Throw the party, and let the photographs find their own way home.
Put one QR code up where the party happens — by the drinks, on the fridge, out by the garden door. Your guests point a camera at it, add their photographs, videos and voice notes, and the whole night lands in one album that is yours to keep.
What is party photo sharing by QR code?
Party photo sharing by QR code means one printed code that opens a shared album. A guest points their phone camera at it, a web page opens — no app to install, no account to make — and they choose photographs and videos from their phone, add a voice note if they like, and send. Everything arrives in one album, at full resolution, sorted as the night happened.
Print it at home and put it up in two or three places — the drinks table, the fridge, the hallway. Wherever people stand about, the code is already there.
Videos go into the same album, and so do voice notes — the toast, the singing, the story somebody swears is true.
The code opens a web page, and that is all it does. No app, no account, and no ten minutes spent walking somebody’s dad through a download.
Who is photographing the party you are busy hosting?
You will be answering the door, sorting the music out, and rescuing whatever the oven is doing — hosts see less of their own party than anyone they invited. There is no photographer coming, because nobody books one for a housewarming or a leaving do. The record of the night sits on your guests’ phones, and these five moments are where it hides.
The room before it fills
Whoever came round early to helpThe honest bitThe place as you meant it to look — candles lit, food out, nothing spilt on anything yet.
The garden, while the light lasts
Somebody by the back doorThe honest bitThe one photograph with everybody in it, which nobody thinks to take until half the guests have gone home.
Somebody says a few words
The friend stood directly oppositeThe honest bitAt a leaving do or an engagement the toast is the whole point of the night, and it usually lives on one phone.
The countdown
Everyone at onceThe honest bitThirty phones go up for the last ten seconds of the year, and not one of those videos ever finds its way back to the host.
The kitchen
The last few still standingThe honest bitEvery good party ends in the kitchen, and the photographs from it are the ones people bring up for years.
There is no photographer to replace at a party — nobody hires one for a garden do or a graduation. Whatever your guests catch is the only record the night gets, and without the code, most of it stays exactly where it was taken.
How does the QR code work at a party?
Create the album before the party — it takes a few minutes, and you are handed a QR code ready to print at home. Put it where your guests will drift: beside the drinks, on the fridge door, out by the garden table. They point a camera at it, a page opens in the browser, and what they send appears in the album while the party is still going.
Create the album
A name and a date — “Priya’s leaving do” will do — and the code arrives as a PDF you can print on ordinary paper.
Put the code about
Two or three copies beat one: by the bottles, on the fridge, near the food, one out in the garden. A phone camera reads it in a second.
It fills as the night goes
Photographs, videos and voice notes drop into the one album through the evening, sorted by the time they were taken.
Where all the party photos end up.
Everything from the night sits on one page, in the order it happened, with the name of whoever caught it beside each frame. You send one link round the group chat — nobody needs an account, nothing needs installing — and everyone relives the party and downloads what they want. Leave it open to all, or put a password on it.
Send it the next morning instead of asking who has what. Nobody joins anything, and nobody is chased for photographs for a fortnight.
A garden party can stay open to everyone; an engagement can sit behind a password until you have had a look through it first.
Every file at the resolution it was taken, rather than the flattened copy a group chat would have made of it.
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Your day gets a page of its own.
Photos, videos and voice notes from everyone who came — one page, one link. Guests open it, browse the lot, and download whatever they like.
Open to every guest
Anyone with the link is in — no account, nothing to install.
Or kept to the people who were there
A password on the page, passed on to exactly whom you choose.
What is sitting in the album by morning.
While you are clearing up glasses, the album is already complete — nobody has been chased and nothing has been collected by hand. You can see who sent what, quietly take down anything you would rather not keep, and download the whole night in one go. Six things are yours from then on, whatever gets cleared off anyone’s phone later.
Every original
The file as the phone took it, not the smaller copy that limps back out of a message thread.
The videos too
The countdown, the toast, the dancing in the kitchen — as files that actually play, at full length.
The voice notes
Whatever got said into a phone instead of typed — the toast in full, and the goodbye from the friend who left early.
The night in order
First knock to last taxi, sorted by the time each file was taken, without you sorting anything.
A name on every frame
You will still know whose photograph the kitchen one was when the story gets told again next year.
Yours to prune
Anything can come down before the link goes round, and nobody is told it has gone.
What does party photo sharing cost?
One price for the party, paid once — there is no subscription behind it, and nothing is charged per guest, so it costs the same whether eight people come round or eighty. Start with the free album, see how far the night fills it, and pay only if the party needs more than the free album holds.
- 20 photos, videos & voice notes
- 1 GB storage
- Unlimited guests — no app needed
- 30-day album
- Badge on shared media
- No original-quality download
- Unlimited photos, videos & voice
- 5 GB storage
- Download all originals (ZIP)
- No badge on your media
- 90-day album
- Host moderation tools
- Everything in Essential
- 10 GB storage
- Live photo wall at the venue
- 90-day album
- Video up to 10 min
- Priority support
- Everything in Celebrate
- 20 GB storage
- Live stream for guests who can’t be there
- Voice notes transcribed
- Custom link
- 90-day album
What hosts ask before the party
Does it work for any sort of party?
Yes — the album does not mind what it is for. A housewarming, a leaving do, an engagement, a graduation, New Year’s Eve in somebody’s kitchen: you create one album per occasion, give it a name, and the code does the same job at all of them.
How far ahead do I need to set it up?
You do not, really — the code exists the moment the album does, so the afternoon of the party is early enough. Setting it up a week out simply means the printing gets done calmly, rather than while the doorbell is going.
Where should the code go when there are no place cards?
Parties rarely have stationery, and it does not matter. Print a few copies on ordinary paper and put them where people naturally stop: by the drinks, on the fridge, near the food, one out in the garden. The drinks table alone catches almost everybody over the course of a night.
Will people actually bother during a party?
More than you would think, because there is nothing to bother with — no app, no signing up, nothing to explain. Put the code where the drinks are and mention it once when the room is fullest. Anyone who forgets can send their photographs from the same link the next day.
Can guests look through the album on the night?
Yes — it is live from the first upload, so anyone who scans the code sees what everyone else has caught while the party is still going. If you would rather see it all before anyone else does, keep the album private and open it up the next day.
Can I take something down before the link goes round?
Yes, and quietly. You see everything that arrives, you can remove anything at any point, and nobody is told it has gone. If you want a firmer hand on the night, turn moderation on and nothing shows until you have approved it.
Can people add photos the day after?
For as long as you leave the album open, yes — and they will, because half a party’s photographs only surface when people scroll back through their phones the next morning. The same code and the same link keep working, so the friend who left for the last train home can send everything from bed.
Is there a limit on how much everyone can send?
On a paid album, no — photographs, videos and voice notes all land in the same place, from as many guests as you like. The free album has a cap, which is there so you can watch the thing working on a small do before you pay for a bigger one.
Do I pay per guest?
No. One price covers the party, however many people come round, and it is paid once — there is no subscription hiding behind it. How long the album then stays up depends on the plan, and the term is written on each plan card further down this page.
Anything we’ve not answered? Write to us — we reply the same day.
Before the invitations go out
Pour the drinks. The album takes care of itself.
Set the album up before the first knock at the door, put the code out with the bottles, and by the time you are up and about the next day, the whole night is in one place.
- 1Create the album — free
- 2Print the code at home
- 3Send one link round after