We built iconicoal.ai as the public gallery for the COALS AI platform. Free-tier users generate images on COALS, those images go through quality review, and the ones that pass get published as free stock photos for anyone to download.
A few things we did differently:
- Every image is originally generated by the platform nothing scraped, no reference images, no recycled databases
Free stock photos you can actually download without creating an account, verifying your email, or sitting through a pricing page. Every image is originally generated on the COALS AI platform — nothing scraped, nothing recycled from other stock sites. Images go through quality review before publishing. Most don't make it. The ones that do are yours to use under CC BY-NC 4.0. 2,500+ images across 20 categories.
