Veri at a glance
Veri is a $59 one-time wedding photo app whose signature feature is AI face recognition. Once the night is over, guests (and the couple) can filter the gallery for "every photo of person X" — a useful trick if you'd otherwise be scrolling 800 photos to find the ones with grandma.
Where Veri fits best
The face-recognition feature is the real reason to pick Veri. If your wedding is large and you want guests to easily find the photos they're in — without you manually tagging anything — Veri does that job out of the box. The slideshow and upload flow are also clean.
Where festbeam fits better
Veri has two practical drawbacks that hit weddings specifically:
- 6 months of storage. That's the shortest window in the category. A wedding gallery you'd love to leave open for guests revisiting it months later, or for a relative who never quite got around to uploading their share, is closed before the photos finish settling.
- No free tier. You can't preview a real gallery before paying, so the decision is made entirely from the marketing page.
festbeam keeps the gallery alive for up to 24 months on the €49 Premium tier (and 12 months on the €25 Core), with a one-click ZIP download of every original. Face recognition is available as an add-on at €19 per event rather than baked into the base price — so if you don't actually need it, you don't pay for it.
If you're moving from Veri
If you've passed Veri's 6-month storage window and the gallery is about to close, download everything now (Settings → Export) and spin up a fresh festbeam gallery as the long-term home. Upload the saved set as starter photos so the new gallery isn't empty when you share it with guests for one final pass.