I now have a total of 157 applications and plugins in the database, all of which utilise the Flickr API in some way. You can read more about the API here.
Please let us know if you have created a tool, plugin or app based on the Flickr API and you would like us to include it.
- Official Flickr Tools
- Development Tools
- Games
- Java Applications
- Linux Applications
- Mac Applications
- Mobile Phone Applications
- Plugins/Extensions
- Web Applications
- Windows Applications
Official Flickr Tools
"Send To Flickr" Windows XP Explorer Wizard
Download an executable file which integrates into the Windows XP Explorer system to allow you to publish a batch of photos into Flickr direct from your file system.
Flickr Export Plugin for iPhoto plugin for iPhoto 4 and 5
Flickr Export Plugin for iPhoto plugin for iPhoto 4 and 5 - provides a direct export interface to Flickr.com.
Flickr Uploadr for Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Drag and drop from iPhoto or the Finder, and upload your photos in batches.
Flickr Uploadr for Windows XP, 2000, ME and 98
Download an installer (.exe) that allows you to publish a batch of photos into Flickr directly from your computer. Just drag and drop in your photos and add some tags.
Flickruploader
Flickr uploader for the BeOS operating system (including ZETA and Haiku).
Development Tools
Chasr
A development tool which allows you to insert Flickr photos into your own web pages.
Flashr
ActionScript wrapper for the flickr API.
Flickr Mixr
PHP code which allows web developers to parse in RSS feeds into a new image.
FSViewr
FSViewr (short for Flickr set viewer), is a light-weight, easy to configure Flash environment for displaying images from a Flickr photo set on a separate website. Uses could include a personal portfolio or special presentation site with the ability to administer content on Flickr.
PHPFlickr (PHP Class)
phpFlickr is a class written by Dan Coulter in PHP4 to act as a wrapper for Flickr's API. Methods process the response XML and return a friendly array of data to make development simple and intuitive.
PictoBrowser
A freeware set photo viewer for people to put on a blog, website, mySpace and many others.
Psynchr
A Flash app which synchronises multiple Flickr photosets and display them on a timeline, side by side.
Search Crystal
SearchCrystal lets you compare your Flickr images based on a set of specific tags and visualize which images share multiple tags.
Slideshowr
Slideshowr is a Flash-based full-screen Flickr photo slideshow intended for long-term dedicated screens (like digital picture frames). It cycles through the latest photos from a user-specified photostream and presents them using optional and customizable pans, zooms, fades, and title/description text.
Games
Fastr
Fastr is a game that uses flickr images. It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. When you guess right, the tag will turn blue, and you'll get points. The faster you guess, the more points you get. The points are reset every six minutes. You'll need to choose a player name before you can play. You can play using tags for multiple languages and for specific flickr groups
Flickr Ball
Flickrball is a six-degrees-of-separation scavenger-hunt game, using Flickr thumbnails and tags for clues.
Flickr Slidr
A sliding block puzzle which uses Flickr photos as the base for each puzzle.
TagMan
TagMan is a game that combines the classic hangman game with tags.
Java Applications
FlickrFaves
FlickrFaves is a small, cross-platform Java tool that downloads high-res versions of your Flickr favorites to use as wallpapers -- or whatever else you have in mind with them. You can set a minimum resolution, limit the number of photos downloaded, etc. It's easy to use and free!
Linux Applications
Desktop Flickr Organiser for Gnome
Desktop Flickr Organizer is designed keeping ease and productivity in mind. The interface is inspired by all powerful Amarok music player, which recently helped me tag my entire 2,500 track strong music collection; and since then I've been wanting to have something similar for my photos collection as well. The result is a GUI based application, allowing you to do uploads, downloads and organizing, in both online and offline mode. Its very easy to run, because the package is executable. The application is coded in C# / Mono, more about usage and installation requirements on the homepage: http://code.google.com/p/dfo/
Flickr Upload for Gnome’s Nautilus
A Nautilus script to integrate Flickr.com uploads with the Gnome file manager.
Flickrdownload
Allows you to download all of your photos and associated metadata from Flickr. It stores the metadata in some XML files. It uses some XSLT stylesheets to create HTML files so that you can have a local copy of your Flickr account.
