For a UK wedding, the right guest photo app depends on three things: whether you want video, how long you want the photos kept, and whether you’d rather pay a UK company in pounds. Gather & Group, QRPix and WedSnap are UK-based and charge £20 to £60 once. GUESTPIX, Wedibox and Eventoly offer longer windows and video, priced in dollars. A Google Photos album is free if you can live with its limits. Ode puts the album on your wedding website instead of a separate link. Here is the reasoning.
First, our bias
Ode is ours, and it’s in this list. Its album is part of a wedding website rather than a standalone app, which suits some couples and not others, and we say plainly below where the dedicated apps do more. Every price and limit here was checked on each company’s own website on 15 October 2026. They change, so check before you buy.
What actually matters
- No app for guests. Every option here except WedShoots works from a QR code or a link in the phone’s browser. Don’t pick one that makes your gran download anything.
- Video. Short clips of the first dance and the speeches can matter as much as the photos. Several apps leave video out of their cheapest plan, and Ode doesn’t take video at all.
- How long it’s kept, and how you get it out. Look for a download of the original files, ideally as one ZIP, and a date you can put in the diary to download by.
- Moderation. At a wedding with an open bar, being able to approve or remove photos before they reach a live slideshow is worth having.
- Where the company is. A UK company prices in pounds and works under UK data protection law. The others are fine to use; just know your card will convert dollars.
The field at a glance
| App | Based in | Price, one-off | Video | Photos kept |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gather & Group | UK | £29 or £49 | Yes | 3 months or 1 year |
| QRPix | UK | £20, £40 or £60 | £60 plan only | 12 months |
| WedSnap | UK | £29.99 | Yes | 90 days after the wedding |
| GUESTPIX | Australia | $49, $89 or $119 | Paid plans | 12 to 24 months |
| Wedibox | US | Free, or $29 to $79 | Not on free | 1 to 2 years |
| Eventoly | Czech Republic | $49, $59 or $89 | Yes | Check the terms |
| SnapTheKnot | US | $19, $29 or $59 | $29 plan and up | A year after the wedding |
| POV | Not stated | Free for 10 guests, then from £4.99 | Not confirmed | No expiry |
| Google Photos album | US | Free | Yes | Until you delete it |
| Ode | UK | Free, £15, £35 or £65, with the website | No, photos only | 7 to 180 days |
Dollar prices are as listed; none of those sites showed a pound price when we checked, so your bank converts at the day’s rate.
The UK-based apps
Gather & Group: private by design
Gather & Group is a UK company that keeps photos on UK servers. Basic is £29 and keeps the photos for three months with a single ZIP download; Premium is £49 for a year and adds face recognition, a live slideshow, folder downloads and export to cloud storage. Guests and uploads are unlimited, originals (RAW files included) are kept, and video is converted to MP4 at up to 1080p. The unusual part: guests can’t see each other’s uploads, so it works more like a private drop box than a shared album. There is no approval step, but a quality filter and duplicate removal tidy things up.
Pick it if: you want everything in one place for the two of you rather than a shared feed, with a UK company and a year to download.
QRPix: priced by guest count
QRPix is UK-made and prices by the size of the wedding: Bronze £20 for up to 50 guests (ten photos each, no video), Silver £40 for up to 100 guests with unlimited photos, and Gold £60 for up to 200 guests with video clips of up to two minutes and screening for explicit images. Bigger weddings pay 30p a guest above 200. Every plan has a highlight slideshow, a ZIP of the originals and twelve months of access, and you get a full refund any time before the wedding.
Pick it if: your guest count is modest and you want a UK option that scales its price with the wedding.
WedSnap: one flat UK price
WedSnap is £29.99 once, with unlimited photos and videos, a digital guestbook and a live photo wall that shows approved photos. Photos are kept for 90 days after the wedding, and the full gallery arrives as a ZIP link that works for 48 hours, so download it as soon as it lands. There is a free 24-hour demo to try first.
Pick it if: you want one simple price with video included, and you’re organised enough to download within three months.
The international apps
GUESTPIX: the most complete package
GUESTPIX is Australian, with one-off plans at $49, $89 and $119 and no auto-renewal. The paid plans include unlimited video, a written and video guestbook, a live slideshow, moderation, and a full-resolution ZIP sorted into folders by guest. Classic hosts the gallery for twelve months and the top plan for twenty-four. A free plan takes 50 photos over 30 days.
