Photo Jelly is an AI-powered photo sharing and event management platform. It lets event planners, photographers, and organisations create events, collect media from guests, and automatically deliver photos to each guest using facial recognition — via WhatsApp or web, with no app download required for guests.

Who is Photo Jelly for?

Photo Jelly is designed for personal event hosts, professional photographers, wedding planners, and enterprise teams who need a seamless way to collect, manage, and share event media at scale.

How does AI facial recognition work?

Guests upload a selfie once. Photo Jelly' AI matches them to every photo they appear in and delivers those images privately via WhatsApp or the web gallery — never the full album.

Yes. Photo Jelly offers a free plan to host your first event. Paid plans add Cam-Link, AI editing, WhatsApp Bot, higher storage, and enterprise features.

Honest comparison · Photographer client galleries

Pixieset alternative

Pixieset is the mature photographer platform: client galleries, a product store, portfolio websites, and studio operations. Photo Jelly is not a Pixieset clone. It is stronger at event guest delivery (faces, WhatsApp, Cam-Link) and younger at commerce, contracts, and the photographer website/store Pixieset spent years on.

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Two different jobs

Pixieset is built for Photography businesses that proof, sell, and run a studio site. Photo Jelly is built for the event: ingest, face delivery, WhatsApp, and a photographer in the loop.

Choose Pixieset if

You sell prints and downloads from a client gallery.
Your website and proofing already live on Pixieset and work.
The client is the couple or brand, not 300 guests.

Choose Photo Jelly if

Success is guests receiving their photos the same day.
You need face privacy and WhatsApp.
A host or enterprise is the buyer, not only a studio.

Saying Photo Jelly “has studio sites” the same way Pixieset does is unfair to Pixieset. Their client gallery, print store, and photographer website are category-defining.

Saying Pixieset “does event sharing” the same way Photo Jelly does is unfair to Photo Jelly. Pixieset’s unit is the paying client’s gallery. Photo Jelly’s unit is every face in the room, including live ingest.

Many studios will keep Pixieset for proofing and sales, or switch only if guest delivery became the job. That is a real choice, not a table that Photo Jelly wins on every row.

Price

Photo Jelly Max vs Pixieset. Launch prices through 31 Oct 2026.

$288/year

Pro client gallery, billed annually. USD at ₹83.50 — different job, still what people compare.

Max · 2,00,000 photos

$288/year

2.7× cheaper than Pixieset

₹8,999/year

Same launch cut as the pricing page.

2.7× cheaper · ₹15,049 less than Pixieset for the year.

What each does well

Pixieset

Client galleries

Proofing, downloads, presentation — this is the product photographers already trust.

Store and prints

Selling products from a gallery is mature on Pixieset. Photo Jelly’s store exists; Pixieset’s is the benchmark.

Photographer website

Full studio sites, not a marketing checkbox. Years of templates and client expectations.

Studio operations

The wider Pixieset suite (site + gallery + store) is a business OS. Photo Jelly’s centre of gravity is the event.

Photo Jelly

Guest face delivery

Each guest can get the photos they appear in — not a Pixieset core loop.

Delivery on the thread families already have.

Live ingest

Cam-Link and desktop folders during the event, not only a post-production publish.

Hosts as buyers

Planners and enterprises can run events without being a photography studio.

Feature by feature

Shared work sits in the table. An add on is something Pixieset does not include — Photo Jelly does. Hover the badge.

Feature

Client proofing galleries

Mature client galleries — this is their home turf

Galleries, favourites, themes — capable, not the category leader

Print / product store

Full photographer store

Online store in the product, earlier-stage vs Pixieset

Studio website

Category-leading photographer sites

Studio websites in Photo Jelly

Guest face deliveryadd on

Not the core product

Built for this

WhatsApp deliveryadd on

Email and gallery links

Native bot

Live camera ingestadd on

Publish after (or outside) the shoot

Cam-Link + desktop app

Event hosts / enterprisesadd on

Photographer-led accounts

First-class

What Photo Jelly is actually built to do.

Facial recognition, Cam-Link, galleries, and WhatsApp — the event stack, not a claim that we beat every product on every axis.

Facial recognition

Every guest gets only their photos.

Guests upload a selfie once. Photo Jelly matches them across the event and delivers privately via WhatsApp or web — no app download required.

AI face matching with detected guests, matched guests, and matched photos

Cam-Link

From camera to gallery in minutes.

Photographers push shots straight from camera with AI editing built in. Deliver polished galleries while the event is still happening.

Cam-Link live upload sending photos from a camera into a live gallery

14+ gallery themes

14+ themes built for events.

Netflix-style video galleries, justified photo grids, custom branding, and mobile-responsive themes that make your event look incredible.

Gallery themes picker with Classic, Elegant, Minimal, Vibrant, Editorial, and Film layouts

From camera to guest
in minutes, not weeks.

Step 1

Create your event.

"Maitri & Aneesh wedding — 400 guests, WhatsApp delivery enabled."

Step 2

Collect every photo.

Guests upload via WhatsApp or web. Photographers push from camera with Cam-Link + AI editing.

Step 3

Deliver privately.

AI facial recognition matches each guest to their photos and sends them automatically — no app download.

Photo Jelly app on a phone — galleries, matched photos, and live delivery

For hosts & photographers

Run the event from the app.

Download Photo Jelly on iOS or Android to manage galleries, match photos, and deliver live from your phone. Guests still receive their photos on WhatsApp or the web — you use the app.