FlickrUploadr
FlickrUploadr is a tool to upload your pictures to Flickr. There are some official tools for this task, but they aren't available on Linux, so I wrote my own.
flickr_upload
Uploads images to the Flickr.com service from the command line.
jUploadr
A flickr uploader for Linux:
jUploadr is a cross-platform uploader for both linux and windows. It supports uploading photos to flickr, changing privacy settings, and editing all other properties of a photo (description, title, tags). To help with bulk uploading, you can edit several photos at once. see jUploadr's webpage (http://juploadr.sourceforge.net) for updates.
Postr
Postr is a Flickr uploading tool for the GNOME desktop, which aims to be simple to use but exposing enough of Flickr to be useful. It isn't finished yet, but its a very capable uploader already.
Mac applications
1001
"1001 is a desktop client to be used in conjunction with Flickr, the online photo-sharing website. 1001 not only uploads photos to your Flickr account, it notifies you anytime new photos from either your contacts, everyone, or your favorite tags are uploaded. 1001 allows you to step into the stream of photos passing through Flickr and to quickly see what's new at the moment. Just run the app in the background and if triggered, 1001 pops up a small unobtrusive window to notify you of new photos.
1001 comes with a Flickr screensaver that will incrementally display the latest image from Flickr. You must have run 1001 at least once to get the Flickr screensaver going. "
Flickr Finder
For Mac OS X Tiger. Navigate Your Flickr World.
Flidget
Flidget is a dashboard widget for tiger that allows you to upload your photos. The biggest advantage of Flidget over any uploading app is that it's there in a snap and does what you want it to do &emdash; upload in a snap.
PictureSync
Upload your images, with metadata, from iPhoto, iView MediaPro, and files with or without IPTC fields. Includes resizing and metadata options.
Mobile Phone Applications
Bluepulse
A new third party mobile widget to make Flickr much easier to use from your phone. Looks excellent as long as your phone is compatible. Mine isn't :-(
iFlickr
A native application for the iPhone that lets you upload images (even geotagged) directly to Flickr.
Mickr
Client software for accessing the flickr™ photo communityfrom your mobile phone. It allows you to view photos in a very simple way. All images available on flickr™ can be searched interactively. A slideshow feature can be used as well. In addition, images can be saved on the phone.
MobyPicture
Send your mobile postings (Photos, Text, Title and tags) to your Flickr account and distribute this automatically to loads of other sites…
ShoZu
Java-based Mobile app for taking and sharing your pics as easily as possible.
Spahk
View photographs from Flickr.com based on keywords (tags) or a random sampling of interesting photographs. Works on most Java-enabled phones with MIDP 2.0 support.
Waymarkr
A mobile phone app which tags and uploads your cameraphone pics straight to Flickr.
Zone tag
ZoneTag can automatically tag your photos with the location, based on the cell tower, in which they were taken. The location of the cell tower is not known until our user community updates the city, state, or zip code of their photos on Flickr. ZoneTag is then able to map the cell tower to the location. Now available for Motorola and Nokia.
Plugins/extensions
Big Screen Photos
This product is deployed as an addin that runs inside Windows Media Center (upcoming Vista version) – and can also be run inside a browser (as it uses Microsoft WinFX technologies – which can be run in a similar way to Macromedia Flash files). The UI is optimized for usage with a remote control (and TV or large display panel).
Exo Visualizer
A visualizer for iTunes under Mac OS. Flikr pics are used to created the visual effects on screen.
Fireflix
An extension for Firefox which allows you to upload pics to Flickr.
Flickengr
A plugin for Yahoo! Messenger 8.0 which displays photos from your Flickr contacts along the bottom of your Messenger.
Flickit (WordPress)
Flickit is a WordPress plugin that'll help you post photos to your weblog easily. Flickit gives you the ability to search through your own Flickr Photos and all public photos based on tags. Run a search for your own username, and pull up a list of your contacts and see their images, you can insert these images into your blog post.
Currently it only works with WordPress, but releases for Movable Type and Textpattern are coming soon.
Flickr Basic (Etomite)
Basic and simple flickr integration to Etomite CMS, shows public photos or favorite public photos.
Flickr Export
FlickrExport is a plugin for iPhoto 4 which provides a direct export interface to Flickr.com.
