Two philosophies ofthe same right idea.
Glint and WedUploader agree on the thing most photo-sharing apps get wrong: your guests' photos belong in your own Google Drive, not on someone's platform. Both send files there directly, with no app and no login for guests. The difference is what surrounds that upload. WedUploader offers a free core and sells features a la carte. Glint includes the live dashboard, the shared guest gallery, the full-screen slideshow for the event screen, the QR designer, and upload engineering built for venue wifi, all of it in one flat pass. This page compares the two honestly, because either way you keep your photos.
Let us say it plainly, because this page's honesty depends on it: WedUploader also sends guest files to the couple's own Google Drive, and its albums never expire. That is not a competitor being adequate. That is a competitor getting the architecture right, the same architecture we built Glint on, and couples who choose them will own their photos too.
Their guests upload without an app or a login, and their pricing is refreshingly literal: a free core, then one-time purchases for the features you want, each itemised on their site, or a $39 premium bundle that gathers them up. Nothing recurring, nothing hidden. One caveat we owe you: their own pages put unlimited uploads in original quality with that paid bundle, and we could not confirm from those pages what the free tier caps, so treat the free cap as an open question and ask them.
So the choice between Glint and WedUploader is not the usual platform-versus-ownership decision. It is a choice between two philosophies of the same right idea: a base product with a menu of add-ons, or one complete product with everything already in it.
| What matters | Glint | WedUploader |
|---|---|---|
| Where your files land | Your own Google Drive, original quality | Your own Google Drive; original quality is attributed to their paid bundle |
| Guest experience | Scan a QR, upload in the browser, no app or login | Upload with no app or login |
| Free tier | 50 uploads over 30 days, then a one-time Event Pass for unlimited | Free core, delivered to your Drive, so albums never expire; upload cap not verified on their pages |
| Live host dashboard | Included on every event: realtime dashboard and feed as uploads arrive | Gallery display is a separately priced one-time add-on |
| A gallery guests can browse | With the Event Pass: its own link, streamed from your Drive rather than a copy we keep | The same gallery display add-on |
| QR styling | Included: full designer, print-ready PNG and SVG | QR signs and custom colors, each a separate add-on |
| Upload engineering | Files over a few megabytes sent in resumable pieces that survive dropped connections, and a reload that picks up where it stopped whenever the browser still holds the file; 500MB per file; recovery nets that re-verify with Google | Not published on their site |
| Extras | Shared guest gallery and a full-screen live slideshow, both included in the pass rather than priced separately | Guestbook, slideshow, custom URL, event managers, seating chart (requires premium), each priced separately, or a $39 premium bundle |
Competitor details verified from WedUploader's published pricing and terms pages, except where a cell or sentence says otherwise. Plans change - always confirm on their site.
Where WedUploader assembles a wedding kit from parts, Glint ships one finished thing. These are the differences that decide which philosophy fits you.
The live dashboard is the product, not an add-on
Every Glint event includes a realtime dashboard and feed: photos and videos appear the moment guests upload them, during the reception and in the quiet days after. That is your view as the host, and it is separate from the shared gallery your guests browse, which sits on a link of its own and comes with the Event Pass. WedUploader sells its gallery display as a separately priced one-time add-on. Neither approach is wrong; Glint simply considers watching your own photos arrive to be the point, not an option.
Upload engineering built for venue wifi
Weddings happen in stone barns, basements, and gardens at the edge of coverage. Glint sends files over a few megabytes in resumable pieces that survive dropped connections, accepts files up to 500MB, and runs automatic recovery nets that re-verify every upload with Google, so a file that landed in your Drive is never lost. A page that reloads mid-upload picks up where it stopped rather than starting again whenever the browser still holds the file. The guest experience is that uploads simply finish.
QR styling included, designed to be framed
Glint's QR designer is part of every event: your colors, dot and corner shapes, a monogram at the center, exported as print-ready PNG or crisp SVG for your stationer. WedUploader sells QR signs and custom colors as separately priced add-ons.
One price, everything in it
Glint's free tier covers 50 uploads over 30 days, and a single one-time $19 Event Pass unlocks everything: unlimited uploads, the dashboard, the slideshow, the designer, with no per-feature checkout. WedUploader gathers its add-ons into a $39 premium bundle. Their a-la-carte menu is honest and itemised; it is simply a different philosophy of paying.
The same respect for your ownership
On the deepest point, the two products agree. Your files go to your own Google Drive rather than onto a platform's servers, and Glint never keeps them; it stores only the small details needed to run the page, connecting through one of the most limited permissions Google offers, and every file arrives at original quality. If you choose WedUploader over Glint, you have still chosen the right architecture, and we mean that.
