A Kululu alternativewith no expiry date.
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. Kululu hosts your album for a defined window, from 7 days of saved uploads on its free plan to a 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 on July 18, 2026. Plans change - always confirm on their site, kululu.me. A 50% promotion was live when we checked.
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. A 50% promotion was live when we checked, so the effective prices were lower still. 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 50 uploads and runs for 24 hours from the event date. That is a real, working trial for a small gathering, and an honest way to let couples feel the product before paying.
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; a 50% promotion was live at verification | Free tier, plus a one-time Event Pass for unlimited uploads |
| Where your files live | An album hosted by Kululu | Your own Google Drive, from the first upload |
| Upload limits | 50 on Free, 500 on Plus, unlimited on Pro under fair use of 10,000 uploads and 5,000 participants | 50 on the free tier; unlimited with the Event Pass, files up to 500 MB each |
| How long uploads stay open | 24 hours on Free, 1 month on Plus, 3 months on Pro, from the event date | Your whole event window, including the days after |
| 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 | Described on their pages as good quality and high quality; original quality is not promised | The original files, exactly as shot |
| 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, the plan you buy is really the length of a window: how long the album accepts uploads, and how long it is kept. The only question each tier answers is how long.
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, a 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 window by refusing to host at all. Uploads pass straight through to a folder in your own Google Drive, and Glint keeps nothing 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. There is no gallery pipeline for a photo to be resized through: the guest's original file, up to 500 MB, 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. If someone on your team needs to review what appears in a shared album at a corporate-scale gathering, that combination is exactly the right tool.
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 starts a clock.
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, with no window counting down.
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 land in the same folder at original quality, whenever they arrive, 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.