Pix at a glance
Pix is a popular QR-code wedding photo app with a generous free tier — unlimited photos for the first year — and a paid plan at around $9 per month. It does the basics well: a clean upload page for guests, a live gallery, and a slideshow you can throw onto a TV at the venue.
Where Pix fits best
The free tier is genuinely useful, so Pix is a sensible pick if you're willing to live with the trade-offs and you only need the gallery active for a few months around the wedding. The slideshow looks good on a big screen and the upload page is fast even on flaky reception Wi-Fi.
Where festbeam fits better
The catch with Pix is the pricing model: the full experience is a monthly subscription. That's fine for a service you actually use month-to-month, but a wedding is a one-time event — and it's easy to forget to cancel after the day. Six months of $9 later, you've paid more than a one-time gallery and you still don't own the originals long-term.
festbeam is one payment per wedding (free tier, or €25 / €49 one-time). The gallery stays open up to 24 months on the paid tiers, you can download every original in a single ZIP, and there is nothing to cancel afterwards. The price you see at checkout is the entire price — no monthly billing, no surprise renewals, no "your photos are about to be deleted" emails six months later.
If you're moving from Pix
You can export your existing Pix gallery (check their dashboard's Download option) and either archive it yourself or upload the best shots into festbeam as a starter set. Then put the new QR on a fresh card so any guest who took photos but never uploaded them can still contribute — most of them will, especially if you nudge them once afterwards.