The best wedding photosharing apps, honestly.
Seven apps do this job well in 2026: GuestPix, Kululu, POV, WedUploader, GuestCam, Wedibox, and Glint. They differ most in three things that outlast the wedding: what they cost, where your photos actually live, and how long they survive there. This guide compares all seven on exactly those terms.
Full disclosure, before anything else: Glint wrote this guide, and Glint makes one of the seven apps on it. We have not ranked anything, there are no star ratings, and every competitor fact below was verified from that company's own published pages. Where a rival is the better fit, we say so.
All competitor details verified from each company's published pricing and help pages on July 18, 2026.
POV recreates the disposable-camera night better than anyone: guests shoot through a shared event camera, and the host can cap how many photos each guest gets, which is exactly the constraint that made film cameras fun. Joining is genuinely slick, through iOS App Clips or a web flow on Android, so nobody downloads anything from an app store. Pricing is one-time and scales by guest count: free for up to 10 guests, then $4.99 for 25, $14.99 for 50, $34.99 for 100, $64.99 for 175, and $89.99 for 250, with a $10 Business Essentials add-on. The trade-off is what happens after the party: POV publishes no storage-retention commitment, so before you treat it as the archive of your wedding, ask them directly how long your photos are kept. Our full look at POV goes deeper.
GuestPix is the most polished of the hosted galleries. Guests need no app and no account, fair use stretches to 1,000 guests, pricing is one-time per event, and when the dust settles you can download everything as an original-resolution ZIP. Prices localize by region, so we will not quote a universal figure; on the Canadian storefront it starts from CA$69. The trade-offs sit on the clock: hosting runs 12 months from your event date, after which keeping the gallery means a paid Extend plan whose fee is not published. The free plan is a taste, not a tier: 50 photo uploads, no videos, a gallery that expires 37 days after the event and, in their help center's own words, is permanently deleted at 90 days. More in our GuestPix breakdown.
Kululu keeps things simple and inexpensive: one-time USD pricing, with a 50 percent promotion running when we verified. Plus at $39 takes 500 uploads with download-all included; Pro at $99 is unlimited under fair use (10,000 uploads, 5,000 participants) and adds moderation. If you want a shared gallery alive around the wedding weekend without spending much, it does the job. The windows are the trade-off, and they are short: the free gallery is active for 24 hours and saved for 7 days at what Kululu calls good quality, with no download-all; Plus galleries are active 1 month and saved 3 months; Pro galleries are active 3 months and saved 1 year. After that, in Kululu's words, photos are no longer accessible, and no plan promises original quality. Our Kululu breakdown has the detail.
Two of the seven share a different architecture: instead of hosting your photos, they deliver them into your own Google Drive, which means there is no expiry clock at all.
WedUploader has the most generous free tier in this guide: unlimited uploads, in original quality, straight to your own Google Drive, with no app or login for guests, and albums that never expire. The polish lives in paid extras: a $39 one-time premium bundle, or a la carte pieces such as a gallery for $30, a guestbook for $20, a slideshow for $30, a custom URL for $10, custom colors for $10, event managers for $20, QR signs for $10, and a seating chart for $19 with premium. You assemble what you need; the core stays free. See our full Glint vs WedUploader comparison.
Glint, the app we make, takes the same storage-you-own stance and concentrates on the experience around it. Every photo and video lands in the couple's own Drive from the first upload, at original quality, with files up to 500MB. Glint itself stores nothing, so there is nothing to expire, and it connects to Drive with one of the most limited permissions Google offers. Guests scan a QR code and upload from the browser, with no app and no accounts; hosts get a live dashboard and a designable QR code included. The free plan collects 50 uploads over 30 days, and a one-time Event Pass unlocks unlimited uploads. Details are on the pricing page, and the case for never letting photos expire is made in full in our manifesto on expiry.
