You’re organizing a birthday party for someone you love. Between welcoming friends, serving food, and bringing out the cake, you can’t photograph everything, and your guests capture different parts of the celebration on different phones. sync.camera is an event app for guest photos: you create an event, guests join with a QR code, and the pictures land in one shared album, with you deciding when the gallery opens.
What is hard right now
- I’m carrying out the cake while everyone else takes the photos I want.
- Some friends have Android phones, others have iPhones. I don’t want joining the album to become another hosting job.
- I spend the next week asking different people to send their pictures.
- I want a shared photo reveal after the party, rather than everyone checking the gallery all evening.
Scenarios
Let guests join as they arrive
Your cousin arrives with an Android phone while your friends use iPhones. Before the party, you create the event, name it, and pick an end time. Then you put the event QR code beside the welcome sign.
Guests scan it and join from any modern phone browser, with no account required. Installing the iOS or Android app is optional, so nobody has to download anything before they can start sharing. If someone would rather type than scan, there is an eight-character invite too, and joining never turns into another hosting job for you.
Free to start. Upgrade per event. The free tier supports up to 7 guest uploaders per event, and SYNC PRO is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, that expands guest and photo limits for a single event. Upgrade again only when you create a larger event.
Find the cake photos you missed while hosting
You carry the cake into the room while your sister photographs the birthday guest’s reaction. Instead of asking around the next week, you already have those pictures, because guests contribute what they shoot to the event album.
Later, filter by photographer to find your sister’s shots, then export your favorites. For more ideas on what guests tend to capture, see photo ideas guests will actually want to share.
Give dinner and the after-party their own photo reveal
The celebration starts with a family dinner and continues with friends at an after-party. Use Moments to split those stages, each with its own QR code and reveal timing. Guests move between them without switching apps.
You might show dinner photos during that stage and choose a later reveal for the after-party, so nobody is refreshing the gallery all evening. Or keep one live gallery if you would rather everyone see photos as they are taken. It is your call, stage by stage.
Features that make this work
QR code invites
Give arriving guests a clear way to join while you welcome people. Guests can use a QR code or an eight-character invite, with no account required.
Cross-platform joining
Friends can join through the invite link in any modern phone browser. The optional iOS and Android apps add better camera controls and push notifications for new photos.
Reveal modes
Choose a live gallery during the party, an unlock when the event ends, or an additional delay measured in hours after the event ends.
Export your favorites
After finding the cake reaction and group pictures you love, export those favorites.
Privacy controls
sync.camera does not sell your photos or your data, has no ads, and does no cross-app tracking.