Is there a photo sharing app for birthday parties that guests do not need to install?

Yes. Guests scan a QR code, which opens a web page in their browser, and upload from there. No install, no account and no password.

Can older guests manage it?

That is what the design is for. The upload page has one large button and no form in front of it. Scanning a code and pressing one button is the whole task.

How long do we keep the photos?

Between six months and two years depending on the plan, always counted from the event date rather than the purchase date. Anything you have downloaded is yours permanently.

Birthdays

Birthday party photo sharing without a group chat

A fortieth, a fiftieth, a seventieth. The photos end up in nine different group chats, half of them compressed, and nobody ever collects them. One QR code on the table fixes that, and it works for the guests who do not use apps.

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Nine group chats is not an album

Photos of a birthday arrive over the following week, in threads that different people are in, at whatever resolution the messaging app decided on. Nobody is going to volunteer to merge them. The collecting has to happen while the party is happening, or it does not happen.

What you get

It works for guests who do not install apps

The single biggest reason photo collection fails at a milestone birthday is that a good share of the room will not download anything. A web page they scan into is the only approach that reaches them.

One album instead of nine threads

Everything lands in one place, in the order it was taken, with the name of whoever sent it. You download the lot as a ZIP when you are ready.

Put it on the screen

The live slideshow turns the photos into part of the party rather than something to sort out afterwards, and it prompts the people who have not uploaded yet.

Video and voice messages, not only stills

Clips of the speeches and recorded voice messages come through the same page. For a milestone birthday the voice messages tend to be the part the family keeps.

Questions people ask

Is there a photo sharing app for birthday parties that guests do not need to install?: Yes. Guests scan a QR code, which opens a web page in their browser, and upload from there. No install, no account and no password.
Can older guests manage it?: That is what the design is for. The upload page has one large button and no form in front of it. Scanning a code and pressing one button is the whole task.
How long do we keep the photos?: Between six months and two years depending on the plan, always counted from the event date rather than the purchase date. Anything you have downloaded is yours permanently.

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.

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