Everything you might be wondering.

You create an event in your dashboard, connect your Google Drive, and share the link or QR code with your guests. Guests scan the code or tap the link, pick their photos and videos, and upload, with no app and no account. Every file goes straight to a folder for your event in your own Google Drive at original quality, Glint stores none of the photos or videos, and you watch each upload arrive on your live dashboard.

Yes, you need a Google account to host an event since photos are stored in your Google Drive. Your guests don't need a Google account or any account at all. They just scan and upload.

About two minutes. Sign up, connect your Google Drive, name your event, and you're live. You can add a cover image and a custom link for your guest page later. Every event's QR code is ready to download as PNG or SVG from the start, in the Elegant style on the free plan, and the Event Pass adds your own guest-page colors and the full QR designer.

Yes. Every account gets one free event with up to 50 uploads and 30 days of access, counted from the day you create it. It already includes the live dashboard, photos and videos (HEIC too), a cover image and your own link, a QR code to download as PNG or SVG, hiding and deleting uploads, and the same per-file size limits as the paid plans. No credit card required. For unlimited uploads, 12 months of access, the shared gallery, the live slideshow, the full QR designer, custom colors and no Glint branding on the guest upload page, the one-time Event Pass is $29 per event, or $45 for 3 events with the Event Bundle. A free event upgrades in place, keeping its link and QR code.

No. Glint is entirely web-based. Guests open the link in any modern browser: Safari, Chrome, Firefox, whatever they already have on their phone.

No. There's no sign-up, no login, no friction. Guests scan the QR code or tap the link and start uploading immediately.

JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC (iPhone photos), MP4, MOV, and WebM. Glint handles HEIC conversion automatically for previews while preserving the original quality file in your Drive.

500 MB per file by default, which covers full-resolution photos and the videos guests typically send, and a host can raise their own event to 1.5 GB in Settings for long 4K videos. Files over 4 MB travel in resumable 4 MB chunks, each retried up to four times, so a dropped connection pauses an upload instead of losing it, and when the signal returns it picks up from the last byte Google Drive confirmed rather than starting over.

Yes. iPhone, Android, tablets - any device with a modern browser. The guest page is fully responsive and optimized for mobile. If a guest opens your link inside Instagram's or Facebook's in-app browser on Android, one tap moves them to their own browser, where uploads are more dependable; in TikTok's, LinkedIn's, Pinterest's and X's in-app browsers, and in all six of these apps on iPhone, Glint shows a button that copies the link to open in Safari or Chrome. And while photos are uploading, the page asks the phone to keep its screen on, so it does not dim and lock halfway through.

Yes. Guests can add their 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. On every event, names and messages appear beside the uploads on your live dashboard. With the Event Pass, each photo and video in the shared gallery is credited to the guest who sent it, by name when they gave one, and opening it shows their message. On the live slideshow you choose whether each photo carries the guest's name and message, and written messages also appear as full-screen quote cards between the photos.

Glint connects through Google's secure OAuth2 sign-in, and the only Drive permission it requests is the drive.file scope, one of the most limited permissions Google offers, so it can create and see only the files and folders Glint itself creates. We never see or touch your other Drive files. Uploads are filed in a folder named after your event, inside a Glint folder in your Drive, and each file is named with the date and time it arrived, plus the guest's name when one is given. Your Drive connection token is stored encrypted with AES-256-GCM.

No. The drive.file scope strictly limits us to files created by Glint. We cannot browse, read, modify, or delete any of your existing Drive content.

New uploads will be paused until you reconnect. Any files already uploaded to your Drive stay exactly where they are. They're your files in your storage.

The photos and videos live in your own Google Drive, so they use your Google storage, not ours. Every Google account gets 15 GB free, shared across Drive, Gmail, and Photos, and you can add more through Google One any time. Because Glint delivers every file as the full-resolution original, a large event with lots of 4K video can add up, so it is worth a glance at your storage before the day. The Drive storage meter on your Glint dashboard shows how much of your space is in use, including how much your Glint uploads take, and warns you before it runs out.

