Pix Wedding vs Wedding Photo Swap
Wedding Photo Swap is a UK-first guest photo platform built around a social layer: guests like, comment and save each other's photos, and the app compiles a photobook you can order at the end. Pix Wedding takes the opposite approach: a quiet, clean archive, free to start with 20 guest uploads and no card, then $49 one-time with a full-quality ZIP you keep forever. Here is the full side by side, including the rows where Wedding Photo Swap wins.
Pricing and features on this page were checked against weddingphotoswap.com and its App Store listing in September 2026.
The Short Answer
Wedding Photo Swap wins on entry price, the social layer, moderation controls and the one-click photobook. Pix Wedding wins on a free tier you can genuinely test with, guest video included at the cheapest paid price, a longer top-end storage window, and a full-quality ZIP that outlives the hosting. Pick Wedding Photo Swap if you want a wedding album that behaves like a feed. Pick Pix Wedding if you want an archive.
At a glance
A quiet archive you own.
- Pricing: free tier, then $49 / $59 / $89 one-time (£39 / £47 / £70)
- Best for: couples who want the unperformed version of the night
- Standout: a full-quality ZIP download you keep forever
- Guest video: included on every paid plan
- Hosting: 6 months to 2 years by tier
A social album with a book at the end.
- Pricing: Free, Gold £29.99, Platinum £39.99
- Best for: chatty guest lists that enjoy reacting to each other
- Standout: likes, comments and an auto-compiled photobook
- Guest video: Platinum tier only
- Hosting: 6 or 12 months from the wedding date
Feature by feature
Every row below reflects what each platform publishes on its own site. We mark the winner honestly, including the seven rows where Wedding Photo Swap takes it.
| Feature | Pix Wedding | Wedding Photo Swap |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid price | $49 one-time (£39) | Gold £29.99 / $33.99 |
| Top paid price | $89 one-time (£70) | Platinum £39.99 / $53.99 |
| Free tier you can run a wedding on | 20 real guest uploads, QR included, no card | Setup only: 50MB test uploads, no QR, no downloads |
| Guest video uploads | Included on every paid plan | Platinum only (£39.99) |
| Guest likes and comments | Not a feature, album stays clean | Yes, core feature, free for guests |
| Auto-compiled photobook | Not offered, export and print anywhere | Yes, one-click design on Gold and Platinum |
| Printed photobook price published | N/A | No price published on the site |
| Photo challenges for guests | Free printable photo bingo and shot list | Gold and Platinum only |
| Storage window | 6 months, 1 year or 2 years by tier | 6 months (Gold) or 12 months (Platinum) from wedding date |
| Full-quality download | ZIP on every paid plan, yours forever | Gold and Platinum, originals uncompressed |
| Guest app required | No, browser only | No, browser works, app optional |
| QR code on the free plan | Yes, included | No, listed as an upgrade |
| Moderation before photos appear | Host can remove uploads | Approve before visible, hide or delete anything |
| Sub-albums by moment | Up to 6 on Standard and Pro | Unlimited albums, manually created |
| Reception slideshow | Live slideshow from Standard up | Not listed as a plan feature |
| Currency options at checkout | USD, EUR, GBP and more | GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, AUD, NZD, ZAR |
| Track record | Newer, growing fast | iOS app since January 2014, "trusted since 2009" per its listing |
Wedding Photo Swap details taken from weddingphotoswap.com (pricing, how it works, FAQs) and the Wedding Photo Swap & Share App Store listing, checked September 2026. Always confirm current plans on their site before paying.
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Pix Wedding is free to start with 20 real guest uploads and a working QR code. Scan it yourself, upload, and see the album fill in. No card, no app, no comment threads.
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Does a wedding album want a social feed?
This is the real decision between these two products, and almost nobody makes it deliberately. Wedding Photo Swap adds a reaction layer on top of the album. Pix Wedding leaves it off. Here is what each choice does in practice.
What a like button does to a wedding album
Wedding Photo Swap puts engagement at the centre of the product. Their how it works page says guests can comment, like and save their favourite photos, and their pricing FAQ confirms guests pay nothing to view, like or comment. That is a clear, deliberate product choice, and for some families it is exactly right.
It also changes what people upload. The moment a photo has a visible reaction count, guests start sorting their camera roll for the ones that will do well instead of the ones nobody else got. The blurry shot of your grandmother laughing at the bar is the photo you will want in five years, and it is the first thing a person edits out when they think an audience is watching.
