One-Time or Subscription: What a Wedding Photo App Costs

The three pricing shapes

How wedding galleries are usually sold
Shape	What you pay	Where the cost hides
One-time	A single payment per wedding	Storage window — check how long files stay before deletion
Subscription	Monthly, often from booking to after the wedding	Forgetting to cancel; the months before the wedding add up
Free tier	Nothing upfront	Upload caps, compression, watermarks, or a short download window

The question that settles most comparisons

How long do my files stay, and what happens on the last day? A one-time plan with a twelve-month window and a plan billed monthly for the same twelve months are the same product with different invoices. A one-time plan with a thirty-day window is a different product entirely, and much cheaper to run.

Four costs that are easy to miss

Compression — some free tiers store a reduced-quality copy and delete the original, which you only discover when you try to print
Download limits — a gallery you cannot bulk-download is a gallery you will lose access to eventually
Guest caps — priced per guest or per upload, a large wedding lands in a higher bracket than the headline price
Video — often excluded from entry plans entirely, and video is where the storage cost actually is

A QR wedding gallery — one-time payment, no subscription.

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How to compare in five minutes

Write down your guest count and roughly how many photos you expect per guest
For each option, find the storage window in days, not marketing words
Multiply any monthly price by the months from booking to your download date, not to the wedding
Check whether original files or compressed copies are what you keep
Confirm there is a one-click download of everything, and when it expires

When a subscription is the right answer

If you are running several events a year — a venue, a planner, a photographer offering this to clients — monthly billing is the cheaper shape and the flexibility is worth something. For a single wedding it rarely is, because you are paying for a rhythm you do not have.

What we do and why

Plans here are a single payment per wedding, with twelve months of access afterwards on every plan and no automatic renewal. That choice follows the shape of the event rather than the shape of a software business — a wedding does not recur, so neither should the invoice.

See the plans and what each includes

Frequently asked questions

Is a free wedding photo app good enough?

For a small wedding where photos are a bonus rather than the record, sometimes. Check three things first: whether originals or compressed copies are stored, whether video is included, and how long before files are deleted.

What happens to our photos when the storage window ends?

Ask every provider this directly, and get the answer in writing. Here, files are kept twelve months after the wedding and we send email reminders three days and one day before deletion.

Collect every photo from your wedding

Create a QR wedding gallery — guests upload photos straight from their phones, no app needed. One-time payment, unlimited guests. Check the live pricing page for the current amount.

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