Every branch of the family.
One album, and the stories behind it.
One QR code for the whole reunion weekend. Every household adds photos from its own phone with no app and no account, the oldest relatives record the stories in their own voice, and everyone downloads the finished album afterwards.
$29 once for the whole weekend · No subscription · Uploads open until the date you set
What actually goes wrong at a family reunion
A reunion is not a party with more relatives. It is several gatherings over several days, organised by household rather than by person, with three generations present and a set of memories only two people in the room can still identify.
The photos end up in six group chats
One per branch of the family, each compressed, none of them complete. The cousin who took the only picture of all four siblings together is in a thread you are not in.
Nobody knows how many people are actually coming
The reply that arrives is “we're in, probably six of us” — and six is a household, not a headcount. The caterer needs the second number and the reply only gave you the first.
Only two people can name everyone in the old pictures
The shoebox photographs get passed around the table, identified out loud, and put back in the box. The naming does not survive the weekend.
Afterwards, forty relatives ask you for the pictures
You become the family's file server: zipping folders, resending links, explaining to an uncle why the download stopped working.
What Picsui does about it
A weekend, not an evening
Friday arrivals, the Saturday picnic, Sunday brunch before people drive home. Lay the weekend out as a schedule of up to 40 gatherings, each with its own time, place and capacity, and each with its own RSVP. Anything marked invite-only does not appear on everybody else's invitation.
It counts people, not invitations
One household is one invitation and five chairs. Picsui keeps what you offered, what they confirmed and how many actually walked in as three separate numbers, because those three legitimately disagree and the caterer only wants the last one.
The spreadsheet one relative already keeps
Select the cells and paste. Paste a corrected sheet again later and people are matched on their email and updated in place rather than added twice, with the invitation links you already sent left working. A column headed group, side or tags becomes tags — one per branch of the family, up to 12 a household — and those tags feed the seating plan.
The stories, in the voice that told them
Ask the family one question of your own and it sits above the recorder. A grandparent answers by talking for up to 60 seconds, or on camera for up to 30, without typing anything. The answer lands in the gallery beside the photographs.
The shoebox uploads the same way
Scans of prints, a photograph of a photograph, a screenshot from an old email: anything on a phone goes in. For the aunt who posts prints, or the grandfather with no smartphone at all, you add them yourself from the Photos tab and they sit in the album next to everything else.
Every household gets its own copy
Turn gallery downloads on and any relative with the link takes the originals themselves, so you are not the family's file server. You can also email the gallery link to everyone who registered. Nothing is compressed on the way in, and the gallery is hosted for 12 months.
Across the whole weekend
The same code from the first arrival to the last goodbye, and for months afterwards.
Before anyone travels
Paste the list, write the invitation, and let households reply for the number they are actually bringing. Each household's invitation link is its own, and it survives a re-import of the sheet.
The Friday arrivals
One code goes on the table at the first gathering. People arriving on Saturday scan the same code — there is nothing to resend, and nobody has to be added to an album.
The group photograph and the picnic
Photos appear in a live gallery as they are taken, so the branch that stood at the back sees the front row's version that afternoon. Put the slideshow on a TV in the hall, and only what you have approved appears on it.
Sunday, and the months after
Uploads stay open until the date you set, so the cousin who finds a box of prints in November still scans the same code. Download the complete archive at any point in the 12 hosted months and keep a copy that is not ours.
Seating the Saturday dinner by branch
The tags that arrived with your pasted list — one per branch of the family, or per town, or however your sheet already labels people — are what the seating plan groups by. A household that replied for four is four chairs, not one, so the table that looked full on paper is the table that is actually full. How the guest list and door check-in work.
How it works
Create the reunion
Name it, set the first day and the last day, and add the schedule if the weekend has more than one gathering. Ten minutes, months before anyone books a flight.
Bring the family list across
Paste it from the spreadsheet. Households reply with the number they are bringing, and you watch invited, coming and expected as three separate counts rather than guessing from a chat thread.
Share one code all weekend
Print the QR for the welcome table and put the link in the family chat. Guests open a web page, choose photos and upload. No app, no account, no password.
Ask your question, then keep everything
Set the question the elders answer in their own voice. Afterwards, open downloads to the whole family and take the full-resolution archive for yourself.
