Viallo is a private photo-sharing app for collecting photos from a group. For a wedding, the organiser creates one album and shares a link or a printed QR code; anyone who receives it can add photos from any browser with no app, no account and no name to type, on iPhone or Android alike. Photos are stored at full resolution, up to 500 MB per file, with no expiry date and no download deadline; you can download the originals at any time. Unlimited people can contribute on every plan including the free one. Hosted in the EU on Cloudflare R2; photos are never used to train AI models. Operated by Zava Solutions LLC.
For the wedding
The best photos from your wedding are still on your guests' phones.
Print one QR code for the tables. Guests scan it, pick their photos, and they land in your album - nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, not even a name to type. You keep every one at the size it was taken.
- Free to start ·
- No card needed ·
- Full-resolution originals ·
- EU-hosted
How the wedding photo QR code works
You make an album and share one link - or print the QR code. Whoever you send it to taps it, and the albums you picked open in their browser. They choose one, pick photos from their phone and tap once.
No app to install, no account to make, no password to remember, and no name to type.
It works the same on an iPhone and on an Android, in whatever browser they already have. Their photos land in your album at the size they were taken.
One QR code. That's the whole setup.
Share
Create the album and send the link, or print the code. You can set it up weeks ahead - the link works before there's a single photo in the album.
They add
They tap, pick, done. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, nothing to type. Same on iPhone and Android.
You keep
Every photo arrives at full resolution, not a shrunken copy. There's no expiry date and no download deadline, and you can download the originals at any time, at no extra cost.
The code goes wherever people will be - a printed card on each table, or one by the door. Download the QR as a print-ready PNG and give it to whoever is doing your stationery.
Will people actually use it?
Some of them. Not all of them - and anyone who quotes you a percentage is guessing.
The numbers you'll see on other sites - 85%, 90%, 93% - come with no sample size, no date, and no explanation of how they were counted. We're not going to add another one to the pile. What we can tell you is what seems to actually move the number, from people who've done it:
- Put the code where people already stop. On the tables, at the bar, by the guest book - a sign at the entrance gets scanned by nobody, and what stops the ones who do scan is almost never apathy, it is a sign-in wall.
- Give them something to take home. Most people upload after the wedding, at home, picking their best shots - a card in a pocket beats a sign they walked past.
- Ask twice. Once on the night, once in the thank-you note a week later.
This is the part where we're different. With most of these tools the second ask is pointless, because the upload window has already shut - 24 hours on some free plans, a few months on others. Ours doesn't shut. If someone finds three good photos eight months later, they can still add them.
Someone at your wedding keeps their passwords in a notebook and won't install an app for anyone. They don't have to.
The photo you get back is full resolution, not a shrunken copy
Send a photo through a group chat and it gets shrunk on the way - that's how group chats work, and it's why the photo your friend sent you looks fine on your phone and falls apart the moment you try to print it.
Photos uploaded to Viallo keep their full resolution - up to 500 MB each, without the group-chat shrinking that turns a 24-megapixel photo into something that falls apart in print. (Photos from an iPhone are saved as high-quality JPEGs; everything else is kept as it arrived.) When you come back to make the book you keep meaning to make, they'll still be big enough.
The morning after
You wake up and it's already there.
Your photographer's gallery is weeks out - this is the bit in between, and for a lot of couples it turns out to be the bit they look at most. The speeches from the table your cousin was on. The dance floor at midnight from four different angles. The one of your dad that nobody else got.
It arrives in the order the photos were taken, so the day reads start to finish: getting ready, the ceremony, the toasts, the last ones at 2am that nobody remembers taking.
And it doesn't stop there
Guests can keep adding for as long as you want them to. That sounds like a small thing. It's the whole difference. Most people upload after the wedding, not during it - when they're home and going through their camera roll properly. With tools that shut the upload window days after the event, those photos were never coming. Here they can arrive in a month, or next spring, and they land in the same album.
Which is why it's worth asking again in the thank-you notes.
How long do you get to keep them?
Most of these tools are renting you time. That's not a criticism - it's the business model. You pay once for the event, and the photos sit on their servers for a fixed window: a week on some free plans, three months on others, twelve months at the common price point, twenty-four at the top of the market. Then you renew, or you download everything before the date, or you lose them.
The ceiling across this entire category is twenty-four months.
Viallo doesn't run a clock. There's no expiry date on the album and no deadline to download it. And the plan isn't a wedding package - it's your account, so the same subscription covers the honeymoon, the first anniversary, and next Christmas.
The other ways to do this
Your photographer's gallery
- What it costs
- The largest single line in most photo budgets
- What happens to the photos
- Full size, professionally edited - and weeks away. It is also one person's angle on the day
The group chat
- What it costs
- Free
- What happens to the photos
- Compressed on the way in, and scrolled past within a week
Google Photos shared album
- What it costs
- Free - counts against the 15 GB you share with Gmail and Drive
- What happens to the photos
- Full size, no clock. Whether the people you send the link to can add photos is a setting on the album - Google calls it Collaborate
An iPhone shared album
- What it costs
- Free
- What happens to the photos
- No clock - but as of 2026 photos are capped at 2,048 pixels on the long edge, about 3 megapixels of the 24 a modern phone shoots
A per-event app
- What it costs
- $39 to $119 for the one event
- What happens to the photos
- Full size - then a clock. Most lock or delete the gallery at 12 months; the ceiling in the category is 24
Viallo
- What it costs
- $5.99/month or $59/year - your whole account, not one event
- What happens to the photos
- Full size. No expiry date and no download deadline
| Option | What it costs | What happens to the photos |
|---|---|---|
| Your photographer's gallery | The largest single line in most photo budgets | Full size, professionally edited - and weeks away. It is also one person's angle on the day |
| The group chat | Free | Compressed on the way in, and scrolled past within a week |
| Google Photos shared album | Free - counts against the 15 GB you share with Gmail and Drive | Full size, no clock. Whether the people you send the link to can add photos is a setting on the album - Google calls it Collaborate |
| An iPhone shared album | Free | No clock - but as of 2026 photos are capped at 2,048 pixels on the long edge, about 3 megapixels of the 24 a modern phone shoots |
| A per-event app | $39 to $119 for the one event | Full size - then a clock. Most lock or delete the gallery at 12 months; the ceiling in the category is 24 |
| Viallo | $5.99/month or $59/year - your whole account, not one event | Full size. No expiry date and no download deadline |
The long version, with every method compared, is in the wedding photo sharing guide. If there's an engagement party first, the party page covers that one.
