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SmugMug

Stores an unlimited number of photographs and puts a site around them.

Last verified 2026-08-26

Ratings

Ease for a beginner3/5
Design and templates2/5
Room to grow3/5
Help when you are stuck5/5
Value for money2/5

At a glance

Cheapest plan

$23.50 a month

Portfolio

Type of tool

Drag-and-drop builder

Built around

Showing work

Best for

Portfolio, Online store

Starting price

$16 to $30 a month

Where it publishes

Your own domain

About SmugMug

SmugMug has been storing photographs for a long time, and the site it publishes is downstream of that. Storage is unlimited on every plan, print fulfilment is built in, and the whole product is organised around galleries of images rather than pages of content. For a photographer whose main problem is where the files live, that ordering is the right way round.

Support is strong, with a live channel available round the clock rather than gated to a higher tier.

The cost is two things that make it harder to recommend confidently. The plan structure is genuinely unclear: the help centre documents custom domains against a tier that is no longer sold, and the current roster does not map onto it cleanly, so which plan a reader actually needs for their own domain rests on inference rather than a current page. Raw file storage is a paid add-on on every tier despite storage being described as unlimited, which is the kind of exception that matters to exactly the customer this product is for.

Features

  • Supported
  • Paid
  • Not supported
  • Not recorded
  • Free plan, not a trialNot supported
  • Use your own domainPaid
  • No builder branding on your siteNot recorded
  • Sell productsSupported
  • Bookings and appointmentsNot supported
  • Blog built inNot supported
  • Email marketingNot recorded
  • Edit titles, descriptions and redirectsNot recorded
  • Site in more than one languageNot recorded
  • Export your contentNot recorded
  • AI builds a first draftNot recorded
  • Talk to a humanSupported

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