Share a Photo Album With a QR Code
A QR code is the shortest distance between photos on your phone and photos on someone else's. No typing a URL, no swapping numbers, no asking which app they use — they point a camera at it and the album opens.
Share photos now — no sign-up →How it works
- Upload the photos — Select the whole set at once. Several files become one gallery, which is what makes a single code worth scanning.
- Set how long it should last — A day for something at an event, a month for photos people will come back to. The album deletes itself at the end.
- Show the QR code — It appears on the page as soon as the link is created. Hold up your phone, or print it and put it on a table.
- They scan and it opens — Any modern phone camera reads a QR code natively. It opens in their browser — no app, no account, no sign-in.
Where this beats a group chat
At a wedding, a party or a work event, the usual options are all awkward. A group chat needs everyone's number and buries the photos under conversation. AirDrop only works between Apple devices, in the same room, one person at a time. A shared cloud album asks people to have an account with the same provider you do.
A code on a card on the table asks for none of that. Someone's grandmother can point a phone at it and see the pictures, which is a fairly high bar for a photo-sharing mechanism to clear.
Printing it
The code is generated as an image on the link page, so you can screenshot it, drop it into a table card, an order of service or a slide, and print it. It encodes an ordinary URL, so nothing about it depends on us being scanned rather than typed.
Give the printed version a longer expiry than you think you need. A card that outlives the album it points at is worse than no card.
Collecting photos versus handing them out
This shares an album you made. It is not an upload box that guests add their own photos to — a link here is created by one person and read by everyone else.
If what you want is guests contributing to a shared pool, you need a tool built around that. If what you want is to hand out the photos afterwards without chasing everyone for their number, this is the shorter path.
Common questions
- Do people need an app to scan it?
- No. The camera app on any current iPhone or Android reads QR codes on its own, and the link opens in the browser they already have.
- Can I print the QR code?
- Yes. It is shown as an image on the link page — screenshot or save it and put it wherever you like. Choose a longer expiry for anything printed.
- Can guests add their own photos?
- No. A link holds the photos you uploaded; there is no shared drop box for others to contribute to.
- How many photos can one code hold?
- Up to 50 files on a single link, at 100 MB each. They are shown as one gallery with a download-all option.
- Does the album stay up forever?
- No — you set a lifetime between 24 hours and 30 days, and the files are deleted when it ends.