Exams are done.
The week deserves a record.
This page is for the parent who booked the apartment in Surfers Paradise, or the one friend in the group who ended up organising everyone else's deposit. The week after Year 12 exams ends up as a pile of near-identical beach photos across ten phones, a group chat that scrolls past everything, and parents at home who would settle for one photo a day that says the kids are fine. One private QR code, taped inside the apartment door, collects the whole group's week in one place that only the group and the people they choose can see.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at Schoolies trips
Why Schoolies trips work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Private by default, and it stays that way
A Schoolies gallery is for the group, not for the internet. The link is never listed, is blocked from search engines and AI crawlers, and only opens for someone who has the code. Nothing is posted anywhere on the group's behalf, and the host can close uploads the morning the week is over and keep the gallery to the group.
Someone reviews before the group sees it
Turn on host review and every upload waits for the organiser, whether that is a parent at home or the friend who runs the group, before it appears. It means a photo somebody would regret next year at university never becomes the photo everyone saw, and the group still gets the beach, the balcony and the road trip in full.
A daily sign of life for the parents
Parents do not want a running commentary; they want to see the kids on the sand on Tuesday and cheerful on Friday. A gallery link they can open on their own phone shows the day's approved uploads as they arrive, which does more for a worried parent than a message that says 'all good' and nothing else.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 before the group leaves and turn on host review, then send the code to the group chat and the gallery link to the parents.
Tape the QR code inside the apartment door and put it on the lock screen of one phone in the group, so it is there every morning.
The group uploads through the week from the beach, the balcony and the drive. The organiser approves from the queue and the parents watch the gallery fill.
On the drive home, download the originals for the group and close uploads, so the week ends where it should.
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 Schoolies trips
Agree the rules before the car leaves the driveway. A Schoolies gallery works when the whole group knows who can see it: only the group, or the group plus parents. Decide that in the group chat before the trip, not on the balcony on the second night, and set host review on if parents are watching so the friend organising can hold back anything that is not for a parent's eyes. Most groups land on the same answer: parents get the gallery link, the group gets the code, and one person keeps the review queue.
Use the written guestbook for something other than captions. Set the prompt to a question the group will want to read back on, such as what each of them is doing next year or the one thing they will miss about school, and let everyone answer once during the week. Those answers, next to the photos, are what the group actually keeps; the beach shots blur together by the second summer. Add the volunteers to the gallery too if they were good to you; the Schoolies support crews in their vests are the adults the group will remember kindly.
Keep the gallery small enough to be safe. Turn off uploads the morning you check out so nothing from a phone lost on the last night ends up in it later, download the originals for the group, and send the link to the parents who were watching. If someone in the group asks for a photo to come down, take it down; the organiser can remove any upload. A week that a group is happy to look back on at their ten-year reunion is one where nobody had to ask twice.
Common questions about Schoolies trips
Can parents see the photos without the whole group knowing every time they look?
Yes. A gallery link opens in a parent's phone browser and shows whatever has been approved, with no notification to the group and no account to make. Parents cannot upload through the link unless they also have the code, so the gallery stays the group's. Most families settle on a parent checking once a day. Agree that with the group first, because a gallery the kids know parents are watching is one they upload to more honestly, not less.
What stops an embarrassing photo getting shared to the whole group?
Host review. When it is on, every upload waits in a queue and only the organiser, who can be the parent or the friend running the trip, decides what appears. Nothing in the gallery can be seen by anyone until approved, and an approved photo can still be removed later if someone asks. The gallery itself is never public and never indexed, so there is no path from the group's week to a search result or a stranger's feed.
We have three apartments in different buildings. One event or three?
One event is simplest for a group that shares meals and beach days, with the code in each apartment. If the group is really three groups who happen to be in the same town, each can create its own event and pass, and the galleries stay separate. A parent organising for one apartment should keep to that apartment's group, so the review queue only holds photos of people whose parents agreed to it.
Does it work at the beach with patchy reception, and on any phone?
The upload page opens in any phone's browser, on any network, with no app and no account. If reception on the sand is poor, upload later from the apartment wifi; nothing has to be sent in the moment, and the code is the same all week. Videos and voice notes go up the same way. The page is available in English, Español, Français, and international students in the group manage the same single upload button as everyone else.
What does a week cost?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the trip, with no subscription. It includes unlimited uploads from everyone in the group, host review, the written guestbook, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting, which covers the trip and the weeks after when people finally sort their photos. There is no charge per person, so splitting it across the group comes to very little each. Next year's trip is a new event.
Every photo from Schoolies trips, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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