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Event albums, without the WhatsApp mess.
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Use Google to create events, build your albums, and review photos.
My Events
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Add Photos
Create an event first
Attendees
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Manage Access
Choose who can open the finished album in your Google Drive.
This gives selected attendees access to this album folder in your personal Google Drive.
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About PhotoGather
One album, everyone's favourite shots.
PhotoGather is for the bit after the holiday, party, wedding, birthday, or weekend away, when the good photos are hiding across a dozen phones and three WhatsApp threads.
Create an event, invite the people who were there, and let everyone choose what they actually want in the album. Take photos as normal, then add them to the album when you have a minute. No chasing, no duplicate downloads, no mystery zip folder called final-final-2.
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If something feels clunky, confusing, or not quite right, I would genuinely rather hear about it than pretend it is fine.
Send feedbackPrivacy and control
PhotoGather does not give the app author access to your photos unless they are specifically invited to your event. Event photos are stored in the event owner's Google Drive, and PhotoGather works with the event album files and folders rather than browsing your whole Drive.
Attendees only see the photos shared into that event album inside PhotoGather. They do not get direct Google Drive access unless the owner publishes the album to selected people.
While an event is active, people can retract their own photos; owners can remove attendees, retract unsuitable photos, and manage any Google Drive access they have granted.
After publishing, album access is controlled by how the owner shares the Google Drive folder. PhotoGather is a temporary gathering place, not the permanent owner of your photos.
Read privacy detailsHow this works
PhotoGather is a temporary gathering place.
It is not trying to become another permanent photo album app. It helps the event owner gather everyone's best photos, shape them into one considered album, then publish that final album to the owner's chosen storage.
Use it like an app
Add PhotoGather to your phone home screen so active events are easy to find later, without digging back through old WhatsApp messages or invite links.
Create the event
Create an album before or after a holiday, party, wedding, birthday, or family day out. The event owner invites the attendees who may have taken useful photos.
Gather with judgement
Attendees add their own photos directly to the event album. They can review what is already there first, avoiding duplicates, near-identical shots, and random photo spam.
Everyone keeps control
Each person can retract photos they added. The owner can also retract any photo from the album, so the final set has a bit of artistic control instead of becoming a dumping ground.
Finish choosing
The event shows who is still choosing. When attendees are finished, they mark themselves done so the owner knows the album is ready to complete.
Publish, then clear out
Completing the event changes Add Photos into Publish Album. Once published, that becomes Manage Album so the owner can share Google Drive access, download the final photos, save them elsewhere, reopen the event, or delete it from PhotoGather.
