Gathmo vs Guestpix

Invitations and RSVP

Guestpix includes a digital invitation with RSVP on every plan, so the invite and the photo gallery are one product. Gathmo has neither: you send invitations however you already were, and Gathmo is only the album. If you want one tool for both, Guestpix is it.

180+ print templates, and longer hosting

Guestpix ships 180+ editable Canva templates — welcome signs, table cards, take-home cards — against Gathmo's four sign templates. Their albums also stay online 12 months on Signature and 24 on the bundle, where Gathmo's come down after 90 days to a year. If you want the gallery to sit there for two years without you saving anything, they hold it longer.

The voices

Gathmo records voice messages in the browser. A guest scans the QR code, taps record and speaks — no app to install, no handset to rent, nothing to return the next morning. The recording lands in the same album as the photos and on the same timeline, so the toast nobody filmed sits beside the pictures of it, and the message from someone who could not come sits where they would have stood. Voice is on every paid plan rather than an add-on, and the plan decides the clip length. On the Grand plan every message also comes back transcribed, which is what makes a spoken album searchable — and searchable is what matters a year later, when you want one sentence and not forty minutes of audio.

Guestpix has a guestbook, and it is written and video. A guest can type a message or film themselves saying it, and both land in the gallery alongside the photos. What a guest cannot do is leave a spoken message: Guestpix has no audio option on any of its three plans, and it transcribes nothing. For much of what a guestbook is for, the video entry covers it — a face and a voice together is more than text. It falls short in the two places audio is usually chosen: the guest who will speak but will not be filmed, and the guest who is not at the event at all and records something from home. Guestpix does not offer voice, and its site does not list it as coming.

Live stream and transcripts

Gathmo streams the event on the Grand plan, for the guests who could not travel. They watch from where they are, and what they send back — photos, video, a recorded message — goes into the same album as everything captured in the room, so the album is not split into people who were there and people who were not. The same plan returns every voice message transcribed. That is the part hosts underestimate: a spoken album is lovely and almost unsearchable, and forty voice notes with no text is an archive you open once. Transcripts turn it into something you can read through in ten minutes, find the one line you were looking for, and print if you want to.

Guestpix does neither. There is no live stream on any plan, and no transcription of the written or video guestbook entries. Its top plan adds galleries rather than capabilities: the bundle covers three separate events over twenty-four months, which is the right purchase if you are running three events and the wrong one if you are running a single wedding and wanted the day carried to the people who missed it. Guests who cannot attend are not shut out — Guestpix takes unlimited guests and co-hosts from anywhere, so someone at home can still upload into the gallery. What they cannot do is watch it happen, and nothing anyone says comes back as text.

Everything else is close

Both products cover the same core moment, and the overlap is most of this page. Gathmo and Guestpix both take unlimited photos and videos on their paid plans, both moderate before anything appears, both put a screen at the venue, both let guests download at full quality, and neither asks a guest to install anything — a QR scan opens the phone browser and that is the whole setup. Gathmo hands back every original as a single ZIP at the quality it was shot in. Ownership is not in question on either side. If the album is all you want — pictures in, pictures out, nothing to install, nothing to chase — you can buy either of these and be happy, and the rest of this page is about the edges where they stop matching.

Guestpix is not a weak competitor, and this page would be dishonest if it implied one. It does the shared work well: its slideshow runs on every plan rather than from a mid tier, likes and comments give the album an afterlife a plain download folder does not have, and 100% of the copyright stays with the host. On three counts below it is ahead of Gathmo outright — invitations with RSVP, printable templates, and how long the album stays online. Eight of the nine rows in the table above are a draw. That is the honest result of comparing them, and if the three things Guestpix leads on are the three you are shopping for, the rest of this page should not talk you out of it.

What is the difference between Gathmo and Guestpix?

Gathmo and Guestpix are both QR photo galleries guests open on their own phone, and on most features they match: unlimited photos and videos, moderation, a slideshow at the venue, downloads at full quality. The difference is voice — Gathmo records spoken messages into the same album, and Guestpix's guestbook is written and video only.

Does Guestpix have an audio guestbook?

No. Guestpix lists a written and video guestbook on every plan and there is no voice option anywhere on its pricing or how-it-works pages, checked 20 August 2026. If a recorded message from each guest is what you want, Gathmo does it and Guestpix does not.

Is Gathmo or Guestpix cheaper?

Both charge once per event. Guestpix shows prices in your own currency and switches by market, so we do not quote a figure that would be wrong for most readers — open their pricing page for yours. Gathmo's plans are in the pricing table on this page, in your currency, and there is a free tier to try first.

How long does each keep the album online?

Guestpix hosts 12 months on Classic and Signature and 24 on the bundle. Gathmo albums stay online 90 days on Essential, six months on Celebrate and one year on Grand, and everything downloads at original quality before that. On this point Guestpix holds the album longer.

Does Guestpix do invitations and RSVP?

Yes, on every plan — a digital invitation with RSVP alongside the gallery. Gathmo has no invitation or RSVP feature at all. If you want one product for the invite and the photos, that is a real reason to choose Guestpix.

Do guests need an app for Gathmo or Guestpix?

Neither. Both open in the phone browser after a QR scan, with no install and no guest account on either side.