Image to link

How to turn an image into a link

1. 1Drop it above. One photo, a screenshot, a folder of images — or press ⌘V / Ctrl+V to paste a screenshot straight from the clipboard.
2. 2Sign in with an email code or Google. The link is live a few seconds later and stays in your dashboard.
3. 3Turn on “anyone with the link”. Every new link starts private, so anyone else would hit a sign-in page — and so would a chat app trying to show a preview.
4. 4Copy it. Paste the page link into a chat or an email, or copy a direct image link to embed somewhere else.

What you get: a page and a direct image URL

Each drop makes one link, like k3x9q2m7ta.host0.app, with two kinds of address on it:

• The page — the link you share. It shows the image on a dark backdrop, fitted to any screen, with its name, size and dimensions, and buttons to open or download the original. Pinch to zoom on a phone. Pasted into Slack, iMessage, Discord or WhatsApp, it previews with the image itself.
• The original — every image keeps its own address, like k3x9q2m7ta.host0.app/photo.jpg: the file exactly as you dropped it, for embedding or hotlinking. Names are tidied for the web (spaces become hyphens), so My Photo.JPG becomes My-Photo.jpg.

The page is plain HTML with no trackers or third-party scripts; it carries a small “Hosted on host0” badge in the bottom-right corner. An original opened in a browser tab shows the image full window with a slim bar under it (file name, Download, “Hosted on host0”); embedded with an <img> tag or a Markdown image it's just the image, and adding ?download to its address downloads the original file.

Several photos as one link

Drop up to 100 images at once (or a whole folder) and the link opens a gallery: a grid of every image in name order, each one opening full screen with previous and next — arrow keys on a computer, a swipe on a phone. Big photos get a smaller copy for the grid so the page loads fast; the full-size original is one tap away. The first image becomes the preview picture in chats.

Who can open it

A new link is private: only you can open it until you choose who else can. The card that appears after you publish gives you two ways, and the dashboard a third:

• Anyone with the link. Flip the switch on the card and anyone who has the link can open it — no account, no app. Search engines are told not to index it. It isn't secret, though: it can be forwarded.
• Only the people you invite. Keep it private and type their email addresses. They sign in once with that address; everyone else stops at a sign-in page. Remove someone and their access ends immediately. Use this for anything personal.
• Public on the web. For a portfolio or a product shot you want found in search, make it public on the web from the link's Sharing tab in your dashboard.

Embed it

After you publish, the card under the link gives each image's direct URL in four formats — switch on “anyone with the link” first, or the embed shows a sign-in page instead of the picture:

![Screenshot](https://k3x9q2m7ta.host0.app/screenshot.png)

<img src="https://k3x9q2m7ta.host0.app/logo.png" alt="Logo" width="240" height="80">

[img]https://k3x9q2m7ta.host0.app/photo.jpg[/img]

For an email signature, use a small PNG or JPG (a few hundred pixels wide) and set its width in the HTML — Outlook and Gmail don't resize big images. To embed a whole page in a site instead, see the embed code generator.

Photos and location data

Phones save the GPS position a photo was taken at inside the file, and anyone who downloads the original can read it — a photo taken at home gives away the address. When a JPEG you drop has a location, this page shows Remove location from photos, ticked by default. It re-saves those photos in your browser at high quality before anything uploads, which removes the location along with the rest of the camera data. Screenshots don't have one, and iPhone photos converted here lose it too.

host0 vs Imgur, ImgBB, Google Drive and iCloud links

Image hosts are built for posting in public; cloud drives open pictures in their own viewer. Where host0 differs: a new link is private, you can invite named people, nothing expires, and each original has its own direct URL.

Checked 2026-10-12; each cell links to its source. A dash means we couldn't confirm it on a page we could cite. Imgur's own help pages wouldn't load for us, so its cells link to reporting about Imgur. Imgur has also been unavailable in the UK since 30 September 2025.

Updating it later

A new drop on this page always makes a new link. To change the images behind a link you've already sent, republish into the same app with a coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) that has the host0 skill — the address stays the same:

you:    publish the photos in ./trip to my k3x9q2m7ta link on host0
agent:  ./scripts/publish.sh ./trip --slug k3x9q2m7ta
        → https://k3x9q2m7ta.host0.app/

On Pro, versions from the last 30 days are kept, so an older one can be put back in one click from the Versions tab. You can also rename the random address to something readable from the Settings tab.

Limits

• 3 MB per image on the free plan (50 MB on Pro), 100 MB and 100 images per link. A bigger drop is stopped before anything uploads.
• PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP, AVIF and SVG publish as they are; GIFs keep moving. HEIC, TIFF and BMP are converted where your browser can open them.
• 100 links and 500 MB per account (10 GB on Pro). Every drop makes a new link.
• Free to start. No card, no expiry date on the link. Pro is $19/month — see pricing.

Frequently asked questions