Flickr Photosets (Movable Type)
Flickr Photosets is a Movable Type plugin that'll help you list your Flickr photo sets on your Movable Type blog.
Flickr Search (Firefox Extension)
" This is a simple search plugin for your Firefox browser, that allows you to quickly search the public available Flickr tags."
Flickr sets (Textpattern)
This Textpattern plugin enables you to display your photo sets on your weblog.
FlickrBooth
A Mac plugin for Photo Booth.
Flickrfox (Firefox Extension)
"Flickrfox is an extension for Firefox (version 1.0) that lets you browse your Flickr photostreams in a sidebar. You can find development updates on my blog."
Flickrpress (WordPress)
This script will get all of the photos uploaded to flickr by a specific user in the last 24 hours. It will then post the thumbnails to a Wordpress blog.
FlickUrPic
A Flickr extension for Joomla.
Galleryr (Blojsom Plugin)
A Blojsom plugin used to retrieve image / image sets from Flickr.
iP2F
iP2F makes it extremely easy to upload your pictures from iPhoto 2 Flickr. Before uploading you can resize, rename, describe and tag your images with smart, Mail.app-style tokenfields - all directly from iPhoto. iP2F also lets you create photosets and add images to existing sets and pools.
Kubrickr (WordPress)
Since the release of WordPress 1.5 with Kubrick as the default theme, an awful lot of weblogs look the same. Owen Winkler has built an application that lets you use images from Flickr to replace that big blue blob header in your WordPress 1.5 Default theme.
Myflickr
MyFlickr is a flickr search engine to include in your website. show your flickr photos or allow search flickr pictures inside your own website.
PicLens (Safari)
A first-of-its-kind browser plug-in (safari only at present) that transforms the Flickr user's browser window into an immersive cinematic experience for viewing web images on Flickr. Macworld Online just hailed PicLens as "gorgeous" and "a great idea". With just one click, PicLens instantly makes images, albums, and even thumbnails come to life through its full-screen browser window. Firefox version coming soon.
Searchflickr
SearchFlickr is a complete website with a Flickr photos and images search tool. Create a new web site or add this feature to your existing one, SearchFlickr is easy to install and doesn't need data base and no need for a Flickr API key to work.
Slideoo
Slideoo.com (www.slideoo.com) is a simple and clean horizontal slideshow to display your photo (from Flickr) on any blog or website. We wanted to have a nice quick overview of our photos in our Wordpress blog so we just made it. Some people could use it also to present portfolio on their own website with a clean visualization.
Twaingle (TWAIN)
App plugin which uses the TWAIN interface to allow the insertion of photos direct from Flickr into an application of your choice.
Web Applications
'Color Fields' Color Picker
This widget finds photos from the group pool that match a color of your choice. Also available for Flickr Central and Squared Circle.
An interesting 2005
A web application showing the most interesting photos on flickr from 2005 in a slick flash interface.
Bubblr
Add comic strip bubbles to Flickr photos of your choice.
Clockr
Clockr uses random digit images from Flickr to display the current time.
Cover Flow Slide Show
Create iTunes-style cover flow slide shows using Flickr images.
Dumpr.net
Much like fd's, it has several toys to play with. There are the flickr-only toys, which are similar-favorite-finder (fave-findr, best tool you'll ever see), the friend's scout (find your friends' photos in explore,) and photo voting. On the visual side, there are museumr,easter-egg, amazing circles, lomography and several others.
Favcol
Determine Flickr's favourite colour by tagging photos with the tag "favcol".
FD's Flickr Toys
The best and biggest collection of free photo tools and toys on the internet to help you get the most out of your digital camera. Make posters, calendars, badges, picture frames, comic books, slideshows, mosaics, magazine covers, and a whole lot more.
Findr
Find photos on flickr by browsing and refining related tags.
Flappr
Flappr is an entirely Flash-based interface to Flickr.
Flash Gallery
Free application that allows to create an online slideshow from Flickr photostream.
Flash-based Kaleidoscope
A Flash-based Kaleidoscope using recent thumbnails from the Squared Circle group.
