Family gatherings
Family gathering photo sharing that reaches every relative
Reunions, christenings, anniversaries and the years where the whole family is in one room for an afternoon. The photos are spread across three generations of phones, and the people holding the best ones are usually the least likely to install anything.
The photos you most want are on the phones least likely to share them
The grandparent with the picture of four generations in one frame is not going to sign up for an account. Any system that requires one loses exactly the photographs that matter most, which is a strange way to design a family album.
What you get
No account, at any age
A camera pointed at a printed code opens the page. From there it is one button. Nothing to remember, nothing to type, nothing to recover later.
Names attached, so you know who took what
Guests are asked their name once and it stays attached to everything they send. Twenty years later that is the difference between a photo and a memory with a person in it.
Sub-albums for a day with parts
The church, the lunch, the garden. Group the album while it is still fresh in your head instead of scrolling through four hundred photos in December.
Voice messages from the people you want to hear
A written note is lovely. A recording of a grandparent saying something to the camera is a different category of thing, and it takes them thirty seconds from the same page.
Questions people ask
- How do I collect photos from family members who do not use apps?
- Give them a QR code to scan. It opens a web page in the phone's own browser with a single upload button, so there is no app to install and no account to create.
- Can relatives who were not there see the album?
- Yes, if you want them to. There is a separate album link you can send to people who only want to look, without giving them the upload page.
- Can somebody delete a photo of themselves?
- Guests can delete their own uploads by default. The person best placed to remove an unflattering photo is the person who took it, and making them email you instead is how albums end up with things nobody wanted.
Free planning tools
- Event countdownPick your date and see exactly how long is left, plus the moments in the run-up that are easy to leave too late.
- Seating chart makerLay the tables out the way the room actually is, paste in your guest list, and drag each person onto the chair they will sit in.
Your event is three fields away
Name, date, cover photo. GuestTale gives you a QR code about a minute later, and it is free until you download.
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