weddingA few wedding photo apps have a real free plan, and each one stops somewhere: an upload cap, a short clock, or a sign-in your guests have to get through. Pix Wedding's free plan gives you 20 guest uploads with no credit card and no app for guests. Below is every free option we could verify, with the limits written on each vendor's own page.
Pix Wedding (20 uploads), Wedibox (50 uploads) and Kululu (100 uploads for 24 hours) take guest photos through a QR code with no app and no card. POV.camera costs nothing up to 10 guests. WedShoots, Google Photos and iCloud have no upload cap, but guests install an app or sign in first. WedUploader has neither a cap nor a guest login, and pays for it with your own Google Drive. For scale, across 203 weddings on Pix Wedding the average album held 197 photos (median 149), so most free caps work as a test run rather than a whole wedding. The guest photo upload statistics have the full breakdown.
Ten options, judged only on the five lines that decide whether free works: the cap, the first thing a guest has to do, the clock, file quality and what paying looks like. A warning chip marks each weak spot.
20 guest uploads free with no card and no timed demo. Guests point the camera at the QR and the album opens in the browser. Starter at $49, paid once, lifts the cap.
| Option | Free cap | Guest step before the first upload | Clock on free | File quality on free | First paid step |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pix WeddingOur pick | 20 guest uploads, no card | Point the phone camera at the QR; the album opens in the browser, nothing to install or sign up for | None, the 20 uploads are not a timed demo | Full-quality uploads; the ZIP of originals comes with paid plans | Starter, $49 once: unlimited photos, videos and guests |
| Wedibox | 50 guest photo uploads, always free | QR code or share link, nothing to download | None stated for the free plan | Not stated on the pricing page | Embed plan at $29, paid once |
| Guestpix | Demo capped at 50 photos, no card | QR code or private link into the browser | 30-day upload window on the demo | Not stated for the demo | Classic package, one-time, from $49 |
| Kululu | Up to 100 photo and video uploads | QR on the photo wall or a link, no install | Uploads open 24 hours, kept 7 days | Standard quality on free | Plus plan, sized for up to 100 guests |
| POV.camera | Events of up to 10 guests | App Clip on iPhone or Instant App on Android | Not stated for the free tier | Not stated for the free tier | Priced by guest count in its calculator |
| WedShoots | No cap on photos | Download the WedShoots app, then type the couple's album code | Not published | Not published | None, the app is free |
| WedUploader | Unlimited uploads, limited in practice by your Google Drive space | Link or QR, no login | No expiration date | Original quality | Limitless upgrade, one-time, priced in your local currency |
| Google Photos shared album | 20,000 items per album | Sign in with a Google Account | None, but the 15 GB free storage is shared with Gmail and Drive | No quality note on the album help page | Google One storage once the 15 GB fills |
| iCloud Shared Album | 5,000 items per album | An Apple device signed in to iCloud, so Android guests are left out | None | Resized to 2,048 px on the long edge | Nothing to buy for the album itself |
| WhatsApp group | No album cap | Be added to the group chat | None, photos scroll away under messages | Standard unless the sender picks HD | Nothing to buy |
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Sources for the competitor cells, each a pricing or help page we opened in September 2026: Wedibox, Guestpix, Kululu, POV.camera, WedShoots, WedUploader, Google (album limit, storage), Apple and WhatsApp. "Not stated" means the vendor page we read did not say. Pix Wedding cells come from our own plan sheet. Terms move, so check again before your date.
The pattern to notice: almost every free option trades one thing for another. No sign-in usually means a cap; no cap usually means an app install or a Google or Apple sign-in. WedUploader is the exception, and its price is that the album lives in your own Google Drive and eats your storage.
These four vendors get searched with the word free more than any other. Each answer starts with a plain yes or no, then the condition that comes with it.
Yes. The WedUploader Basic plan costs nothing and takes unlimited photos and videos in original quality from as many guests as you invite, with no guest login and no expiration date. Every file is saved into your own Google Drive.
