A GuestPix alternativeyou own forever.
Glint is a GuestPix alternative built on a different idea. Instead of hosting a wedding gallery for 12 months, Glint sends every guest photo and video straight into your own Google Drive at original quality, and keeps nothing on its servers. There is no gallery to expire 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 on July 18, 2026. Plans change - always confirm on their site, guestpix.com.
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.
Room for a big wedding
Fair use runs up to 1,000 guests, which comfortably covers even a very large wedding. You are not counting heads against a tight cap on the day.
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 | Hosted 12 months from the event date; a paid Extend plan continues access after that | No expiry; the folder is yours for good |
| Free plan | Up to 50 photo uploads, no videos; gallery expires 37 days after the event, permanently deleted at 90 days | 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 |
| 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 months included, 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. 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, a year of included hosting plus an original-resolution ZIP export is a perfectly workable plan.
You want a gallery guests can revisit at a link. A hosted gallery is something you can send around in the weeks after the wedding without touching your own storage or sharing settings. If that browsing experience matters more to you than holding the files yourself, GuestPix is built for it.
You want a service that names its headroom. GuestPix publishes fair use of up to 1,000 guests, which is a clear, generous number for a very large wedding. Some couples prefer a stated limit to an open-ended one, and that is a reasonable preference.
If any of those describe you, GuestPix is a good choice, and no architecture argument should outweigh fit. The trade is simple: GuestPix manages a gallery for you for a window of time; Glint hands you the files and steps out of the way.
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 months from the event date; on the free plan the gallery expires 37 days after the event and is permanently deleted at 90 days, 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.
No app. No login. Straight to your Google Drive.