Image hosting for AppSheet
If you’re building an AppSheet app, you’ll quickly notice that storing and displaying images can become tricky. Whether your app collects photos from users, shows product images, or needs icons and logos, reliable image hosting is essential to keep your app fast and professional.
That’s where Img.vision comes in, a simple, powerful image hosting platform that works perfectly with AppSheet.
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Why AppSheet users need external image hosting
AppSheet is great for turning spreadsheets into mobile apps. But images stored directly in Google Drive or OneDrive can lead to:
- ❌ Slow loading times: especially on mobile
- ⚠️ Broken links when file permissions or folder structures change
- 🔗 Complex sharing settings: images must be publicly accessible
- 🧩 Not optimized for caching and performance
Using a dedicated image host like Img.vision solves all of that.
How Img.vision helps AppSheet creators
Img.vision was designed for no-code builders and business users who need a fast, dependable way to serve images inside apps, websites, and forms.
With Img.vision, you get:
- ✅ Direct image URLs: Paste-ready links for use in your AppSheet columns
- ⚡ Optimized performance: Global CDN ensures your images load fast everywhere
- 🔒 Permanent hosting: Your links never break, even if you organize files later
- 📸 Easy uploads: Drag and drop or bulk import from your computer
How to use Img.vision images in AppSheet
- Upload your images to Img.vision
- Copy the Direct Link (URL) for each image
- In your AppSheet data source (Google Sheet, Excel, or database), paste the Img.vision link
- AppSheet will automatically render the hosted image inside your app 🎉
You can even generate multiple links automatically for bulk image uploads, perfect for larger databases or product catalogs.
Example use cases
- 🛍️ Product catalogs with high-quality photos
- 🧾 Field service apps capturing and displaying site photos
- 📦 Inventory apps showing item images from a shared database
- 🧑💼 Employee or contact directories with profile pictures
Why not rely on Google Drive?
While it’s tempting to store everything in Google Drive, links often break when files move or permission settings change. Img.vision, uses a global image delivery network optimized for AppSheet and other cloud apps.
Google Drive is not a CDN, so your users may experience lag, especially outside your region. We setup a 👉 image host comparison project at independent uptime monitoring service Hyperping to track the uptime and speed of Google Drive and other image hosting solutions compared to Img.vision.
What we found is that Google Drive is one of the slowest image hosting solutions out there. A ramdom sample, taken on Oct 29 2025, shows that the average time it takes for Google Drive to load a 6KB images was 1248ms, while the same image for the Img.vision CDN took on average 97ms, that shows Google Drive is 1186% slower, or takes 13 times longer to load.
