One link in the group chat, and the whole weekend is in one place

Yes, with no card. Everyone in the group can upload up to 20 photos, the gallery stays up for 14 days, and the bulk download is included. Nothing converts into a subscription. For a weekend where somebody is already fronting the villa deposit, that matters.

Up to 20 photos each, photos only, kept 14 days, and no limit on how many people join. Nobody installs anything: you drop the link in the group chat, people tap it, and they upload from the phone. That is the entire setup, and it survives a weekend where the group chat is already carrying restaurant bookings and three separate arguments about taxis.

For a group of eight to fifteen, usually. 20 photos each across two or three days is a few hundred photos and nobody hits their own limit. Where it gets tight is video — the dares, the karaoke, the bride opening whatever the group made her wear — which is paid only, and honestly the thing most groups want.

The event is deleted with everything in it, and it does not come back. 14 days is enough if someone downloads on the Monday everyone is home — but assign that job to a person before the weekend starts, because “someone will do it” is how weekends disappear.

$19.99 (£15.99 in the UK), once, split between the group if you like: unlimited photos and videos per person, clips up to 200 MB, 12 months of storage, and photo search to filter a large weekend gallery. Keeping it for 12 months is the version that lets the maid of honor go back through it when she is putting something together for the wedding.

Only people with the QR code or the event code, and you can add a PIN code on top. Nothing is public, nothing is indexed by search engines, and nothing is posted anywhere automatically. Everyone with the code sees the same gallery, which is the point — but what leaves it is entirely the group’s decision.