The wedding photo sharing app your guests never have to download.

We make one, so weigh this accordingly — but the honest answer is that the best one is whichever your guests actually use at 11pm with a drink in one hand. Four things decide that: nothing to download, nothing to sign up for, photos kept at full quality instead of squashed, and one payment rather than a subscription you have to cancel on your honeymoon. PhotoCheese is built to those four. We also keep a source-linked comparison of the alternatives on our compare page, including where they beat us.

No — and there’s nothing to sign up for either. A guest points their camera at the QR card on the table, taps the banner that pops up, and your gallery opens in the browser they already have. Take a photo or pick a few from the camera roll, and they’re uploaded. Three taps, no keyboard, no account. Grandma included, promise.

Yes — there’s no app anywhere in this, for guests or for you. The QR card opens your gallery in whatever browser is already on the phone, and the upload button is the first thing on the screen. iPhones and Androids behave the same way, and nobody’s asked for an email address. Anyone who’d rather not point a camera at a card can type the gallery’s short link instead.

Give them somewhere obvious to put them. A QR card on every table, one at the bar, one by the welcome sign — guests scan the one nearest their drink and upload straight from the phone in their hand. Everything lands in the same gallery, which you can watch filling up from your own phone while it happens.

Make it something people trip over rather than something they have to remember. A card at eye level on each table beats a hashtag printed once on the order of service, because nobody re-reads the order of service. Then have whoever’s holding the microphone mention it once during the speeches — that’s reliably the moment uploads spike.

You can start free: 100 uploads and a gallery that lasts a week. Pro is $49 paid once — 500 uploads, high-quality files, gallery for three months, and the plan most weddings land on. Expert is $99 paid once — unlimited uploads, an approval queue, gallery for a year. One payment per wedding, and no subscription left running afterwards.

Ours has a free plan and it’s a real one, not a trial: 100 uploads, every feature including the photo wall, and a gallery that stays up for a week. That covers a small wedding, or a run-through at the rehearsal dinner before you commit. What it doesn’t buy is room or time — a hundred guests get through 100 uploads quickly, and the gallery closes seven days after the day. Most couples start free and move to Pro before the wedding.

This is the question we get asked most, and yes. There’s no app to find, no password to invent, no email to confirm. Point the phone camera at the card, tap once, and the upload button is the biggest thing on the screen. If someone’s really stuck, a bridesmaid can upload for them in about ten seconds — anyone can add to the gallery.

Most guests are on mobile data anyway, and uploads keep going in the background while they carry on with their night. If the signal drops mid-upload, the queue waits and resumes when it comes back rather than starting over. Barns and cellars are the classic problem spots, so it’s worth telling guests their photos will finish sending on the drive home.

Yes. Anyone with the link can add to the gallery, so the simplest route is to send it to them. If you’d rather they could also sort and download, invite them as a collaborator — that’s free and unlimited on every plan. It’s a lovely way to drop a handful of sneak peeks in while the proper edit takes its six weeks.

In your own gallery, from any phone or laptop — it’s a web page, so there’s nothing to install on your side either. Everything guests upload lands in the same grid, newest first, with videos playing where they sit. You can watch it fill while the wedding is still happening, and download the whole lot in one go on Pro and Expert once it’s calmed down.

Honestly: it’s unlisted, not locked. Your gallery is never indexed by Google and isn’t listed anywhere on our site, and we do nothing with your photos — no training, no selling, no adverts. But there are no passwords on galleries today, so anyone holding the link can open it and add to it, and we can’t tell one guest from another. Put your QR codes where your guests are rather than where the internet is, and if you want a closer eye on what lands, Expert lets you approve every photo first.

Two clocks run. Uploads close first — two days after the wedding on Free, thirty on Pro, ninety on Expert — so nothing trickles in months later. Then the gallery itself reaches the end of its window: a week on Free, three months on Pro, a year on Expert. We email you 15 days, 7 days and 1 day before that, and one tap downloads the whole wedding on Pro and Expert. Files are wiped a month after the gallery comes down.

Yes, and most people do. One gallery across the whole weekend keeps the rehearsal dinner, the wedding and the morning-after brunch in the same place, which is usually how you’ll want to look back at it. If you’d rather keep them apart — the hen do, say — make a second gallery with its own QR card.