Every detail,considered.
Glint is a guest photo upload app for weddings: 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.
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.
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.
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, so guests can browse everything that has been sent long after uploads close.
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 within seconds and quietly starts it again.
Progress is written down on the phone itself. A guest can lose coverage, close the tab, even reload the page, and the upload resumes from the last byte when they return. 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 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.
Run several events from one account, and shape each one to taste: cover image, accent color, text color, the link itself. Pause uploads when the night ends, raise the file ceiling for the videographer cousin, and let Glint email you before any cap is near.
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.
The full designer comes with 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 only see folders it created, nothing else in your Drive.
Inside, everything is filed for you: one folder per event, every file named by date and guest. Cancel Glint, ignore Glint, outlive Glint. The photos stay exactly where they always were. Yours.
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Do guests need an app or an account to upload photos?
No. 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.
Do photos and videos stay at full quality?
Yes. 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. Anything over 4 MB is sent in small resumable chunks, and each chunk is retried up to four times on its own. If a guest loses coverage, closes the tab, or reloads the page, the upload picks up from the last byte rather than starting over, so a dropped connection pauses an upload instead of losing it.
Does collecting photos use up my own storage?
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 and add more space through Google One if a big wedding needs it. Glint itself stores zero files 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 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. Your QR code sits in the corner over the photos unless you switch it off, and the slideshow gives it a full screen of its own every so often either way, because a code needs to be roughly a tenth of its scanning distance across to scan reliably: a corner code works from about eighty centimetres, and the full-screen one from about two metres on a television, which covers the nearest tables.
Is Glint free to use?
Glint has a free tier plus a one-time Event Pass that unlocks unlimited uploads, the full QR designer, a longer upload window, a shared gallery your guests can browse, and the live slideshow for a screen at the event. Since photos go straight to your own Google Drive, there is no separate storage bill from Glint.
What happens to the photos after the wedding, or if I stop using Glint?
They are yours to keep. Because uploads go straight into your own Google Drive, filed one folder per event with each file named by date 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 only see the folder it created for your event, 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.