Pix Wedding takes the opposite position on purpose. There is no like button, no comment thread, no counts. Guests dump the roll and move on, and you get the unperformed version of the night.
Comments live in the platform, not in your download
This is the practical catch nobody mentions until after the wedding. Comments are platform data. When you download your gallery, you get image and video files. The thread under the photo where your aunt told the story about the christening is not inside a JPEG.
So the social layer is a live-window experience. It exists while the album is hosted, and on Wedding Photo Swap that window is 6 months on Gold or 12 months on Platinum from the wedding date, per their pricing page. If the comments matter to you, screenshot the good ones before the clock runs out.
Pix Wedding sidesteps the problem by not having the layer. What you download is what existed: the photos and videos at full quality, in a ZIP you keep after hosting ends.
Where a feed genuinely helps
To be fair to the model: engagement drives volume. Guests who see photos appearing and getting reactions upload more, and Wedding Photo Swap leans into that with guest photo challenges on Gold and Platinum, which prompt specific shots to go and get.
If your guest list is chatty, if half of them already share everything in a family WhatsApp group, the feed will feel natural and you will probably end up with more photos than you would in a silent album.
If your guest list skews older, or you are running an unplugged ceremony, the feed is noise. Pix Wedding pairs better with that wedding, and you can drive volume the analogue way with a printed prompt card from the free photo bingo and shot list tools instead.
Every plan, side by side
Both platforms are one-time payments per event, so this is a straight comparison rather than a subscription puzzle. Wedding Photo Swap figures come from their pricing page, including the currency switcher values.
Setup only, up to 30 days before the wedding
50MB test uploads. No printable QR code, no personalised link, no video, no downloads, no photo book, no challenges.
6 months from the wedding date
Unlimited guest photo uploads, printable QR code and personalised link, full-gallery download, photo book design, guest photo challenges. No guest video.
12 months from the wedding date
Everything in Gold plus guest video uploads and full-quality download of everything.
While you are testing
20 real guest uploads, working QR code, no credit card, free QR sticker designer.
6 months hosting plus a ZIP you keep forever
Unlimited photos and videos from unlimited guests, custom branding, full-quality ZIP download.
1 year hosting plus a ZIP you keep forever
Everything in Starter plus live reception slideshow, up to 6 sub-albums, audio guestbook messages.
2 years hosting plus a ZIP you keep forever
Everything in Standard, sized for 200+ guest weddings.
Wedding Photo Swap also lists Canadian dollars, Australian dollars, New Zealand dollars and South African rand on the same pricing page.
The honest economics of an auto photobook
The photobook is Wedding Photo Swap's most distinctive promise. Their how it works page says the app "automatically compiles your photos into stunning photobooks, ready to order and cherish forever," and both paid tiers list photo book design as an included feature. It is a genuinely nice idea: the hardest part of making a wedding album is starting it, and this removes that step.
- The design step is included in Gold and Platinum. Their pricing page lists "Turn your favourite moments into a photo book faster" as a plan feature on both.
- The printed book is a physical object with a real cost, and that cost is not published on the pricing page, the how it works page or the FAQs as of September 2026.
- For scale, mainstream print services publish their own entry prices: Shutterfly lists wedding albums from $29.99 and Mixbook lists custom wedding photo books from $14.99, while a premium layflat wedding album runs into the low hundreds. A book compiled from phone photos sits at the lower end of that range unless you size up.
- An auto-compiled book is a genuine convenience, and the honest counterpoint is that it is convenience, not savings. You are paying a print price either way.
- With Pix Wedding you download the full-quality ZIP and take it to whichever print service you like, at whatever moment you like, including three years after the wedding when the hosting window is long gone.
Before you upgrade for the book, email their support and ask what a finished book costs in your size and page count. If the answer is reasonable and the convenience is worth it to you, that is a good buy. If they will not quote before you are a customer, treat the book as a maybe and price the plan on its other features. Either way, read our guide on building a wedding photo memory book from guest photos first so you know what you are comparing against.
Pros and cons of each
Pros
- A free tier you can run a small wedding on: 20 real guest uploads with a working QR code and no credit card. Not a setup sandbox, a working album.
