Every detail, considered.
Glint (glint.pics) is a guest photo and video upload app for weddings and every other event, from birthdays and reunions to graduations and company events: your guests scan a QR code or tap a link, and their photos and videos upload straight into your own Google Drive at full quality, with no app, no login, and no Google account required. As the host, you watch every upload arrive on Glint's live dashboard and, with the Event Pass, can open a shared gallery for your guests and run a live slideshow on a screen at the event.
Glint looks simple because the hard parts are handled: uploads that refuse to fail, full-quality photos and videos, a Drive that stays yours. Here is the full tour, or start with how to collect wedding photos from guests.
By Hashim Salem, founder of Glint · Updated
With Glint, a guest points their camera at the code and they are already there: your names, your date, one button, and genuinely no app to download. They can sign their photos and leave a note, or stay anonymous, your call as host. Photos and videos go up exactly as they were shot, JPEG or HEIC, MP4 or MOV, up to 500 MB a file by default and 1.5 GB if you raise it.
And nothing is downscaled. Every photo and video lands at full resolution in your Google Drive, exactly as it was captured, not a shrunken copy.
Glint also smooths the moments a phone tends to fumble. 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.
The shared gallery comes with the Event Pass. It gets its own link, separate from your upload code, and you turn it on in your event settings when you are ready. Once it is open, your upload page links guests straight to it, and the gallery links back to the upload page whenever guests can still add photos. When the event is over, set guest access to View only: uploads close, and guests keep browsing everything that was sent for the rest of the event’s 12-month access window.
Inside, guests can filter photos from videos, leave a heart on a favorite and save the full-quality original of any photo or video; hearts and photo downloads start switched on, and each has its own switch. Each photo and video is credited to the guest who sent it, by name when they gave one, and opening it shows their message. You decide who gets in: view and upload, view only, or upload only, with an optional access code of four to six digits that each device remembers for 30 days once entered.
Wedding venues have beautiful light and terrible signal, so Glint assumes the network will fail and plans for it. Large files travel in small resumable pieces, each piece retried on its own. When an upload stalls, Glint notices and quietly starts it again.
Progress is written down on the phone itself. A guest can lose coverage and the upload picks up from the last byte Google Drive confirmed when the signal returns. Close the tab or even reload the page, and the moment the page is open again, Glint carries on with every file the phone can still hand back; if the phone has let go of one, Glint flags it and asks for it again. If something truly cannot get through, Glint says so plainly: eight of ten made it, here is the retry for the rest.
While you are dancing, your Glint dashboard is counting: every upload appears the moment it lands, grouped by the guest who sent it, their note alongside. Photos, videos, totals: all live, all night.
The live slideshow puts that same feed on the room’s biggest screen, filling a TV or projector with photos as they arrive, about twenty seconds after a guest uploads them while photos are flowing and up to a minute or so in a lull, and putting your QR code up for the people watching to scan. It opens in a browser, so a smart TV or a laptop on an HDMI cable is all it takes, and it comes with the Event Pass.
You set the slideshow’s pace from your event settings: Quick, Standard or Relaxed (five, eight or twelve seconds a photo). Keep it to photos only or let videos play in full, and choose whether each photo carries the guest’s name and message. Written messages get a moment of their own, too, as full-screen quote cards between the photos. On a laptop, F takes the slideshow full screen, Space pauses it and the arrow keys step forward or back, and the page asks the device to keep its screen on while it runs.
Run several events from one account, and shape each one to taste: a cover image and your own link on every plan, plus your own accent and text colors for the guest page and gallery with the Event Pass. Raise the per-file limit from the default 500 MB to as much as 1.5 GB for the videographer cousin. When the night ends, set the shared gallery to View only to close uploads, even from the printed QR code, while guests keep browsing, or pause the event to close uploads, the gallery and the slideshow together. On the free plan, Glint warns you on your dashboard and by email as an event nears its 50-upload cap, and emails you again if it reaches it.
Anything you would rather not show, you can hide, one upload or a whole selection at once, on every plan and at no extra cost. A hidden photo leaves the slideshow within about twenty seconds (a minute or so if the screen has been quiet) and is gone from the gallery for anyone who opens or reloads it, while the file stays safe in your Drive; delete it instead and it leaves your Drive too. Glint emails you the moment the first guest photo lands, so you know the code works, and again about a week before your event’s access ends; a meter on your dashboard shows how much Google Drive space is in use, with a warning before it runs low.
Glint’s QR designer starts from one belief: your wedding photo QR code should look invited. Start from a preset, Minimal to Bold, then make it yours: the shape of every dot, the corners, the colors, a monogram at the center.
Download it as a print-ready PNG or a crisp SVG your stationer can scale to a poster. Your work saves itself as you go.
For the sign itself, Glint’s free QR sign maker lays out a print-ready 5 x 7 or 4 x 6 inch sign at 300dpi, with no account needed.
Every event, free included, gets its QR code as a print-ready PNG or SVG, in the Elegant style on the free plan; the full designer comes with the Event Pass.
Uploads travel from your guest’s phone to your own Google Drive, not through a Glint library. We keep the guest’s name and the file’s name, never the file. And our permission is one of the narrowest Google offers: Glint can see only the files and folders it creates, nothing else in your Drive.
Inside, everything is filed for you: one folder per event, every file named by date, time and guest. Cancel Glint, ignore Glint, outlive Glint. The photos stay exactly where they always were. Yours.
One $29 Event Pass unlocks every feature Glint has today, for one event at any guest count. No add-ons, no subscription and no fee to keep your photos, which never expire, because they live in your own Google Drive. See pricing for the plans side by side, or what the full set really costs with the other apps, in our guide to the best wedding photo sharing apps.
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Do guests need an app or an account to upload photos?
