A GuestPix alternativeyou own forever.
Glint is a GuestPix alternative built on a different idea. Both offer a gallery guests can browse and a live slideshow for a screen at the event; the difference is where the photos in them actually live. GuestPix hosts them for 12 to 24 months on its paid packages, depending on which one, and those start at $49 (USD). Glint sends every guest photo and video straight into your own Google Drive at original quality, keeps none of them on its servers, and streams its shared gallery and live slideshow from that folder, both included with the one-time $29 Event Pass. The files never expire and there is 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.
By Hashim Salem, founder of Glint · Updated
Competitor details verified from GuestPix's published pricing and help pages, except where a cell or sentence says otherwise. Every GuestPix price and plan figure on this page comes from our shared competitor data, re-read on GuestPix's own pages on . GuestPix prices vary by region and plans change, so always confirm on its pricing page, guestpix.com/wedding-photo-app-pricing.
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 charges once, with no recurring charges and no auto-renewal: in US dollars, Classic is $49, Signature $89 and the 3-gallery Signature Bundle $119, and prices localize by region, so Classic is CA$69 on the Canadian storefront. A single known cost for a single day is a fair way to sell a wedding product. Glint works the same way: a one-time $29 Event Pass per event, flat at any guest count, with no subscription, or 3 events for $45 with the Event Bundle, whose slots never expire.
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. Glint guests walk in the same way: no app, no account, and no Google account either, even though every upload lands in the host's own Google Drive.
Originals in, originals out
GuestPix's paid packages offer a ZIP download 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. Glint keeps the original file too, on every plan, the free one included: each photo and video lands in your own Google Drive exactly as shot, so there is nothing to export before a deadline.
A full kit in every paid package
Every GuestPix paid package, from $49 (USD), takes guest video and includes a live slideshow and video guestbook messages, with fair use up to 1,000 guests per event. Glint takes guest video on every plan, the free one included, lets each guest add their name and a written message to what they upload, and puts its live slideshow and shared gallery in the one-time $29 Event Pass, with no cap on guests.
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, in USD, with no auto-renewal: $49 Classic, $89 Signature, $119 for the 3-gallery Signature Bundle, with fair use up to 1,000 guests per event; prices vary by region (CA$69 for Classic on the Canadian storefront) | Free tier, plus a one-time $29 Event Pass that unlocks unlimited uploads and every feature, flat at any guest count; or the Event Bundle, 3 events for $45, with slots that never expire |
| Where your files live | A gallery hosted by GuestPix | Your own Google Drive, from the first upload |
| How long they last | Paid: hosted 12 months (Classic and Signature) from the event date, or 24 months on the Signature Bundle, counted from the date of purchase on its pricing card (its checkout page says the event date); then Extend at $29 to $89 by package for 12 months more (the Bundle's extension price is not published). Free: expires 37 days after the event, deleted 90 days after it | No expiry on the files; the Drive folder is yours for good |
| Free plan | Up to 50 photos, no video, 30-day upload window; the gallery expires 37 days after the event and its photos are permanently deleted 90 days after it | 50 uploads with 30 days of access, photos and videos included, each saved as the original file to your own Google Drive, where the files never expire |
| What guests can upload | 50 photos and no video on the free plan; photos and video on every paid package, from $49 | Photos and videos on every plan, the free one included: 50 uploads over 30 days free, unlimited with the $29 Event Pass; JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, MP4, MOV and WebM, each kept as the original file; files up to 500 MB each by default, and up to 1.5 GB once you raise it for the event; anything over 4 MB travels in resumable 4 MB chunks, each retried up to four times |
| Getting your files out | ZIP download in original resolution on its paid packages | Nothing to export: the originals are in your own Drive the moment they arrive, on every plan, the free one included |
| A gallery guests can browse | Yes, hosted by GuestPix for the window above | Yes, the shared gallery, included with the one-time $29 Event Pass, on its own link and off until you open it: guests browse the photos and videos, filter photos from videos, leave hearts and save the full-quality original of any of them, and you choose view and upload or view only, can switch photo downloads or hearts off and can add a 4 to 6 digit access code. It streams from your Drive rather than a copy we keep and can stay open until 12 months after the day you create the event; every photo and video stays in your Drive after it closes |