- Video included on the cheapest paid plan: Guest video is part of every paid Pix Wedding plan from $49, rather than being the reason to jump to the top tier.
- A clean archive, not a feed: No likes, no comment threads, no counts under each photo. The album reads like a shared roll of film rather than a group chat, which is what most couples want two years later.
- A full-quality ZIP you keep forever: Every paid plan includes a full-quality ZIP download. The hosting window ends eventually, your copy of the files does not.
- Longer top-end storage window: Pro holds the live album for two years, against a published 12-month maximum on Wedding Photo Swap Platinum.
- Slideshow and sub-albums for the day and after: A live slideshow from the Standard plan up, and up to 6 sub-albums on Standard and Pro to split ceremony, speeches and dance floor.
Cons
- Higher entry price: $49 (£39) against Gold at £29.99. On a straight sticker-price comparison for a photos-only wedding, Wedding Photo Swap is cheaper.
- No likes or comments: If you want guests reacting to each other's photos in the album, Pix Wedding does not offer that layer at all.
- No built-in photobook designer: You export the ZIP and take it to any print service. Convenient for price shopping, less convenient than a one-click book.
- Shorter track record: Wedding Photo Swap has had an iOS app on the store since January 2014. Pix Wedding is newer.
Pros
- Genuinely cheap entry tier: Gold at £29.99 with unlimited guest photo uploads and a full-gallery download is a strong price for a photos-only wedding.
- The social layer is real: Guests can comment, like and save favourites, and their pricing FAQ confirms guests never pay for any of it. For families that love a group chat, this lands well.
- One-click photobook design: The app compiles your photos into a book layout for you. If the alternative was you never making an album at all, that convenience has genuine value.
- Approve-before-visible moderation: Their FAQ describes approving photos before they are visible and hiding or deleting any item at any time, which is stronger pre-publication control than most tools in this category.
- Seven checkout currencies: GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, AUD, NZD and ZAR are all on the pricing page, which is unusually broad for this category.
- Photo challenges built in: Gold and Platinum include guest photo challenges to prompt more uploads, in-product rather than on a printed card.
Cons
- Video is gated to the top tier: Their pricing page lists guest video uploads as Platinum only. If you want video, the real price is £39.99, not £29.99.
- The free tier cannot run a wedding: 50MB of test uploads, no printable QR code, no personalised link, no downloads. It is a rehearsal, not a trial of the real thing.
- No published photobook price: The book is presented as a benefit of upgrading, but the cost of the printed object is not stated anywhere public. You find out after you are already a customer.
- Twelve months is the published ceiling: Platinum keeps everything accessible for 12 months from the wedding date. Download before that clock runs out.
- A comment feed changes guest behaviour: Likes and comments are a feature until the album becomes something people perform for. Worth thinking about before you switch it on for 150 relatives.
Which one should you pick?
Choose Pix Wedding if
- You want a genuine free tier with a working QR code before you spend anything
- You want guest video included at the cheapest paid price, not gated to the top tier
- You want the album to stay a clean archive with no likes, counts or comment threads
- You want a full-quality ZIP you keep forever plus up to two years of live hosting
- You want a live slideshow running on a screen at the reception
- You would rather price-shop your own photo book than accept a book price you cannot see upfront
Choose Wedding Photo Swap if
- The lowest possible sticker price for a photos-only wedding matters most
- You genuinely want guests liking and commenting on each other's photos
- A one-click, auto-compiled photobook is the outcome you care about
- You want to approve every photo before anyone else can see it
- You are paying in a currency outside the usual USD and EUR pair
- You prefer a brand with a decade-plus history on the app stores
The differences that decide it
Pricing: the cheaper sticker and the real number
Wedding Photo Swap Gold is £29.99 and Platinum is £39.99, checked on their pricing page in September 2026. Pix Wedding is $49, $59 or $89 one-time, which their own currency table renders as £39, £47 and £70. On sticker price alone, Gold undercuts every Pix Wedding paid plan, and that is a genuine win worth naming.
The number moves once video enters the conversation. Their pricing page lists guest video uploads as a Platinum feature, and Gold explicitly says to choose Platinum if you want video too. So a wedding that wants video is comparing £39.99 to £39, which is a coin flip, not a discount.
