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Free, and no card — which matters when you are organizing this for someone else

Anniversary parties are usually arranged by the couple’s children, on top of everything else, and nobody wants to put a subscription on their own card for one afternoon. Eventphoto.io’s free plan asks for no payment details at all, the download is included, and the limits are written out below instead of hidden.

In short

An anniversary party is usually arranged by the couple’s children, and the free plan asks them for no card: up to 20 photos per guest, photos only, kept 14 days from the day they create the event, no cap on relatives, download of the whole gallery included. Guests of every generation point a phone camera at the code on their table and upload from the phone, no app, no login, and a grandchild can scan for anyone who cannot. For the speeches on video or the gallery for 12 months, upgrade that event once for $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK).

The actual limits

Up to 20 photos per guest, photos only, kept 14 days. No card, no trial clock, no per-head charge however many relatives turn up.

Every generation can use it

No app store, no password, no account. Point a phone camera at the code and the page opens. The ones who cannot manage it get a grandchild to scan for them, which works fine.

When paying once is worth it

Speeches you will want to hear again, a gallery to send to relatives who could not travel, and a guest book of written and filmed messages for the couple.

Scan, upload, done — no app, no account

What free covers at an anniversary, and where it stops

Almost nobody hires a photographer for a fortieth or a fiftieth. The photographs of the afternoon are whatever three or four generations of guests happened to take: the couple dancing to a song from 1974, four generations squeezed onto one sofa, a brother telling a story everybody has heard before and still laughs at. Most of it lives on phones and stays there.

Free is enough to fix that. Print the QR code for the tables, guests upload from the phone during the afternoon, everyone with the code can see the gallery filling up, and you take the whole thing away afterwards from your private host page. Up to 20 photos each, no cap on guests, no payment details, and the bulk download included.

Two things it does not cover. Video is on the paid plan, and at a milestone anniversary the speeches are usually the part people most regret not having. And a free gallery is deleted with its photos after 14 days — which is the wrong shape for an event whose photographs relatives keep asking for months later. $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once buys unlimited photos and videos per guest, 12 months of storage and the guest book, and after a golden anniversary that is usually the version families wish they had chosen.

Setting it up when you are already hosting

1

Create the event

A minute in a browser, no payment details, no account. You get the QR code and a short event code right away.

2

Print it for the tables

One per table, plus one by the cards and gifts. Then ask whoever is making the speech to mention it — spoken instructions work where printed ones do not.

3

Download it the same week

Open your host page and take everything in one archive. On the free plan the gallery is gone after 14 days, and these are not photos you get a second chance at.

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Free anniversary photo sharing — the questions families ask

Is the anniversary plan free, or a trial?

Free, and no card at any point. Each guest can upload up to 20 photos, the gallery stays up for 14 days, and downloading every photo in one archive is included. There is no subscription behind it to fall into — the paid option is a single payment for a single event.

What does the free plan include for an anniversary party?

Up to 20 photos per guest, photos only, kept 14 days, with no limit on how many people upload. Guests scan a QR code and upload from the phone — no app, no account, no password. That last part is not a detail at an anniversary, where a good half of the guest list has never installed an app for anything.

Will the free plan cover a silver or golden anniversary?

On volume, easily: forty relatives at 20 photos each is eight hundred photos, and nobody gets close to their own ceiling. The pressure comes from the other two directions. Speeches at a fiftieth are the thing people most want filmed, and video is paid only. And a golden anniversary gallery tends to get looked at again — often by people who were not well enough to come — which a 14-day window does not really allow for.

What happens to the anniversary photos when the free window ends?

The event is deleted with its photos, permanently. Say it plainly because it matters here: these are often the last photographs of a full family gathering, and there is no way to get them back. Download in the first week, or upgrade.

What is worth paying for at an anniversary party?

$19.99 (£15.99 in the UK), once: unlimited photos and videos per guest, clips up to 200 MB, 12 months of storage, a digital guest book where guests leave a written or filmed message for the couple, a printable QR sign designer and photo search to filter a large gallery. At a milestone anniversary the guest book tends to be the part families are glad they paid for.

Do older guests need an app?

No, on either plan. They point the phone camera at the code on the table and the upload page opens in the browser. If someone cannot manage it, a grandchild at the same table can scan once and upload on their behalf — which is how most of the older generation’s photos actually arrive.

Start free. Stay free if it fits.

No card, no trial clock. If you want the speeches on video and the gallery still there next year, it is $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once — for that event, and never again.

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