You are getting married, and your guests will take hundreds of photos you will never see unless you can collect them. The pro photographer covers the formal shots. Your friends catch the candid ones: the laugh during the toasts, the dance floor at midnight. You want those in one place, without chasing people for weeks, without asking anyone to make an account, and without handing your wedding to an ad-funded platform.
What is hard right now
- Guests take the best candids, then the photos stay on 80 different phones and you never see them.
- I do not want to message every guest after the wedding asking them to send photos.
- Half our guests are on iPhone and half on Android, and my grandparents will not install an app or sign up for anything.
- I want our wedding photos to stay private, not sold, not scraped, not shown to strangers.
- I do not want guests scrolling through the album during the ceremony instead of watching it.
Scenarios
At the ceremony and reception: one QR code on the table
You put a QR code on the welcome sign and on the table cards. A guest scans it with her phone camera and joins from the browser using the invite link. No account required. The guest on Android and the guest on iPhone both end up in the same album.
Installing the iOS or Android app is optional. It adds better camera controls and push notifications for new photos, but your grandparents can skip it and still take part. If someone would rather type than scan, there is an eight-character invite too.
Sync.camera is free to start: the free tier covers up to 7 guest uploaders per event. If your guest list is larger, SYNC PRO is a one-time purchase per event, not a subscription, that expands the guest and photo limits. Free to start. Upgrade per event.
Ceremony, reception, after-party: Moments for each stage
You split the wedding into Moments, such as ceremony, reception and after-party. Each Moment has its own QR code and its own reveal timing, and guests move between them without switching apps.
That means the ceremony photos can stay hidden while the dance-floor photos show live. Nobody is scrolling the album during your vows, and the party still feels shared while it is happening.
The morning after: you see everything, and keep your favorites
When you create the event, you pick a reveal mode. During means guests see photos live. After the event means the gallery unlocks when the event ends. Additional delay unlocks it a set number of hours after the event ends.
The next morning you open one album instead of 80 camera rolls. If you want to see what one friend caught, narrow the album to that contributor's shots with the filter by photographer. Then export your favorites for your own library and your thank-you notes. No chasing anyone.
Keeping it private: who can see your wedding
Only people with your QR code or eight-character invite can join. We do not sell your photos or your data. No ads. No cross-app tracking. Photos are encrypted in transit and stored in event-scoped buckets, and access is enforced by per-event row-level security.
We do not collect advertising identifiers and we embed no third-party advertising or marketing SDKs. To be straight with you: we do use product analytics, a crash reporter, and Firebase Cloud Messaging for Android push notifications.
If you delete your account, the profile, the events it owns and their photos are removed within 30 days.
Features that make this work
QR code to share wedding photos
One printed code on the welcome sign or table cards lets every guest join, whatever phone they carry, with no account required.
Reveal modes
You decide whether guests see photos live, after the wedding ends, or a set number of hours later, so nobody is scrolling during your vows.
Guest upload
Guests add photos straight from their phone browser, so the candids come to you instead of staying in 80 camera rolls.
Private event albums
Your wedding album is scoped to your event and open only to people with your invite.
Downloads
Export your favorites after the wedding so the best shots end up in your own library and your thank-you notes.