Every app looks great from the organiser's side. What matters is the guest at 9pm with a drink in one hand and 4% battery.
Borrow a phone from someone who's never seen the tool, scan the code and count the taps to the first photo. You want it opening in the browser, photos straight from the camera roll, no account, in about 20 seconds.
Print the code at its real size, tape it up somewhere dim and scan it from two metres away. Check there's a short link to print underneath for the phone that won't focus.
One code should open one album, so you're not juggling a code per table. Ask what happens if someone posts the code online, too. That's fine for a public launch and less fine for a private party.
Lots of the best moments are ten second clips, like the toast or the confetti. An app that only takes photos misses them.
Upload a clip during your test. See how long it takes, whether it lands next to the photos and whether the guest is told it worked. If videos need a separate link, guests won't bother.
Guests own the photos they take unless they agree to something else. If you want to post them or show them to a client, you need a record of what each person agreed to.
Look for your own terms shown before the first upload, a saved copy of the exact wording each guest agreed to, and a record on every photo. Marketing consent should be its own clear yes, kept apart from the upload button.
Once it's over, you want every photo and clip filed under the event with its rights attached, plus a list of guests who said yes to hearing from you. Guests also need a reason to come back, and finding photos of themselves is a good one.
With MyWrap, guests open one link and add photos and videos with no app. Find me in the You tab gathers each guest's photos on their own phone, and the media library files everything by event with usage rights. Hold every tool to the same five tests, ours included.
Three quick ones. Tap an answer to see how everyone else replied. We read every answer, it shapes what we build next.
What you wish this guide covered, what drives you mad about event photos, anything. Read by the people building MyWrap.
Two things to copy: a scorecard and the questions to ask any vendor.
“Event photo app scorecard (1 to 5 each): 1. Scan to first upload in about 20 seconds, no app or account. 2. QR scans from two metres in dim light, with a short link as backup. 3. Videos go in the same album as photos. 4. Our terms shown before the first upload, a record per photo, and a separate marketing yes. 5. Next morning everything is filed by event with rights attached, and guests can find their own photos.”
“Before we decide, could you show us what a guest sees from scan to first upload, how videos work, what a photo's consent record looks like and what we can access the day after?”
One your guests can use in about 20 seconds with nothing to download, that takes videos too and keeps a consent record for each photo. Try it on a stranger's phone before you decide.
They shouldn't. Every download or sign up screen costs you guests. With MyWrap, they scan or open one link and add from their camera roll, no app and no account.
With MyWrap, yes. Photos and videos go into the same album. Whatever you pick, check it in your own test, because clips are often the best bit.
Usually the guest who took them, unless they agreed to terms that let you use them. That's why a consent record for each photo matters so much.
You print a QR code that opens the album. Guests scan it with their camera, the album opens in the browser and they add photos from their camera roll.