Switching tools?
Pixieset is a good, mature platform — if you shoot weddings and portraits, it may be exactly right, and it is live today while we are still seating the founding room. PartyFrame exists for the photographers underneath that headline: the event and celebration shooters. Here is the comparison with nothing sanded off.
| PartyFrame | Pixieset | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Event & celebration photographers first — birthdays, showers, graduations, reunions, quinceañeras | Weddings & portrait studios first |
| Available today | Founding list open; launching soon | Live and mature now — this round is theirs |
| Free tier | 1 GB, galleries live 30 days (warnings on day 21/25/29, 7-day rescue) | 3 GB, no gallery expiry — a bigger free tier than ours |
| 50 GB of storage | Starter — $9/mo billed annually | Between Basic ($8/mo, 10 GB) and Plus ($16/mo, 100 GB) |
| 250 GB of storage | Studio — $19/mo billed annually | Above the Plus tier's 100 GB |
| Getting photos to guests | QR-first: a scannable door on a table card at the event — no app, no guest account | Delivery built around the gallery link |
| Video in galleries | Included in every plan, with the minutes stated in the open (10 min free → 20 hrs on Pro) | Video supported in galleries |
| Print sales commission | 0% on every paid plan (15% on Free), when the print store opens | Store terms on their pricing page |
| Expiry behaviour | Warnings before anything closes, a rescue window after, export any time — no hostage memories | Free galleries don't expire |
Pixieset figures are their published prices as researched in October 2026 (Basic $8/mo for 10 GB, Plus $16/mo for 100 GB, free tier 3 GB) — check their pricing page for today's numbers before you decide anything. PartyFrame prices are launch pricing with annual billing; month-to-month is +25%.
Switching is one sitting: create your galleries, upload, print your QR table cards. Founding members who move 3 or more galleries over get their first paid month free.