A Kululu alternativewhose photos never expire.
Glint is a Kululu alternative built around ownership. Guests scan a QR code and their photos and videos land in your own Google Drive at original quality, where they stay for good. Glint also has a shared gallery guests can browse and a live slideshow for a screen at the event, both with the one-time $29 Event Pass. Kululu hosts your album for a defined window, from 7 days of saved uploads on its free plan to 1 year on Pro, and after that its help center says photos are no longer accessible. This page walks through the two honestly, including where Kululu is the better choice.
Competitor details verified from Kululu's published pricing and help pages. The prices and plan figures on this page that come from our shared competitor data were re-read on October 13, 2026. The Kululu figures here are the one-time prices its pricing page charged at that check, excluding taxes; it no longer shows the 50 percent promotion or the crossed-out list prices that earlier checks recorded. Plans change - always confirm on their pricing page, kululu.com/pricing.
If we only told you what suits our argument, you would be right not to trust the rest of this page. Kululu is a considered product with real strengths, and if you are weighing the two, these are the ones that matter.
Clear one-time pricing
Kululu charges once per event: a free plan, Plus at $39, and Pro at $99 in USD, with no subscription behind any of them. Knowing the whole cost before the day is a real courtesy in a category that often hides it.
A free plan you can genuinely trial
The free tier covers up to 100 uploads of photos and videos in what Kululu calls standard quality (its own tooltip says the files are compressed), runs for 24 hours from the event date, and is saved for 7 days. That is a real, working trial for a small gathering, and an honest way to let couples feel the product before paying. Glint's free plan is built for keeping: every file at original quality, 30 days of access, and photos and videos that stay in your own Google Drive for good.
Nothing for guests to install
Guests join without an app or an account. Kululu understood the same truth we did: every extra step costs you photos, and the products that win this category are the ones that ask guests for almost nothing.
Headroom and moderation on Pro
The Pro plan allows unlimited uploads under a fair-use ceiling of 10,000 uploads and 5,000 participants, and includes moderation. For a very large celebration where someone wants a hand on the tiller, that is a serious, well-considered tier.
Both products make the guest side effortless. The differences live after the upload: how long the collection accepts photos, how long it is kept, what quality survives, and whose storage it sits in.
| What you are weighing | Kululu | Glint |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | One-time per event, in USD: Free $0, Plus $39, Pro $99 | Free tier, plus a one-time $29 Event Pass that unlocks unlimited uploads and every feature, flat at any guest count |
| Where your files live | An album hosted by Kululu | Your own Google Drive, from the first upload |
| Upload limits | 100 on Free in standard quality, 500 on Plus at $39, unlimited on Pro at $99 under fair use of 10,000 uploads and 5,000 participants | 50 on the free plan over 30 days, each kept as the original file; unlimited with the $29 Event Pass; files up to 500 MB each by default on every plan, and up to 1.5 GB once you raise it for the event |
| How long uploads stay open | 24 hours on Free, 1 month on Plus, 3 months on Pro, from the event date | 30 days on the free plan, 12 months with the $29 Event Pass, counted from the day you create the event |
| How long photos are kept | 7 days on Free, 3 months on Plus, 1 year on Pro; afterward, photos are no longer accessible | No expiry; the Drive folder is yours for good |
| Quality | What Kululu calls standard quality on Free, which its own tooltip says is compressed; original quality on Plus ($39) and Pro | The original files, exactly as shot, on every plan, the free one included |
| A gallery guests can browse | Yes, the hosted album | Yes, the shared gallery, included with the one-time $29 Event Pass, on its own link and off until you open it: guests browse every photo and video, 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 |
| Getting every photo and video | Download-all on Plus ($39) and Pro; not on the free plan | Already yours: every file is in your own Google Drive at original quality the moment it arrives, on every plan, the free one included, with no deadline to download anything by |
| Photos on a screen at the event | Yes, the Photo Wall, their name for it | Yes, the live slideshow (a photo wall, in other words), included with the one-time $29 Event Pass, on its own link and its own switch: 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 |
| Guest experience | No app, no account | No app, no account |
Kululu does not publish per-file size limits, so this table makes no claims about them.
On Kululu, every plan you buy comes with a window: how long the album accepts uploads, and how long it is kept. Whatever else a tier adds, it still ends on a date.
That is not a criticism; it is the honest economics of hosting. Holding other people's files costs money every month, so a one-time price has to buy a defined period: 7 days of saved uploads on the free plan, 3 months on Plus, 1 year on Pro. Kululu is upfront about those numbers, which is to its credit. But a wedding is not a defined period. The photos matter more in year ten than in month one.
Glint removes the expiry window by refusing to host the photos and videos at all. Uploads pass straight through to a folder in your own Google Drive, and Glint keeps none of your guests' photos or videos on its servers. Because we never hold your photos, no plan of ours could ever put a date on them. The folder is yours the moment the first photo lands, and it outlives the upload page, the event, and us.
