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Pqina vs IMG.LY

Pqina

pqina.nl

Worth it
Confidence: Medium

Buy if your dev team needs polished file upload or in-app image editing . FilePond is free and Pintura is $149/yr.

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IMG.LY

img.ly

Starting report…

Pick Pqina when

  • Dev teams adding file upload
  • Apps with user image editing
  • Multi-framework JS projects
  • Open-source projects using FilePond free

When Pqina is not a fit

  • No-code or low-code teams . it's an SDK requiring developers
  • Buyers wanting SLAs and multi-person vendor accountability . it's one person
  • Products needing guaranteed long-term support . prior products reached end of life
  • Anyone expecting a hosted service . you integrate and maintain it

Sources

  1. Pintura Image Editor product pagepqina.nl
    official
  2. FilePond product pagepqina.nl
    official
  3. Pintura pricing (Gumroad membership)pqina.gumroad.com
    official
  4. Pqina revenue and founding data . GetLatkagetlatka.com
    news
  5. Pqina RocketReach profile (1 employee)rocketreach.co
    news
  6. Pqina GitHubgithub.com
    official
  7. Pqina CodeCanyon profile (Slim EOL notice)codecanyon.net
    official
  8. CVE-2025-23803 Snippy plugincve.imfht.com
    security
  9. Pqina security pagepqina.nl
    security
  10. FilePond recommendation thread, r/sveltejsreddit.com
    review
  11. FilePond launch thread, r/web_designreddit.com
    review
  12. PQINA Photo Editor alternatives . SaaSHubsaashub.com
    review
  13. Similar sites to pqina.nlsitelike.org
    review
  14. edit.photo thread mentioning Pintura, r/webdevreddit.com
    review