The catch sits in that Drive. Each Google Account gets 15 GB free, shared with Gmail and Google Photos, so a video-heavy night can fill it. The live gallery, guestbooks, voicemails and slideshow belong to the one-time Limitless upgrade, which the pricing page shows in your local currency. The site runs in seven languages, English, German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Hindi, which is why the same question turns up as "weduploader kostenlos".
Free WedUploader alternative that keeps the album out of your Drive: Pix Wedding free (20 uploads) or Wedibox free (50 uploads).
Pix Wedding vs WedUploaderOnly as a trial. Guestpix calls its free option a demo: unlimited guests, a digital invitation and RSVPs, 50 photos and a 30-day upload window, with no card needed. It is built to show you the product, and a wedding months away will outlive it.
Paid Guestpix is one-time: Classic gives 3 months of uploads and 12 months of hosting, Signature stretches both to 12 months, and the Signature Bundle adds three galleries with 24 months of hosting. Guestpix offers a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Free Guestpix alternative with no 30-day clock: Wedibox free (50 uploads, always free) or Pix Wedding free (20 uploads, not a timed demo).
Guestpix alternativeWedShoots is free outright and made by Bodas.net. There is no WedShoots pricing page because nothing is sold: guests can upload as many photos as they want, and a projector view puts them on a screen at the reception. It runs local editions in Italy, France, the UK, Mexico, Portugal, Brazil, India and Canada.
The catch is on the guest side. Everyone installs the WedShoots app and types in your album code before the first photo, and we could not find published limits on guests or on how long the album stays online.
If an app install will cost you half your guests, a browser-based free tier fits better.
Pix Wedding vs WedShootsYes, with the shortest clock on this page. Kululu free takes up to 100 photo and video uploads through a QR code or link, but uploads close after 24 hours, the files are kept for 7 days and they are stored in standard quality.
Kululu itself says free might be enough for about 10 to 20 guests. Its Plus plan is sized for up to 100 guests and Pro for 150 or more. Whatever you choose, set a reminder to save the Kululu files inside that week.
For more than a week of storage without paying, compare the free tiers in the table above.
Pix Wedding vs KululuWedibox free (50 uploads, always free) gets its own page too: Wedibox alternative. For Google's free route, see Pix Wedding vs Google Photos.
None of these appear on a price tag. They appear as fewer photos, blurry prints, an expired album or a surprise storage plan.
Google Photos wants a Google Account, iCloud wants an Apple device, WedShoots wants its app. Each extra step is a moment where a guest shrugs and the photos stay on their phone.
iCloud shared albums shrink photos to 2,048 pixels on the long edge, WhatsApp sends standard quality unless the sender taps HD, and Kululu free stores standard quality. On a phone screen nobody notices. On a large framed print, everyone does.
Kululu free closes uploads after a day and keeps them a week. The Guestpix demo closes after 30 days. Put the save date in your calendar the day you sign up, because an expired free album does not come back.
WedUploader and Google Photos cost nothing until your Google storage runs out. Fifteen gigabytes is shared with your inbox, and wedding videos eat it quickly, so free can turn into a Google One plan.
On a 20, 50 or 100 upload cap, the limit tends to arrive right when the dancing starts. Decide beforehand whether you stop there or pay to carry on, so nobody is on a phone fixing it at 10 pm.
Trying three free tiers leaves three sets of QR codes. Bin the ones you did not pick, or a guest scans an old test code and uploads into an album you will never open.
There is no single best free app, only the best one for your guests. Find the line that sounds like your day.
Pix Wedding free (20 uploads) and Wedibox free (50 uploads) both skip the card and the guest install, so a test with a few friends on the rehearsal night shows the real guest screen.
POV.camera costs nothing up to 10 guests, and Kululu reckons its free plan can stretch to about 10 to 20 guests. Save the Kululu files inside the 7 days.
