One table, three time zones.
One gallery for the whole night.
This page is for the family that does Novy God properly a long way from where they learned it: the yolka in the corner since the middle of December, the Olivier and the herring under a fur coat made the day before, tangerines in a bowl, champagne waiting in the fridge, the Irony of Fate playing in the background for the hundredth time, and a hired Ded Moroz and Snegurochka due at the door before the children fall asleep. Then the address on the television, the chiming of the clock, the wish written on paper and burnt into the glass, and the fireworks in the courtyard. The problem is that the family is in Brooklyn, Berlin, Haifa and Almaty, midnight comes at four different hours, and the photos are spread across all of them. One QR code puts the whole night, in every time zone, into one gallery, and the grandparents who read only Russian only have to tap one button.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at Novy God parties
Why Novy God parties work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Midnight in Moscow, then midnight at home, one gallery
A Russian-speaking family abroad often counts down twice, once with the chimes on the television at Moscow time and again at local midnight. The event runs all night and takes uploads from every city the family is in, so the cousins in Almaty and the parents in New Jersey end up on the same page in the order it happened.
Babushka sees Ded Moroz arrive, wherever she is
The visit from Ded Moroz and Snegurochka, the children reciting their poem for a present, the toast at the chimes: these are the moments a grandmother in another country waits all year for. Live Broadcast carries them to her on a private link with sound, at the hour they happen, with nothing for her to install.
The night on the television before the Goluboy Ogonyok
Once the chimes have rung and the champagne is poured, put the slideshow on the television between the address and the concert. The yolka photos, the children with Ded Moroz and the table before it was touched play back for the whole family while the night is still going, and again on Old New 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.
Voice messages
Guests record up to 60 seconds of audio right from the upload page: a blessing, a toast, a story. It is saved next to the photos in the same 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 to run from the afternoon of the thirty-first through the first of January, so both midnights and the morning after land under one code.
Print the QR code on a card for the table next to the champagne, and send the link to every branch of the family with the local time of the chimes.
Guests upload through the Ded Moroz visit, the address and the countdown. Start Live Broadcast before the chimes for the grandparents in another country.
On the first, download the originals and send the gallery link to every city the family is in, so the photos are not lost in a chat that shrinks them.
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 Novy God parties
Put the code on the table with the Olivier, because that is where everyone is between the evening and the chimes. Novy God is a long night at a full table with the television on, which means phones are already out and pointed at the food, the yolka and the children, and a card next to the champagne is all the reminder anyone needs. Ask someone to photograph the table before the first plate is served, since the spread of salads, kholodets and caviar sandwiches is the photo the relatives abroad ask about first. Mention the code once when the address begins, and the whole table will upload during the chimes.
Work out the midnights before the night starts. If the grandparents are in Moscow and you are in New York, their chimes ring at four in the afternoon your time, which is a good moment to start Live Broadcast for a first toast with them and to show them the yolka and the children in costume while everyone is still tidy. Then run your own countdown at local midnight for the family in the room. Both go into the same gallery, and the cousins in Berlin, whose midnight sits between the two, add theirs in the middle. Tell each branch the exact local time of your chimes, not just 'midnight', and send the link with it.
If a Ded Moroz is booked, he usually comes before the children are asleep and well before midnight, so make sure the person paying him is not also the one holding the phone. Hand the code to an older cousin whose only job is the visit: the knock, the children reciting their stishok for a present, the round dance around the yolka, Snegurochka handing out sweets. Ask the adults to record a wish for the new year as a voice note before the champagne, so a year later the gallery holds the room's hopes in Russian, in their own voices, along with the fireworks from the courtyard.
Common questions about Novy God parties
My parents read only Russian. Can they use the upload page?
The upload page is written in English, Español, Français, and there is no Russian version of it. In practice that rarely matters, because a guest does not read anything: they tap one button, the camera roll opens, they pick photos and they are done, with no account, no app and no form. Write the welcome message at the top in Russian so they know what the page is, or have a grandchild scan the code for them once and leave the page open. The gallery link afterwards opens as a plain grid of photos, which needs no language at all.
The family is in three time zones. How do we do midnight together?
Pick the chimes you will share, usually Moscow time or the time of whoever is oldest, and start Live Broadcast a few minutes before. It is included with the Event Pass and streams up to 90 minutes with sound to as many as 100 viewers on a private link, so the family in every city can watch your table for one toast. Each branch then counts down its own local midnight and uploads its photos to the same gallery, and by the morning the whole night is in one place in the order it happened.
Can we film the address and the chimes off the television?
Yes, and most families do, because the room during the chimes matters more than the screen. Short video clips within the 30 second limit upload at full quality, so ask one person to film the table as the clock strikes and the glasses go up rather than pointing at the television. The address itself is broadcast and available afterwards; the sound of your family shouting 'S Novym Godom' over it is not, and that is what the gallery is for.
We celebrate again on Old New Year. Will the gallery still be open?
Yes. An Event Pass keeps the gallery live for 365 days, which covers Old New Year on the night of the thirteenth of January, Orthodox Christmas before it and the yolka finally coming down. Add Old New Year as a sub-event under the same code and it gets its own section beside the main night, so the family abroad sees the whole season in one link, and the slideshow on the television can play the first party during the second.
There will be relatives on opposite sides of arguments in the room. Who can see these photos?
Only the people you give the code or the link to. The gallery is private by default, never listed publicly, and blocked from search engines and AI crawlers, so nothing from your table appears anywhere the family did not choose. Turn on host review and every upload waits for you before anyone else sees it. You can remove a photo at any time, close uploads after the first, and download everything before deleting the event if you prefer to keep it entirely offline.
What does one Novy God cost?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the event, with no subscription. It covers unlimited uploads from every branch of the family in every city, the voice guestbook, host review, Live Broadcast for the grandparents abroad, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting through Old New Year. There is no charge per guest, so a table of six in a flat and a rented hall with a hired Ded Moroz and eighty people pay the same.
Every photo from Novy God parties, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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