An honest alternative to GuestPix
GuestPix and Entourage collect the same thing: the photos your guests took, without app or account, through a QR code. We won't pretend otherwise, and if you're reading this it's probably because both were recommended to you.
What follows compares the two fairly — what each does, what each charges, and where your photos end up. The last question is the one that decides.
What is the same
In both, a guest scans a QR code, opens a web page, picks photos and videos, sends them. No app to install, no account to create, no Google or Apple sign-in required. Originals are preserved. Video works. iPhone HEIC files work. You get a shared gallery, a slideshow to project during the party, and a downloadable archive.
On the core of the service, the two products do the same job.
What is different: where your photos live
GuestPix is a host. You pay $49 so your photos are hosted with them for twelve months. After that, if you haven't renewed, the album is gone. It is a straightforward model, and it shows in the price.
Entourage offers two routes:
- Essential — €19, one-off. Photos don't settle with us. They pass through us on their way into Google or Apple Photos, and our transit copy is only meant to last seven days after the album closes. What remains is your own cloud, no expiration, no subscription.
- Complete — €79, one-off. Complete does everything Essential does, and adds a year of hosting with us: the shared gallery stays online, the guest book too, the full-quality archive is downloadable. You get both: originals in Google or Apple Photos, and a shared album on the web for a year.
During the party: live messages on the slideshow
Both services have a slideshow that fills up live, and a guestbook where your guests leave you a message. The difference is what shows on the screen in the room.
With Entourage's Complete plan, your guests write a message from their phone and it scrolls in a band under the photos, signed with their first name. Messages are short, link-free and filtered before they show, and a button on your phone clears the band at once if something goes wrong. The guestbook's words, for their part, go with the album's archive.
According to GuestPix's documentation, checked in October 2026, its slideshow shows the guests' photos and videos; it does not describe messages displayed on screen. At a wedding or a party, that is what brings the slideshow to life: people watch the photos, and read what the others have just written.
Price
On hosting price alone, GuestPix is cheaper: $49 against our €79. We're not trying to match that number — outside cloud export, the value on offer is comparable.
The comparison shifts if what you want most is to own the photos, not to have them living with a third party. The Essential plan at €19 has no equivalent at GuestPix: originals go into your library, and the service ends — you're not tied to a renewal next year.
What GuestPix does better
Four things, honestly:
- GuestPix has been running longer and has served more events. A track record isn't nothing for a service you're picking two weeks before a wedding.
- Its interface is native in English and its billing is in dollars. If you're outside the euro zone, that simplifies things.
- Its guestbook also takes video messages on its medium and large packages; ours only takes written words.
- Its hosting plan is cheaper than our Complete. If you know you won't use cloud export and just want a web album for a year, the price gap is real.
Our bet
Ours is simple: after your event, your photos shouldn't sit on a third party's servers that will delete them a year later. They should come home, into the library where the rest of your life's photos already live.
That's what explains our pricing, our pitch, and why we put Essential forward rather than Complete. See the pricing grid or create a free album to try it.