Gender reveal · Guest photos and video · QR code

The reveal takes eight seconds. Fifteen people are filming it.

And afterwards, almost none of those clips reach you. With Eventphoto.io you print one QR code: guests scan it, upload from the phone, and the confetti, the smoke, the faces of the grandparents and the toddler who was looking the wrong way all end up in the same gallery — from every chair in the garden, not just from the one camera on the tripod.

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You are in the middle of it

Whoever is holding the cannon or cutting the cake is not holding a camera. Everyone else is. This is how you get their footage instead of just the one shot your friend remembered to send.

The reaction shots you never see

The moment worth keeping is usually not the smoke — it is your mother’s face two seconds later, filmed by whoever happened to be standing opposite her.

Ask once, while phones are out

Guests upload in the minute after the countdown, not after four reminder texts. The gallery is essentially complete before anyone sits back down.

In short

Gender reveal photo and video sharing means handing guests one QR code so the clips and photos they film of the reveal go straight from the phone into one private gallery — the confetti, the cake or the smoke caught from every angle in the room, instead of one clip and twenty that never get sent.

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.

Everyone films it. Almost nobody sends it.

The reveal is the shortest headline moment of any party. A cannon goes off, or a cake is cut, or a balloon is popped, and it is done inside ten seconds. The two people it is about are standing in the middle of it, which means neither of them is holding a camera when it happens.

Everyone else is. That is not the problem. The problem is what happens next: the clips get cropped for a Story, buried under four hundred later photos, promised in a group chat and never sent. A week on you have your own memory of it, one video from your sister, and a persistent feeling that better footage exists somewhere.

A QR code closes that window while it is still open. Ask once, in the minute after the countdown, and people upload the clip they are literally still holding. And because everyone with the code sees the gallery, they can watch each other’s versions there and then — which is usually when someone realizes that the best footage of the whole afternoon is the one filmed by a nine-year-old from behind the cake table.

Worth being deliberate about one thing: video uploads are on the paid plan only. For an event that consists almost entirely of one filmed moment, that is the decision to make before the day, not after it.

Three steps, and two of them happen before the day

Create the event

A minute in a browser, no account. Two things to decide up front: video is on the paid plan, and the storage window starts the day you create the event, not the day of the party — so on the free plan, create it the same week.

Put the code out, and say it out loud

Signs and table cards get it in front of people; one spoken sentence before the countdown gets them to actually use it.

Download it the same week

Open your private host page and take every clip and photo in one archive, at the resolution they were filmed at. Do this early — free galleries are deleted when they expire.

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Gender reveal photo and video sharing — questions hosts ask

How do I collect everyone’s videos of the reveal?

Create the event, print the QR code, and get it in front of guests before the countdown rather than after it. They scan it with the phone camera, the upload page opens in the browser, and they add the clip they just filmed. That is the whole flow — and it works because you are asking people to upload while they are still holding the phone they filmed on, not three days later.

Do guests need an app?

No. There is no app to download and no account to create. The QR code opens a web page. That matters more here than at most parties: in the ten seconds after the smoke goes off, nobody is going to an app store.

Is video included, or do I need the paid plan?

A gender reveal is one filmed moment, so this is the question that actually decides it: video is on the paid plan only. Free events collect photos — up to 20 per guest, kept 14 days. The paid plan is $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once for the event and adds unlimited photos and videos per guest, with clips up to 200 MB. For most reveals, that upgrade is the point.

How long does the gallery stay up?

14 days on the free plan, 12 months on the paid one. Worth knowing before the day: a free event is deleted with its photos when it expires, and that cannot be undone — so either download everything in the first week or upgrade before the clock runs out.

How many clips can one guest upload?

On the free plan, up to 20 photos each. On the paid plan there is no per-guest limit on photos or videos, which is what you want when fifteen people all filmed the same eight seconds from fifteen different chairs and every version is slightly different.

Who can see the gallery?

Everyone holding the QR code or the event code — guests see the same gallery you do, which is how the aunt who got the best angle discovers that she got the best angle. Nothing is public and nothing turns up in a search. You can add a PIN code if you want a further lock, and the private host page — yours alone — is what manages the event and downloads everything at once. That last part matters if you are planning to announce it properly before the clips start circulating.

Decide about video before the day

Creating an event takes a minute and costs nothing. Do it, scan your own code to see exactly what a guest sees, and settle the video question while you still can — afterwards there is nothing to re-film.

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