Make your event
Name it, set the dates (a trip can run for days), choose roughly how many people. Five minutes.
Guide
Event photo sharing: every guest's photos in one place.
Parties, birthdays, trips, work events. One link, one Album, nothing to download. Updated 15 October 2026.
The short answer
Event photo sharing is collecting the photos everyone takes at a party, a birthday, a trip or a work event into one place, instead of chasing them across group chats. With hazel you make an event in five minutes and get a link and a QR code. Guests tap the link, open the email invite or scan the code on a sign, and your event's page opens in their phone's browser: no app, no account. They add photos from their camera roll or their phone's camera, see each one before it uploads, and every photo arrives at full size. You go through everything, switch off anything you'd rather not share, and send one Album to everyone. Free for up to 6 guests; bigger events pay once, priced by how many people come.
Print a free QR code sign for any event, or, for a christening or a reunion, see family photo sharing with no app.
Why one link beats the group chat.
Everyone's in it.
A party has three friendship groups and your parents. A work event has people who've never swapped numbers. One link needs no group and no numbers.
Full size, not squashed.
Chat apps shrink photos as they send. Photos added to hazel arrive exactly as the phone took them, so the good ones are worth keeping.
You decide what's shared.
Photos come to you first. The one someone would rather forget never reaches the Album, because you choose what goes in before anyone sees it.
How it works, in four steps.
Share the link or the QR code
Paste the link into whatever chat you have, add emails and hazel sends the invites, or print a sign with the QR code on it, free.
Guests add their photos
The page opens in their browser. A first name and an email, then photos from the camera roll or the camera. They see each one before it uploads.
You choose, then share
One switch per photo, a look for the whole Album if you like, then one link to everyone who came. You also get a view-only link for people who couldn't make it.
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- 1
Make your event
Name it, set the dates (a trip can run for days), choose roughly how many people. Five minutes.
- 2
Share the link or the QR code
Paste the link into whatever chat you have, add emails and hazel sends the invites, or print a sign with the QR code on it, free.
- 3
Guests add their photos
The page opens in their browser. A first name and an email, then photos from the camera roll or the camera. They see each one before it uploads.
- 4
You choose, then share
One switch per photo, a look for the whole Album if you like, then one link to everyone who came. You also get a view-only link for people who couldn't make it.
The usual ways, side by side.
Everyone can take part
- A group chat
- Only people in the group
- A shared cloud folder
- Only people with the right account
- hazel
- Yes, anyone with the link or the code
Guests download anything
- A group chat
- They need the chat app
- A shared cloud folder
- They need the cloud app or an account
- hazel
- No
Photo quality
- A group chat
- Compressed
- A shared cloud folder
- Usually full size
- hazel
- Full size, exactly as taken
Guests check before it goes
- A group chat
- No
- A shared cloud folder
- No
- hazel
- Yes, every photo
You choose what's shown
- A group chat
- No, it's already in the chat
- A shared cloud folder
- No, everyone sees the folder
- hazel
- Yes, before anyone sees it
One place afterwards
- A group chat
- Scrolls away in a week
- A shared cloud folder
- Yes, if someone tidies it
- hazel
- Yes, an Album kept for a year
How these generally work; features differ from one app to the next.
Before, during and after.
Before
- Make the event and send the link with the invite.
- Print a sign or a few table cards with the QR code, free.
- Add a welcome message so guests know what you'd like photos of.
On the day
- Put the code where people sit or queue.
- One mention when everyone's together: scan it, add your photos.
- Photos come in through the day and the days after.
After
- Go through everything, one switch per photo.
- Pick a look for the whole Album, or keep the originals.
- Share one link. Everyone who added photos gets it automatically.
What it costs.
Free for up to 6 guests. $4.49 for up to 20, $12.99 for up to 40, $19.99 for up to 60, $32.99 for up to 100 and $64.99 for up to 200. Paid once, no subscription. Every guest gets 12 photos included; more photos and video clips are optional extras.
Questions
Is there a free photo sharing app for events?
hazel is free for events with up to 6 guests, with everything the paid sizes have. It's a web app, so there's nothing to download for you or your guests. Bigger events pay once, from $4.49.
Does event photo sharing with a QR code need an app?
No. The QR code opens your event's page in the phone's browser, the same as the link does. Guests give a first name and an email and add their photos.
Can guests see the photos live during the event?
No, and that's deliberate. Photos come to you first, so nothing embarrassing goes out in the middle of the night. Guests see their own photos as they add them, and the whole Album once you share it, usually the next morning.
Does it work for a trip that lasts several days?
Yes. Set the dates when you make the event; up to two days is included, and longer trips cost a little more per day. Uploads stay open until the end, and you can extend them for up to a week after.
Can we use it for a work event?
Yes. Make it a business event: your company name on the page and the emails, your logo, the option to keep the Album private so photos come only to you, and guests agree at join that you may use their photos in your marketing.
Does everyone have to be in the same place?
No. An event is a link, so people can add photos from anywhere. A company with several offices, a family across three countries, a club collecting photos from every member.
Set up your event's Album.
Five minutes to set up, nothing for your guests to download. Priced by how many people come.
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