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Danbooru

Danbooru is an English language imageboard and image hosting website focused primarily on anime style illustrations. It was launched in 2005 by a programmer known as "Albert" and is frequently described as one of the earliest and most influential "booru"...

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Cost / License

  • Freemium (Pay once)
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
  • Docker
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Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Dark Mode
  4.  Tag based
  5.  Image Board
  6.  Favorites
  7.  Tagging
  8.  Integrated Search
  9.  Search by tags

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Danbooru information

  • Developed by

    Albert Yi

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $20 + free version with limited functionality.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Online Services, Photos & Graphics

GitHub repository

  •  2,816 Stars
  •  449 Forks
  •  472 Open Issues
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Danbooru, and it has gotten 22 likes

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Easily one of the best resources around for finding any anime fanart you could want. Just beware, you are going to see a lot of lewd content, no way about it. If that isn't your jam, stay to more curated content feeds.

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What is Danbooru?

Danbooru is an English language imageboard and image hosting website focused primarily on anime style illustrations. It was launched in 2005 by a programmer known as "Albert" and is frequently described as one of the earliest and most influential "booru" style sites, using collaborative tags to organize images.

The site hosts over 10 million user submitted images (as of December 2025), which are labeled with user-generated tags and content ratings. Danbooru has served as the basis for a large ecosystem of derivative software, related imageboards and machine learning datasets.