Guests scan the code and upload from the phone browser — no app, no signup. $39.99 one-time per event: no expiry timer, no upload window, full export whenever you want. And unlike anywhere else, your guests keep their shots too — in their own free account.
Put it on table signs, the invitation, or the venue screen.
Straight from the phone browser — during the event and after they get home.
No expiry timer, full export anytime — and guests keep their shots too.
Print the code on table signs or show it on the venue screen. Guests point the phone camera at it and upload photos and videos straight from the browser — during the event and after they get home. A live photo wall shows new shots on the big screen, and every file has its own visibility, so you decide what the world sees.
Typical QR photo services keep guest uploads for a few months, close the upload window after weeks, then delete everything on a timer. Albums deletes nothing on a timer and charges nothing extra for storage. Any album exports as a single archive with the original files, whenever you want.
Anywhere else a guest uploads, walks away and loses track of their own shots. Here, after uploading, a guest can sign in and every shot they added is saved to their own album too — in their own free account, with their name under their photos in your album if they choose. Uploading stops being an act of giving away and becomes an act of keeping.
An Event Album is a real Albums album: organize it into chapters, attach a voice note to any photo, and play it as a slideshow with your narration. Albums is also a quiet social network of story albums — profiles, friends, and a feed where the unit is an album, not a post.
| Typical QR service | albums.ink | |
|---|---|---|
| Album lifetime | Deleted after 3–12 months | No expiry timer |
| Upload window | Closes after 24 hours – 3 months | Never closes |
| Guests' own shots | Given away and lost | Saved to their own free account |
| After the event | A zip file | A living story album |
Create an Event Album and show or print its QR code. Guests scan it and upload photos and videos straight from the phone browser during and after the event. Everything lands in one album that belongs to you.
No. Guests open the link or scan the QR code and upload from the browser. No app to install, no account to create.
As long as you need. We delete nothing on a timer and charge nothing extra for storage — unlike typical QR photo services that keep guest uploads for 3–12 months.
Yes. Any album exports as a single archive with the original files — your photos are never locked in.
The event owner. And guests keep their own shots: after signing in, everything a guest uploaded is saved to their own album in their own free account as well.
Guests need no Google account and no app. The owner gets chapters, voice notes, a live photo wall, moderation, and a one-time price per event instead of a storage subscription.
Story albums are free. Pro is $9.99/month for more capacity. An Event Album is a $39.99 one-time purchase per event — guests never pay.
Yes. Each album is public, private, friends-only, or friends-except-selected. Media are stored in a private bucket and served via signed URLs, so a private album cannot be opened by guessing a link.
A curated collection of photos, videos and voice notes organized into chapters and read like a story — a trip, a wedding, a year of your child — rather than scrolled like a feed.