If you are still mapping the whole landscape, from shared albums to hashtags, start with our guide on how to collect wedding photos. And because video is where uploads most often fail, the guide to collecting wedding videos explains what the resumable engineering is actually for.
You want to pay nothing at all. Their free core collects into your own Drive, so an album gathered on it has no expiry. What that free tier caps is the open question: their own pages attach unlimited uploads in original quality to the paid bundle, and we could not confirm the free cap, so ask them before you count on it, and weigh whatever they answer against Glint's free tier of 50 uploads over 30 days.
You want the wedding extras. A digital guestbook, a seating chart, event managers who can help run the album. Glint does not offer these; WedUploader sells each as an itemised one-time add-on.
You like paying a la carte. If the only thing you want is a seating chart or a guestbook, you buy exactly that, once, and skip the rest. Some couples prefer a menu to a bundle, and theirs is a fair menu.
Choose Glint when the reception itself is the risk you care about: a room full of phones on struggling wifi, videos worth keeping, and a live feed you want to watch as it happens, all included in one pass rather than assembled from parts.
Trying Glint costs nothing and commits you to nothing, so the honest advice is to set up both, upload a few photos from your own phone, and keep whichever feels right in the hand.
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
Open the included designer: set the colors, the dot and corner shapes, and a monogram at the center, then export a print-ready PNG or a crisp SVG.
Print it where guests will look
A welcome sign, the table cards, the back of the menu. Print the short link underneath so anyone whose camera will not scan can type it in instead.
Watch everything arrive
Guests scan, tap, and upload from their camera roll, no app and no login. Files land in your Drive at original quality and appear on your live dashboard at the same moment.
Start on the free tier, and if your guest list will outgrow 50 uploads, a one-time Event Pass unlocks unlimited uploads with everything included and no subscription. The pricing page has the current details.
Do both Glint and WedUploader really send photos to my own Google Drive?
Yes, and we want to be plain about it: both products deliver guest uploads into the couple's own Google Drive, which we think is the correct architecture for wedding photos. WedUploader deserves real credit for building on it. The comparison between the two is not about where your photos end up. It is about what surrounds the upload: what is included, how the upload itself is engineered, and how each product is priced.
Is WedUploader free?
WedUploader has a free core, and because it delivers into your own Google Drive, nothing it collects expires. Read the free tier carefully, though: their own pricing page attributes unlimited uploads in original quality to the paid bundle, and we could not confirm from those pages what the free tier caps, so ask them before you plan a whole wedding around it. Paid features are separately priced one-time purchases (a gallery display, a guestbook, a slideshow, a custom URL, custom colors, event managers, QR signs, and a seating chart that requires premium), or a $39 premium bundle that gathers them up. Guests upload without an app or a login.
Is Glint free?
Glint has a free tier of 50 uploads over 30 days, and a one-time Event Pass that unlocks unlimited uploads with everything included: the live dashboard, the shared guest gallery, the full-screen slideshow for your event screen, the full QR designer, no per-feature checkout. Because every file lands in your own Google Drive, there is never a separate storage bill from us. Current details are on the pricing page.
What does Glint include that WedUploader sells as add-ons?
The live realtime dashboard and feed, where you watch photos and videos arrive as guests upload them, is part of every Glint event rather than a paid gallery add-on. Custom QR styling is included too: colors, dot and corner shapes, a monogram at the center, exported print-ready. Two more surfaces sit alongside it: the shared gallery your guests browse on their own phones, and the full-screen live slideshow for a TV or projector at the event. Both are separate from the host dashboard and from each other, and both arrive with the Event Pass, inside one price instead of their own checkouts. WedUploader's approach of selling the gallery display, the slideshow, custom colors, and QR signs separately is not wrong, just a different philosophy: pay only for the pieces you want.
What happens on weak venue wifi?
This is where Glint has invested most. Uploads are built for weddings on venue wifi: files over a few megabytes are sent in resumable pieces that survive dropped connections, files up to 500MB each are accepted, and automatic recovery nets re-verify every upload with Google, so a file that landed in your Drive is never lost. A guest who walks out of coverage mid-upload resumes rather than restarts, and a page that reloads mid-upload picks up where it stopped rather than starting again whenever the browser still holds the file.
Can guests upload videos too?
Yes. Guests upload videos through the same page and the same QR code as photos, up to 500MB per file, which covers full toasts and long dance-floor clips. Because large files are exactly where connections fail, the resumable engineering matters most here. Our guide to collecting wedding videos goes deeper on why video is the hardest media to gather.
See how every option stacks up in the honest 2026 comparison of wedding photo apps, or read the GuestPix comparison next.