| Photos on a screen at the event | Yes, a live slideshow, in every paid package, from Classic up ($49 in USD) | Yes, the live slideshow, included with the one-time $29 Event Pass, on its own link: it runs in any browser on a TV or projector, a new upload reaches the screen about twenty seconds after a guest sends it while photos are flowing (up to a minute or so in a lull), and you set 5, 8 or 12 seconds a photo, can show photos only or play videos in full, and can show each guest's name and message and the event's QR code for more guests to scan, with written messages also filling the screen as quote cards |
| Making it your own | Custom colors and fonts cost $10 extra on Classic, or come with Signature ($89) and up | A cover image, your own link and a print-ready QR code on every plan; with the one-time $29 Event Pass, custom accent and text colors for the guest page and the shared gallery, the full QR designer (four presets, four dot shapes, three corner styles, your colors and a center logo) and no Glint branding on the guest upload page |
| Guest experience | No app, no account | No app, no account, and no Google account either; on Android, a guest inside Instagram's or Facebook's in-app browser gets one tap to their own browser |
GuestPix does not publish where uploaded files are stored or any per-file video limits, so this table makes no claims about either. The GuestPix figures in this table were re-read on its own pages on .
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 GuestPix's galleries come with windows: 12 to 24 months included on the paid packages, then a paid Extend plan to keep the gallery online, at $29 to $89 by package for 12 months more (the Signature Bundle's extension price is not published). A free gallery expires 37 days after the event, and its photos are deleted 90 days after it. That is not a trick; it is simply the economics of holding other people's files, and most products built on hosting 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 by default and up to 1.5 GB once you raise it for the event. Glint keeps none of your guests' photos or videos on its servers, only the small details needed to run your event. The shared gallery your guests browse and the live slideshow on the screen at your event are served from that same folder: Glint reads each photo from your Drive to show it and stores no copy of its own. Because we never hold your photos, the files never expire, there is no storage plan to extend, and no fee 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.
The host tools come with every Glint event, on every plan, the free one included. Glint's live dashboard shows each photo and video as it arrives, grouped by guest with their names and messages: guests can add a name, optional unless you make it required, and a message of up to 500 characters, a field that is on by default and that you can switch off. You can hide any upload, one at a time or in bulk, which takes it off the shared gallery and the live slideshow while the file stays in your Google Drive, or delete it, which removes it from your Drive as well. One switch pauses the event, closing uploads, the gallery and the slideshow together. Glint emails you when the first photo arrives and again about a week before the event's access window ends, and a meter on the dashboard warns you before your Google Drive runs low on space.
You want the gallery hosted for you. If you would rather not connect a Google account of your own or keep a folder of files at all, a hosted gallery at a link is the simpler shape. Glint keeps that part light: it creates the event folder in your Drive and names every file by the date and time it arrived, with the guest's name when they give one, and your guests never need a Google account. Still, 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. For GuestPix the gallery is the product, self-contained, hosted and maintained for you for 12 to 24 months depending on the package, and Extend plans, published at $29 to $89, keep it online 12 months longer. Glint has a shared gallery too, with a live slideshow beside it, both included with the one-time $29 Event Pass: guests open the gallery at its own link to browse the photos and videos, leave hearts and save full-quality originals (you can switch photo downloads off), you can lock it with an optional 4 to 6 digit PIN, and it reads from your Drive folder rather than a copy we keep. It stays open within the event's 12-month access window, counted from the day you create the event, and every file stays in your Drive after it closes. If a gallery someone else hosts and keeps online for you, with a paid extension when its window ends, 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, where they never expire, and builds the gallery and the slideshow 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 everything while the gallery is still online; GuestPix's paid packages export it as one ZIP in original resolution. Paid galleries stay up for 12 months (Classic and Signature) from the event date, or 24 months on the Signature Bundle, which its pricing card counts from the date of purchase, and after that GuestPix sells 12 months more for $29 to $89 by package (the Signature Bundle's extension price is not published). On the free plan, uploads close after 30 days, the gallery expires 37 days after the event and its photos are permanently deleted 90 days after it, 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 your GuestPix gallery and everything guests upload from here on lives in one place, in your own storage, with no window attached. Your shared gallery and live slideshow show what guests send through Glint, and the imported originals sit beside those uploads in the same folder.
