Comparisons

GuestPix vs Kululu vs GuestCam: prices, windows and the catch in each

GuestPix, Kululu and GuestCam compared on price, upload window and storage — every number read from their own pricing pages on August 26, 2026.

Martin Freiwald · Founder of QR Album

August 26, 2026 · 12 min read

The same 3 names keep surfacing when a US host goes looking for a QR code photo app: GuestPix, Kululu and GuestCam. From the outside they are hard to tell apart. Guests scan a code, a web page opens, they pick photos from the camera roll and upload. No app, no account, one payment for the event.

The differences are all in the fine print, and they are not small. One of these closes uploads 24 hours after the party. Another keeps the gallery online for 24 months. A third charges nothing per guest but caps the whole event at 500 files unless you move up a tier.

Every price, window and limit below was read off each company’s own pricing page on August 26, 2026, and all 4 URLs are listed at the foot of this page. Where a company does not publish a number, none is claimed here. QR Album is our own product — its section says so, and so does the section on when one of the other 3 is the better buy.

The short answer

At the $49 mark the choice is between GuestPix Classic and GuestCam Standard, and the deciding number is the upload window: GuestPix Classic gives guests 3 months, GuestCam Standard gives them 6 months. Kululu Plus is the cheapest paid plan of the 3 at $39, but it caps the event at 500 uploads and closes after 1 month. Kululu Free is the only genuinely free tier of the 3, and it is active for 24 hours.

That is the whole comparison in a paragraph, and for a lot of hosts it is enough. If you are having a single wedding, you want unlimited uploads, and you would rather not think about it again, GuestCam Standard and GuestPix Classic cost the same and differ mainly in how long the door stays open behind you.

The choice changes shape as soon as your event is not one afternoon. GuestPix sells a Signature Bundle at $119 that covers 3 separate galleries with 3 QR codes, which maps onto a welcome dinner, a ceremony and a farewell brunch. GuestCam Premium at $97 does something similar with 6 main galleries, each with its own code and link. Kululu has no multi-gallery tier on its public pricing page.

It also changes if you want more than photographs. GuestCam includes an audio guestbook on both of its plans and sells a dial-in phone number as a $30 add-on. GuestPix includes a written and video guestbook on every wedding package. Kululu’s pricing page describes captions on uploads and a live photo wall, and does not list an audio guestbook.

One caution before the tables. GuestPix prices by event type — weddings, parties, business, memorials and more each have their own pricing page — and it renders prices in your local currency. The figures here are the wedding page in the USD view.

What each one costs

Paid plans across the 3 run from $39 to $119, all of them one-time, per event, with no subscription. GuestPix wedding packages are $49, $89 and $119. Kululu is $0, $39 and $99. GuestCam is $49 and $97, with 2 optional add-ons at $45 and $30.

Several of these numbers were discounted on the day they were read, and a discounted price is not the same as a list price. Kululu showed a banner offering 50% off all plans for a limited time, with $39 struck through from $79 and $99 struck through from $199. GuestCam showed $49 struck through from $55 and $97 struck through from $110. GuestPix showed no discount on its wedding page.

None of the 3 charges per guest. GuestPix states unlimited guests and co-hosts under a fair use policy of up to 1,000 guests per event, and offers custom packages above that. Kululu states unlimited guests and participants on every plan including the free one. GuestCam states unlimited guests on all plans and says in its own FAQ that there is no per-guest fee.

Refund terms are published by 2 of the 3. GuestPix lists a 14-day money-back guarantee on its wedding packages. Kululu offers a money-back guarantee under its Fair Refund Policy if you end up not using it at your event. GuestCam links a refund policy from its pricing page rather than stating terms on the page itself.

Upload window vs storage window

These are 2 different clocks, and hosts routinely confuse them. The upload window is how long guests can still add files. The storage window is how long the gallery stays online afterwards. GuestCam Standard runs 6 months of uploading inside 12 months of storage; GuestPix Classic runs 3 months inside 12; Kululu Plus runs 1 month inside 3.

The start date matters as much as the length. GuestPix says hosting starts from the event date on Classic and Signature, and from the date of purchase on the Bundle. GuestCam says both of its windows begin on the event start date you set, so buying months ahead costs you nothing. Kululu says the platform detects when the event starts from the date and from guest activity, and that editing or test uploads beforehand do not start the clock.

Why the upload window is the number to look at: the photographs your guests took do not arrive on the night. They arrive in the days and weeks afterwards, once somebody scrolls back through a full camera roll on a quiet Sunday. A 24-hour window collects the phone that was in someone’s hand at midnight. A 6-month window collects the shot the best man found in October.

GuestPix adds one detail the others do not publish: on the wedding page it says your gallery opens 2 weeks before the event date, so the getting-ready photos and the rehearsal dinner land in the same place as the wedding itself.