Then check what the money buys after the day. Platinum keeps everything accessible for 12 months from the wedding date. Pix Wedding Standard at £47 hosts for a year and Pro at £70 hosts for two, and every paid Pix plan includes a full-quality ZIP download that stays yours after hosting ends. Pay attention to that distinction: a hosting window is rented, a downloaded ZIP is owned.
What the free tier really lets you do
This is the widest gap between the two products. Wedding Photo Swap's Free tier, per their own pricing page, gets your album ready up to 30 days before the wedding from your sign-up date and gives you 50MB of test uploads. The printable QR code, the personalised link, guest video, full-gallery downloads, photo book design and photo challenges are all listed as upgrades.
That is a setup sandbox. Useful, honest about what it is, and not something you can point 120 guests at on the day.
Pix Wedding's free tier is 20 real guest uploads with a working QR code and no credit card. Small, but real: you can print the sticker, hand it to five people at the rehearsal dinner, and see the whole flow end to end with actual guests and actual photos before you decide anything.
Video: included, or the reason to upgrade
Guests film more than they photograph now. The speech, the first dance, the sparkler exit: those live as video on a phone, and a wedding album without them has a hole in the middle of it.
Wedding Photo Swap gates guest video behind Platinum. Gold, the £29.99 tier, says plainly to choose Platinum if you want guest video uploads too. That is a clean, well-signposted upsell, and it means the cheap tier is a photo-only product.
Pix Wedding includes guest video on every paid plan starting at $49, at full resolution with no compression pass. If video is not optional for you, compare Platinum against Pix Wedding Starter rather than comparing against Gold.
Moderation and privacy: a point for Wedding Photo Swap
Their FAQ describes approving photos before they are visible, deleting or hiding any item at any time, automatic checks for inappropriate content, and an album that is private by default so only people with the link or QR code can reach it. Their how it works page adds an optional wedding password for the album.
Pre-publication approval is a meaningful control if you are nervous about what a group of 200 people will upload to something projected on a wall. It also creates work: someone has to sit in a queue approving photos while the party happens, or the album stays empty until the next morning.
Pix Wedding albums are private by link too and the host can remove any upload, but the default is that photos appear immediately. That is the right default for a live album and the wrong default if you want everything vetted first. Match the tool to your comfort level here rather than to the feature list.
After the wedding: what you are left holding
Both platforms let paying customers download originals. Wedding Photo Swap says premium subscribers can download original, uncompressed photos, with individual files and full-album ZIPs, and their help page notes the free account cannot download at all. Pix Wedding includes a full-quality ZIP on every paid plan.
The difference is the deadline. On Wedding Photo Swap the album is accessible for 6 or 12 months from the wedding date depending on tier. Miss that window and the live gallery, along with every comment under every photo, closes with it.
The advice is the same for both: download everything the week after the wedding, put the ZIP somewhere with a backup, and treat the hosted album as the convenient copy rather than the only copy. Our guide on turning that download into something physical is at the wedding photo memory book page linked below.
Where Wedding Photo Swap beats Pix Wedding
We are not going to pretend this is one-sided. Five areas where Wedding Photo Swap is the stronger pick:
- Cheaper if you do not need video. Gold at £29.99 with unlimited guest photo uploads, a printable QR code and a full-gallery download undercuts Pix Wedding Starter at £39. For a photos-only wedding, that is real money saved.
- The social layer exists and Pix Wedding does not have one. Likes, comments and saved favourites are a headline feature there and a deliberate absence here. If your family will enjoy it, no amount of archive purism replaces it.
- A photobook designed for you. The app compiles a book layout automatically. Most couples never get around to making an album, and removing the blank-page problem is worth something even if the print cost is separate.
- Approve-before-visible moderation. Their FAQ describes approving photos before they become visible and hiding or deleting anything at any time. That is a stronger pre-publication control than a live album gives you.
- Guest photo challenges built into the product. On Gold and Platinum, prompts push guests toward specific shots inside the app rather than on a printed card at the table.
If two or more of those five describe your wedding, Wedding Photo Swap is the right call and we would rather you pick it than pick us and regret it.
The UK angle, briefly
Wedding Photo Swap shows up a lot in UK wedding searches, and there is a straightforward reason for that.
The company behind the app is listed on the App Store as The Photo Swap Company Limited, and prices are quoted in pounds first with GBP as the default currency on the pricing page.
The pricing page also offers euros, US dollars, Canadian dollars, Australian dollars, New Zealand dollars and South African rand, so it is not UK-only, it is UK-first.
