Free music, sound effects, footage, images and fonts, with what each license really lets you do: business use, credit, and which apps. Every source linked to its license.
Free music and sound effects inside YouTube Studio. YouTube says they’re copyright-safe to use in your videos.
Songs pre-cleared for commercial use on TikTok. Business accounts can only use music from here.
Thousands of royalty-free tracks and sound effects for commercial or personal content on Facebook and Instagram.
Free music, sound effects, video and images under the Pixabay Content License: commercial use, no credit needed, edits allowed.
Free music, sound effects and video. Sound effects and most video can be used commercially; credit is appreciated but not required.
A huge library of sound effects and field recordings, each with its own Creative Commons license.
Hundreds of tracks under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: free for any use, as long as you credit it.
Free stock video and photos. Commercial use is fine and credit is optional.
Free stock video for commercial and personal use, no credit needed.
Free photos for any use, including commercial, without credit (though credit is encouraged).
Space photos and video that are generally not copyrighted in the US. Credit NASA as the source.
A search engine for hundreds of millions of Creative Commons and public domain images and audio clips.
Over a thousand free fonts, usable commercially, including in products you sell.
Free, professional fonts for personal and commercial use in any media.
Nothing matches all of those. Try turning one filter off.
For Creative Commons music, sounds or images: fill in what you know and copy the line into your video’s description.
Checked October 2026 against each source’s license page. Licenses can change and can differ for a single item, so check the page for the exact thing you download. Not legal advice. Spotted a change? Let Ray know.
Every free source comes with a license, and the three things that trip creators up are always the same: whether business or monetized videos count as commercial use, whether you have to give credit, and whether the music only works inside one app.
The safest habits: prefer sources that allow commercial use without credit, use each app’s own music library for trending songs, and keep proof of where everything came from.
No. Royalty-free means you don’t pay per use; some royalty-free music still costs money up front. Everything listed here is free to download, but check what each license allows.
Some free tracks are registered with YouTube’s Content ID by their creators. Keep the download page, the file name and a copy of the license so you can dispute the claim.
Usually yes for Pexels, Pixabay, Coverr and Unsplash, which allow commercial use. Avoid anything marked non-commercial, and be careful with identifiable people and visible brands.
Give the title, the creator, where you found it and the license, with a link. Put it in the description where viewers can find it. The credit builder on this page writes it for you.
Chapter 72 of Worth Watching covers copyright and using other people’s work, and Chapter 39 covers choosing music that fits the video, not just the trend.
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