No. With Glint, a guest scans your QR code or taps your link, a web page opens in their phone's browser, and they upload straight from their camera roll. There is no app to install, no account to create, no password, and no Google account required. Removing every one of those steps is the single biggest reason more guests actually contribute.
Which phones does Glint work on?
Glint works on any modern phone with a web browser, iPhone and Android alike, because the guest upload page is a plain web page rather than an app. Guests use Safari, Chrome or whatever browser they already have, so there is nothing to install and no app version to keep updated. iPhone photos in HEIC upload as untouched originals. If a guest opens the link inside Instagram's or Facebook's in-app browser on Android, one tap reopens the page in their own browser; 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.
Do photos and videos stay at full quality?
Yes. With Glint, guests upload the originals, never a compressed copy, so every photo and video lands in your Drive exactly as it was shot. Files up to 500 MB each are supported by default, raisable per event to 1.5 GB, across seven formats: JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, MP4, MOV, and WebM. HEIC previews convert in the browser, while the untouched original is what reaches your Drive.
Will uploads survive a venue's patchy signal?
Yes. Glint sends anything over 4 MB in small resumable chunks, and each chunk is retried up to four times on its own. If a guest loses coverage, the upload waits and, when the signal returns, picks up from the last byte Google Drive confirmed rather than starting over, so a dropped connection pauses an upload instead of losing it. Progress is also saved on the phone, so after a reload, or when the guest opens the link again, Glint carries on with every file the phone can still hand back; if the phone has let go of one, Glint flags it on screen and asks the guest to add it again.
Does collecting photos use up my own storage?
With Glint, the photos land in your own Google Drive, so they count toward your Google storage, not ours. Google's free tier is 15 GB shared across Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos; you can see exactly how much you have used in your Google account or on the Drive storage meter in your Glint dashboard, which warns you before space runs out, and add more space through Google One if a big wedding needs it. Glint itself keeps none of your guests' photos or videos on its servers, so there is never a separate storage bill from us.
Can guests see their photos on a screen during the event?
Yes. With the Glint Event Pass you can start a live slideshow on any TV or projector. A photo reaches the screen about twenty seconds after a guest uploads it while photos are flowing, and up to a minute or so once things have gone quiet. It opens in a browser, so a smart TV or a laptop on an HDMI cable is enough, and there is nothing to install. Each photo holds for eight seconds by default, and you can switch that to five or twelve with one tap.
Can guests scan the QR code on the slideshow screen?
Yes. The Glint live slideshow, which comes with the Event Pass, keeps your QR code in the corner over the photos unless you switch it off, and gives it a full screen of its own every so often either way, coming round more often when uploads slow down so more guests scan and join in. A code needs to be roughly a tenth of its scanning distance across to scan reliably, so the corner code works from about eighty centimetres, and the full-screen one from about two metres on a television, which covers the nearest tables. On a projector throwing a two-and-a-half-metre-wide image, the same full-screen code works from about four metres.
Can I hide a photo a guest uploaded?
Yes. In Glint, the host can hide any upload from the dashboard, one at a time or a whole selection at once, on every plan and at no extra cost. Hiding a photo takes it off the live slideshow within about twenty seconds, or up to a minute or so if the screen has been quiet, and out of the shared gallery for anyone who opens or reloads that page. The file stays in your Google Drive and can be restored from the Hidden view; deleting an upload instead removes it from your Drive too.
Can guests download photos from the shared gallery?
Yes. In the Glint shared gallery, which comes with the Event Pass, guests can save the full-quality original of any photo or video, the same file that reached your Google Drive. Downloads are on by default once you open the gallery, and one switch in your event settings turns photo downloads off. You also choose who gets in: view and upload, view only, or upload only, with an optional access code of four to six digits that each device remembers for 30 days once entered.
Is Glint free to use?
Glint has a free plan for one event, with up to 50 uploads and 30 days of access, and it already includes the live dashboard, video and HEIC, a QR code to download as PNG or SVG, a cover image and your own custom link, hiding and deleting uploads and the same per-file size limits as the paid plans. A one-time $29 Event Pass unlocks unlimited uploads, 12 months of access, the full QR designer, your own guest-page colors, a shared gallery your guests can browse and the live slideshow for a screen at the event, with no Glint branding on the guest upload page. A free event upgrades to the Pass in place, keeping its link and QR code, so nothing you have printed needs to change. The Event Bundle covers 3 events for $45, $15 an event, and its slots never expire. The Pass is the same price at any guest count, with no add-ons and no subscription. Since photos land in your own Google Drive, not on Glint's servers, there is no separate storage bill from Glint.
What happens to the photos after the wedding, or if I stop using Glint?
The photos are yours to keep. Because Glint uploads go straight into your own Google Drive, filed one folder per event with each file named by date, time and guest, you own the originals from the first upload. Cancel Glint, ignore Glint, outlive Glint, and the photos stay exactly where they always were, in your Drive.
Is it safe, and what can Glint actually see?
Files travel from your guest's phone to your Drive without ever passing through a Glint library; we keep only metadata, like a guest's name and a file's name, never the file itself. Drive tokens are encrypted with AES-256, and Glint connects with Google's least-privilege drive.file scope, one of the most limited permissions Google offers, so it can see only the files and folders it creates, never the rest of your Drive. The guest upload page is reachable only by your unique link or QR code and is not indexed or listed publicly.
Does Glint work for events other than weddings?
Yes. Glint (glint.pics) works the same way for birthdays, family reunions, graduations, company events and any other gathering where guests take photos. The host names the event, guests scan its QR code or tap its link, and every photo and video lands in the host's own Google Drive, in a folder named after the event. The guest page shows the event's own name rather than assuming a wedding, and the live dashboard, shared gallery and slideshow work exactly the same.