Flauntr
Its built on the flex platform and does some new things to photoediting, by taking it beyond just basic editing effects. flauntR allows people to add predesigned effects onto their photos, and allows them to save each effect, so they can add more on top of it. So they don't have to learn powerful but complicated tools. Effects include digital scrapbooking style 'compositions', textures, light effects, overlays and colorations.
Flickeur
Flickeur creates a film by merging randomly retrieved Flickr images into a stream which "can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip".
Flickr Chia Pet
a collaborative defacement software toy that grows green hair on photographs. Submit your photos of hairless cats, bald husbands, humvees and other things in need of a little chia goodness to the Naked Chia Pet group.
Flickr Color Selectr
Check out Creative Commons Licensed Photographs from Flickr! Find photos by their colors and rate them!
Flickr Explorer
Flickr-explorer allows you to find your photos in flickr's explore section. Moreover, it provides an alert mechanism. Once subscribed, you will receive an alert when one of your photos makes it to explore. You will receive the alert as a comment on your photo that has made it to explore.
Flickr Font
You can turn boring text elements into fun and exciting graphics using photographs of letters, digits and punctuation marks from Flickr. You can you generate your own FlickrFont text as a once-off, or you can cut and paste some code into your pages to convert any text to images, fresh each time the page loads! Perfect for spicing up headings and instant ransom notes.
Flickr Graph
"Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs. Start exploring your contacts by entering your flickr username or the email address you used to register there."
Flickr Group Trackr
Group Trackr allows you to track and plot the growth of public Flickr groups. Graphs are automatically updated on a daily basis and can be easily linked or exported. Full statistics can also be syndicated via RSS/ATOM feeds and downloaded as CVS/TSV.
Flickr Hive Mind
Search and display photos, with thumbnails up to 250x250, by Tags, Text, Username, Recentness, or Explore.
Flickr Leech
Download thumbnails of all the "interesting" Flickr uploads for a date of your choice.
Flickr Leech
Retrieves "interesting" photos for a certain date.
Flickr Logo Makr
Create Flickr style logos for any word you enter.
Flickr People Finder
A way of easily locating people on GustavoG's poster of the FlickrVerse.
Flickr RSS Reader
"Flickr RSS Reader is an application built in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional. This application reads RSS Feeds from www.flickr.com. It can run on your computers' hard drive or on your website."
Flickr Set Manager
Flickr Set Manager allows you to automatically create new sets on Flickr based on various criteria such as interestingness, date posted and tags, or even from a random set of photographs.
Flickr Sets RSS
Create RSS streams from your Flickr sets.
Flickr SlideShow Generator
A wonderfully simple application that allows you to generate the HTML necessary to embbed a Flickr slideshow in a webpage.
Flickr Tag Viewer
Flickr Tag Viewer is a Flash-based application built on the Flickr API that explores a visualization of social tags in Flickr.
Flickr2Photocast
Flickr2Photocast is a tool that generates an iPhoto-compatible photocast feed from Flickr containing up to 500 images in their original format/resolution (i.e. this is better than the standard Flickr RSS feed).
Flickrbrowser
Browse "interestingness" photos by date. Also search all photos with a variety of options.
FlickrFling
Renders newsfeeds as images from Flickr. The application will choose for each in-coming word an image from flickr’s database tagged with corresponding keywords. Since the application searches and browses through the whole of flickr’s database, the results can be quite amusing and unpredictable…
FlickrFly
FlickrFly is a script that can be linked from the description or comment of a geotagged Flickr Photo to fly you that location in Google Earth.
Flickriver
A constant stream of Flickr's 'interesting' photos loaded into this simple web application.
FlickrLilli
Search Flickr using the Creative Commons licenses attached to photos.
FlickrNews
Nifty web application which matches Flickr photos by relevance to current news stories from Yahoo! News.
FlickrReplacr
"You can highlight any word on any web page, click the flickReplacr bookmarklet, and the word gets swapped out with a random image from flickr that was tagged with that word."
Flicktionary
Play compound word games against Flickr until you guess the word it is thinking...
Fotocrib
A web application which allows Flickr users to edit their photos.
GeoInterestingness
Flickr app that lists the interesting photos of the day with a focus on their location of origin. It can be displayed in both web page and RSS formats.