Pix Wedding prices in pounds too: £39 Starter, £47 Standard, £70 Pro, one-time, with the same free tier and the same browser-only guest flow.
Neither platform has a UK-specific limitation. Both work anywhere with mobile data or venue wifi, which matters more than the billing currency when your venue is a barn in Somerset with two bars of signal.
If you are planning a UK wedding, the venue wifi question deserves more of your attention than the currency question. Guests upload after the day far more often than during it, on either platform.
More on planning the photo side of a UK wedding in our UK wedding photo sharing guide.
What the app listings tell you
A long track record
The Wedding Photo Swap & Share iOS app is published by The Photo Swap Company Limited and first shipped in January 2014, with the current version updated in July 2026. Its own listing describes the service as "trusted since 2009." In a category full of six-month-old startups, that longevity is a fair signal.
Ratings are solid, not spotless
On the US App Store the app averages around 4.6 stars across roughly 190 ratings, and the Google Play listing sits near 3.8 stars across roughly 240 reviews, checked September 2026. Read a spread of the recent one-star reviews before you decide, on any platform in this category including ours.
The app is optional either way
Their FAQ is clear that guests can join from any phone browser with the private link or QR code and that the app is not required. Pix Wedding has no app at all: guests scan, land on a web page, and upload. On both platforms, the mobile app is a convenience for the couple, not a requirement for the guest list.
Six things to settle before you pay for either one
Do you want video?
If yes, Wedding Photo Swap means Platinum at £39.99. Pix Wedding includes it from $49 / £39. This single question moves the price comparison more than any other.
Do you want a feed or an archive?
Likes and comments are on by design on one platform and absent by design on the other. Decide this deliberately rather than discovering it on the day.
Who is approving photos?
Pre-publication approval is a real feature and a real job. If nobody is going to sit in the queue during the reception, the moderation advantage evaporates.
When are you downloading?
Put a calendar reminder for the week after the wedding. Both platforms host for a fixed window and only the downloaded files are permanently yours.
What is the book going to cost?
If the auto photobook is the reason you are upgrading, get a number in writing before you pay for the plan.
How is the venue wifi?
Ask the venue. If signal is poor, tell guests in advance that uploads can wait until the morning after. This matters far more than any feature on either list.
Switching from Wedding Photo Swap to Pix Wedding
There is no automated import between the two, so this is a manual move. It takes about fifteen minutes and the order of operations matters.
Download everything first
On Gold or Platinum, run the full-gallery download from your Wedding Photo Swap dashboard before your 6 or 12 month window closes. Screenshot any comment threads you want to keep, because those do not come down with the files.
Create a Pix Wedding event
Sign up at pix.wedding, add your names and wedding date, and start on the free tier. No card needed to get a working QR code.
Upload the archive
Unzip the export and upload the photos and videos into your Pix album through the same browser uploader guests use. On Standard or Pro, sort them into sub-albums by moment as you go.
Print a fresh QR sticker
Use the free QR sticker designer for the next event, whether that is the anniversary brunch or somebody else's wedding you are helping plan.
Do the download first. Whichever platform you end up on, the files are the only part of a hosted album that is genuinely yours, and every hosting window on both platforms has an end date.
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Compare Pix Wedding to other apps
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Watch a Pix Wedding album fill up live
A real Pix Wedding demo album taking guest photos moments after they are taken. No app, no account, no comment threads, just the roll of film filling in.
Exactly what your guests see after scanning the QR code.
Speeches
Uncle Rob crying
One QR code. Every photo. No feed to manage.
Set up your Pix Wedding album in under ten minutes, one-time payment from $49, guest video included, and a full-quality ZIP that stays yours long after the hosting window closes.
From best man
Scan to join the album
No app, no account
UPLOADING
Saving your moment
THE ALBUM
Emma & Jack
June 21, 2026
647 photos · 95 guests
SCAN TO TRY
pix.wedding/
your-wedding
How to choose between Pix Wedding and Wedding Photo Swap
Three questions settle it. First, do you want your album to be social or to be an archive? Wedding Photo Swap builds likes, comments and photo challenges into the experience on purpose. Pix Wedding leaves them out on purpose. Neither answer is better in the abstract, but one of them matches your guest list and the other does not.
