Eight days to plan it.
One scan to keep it.
The parents of a boy have until the eighth day to arrange a mohel, a room, a kvatter to carry him in, a sandek to hold him, and enough bagels for everyone who heard. There is no time to print anything. A simchat bat can be planned more slowly, but the room is the same: grandparents, a name announced for the first time, a seudah, and phones everywhere with nowhere to send the photos. One QR code on the table fixes that in a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at brises and baby namings
Why brises and baby namings work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
No printer, no lead time
Create the event the night the baby is born and the QR code exists immediately. Open it on a phone and stand it on the table, send it in the same message that tells people the time, or drop it in the family group. Nothing needs to arrive from anywhere before the eighth day.
The naming, live for family in Israel
Half the family is usually in another country, and a weekday morning bris is impossible to fly in for on a week's notice. Live Pass streams the ceremony and the naming on a private link, with audio, so grandparents abroad hear the name said aloud at the same moment the room does.
You decide what the gallery shows
Many families want photos of the sandek's chair, the naming and the seudah, and none of the procedure itself. With host review on, every upload waits for your approval, so a guest who filmed more than you would like never puts it in front of the grandparents. The gallery holds what you choose.
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
Live Pass is a standalone $39 one-time add-on: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with audio. Family abroad watch on any phone, no app required.
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.
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.
Voice messages
Guests record up to 60 seconds of audio right from the upload page — a blessing, a toast, a story — saved next to the photos in the same gallery.
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.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event as soon as the date is set, which may be the day the baby is born. The code is ready the moment you finish.
Add the QR code to the message that tells family the time and place, and put a phone or a single printed sheet on the seudah table.
Guests scan and upload during the seudah. Ask the mohel or a grandparent to mention it once, after the naming, when the room relaxes.
Send the finished gallery to the grandparents, at home and abroad, that evening, while the day still feels close.
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.
- 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 brises and baby namings
Decide before the morning what you want photographed, and say it. Many families are glad to have photos of the baby being carried in, the sandek in the chair, the moment the Hebrew name is announced and the seudah after, and would rather nobody photographed the brit itself. Tell the kvatter and the closest relatives directly, and turn on host review so that even if a cousin films the wrong minute, it waits in your queue rather than landing in front of everyone. Then let people photograph freely; the moment after the naming, when the room exhales, is the best one of the day.
If the eighth day lands on Shabbat or a holiday, the bris still happens but observant guests will not touch a phone. Plan for the photos to come from before candle lighting and after havdalah, or from a weekday seudah, and know that the gallery stays open for 365 days on an Event Pass so nobody is rushed. Guests who are not observant can still upload at the time; a private gallery gives everyone one place to put things regardless of when they were taken, and the photos from Sunday's visitors sit next to Friday's without anyone sorting them.
Use the guestbook for the story of the name. Ask "Who is he named for, and what should he know about them?" and let the grandparents record the answer as a voice message rather than type it. A simchat bat especially, where the naming is the whole ceremony, deserves a recording of the people who knew the great-grandmother she is named after. Those messages sit in the same gallery as the photos, and they are the part the child will play back at their own bar or bat mitzvah, long after the bagels are forgotten.
Common questions about brises and baby namings
We have a week. Is that enough time to set this up?
It is enough time to set it up between feeds. Creating the event takes about a minute, and the QR code is generated on the spot, so there is nothing to print or order. Put the code in the same message that tells family the time and place, and open it on a phone or tablet at the seudah table on the morning. Guests scan with their camera, get a browser page and upload; nobody installs anything. The parents of a newborn do not need one more thing to manage, and this is not one.
Is it appropriate to photograph a bris?
Customs differ by family and community, so ask the mohel and follow the family's lead. Most families are comfortable with photos of the baby arriving, the chair of Elijah, the sandek, the naming and the meal, and prefer that the procedure itself is not photographed or shared. If you turn on host review, each upload waits for your approval before anyone else sees it, so you can keep the gallery to the moments you are happy to have, and a guest who misjudged it never causes a problem. The gallery is private and never indexed either way.
Can family in Israel watch the naming live?
Yes. Live Pass is a $39 one-time add-on that streams up to 90 minutes to as many as 100 viewers on a private link, with audio, so they hear the name announced rather than reading it in a message afterward. A morning bris in New York is early afternoon in Tel Aviv, which is a good hour for it. One guest holds a phone from the side of the room; nobody at the other end needs an app. The photos follow in the same gallery when the seudah ends.
Who can see the photos of the baby?
Only the people you give the link or code to. The gallery is private by default, is never listed or indexed, and guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers. Relatives who receive the link browse and download without creating an account. If you want to check each photo before it becomes visible to other guests, turn on host review. You can close the gallery to new uploads whenever you like, and it stays online for 365 days on an Event Pass.
What does it cost for a morning ceremony and a meal?
An Event Pass is $29 one time, covering unlimited guest uploads with a 25 GB fair-use bound, voice and written messages, host review, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. It costs the same whether twelve people come or a hundred and twenty, because there is no per-guest fee and no subscription, and a simchat bat held weeks later can be its own event or share this one. Live Pass for family abroad is a separate $39 one-time add-on.
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