Rule out iCloud Shared Albums. The browser-based free tiers (Pix Wedding, Wedibox, Kululu, WedUploader) work on any phone, and Google Photos works too once each guest signs in to Google.
The capped tiers will not stretch that far. The uncapped ones each ask for something: WedShoots and Google Photos need an install or a sign-in, and WedUploader free fills your own Google Drive. If none of that suits you, plan for one payment. Pix Wedding does not price by guest count, so 150 guests cost the same as 50.
WedUploader or a Google Photos shared album keeps the files in your own Google account. Keep an eye on the 15 GB if guests film a lot.
Pix Wedding Starter is $49, one time, for unlimited photos, videos and guests. Our no-subscription guide lists the other one-time options.
Want paid and free apps ranked together? That lives on our best wedding photo sharing app page. The one-time vendors are listed in wedding photo apps with no subscription.
The free plan runs the same QR flow as the paid plans, so what you test is what your guests get.
Our live demo album, opened the way a guest opens it from the QR.
When the free album fills up, new guest uploads are turned away until you upgrade, and your dashboard warns you before that happens. Money-back guarantee: if your guests never upload a single photo, you get 100% back.
Free gets you 20 guest uploads. When your guests want to send more, a single payment lifts the cap for the whole event.
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This walkthrough builds a no-app upload page on a shared Google Drive folder, the same idea WedUploader packages up. Watch it to judge how much setup a zero-cost route takes when you build it yourself.
Video by Evently on YouTube. The files land in your Google storage, so the 15 GB free allowance applies. Pix Wedding vs Google Drive
A made-up but typical wedding, to show how caps, app installs and sign-ins play out once real guests are involved.
A 90-guest wedding at one venue. The couple wants to spend nothing unless free falls short, so at the rehearsal they try three free wedding photo apps side by side: Pix Wedding free, WedShoots and a Google Photos shared album.
Setup takes a few minutes and the rehearsal uses a handful of the 20 free uploads. On the day, the album fills early in the reception, so they upgrade to Starter from the dashboard and guests carry on with the same QR code.
The projector view looks great. Some relatives will not install an app during dinner, and the couple cannot find how long the album stays online, so they save everything the following week.
Guests who already use Google add photos easily; guests who are signed out skip it. The wedding photos also land in the couple's own library, which costs them a Sunday afternoon of sorting.
The option with the fewest guest steps collected the most photos, and the cap was the only reason to pay. Nobody here is a real couple; the sketch is ours.
A free tier takes minutes to open. The decisions around the cap, the print run and the test are what make it hold up on the day.
Look at the guest upload screen on your own phone before you type in any card details, and note which vendors ask guests to install something.
Write down whether you will pay if the free album fills, and who does it. On Pix Wedding the upgrade takes a minute from the dashboard, even mid-reception.
A card on each table, one near the bar and one at the entrance. Recycle the test codes from the vendors you dropped.
Two or three people from the wedding party add a photo each. Check they arrive, and count them against your free cap.
By then guests have taken most of their photos and have a spare minute before dancing.
Free clocks run short, 7 days on Kululu. Keep a copy on your own drive next to the photographer's gallery.
“Add your photos from tonight: point your phone camera at this code and our album opens in your browser. Nothing to install. Thank you!”
“A quick note from the couple. Every table has a little QR card. Point your camera at it and send in whatever you shot tonight, photos or videos, right from your camera roll. It works in the browser, so there is nothing to download.”
“Tiny favor tonight: point your camera at the QR sign by the door and send one photo, so we know the album works before tomorrow. Takes half a minute. Thanks!”
Vendors use the same words for different things. These six decide whether a free tier covers your wedding or only your test run.
A plan you can run a real event on without a card. A trustworthy free plan tells you its upload cap and how long it holds the photos.
A short window or small photo count to try the product. Guestpix calls its free option a demo: 50 photos, 30 days to upload. Eventoly lists a free trial without published limits.
