Placedog Alternatives

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.

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  2. BlurHash icon

    BlurHash

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    A very compact representation of a placeholder for an image.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    BlurHash screenshot 1
     
  4. Holder.js icon

    Holder.js

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    Holder renders image placeholders entirely in browser. Placeholders can have custom colors, fonts, resizing behavior, and rendering engine (Canvas/SVG).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    Typical examples
     
  5. placebear icon

    placebear

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    placebear screenshot 1
     
  6. Dummy Image icon

    Dummy Image

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    Dummy Image screenshot 1
     
  7. PlaceCage icon

    PlaceCage

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

    21 PlaceCage alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    PlaceCage screenshot 1
     
  9. Fill Murray icon

    Fill Murray

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    Fill Murray screenshot 1
     
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