GuestCam's quiet strength is that it keeps your originals and exports them, which not every hosted gallery can say. Guests need no app and no sign-up, and the pricing is plain: $49 buys a 6-month upload window with 12 months of storage; $97 buys a 12-month upload window, 14 months of storage, and 6 galleries, which suits a wedding surrounded by showers, parties, and a honeymoon. The trade-offs: there is no free tier on their pricing page, and we could not confirm from their public pages what happens once the storage window ends, so ask before you rely on it as a long-term home.
Wedibox sits comfortably between the quick galleries and the longer archives. Guests need no app and no account, there is a free plan of 50 uploads to try it with, and the paid plans are one-time and reasonable: $49 for a 6-month upload window with a year of storage, or $79 for a 1-year upload window and a 2-year gallery, both with original quality and a ZIP download. The trade-offs are the familiar hosted ones: the clock still exists, just further out, and the free plan's storage duration is not stated on their pages.
Apps are listed in the order they appear above, not ranked. Cells marked "not verified" are details we could not confirm from the company's public pages on July 18, 2026.
| App | Pricing model | Free tier | Where photos live | Retention / expiry | Guest experience | Download-all |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POV | One-time, by guest count: $4.99 (25) to $89.99 (250) | Free up to 10 guests | Hosted by POV | No published storage-retention commitment | iOS App Clips or Android web; no app-store download | Not verified |
| GuestPix | One-time per event; prices vary by region (from CA$69 on the Canadian storefront) | 50 photos, no videos; expires 37 days post-event, deleted at 90 days | Hosted by GuestPix | 12 months from event date, then paid Extend plan (fee unpublished) | No app, no account; up to 1,000 guests fair use | Original-resolution ZIP |
| Kululu | One-time (USD): $39 Plus, $99 Pro; 50% promo at verification | 50 uploads; active 24 hours, saved 7 days | Hosted by Kululu | Saved 3 months (Plus) or 1 year (Pro); then "no longer accessible" | Upload caps by tier: 50, 500, or fair-use unlimited | Plus and Pro only; no original-quality promise on any plan |
| WedUploader | Free core; $39 one-time bundle or a la carte add-ons | Unlimited uploads, original quality | Your own Google Drive | Albums never expire | No app, no login | Files are already in your Drive |
| Glint | Free plan + one-time Event Pass | 50 uploads over 30 days | Your own Google Drive, from the first upload | Glint stores nothing, so nothing expires | Scan a QR code; no app, no guest accounts | Files are already in your Drive, original quality |
| GuestCam | One-time (USD): $49 or $97 | None on their pricing page | Hosted by GuestCam | Uploads 6 months / storage 12 months ($49); uploads 12 months / storage 14 months, 6 galleries ($97) | No app, no sign-up | Originals kept and exported |
| Wedibox | One-time (USD): $49 or $79 | 50 uploads; storage duration unstated | Hosted by Wedibox | 1-year storage ($49) or 2-year gallery ($79) | No app, no account | Original quality + ZIP on paid plans |
Verified from each company's published pages on July 18, 2026. Prices geo-localize and promotions come and go; check the current page before buying.
Strip away the feature lists and the choice between these seven comes down to three questions. Answer them before you look at a single price.
Who owns the files?
If photos live on the service's servers, you are renting access to your own memories. If they land in storage you control, they are simply yours. This one question separates the seven apps below more cleanly than any feature list.
What happens in 13 months?
Most hosted galleries are quietly built around a 12-month clock. Ask what your collection looks like a month after that: still there, behind an extension fee, or gone. The honest services publish the answer; be wary of any that do not.
What do guests have to install?
Every app, account, or login you put between a guest and the upload button costs you photos, especially from older relatives. The best services in this list ask for nothing: scan or tap, choose photos, done.
If the second question is the one that stops you, you are not alone; it is the reason this category needs an honest guide at all. We wrote a longer piece on why wedding photos should never come with a deadline, with every expiry policy in this guide laid out in one table.
