With Glint, every photo and video your guests upload goes straight into your own Google Drive, organized in a folder for your event. Glint stores nothing but the details. You own each original from the first upload and keep it forever, in storage you already control.
The photos of your wedding should not live in someone else’s app. They should live where you can always reach them, in storage that answers to you and no one else.
Most ways of gathering guest photos quietly take custody of them. A closed gallery app holds your pictures inside its own walls, and the day you stop paying, or the day it shuts down, your album can go with it. We built Glint the other way around. The files never belong to us, because they never pass through us. They go directly into the Google Drive you already have, and they simply stay there.
It is the same idea behind the easiest way to collect wedding photos from a hundred guests at once: ask as little as possible of them, and keep everything they send in one place you own.
The path is short by design. You connect Drive once. Guests upload. The files land. Here is what that means for who holds your memories, and who can see them.
Where do the photos actually land?
In a folder Glint creates inside your Google Drive, one per event. Every guest upload files itself there as it arrives, named by date and guest, so you open Drive after the wedding to a tidy album, not a chase across camera rolls.
Who holds the files: you, or us?
You do, and only you. The upload travels from the guest's phone to your Drive directly. Glint keeps the guest's name and the file's name, never the file itself, so there is no Glint copy to lose, leak, or hold over you.
How does the connection stay safe?
Glint asks for the narrowest Google permission there is: the kind limited to folders the app creates. It can drop your guests' photos into the event folder and nothing more. The rest of your Drive, your documents, your other photos, stays entirely out of view.
What happens after the wedding?
Nothing you need to do. The originals are already in your Drive at full resolution, up to 500 MB a file. No export, no download deadline, no service to keep paying so your memories survive. They are simply yours, forever.
A shared Drive folder link sounds like the obvious answer, until a guest opens it and meets a sign-in or permission prompt and gives up. A closed gallery app removes that friction but takes the photos in exchange. Glint keeps the easy upload and leaves the ownership with you.
| Glint to your Drive | Shared Drive folder link | Closed gallery app | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who stores the files | Your Google Drive | Your Google Drive | The app’s servers |
| Who owns them | You, from upload one | You | Held inside the app |
| Guest effort | Scan and upload, no login | Open link, then often sign in | Varies, sometimes an account |
| After the event | Yours forever, in Drive | Yours, but guests can edit the folder | Gone if you stop paying |
The full picture of how the uploads, the QR code, and the live dashboard fit together is on the features page. The short version: guests get the simplest possible upload, and you get to keep what they send.
Straight to your Google Drive. Glint stores nothing.