Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Beautiful generated avatar placeholders

Create unique, stylish placeholders for your website.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Beautiful generated avatar placeholders launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   PlaceholderJS▲146

   Ridiculously simple and lightweight placeholders

   2024 · placeholderjs.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Image Placeholder▲13

   Smart image placeholders for fast UI prototyping

   2025 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Adorable Avatars▲13

   Avatar placeholder service for web developers and designers

   2015 · adorable.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Adorable Avatars an avatar placeholder service for web devs and designers▲20

   Professional website creation in web studio In an age when most people search for […]

   2016 · avatars.adorable.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Nice avatar▲226

   React component for generating avatars

   2021 · its alternatives →

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   Placy▲125

   Simple tool for generating placeholders

   2021 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Placeholder Loader Creator▲225

   SVG component editor to create skeleton/placeholder loaders

   2020 · skeletonreact.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Plaiceholder▲204

   Beautiful pure CSS image placeholders, without the hassle.

   2020 · plaiceholder.co · its alternatives →

9. 9
   This Person Does Not Exist for Sketch▲260

   Get unique AI-generated people faces placeholders in Sketch

   2019 · sliday.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Placeholder Image Maker – Fast & Free▲12

    Free online placeholder image generator | Themedevhub

    2025 · themedevhub.com · its alternatives →

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    Placeholders by TwicPics▲128

    Save time with dynamic placeholder images.

    2020 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Gradient Joy▲107

    Beautiful gradients as placeholder images just for you

    2018 · gradientjoy.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    PlaceholderImages.com▲8

    Free branded placeholder image generator

    2025 · placeholderimages.com · its alternatives →

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    CC0 Avatar placeholder service▲85

    Generate fake avatars to fill your sample application.

    2016 · pravatar.cc · its alternatives →

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    Avatar▲246

    💎 Beautiful avatars as a microservice

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Placemat▲192

    Pretty nice placeholder images.

    2016 · placem.at · its alternatives →

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    Avvvatars▲473

    Open source React unique UI avatar library

    2022 · avvvatars.com · its alternatives →

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    placeholder.pics▲99

    Lightest way to include placeholder images in your design

    2016 · placeholder.pics · its alternatives →

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    Placeholdit.com▲11

    Free placeholder image generator

    2025 · placeholdit.com · its alternatives →

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    Notion Avatars▲143

    Your avatar, for Notion

    2021 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Free Placeholder Image Generator▲8

    Generate custom placeholder images for your project

    2025 · themedevhub.com · its alternatives →

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    Boring Avatars▲494

    JavaScript library to generate SVG avatars based on text

    2021 · boringavatars.com · its alternatives →

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    TinyFaces▲403

    Free crowd-sourced avatar gallery including Sketch plugin

    2017 · tinyfac.es · its alternatives →

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    Placeholders by StreetviewHub▲87

    Placeholder images from Google Street View

    2020 · its alternatives →

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