Questions
Everything people ask.
Hosting, photos, the Album, guests and branded events. Not here? Use the contact form and a person replies.
Longer answers in the guides: Wedding photo QR code: how it works, and how to make an Album. · How to collect every wedding guest's photos. · Disposable camera apps for weddings, and the full-quality alternative. · Wedding photo sharing with no app. · Event photo sharing: every guest's photos in one place. · A family photo sharing app, with nothing to download.
Hosting
hazel is a way to collect every guest's photos from an event, with no app to download. Guests upload from their phones and you choose what makes the final Album.
No. Guests tap a link, open the email invite or scan a QR code, give a first name and an email, and add photos straight from their phone's browser. It works the same on iPhone and Android, and it's free for up to 6 guests.
Any way you like, and you can use them all. Print the free signs and table cards, made for you with your names and QR code already on. Paste your link into WhatsApp or any group chat. Or add your guests' emails and hazel sends each of them an invite. Weddings also get printable photo bingo cards.
Open your event and tap Signs & table cards. Pick a design and a colour; your names, the date and your event's own QR code are already on it, and you can change the wording. Choose a size, from place cards to a large welcome sign, download the PDF and print it at home or at any print shop. The event type you choose adds its own extras, like bingo for a wedding or games for a hen do. They're all free, with every event.
Guests upload from their camera roll, or tap Take a photo and their phone's own camera opens, so it's the real full-quality shot, not a webcam frame. Either way, they always see the photo before it uploads. No embarrassing accidents.
One year from the day uploads close, for every event. Keep it for another year with a one-off payment, or download everything at any time.
Free for events up to 6 guests. Then one payment, priced by how many guests you have: from $8.99 for up to 20. Video clips, up to 30 photos per person and any length up to two months are included; unlimited photos is the only extra. You see the whole price before you pay, and every printable is included: QR signs, table cards, bingo and party games.
Not at all. Birthdays, hen dos, group trips, corporate and creator events, family milestones. Any event worth remembering.
You can, if everyone's already in the same group. At most weddings and events they aren't: his family, her friends, work colleagues, plus-ones. hazel is one link for all of them, with no group to set up and no numbers to swap. And if you are all in one group, it still turns the photos into one Album you can keep and share.
Pick the band that covers everyone you're inviting; going a size up costs less than you'd think, and it's the one thing worth getting right at the start. If your event does fill up we'll email you, and you can reply to hello@hazel.camera. We sort it out the same day.
Yes. Name, type, date (until it starts), cover, welcome message and when uploads close can all be changed from Edit event details. The number of guests and photos per person are set when you pay, because they set the price. The business switch is fixed once you've paid.
Open the event and tap Reopen uploads. Pick tomorrow, three days, or a date of your own, up to a week after your event. Tell the person; nobody is emailed. If you'd already shared the Album it stays online, and the new photos go straight into it.
Yes. Open your event and tap Add your photos. No link, no joining, they go straight in alongside your guests' and show with your name like everyone else's.
No. An event is a link, so people can add photos from anywhere in the world. A family spread across three countries, a competition open to anyone, a company collecting photos from every office for one global event. Set the dates, share the link, and the photos arrive in one place.
Yes, everything works on a computer, and it's the best place to curate on a bigger screen and to download every photo full size in one go.
Photos and the Album
No. Photos come to you first. Nobody sees anything until you choose what makes the Album and share it.
One feed, one switch per photo. Everything is on by default; switch off what shouldn't go, then tap Share the Album. Switched-off photos stay in your event, only you can see them, and you can bring any back.
In one tap. Once you've chosen your photos and a look, tap Share and every guest who joined is emailed the link automatically. You also get two links for anyone who wasn't there: one they can download from, and a view-only one.
Every guest gets the link by email, and anyone with the link can open it, so you can send it to people who couldn't be there. A branded event can keep its Album private instead.
Yes. Any photo saves straight to their phone, and everything can be downloaded in one go, which is easiest on a computer.
No. Nobody's photos are analysed, no faces are recognised, and no software decides what goes in an Album. You do. The only automatic check is against lists of known illegal images, which recognises files the authorities already know and cannot see a photo.
Yes, one look for the whole Album. After you've chosen the photos, pick Original, Vintage Matte, Golden Hour or Clean Editorial and every photo matches. Your guests see and download the Album in that look, and you can change it any time without sharing again. Clips stay as they were filmed.
Video is included with every event: every guest can add as many clips as they like, up to 60 seconds each, reviewed before they upload just like photos. They play in the Album on any phone.
Guests
Open the photo, tap ⋯ and choose "I'm in this photo, take it down". It leaves the Album straight away and the host is told. If something in a photo is worse than unwanted, choose Report instead and a person at hazel looks the same day. Not a guest and can't see the Album? Write to us through the support form with the name of the host or business and the event, and we'll take it down.
Open the link again, tap Log back in and enter the email you joined with. Your photos are exactly as you left them.
Yes, while uploads are open. Open Edit your photos and tap the cross on any of them. After uploads close, ask the host, or write to us through the contact form.
Two reasons only: to send you the Album when it's ready, and to let you back in if you lose the page. It is never shown to other guests and never used for marketing.
Branded events
Your business is the host, on the join page and every email, with your logo. You can keep the Album private, so photos come to you only, and guests agree at join that you may use their photos in your own marketing. A full-size download on a computer, and an invoice by email.
That's exactly what a private branded event is for. Everyone adds their photos and clips in one place, the consent is recorded, and nothing is shared back unless you choose to.
Yes, an invoice arrives by email from Stripe as soon as you pay.