AI alt text for WordPress — bring your own key

Give your media a voice.
And your SEO a vision.

AltGenie generates SEO-friendly, accessible image alt text with AI — right inside wp-admin. Bulk-process your media library, audit accessibility, and ship inclusive images without editing each one by hand.

No API key needed to try · Demo Mode · Free forever

High-fidelity mockup of the AltGenie WordPress dashboard showing a violet progress bar at 75% while three WooCommerce product image thumbnails are processed for alt text generation.

generated alt

"Tan leather hiking boot on white background, laced up"

WordPress.org · [STAT TBD] installs · [STAT TBD] rating

GutenbergElementorDiviBeaver BuilderBricksYOOtheme

Works with WooCommerce and every major page builder

The problem

Missing alt text is not a minor oversight. It is a real failure.

Most WordPress sites accumulate hundreds or thousands of images over years — and most of them have no alt text. Here is why that matters.

Screen reader users are locked out

When an image has no alt text, a blind visitor using a screen reader gets nothing — or worse, a file name read aloud. Missing alt text is one of the most common WCAG failures found in audits.

You lose image search rankings

Google Images and Google Lens use alt text to understand and index images. Without it, your images are invisible to visual search and you miss a real traffic channel.

ADA and WCAG lawsuits are rising

Accessibility lawsuits under the ADA have climbed sharply, and missing alt text is one of the easiest defects for a plaintiff to point to. It is not theoretical risk — it is documented and growing.

How it works

From missing to done in four steps

No spreadsheets, no manual editing, no bolted-on SaaS dashboard. It all happens inside wp-admin.

  1. 01

    Connect your key — or use Demo Mode

    Add your own OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Cloud Vision API key. No key yet? Demo Mode generates sample descriptions so you can see it work first.

  2. 02

    Scan your media library

    AltGenie flags every image missing alt text and detects duplicates — across your whole library, not one page at a time.

  3. 03

    Review and bulk-generate

    Pick a tone, generate alt text for everything at once, review the results, and roll back anything you do not like.

  4. 04

    Auto-generate on upload

    Turn it on and every new image gets alt text the moment it is added. Schedule recurring scans to catch anything that slips through.

Feature showcase

Everything your images need — not just one field

AltGenie goes past alt text into real accessibility auditing and the rest of image SEO, organized into four groups.

Generation & bulk processing

Generate alt text on upload, process your whole library at once, or regenerate any single image.

  • Auto-generate alt text on image upload
  • Bulk-process existing media libraries with missing alt text
  • Regenerate or edit any single image from the Media Library
  • A/B variants — three tones per image (descriptive, SEO, casual)
  • Caption generation in addition to alt text

Accessibility & quality

Audit your library, score it, and catch the mistakes automated tools miss.

  • Accessibility scanner with reports and an AI-visibility score
  • Quality scoring across your whole library
  • Duplicate-alt-text detector with per-image fix actions
  • Public shortcode/REST output to embed a site report
  • Full generation history with rollback

Image SEO

Go past alt text into the rest of image SEO — schema, sitemaps, and social tags.

  • schema.org ImageObject JSON-LD
  • Image XML sitemap
  • Front-end live alt-fixing for theme and page-builder markup
  • og:image:alt and twitter:image:alt social tags
  • Optional EXIF/IPTC-metadata-aware prompts

Agency & scale

Built for people managing many sites — white-label, multisite, and the command line.

  • White-label client reports as a real downloadable PDF
  • Scheduled automatic scans and a failed-job retry queue
  • WP-CLI commands for agencies and large sites
  • Multisite network settings
  • Optional WPML/Polylang multi-language workflows
WooCommerce spotlight

Product image libraries are huge. AltGenie was built for them.

A store with a thousand products can have ten thousand images — most with no alt text. AltGenie understands WooCommerce data, so it generates descriptions that actually describe the product.

  • Uses product title, description, and attributes as context — alt text fits the product, not just the image.
  • Bulk-process entire product image libraries in one run.
  • Generate bulk titles and descriptions alongside alt text (Pro and Agency).
  • Catch duplicate alt text across product galleries before it hurts you.
Abstract 3D illustration showing glowing violet data nodes connecting a product image block to a generated text block, representing AltGenie generating context-aware alt text from WooCommerce product data.
Top-down mockup of a white-label AltGenie accessibility audit report printed on a minimalist desk, showing a 98% accessibility score and violet accent bars with a placeholder agency logo area at the top.
Agency spotlight

Built for agencies, not just single-site owners

If you manage accessibility and SEO across multiple client sites, you need to prove the work — not just do it. AltGenie gives you the tools to deliver and report at scale.

