One moon over everyone.
One gallery under it.
You are the household that hosts the reunion dinner on the fifteenth night of the eighth lunar month, which means you are cutting mooncakes into neat eighths while everyone else is out on the balcony pointing at the moon. In Singapore the evening runs from the Chinatown light-up to the lantern walk at Gardens by the Bay; in a Hong Kong estate it is the courtyard; in a Chinese family anywhere it is the fullest table of the autumn. The children carry lanterns, the grandparents pour the tea, and by the time the candles gutter the photos are on twenty phones in three time zones. One QR code on the mooncake tray puts them in one place, and puts the relatives who could not come at the table.
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The moments guests actually photograph at Mid-Autumn Festival gatherings
Why Mid-Autumn Festival gatherings work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
The night belongs to the people with lanterns
The host is at the table pouring tea and slicing the snow-skin mooncakes while the cousins take the children down to the void deck with their lanterns. Whoever is holding a lantern is also holding a phone, and a scan of the code sends their photos of the walk straight to the family gallery at full size, so the evening outdoors ends up in the same place as the dinner indoors.
Grandparents watching the same moon somewhere else
The festival's whole point is that the family looks at one moon from wherever it is scattered: a grandmother in Guangzhou, a son on a posting in Shanghai, a daughter studying in Melbourne. Live Broadcast is included with the Event Pass and opens the reunion dinner on a private link with sound, so they hear the toasts and see the mooncakes cut, not just a photo of them afterwards.
Every branch of the family, one link
A Chinese family's photos of the festival scatter across the WeChat group, the WhatsApp group the Singapore cousins use, and the phones of relatives who are in neither. One gallery link carries the same evening to all of them, and the host downloads the originals for the aunt who keeps a photo of the grandparents on the altar shelf each year.
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.
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.
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.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event a week before the full moon, named for the year, and post the link in the family group along with who is bringing which mooncakes.
Print the QR code on a card for the mooncake tray and a second one to carry down to the park or the void deck when the lanterns come out.
Family scans and uploads through dinner and the lantern walk. Start Live Broadcast before the tea is poured so the relatives overseas join the table.
The next morning, put the slideshow on the TV over breakfast, download the originals and send the link to every branch of the family.
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 Mid-Autumn Festival gatherings
Hand the code to the person who takes the children out with the lanterns, because that is the half of the evening the host never sees. In most families dinner ends, the lanterns are lit, and the cousins walk the little ones to the park or the estate courtyard while the adults clear up and boil water for tea. Ask the lantern walker to scan once before they leave the flat and upload from the park as they go, so the candlelit children and the crooked paper rabbits are in the gallery by the time everyone comes back for the second round of mooncakes.
If you are in Singapore, decide in advance which outings the gallery covers. Some families go to the Chinatown light-up the weekend before, some to the Gardens by the Bay lantern display on the night itself, and some do both plus the reunion dinner at the grandparents' flat. One event covers all of it, so keep the same code for the whole fortnight and tell the family that the Chinatown photos go in too. Ask for a group photo under the big lantern arch each year; after three or four festivals those photos in one gallery show the children growing up a lantern at a time.
For the relatives who cannot be at the table, start Live Broadcast a few minutes before the mooncakes are cut rather than at the start of dinner, because cutting and sharing the mooncake is the moment they want to see. Set the phone on a stand at the end of the table with the balcony behind it, so the moon is in the frame if the sky is clear. Ask the grandparents to say a few words to the camera; in many families that greeting is the one part of the night the cousins abroad replay. Keep the stream running through the tea and the first lantern lighting.
Common questions about Mid-Autumn Festival gatherings
Can my mother in Hong Kong watch the reunion dinner if she cannot fly this year?
Yes. Live Broadcast is included with the Event Pass and puts the dinner on a private link with sound for up to 90 minutes and as many as 100 viewers. She opens it in her phone's browser with nothing to install, so a niece can send the link in the family chat the afternoon before along with the time you plan to sit down. Leave the phone on a stand at the table and she sees the mooncakes cut, hears the toasts, and can be greeted by name.
Half the family uses WeChat and half uses WhatsApp. Does everyone need the same app?
No app at all. The QR code opens an upload page in whatever browser the phone has, and the gallery link works the same way, so it does not matter which chat the family lives in. Post the link in both groups and the photos land in one place regardless of where the relative saw it. Guest pages are available in English, Español, Français; an older relative who reads only Chinese still manages, because the upload is one button that opens the camera roll and the host can write the welcome note in Chinese.
We are going to the lantern display and the light-up on different nights. Is that two events?
One event is enough. The code stays valid for the whole festival window, so photos from the Chinatown light-up the weekend before, the reunion dinner on the night, and the lantern walk at Gardens by the Bay all go into the same gallery. If you would rather see each outing separately, add each one as a sub-event under the same code and the gallery keeps them in their own sections. Either way the family uses one link.
Are the children's photos private? Some of the family would not want them online.
The gallery is private by default and can only be opened with the link or the code. It is not listed anywhere, and it is blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. If some relatives are careful about photos of the children, turn on host review so every upload waits for you before the wider family sees it. You can also close uploads once the festival is over and keep the gallery for the family to browse for 365 days on an Event Pass.
What does it cost for one festival dinner and a lantern walk?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the event, with no subscription afterwards. It includes unlimited uploads from any number of relatives, host review, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting, and Live Broadcast for the grandparents overseas is part of the same pass. Next year's festival is a new event with its own code, which is how most families keep the years apart.
Every photo from Mid-Autumn Festival gatherings, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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