Pick it if: you want video, a video guestbook and the longest hosting, and don’t mind paying in dollars.
Wedibox: a free tier, and a lot more above it
Wedibox is based in California. Its free plan takes 50 guest uploads, photos only. Paid plans run from $29 to $79: the $49 plan adds an original-quality ZIP, a guestbook with audio messages and a live slideshow you can approve photos for, and the $79 plan adds RSVPs, seating and a playlist, with uploads open for a year and storage for two.
Pick it if: you want to start free and upgrade only if you need to, or want audio messages from guests.
Eventoly: generous windows, read the small print
Eventoly is run from the Czech Republic, with one-off plans at $49, $59 and $89 and unlimited photos, videos and guests at original quality on every plan. Its pricing table promises storage of six months to two years, but its terms say files are deleted twelve months after purchase, so ask them which applies before you rely on the longer plans.
SnapTheKnot: cheapest with video
SnapTheKnot is a Florida company. Photos alone are $19, photos and videos $29, and a version with prints $59, all with unlimited uploads, full-resolution downloads and access until a year after the wedding. Optional AI moderation covers photos.
POV: the disposable camera, on a phone
POV is the odd one out: guests get a set number of shots and the photos are revealed later, like a disposable camera on the tables. It’s free for up to ten guests, with paid plans from $4.99 (in-app prices in the UK App Store run from £4.99 to £59.99). Guests use an App Clip on iPhone or the web on Android, so nobody installs a full app, and the photos don’t expire.
Pick it if: you want the fun of limited shots and a reveal the next morning, more than a complete record of the day.
The free options you already have
A Google Photos shared album
Free, holds up to 20,000 photos or videos, and anyone with the link can view and add to it; you can switch off adding when you’re done. The catches: there’s no moderation before photos appear, and some guests may be asked to sign in to a Google account before they can add anything. Test the link with a friend on an iPhone before you print it.
An iCloud Shared Album
Apple changed shared albums with iOS 27. Albums made on iOS 27 or later keep photos at full resolution, can require your approval, and let people without an Apple device add photos on the web, but everything counts against your own iCloud storage and an album is limited to 100 people. Albums made on older versions shrink photos and only let Android users look. If your guest list is mostly on iPhones and you have the storage, it’s a reasonable free option.
WedShoots
A free app from the Spanish wedding company Bodas.net. It still works, but guests need to download the app and enter a code, and it takes photos only. That download is exactly what the browser-based apps above avoid.
Ode: the album on your wedding website
Ode’s album is a section of your wedding website, so guests add photos from the same link they used to RSVP and the QR code on the tables opens your page. Every photo is screened automatically, and you can require your own approval before anything appears. Guests see the album at thumbnail size; you download the photos from your studio. It holds 20 photos for 7 days on the free plan, then 50, 300 or 1,000 photos for 30, 90 or 180 days on our one-off plans at £15, £35 and £65, which pay for the whole wedding website, not just the album.
Where the dedicated apps do more: Ode takes photos only, not video; it stores each photo at up to 1,920 pixels on the long edge rather than the original file; photos download one at a time rather than as a ZIP; and the album is deleted when its window closes. If video or originals matter, use one of the apps above, and put its link on your Ode page.
Pick Ode if: you’re already making a wedding website and want the photos in the same place as everything else, with your approval before anything appears.
How to choose in five minutes
- Want video of the speeches? Rule out QRPix Bronze and Silver, Wedibox’s free plan, SnapTheKnot at $19 and Ode.
- Want a UK company and pounds? Gather & Group, QRPix or WedSnap.
- Want the longest time to download? GUESTPIX’s top plan, Wedibox at $79 or Gather & Group Premium.
- Want it free? A Google Photos album, Wedibox’s free plan or Ode’s free plan, each with the limits above.
- Want the album and the RSVPs on one link? Ode, QRPix Silver or Gold, or Wedibox at $79.
Whichever you choose, the setup matters as much as the app: a QR code on every table, a line in the order of service, and a reminder in the speeches. Our guides to setting up a QR code photo album and collecting photos from guests have the wording and the placement.