For the relatives who could not make the trip
A Live Pass broadcasts one gathering privately — up to 90 minutes for up to 100 people watching at once, through a link that opens in any browser with nothing to install. Picsui Complete bundles that broadcast with the photo gallery for one price. Replay is not currently included or guaranteed, so it is worth telling people the hour. How the private broadcast works.
What it does not do
Worth knowing before the weekend rather than during it.
Nobody is tagged, and there is no face search
Picsui will not tell you who is in a 1974 photograph. That is why the guestbook question exists: the identification has to come from the person who remembers, and it is worth more recorded in their voice than typed under a thumbnail.
The door runs on your own login
Check-in opens on any phone signed in as you. There is no second account to hand a cousin for the afternoon, so if somebody else is working the door, they are working it on your device.
A broadcast is live, and a replay is not promised
The private broadcast is for relatives watching at the time. A recording may be attempted operationally, but it is not part of what you are buying, so tell people the hour.
The guest screens are in 3 languages
English, Español, Français. If part of the family reads none of those, uploading is still a photo picker and one button, but the wording around it will be in one of the three.
Private, which matters more when it is children
The gallery is reachable only by people with the code or the link, it is never listed on search engines, and you can add a passcode. You can require your approval before anything appears in the shared view or on the slideshow, and you can remove any photo at any time — including on behalf of the parent who asks you to. How Picsui handles your data.
When the family is spread across countries
The guest screens are available in English, Español, Français, and the gallery link works from anywhere without an app store account or a local phone number. Relatives who could not travel can be given the same link and add their own photographs to the same album from home.
Questions organisers ask
Is a three-day reunion one event or three?
One. You set the first and last day, and uploads stay open for the whole window on a single Event Pass. Inside it you can lay out up to 40 separate gatherings — the Friday dinner, the Saturday picnic, the Sunday service — each with its own time, location, capacity and RSVP.
Half the family will not download an app. Does that work?
The code opens a plain web page in whatever browser the phone already has. There is no app, no account and no password for guests, and the guest screens run in English, Español, Français. For the relative who does not use a phone at all, you add their photos yourself from the Photos tab of your dashboard and they appear in the album like everyone else's.
Can we add old family photos, not just this weekend's?
Yes, and at a reunion that is usually most of the album. Scans of prints, photographs of photographs, screenshots — anything on a phone can be added, and uploads stay open until the end date you set, so the box of prints somebody finds in November still goes in the same place.
How do I get a real headcount for the caterer?
The guest list keeps three numbers apart on purpose: how many you invited a household for, how many they confirmed, and how many walked in. A household can confirm fewer than they were invited for but never more. At the door, one tap checks in a household's whole confirmed party, and plus and minus handle the ones who came short or brought an extra.
Can I import the list the family already keeps in a spreadsheet?
Copy the cells and paste them — comma or tab separated, columns in any order. Paste a corrected version later and people are matched on their email and updated in place, with their existing invitation link left working. A column headed group, side or tags becomes tags, up to 12 a household, and the seating plan uses those tags to keep a branch of the family together.
How does everyone get copies afterwards?
Three ways, and you choose. Open gallery downloads so any relative with the link takes the originals themselves; email the gallery link to everyone who registered; or download the whole archive as a ZIP in original quality and hand it round however your family already shares things. The gallery is hosted for 12 months, and it is worth taking that archive once the family has stopped adding.
What about the relatives who cannot travel?
A Live Pass is $39 and broadcasts one gathering privately — up to 90 minutes for up to 100 people watching at once, through a link that opens in any browser. Picsui Complete is $49 and bundles that broadcast with the photo gallery. Replay is not currently included or guaranteed, so treat it as something to watch live.
Is the album private? Some of the family do not want their children online.
The gallery is reachable only by people with the code or the link, it is never listed on search engines, and you can add a passcode. You can require your approval before a photo appears in the shared view or on the slideshow, automatic screening runs on uploads, and you can remove any photo at any time.
What does family reunion photo sharing cost?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the whole reunion, with no subscription and nothing that renews. It covers unlimited guest photo and video uploads, voice messages and the guestbook, the live slideshow, the schedule and guest list, and the full-resolution download. Fair use: 25 GB of media per event.
Set it up long before the weekend
One code for the whole reunion, $29 once, no subscription. Try the guest upload on your own phone first — it is free and needs no card — then paste the family list when it is ready.