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New Year’s Eve party photos from every phone – one QR code, no app

Updated October 15, 2026

The countdown gets filmed on fifteen phones at once, and by the 2nd of January nobody has it. The photos from dinner are in one group chat, the fireworks in another, and the first picture of the year on a phone that went home at one o’clock. Eventphoto.io collects it all in one gallery: a code by the drinks, a scan, an upload from the phone browser — no app, no account.

Create the party’s photo page →I’m a guest

No app, at a party full of plus-ones

Half the room has never met the host. The code opens a page in the browser; a guest writes their name once and uploads. Nobody installs anything or creates an account at eleven at night.

The countdown from every angle

On the paid plan guests upload videos up to 200 MB: the ten-second countdown, the fireworks, the first toast of the year — filmed from every corner of the room and, for once, in one place.

The people who left before midnight see it too

The gallery fills during the night and is still there in the morning. Add a PIN if it is not for everyone; it is never public and never indexed by search engines.

Create it on the 31st

A minute in a browser, free, no card. The free plan’s 14 days count from creation, so make the event on the day, and keep the same code for the New Year’s Day brunch.

The short answer

Send one QR code in the group chat and put it by the drinks: guests scan it and upload photos — and the countdown on video — from the phone browser, no app, no sign-up. Everyone with the code sees the gallery; the host manages it from a private link and downloads everything at once. Free to start with 20 photos per guest; the paid plan with videos and 12 months of gallery is $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once for the night.

Collect the New Year’s Eve photos while the party is still going

New Year’s Eve is one long night of photographs: the table before dinner, the outfits, the fireworks from the balcony, the ten-second countdown, the kiss, the first photo of the year, the state of the kitchen at two. Afterwards they are scattered across every phone that was there, and the one person who filmed the whole countdown never posts it.

A QR code closes that gap while everyone is still in the room. The host creates the event in under a minute, sends the code in the group chat that afternoon and props it up by the drinks, and guests upload from the phone browser under their own name — the files as the phone took them, no app, no account. Everyone with the code sees the same gallery during the night, which is what makes the next person upload too.

It is the same party in many shapes: a house party, the family dinner that runs past midnight, Hogmanay and Auld Lang Syne, a ball-drop watch party, a restaurant’s or a venue’s countdown night with the code on the table plan and the screen. Each one gets its own event and its own code — and the New Year’s Day brunch can join the night’s gallery under the same code.

For photos the free plan is enough: up to 20 photos per guest, photos only, 14 days of storage, no card and no cap on how many guests upload. For the countdown on video, and for a gallery that is still there when someone asks for the photos in spring, take the paid plan: $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once per event — no subscription — for unlimited photos and videos per guest, videos up to 200 MB, 12 months of storage (365 days), the digital guest book, the printable QR sign designer and AI tagging that makes the gallery searchable. On the 1st the host opens the private link, deletes the two photos that should not travel further, and downloads the whole night in one archive.

Setting it up for New Year’s Eve

Create the event on the 31st

Give the party a name and you get the QR code and a short event code right away — no card, no account. Name it after the party, not the date, so it still fits on the 1st.

Share the code before the first drink

Send it in the group chat, print it for the drinks table, put it on the screen before the countdown. Guests scan it with the camera app and upload straight from the browser.

Download the night in the morning

Open your private host link, delete what should not travel further, and request the archive — every photo and the countdown videos, full resolution, in one download.

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New Year’s Eve photo sharing — common questions

How do we collect the New Year’s Eve photos from everyone at the party?

Create the event, send the QR code in the group chat on the afternoon of the 31st and put it by the drinks, and guests upload from the phone browser as the night goes on. Everyone with the code sees the same gallery, which is why the next person uploads too. The alternative — asking the group chat on the 2nd of January — gets you five photos, compressed, from the two people who were still awake.

Do guests need an app or an account?

No. The QR code opens the event page in the browser the phone already has: no app, no account, no password. That matters on New Year’s Eve more than most nights — half the room is someone’s plus-one, nobody is installing anything at eleven at night, and a guest writes their name once so every photo is signed.

Can we upload the countdown video?

Yes, on the paid plan: videos up to 200 MB alongside the photos, unlimited uploads per guest and 12 months of gallery. The countdown, the fireworks and the first toast of the year get filmed from every corner of the room at the same moment — and for once all of them land in one place, including for the people who left before midnight.

Is the free plan enough for a New Year’s Eve party?

For photos, yes: up to 20 photos per guest, photos only, 14 days of storage, no card and no cap on how many guests upload. If you want the countdown on video and the gallery still there when people ask for the photos in spring, take the paid plan: $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once per event — no subscription — for unlimited photos and videos per guest, videos up to 200 MB, 12 months of storage (365 days), the digital guest book, the printable QR sign designer and AI tagging that makes the gallery searchable. One payment for the night, no subscription.

When should I create the event?

On the 31st, or the day before — it takes a minute and you get the code at once. The free plan’s 14 days count from the moment you create the event, not from midnight, so an event opened in early December for the invitations is gone before the party; if you need the code on printed invitations weeks ahead, create it on the paid plan.

Does it work for a New Year’s Eve dinner at a restaurant or a venue?

Yes — one event per night, the code on the table plan and on the screen before the countdown. Guests upload from their own phones, the venue holds the host link and the gallery, and nothing is posted publicly. Venues running several party nights use the workspace for planners and venues, which bills in credit packs with an invoice and puts the venue’s own name and logo on the guest page.

Is the gallery private?

It opens only for people with the code — like a shared album for the party, never public, never indexed by search engines — and you can add a PIN on top. The host manages the gallery from a private link and can delete any photo or video at any time; a guest can delete only their own uploads.

Can one event cover New Year’s Eve and the New Year’s Day brunch?

Yes. The same code works the next morning, so the brunch photos join the night’s gallery and the people who went home at one o’clock see both. Give the event the name of the party, not the date, and it is still the right name on the 1st.

The first photos of the year, all in one place

Create the event free: 20 photos per guest, no card. You get the code at once, and the gallery fills up before midnight.

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