Photo Sharing Without an App for seminars

Photo Sharing Without an App — the specifics

Guest installs

Nothing. The upload page is a web page opened from the QR code.

Data a guest has to hand over

None. No name, email, phone number or password — the access key sits in the link itself.

Host account

Optional. The event is created anonymously; an account only matters if you want to reach it from another device or keep it after the browser is cleared.

Phones that work

Any phone with a reasonably current browser — Safari on iPhone, Chrome or Samsung Internet on Android. The camera button opens the phone camera directly.

File types and sizes

JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, MP4 and MOV, up to 100 MB per file, up to 20 files per batch.

Who can see the gallery

Only people with the QR code or the link. It is not public and not searchable.

When something goes wrong

• A guest with an older phone points the camera at the QR code and nothing happens.

  Older camera apps don't scan codes on their own. Open the phone's browser and go to the code that way, or have a guest standing next to them forward the link by message — the guest link works on any phone, no matter who opened it first. Some phones need the QR code held a bit further away than people expect.

• The page won't load on the venue's wifi, or a login page appears instead.

  That's a captive portal: the network wants a click-through before it lets any traffic out. Guests either complete the venue's login page first, or switch off wifi and use mobile data — for a handful of photos the data cost is negligible and it avoids the portal entirely.

• An upload sits at the same percentage and never finishes.

  Weak signal, and the browser keeps retrying rather than giving up. Ask the guest to keep the Snapr page in the foreground — switching apps or locking the phone can suspend the upload — and send two or three photos at a time instead of twenty. Videos are the usual culprit.