Everyone's trip photos, in one shared album

On a trip with friends everyone takes photos and almost nobody shares all of them. A few land in the group chat, compressed and buried between messages about who owes what for dinner, and the rest stay on each person's phone. A month later, gathering everyone's photos is a job nobody wants.

A shared trip album changes the habit: you create it before you leave, pin the link in the group chat, and each evening someone uploads the day. When you get home, the trip is complete.

You create the album in a minute, named after the trip, and share the link or the QR code. Each person opens it on their phone, picks photos and videos from their camera roll and uploads them from the browser, on iPhone or Android, with no account and no email address. They can leave a first name so everyone knows who took which shot.

PICVIN sorts everything by the time each photo was taken, read from the file itself. Photos from five phones on the same day fall into order, and the trip reads from start to finish: the airport, the first dinner, the day out and the last night.

Inside the trip you can create albums: one per city, one per stage of a walk, or one for the stag night that not everybody needs to see. Whoever uploads picks the album, and the time order holds inside each one.

• A year abroad or Erasmus: one album you fill up over the year.
• School or university trips: the organiser creates the gallery and decides who sees it.
• Stag and hen weekends: everything in one private place, kept within the group.
• Walking holidays such as the Camino de Santiago: one album per stage.
• Team trips and offsites: photos for internal comms without chasing people one by one.

WhatsApp compresses photos sent as photos, mixes them in with the conversation and makes you save them one at a time. PICVIN keeps photos at 2,000 pixels on the long edge, a good size for screens and standard prints, though not the original file; if someone needs originals for a large print, it is worth sending those separately.

The gallery is private: only people with the link or QR code get in, it is not indexed by search engines and you can add a password. The organiser can delete any photo from the dashboard, and anyone in a photo can ask for it to be removed.

For a weekend away the free trial may be enough: 3 days from the first photo and up to 20 photos, with no card. For a proper trip, Standard costs US$10.99 and Premium US$21.99, with videos and more space; both include 3 months, plenty of time for everyone to upload and for you to download the ZIP, and then renew at US$2.29 a month until you cancel, in one click. To keep the trip for good, Permanent costs US$54.99 as a one-off payment with no subscription. Prices include VAT.