Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online


placekitten is the most popular Web-based alternative to Placedog.
placekitten is the most popular free alternative to Placedog.
- placekitten is Free and Proprietary
Placedog is described as 'A simple service to get cute dogs as placeholders for your websites and designs. Just add a width and height to the end of the url' and is an app. There are seven alternatives to Placedog for Web-based and Self-Hosted. The best Placedog alternative is placekitten, which is free. Other great apps like Placedog are BlurHash, Holder.js, placebear and Dummy Image.


placekitten is the most popular Web-based alternative to Placedog.
placekitten is the most popular free alternative to Placedog.



BlurHash is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Placedog.
BlurHash is the most popular Open Source alternative to Placedog.
Holder renders image placeholders entirely in browser. Placeholders can have custom colors, fonts, resizing behavior, and rendering engine (Canvas/SVG).


A quick and simple service for getting pictures of bears for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you'll get a placeholder.


DummyImage.com serves dynamic placeholder images for use in web development. It's a free service and the code is open-source and available for download.

Sizable, dynamic placeholder images featuring Nicolas Cage, with additional variations for grayscale and crazy/insane.


The internet was missing the ability to provide custom-sized placeholder images of Bill Murray. Now it can.

