The short version
ImgCompliance is a practical first-pass audit. It does not decide whether an image is legally licensed. Instead, it finds images on your website that deserve review: stock-platform matches, unclear origins, third-party hosted images, metadata signals, and images that appear across many other sites.
1. You enter the website URL
Start with a public website URL and an email address. No account is required. The scan is designed for sites you own, operate, manage, or have permission to review.
2. The crawler builds an image inventory
The free scan checks a sample of up to 100 images across up to 60 publicly accessible pages. The full report then checks every image — the price (from $39) depends on how many there are. It looks for normal image tags, CSS background images, lazy-loaded assets, and images that appear after common page interactions.
3. Each image goes through five checking stages
- Complete discovery: lazy-loaded images, galleries, sliders, backgrounds, pop-ups and sitemap images; size variants count once.
- Web-wide image matching by content, so cropped, resized or edited copies are found too.
- Stock and design platform matching (Shutterstock, Getty Images, iStock, Adobe Stock, Canva, Freepik and more), with the exact stock photo ID.
- A second, independent verification of every stock match, image against image: mere lookalikes are downgraded so you don't chase false alarms.
- Context and metadata: your own domain and site-builder servers, copyright fields embedded in the file (EXIF/IPTC), and only pages where the image actually appears.
We keep improving the method; the latest major update was in October 2026.
4. Every image receives a risk level
The report groups findings into High, Medium, Low, and Unknown. High means a verified stock-platform match or an agency copyright in the metadata. Medium means the origin needs review. Low means the image is served from your own site and wasn't found on any stock platform. Unknown means the image could not be assessed reliably.
5. You get a free summary before paying
The free summary shows how many images were found and how they were classified. If you want the full image-by-image PDF, you can unlock it with a one-time payment from $39, depending on the size of your site. The full report includes thumbnails, source pages, stock photo IDs with direct links, matched sources, findings, recommended next actions, and an Excel list of every image.
What the scan cannot do
ImgCompliance cannot see your Getty, Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Canva, agency, or freelancer purchase records. A flagged image may still be properly licensed if you have proof. A clean scan is not a legal guarantee. Treat the report as a prioritized review list, not as legal advice.
Next steps
If you are new to image reviews, start with the website image copyright audit guide. To see the output format first, open the sample report page.