The POV alternative thatkeeps every photo.
If you are looking for a POV camera alternative for your wedding, here is the short version. POV recreates the disposable camera as a party game, and does it well. Glint solves a different problem: guests scan one QR code and every photo and video uploads straight into your own Google Drive, at original quality, with no app, no account, and no per-guest cap. One is an experience for the night. The other is how you keep the night.
POV's idea is charming: hand the whole party a shared disposable camera. Guests scan a QR code and are shooting in seconds, through an App Clip on iOS or a web experience on Android, with no app-store download. The host can cap how many shots each guest gets, which turns photography into a game where every frame counts, and the reveal moment, when the roll finally develops, is a genuine delight that a live feed cannot copy.
The pricing is simple too: one-time per event, scaled by guest count, free for small gatherings of up to 10. A Business Essentials add-on brings custom branding, a live slideshow, and 24/7 support for $10 more, and is included in their trial. For a bachelorette, a birthday, a launch party, this is a lovely product, and if that is your event, POV is a fine choice.
A wedding, though, asks a different question. Not "how do we make photography fun tonight?" but "how do we still have these photos in thirty years?" That second question is the one Glint was built to answer, and it is where the two products quietly part ways.
| What matters | Glint | POV |
|---|---|---|
| Guest experience | Scan and upload in the browser, no app, no account, optional first name only | Scan to shoot via App Clip on iOS or web on Android, no app-store download |
| Where your files live | Your own Google Drive, original quality, from the first upload | On POV's platform |
| Long-term retention | Yours indefinitely; the files are on your storage, and Glint never keeps them | No published retention commitment on their site or terms |
| Photos per guest | Unlimited, up to 500MB per file, videos included | Capped per guest, at a limit the host configures |
| Seeing the photos | Live dashboard included, updating in real time | Reveal-moment experience; live slideshow via the Business Essentials add-on (+$10) |
| Pricing model | Free tier (50 uploads, 30 days); one-time Event Pass for unlimited uploads, any guest count | One-time, by guest count: free up to 10 guests, $4.99 for 25, $14.99 for 50, $34.99 for 100, $64.99 for 175, $89.99 for 250, contact them above that |
Competitor details verified from POV's published pricing and terms pages on July 18, 2026. Plans change - always confirm on their site.
The table's quietest row is the one that matters most. Wedding photos are the rare files you will still want in decades, which is why we think they belong on storage you already own rather than any platform, ours included. Glint is built so that it could disappear tomorrow and your collection would not notice.
Glint starts from the assumption that the photos your guests take at your wedding are irreplaceable, and everything else follows from that.
Your photos live in your Google Drive, not on a platform
Every file a guest uploads goes directly into a folder in your own Google Drive, at full original quality. Glint never keeps the files; it stores only the small details needed to run the page, and it connects through one of the most limited permissions Google offers. There is no export step and no account to keep alive, because the collection was never anywhere else.
Every photo, not a rationed roll
POV's host-configurable cap on shots per guest is part of its game. A wedding is not a game you want to ration. With Glint there is no per-guest limit: the aunt who takes two hundred photos and the friend who films every toast are both welcome, up to 500MB per file.
Uploads engineered for venue wifi
Receptions happen in stone barns and hotel basements. Glint sends larger files in resumable pieces and retries automatically, so a dropped connection pauses an upload instead of losing it, and guests can finish later from the same link. The photos that were taken are the photos you receive.
A live dashboard, included
You watch the collection arrive in real time, during the reception or from the honeymoon flight home. No add-on, no upgrade tier: seeing your own photos is part of the product, not a feature of it.
One flat pass, not a per-guest ladder
POV prices each event by guest count, which is fair for its format but means a wedding-sized crowd sits at the top of the ladder. Glint does not count your guests. However many people scan the code, the price is the same.
For the wider picture of every way to gather guest photos, from hashtags to disposable cameras, our guide on how to collect wedding photos compares each approach honestly, and the companion guide on wedding videos covers the files that are hardest of all to collect.
The reveal is the point of your party. A bachelorette, a thirtieth birthday, a New Year's Eve where the fun is precisely that nobody sees the photos until the roll develops. That suspense is POV's signature, and Glint's live dashboard is the opposite of it by design.
Your gathering is ten people or fewer. POV is free at that size, and a small dinner party does not need upload infrastructure. It needs a game.
You want scarcity on purpose. The host-configurable shot cap makes people frame before they shoot, the way film once did. If that constraint is the aesthetic you are after, it is POV's home ground.
You want a live slideshow run for you. Their Business Essentials add-on brings a live slideshow, custom branding, and 24/7 support for a flat $10 on top of any tier.
For a wedding, we would still gently make the case for ownership: whatever runs the party, the originals belong in your own Drive. Some couples do both, a POV game for the after-party and a Glint code on every table, and lose nothing either way.
Switching to Glint, or starting fresh, takes minutes rather than meetings. There is no per-guest math to do and nothing for your guests to prepare.
Create your event
Sign in and set up your wedding in a couple of minutes. Glint builds the private upload page your guests will use and connects the folder in your Google Drive where everything will land.
Style your QR code
The built-in designer is included: set the colors, the dot and corner shapes, and a monogram at the center, then export a print-ready PNG or a crisp SVG for your stationer.
Print it where guests will look
A welcome sign, the table cards, the back of the menu. Print the short link underneath so a guest whose camera will not scan can simply type it in.
Watch the day arrive
Guests scan, tap, and upload from their camera roll. Every file appears on your live dashboard and lands in your Drive at the same moment, already yours.
Glint's free tier covers 50 uploads over 30 days, and a one-time Event Pass unlocks unlimited uploads for any number of guests, with no subscription. Full details on the pricing page.
