Photo Sharing for exhibitions
Use Snapr photo sharing for your exhibition. Simple, free, and no app — perfect for collecting guest photos and displaying them live on the big screen.
- 200 photos free — no registration
- QR code guests scan with their phones
- Live slideshow on the big screen in real-time
- Works on all devices without an app
No registration required
How to get started
Three steps, no app and no sign-up.
Step 1
Create event
Name your event and get a unique QR code in seconds.
Step 2
Share QR code
Display the QR code or print it. Guests scan with their phones.
Step 3
Watch photos live
Photos appear on the big screen in real-time as guests upload.
How photo sharing works for exhibitions
Snapr makes photo sharing for your exhibition simple and effortless. Create an event in seconds, get a unique QR code, and share it with your guests. They scan the code and upload photos directly — no app download needed.
After scanning the QR code a guest lands on an upload page in the phone's browser: one button opens the camera, the other picks from the gallery, up to 20 files per go. The files join the event's shared collection and appear on the big screen.
Everything is included in the free tier: up to 200 photos, live slideshow, QR code, and 14-day storage. Need more? Premium keeps the photos a full year, with original-quality downloads and unlimited uploads, for a one-time payment.
Setting up Photo Sharing
- 1Decide the plan before the party, not during it: 200 files on the free plan, unlimited on Premium. The guest page counts down the remaining slots, and when they run out uploading simply stops.
- 2Tell guests which button to use — 'Open camera' shoots straight into the event, 'Choose from gallery' picks photos they already took. Most people default to the gallery and forget the camera button exists.
- 3Watch the gallery in the dashboard during the evening and delete the obvious duplicates and blurry shots; on a free event the 200 slots go faster than anyone expects once the dancing starts.
- 4Download everything before the event expires — Premium gives you a full year and a ZIP of the whole event from the dashboard. A free event is gone 14 days after it was created.
Photo Sharing — the specifics
- File types accepted
- JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, MP4 and MOV. Both the file type and the extension are checked, so a renamed file is rejected rather than uploaded broken.
- Maximum per file
- 100 MB. A phone photo is 2–5 MB, so this only bites on video — roughly a minute or two of 4K.
- Video length
- The event setting allows up to 10 minutes, but the 100 MB cap is what stops long clips first. Short clips of 10–30 seconds are what actually work on a slideshow.
- Limit for the whole event
- 200 files on the free plan, unlimited files on Premium (199 kr, one payment). A 200-guest wedding usually lands well inside either.
- Who can see what
- Guests see only their own upload queue — there is no gallery on the guest page. Everything shows on the big screen, and the full gallery with delete and download sits in the host's dashboard.
- How long it stays
- 14 days from creation on the free plan, 365 days on Premium. Premium also unlocks a ZIP download of the whole event.
When something goes wrong
An iPhone guest gets 'unsupported file type' on photos that look perfectly normal.
The phone is saving in HEIC. Either switch Settings → Camera → Formats to 'Most Compatible', or have them use the camera button on the upload page instead — that path hands over a JPEG.
The upload bar crawls or stalls halfway.
Venue wifi with 80 phones on it is usually slower than mobile data. Have the guest turn wifi off and upload over 4G/5G, and keep the screen awake until every file has a green tick — a locked phone pauses the browser.
Guests upload, then ask where their photos went.
There is no gallery on the guest page, only their own queue, and that surprises people. Point them at the big screen: uploads show up there within seconds, and that is the confirmation they are looking for.
What it is not good for
It is not a shared album or a backup: guests cannot browse or remove what anyone else posted, and a free event's files are deleted 14 days after creation — so it should never be the only copy of a photo that matters.
Why Snapr for exhibitions?
No app needed
Guests don't need to download anything — everything works in the browser.
Free to start
200 photos free per event. Upgrade if you need more.
Live on big screen
Connect to TV or projector and watch photos arrive in real-time.
Secure & private
Only those with the link have access. Your photos stay private.
Related features
Built for the one evening where it has to just work.
QR Code
The QR code holds one thing: the guest upload address for a single event — a snapr.no link with the event id and a 64-character access key. A phone camera opens it in the browser. Every event gets its own code, and it points at nothing else.
Live Slideshow
A full-screen browser page at snapr.no/<language>/event/<event-id>/display that listens for new uploads and shows them as they arrive. It runs on whatever drives the screen — laptop, TV browser, Chromecast or AirPlay — and needs no software installed.
Photo Wall
A photo wall is the grid mode of the display page: instead of one picture at a time, the screen tiles up to six guest photos at once in a fixed asymmetric layout, and the selection moves one photo forward on every interval as new uploads arrive.
TV Display
TV display means getting the event's display page onto the television at the venue. Three routes: an HDMI cable from a laptop, casting a Chrome tab to a Chromecast, or AirPlay screen mirroring. The TV runs an ordinary web page — there is no Snapr TV app.
Photo Booth Alternative
Using Snapr instead of renting a photo booth: guests shoot on their own phones, upload through a QR code, and the pictures appear on a screen in the room. There is no box, no camera, no lighting and no prints — only the live screen and the shared gallery.
Guest Upload
Guest upload is the core of Snapr: a guest points their phone camera at your QR code, the upload page opens in the browser, and they pick photos from the camera roll or shoot a new one. No app, no account, no password — the link itself is the access.
Frequently Asked Questions
What guests and hosts ask about most.
Can visitors add photos throughout a multi-day exhibition?
Yes. The QR code stays active for as long as your exhibition runs, so visitors on day one and day five all contribute to the same shared gallery — a running record of how the exhibition was received, not just a snapshot from opening night.
Can we display visitor photos live on a screen during the exhibition?
Yes. Put a screen near the entrance or a focal point in the exhibition, and it shows photos live as visitors upload them — a nice way to show off the exhibits through visitors' own eyes and encourage more people to scan and contribute.
Can we download all the photos afterward for our own marketing or archive?
With Premium (one-time $19), you can download all photos and keep them for a year — useful if you want to reuse visitor photos for a gallery archive, sponsor reports, or next year's marketing. The free plan covers 200 photos with 14-day storage.
All Events
Find the Snapr guide for your event.
Wedding
Wedding ceremonies, receptions, dinners and parties
Birthday
All ages, surprise parties, milestone birthdays
Kids Birthday
Games, activities, themed parties for kids ages 1-12
40th Birthday
Milestone celebrations, surprise parties, dinner parties
50th Birthday
Big milestone celebrations, family parties, event venues
Confirmation
Confirmation parties, family gatherings, church ceremonies
Photo Sharing for exhibitions
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