WedUploader at a glance
WedUploader is a $39 one-time wedding photo app with an unusual model: guest photos land directly in your own Google Drive. Setup is a Google OAuth click; from then on, every upload writes to a folder in your Drive, where you own the files outright.
Where WedUploader fits best
If you're already deep in the Google ecosystem — Drive subscription, Photos, Workspace — and you specifically want photos in your own storage rather than a third party's, WedUploader's model has real appeal. The files are immediately yours, you can use any Drive-aware tool to organise them, and there's no "the app's gallery is closing" deadline because the gallery's storage is your storage.
Where AisleShot fits better
The model also has practical downsides on a wedding day:
- Drive quota is a real cost. A busy reception can upload tens of gigabytes; if you're on a free Google account, you'll hit the 15 GB cap mid-night and start dropping photos. The paid tier needed to absorb a wedding ($1.99/mo Google One) is itself a subscription you'd otherwise avoid.
- No real-time live slideshow. Because uploads land in Drive, the live gallery experience is whatever Drive can render — there's no projector-ready slideshow built around the event.
- Guest upload UX is rough. The page works, but it's noticeably less polished than tools that own the upload experience end-to-end.
AisleShot keeps photos in a dedicated, polished gallery (live slideshow, channel-split privacy, instant viewer) and gives you a one-click ZIP download of every original any time — so the "files are yours" question is answered without needing your Drive to absorb the storage cost.
If you're moving from WedUploader
The good news is your files are already in your Drive, so nothing is at risk. Spin up an AisleShot gallery, upload your favourite shots as the starter set (the rest can stay in Drive as a private archive), and put the new QR on the table cards. Guests upload to AisleShot, you keep your Drive copy as backup, and the gallery itself looks like a wedding tool rather than a shared folder.