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 galleries

Samaro alternative

Samaro is a photographer-facing gallery: AI photo sharing, client review, favourites, and fast download. That client handoff is real work. Photo Jelly also has galleries — and is built so every guest, not only the paying client, can receive their own photos.

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Two different jobs

Samaro is built for Photographers who need clients to proof, select, and download a finished gallery. Photo Jelly is built for the event: ingest, face delivery, WhatsApp, and a photographer in the loop.

Choose Samaro if

The paying client must proof and download the full gallery.
You do not need to message 300 guests individually.
Selects and favourites are the workflow you sell.

Choose Photo Jelly if

Guests should leave with their photos, not wait on the couple’s Drive.
You want WhatsApp and face privacy.
The photographer is publishing live or same day.

Samaro’s strength is the studio-to-client gallery: look, pick, download. If your buyer is the couple or the brand, and they should sit with the full set, Samaro is aimed at you.

Photo Jelly is aimed at a different failure mode: 300 guests who never get a file. Face delivery, WhatsApp, and Cam-Link sit next to galleries and favourites — they do not replace a mature selects workflow overnight.

Pick Samaro when proofing the client is the product. Pick Photo Jelly when publishing the room is the product.

Price

Photo Jelly Pro vs Samaro. Launch prices through 31 Oct 2026.

₹8,928/year

Starter at ₹744/mo, billed monthly.

Pro · 1,00,000 photos

₹8,928/year

1.9× cheaper than Samaro

₹4,599/year

Same launch cut as the pricing page.

1.9× cheaper · ₹4,329 less than Samaro for the year.

What each does well

Samaro

Client review

Favourites, selects, and download are the point — a photographer gallery, not a guest social app.

AI gallery presentation

Samaro sells the event-experience gallery: clients see work beautifully, quickly.

Photographer as buyer

The account model matches studios delivering to one client, not 400 aunts.

Photo Jelly

Guest-level delivery

Facial recognition so each person gets the photos they appear in.

WhatsApp + web

Delivery without forcing every uncle onto a proofing login.

Live shoot path

Cam-Link and desktop ingest for same-day publish, not only a post-production gallery.

Feature by feature

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

Feature

Client proofing & downloads

Core: review, select, download

Galleries, favourites, themes

Guest face deliveryadd on

Client sees the gallery; guests are not the unit

Private set per person

WhatsAppadd on

Gallery-centric

Bot delivery

Cam-Linkadd on

Delivery after the shoot

Live camera to cloud

Event experience galleries

Strong AI gallery presentation for clients

14+ themes, video galleries

Host vs photographer

Photographer → client

Hosts, planners, studios, enterprise

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.