When planning your event, choosing the right platform to collect and share guest photos matters. WedUploader disrupted the market by introducing a free service that used Google Drive as the underlying storage system - smart! While the service is no longer free, it gets a fair share of search traffic in the category on Google and has some unique properties as they do not have costs for storage.
Below is a clear side-by-side look at WedUploader and LiveWall to help you decide which tool matches your priorities—for example feature richness, privacy, upload window, and budget. If after reviewing you find one that aligns better, that’s the right choice for your event.
| Feature | WedUploader | LiveWall |
|---|---|---|
| Tiers | Single tier1 | Plus, Premium, Signature |
| Event Specific Pricing | Same for all event types | Same for all event types |
| Guest Limit / Event Size | Unlimited | 500 Guests, Pro plans for larger events |
| Upload | ||
| Photo Uploads | Unlimited (Subject to Google Drive quotas) | Unlimited |
| Time to upload 5 photos | 8.5 seconds2 | 6 seconds |
| Server locations | Not mentioned (in Google Cloud) | Servers on all continents for ultra-fast uploads |
| FTP Upload | 🔴 No | 🟢 Yes (Signature tier) |
| Video Uploads | Unlimited (Subject to Google Drive quotas) | Unlimited in Premium and Signature Packages |
| Upload Period | Infinite | 90-days or 1 year for Signature |
| Download | ||
| Guest Downloads | 🟢 Yes, but recompressed2 | 🟢 Yes |
| Download Preserves Quality | 🔴 No3 | 🟢 Yes |
| Host Downloads | To Google Drive | ZIP-file and/or Google Drive sync |
| Google Drive Quota Exceeded Handling | Unknown | Buffers until quota is restored |
| Storage Period | Infinite (In Google Drive) | 1 year (from time of event) |
| Theming | ||
| QR Templates | Provides templates | 30+ templates auto-generated, can be edited in Canva |
| Themes and Custom Design | 🟢 Yes | 🟢 Yes |
| Notifications | ||
| Realtime updates | 🔴 No | 🟢 Yes, for hosts, guests, and live slideshows |
| Notifications on upload | 🔴 No | 🟢 Yes |
| Notifications to guests on upload | 🔴 No | Guests can follow any number of walls |
| Organization | ||
| Albums | Unlimited | Unlimited for Signature |
| Safety | ||
| Moderation | Manual | Manual or automatic safety filter |
| Multiple moderators | 🟢 Yes | 🟢 Yes |
| Password protection | 🟢 Yes | 🟢 Yes |
| End-to-End Encryption | 🔴 No | 🟢 Yes |
| Bonus features | ||
| Slideshow | 🟢 Yes | 🟢 Yes, live with multi-screen, multiple modes, and real-time updates |
| Guestbook | Labels and voice mails | Write labels on uploaded photos |
| Built-in camera | 🔴 No | 🟢 Yes |
| Integrations | None | Zapier (Signature tier) |
| Tracking | ||
| Data Privacy, Tracking | 9 trackers, 9 third party cookies according to Blacklight 🔗 | Does not track users or guests 🔗 |
| GDPR Compliance | Mentioned as compliant in privacy policy | GDPR Compliant with EU Processing and Storage for EU and EEA citizens |
| Legal | ||
| Content License | Very broad usage rights, modifications, unlimited time | Restricted to service delivery, time limited, immediate revocation |
| Termination term | Immediate, for any reason | Only by violation of terms, after period for paid plans |
| Privacy by Design | Not mentioned | Clearly stated in terms employees have no access to customer data |
| Dual party considerations | Must also consider Google Drive Terms and Privacy4 | LiveWall is only legal party to consider5 |
| Refund policy | Mentioned in terms, not specified, and not linked on site | 30-days no questions asked |
| Price protection | 🔴 No | 🟢 Yes |
| Governing Law | Minnesota, USA | Norway (EU aligned) |
| Free trial | ||
| Free trial | Shared demo album, requires registration | 🟢 Yes (libre principle) |
LiveWall is a new player in this market, gets a tiny fraction of the traffic on Google, and relies on word-of-mouth to grow as our budgets for advertising is tiny compared to our competitors. It is hard to make comparison tables, and we're obviously biased, but we see the market as a big ocean where multiple boats can sail, and care about you finding the right journey for you. Hopefully this comparison table can help.
This comparison was made in the last week of October, 2025, and is a combination of information retrieval from public websites and testing free versions of the services.
Footnotes
1 We have not included pricing as it may change frequently and campaigns and promotions may deviate from what is listed on official sites. 2 Tests performed from New York City on a Saturday at 5 PM uploading 5 x 60 megapixel photos from a Leica M-11. We used a desktop computer on a 1GBit wired internet connection to perform the tests. 3 In our tests, a 60MP photo of 13MB file size was resized to 3072x2040 pixels at ~860KB file size 4 Google Terms specifically permit Google to use your content to "recognize patterns in data" and "provide recommendations and personalized search results, content, and ads" 5 If you choose to enable the optional Google Drive synchronization in LiveWall, Google's terms and privacy policy applies to transferred content.
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