Free, in the way you were hoping it meant

It is free, and we are not asking for a card at any point. Each guest can upload up to 20 photos, the gallery stays up for 14 days, and you can download the whole thing and never pay us anything. Nothing converts into a subscription, because there is no subscription to convert into — the paid option is a single payment for a single event.

Up to 20 photos per guest, photos only — no video — and 14 days of storage. No cap on how many guests upload, so a party of eighty costs the same as a party of eight. Guests scan a QR code and upload from the phone, with no app and no account. And the bulk download is included: you can take every photo in one archive without paying, which is the part most “free” tiers hold back.

Usually, yes. At thirty guests, 20 photos each is six hundred photos, and almost nobody hits their own limit. The two things that push people to the paid plan are video — a fiftieth with speeches usually wants the speeches — and time, if you would rather not have to download anything during the week you are recovering from hosting.

This is the part to be clear about: when a free event expires, it is deleted along with the photos in it, and that cannot be undone. 14 days is enough — just put the download in your calendar for the Monday after, or upgrade and stop thinking about it.

$19.99 (£15.99 in the UK), once, for that event: unlimited photos and videos per guest, clips up to 200 MB, 12 months of storage, a digital guest book for written and filmed messages, a printable QR sign designer and photo search so you can filter a large gallery. You can upgrade an event you already created, and the photos already uploaded stay put.

No, on either plan. They point a phone camera at the code on the drinks table, the upload page opens in the browser, and they pick photos. No app store, no download, no login — which is why the uncle who has never installed anything still ends up contributing four photos.