Gickr
Gickr allows you create animated GIFs (GIF animations) from your flickr photos.
h4ppierphotos
Alternative interface for viewing pics in you photostream between set dates.
Image Suggest
Find new Flickr images based on others that you choose.
Instasaver
It is as easy as 1-2-3. Just specify the name, get photos from Flickr or upload favorite pictures, and the screensaver with over 150 transition effects is ready! You will get a fully standalone distribution package that enables you to easily install and/or distribute your screensaver.
Invitr
An extension of Flickr's privacy facilities, Invitr allows you to invite friends to view one or more of your private photos for a fixed period of time.
Islands of Consciousness
Very cool abstract film creator based on flickr photos, similar to Flickeur.
Mappr (US only)
A web-based application which uses tag information to place thumbnails of photostream images on a map of the US.
Matchr
Flickr puzzle game.
MightyFlickr
An upload tool for the Mighty Imaging lab in Phoenix AZ. YOu simply use the tool to upload from your Flickr sets, choose a size and wait for your print to be delivered free. I suspect they don't deliver as far as my house though :-(
Mosaickr
Use your Flickr photos to create mosaics of your own master photo.
Multicolr Search
"We extracted the colours from 3 million 'interesting' Flickr images. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour."
Photodrop
PhotoDrop mimics the functionality of the downloadable client (drag-and-drop, multiple-batches, image editing).
Photorater
A new flickr app that allows you to rate Flickr photos from 1-10.
PicMarkr
PicMarkr lets users to add custom watermark (image, text or tile) to any picture, online and free.
Pixel Peeper
Pixel-peeper lets the users search for flickr photos taken with a specific camera or lens, optionally at a specific ISO/aperture/focal length. Only high resolution photos are listed.
Postalz
"Postalz is an online service that lets you communicate with friends and family using postcards. It is similar to email, but better suited for occasions when just text is just not good enough. Using Postalz, you can create postcards with text, art, photo and video and exchange them privately, just like you would do with email. It lets you put postcard in MySpace/Facebook or any web places by providing an embed code for the postcard you created."
Printr Killr
Simple tool that let's you generate calendars directly from Flickr
Retrievr
Retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.
RSS 2 PDF
Create PDF pages from Flickr RSS Feeds.
Salutr
A greeting/ecard system using the Flickr API called Salutr, where instead of greetings you send "salutations."
Selfportraitr
A web application letting you view self portraits on Flickr. See author link.
Smooth Slideshow
A smooth slideshow using user or tag info from Flickr.
Splashr
Splashr is a tool for creating web-based presentations of Flickr photos in myriad different formats.
Sprinklr
An alternative interface for adding your pictures to groups.
Tag4You
Do you tag your photos? do you want to tag your photos but it takes too long? we help you tag your photo's using face detection and recognition.
Tagnautica
Tagnautica is an experimental navigation tool built to explore the space of related Flickr tags.
The Internet Inferno
The lowest place you can visit on the internet, so it's a page where you can keep scrolling all the way down.As you scroll down you visit the different levels of purgatory and hell as described by Dante. Each level shows 10 random Flickr-photos which have the same keyword as the level you're in (for example: "Gluttony"). When you finally reach the bottom, you see Satan (1 random flickr-photo with the keyword 'satan').
ThousandPics.com
A single page displaying Flickr's 1000 most recent explore photos. Now that's a time saver!
Tiltomo
Search for images similar to one if your choice using a Visual Search interface.
Travelr
Travelr is a free photo gallery viewer that you can put on your own site. Travelr lets you display your Flickr photos geographically on a world map. It takes the hassle out of supplying geographic coordinates by only requiring them once for each location - not for each photo. Click here to see an example of Travelr in action.
We Map Flickr
Mixes Flickr with Google Maps
Zumyn
Use zumyn to create an individual work of art using your entire digital photo collection or by importing from Flickr or even Facebook.
Simply upload and approve your photos, select the photo you want as the main image and zumyn does the rest. Choose paper or canvas printing options, and get your mosaic delivered direct to your door.
Create your mosaic as a unique way to mark a special occasion; as a special personalised gift; or simply as a distinctive way to display all your photos together.
Prices start at just Ł39 with free delivery to the UK.
