Birthday · Guest photos · QR code

Collect the birthday photos that are stuck on guests’ phones

The host is the one person too busy to take photos: you miss the candles, and you miss the faces during the toast. Your guests catch all of it, and most of them will never get around to sending you the photos. With Eventphoto.io, guests scan a QR code or type the short event code, the upload page opens on their phone, and the whole party ends up in one gallery instead of forty camera rolls.

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The host never gets the shot

Carrying the cake, pouring, making the toast — the person running the party is the one person not holding a phone. Everyone else has your best photos.

A surprise happens once

Forty people facing the door with their phones up. That thirty seconds exists only on their camera rolls, and only until the group chat scrolls past it.

Guests see each other’s photos

Everyone with the code opens the same gallery. At a children’s party that is the whole feature: fifteen parents photograph fifteen children, and everybody goes home with pictures of their own.

What it costs

Free: 20 photos per guest, kept 14 days from when you create the event
Paid: $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) per event for unlimited photos and videos per guest, kept up to 12 months
One-time payment. No subscription and no fee per guest.

The best birthday photos are on other people’s phones

Think about which photographs you actually want from a 40th: the candles, the face during the toast, the old pictures someone stuck on a board and everyone crowded around, and the dance floor at eleven thirty. The host is in every one of those moments with both hands full, which is exactly why the host has none of the pictures.

Asking for them afterwards works on about three people. The rest fully intend to send them, then the thread moves on, and by the following weekend nobody wants to be the person still nagging about photos. AirDrop reaches whoever is standing next to you; a group chat squashes everything and buries it under the argument about the check.

With a printed code, you do not have to ask. You create the event in a browser in under a minute, print the QR code for the table cards or tie one to a balloon weight, and guests upload while the party is still going: tap, pick, type a name once, done. Nothing to install, no account to log in to, and new photos keep arriving for days afterwards from the people who looked at their camera roll on Sunday.

It suits the small ones as much as the big ones: eight people around a table at home, a surprise 60th in a rented back room, a children’s party where every parent wants pictures of their own child and half of them are on somebody else’s phone.

How it works for birthday parties

Create the event

Give it a name. The short event code and the QR code appear in under a minute, free and without a card.

Get the code in front of people

Table cards, balloons, a sign by the cake — and a mention during the toast, which is what really starts the uploads.

Download it the next morning

Everything guests added is on your host page, and you download it all as one ZIP, with nobody to chase.

Frequently asked questions about birthday photo sharing

How do I collect birthday photos from guests?

Create the event in a browser, then put the QR code where guests sit and give out the short event code as a backup. A guest points their phone camera at the code, the upload page opens, and they tap to pick photos from their camera roll, typing a name the first time. Everything ends up in one private gallery that everyone with the code can open. It is never public and never searchable, and only you can manage the event and download everything, from your host page.

Do guests need an app to share birthday photos?

No. It is a web page in the phone’s browser: no app store, no download, no account, no password. That is what makes it work on a guest list that runs from teenagers to grandparents, and it is why people actually upload at the party rather than promising to send things later.

Where should I put the QR code at a birthday party?

On the table cards, tied to the balloons, on a welcome sign, or propped next to the cake. Then say it out loud: if whoever gives the toast mentions the code for ten seconds, you get more photos than from all the printed signs put together, because that is when everyone is already paying attention.

Are the birthday photos private?

Yes. Nothing is public and nothing turns up in a search: the guest pages are kept out of search engines. The gallery opens only for people with the QR code, the link or the event code, and everyone who has it sees the same photos, which is the point: guests get each other’s photos too. If you want extra protection, you can set a PIN that guests type before they get in.

Can I download all the birthday photos at once?

Yes, and on the free plan too. From your host page you download every photo (and, on the paid plan, every video) as one ZIP, so there is no chasing individual files in a group chat. On a free event, do it within the 14 days: after that the event is deleted along with its files, and that cannot be undone.

What does it cost?

Free to start, with no card: 20 photos per guest, photos only, 14 days of storage, and no limit on how many guests upload. The paid plan is $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once for that event — not a subscription — and adds unlimited photos and videos per guest, video up to 200 MB a file, 12 months of storage, the digital guest book, a printable QR sign designer and photo search.

Ready to collect your birthday photos?

Create the event in under a minute, put the code on the tables, and have the whole night in one place — from the first song to the last slice of cake.

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