Every event has a roomful of phones taking better photos than any one person could. Partyreel gathers them. You make an event, guests scan a code, and the album fills itself in while the night is still going.
The loop
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Create the event, get a QR code
Sign in, name your event, pick a QR style, and you're done. It takes about a minute, and the free plan covers one event with 100 MB of space. The event gets one permanent link, and the QR code is that link in scannable form. See create your first event.
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Share one code
Put it where people already are: a table card, a welcome sign, the screen at the front. One code covers the whole room, all evening; a guest just points their phone camera at it and the event opens in their browser, nothing to install. See how guests join and upload.
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Watch it fill
Photos and videos land in the album within seconds, for you and for every guest looking at it. Watch it fill from your own phone, or put it on a screen in the room.
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Shape what shows
Hide anything that shouldn't be there, remove anything that really shouldn't, or turn on Review so nothing shows until you've approved it. Everything is reversible for 30 days. See curate what shows up in your album.
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Take it all home
The same link that collected the photos is the album you share afterward. Anyone who can open it can take photos home: one at a time from the photo viewer, or a pick with Select, then Save. As the host, Download opens Take it home, with your originals as one zip, photos and video together, and a phone-size set to post tonight. See download photos, videos, and albums.
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Watch the reel grow
From the second photo, the album plays as a highlight reel on its cover (one tap from full screen) and on any screen in the room, taking in every upload as it lands. There's nothing to make: it's free on every plan, and anyone can turn it into a clip of their own with Make your own. See the highlight reel.
What it costs
The free plan is a real plan: one event, 100 MB of storage, photos only, every gate (a password, your yes at the door, an invite list) and a custom link, and 60-second clips with a small Partyreel mark (the reel itself carries none). When you need more, Pro is a subscription with video, more storage and unlimited events, and the Event Pass is a one-time payment for a single big event. The full picture is in what the free plan includes and Pro vs. Event Pass.
Where things live
- Your dashboard lists the events you host and the events you added photos to as a guest, led by the party of the moment, with Deleted, where removed events wait, in its Display menu; your own uploads and likes live on your profile. See your dashboard, explained.
- Each event page is a hub: a live code beside the title, doors into Review, the Highlight reel, and Guests, and the album itself, filling the page. See your event page, explained.
- The event link is the only way in. It isn't listed anywhere and search engines are asked to stay out, so the album stays among the people you gave it to, and its settings decide who it lets in. See who can see your event.
Start small
Make a test event tonight, scan the code with your own phone, open the link in a private browser window so you see the guest side, and add three photos. Ten minutes with the real thing beats any tour, and the free plan is built for exactly this. Not ready to make one yet? Try the live demo first: a real album you open as a guest.