Sweet Sixteen · Guest photos · QR code

Everything got filmed. A week later you have almost none of it.

That is what Stories are for — twenty-four hours and gone, saved by nobody. With Eventphoto.io you put up one QR code: friends scan it, upload from the phone, and the whole night ends up in one gallery that everyone with the code can scroll through. No app, no account, no asking people to send things afterwards.

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No new habit to teach

This is the one guest list that does not need instructions. Point the camera at a code, tap, choose photos. If anything, they will be faster at it than you are.

The photos you are not tagged in

Most of the good ones are on the phones of people who never got around to sending them. One gallery for everyone is the only version of the night that includes those.

Not on anyone else’s feed

The gallery is not public and does not turn up in a search. It opens for people with the code, and you can add a PIN code. What leaves it is your decision, not the algorithm’s.

In short

Sweet Sixteen photo sharing means one QR code at the party that friends scan to upload their photos and clips straight from the phone — no app, no account — so the night ends up in one private gallery instead of in Stories that expire before anyone saves them.

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.

The problem is not that nobody took photos

Everybody took photos. That has never been the issue at a sixteenth. The issue is where they went: into Stories that expired the next afternoon, into four separate group chats, into camera rolls belonging to people who genuinely meant to send them and then did not. A month later the birthday person has their own photos, three sent by their best friend, and a strong suspicion that better ones exist.

It is worth being honest about why asking afterwards fails. It is not rudeness. It is that sending forty photos to someone is genuinely annoying, and the moment for it passes within about two days.

A code at the door works because it collapses the ask to a single scan while people are still at the party and still in the mood. It also does something the group chat never does: everyone with the code sees the same gallery, so friends scroll through what has been added and upload their own to keep up.

Whether it is thirty people in a back garden or a hired room with a DJ, the mechanics are the same — and so is the result the next morning, which is one link with the whole night in it.

Three steps, and one of them is just talking

Create the event

A minute in a browser, free, no account. You get the QR code and a short event code. If you want video of the dance or the cake, upgrade before the night.

Put it up, and say it out loud

A sign by the door, a card by the cake, the link in the chat. Then say it once when the music pauses — that sentence does more than all the signs.

Download it before it expires

Your private host page gives you every photo and clip in one archive at full resolution. Do it in the first week — a free event is deleted with its photos when it runs out.

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Sweet Sixteen photo sharing — the questions that come up

How does the QR code work at the party?

Create the event, get a QR code and a short event code, and put both where friends will see them — a sign by the door, a couple of table cards, and the link dropped in the group chat before the night starts. Friends point a phone camera at the code, the upload page opens in the browser, and they add what they have taken. It takes about as long as posting a Story.

Do friends need an app?

No, and at this age that is what makes or breaks it. Nobody at a sixteenth is installing an app for one night, and nobody is making an account. It is a web page: scan, tap, upload, back to the party.

Is it free?

Free to start, with no card: up to 20 photos per guest, photos only, kept for 14 days, and no limit on how many friends upload. The paid plan is $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once for the event and removes the per-guest limit, adds video, and keeps the gallery for 12 months.

Can friends upload video?

Video is on the paid plan, up to 200 MB per clip. At a sixteenth that is usually the part worth paying for: the dance everyone rehearsed, the moment the lights go down for the cake, and the twenty seconds of everyone shouting that nobody will ever film again.

How many photos can one friend upload?

20 each on the free plan. On the paid plan there is no per-guest limit, which is the realistic setting for a group where four people between them will take two hundred photos before the cake comes out.

Where do the photos end up — is any of this public?

Nothing is public and nothing shows up in a search. The gallery opens only for people with the QR code or the event code, and you can add a PIN code on top. Everyone with the code sees the same gallery, so friends can look through what each other posted during the night. The private host page stays with whoever created the event — that is what downloads everything at once and what decides whether anything goes anywhere else.

Set it up the night before

Set up your event in under a minute, share one QR code with your friends, and collect every picture and video in one private gallery.

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