Short answerA Google Photos shared album is free and can hold up to 20,000 photos and videos, but every guest who adds photos needs a Google account, uploads use their own storage, and there's no way to approve photos before they appear. A QR code gallery skips the accounts: guests just scan and add.
Side by side
| FrameAmour | Google Photos shared album | |
|---|---|---|
| To add photos, guests need | Their phone's camera | A Google account, signed in |
| Whose storage | Included | Each guest's own Google storage |
| Quality | Originals kept | Depends on each guest's backup settings |
| You approve what appears | Optional review mode | No |
| Printable QR card | Included | Make your own |
| Cost | $79 once | Free |
What Google Photos does well
- It's free and very capable.
- If your friends all live in Google Photos already, adding photos is easy for them.
- 20,000 items is plenty for any wedding.
Where it gets awkward at a wedding
- The sign-in step. Older relatives and iPhone users without Google accounts get stuck, and stuck guests don't upload.
- Guests pay with their storage. A guest uploading 4K videos is using their own 15 GB.
- No review step. Whatever anyone adds is in the album straight away.
Why couples choose FrameAmour instead
- No Google account for anyone. Guests scan the QR code and upload from the phone browser, on iPhone or Android, with no sign-in.
- Nobody's storage gets used up. Guests' uploads don't count against their own Google storage or yours.
- You approve what appears. Optional review mode holds uploads and comments until you say yes.
- Organised for a wedding. Photos sort into ceremony, dinner and party albums by when they were taken, and you can ask guests for moments you missed.
- Every original, downloaded together. Keep the full-quality files, and back them up to Google Photos afterwards if you like.
One price, US$79 once, with a 14 day money-back guarantee. See how FrameAmour works.
Sources: pic-tomo, Viallo, XDA Developers.