Upload caps, file size and quality

GuestPix and GuestCam state unlimited photos and videos on every paid plan. Kululu is the only one of the 3 that meters uploads: 50 on Free, 500 on Plus, unlimited on Pro. GuestCam is also the only one that states in plain words that it keeps the original file with no compression and no resizing.

A 500-file cap is not obviously tight until you count what a real reception produces. A 120-guest wedding where a third of the room uploads 15 files each is already past 500, and video eats the allowance faster than stills. Kululu’s own FAQ says as much: it recommends Plus for events up to about 100 guests where you do not expect more than 500 photos, and Pro for 150 guests and up.

Quality is described differently by each company, and the wording is worth reading closely. Kululu labels the free tier “good quality” and both paid tiers “High-Quality”. GuestCam says it stores the original file your guests upload and returns it in full quality on download. GuestPix says 100% copyright stays with you and offers unlimited photos and videos on all wedding packages, without publishing a compression policy on the pricing page.

Getting everything back out is a paid feature at Kululu and standard everywhere else. Kululu lists “download all photos and videos at once” on Plus and Pro, and not on Free. GuestCam lists a one-click ZIP download of the whole event in original quality on both plans. None of the 3 publishes a maximum video length on its pricing page, so if you expect long clips, ask before you buy rather than trusting a number you read on a comparison site.

Guestbook, slideshow and the extras

All 3 run a live slideshow at the venue on every paid plan. The real divergence is the guestbook: GuestCam includes an audio guestbook on both plans, GuestPix includes a written and video guestbook on all wedding packages, and Kululu publishes captions and a live photo wall but no guestbook of either kind.

GuestCam sells the audio guestbook further than either competitor. Both plans include it on the web and through what the company calls a PhoneBooth; Premium adds a dial-in phone number, and Standard can buy that number as a $30 add-on for US and Canadian numbers only. It also sells MagicFind at $45 per event, a face-search add-on that lets each guest take a selfie and receive their own collection of photographs.

Moderation, which matters more at a public or corporate event than at a wedding, is not evenly distributed. GuestPix lists content moderation on all 3 wedding packages. GuestCam ships host collaborator controls on Standard and advanced per-gallery access management on Premium. Kululu puts moderation tools on Pro only, and says its system detects most inappropriate uploads automatically and that any file can be deleted from the dashboard.

For guests who do not read English, GuestCam publishes 17 guest portal languages chosen automatically, and GuestPix publishes 11 in total for its guest experience. Both give you editable Canva templates for the printed QR signs — GuestPix counts more than 180 of them. Kululu describes the photo wall as a plain web link you open on any TV or projector, which is the least fussy setup of the 3 if the venue hands you an HDMI cable and no help.

Who GuestPix suits

GuestPix fits a host who wants the gallery to look like their wedding and to stay online for a year without further thought. Classic is $49 with a default color theme; Signature at $89 adds custom colors and fonts and stretches the upload window to 12 months; the Signature Bundle at $119 covers 3 separate events.

Its strongest published feature is the guestbook. Every wedding package includes both a written and a video guestbook, which is the closest thing on this list to the book that used to sit by the door. Alongside it, all 3 packages carry content moderation, an interactive private feed with likes and comments, unlimited Super Albums for grouping photographs, and 1 QR code paired with a digital invitation that collects RSVPs.

The RSVP piece is worth pausing on, because neither of the other 2 offers it. If you have not yet bought an invitation tool, a GuestPix package covers the invitation, the RSVP list and the photo gallery in one purchase, which changes the arithmetic against a $49 competitor that only does photographs.

The catch on the cheapest tier is the upload window. Classic closes uploads 3 months after the event while hosting runs for 12, so for 9 of those months the gallery is a place to look rather than a place to add. If you want guests still contributing in month 6, Signature at $89 is the plan that does it, and the gap to GuestCam Standard at $49 with a 6-month window is the clearest price comparison on this page.

GuestPix also runs a free demo with no credit card: unlimited guests, up to 50 photos and a 30-day upload window, with the digital invitation and RSVPs included. It is a trial rather than a plan, but it is enough to see what your guests would see.

Who Kululu suits

Kululu suits 2 opposite hosts. The first has a small gathering and wants to spend nothing: the Free plan takes 50 uploads from unlimited guests, stays active 24 hours from the event date and keeps files for 7 days. The second has a big public event and wants no ceiling: Pro at $99 is unlimited uploads, 3 months of uploading and 1 year of storage.

Between them sits Plus at $39, which is the least expensive paid plan in this comparison by $10. It allows up to 500 uploads, keeps them for 3 months and stays active for 1 month from the event date, and it is the first tier that lets you download everything at once. For a 60-person birthday or a company summer party, those limits are usually comfortable and the price is genuinely low.

