A GuestPix alternativeyou own forever.
Glint is a GuestPix alternative built on a different idea. Both give your guests a gallery to browse; the difference is where the photos in it actually live. GuestPix hosts them for 12 to 24 months on its paid plans, depending on the package. Glint sends every guest photo and video straight into your own Google Drive at original quality, keeps nothing on its servers, and streams the gallery from that folder. There is no hosting window on your photos and no extension to buy, because the folder was yours from the first upload. GuestPix is a polished product, and this page compares the two honestly, including where GuestPix is the better fit.
Competitor details verified from GuestPix's published pricing and help pages, except where a cell or sentence says otherwise.
A comparison page that pretends the other product has no strengths is not a comparison. GuestPix has earned its place in this category, and if you are choosing between the two, you should know what it genuinely gets right.
One event, one payment
GuestPix prices per event, once, with no auto-renewal to catch you later. On the Canadian storefront plans start from CA$69, and pricing is localized by region, so the figure you see depends on where you shop. A single known cost for a single day is a fair way to sell a wedding product.
Guests walk straight in
No app to install, no account to create. Guests scan and upload, which is exactly how it should be, and GuestPix deserves credit for getting the hardest part of guest photo collection right.
Originals in, originals out
GuestPix offers ZIP downloads in original resolution, so what your guests shot is what you can take away. Plenty of gallery products quietly compress; publishing an original-quality export is a real strength.
Both products remove the hard part for guests. Where they part ways is what happens to your photos after the day: one hosts them for a window, the other hands them to you outright.
| What you are weighing | GuestPix | Glint |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | One-time per event, no auto-renewal; from CA$69 on the Canadian storefront, localized elsewhere | Free tier, plus a one-time Event Pass for unlimited uploads |
| Where your files live | A gallery hosted by GuestPix | Your own Google Drive, from the first upload |
| How long they last | Paid: hosted 12 to 24 months from the event date, then a paid Extend plan continues access. Free: retention not published | No expiry; the folder is yours for good |
| Free plan | Up to 50 photos, 30-day upload window; retention not published | 50 uploads with 30 days of access, photos and videos included |
| Getting your files out | ZIP download in original resolution | Nothing to download; the originals are already in your Drive |
| A gallery guests can browse | Yes, hosted by GuestPix for the window above | Yes, on the Event Pass: its own link, streamed from your Drive rather than a copy we keep |
| Guest experience | No app, no account | No app, no account |
GuestPix does not publish where uploaded files are stored or any per-file video limits, so this table makes no claims about either.
The two products part ways on a single question: who holds the files. Everything else on this page follows from the answer.
GuestPix hosts your gallery on its own infrastructure. Hosting costs money for as long as the gallery exists, which is why hosted galleries come with windows: 12 to 24 months included on the paid plans, then a paid Extend plan to keep access. That is not a trick; it is simply the economics of holding other people's files. Any product built on hosting has to draw a line somewhere.
Glint is built so the line never has to exist. Uploads pass straight through to a folder in your own Google Drive, at original quality, up to 500 MB a file. Glint keeps nothing on its servers, only the small details needed to run the upload page. The shared gallery your guests browse is served from that same folder: each photo is fetched from your Drive the moment someone looks at it, and never copied to us. Because we never hold your photos, there is nothing to expire, nothing to extend, and no fee that could ever stand between you and your own memories.
The connection to your Drive uses one of the most limited permissions Google offers: Glint can write into the folder it creates for your event, and it cannot see, list, or touch anything else in your account. You can read the full detail, alongside everything else the product does, on the features page.
You want the gallery hosted for you. If you would rather not involve a Google account or manage a folder of files at all, a hosted gallery at a link is the simpler shape. GuestPix keeps everything in one place it maintains, and for an organized couple, 12 to 24 months of included hosting plus an original-resolution ZIP export is a perfectly workable plan.
You want the gallery to be the whole product. Glint has a shared gallery guests can revisit at a link. It arrives with the Event Pass, and it reads from your Drive folder rather than a copy we keep. For GuestPix the gallery is the product, self-contained and included in the one price you pay. If browsing is the part you care about most, buying it from the people who host it is a fair trade.
