tick “Keep these uploads private (link-only)” in the upload form to make that batch private.
2. Prefer it always on? Sign in, open your account, and turn on “Make new uploads private by default.”
3. Remember: a private link only works with its full ?s=… token. Copy the whole link.

Add a title, description, or tags

1. In the upload form, expand the details for an image and fill in a title, description, or comma-separated tags. All are optional.
2. These help you recognise images later and can add context for viewers.

Find and manage your uploads

1. Sign in, then open your account to see everything you’ve uploaded.
2. From there you can open any image or delete ones you no longer want.

Delete an image

1. Open your account and find the image.
2. Click Delete next to it. This removes the image and stops its link from working.

Sign in (and why it helps)

1. Click Sign in in the top bar. Accounts are shared across the bin family via pastebin.ca — if you have one, use it here.
2. Signing in raises your upload limits, removes the automatic expiry on new uploads, and keeps a list of your images so you can manage them later.

Protect your privacy

An image page shows selected camera fields, not every tag in the file. The downloaded file can contain more. Metadata removal edits supported file formats before storage; sign in and open your account to choose:

Anonymous uploads use the Remove location policy. New signed-in accounts leave metadata removal off until you choose it. GIF and BMP uploads keep their original bytes; other unsupported formats are rejected when removal is requested. These settings do not remove information visible in the picture itself.

GPS coordinates and serial numbers are omitted from the image page’s camera fields. That display choice does not mean they were removed from the downloadable file. See imagebin privacy for storage and processing details.

Limits & file types

imagebin accepts common image formats — JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, and similar. Limits depend on whether you’re signed in:

Staying safe

imagebin is a shared, public-friendly service. To keep it usable for everyone:

• Only upload images you have the right to share.
• No illegal content, and nothing that sexualises minors — such material is removed and reported.
• Uploads are automatically screened, and only images checked as safe appear in the public gallery.

If you come across something that breaks these rules, please report it via the abuse page.

FAQ

Do I need an account?

No. You can upload and share without one. An account just raises limits and keeps your images from expiring.

How long do images last?

Images uploaded while signed in stay until you delete them. Anonymous uploads are removed after 90 days.

Who can see a private image?

Anyone with the complete link, including anyone it is forwarded to. The link contains an access token and does not identify a particular reader.

Can I change an image after uploading?

You can edit its title, description, and tags, and delete it. The image file itself can’t be swapped — upload a new one instead.

I lost a private link. Can you recover it?

If you were signed in, open your account to find it again. If you uploaded anonymously, the link can’t be recovered — so save private links somewhere safe.

Can I make a public image private later (or the reverse)?

Set visibility at upload time. To change it afterwards, the simplest path is to re-upload with the visibility you want and delete the old one.

For developers

Want to upload from a script, the terminal, or an AI agent? imagebin has a REST API, the pbca command-line tool, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.