QR code photo sharing

QR code photo sharing for events

One QR code on the table, and everyone's photos in your Google Drive. Guests scan with their phone camera, pick their photos and videos, and upload — no app to install, no account to create.

Create for free. Publish for $19.00, one time.

No app for guests Files stay in YOUR Drive One-time payment, no subscription
A guest captures the table details of a celebration on her phone
From the first click to the last memory.
Snapped it? Share it here.That simple, for everyone.
Straight to your DriveIn original quality
Scanned the QR code Uploaded without installing anything Saved to your Google Drive

A few steps. So many memories.

How the QR code photo album works
in three steps.

Easy for hosts. Even easier for guests.

  1. 01

    You create and print

    Pick the event type, connect your Google Drive and download the design with the QR code.

  2. 02

    Guests scan

    The phone camera opens the page. No app to install, no account to create.

  3. 03

    Photos land in your Drive

    Each upload goes straight to the event folder, in original quality.

The problem every host knows: the photos stay on the guests’ phones

At the party, forty people take pictures. On Monday you have three photos in the family group chat, five in a story that already expired, and a promise of "I’ll send them later." Half never arrive. The other half arrive compressed by a messaging app, thumbnail-sized, out of order and stripped of their date.

QR code photo sharing solves this while the moment is still fresh: when the guest is holding the phone with the photo they just took open on the screen. It is the only moment when sharing is effortless — and that is exactly where the QR code shows up.

How QR code photo sharing works for your guests

A guest points the phone camera at the QR code. A page opens with the event name, the date and one big button: "Upload photos and videos." They tap it, pick files from their gallery or take a photo on the spot, type a nickname if they want to join the leaderboard, and that is it. The upload shows real progress, file by file.

There is no sign-up screen, no email request and no prompt to download an app. That is not a convenience detail: every extra step costs you participants, and a guest who gives up halfway is a photo that never existed.

Your files belong to you, in your own Google Drive

When you connect your account, we create a folder for the event inside your Google Drive. That is where the files arrive — in original quality, in your storage, under your control. You open the folder from the dashboard and use it like any other folder you own.

The permission we ask Google for is the narrowest one available: Fotografou can only see the folder it created. We do not and cannot see the rest of your Drive. If you disconnect your account, the files stay exactly where they are — they were never ours.

When a QR code album makes sense, and when it does not

It makes sense whenever lots of people are taking pictures and someone wants them all in one place: weddings, birthdays, graduations, baby showers, office parties. The more guests with phones, the bigger the difference between having the album and not having it.

It is overkill for a dinner with five friends, where a group chat does the job. And it does not replace a professional photographer: the value of a shared album is the angle the professional never gets — the table laughing, the behind-the-scenes, the dance floor at two in the morning.

One event. One payment.

How much it costs to publish
One payment, one year live.

Create, customize and preview it for free.
Only pay when everything is ready to publish.

  • Album live for 365 days
  • No per-photo or per-guest fees
  • Files stay in your Google Drive

Your whole event for

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No surprises

Frequently asked questions about
QR code photo sharing.

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Do guests need to install an app?
No. The page opens in the phone browser, straight from the camera that read the QR code. It works on iPhone and Android, with nothing to install and no account to create.
Do I need a Google account? Do my guests?
You do, because the files are stored in your Google Drive. Your guests do not: they never sign in to anything.
How much does it cost?
Creating, customizing and previewing the album is free. You pay once to publish, and the page stays live for a full year — no subscription and no per-guest or per-photo fees.
What if my Google Drive fills up during the party?
We alert you by email and on the dashboard right away, and the page honestly tells guests that uploads are paused. What never happens is a guest thinking they uploaded a photo that was not saved.

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