The party photo sharing app that your guests never have to install

At a 30th or a 50th everyone takes photos and almost nobody sends them. A few land in the group chat, compressed, a week later. The rest stay on the phones of people you see twice a year. The person whose party it was ends up with the least.

PICVIN fixes that with one QR code. Stick it on the cake table, the bar or the invitation, and whoever takes a photo uploads it in seconds, straight from the browser. Everything arrives in one gallery, sorted by the time each photo was taken, so the night reads in order.

Any gathering where more than one person is taking pictures. The gallery is yours and the plan is per event, so you can run one for the party and another for the next one.

• Milestone birthdays: 18th, 21st, 30th, 40th, 50th and beyond. The birthday person does nothing and gets every photo.
• Hen dos and stag dos: one gallery for the whole weekend, with albums for the afternoon tea, the night out and the brunch.
• Christenings, communions and naming days: godparents, grandparents and friends all upload to the same place.
• Graduations and leaving parties: the photos of the day in one gallery instead of three group chats.
• Kids' birthday parties: parents scan the code on the way in and you get the party from every angle.
• Baby showers, engagement parties and anniversaries: the host has the photos before the guests have left.

There is no app to download and no account to create. A guest points their phone camera at the QR code, the upload page opens, they pick their photos or take a new one and tap upload. They can add their first name if they like, so you know who took what, and they can browse what everyone else has shared.

If some guests are not in the room, send them the link on WhatsApp or by text. It works the same way, from any phone or computer.

Only people with the QR code or the link can open the gallery, and it is never listed on search engines. You can delete any photo from your dashboard, and anyone who appears in a photo can send a removal request from the gallery, which comes to you to decide.

Photos and videos are hosted on Cloudflare under EU jurisdiction and handled under the GDPR. When you want the lot, download it as one ZIP file.

One payment per event, no subscription. The free trial starts with the first photo, runs for 3 days and holds up to 20 photos, with no card needed, so a small party may not need anything more.

Standard costs US$10.99 and keeps the gallery online for 1 year. Premium, at US$21.99, adds video uploads and far more storage, which matters at a party where everyone films the cake. Permanent, at US$54.99, never expires. We email you before a gallery expires, and the optional maintenance plan at US$2.29 a month keeps it online beyond the first year.