Second, is guest video optional? If it is, Gold at £29.99 is the cheapest credible option on this page. If it is not, you are comparing Platinum at £39.99 against Pix Wedding Starter at £39, and the decision moves to storage window, downloads and whether you want a feed.
Third, how long do you want the live album to survive? Wedding Photo Swap publishes 6 months on Gold and 12 months on Platinum from the wedding date. Pix Wedding runs 6 months, 1 year or 2 years by tier, and every paid plan hands you a full-quality ZIP that outlives the hosting entirely.
- •Chatty guest list that lives in group chats: lean Wedding Photo Swap for the social layer
- •Unplugged ceremony or an older guest list: lean Pix Wedding for the quieter album
- •Video is essential: compare Platinum to Pix Wedding Starter, not to Gold
- •You want to test with real guests before paying: Pix Wedding is the only free tier here that can
- •You want a book with no effort: Wedding Photo Swap, and ask the printed price before you commit
- •You want to own the files long after the album closes: Pix Wedding for the forever ZIP
A note on the name, and on the other apps that sound like it
Search results in this category are a minefield of similar names. Wedding Photo Swap is weddingphotoswap.com, with a mobile app called Wedding Photo Swap & Share published by The Photo Swap Company Limited. It is not WeddingSnap.io, which is a separate company with a separate product and its own comparison page on this site. It is also not WedShoots, Wedbox or Wedibox, all of which are different products again.
Before you pay for anything in this category, check the exact domain in your browser bar against the one in the review you read. Pricing, storage windows and feature sets differ enormously between platforms whose names differ by one word.
Other wedding photo sharing platforms worth comparing
Wedding Photo Swap and Pix Wedding are two answers to the same problem, but the category is crowded. GuestPix and GuestCam sit in the disposable-camera aesthetic corner. Dearest markets itself as the premium option. WedUploader routes uploads straight into Google Drive. Google Photos shared albums are free but ask every guest for a Google account.
Comparing three options against your specific situation beats picking whichever one appeared first in search. Guest count, whether you need video, how long you want the album live, and whether you want a feed are the four variables that decide it.
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No. Wedding Photo Swap lives at weddingphotoswap.com and is run by The Photo Swap Company Limited, per its App Store listing. WeddingSnap.io is a completely separate company and product, and we compare that one on a different page. The names look alike in search results, so check the domain before you pay. Everything on this page refers only to weddingphotoswap.com and its "Wedding Photo Swap & Share" mobile app.
Their pricing page lists three tiers, checked September 2026: Free at £0.00, Gold at £29.99, and Platinum at £39.99. The same page offers a currency switcher, and the Gold and Platinum rows carry $33.99 and $53.99 in US dollars, and €34.99 and €46.99 in euros. Pix Wedding charges $49, $59 or $89 one time (£39, £47 or £70), with a free tier of 20 guest uploads and no card required.
It is built for setup, not for the day itself. Their pricing page describes the Free tier as getting your album ready up to 30 days before the wedding from your sign-up date, with 50MB of test uploads, and it lists the printable QR code, personalised link, guest videos, full-gallery downloads, one-click photo book design and guest photo challenges as upgrades. So you can rehearse on Free, but you cannot collect and download a real wedding on it. Pix Wedding's free tier gives you 20 real guest uploads with a working QR code and no card.
No. Their own FAQ says guests can join from any phone browser using the private link or QR code, and that the app is optional. That matches Pix Wedding, which is browser only for guests with no app and no account. The difference is that the printable QR code and personalised link are an upgrade on Wedding Photo Swap's Free tier, while Pix Wedding includes the QR code even on the free plan.
They do not publish a price. Wedding Photo Swap says its app "automatically compiles your photos into stunning photobooks, ready to order," and both Gold and Platinum list photo book design as an included feature, but no printed book price appears on the pricing page, the how it works page or the FAQs as of September 2026. The design step is included in the plan; the physical book is a separate purchase you will only see the cost of once you are inside. Budget for it the same way you would budget for any printed album.
Wedding Photo Swap makes the social layer a headline feature: their how it works page says guests can comment, like and save their favourite photos, and their pricing FAQ confirms guests do not pay to view, like or comment. Pix Wedding is deliberately quieter. It is built as a shared archive first, with a live album view and a slideshow from the Standard plan up, so the day is captured rather than performed. If a comment thread under every photo is the experience you want, that is a real reason to pick Wedding Photo Swap.