Twenty-one once.
Every mate's phone in one gallery.
This page is for the mum organising the marquee in the backyard, the mate booking the function room, and the birthday kid who has to sit through the speeches. An Australian 21st runs on phones: the childhood photo board gets photographed more than the cake, the speeches are filmed from four angles and the key is presented to a wall of screens. Those photos end up in a group chat nobody can search a month later. One QR code on the bar and the cake table keeps them in one place, and the grandparents in Leeds watch the speeches live.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at 21st birthdays
Why 21st birthdays work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Nan in Leeds watches the speeches
A 21st in Australia usually has family on the other side of the world. The private live broadcast included with the Event Pass sends the speeches and the key to relatives in the UK or New Zealand on one link. They watch on a phone with no account, and a replay is available afterwards as the Broadcast Recording add-on for anyone who slept through it.
The speeches from the crowd, not just the tripod
The parent's speech is embarrassing on purpose and the best mate's is worse. Guests film both from wherever they stand, and those clips upload to the same gallery as the photos, at full resolution, alongside the 30-second video messages recorded on the spot by the mates who would never write in a card.
Host review before mum sees the photos
Twenty-first birthdays end late, and not every photo from the last hour belongs in the family gallery. Turn on host review and every upload waits in a queue until the host approves it. AI screening flags anything questionable first, so the approving takes minutes on the couch the next morning rather than an afternoon.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
A private live broadcast is included with the Event Pass: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with sound, and keep the recording afterwards.
Video messages, recorded on the spot
A 30-second video toast recorded in the browser, no editing, no re-uploading. The guest who would never write in a book will happily talk to a phone.
You approve before anyone sees
Turn on host review and every upload waits in your queue until you approve it. AI screening flags anything questionable so you are not scrolling through hundreds of photos at midnight.
A guestbook with your own question
Replace the generic prompt with one that fits the day. Written messages are collected alongside the photos and kept with the gallery.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event with the date and the colour of the theme. If the family lunch is on the Sunday, add it as a sub-event so the one code covers both.
Print the QR code on the invitation and stick it on the bar, the cake table and beside the photo board, where every guest is already pointing a phone.
Guests scan and upload through the arrivals, the speeches and the dance floor. Send the broadcast link to family overseas before the speeches start.
The morning after, approve anything held for review, share the gallery link in the group chat, and download every original as one ZIP for the birthday kid.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land. Photos pass a quick AI check first; videos wait for a person.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from 21st birthdays
The childhood photo board is the most photographed object at an Australian 21st, and the prints on it are usually the only copies that exist. Photograph the board yourself, one print at a time, and upload those through the same QR code before guests arrive. Then the school photo, the first day at the beach and the awful haircut sit in the gallery beside the night's photos, and cousins can save the ones they are in without unpinning anything from the board. Ask the older relatives to bring a print or two they have kept at home; they upload them the same way.
Speeches are the part that family overseas actually want, so plan the broadcast around them rather than the whole night. Send the private link to the relatives in the UK or New Zealand the day before with the start time converted for them; an eight o'clock speech in Sydney is late morning in London and ten at night in Auckland. Prop the phone that is streaming somewhere steady with a view of the speaker, and ask one mate to hold it if the speaker wanders. If someone at home is asleep for it, the replay is available afterwards as the Broadcast Recording add-on.
Decide who is the host before the night, because the host sees every upload first and controls what appears. For most 21sts that should be a parent or the person who booked the venue, not the birthday kid, who will be busy and later will be asleep. Turn on host review if the crowd is large or the bar is open, and leave it off for a family dinner. Either way, close uploads a couple of days later once the stragglers have sent their photos, and download the full archive so the gallery lives on a hard drive as well as on the link.
Common questions about 21st birthdays
Do our mates need to install anything?
No. A guest points the phone camera at the QR code and the upload page opens in the browser. There is no app, no account and no sign-up, which is why it works for the birthday kid's mates and for the grandparents at the same table. Anyone who arrives late or forgets on the night can use the same code the next morning from the group chat, and it keeps working after the party for as long as the gallery is hosted.
Can family in the UK and New Zealand watch the speeches?
Yes. A private live broadcast is included with every Event Pass: up to 90 minutes and 100 viewers on one private link, with sound. Relatives open it on a phone or a TV browser with no account. Because of the time difference some of them will be asleep, so a replay is available afterwards as the Broadcast Recording add-on, and they see the finished photo gallery from the same link when they wake up.
It is a backyard marquee. What if the phone signal is bad?
Uploads wait in the queue on the guest's phone and finish when the phone finds signal or Wi-Fi again, so a marquee on a property outside town still works; the photos simply arrive a little later. If the house Wi-Fi reaches the marquee, put the network name and password on the same sign as the QR code. Uploads go straight to storage, so a crowd sending photos at once after the speeches does not slow anyone down.
Can we approve photos before they go in the gallery?
Turn on host review when you create the event and every upload waits until the host approves it; nothing reaches the gallery or the slideshow without a yes. AI screening flags anything questionable first, so the person approving reads a short list rather than scrolling through hundreds of photos from the dance floor. You can remove any photo afterwards too, and a sibling can share the host login and do the approving during the night.
What does a 21st cost?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the event, whether thirty people come for dinner or two hundred fill a function room. It includes unlimited uploads with a 25 GB fair-use bound, the live slideshow, the private broadcast, host review, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no subscription and nothing charged per guest. Prices are in US dollars, and where Stripe offers it, checkout shows the exact total in Australian dollars before you pay.
Every photo from 21st birthdays, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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