Mymories wins for weddings and events thanks to app-free guest uploads via QR code and the one-time price of €9.99 including video. Celebrate requires guests to install the app, hides the QR code in the menu, and ties video to a per-album subscription – but remains the better choice as a lasting family album with photo book integration.
Celebrate is the photo cloud of the kartenmacherei family with over 2 million downloads – free for photos, with German servers and print integration. We compared both apps in event use.
Features
Celebrate is built as a private photo cloud, not an event app: photos in original quality, likes and comments, password-protected albums – but no live slideshow, no photo challenges, no guestbook. A QR code exists, but it sits in the album menu rather than the onboarding flow. Its real strength lies behind the album: through the kartenmacherei integration, photo books, prints, and wall art can be ordered directly – no other provider in the field goes this deep.
Mymories takes the opposite focus: QR access for guests is the core of the product, and uploads run without an app or account directly in the browser. At a celebration with 80 guests, exactly this hurdle decides whether all photos arrive in the end or only those from the app-savvy half.
Value for money
For photos alone, Celebrate is hard to beat: €0, unlimited, original quality. The catch comes with video – premium only, at €14.99/month or €39.99/year per album, and videos are deleted once the subscription lapses. For a one-time event, a subscription with a deletion clause is the wrong model. Mymories bills once: €9.99 for unlimited photos and video up to 4K, with no follow-up costs and no expiry trap within the storage period.
Verdict
For weddings and events, Mymories wins: app-free guest access, QR-first, one one-time price including video. Celebrate is the right choice for the time afterwards and beyond – as a lasting, secure family album on German servers from which a photo book is just a few clicks away. If you want both, collect the photos at the event with Mymories and maintain your long-term album wherever you prefer.
Rating in detail
Features compared
Who is each app for?
Couples and hosts who want to collect all guest photos of an event without an app hurdle – one scan, one one-time price, video included.
Families who want to maintain a lasting, private photo album on German servers and order photo books or prints from it.
Prices & verdict
Couples and hosts who want to collect all guest photos of an event without an app hurdle – one scan, one one-time price, video included.
Visit provider →Families who want to maintain a lasting, private photo album on German servers and order photo books or prints from it.
Visit provider →FAQ
For photos, yes – unlimited and in original quality. Video requires the premium subscription at €14.99/month or €39.99/year, taken out per album. If the subscription lapses, the videos are deleted. Mymories includes video up to 4K in its €9.99 one-time price.
Yes, according to Celebrate's FAQ the official guest path is downloading the app and joining the album. A web app exists but is not promoted as the guest route. With Mymories, guests upload via QR scan directly in the browser, with no app and no account.
Celebrate deletes videos once the album's premium subscription lapses – a real risk for a one-time event like a wedding. With Mymories, video is included in the one-time purchase and shares the regular 12-month storage period, extendable via upgrade.
As a lasting family photo cloud with German servers and direct photo book ordering via kartenmacherei, Celebrate is strong. For events with many guests, Mymories is the better choice because nobody has to install an app and QR access is at the heart of the product.