Free gives you 1 event with up to 50 uploads and 30 days of access, with the live dashboard, video and HEIC, a cover image and your own link, and a QR code in the Elegant style to download as PNG or SVG. An Event Pass ($29, paid once) gives you 1 event with unlimited uploads, 12 months of access from the day you create the event, the full QR designer, custom colors on the guest page and gallery, no Glint branding on your guest upload page, a shared gallery guests can browse, and the live slideshow you can put on a screen at the event. A free event upgrades to the Pass in place, keeping its link and QR code. The Event Bundle ($45) gives you 3 Event Passes at a discount, and its slots never expire.

Yes. Every account starts with 1 free event. After that, you can buy Event Passes ($29 each) or an Event Bundle (3 for $45) from your dashboard.

Absolutely. You can purchase additional passes anytime from your dashboard. They don't expire until you use them.

When the window ends (30 days on the free plan, 12 months with the Event Pass, both counted from the day you create the event), the guest page stops accepting new uploads, and on an Event Pass event the shared gallery and live slideshow close too. Glint emails you about a week before. A free event can still upgrade to the $29 Event Pass in place at any point in its first 12 months, even after its 30 days have ended, which reopens it with the same link and QR code. All files already in your Google Drive remain there permanently. They're yours. Your dashboard data stays accessible too.

Yes. Full refund any time before your event, and up to 7 days after it. Email us at hello@glint.pics with your account email and we'll process it back to your original payment method.

Yes. The live slideshow puts photos on a TV or projector as guests upload them. A new photo reaches the screen in about twenty seconds while photos are flowing, and up to a minute or so once things have gone quiet. It runs in a browser, so a smart TV or a laptop on an HDMI cable is all you need. There is nothing to install, and it comes with the Event Pass.

Eight seconds by default, and you choose between three one-tap settings: five, eight or twelve seconds. Videos and guest messages hold slightly longer than photos automatically, so you set one number rather than three. You can also let videos play in full instead, keep the slideshow to photos only, and choose whether each photo carries the guest's name and message; written messages also get full-screen quote cards between the photos.

Your QR code sits in the corner over the photos unless you switch it off, beside a running count of how many guests and photos have come in, and every so often the slideshow gives the code a full screen of its own with your event name and the link written out beneath it. A code needs to be roughly a tenth of its scanning distance across to scan reliably, so a corner code only works from about eighty centimetres away. The full-screen version works from about two metres on a television, which reaches the nearest tables.

Yes, and it costs nothing. Hiding a photo from your dashboard takes it off the slideshow within about twenty seconds, or up to a minute or so if the screen has been quiet. It leaves the shared gallery immediately for anyone who opens or reloads that page, though a guest already looking at the gallery keeps seeing it until they refresh. The file stays in your Google Drive, and you can restore it from the Hidden view of your uploads; hiding changes what guests see, not what you keep. Deleting an upload from your dashboard is different: it takes it off the gallery and slideshow and removes the file from your Google Drive too.

No, they are separate and each has its own link. The gallery is a page guests can open on their phones and browse at any time. The slideshow is a screen at the event. You can run either without the other, and closing one does not close the other.

Yes, they are two names for one thing: guests' photos appearing on a screen at your event as they upload them. Some apps call it a photo wall, others call it a live slideshow. Glint calls it the live slideshow, and it is the same feature either way.

Photos go directly to your Google Drive. We never store them on our servers. Event metadata is stored in Supabase with encryption at rest. All connections use HTTPS.

Nobody, until you decide otherwise. Files go straight to your own Google Drive and Glint never stores them. Sharing is something you turn on, and it comes with the Event Pass: you can open a shared gallery on its own link so guests can browse, and you can start a live slideshow on a screen at your event. Both are off until you start them, both have their own link, and you can close either one whenever you like. For the gallery you choose what guests can do: view and upload, view only, which closes uploads while guests keep browsing, or upload only, which keeps the gallery closed and is where every event starts. You can also give the gallery an optional access code of four to six digits that each device remembers for 30 days once entered. The slideshow is made for a screen in the room, so its link does not ask for that code, and anyone who has the slideshow link can watch the photos. Any upload you hide from your dashboard leaves both, while the file stays in your Drive. Inside the gallery, guests can filter photos from videos, leave hearts and save the full-quality original of any photo or video, the same file that reached your Drive; downloads are on once you open the gallery, and one switch in your event settings turns photo downloads off. Neither the gallery nor the slideshow is indexed by search engines.

Yes. You can delete your account from the Account page in your dashboard at any time. This deletes your events, their upload records and your Glint profile from our systems. Files already in your Google Drive remain yours.