- Basic membership is free
- Plus membership: EUR 20 per year
- Straightforward uncluttered photo sharing service
- Share photos with anyone you want
- Easy to use minimalist design
- Start photogroups to share photos with your club or group
- Organize your photos by tagging them and sorting into albums
- Upload 30 photos for free each month
- You are in control of who can see your photos
- Upload via the web, email or mobile phone
- Unlimited uploads with a premium membership
- Automatically sends emails to your friends to tell them you have updated your photos
- Choose from a wide variety of themes to style your albums
- Discover new photos of interesting things from other members
- Developer API that allows integration with the site
- Free basic membership
- Works with almost any device that can run a browser
23 is a no-nonsense photo sharing site that lets you share photos with like-minded people with the minimum of fuss. There are no complex sign up procedures, it's easy to upload and you will get going in no time. There aren't many fancy extra features, but that is certainly no criticism; 23 sticks to one thing and does it well.
There are three main ways to upload photos to 23: by web, by mobile or by email. They are all fairly easy to get to grips with, although we prefer the web interface for uploading multiple files. It perhaps isn't quite as well designed and good looking as some uploaders we have seen, but it does the job without any hassle. Also, to upload photos from your mobile you must use the email method, which isn't quite as handy as having a full blown app for it, but again it does the job well. With the free membership you are only allowed to upload 30 photos per month - after an initial 300 on sign up - but if you go for the reasonably priced Plus membership this restriction is lifted.
23 provides plenty of useful features to organize and store your photos. Generally you will want to sort them into albums first and then possibly tag them with a description to make for easier searching later on. You can make albums and photos public or private too so that you are in complete control of who can see your snaps. A feature we particularly liked was that, as and when you upload photos, 23 takes note of it and can display a calendar view of your updates. This is handy to look back on and can help you find photos that you have forgotten. Another nice feature is that each time you log onto the main page, 23 will display thumbnails of recent posts by other members so you can end up seeing some very interesting photos as you go about your business.
One thing we particularly like about 23 is the uncluttered design and lack of any advertising. Many similar sites are bombarded either with third party advertising or adverts for personalized photo gifts from the same provider so it makes a refreshing change not to have to wade through it all. Everything is very clearly laid out too so even beginners shouldn't have too much trouble using the site.
23 is a good solid photo sharing site that doesn't try to do anything too clever or fancy. Instead, it chooses to carry out its main purpose well and allow you to share photos with ease. Free membership is slightly limited by the 30 photos per month restriction, but a Plus membership is a reasonably priced investment to do away with this. There are plenty of people using the site already and membership is free so we think it's definitely worth a try.
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