Wedding photos
What is the best photo app for weddings?
It depends which of 3 jobs you mean, and they are usually confused. For collecting what guests shot, you want a QR-code album such as Gathmo that guests use without installing anything. For receiving your photographer's finished work, you want whatever delivery gallery they already use, and that is their choice rather than yours. For editing, Lightroom Mobile and VSCO are the standard answers and have nothing to do with the wedding itself. The one couples most often skip is the first, which is also the only one that is genuinely lost if you skip it. Your photographer's files arrive either way; your guests' 2,000 photos do not.
The job most couples forget
A wedding photographer delivers something like 400 to 800 edited images. Your guests collectively shoot several thousand, from angles no professional stands at, including most of the dancing and nearly all of the late evening.
Almost none of it reaches you by default. It sits in 120 camera rolls, and asking for it individually afterwards works about as well as you would expect.
A guest album exists for exactly this. One code, one album, everything in one place. Gathmo takes photos, short videos, and voice messages through the same code.
What it costs
The free plan holds 60 items for 30 days with a watermark, which is enough to test the flow with your own phone before the day.
Essential is $49 for one event and removes the item cap, the watermark, and the video limit beyond 5 minutes, with 90-day retention and ZIP download of the originals.
Celebrate at $79 adds the live wall and 183-day retention. Grand at $99 adds live streaming, voice transcripts, a custom domain, and a full year of retention. All of them are one-off per event rather than a subscription.
Common follow-ups
Do I need a paid plan?
Only if you expect more than 60 items, which most weddings do. The free plan is best used as a test run before the day.
Is it a subscription?
No. Gathmo B2C plans are a one-off payment for one event.
Does it work on Android and iPhone?
Yes. The guest flow is a web page, so it works on any modern phone browser regardless of platform.
Where to go next
- Wedding photo sharingThe main wedding page: one QR-code scan, photos, video and voice messages, and what the album does after the day.
- Pricing and plan limitsWhat each plan costs and where its item cap, retention window and video length sit. One payment per event, no subscription.
- The best photo booth apps for iPadFour iPad booth apps compared on what each is for, plus the option that needs no iPad. Claims checked per vendor.
Related questions
- What app is best for a wedding for people to take pictures?Guests should shoot with the camera they already know and send the results through a QR code. In-app cameras produce worse photos and fewer of them.
- What is the best camera app for weddings?For guests, the built-in phone camera beats every third-party app at a reception. Manual camera apps earn their place only for someone shooting deliberately.
- What platform do photographers use to share photos?