What you give up at $39 is time. A 1-month upload window and 3 months of storage is the shortest pairing of any paid plan here, and it means the download is not optional — you have to remember to pull the files down before the gallery expires. Moderation tools also sit on Pro only, so a public event on Plus is running without them.

The free tier deserves its own sentence, because it is the only real free plan among the 3 competitors and it is not a crippled demo. Unlimited guests, the live photo wall, the digital album and captions are all there. The constraint is the clock: 24 hours of uploading and 7 days of storage. For a dinner party that is fine. For anything you want to keep, it is a trial.

Kululu also publishes a separate plan page for professionals who run events regularly, which is the right door if you are a planner rather than a host buying once.

Who GuestCam suits

GuestCam suits the host who wants voices as well as pictures, and the longest upload window per dollar. Standard at $49 gives 6 months of uploading, 12 months of storage, unlimited guests and files, 1 main gallery with unlimited sub-galleries, and an audio guestbook. Premium at $97 doubles the upload window to 12 months and adds 6 main galleries.

The audio guestbook is the differentiator. It runs in the browser on both plans, and Premium adds a dial-in phone number so a guest simply calls and records with no event code to type. Standard can add that number for $30, though the company states it is available for US and Canadian numbers only. If a recorded voice is what you want to keep from the evening, this is the only one of the 3 built around it.

MagicFind, at $45 per event, is the other feature nobody else on this page publishes. Once a professional photographer uploads into the gallery, each guest takes a selfie and receives every photograph they appear in. At a 150-person wedding that turns a shared folder into 150 personal albums without anyone tagging anything.

The rest is quietly generous. Original quality with no compression and no resizing, a one-click ZIP of the whole event, a live slideshow, 5 reactions plus comments on every file, 17 guest portal languages and editable Canva templates all sit on both plans. Premium adds 30 color themes and advanced collaborator controls.

The gap in the lineup is the entry price. GuestCam publishes no free plan — there is a live demo gallery you can open, and then the first real tier is $49. If your event is small enough that you were considering spending nothing at all, GuestCam is not where that conversation starts.

Disclosure: where QR Album fits

QR Album is our own product, so treat this section as an argument rather than a review. Our plans are free, $49, $79 and $99, one-time per event, with unlimited guests on every tier. The free plan takes 20 photos, videos or voice notes and keeps the album 30 days; paid plans lift the cap entirely and include the original-quality download.

What we built differently is the voice note. Every plan, including the free one, lets a guest record a message the same way they upload a photograph, and on the $99 plan those recordings come back transcribed. The $79 plan puts the live photo wall on the venue screen and allows video up to 10 minutes; the $99 plan adds a live stream for the people who could not travel, plus a custom link.

Moderation arrives at $49 rather than at the top tier, which is our answer to the corporate and public events where an unmoderated wall is not an option. Storage is stated in gigabytes rather than as unlimited: 1 GB free, then 5, 10 and 20 GB. We would rather publish a number we can hold than a word that needs a fair use policy underneath it.

If you want to see the guest side before deciding anything, the example albums show what a guest opens after scanning, and the wedding page walks through the setup for a reception specifically. The comparison that matters is not our page against theirs — it is the 4 pricing pages side by side, which is why all of them are linked below.

When one of them is the better choice than us

There are 5 cases where we would send you elsewhere, and the first is the one that costs us most: our album runs 90 days, while GuestPix hosts for 12 months, GuestCam stores for 12 to 14 months and Kululu Pro keeps files for 1 year. If you will not download the ZIP and want the link alive next anniversary, buy one of theirs.

• You want the gallery live in a year without doing anything. GuestPix Classic at $49 hosts for 12 months and GuestCam Standard at $49 stores for 12. Our 90-day album assumes you will download the originals, and plenty of hosts never get around to it.
• You want a dial-in audio guestbook. GuestCam has a phone number guests can call, on Premium or as a $30 add-on. Our voice notes are recorded in the browser, which is not the same thing as a handset on a table.
• You want every guest to get their own photos automatically. GuestCam MagicFind at $45 does face search and delivers a personal album from a selfie. We do not offer it.
• You want invitations and RSVPs in the same purchase. GuestPix includes a digital invitation with RSVPs in every wedding package. We collect photographs, not replies.
• You want to spend nothing on a small party and 50 uploads is enough. Kululu Free allows 50 against our 20, though it closes after 24 hours where ours stays open 30 days — read both before you assume either is more generous.

None of this is false modesty. These are 4 products solving one problem with different bets, and a comparison that always lands on the author’s own product is not a comparison. The honest summary is that at $49 the American market has 3 credible options, and the tie-breaker is whichever of the 5 sentences above describes your evening.

What we would ask you to check before any purchase is the pair of dates. Write down when your guests stop being able to upload and when the gallery goes dark, put both in your calendar, and set a reminder a week before the second one. Every product on this page will let you lose the photographs by forgetting that date, ours included.