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24 alternatives to placeholder.ink

The Ultimate Solution for Placeholder Images!

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. placeholder.ink launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Plaiceholder▲204
Beautiful pure CSS image placeholders, without the hassle.
2020 · plaiceholder.co · its alternatives →
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Placeholder Image Maker – Fast & Free▲12
Free online placeholder image generator | Themedevhub
2025 · themedevhub.com · its alternatives →
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Free Placeholder Image Generator▲8
Generate custom placeholder images for your project
2025 · themedevhub.com · its alternatives →
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PlaceholderImages.com▲8
Free branded placeholder image generator
2025 · placeholderimages.com · its alternatives →
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Placy▲125
Simple tool for generating placeholders
2021 · 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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Image Placeholder▲13
Smart image placeholders for fast UI prototyping
2025 · its alternatives →
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This Person Does Not Exist for Sketch▲260
Get unique AI-generated people faces placeholders in Sketch
2019 · sliday.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Placeholdit.com▲11
Free placeholder image generator
2025 · placeholdit.com · its alternatives →
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Placeholders by TwicPics▲128
Save time with dynamic placeholder images.
2020 · its alternatives →
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Gradient Joy▲107
Beautiful gradients as placeholder images just for you
2018 · gradientjoy.com · its alternatives →
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Placeholder images▲6
photos, placeholder, demo images
2025 · placehold.net · its alternatives →
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Simple.ink▲514
Build websites with Notion in ~10 sec
2022 · simple.ink · its alternatives →
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Notion Icons by Simple.ink▲288
Copy-paste icons for Notion
2022 · notionicons.simple.ink · its alternatives →
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Ink illustrations▲228
Minimal illustrations for UI design
2023 · getillustrations.com · its alternatives →
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Placemat▲192
Pretty nice placeholder images.
2016 · placem.at · its alternatives →
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I've made a tool to generate beautiful gradient background images▲448
Find information, resources and relevant links for quasi.ink. This domain may be for sale.
2016 · gradient.quasi.ink · its alternatives →
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Plaiceholder, transform images into pure CSS blurred placeholders▲24
Beautiful image placeholders, without the hassle.
2020 · plaiceholder.co · its alternatives →
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GetIpsum▲79
Menu bar placeholder text generator for digital creatives
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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OctoPlace▲68
Placeholder image generator
2021 · its alternatives →
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Templated▲306
Hey HN! While building our own SaaS we kept running into the same problem: customers wanted a real design editor (think Canva/Figma-lite) *inside* their product, but rebuilding all that UI from scratch is a quarter-million-dollar distraction. So we turned our internal tool into *Templated Embed* — a drop-in image & PDF template editor you can add to any web app with an tag. - What it does? • Full WYSIWYG editor for text, images, SVGs, brand colours, Google Fonts • Outputs static images (PNG/JPG), layered PDFs, or keeps the design JSON so you can re-render via API • Multi-page +…
2024 · templated.io · its alternatives →
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INK'A▲163
Automatically ship branded goods to your community
2017 · inka.io · its alternatives →
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Plaiceholder 2.0, pure CSS blurry image placeholders (now ~90% smaller)▲25
Beautiful image placeholders, without the hassle. Contribute to joe-bell/plaiceholder development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PlaceholderJS▲146
Ridiculously simple and lightweight placeholders
2024 · placeholderjs.com · its alternatives →

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