White-label client reports

Deliver a real downloadable PDF — your agency name, logo, and footer — certifying a site's image accessibility. Not a browser print dialog.

Multisite network settings

Manage configuration across every site in a network from one place.

WP-CLI commands

Run scans and bulk generation from the command line for large or automated workflows.

Comparison

AltGenie vs. manual work vs. a hosted-credit SaaS

On the dimensions that actually matter when you are fixing alt text at scale.

DimensionAltGenieBYOK · WordPress-nativeManual workBy handGeneric hosted-credit SaaSCategory, not a named brand
Cost modelBYOK — pay your provider's real priceFree (your time)Hosted credits with a markup
Where it livesInside wp-admin, WordPress-nativeManual editing in wp-adminBolted-on SaaS dashboard
WooCommerce contextUses product data as contextYou write it per imageImage-only, no product context
Page-builder supportGutenberg, Elementor, Divi, Beaver, Bricks, YOOthemeManual per builderLimited or none
Accessibility auditingScanner, score, duplicate detectorNoneBasic or none
Image SEO scopeSchema, sitemap, social tags, front-end fixingAlt text onlyAlt text only
Agency featuresWhite-label PDF, multisite, WP-CLINoneNone
Pricing

Pay for the plugin. Not for every image.

The free tier is 50 generations per month — stated plainly, no asterisks. Pro and Agency are annual licences; the AI itself is still billed by your own provider.

Free

Try it, or run a small site indefinitely

$0

forever

AI billed by your provider. Gemini's free tier usually covers a small site entirely.

Request the free build
  • Bring your own OpenAI, Gemini or Google Vision key
  • Auto-generate on upload
  • Bulk generation with pause and resume
  • Accessibility scanner and coverage score
  • Version history and one-click rollback
  • Demo Mode — no key needed
  • Quality scoring and review queue
  • Page-builder sync and WooCommerce products
  • 68 languages
Most popular

Pro

One site, everything unlocked

$49

/ year · 1 site

AI billed by your provider — roughly $4 per 10,000 images on Gemini. Never to us.

Buy Pro
  • Everything in Free
  • Image SEO suite — schema.org data and image sitemap
  • Open Graph and Twitter image tags
  • Front-end repair of missing alt attributes
  • Alt, title and description in one call
  • EXIF and IPTC photo context
  • Scheduled automatic scans
  • White-label client reports with your name and logo
  • Multisite network-wide provider settings
  • WP-CLI commands for very large libraries
  • Automatic plugin updates
  • Email support

Agency

Every client site you build or maintain

$149

/ year · unlimited sites

One provider key can serve every client, still billed at cost.

Buy Agency
  • Everything in Pro, on every site you run
  • Unlimited site activations
  • One licence across your whole client portfolio
  • WCAG 2.1 and European Accessibility Act statement
  • Priority email support
Savings Calculator

See what AltGenie actually saves you

Drag the slider to match your media library size — the savings recalculate live, so you see the real trade-off between writing alt text by hand and letting AltGenie do it.

The size you'd realistically want fully captioned.

10100,000
Doing it by hand
Time1.6 workdays
Cost$375.00

500 images × 90s each at $30.00/hr.

With AltGenie
Processing time13 min
Cost (BYOK)$5.00

500 images × $0.01 AI cost/image. Bulk-run, not human time.

You save

~1.5 workdays and ~$370.00

That's the time and money back in your day for 500 images.

Estimates only — adjust the assumptions above. Real AI cost depends on your provider, model, plan, and image size.

Social proof

What customers say

Note: No real testimonials exist yet. These are clearly labeled placeholder quotes — they will be replaced with real, attributed feedback as customers share it.

We manage accessibility for [NUMBER] client sites. The white-label PDF report alone saved us a day a week of manual reporting.

[CUSTOMER NAME]

[COMPANY / ROLE]

Our WooCommerce store had [NUMBER] product images with no alt text. AltGenie processed all of them in one run and the descriptions actually named the products.

[CUSTOMER NAME]

[COMPANY / ROLE]

Bring-your-own-key was the deciding factor. We pay our provider directly instead of a markup, and the cost dropped noticeably.

[CUSTOMER NAME]

[COMPANY / ROLE]

FAQ

Questions, answered

Start fixing your media library today — free.

Try Demo Mode with no key at all, or bring your own and bulk-process your missing alt text. Upgrade when you need more.