Windows Applications
Aquarius Screensaver
Aquarius is an OpenGL™ based Windows™ screensaver that displays images, video and Web pages on a variety of moving objects. Many different media formats are supported including, most recently, images from the photo sharing Web site Flickr™.
Background Switcher
John's Background Switcher periodically changes the background image on your computer (like every hour or every day). You can specify which pictures to choose from Flickr.
Chirpscreen
It's a screensaver that grabs content (photos and messages, etc.) from your friends, starting with Flickr and Facebook. We also grab public content from Flickr based on tags that you pick. We're currently Windows-only but will release the Mac version soon.
DisplayFusion
DisplayFusion is a free new application that can make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) life much, much easier! From allowing you to use a different wallpaper on each monitor, to integrating with Flickr for image searching, to providing hotkeys for managing your application windows.
Flickr and Webimager
Capture screen shots and upload them straight to Flickr.
Flickr Screensaver v3
Turns your computer into a slideshow of Flickr photos when you're not using it. You can configure it to display photos from a particular person, from a particular group, photos with a certain tag, and more.
FlickrDown
A program that makes downloading photos from Flickr to save locally easier.
FlickrSync
FlickrSync is a photo synchronization application for flickr users. It displays your local folders and your flickr sets and it can establish synchronization rules between them. This way you can manage all your photos locally and FlickrSync will keep them updated in flickr.
Flishr
Flishr is a Windows application which covers all your needs with Flickr. You can download in bulk, upload and search photos with just a few clicks. You can also create and add photos to your local collection and export it as an XML file. This way, you may browse hundreds of photos in a short time and select the photos you like and finally download in just a few seconds. Finally Flishr is Free to download and use.
Foldr Monitr
Automatically uploads any photos placed in a chosen directory on your computer to Flickr.
Kaleidoscope Screensaver
A kaleidoscopic screensaver which uses images from the squared circle Flickr group.
Loopy
Loopy is the desktop screensaver application that is looping and showing the pictures at random for good. The most imperactive key ingredient of this application is the integration between the flash technology and RSS, that is provided by Flickr.
My Photocaster
My Photocaster is the user-friendly way to edit and upload photos: get creative with your snaps, then share them with the world through Flickr - without ever leaving the program.
Nostalgia
Nostalgia allows you to search flickr remotely and create local sets from the photos you discover. It also supports local photo management and synchronizes to your flickr account, allowing you to update your online photos as well.
Photology
Photology is a desktop application that helps you find, edit and share your digital photos. Photology analyzes your photos and then allows you to search for real-world features like plants, faces and colors. Photology's analysis is quick and automated - no manual tagging is necessary. You can edit and print your photos, create groups of photos and share your photos and groups using files or over the Internet with simple built-in tools.
PicMe
PicMe is a tool for letting you easily see, view, share and enjoy your thousands of pictures. PicMe makes it easy to share a lifetime collection of photos quickly and securely with friends and family, right from your desktop.
PostItBoard
This application attempts to make good use of a non-standard interfaces to provide a rich UX (user experience). It takes a keyword(s), grabs images off of Flickr.com which match those keywords, and displays the photos on the cork board. The images can be moved around the cork board and additional layers of images can be added/removed. As you move your mouse over an image, information on that photo is displayed on the post-it note.
ScreenSvr
ScreenSvr! is a simple but fun screen saver for Windows PCs. The premise is simple -- ScreenSvr grabs photos from Flickr, based on your selection criteria, and displays them in a repeating slideshow as a screensaver.
Slickr
Flickr OpenGL library and screensaver built on .Net TAO library.
Flickr screen saver that shows images by User - Favorites, Set, Tags, Contacts, Group, Everyone - Tags, Recent, Interestingness, Local files/directories.
After installing, to use Slickr, you must obtain an application key here: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/keys/ then go to the Control Panel, Display, Slickr, Settings, Key tab and paste the key and the secret into the specified fields.
WackyB Flickr Desktop Slideshow
It's a desktop slideshow with a difference, it allows you to keep working and using your PC while displaying subtle moving images over your screen. You can click through the images and they remain semi-transparent so you can continue to view the screen content beneath.
Wickr
A Konfabulator widget for browsing Flickr from your desktop.
