Thirteen days of Nowruz.
One gallery for all of them.
You are the household with the haft-seen this year, which means the sabzeh has been growing on the windowsill for weeks and the family will be at your door for the moment of tahvil and every day of did o bazdid after it. Nowruz stretches from the fires of Chaharshanbe Suri to the picnic on Sizdah Bedar, across many houses and, for most diaspora families, across borders. One QR code gathers it, and gives the relatives in Iran, Afghanistan or Tajikistan a seat at the table.
The moments guests actually photograph at Nowruz gatherings
Why Nowruz gatherings work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Fire, tahvil, visits, picnic: one code
Nowruz is not a single gathering. There is the night of Chaharshanbe Suri, the family around the haft-seen for the moment of the new year, the days of visiting elders, and the picnic on the thirteenth day when the sabzeh goes into running water. Sub-events keep each one grouped under the same QR code, so the family has one link for the whole season.
Tahvil with the family who could not leave
For diaspora families, the people missing at the haft-seen are the reason the table exists. Live Pass streams the moment of tahvil, with the countdown and the embraces, to relatives back home on a private link with sound. They see the children in new clothes and hear the greeting meant for them, at the moment itself.
Every branch of the family gets the originals
By the end of the visiting days the photos are spread across cousins, aunts and three cities. One gallery gathers them, and every household downloads what it wants at full resolution, from the haft-seen to the picnic blankets, without a month of forwarded images that shrink a little every time they are sent on.
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.
Several days, one gallery
Multi-day celebrations get sub-events under one code, so the rehearsal, the ceremony and the brunch stay organised but reachable from a single link.
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.
unlimited photo and video uploads
Every guest can send as much as they like — phone photos, iPhone HEICs, short videos — with a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
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 as you set the haft-seen, with sub-events for Chaharshanbe Suri, the day of tahvil, the visits, and Sizdah Bedar.
Put the QR code on a card beside the haft-seen, where every guest stops, and send the link to relatives abroad with the time of tahvil in their zone.
Family scans and uploads through the season, from the fire jumping to the eidi handed to the children to the picnic blankets.
After Sizdah Bedar, download the originals and send one link to every household, here and back home.
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 Nowruz gatherings
The moment of tahvil happens at an exact minute, and everyone is looking at the haft-seen, not their phones. Set one phone on a stand facing the table before the countdown so the embraces and the first greetings are recorded, and let the rest of the family upload afterwards. If you are streaming to relatives abroad, start Live Pass well before the moment itself and send the link the night before with the time of tahvil in their time zone. For families here, tahvil can fall at three in the morning or in the middle of a workday; a stream lets the ones who could not come still see it.
Chaharshanbe Suri photos are dark and fast, and the fire is the least interesting part. Ask guests to photograph the people jumping, not the flames, and to upload the short videos, which say far more than stills. For Sizdah Bedar, the code from the same event still works at the park; put it on a card in the picnic basket so the cousins who only turn up for the picnic upload their side of the day too. One gallery for the whole thirteen days is much better than a separate one per gathering, and it is the version the family will actually look through.
During did o bazdid, the same family visits several houses in a few days, and the photos end up on whoever's phone was closest. Put the code on the sweets tray in your own house and share the link with the relatives hosting the other visits, so uploads from every house land in one place. Ask the guestbook a question in the spirit of the season, such as "What do you wish this family for the new year?" and the elders will answer with a voice message in Persian or Dari, which the grandchildren will keep long after the sabzeh has gone into the stream.
Common questions about Nowruz gatherings
Can relatives in Iran or Afghanistan watch the moment of tahvil?
Yes, with Live Pass. 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. Send the link the day before and tell them the time of tahvil in their zone. Whether the link opens for a particular relative depends on their own connection and any restrictions where they are, which we cannot control, so a family member on the ground is the best judge of that.
Nowruz lasts almost two weeks. Do I need a new event for each gathering?
No. Create one event and add sub-events for Chaharshanbe Suri, the day of tahvil, the visiting days and Sizdah Bedar. Every sub-event shares the same QR code, guests are sorted into the right day, and the family has one link at the end. An Event Pass keeps the gallery live for 365 days, so uploads can continue from the picnic and well after, and relatives who were slow to send their photos still have time.
How do we get photos from every house during the visits?
Share the link with the relatives hosting the other visits and ask them to put the code by their sweets tray as well. Guests upload from whichever house they are in and everything lands in the same gallery. Scanning opens an upload page in the phone's browser with no app and no account, so even the older relatives manage once a grandchild has shown them. At the end, every household downloads the originals it wants, at full resolution, without asking anyone to send anything.
Who can see our family photos?
Only the people you give the link or code to. The gallery is private by default, it is not listed anywhere, and guest pages are blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. That matters to many diaspora families with relatives back home who are cautious about images circulating. Turn on host review and every upload waits for your approval before anyone else in the family sees it, and you can close uploads whenever you choose while the gallery stays online.
What does the whole season cost?
One Event Pass at $29 covers the entire season, including every sub-event, with unlimited uploads, host review, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no subscription and no charge per relative or per gathering, so the fire, the tahvil, the visits and the picnic are all one purchase. Streaming tahvil to family abroad with Live Pass is a separate $39 one-time add-on for the event, and only for the years someone is missing from the table.
Every photo from Nowruz gatherings, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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