You lit the display.
Now you get to watch it.
This page is for the person at the far end of the garden with a taper and a box of rockets, and for the committee member running the village display from behind the rope. You built the bonfire, you stuffed the guy with newspaper, you bought the parkin and the toffee apples, and when the first fuse catches you are looking at the fuse, not the sky. Everyone else is looking up with a phone in one hand and a sparkler in the other. One QR code on the drinks table means those phones send you the night you were too busy to see: the guy going up, the kids writing their names in light, the big finish reflected in forty upturned heads you could not photograph because you were lighting it.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at Bonfire Night parties
Why Bonfire Night parties work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Photos from the side of the rope you were not on
The person running a display stands with their back to the crowd all night. Guests upload straight from their phones, so the sparkler portraits, the moment the guy catches, and the finale seen from the lawn rather than the launch area all land in one gallery, taken by the people who were actually watching.
Grandparents who will not stand in a cold field
Someone always watches from the kitchen window, or from a warm sitting room two hundred miles away. Live Broadcast puts the display on a private link with sound, so they hear the bangs and the countdown and the children shrieking, without the mud, the smoke or the drive home in the dark.
Play the display back before anyone goes home
Bonfire Night ends with everyone crowded inside thawing out over soup. Put the slideshow on the television and the rockets and sparkler photos play back while the coats are still steaming, which is the only time the whole party is in one warm room together.
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.
unlimited photo and video uploads
Every guest can send as much as they like: phone photos, iPhone HEICs, short videos, up to a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
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.
Live photo wall on any screen
Open the slideshow on a TV, projector or laptop and new uploads appear as they arrive. Grid and collage layouts, transition presets, and a phone remote to control it from across the room.
Private by default, never indexed
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. Guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers, and you can close the gallery whenever you choose.
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 a week ahead, whether it is your back garden or the village recreation ground, and send the link round the group before anyone puts their wellies on.
Print the QR code big and put it where the light is: by the burger tent, next to the sparkler bucket, on the drinks table under the porch lamp. A code in the dark cannot be scanned.
Guests upload between the bonfire lighting and the display, and again during the finale. Start Live Broadcast for the relatives watching from indoors or abroad.
Download the originals the next morning and send the gallery link to everyone who came, including the neighbours who watched over the fence.
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 Bonfire Night parties
Light the code as carefully as you light the fireworks. A QR card on a table in a dark garden is invisible, and half your guests will not think to use their torch. Put the card under the one outdoor light you have, tape a second copy to the inside of the kitchen window where people queue for soup, and send the link in the group before dark so the people who never scan anything already have the page open. The best photos of the night happen at the bonfire lighting and the sparkler round, both before the display, so you want the code known before then, not announced afterwards when everyone is cold and leaving.
Ask two or three guests to be the ones who film the display, and tell them to use short clips rather than one long recording. A phone held up for the whole show produces a shaky ten-minute file that nobody watches; a handful of clips of the biggest rockets, the Catherine wheel and the finale, each within the 30 second limit, upload quickly and play back well on the television afterwards. For the stills, night mode on a phone is good at the bonfire and hopeless at fireworks, so tell people to switch it off and take a burst instead. You will get a lot of black frames and a few that are perfect.
If you are lighting the display yourself, put your own phone on a stand pointing at the crowd, not at the sky, and start Live Broadcast before you walk down to the launch area. The family watching from the sitting room or from another country want to hear the oohs and the bangs and see the children with their sparklers far more than they want a clean shot of a rocket. Keep it running through the fireworks and into the soup queue afterwards, which is when the person far away hears everyone talking at once and feels like they were there.
Common questions about Bonfire Night parties
It is pitch dark in the garden. How will anyone scan a QR code?
Put the code where there is light: by the food, under the porch lamp, on the kitchen window, or on a phone screen someone holds up. The phone's camera scans a printed code from a couple of feet away in ordinary lamplight, and a lit phone screen works even in the dark. The other fix is to send the link in the group chat before anyone arrives, so guests already have the upload page open and never need to scan at all. Most hosts do both.
Will fireworks photos and video from phones actually be any good?
Better than you expect, if you tell people how. Short clips of the biggest moments beat one long recording, and each clip uploads at full quality from the phone. For stills, a burst of frames catches a rocket where a single tap misses it. The gallery keeps everything at original resolution, so the one guest with a newer phone and a steady hand gives everyone the finale shot. With thirty phones pointed up, the odds are good that someone got the one you wanted.
We run the village display. Hundreds of strangers will scan it. Is that a problem?
No, and it is the point. Anyone at the display can upload without an account, and the gallery stays private to people with the link or the code; it is never listed publicly or indexed. Turn on host review and every upload waits for a committee member to approve before it appears, which matters when the crowd includes children you do not know. You can close uploads after the weekend and keep the gallery open for the village to browse, and download the originals for next year's poster.
Can my parents watch the display from home without standing in the cold?
Yes. Live Broadcast is included with the Event Pass and streams up to 90 minutes with sound to as many as 100 viewers on a private link. Prop a phone on a stand by the house pointing at the crowd and the sky, send them the link in the afternoon, and tell them what time the first rocket goes up. They will hear the countdown and the bangs and the kids, which is most of Bonfire Night anyway, from a warm chair.
What does it cost for one night in the garden?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the event. That covers unlimited uploads from as many guests as turn up, host review, Live Broadcast for the family indoors or abroad, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no subscription and nothing charged per guest, so it is the same price for a dozen people in your garden as it is for a rugby club display with the whole village in the car park.
Every photo from Bonfire Night parties, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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