Dates, water, the adhan.
Then everyone eats.
You are hosting the iftar, whether that is your family and neighbors in the dining room, or the mosque, the student association or the community organization serving a few hundred people in a hall. The minutes before maghrib are the same everywhere: dates and water laid out, the adhan, the fast broken, the prayer, and then the meal that everyone has been thinking about since suhoor. The photos of it are scattered and, for many guests, sensitive. One QR code collects them into a private gallery, on the host's terms.
The moments guests actually photograph at iftar dinners
Why iftar dinners work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Host review, because not everyone wants to be photographed
Many guests at an iftar are happy to be in a photo of the table and not in a photo of themselves, and some prefer neither. Turn on host review and every upload waits in your queue before anyone else sees it, so what reaches the gallery is what the host judged appropriate for that community, not whatever was uploaded.
Private by default, closed when the host says
An iftar gallery should not be searchable, and it is not. It is reachable only by the link or code you share, guest pages are blocked from search engines and AI crawlers, and the host closes it to new uploads whenever they choose. A mosque can share it with the congregation and nobody else will find it.
Family breaking their fast in another country
Ramadan is a month when families feel the distance. Live Pass puts the table on a private link with sound, so parents in Cairo, Lahore or Dakar see the dates go round and hear the dua at maghrib, at the moment it happens rather than in a photo the next day.
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.
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.
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.
Guest pages in 3 languages
The upload page speaks English, Español, Français, chosen from the guest's phone settings, so a mixed-language crowd is never guessing what a button does.
Door check-in from your phone
See who has arrived, who is still expected, and how many are in each party — without a clipboard at the entrance.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event, turn on host review, and decide with your community how photographs will be handled before you share anything.
Put the QR code on the tables or the program, and say at the start whether guests may photograph the hall or only their own table.
Guests upload the table, the dates, the meal and the dessert. For a large iftar, door check-in from a phone replaces the sign-in sheet.
Review the queue after taraweeh, approve what fits, and share the gallery with the congregation or the family the next day.
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 iftar dinners
Say the photo rule out loud before maghrib, and make it clear. At a family iftar, that might simply be that photos are welcome. At a community iftar in a mosque or hall, it is usually that guests may photograph their own table and the food, that the prayer is not photographed, and that anyone who prefers not to appear can say so and will be respected. Put the same sentence on the program beside the code. Guests upload more, not less, when they know what is appropriate, and the host review queue catches whatever was missed.
The minutes before maghrib are the most photographed and the least interesting. The photos worth keeping are the ones after the prayer: the first plates, the children who lasted the whole fast being congratulated, the elders being served first, the tea and dessert when the hall relaxes. Ask the volunteers serving to upload as they go, since they move through the entire room, and ask one person to photograph the empty hall set out before guests arrive, which the organizing committee will want for next year's planning. If the iftar is followed by taraweeh, the gallery is closed to the prayer, so ask people to upload before they leave the hall.
For a mosque or organization hosting a large community iftar, use the guest list for the sign-ups you already collect and check people in from a phone at the door instead of the paper sheet. Turn on host review and assign one volunteer to the queue after taraweeh, approving the wide shots of the hall and the food and holding anything that singles out a person who did not pose for it. Share the gallery with the congregation the following day, and consider whether an interfaith iftar with invited guests from outside the community should have a separate, smaller gallery.
Common questions about iftar dinners
Some guests do not want to be photographed. How is that handled?
It is handled by the host, not by the software, and the tools are there to support that. Turn on host review and every upload waits in your queue until you approve it, so a photo that singles out someone who did not want to be in it never reaches the gallery. Announce the rule before maghrib and print it beside the code. The gallery is private and reachable only by the link you share, so nothing is ever public. Where a community prefers no photographs of people at all, a gallery of the hall, the food and the volunteers is still a record worth keeping.
Can family abroad join the iftar?
With Live Pass, yes. It 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, and viewers only need a phone browser. Set a phone at the end of the table before maghrib and family in another country see the dates go round and hear the dua. Whether the link opens for them depends on their own connection where they are. Afterwards, send them the gallery link and they can browse and download without an account.
We are a mosque hosting a few hundred people. Does this work at that size?
Yes. There is no cap on the number of guests, only unlimited uploads on an Event Pass, which a community iftar comes nowhere near. Print the code on the program and a card per table, use the guest list for the sign-ups you already take so volunteers check people in from a phone at the door, and turn on host review so a committee member approves what goes out. The guest upload page appears in English, Español, Français depending on each phone's settings, which helps a congregation with French or Spanish speakers.
Is the gallery private?
Yes. It is private by default, only reachable by the link or code you share, it is never listed anywhere, and guest pages are blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. With host review on, nothing appears until the host approves it. A mosque can share the link with the congregation and nobody outside it can find the gallery. The host can close uploads at the end of the night, and the gallery stays online for 365 days on an Event Pass.
What does it cost for one iftar, or for the month?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for one event, with unlimited uploads, host review, guest list and check-in, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no subscription and no per-guest fee. An organization hosting several iftars over Ramadan can create one event with a sub-event per night so the whole month lives under one code and one pass. Streaming to family abroad with Live Pass is a separate $39 one-time add-on.
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