Make an album on your phone, send one link and a short passcode, and the people who were there can look through the pictures from any browser. Nothing to install, no account to create, and the photos stay on your phone the whole time.
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Sharing after a wedding, a birthday or a trip usually collapses into a group chat, a folder nobody can open, and three people asking for the link again. An album fixes that with two things everyone already has: a link and a browser.
Give it a name, and decide whether guests may add their own photos. Guest uploads are off unless you turn them on, and you set that per album.
One address and one short passcode, sent however you already talk to people: a message, an email, a note on the table at the party. There is nothing to sign up for on either end.
They enter the passcode and a display name, then the album opens. Because everyone names themselves on the way in, every picture shows who added it, and you can filter the album down to one person.
Guests can look at photos and download the ones they want. If you allowed uploads, what they add is served from your phone and saved into your own gallery, at full size, exactly as it was sent.
An album works at whatever address your phone already has: your home Wi-Fi for people in the room, your free yourname.phonerig.app address for everyone else, or your own domain if you have one. The link is the same link.
Both work, and for a handful of pictures they are fine. Here is what changes when the album is served from your own phone instead.
No account, no app install, no "share with people who have this app". A browser and the link is the whole requirement, which matters most for the relatives who are exactly the reason you are sharing the photos.
What arrives is stored as it was sent. PhoneRig does not re-encode or shrink photos on the way in, so the version in the album is the version the camera made.
They are served from your phone and saved into your own gallery. Nothing is uploaded to PhoneRig's servers, so there is no copy sitting in someone else's account to be scanned, indexed or mined.
An album is view and download only unless you switch guest uploads on for it. Turn it on for the wedding, leave it off for the family archive.
Guests add and download. Removing anything, or the album itself, is the owner's job and happens in the app on your phone.
Albums are part of the free PhoneRig app: no plan, no per-gigabyte bill, no album that expires. The ceiling is the free space on the phone, and a single file can be up to 500 MB.
The honest trade-off. Your phone is the host, so the album is reachable while the phone is on and connected. PhoneRig keeps the server running with the screen off and tells you if it goes offline, but a phone left flat in a bag is a phone that is not serving photos. Leave it on a charger for the weekend everyone is looking.
No. They open the link in whatever browser is already on their phone or laptop, type the short passcode and a display name, and the album opens. There is no sign-up, no install, and no email address to hand over.
On your phone. The album is served by your own device, and anything guests add is saved into your phone's own gallery, so it shows up alongside your other pictures. Nothing is sent to PhoneRig's servers.
Yes, if you enable it for that album. Guest uploads are off by default, and the setting is per album, so you can open one album to everyone and keep another view only.
Yes. Photo albums are part of the free PhoneRig app, with no subscription and no storage plan. The only limit is the free space on your phone, and a single file can be up to 500 MB.
Yes. Guests need nothing but a browser, so iPhones, iPads, Windows laptops and Macs all work. Only the phone doing the hosting has to be an Android phone running PhoneRig.
Your phone keeps an outbound tunnel open to Cloudflare, so your album has a normal HTTPS address, either a free yourname.phonerig.app one or your own domain. That works from anywhere without port forwarding, a static IP or any router setup.
The album opens for people who have both the link and the passcode, and it is not listed anywhere for anyone else to find. The photos are never copied to PhoneRig's servers, and deleting is the owner's job, so nothing leaves your phone and nothing disappears without you.
Install PhoneRig on an Android phone, make an album, and everyone who was there can be looking through the pictures in a couple of minutes.
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