The number of guest uploads a free tier accepts before it asks you to pay. Pix Wedding: 20. Wedibox: 50. Kululu: 100.
One charge for your event, no renewal. Pix Wedding, Wedibox and Guestpix all sell one-time plans.
The period in which guests can still add photos. Kululu free: 24 hours. Pix Wedding Starter: 3 months from the event date.
How long the album stays downloadable once the party is over. Kululu free: 7 days. Pix Wedding paid plans: 6, 12 or 24 months of storage by plan.
This page sticks to free options. These cover paid rankings, single-vendor comparisons, party albums and setup.
Still researching? Here is how Pix Wedding stacks up against the other major wedding photo sharing platforms.
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The same free tier works for any gathering, not only weddings. On Pix Wedding each event gets its own album and QR code with 20 free guest uploads, so a birthday, an engagement party, a memorial or a team day can run on free when the group is small.
Small events are where free tiers fit best. A dinner for twelve rarely passes 20 uploads, while a 120-guest reception can pass it before the first dance. If your event is closer to the first than the second, you may never need to pay.
Several free options are built for more than one country. WedUploader runs its site in seven languages, WedShoots has local editions from Italy and Brazil to India and Canada, and Pix Wedding shows plan prices in EUR, GBP, CAD and TRY as well as USD.
The free allowance does not change with your country: 20 guest uploads on Pix Wedding, 50 on Wedibox. What changes is guest habits. Where most guests use Android, skip iCloud; where WhatsApp is how everyone shares, remember it sends standard quality unless the sender picks HD.
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As of September 2026: Pix Wedding (20 guest uploads, no card), Wedibox (50 guest photo uploads, always free), Kululu (up to 100 uploads, open 24 hours, kept 7 days), POV.camera (free up to 10 guests), WedShoots (free, guests install its app) and WedUploader (free Basic plan, unlimited uploads into your own Google Drive). Guestpix only offers a demo that closes uploads after 30 days. Google Photos and iCloud shared albums cost nothing but need a Google Account or an Apple device to add photos.
Your own album and QR code, 20 guest uploads, no credit card, and uploads straight from the guest's phone browser without an app or an account. Every paid plan unlocks unlimited photos, videos and guests, the full ZIP download, film roll mode and the printable QR designs.
Your dashboard warns you as you get close. Once the free album is full, new guest uploads are turned away until you upgrade. You can upgrade at any point before or during the wedding, and guests keep using the same QR code.
Some do, fast. Kululu free keeps uploads for 7 days and the Guestpix demo stops taking uploads after 30 days. WedUploader has no expiration date because the files sit in your own Google Drive, and Google Photos or iCloud albums stay as long as your account does. Pix Wedding paid plans store the album for 6, 12 or 24 months by plan, with a ZIP you keep. Free or paid, keep a copy on your own drive before the first week is out.
Not without strings. The capped tiers (20, 50 or 100 uploads) fill quickly at a reception. The uncapped routes ask guests to install an app or sign in to Google or iCloud, or, with WedUploader, fill your own Google Drive. Pix Wedding paid plans do not price by guest count, so 150 guests cost the same as 50.
For a small group that all uses the same ecosystem, often yes. Google Photos needs a Google Account to add photos and holds up to 20,000 items per album. iCloud Shared Albums need an Apple device, hold up to 5,000 items and shrink photos to 2,048 pixels on the long edge, so Android guests and big prints are the weak spots.
Not in money. On every option on this page guests upload at no cost. What they pay is effort: an app install on WedShoots, a Google sign-in on Google Photos, an Apple device for iCloud. The browser-based tiers (Pix Wedding, Wedibox, Kululu, WedUploader) ask for none of that.
One payment, no subscription: Starter $49, Standard $59 (adds the live slideshow, audio guestbook and photographer link) or Pro $89 (adds a custom domain and AI selfie search). Prices show in your local currency in EUR, GBP, CAD and TRY. If your guests never upload a single photo, you get 100% back.