Don't trust us. Check.
Your guests are not asked to make an account, and they are not asked to type anything - not a name, not an email. There is a sign-in link on the page for anyone who wants their own copy kept, and nobody has to touch it.
Put one photo in and download it again, then check its dimensions against the original on your phone. They will match. That is the one claim on this page you can check in about a minute, and it is the one that matters most.
Who can see it
Only the people you give the link to. Albums aren't public, aren't listed, and aren't indexed by search engines. Anyone with the upload link can add photos - that's the part that makes it work without accounts - and you decide separately who gets a link to view. You can switch any link off at any time, and the photos stay.
Everything is hosted in the EU. We don't train AI models on anyone's photos.
What it costs
Free
2 albums, 200 photos, 10 GB
Guests can add photos on the free plan, and there's no limit on how many people contribute, on any plan.
A whole wedding usually runs 500 to 2,000 photos once guests and your photographer's gallery are in, so a full wedding album needs Plus. Free is enough to test it and to hold a curated set.
Plus
$5.99 a month, or $59 for the year
20 albums, 5,000 photos, 200 GB
Pro
$14.99 a month, or $149 for the year
unlimited albums and photos, up to 1 TB of storage
Plus isn't an event package - it's your account. The same $59 covers this occasion and every one after it.
Create your wedding album - freeQuestions about a shared photo album for a wedding
Do people need to download an app?
No. They tap the link, or point their phone camera at the code, and a web page opens. They pick photos from their phone and tap once. No app, no account, no password, nothing to sign up for - and it works the same on iPhone and Android, which is the bit that catches people out with iCloud shared albums, where adding a photo still means signing in with an Apple Account.
What about the people who aren't good with technology?
That's the case this is built for. There's no login screen, which is where most of these things fall over - someone scans a code, hits a Google or Apple sign-in wall, and gives up. Here the link opens straight onto the albums you picked, and adding a photo is one tap.
How long do we keep the photos?
There's no expiry date and no download deadline - we don't run a clock on them the way the per-event tools do, where you get 12 months and then renew. One limit is worth knowing: if your account goes over what your plan holds, the oldest photos are hidden a few days later rather than deleted, and they come back, up to what your plan then holds, if you subscribe again within 30 days. You can download your originals at full resolution any time, at no extra cost - one at a time, or as a multi-select zip. On a phone, a very large batch has to come down in a few goes rather than one.
Who can see the album?
Only the people you give a link to. Albums aren't public, aren't listed and aren't indexed by search engines. Anyone with the upload link can add photos; you decide separately who gets a link to view. You can switch any link off at any time, and the photos stay.
Can someone add a photo we don't want in there?
Anyone with the link can add photos - that's what makes it work without accounts. You can delete anything from your album, and you can switch the upload link off entirely once the occasion is over.
Can people upload video?
Photos only. If someone films the speeches, they'll need to send those another way.
How many photos will we actually get?
It varies a lot - see the section above. Where you put the link, and asking a second time a week later, seem to make more difference than anything else.
What does it cost?
Free to start. See the plans above - and note that Plus covers your whole account, not one occasion.
Is there a wedding photo app for guests to download?
No - there is nothing for guests to install. They scan the code, the album opens in whatever browser is already on their phone, and they pick their photos.
Does this replace our photographer?
No, and it isn't trying to. The professional gallery is usually weeks out, and this fills that gap - plus all the angles one photographer physically couldn't be at. The table your cousin was on. The dance floor at midnight.
What happens after the wedding?
Nothing changes. The album stays as it is, same link, same photos. Guests can keep adding for as long as you want them to - which matters more than it sounds, because most people upload in the week after the wedding, not on the night. Didn't get to it on the night? The code still works. Scan any time.
Will it take the photos an iPhone actually shoots?
Yes, including HEIC - the format iPhones actually shoot in. It is a common failure point elsewhere and it is the first thing that goes wrong on the night when it goes wrong. One exception to the section above, worth naming: a HEIC file is converted to a JPEG on the way in, because that is what every browser can open. Nothing is scaled down - the pixel dimensions are untouched - but the file you download is that full-size JPEG rather than the original HEIC.
What if we stop paying?
You drop to the free plan, which holds 200 photos. We email you when that happens and nothing moves for a few days, which is your window to download the originals at full resolution. After that, anything over the 200 is hidden rather than deleted - the oldest first - and if you resubscribe within 30 days it comes back, up to whatever the new plan holds. Past 30 days the hidden photos are deleted for good. Your albums themselves are never archived or removed.
One album. One link. Everyone's photos.
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