The same architecture settles the quality question. Nothing between the guest's phone and your Drive compresses or resizes a photo: the guest's original file, up to 500 MB by default and 1.5 GB if you raise it, is the thing that arrives, videos included. And the Drive connection uses one of the most limited permissions Google offers, so Glint can write into the folder it creates and cannot see anything else in your account. The full detail is on the features page.
Your event is short, and so is your timeline. If you are throwing a party tonight and want the photos gathered this week, the free plan's 24-hour upload window and 7 days of saved photos may be genuinely all you need, at exactly zero cost. Not every gathering is a wedding, and not every collection needs to last forever.
You want moderation at a very large event. Kululu's Pro tier pairs unlimited uploads, under fair use of 10,000 uploads and 5,000 participants, with moderation that lets you approve each upload before it appears in the album. Glint gives every host a say over what guests see too, at no extra cost: from the dashboard 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. If every photo must be approved before it appears in a shared album at a corporate-scale gathering, Kululu Pro is exactly the right tool for that job.
You would rather keep your own cloud out of it. Glint asks you to connect a Google account, because that is where your photos go. If you do not use Google Drive and do not want to, a hosted album with a clear one-time price and download-all from Plus upward is the simpler arrangement. Download within your saved window and archive wherever you like.
If any of those describe you, Kululu is a sound choice. The trade is simple and worth naming plainly: Kululu manages an album for you for a defined season; Glint hands you the original files and never puts a clock on them.
There is no lock-in in either direction. If your wedding is still ahead, starting with Glint takes a few minutes. If your event already ran on Kululu, save your album while its window is open and bring everything home to your own Drive. Our guide on how to collect wedding photos covers the wider playbook for the day itself.
If you have a live Kululu album, save it first
Download your photos while the saving window is open: 3 months on Plus and 1 year on Pro, both of which include download-all. The free plan keeps uploads for 7 days and does not include download-all, so save anything you love right away, one photo at a time if you must.
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 saved photos to the same folder
Drop everything you downloaded into your event folder in Drive. From then on the album and every new guest upload live together in one place, in your own storage, and the files never expire.
Share the QR code or link
Print the code for the day, or send the link to guests who still have photos on their phones. Late uploads keep landing in the same folder at original quality for the whole upload window, 12 months with the $29 Event Pass, 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 at original quality, and a one-time $29 Event Pass for unlimited uploads and every feature, flat at any guest count, 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 Kululu?
It depends on what you want after the event. Kululu hosts an album for a defined window at a clear one-time price, which suits a short event you will wrap up quickly. Glint skips hosting the files: every guest photo and video lands in your own Google Drive at original quality, so the files have no expiry window at all. 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 the gallery streams from that folder rather than holding a copy. If you want an album managed for you for a season, Kululu does that. If you want the files themselves, in your own storage, with no date attached, that is what Glint is built for.
How long does Kululu keep wedding photos?
It depends on the plan. On Kululu's published tiers, the free plan keeps uploads for 7 days, Plus keeps them for 3 months, and Pro keeps them for 1 year. The album accepts uploads for 24 hours, 1 month, or 3 months from the event date respectively. After the saving period, their help center says photos are no longer accessible. Those retention details were verified from Kululu's own published pages. Plans change, so always confirm the current terms on their site.
Why don't 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 only the small details needed to run the upload page. A hosted album has to set a window because hosting costs money for as long as the album exists; a folder in your own Drive has no such clock. The files never expire, there is nothing to extend to keep them, and there is no deadline to download them by. 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.
Do guests need an app or account with either service?
No, and this is a genuine tie. Kululu guests join without installing an app or creating an account, and Glint guests do the same: scan the QR code, tap, upload from the camera roll. Both products got the guest side right. The difference lives after the upload, in where the files go and how long they stay.
Will my wedding photos keep their original quality?
With Glint, yes, on every plan, the free one included: the file that arrives in your Drive is the file the guest shot, photos and videos alike, up to 500 MB each by default and 1.5 GB once you raise it. Kululu's free plan saves uploads in what it calls standard quality, which its own tooltip says is compressed, and keeps original quality to its paid plans, Plus and Pro. If full-resolution originals matter to you, that wording is worth reading closely on any service you consider, ours included.
What does Glint cost compared to Kululu?
Kululu prices one-time per event: a free plan with up to 100 uploads in what it calls standard quality, active for 24 hours and saved for 7 days, Plus at $39 for up to 500 uploads, and Pro at $99. 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 unlocks unlimited uploads, 12 months of access and every Glint feature, the shared gallery and live slideshow included, flat at any guest count. Because your files land in your own Google Drive, they never expire, and there is never a separate storage or hosting bill from us. The prices and plan figures on this page that come from our shared competitor data were re-read on October 13, 2026. The Kululu figures here are the one-time prices its pricing page charged at that check, excluding taxes; it no longer shows the 50 percent promotion or the crossed-out list prices that earlier checks recorded.
See how every option stacks up in the honest 2026 comparison of wedding photo apps, or read the POV comparison next.
No app. No login. Straight to your Google Drive.