Flim
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveSearchable reference library of film stills, animation frames and video, built for moodboards
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
Billed in euros only, so no USD price is recorded: Basic €14.90/month or €12.90/month billed yearly (€155), Pro €34.90 or €29.90 yearly (€359), Teams on request; prices exclude tax. Free tier: unlimited search, one 1080p-2K still a day, public boards.
Use tool ↗About Flim
Flim is a visual reference library for people who work from references: more than 1.5 million stills from films, TV series, commercials and music videos plus over 410,000 video cuts, searchable by what is in the frame, with filters and reverse image search. Directors, art directors and agencies use it to build moodboards, share boards with a team and settle a look before anything is shot. The Pro tier adds generation and editing with third-party models such as Nano Banana, Veo and Seedance, Magic Boards built from a script, and 4K upscaling. The free tier searches the library with one 1080p-2K download a day and public boards only; paid plans are billed in euros.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Free, Basic €14.90/month (€12.90 billed yearly), Pro €34.90 (€29.90 yearly) with 410K+ video cuts and AI tools, Teams custom; prices excl. taxes (15 October 2026)flim.ai ↗
- Terms and conditions name SAS FLIM, 144 rue de Crimée, 75019 Paris, France, Paris Trade Register 887 670 966 (15 October 2026)flim.ai ↗
- Pro plan lists generation and editing with Nano Banana, Veo and Seedance, Magic Boards from a script and 4K upscaling (15 October 2026)flim.ai ↗
Is Flim legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Feb 22, 2019 (7 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 12, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Nov 19, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- SAS FLIM, FranceOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Flim
The value is in the corpus, not the model: cinema and animation frames indexed by content, so you can search for a lighting setup or a colour relationship instead of guessing which film had it. That is a specific thing stock libraries and Pinterest both do badly. The free tier is generous enough to test with. Be clear-eyed about rights, though — these are frames from copyrighted films, fine as internal reference and not as published material.
Pros
- Deep, specific corpus: roughly 1.5M stills, 5.8K films, 150K animation frames and 400K+ videos
- Search works on frame content rather than titles or tags alone
- Board sharing and team collaboration are built in, not bolted on
- Free tier includes real search plus a daily 1080p–2K download
- Generation and editing tools sit next to the reference library
Cons
- Prices are set in euros, so the dollar cost moves with the exchange rate
- Free tier forces boards to be public — private board management is a paid feature
- No API or automation path found
- Video cuts and the AI generation tools are locked to the €34.90 Pro tier
Best for
- Directors and DoPs assembling a look book before a shoot
- Art directors and agencies who pitch with references rather than descriptions
- Anyone searching for a specific visual treatment across cinema and animation
Not for
- Licensed imagery you intend to publish — these are film frames, not cleared stock
- Teams needing an API or automated pipeline access
- Budget holders who need dollar pricing and a US invoice
Watch out: Everything in the library is a frame from someone else's copyrighted film — treat it as internal reference, not as material you can publish.
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