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, for the whole upload window, 12 months with the $29 Event Pass or 30 days on the free plan, counted from the day you create the event, with nothing for anyone to install.
Glint has a free tier of 50 uploads with 30 days of access, every file kept at original quality, a one-time $29 Event Pass for unlimited uploads and every feature, the same price at any guest count, and an Event Bundle covering 3 events for $45 whose slots never expire, all 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 on its paid packages, depending on which one, with one-time pricing from $49 (USD), a live slideshow and an original-resolution ZIP download; keeping the gallery online after that takes a paid Extend plan. Glint never holds the files: every photo and video a guest uploads lands in your own Google Drive at original quality, so the files never expire and there is nothing to export before a deadline. Glint has a shared gallery and a live slideshow for a screen at the event too, both with the one-time $29 Event Pass, and both stream from that folder rather than a copy Glint keeps. 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 hosts paid galleries for 12 months (Classic and Signature) from the event date, or for 24 months on the Signature Bundle, which its pricing card counts from the date of purchase (its checkout page says the event date). After that, keeping the gallery online takes a paid Extend plan, $29 to $89 by package for 12 months more; the Signature Bundle's extension price is not published. The free plan takes 50 photos and no video, with a 30-day upload window, and a free gallery expires 37 days after the event, with its photos permanently deleted 90 days after it. With Glint (glint.pics), every photo and video is in your own Google Drive from the first upload, so the files never expire. These details were re-read on GuestPix's own pricing, product and help pages on October 13, 2026; plans change, so always confirm the current terms on their site.
Why don't wedding photos expire with Glint?
Because Glint never holds your files. Uploads pass straight through to a folder in your own Google Drive, and Glint stores none of your guests' photos or videos, only what it needs to run your event, such as guest names, messages and your cover image. The shared gallery and the live slideshow stream each photo from your Drive rather than from a copy we keep. So the files never expire, there is no extension to buy to keep them, and no deadline by which something has to be downloaded. The one clock on a Glint event is its access window, 30 days on the free plan and 12 months with the $29 Event Pass, counted from the day you create it. It sets how long the event accepts uploads and how long an Event Pass event keeps its shared gallery and live slideshow open, and every photo and video stays in your Drive after it closes. 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. Glint guests need no Google account either, even though every upload lands in your own Google Drive, and a guest who opens the link inside Instagram's or Facebook's in-app browser on Android gets one tap to their own browser. The bigger 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 to GuestPix and Glint?
Yes on every Glint plan, the free one included, and on GuestPix's paid packages. GuestPix takes guest video on every paid package, from $49 (USD) for Classic, while its free plan takes 50 photos and no video. Glint (glint.pics) takes photos and videos on its free plan too, up to 50 uploads over 30 days, and a one-time $29 Event Pass unlocks unlimited uploads for 12 months. Each file arrives at original quality in your own Google Drive, up to 500 MB each by default and up to 1.5 GB once you raise it for the event.
What does Glint cost compared to GuestPix?
GuestPix sells one-time packages with no auto-renewal: in US dollars, Classic is $49, Signature $89 and the 3-gallery Signature Bundle $119, and a Luxe package at $119 is still sold from its own page, each with fair use up to 1,000 guests per event. Prices localize by region (Classic is CA$69 on the Canadian storefront). Keeping a paid gallery past its hosting window takes an Extend plan, $29 to $89 by package for 12 months more (the Signature Bundle's extension price is not published). Glint's free plan takes up to 50 photo and video uploads over 30 days, every file at original quality, and a one-time $29 Event Pass, less than any GuestPix package, unlocks unlimited uploads, 12 months of access, the shared gallery, the live slideshow and the full QR designer, flat at any guest count. For more than one celebration, the Event Bundle covers 3 events for $45, and its slots never expire. Because your files live in your own Google Drive, they never expire, and there is never a separate storage or hosting bill from us. The GuestPix figures in this answer were re-read on its own pages on October 13, 2026.
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