You are the host: a birthday, a wedding, a reunion, a team party. Thirty people are taking photos on thirty phones, and you want all the good ones in one place afterwards. You do not want to message each guest for files, and you do not want your event's photos feeding an ad network. You want a simple way to share event photos that guests will actually use.
What is hard right now
- "Everyone took photos, and I have maybe six of them. The rest are scattered across thirty camera rolls."
- "Half my guests are on Android and half are on iPhone. Whatever app I pick, someone can't use it."
- "I asked people to send their photos afterwards. Two did. I'm not chasing the rest."
- "I don't want to make every guest create an account just to upload a picture."
- "I'm not comfortable posting my event's photos somewhere that sells data or shows ads."
Scenarios
Birthday parties
Before the party, you create the event in sync.camera, name it and pick an end time. Then you print the QR code on a card and put it on the table next to the cake.
Guests scan it with their phone camera and join from the browser. The invite link works on any modern phone, so Aunt Sarah on Android lands in the same album as the cousins on iPhone. Nobody has to create an account first, and nobody has to install anything to start adding photos.
Planning something like this? See how it works for a birthday party.
Weddings with a ceremony, reception and after-party
A wedding day has stages, and your photos should too. With Moments, you split the day into a ceremony, a reception and an after-party. Each stage gets its own QR code and its own reveal timing.
Guests move from the ceremony to the reception without switching apps. You also choose a reveal mode. Pick "After the event" and the gallery unlocks only when the event ends, which keeps the surprise for the couple.
Family reunions and group trips
At a reunion, everyone scans the same code, or types the eight-character invite if they are standing too far from the table. Photos from different people sit together in one album instead of in thirty separate camera rolls.
Later, you can filter by photographer to see just one cousin's shots, then export your favorites. No one has to dig through a group chat to find the good ones.
Hosting the whole family? Read more about a family reunion album.
Larger events with more guests
The free tier supports up to 7 guest uploaders per event. Free to start. Upgrade per event.
When you create a bigger event, SYNC PRO is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, that expands the guest and photo limits for that single event. Upgrade again only when you create a larger event.
Features that make this work
QR code invites
You put one code on a table or invitation. Guests join from a QR code or an eight-character invite, with no account required, so nobody drops out before uploading.
Reveal modes
You pick when guests see the photos: live during the event, after it ends, or a set number of hours after it ends. You control the timing for your kind of event.
Guest upload
Guests contribute from any modern phone browser through the invite link. Installing the iOS or Android app is optional and adds better camera controls and push notifications for new photos.
Private event albums
Your album is scoped to your event. Photos are encrypted in transit, stored in event-scoped buckets and protected by per-event row-level security. We don't sell your photos or your data, and there are no ads and no cross-app tracking.