If any of those describe you, GuestPix is a good choice, and no architecture argument should outweigh fit. The trade is simple: GuestPix holds your photos and manages a gallery around them for a window of time; Glint puts the files in your Drive and builds the gallery on top of them.
There is no lock-in on either side of this move. If your wedding is still ahead of you, starting with Glint takes a few minutes. If your event already ran on GuestPix, you can bring the collection home to your own Drive with one export. Our guide on how to collect wedding photos covers the wider playbook for the day itself.
If you have a live GuestPix gallery, export it first
Download the ZIP in original resolution while your gallery is hosted. On paid plans you have 12 to 24 months from the event date depending on the package; on the free plan uploads close after 30 days and GuestPix does not publish how long the gallery is kept, so do not let that one wait.
Create your Glint event
Sign in and set up your event in a couple of minutes. Glint builds the private upload page your guests will use and the Google Drive folder your photos will land in, connected with one of the most limited permissions Google offers.
Add your exported photos to the same folder
Drop the ZIP's contents into your event folder in Drive. Everything from the gallery and everything guests upload from here on lives in one place, in your own storage, with no window attached.
Share the QR code or link
Print the code for your next celebration, or send the link to guests who still have photos sitting on their phones. Late uploads land in the same folder, at original quality, with nothing for anyone to install.
Glint has a free tier of 50 uploads with 30 days of access, and a one-time Event Pass for unlimited uploads, with no subscription. Because the files live in your own Google Drive, there is never a storage bill from us. The details live on the pricing page.
Is Glint a good alternative to GuestPix?
It depends on what you want to own. GuestPix hosts a polished gallery for 12 to 24 months from your event date on its paid plans, depending on the package, with one-time pricing and original-resolution ZIP downloads. Glint has a shared gallery too, on the Event Pass, but it never holds the files: every photo and video a guest uploads lands directly in your own Google Drive, and the gallery streams from that folder rather than a copy Glint keeps. So there is no hosting window on your photos and nothing to export before a deadline. If you want your photos held and managed for you, GuestPix does that well. If you want the files themselves, in your own storage from the first upload, that is what Glint is built for.
How long does GuestPix keep wedding photos?
GuestPix's published policy hosts paid galleries for 12 to 24 months from the event date depending on the package, after which a paid Extend plan keeps access going (the extension fee is not published). The free plan takes 50 photos with a 30-day upload window, and we could not find a published figure for how long a free gallery is kept afterwards. Those details were verified from GuestPix's own published pricing and help pages; plans change, so always confirm the current terms on their site.
Why don't wedding photos expire with Glint?
Because Glint never stores your files. Uploads pass straight through to a folder in your own Google Drive, and Glint keeps only the small details needed to run the upload page and lay out the gallery. Nothing of yours is hosted, not even by the shared gallery, which fetches each photo from your Drive as a guest looks at it. So there is no hosting window, no extension to buy, and no deadline by which something has to be downloaded. The folder belongs to your Google account, and it is yours for as long as you keep it.
Do guests need an app or account with either service?
No, and this is a genuine tie. GuestPix guests upload with no app and no account, and Glint guests do exactly the same: scan the QR code, tap, and upload from the camera roll. The difference between the two is not the guest experience. It is what happens to the files after the guest taps upload.
Can guests upload videos?
GuestPix's free plan documents 50 photos, and we could not confirm from their pages whether it takes video at all, so ask them before you count on it. Glint's free tier includes both photos and videos, up to 50 uploads, with files up to 500 MB each, and a one-time Event Pass removes the cap.
What does Glint cost compared to GuestPix?
GuestPix uses one-time per-event pricing with no auto-renewal; on the Canadian storefront plans start from CA$69, and prices are localized by region. Glint has a free tier of 50 uploads with 30 days of access, and a one-time Event Pass for unlimited uploads. Because your files live in your own Google Drive, there is never a separate storage or hosting bill from us.
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