What everlense does well
everlense, from Münster, makes a wedding photo app, and it keeps the step for guests small. They scan a QR code or click the invitation link, enter their name and are in the event through the browser of their phone, with nothing to install. The photos stay in original quality, so they still work for a photo book or a print.
What sets everlense apart are its photo challenges. The couple gives guests tasks of their own or uses the templates everlense provides, and guests set out to capture them, which turns a quiet table into a small photo team. A live slideshow plays the photos of the guests in real time, and photo albums keep the registry office, the ceremony and the bachelor party apart. A schedule inside the app tells guests what happens when.
The storage period counts from the wedding day, so the event can be booked and set up well in advance. The larger plans add your own colours and several admins. If photo challenges are at the heart of what you have in mind, everlense is built for exactly that.
Where EventAssets offers more
EventAssets starts before the photos. Each event has its own page with the schedule, the location on a map and what guests should know, and the same page collects the replies: guests find their name, answer for their whole party, plus-ones and children included, and fill in your questions before a deadline you set. The guest list feeds the seating chart, where you place tables and seat parties together, and guests later look up their table on the same page. Budgets with line items, planned and actual amounts sit beside it.
The guestbook takes written messages and voice recordings made in the browser, signed with a name from the guest list or left anonymous, and you can review the entries before they appear. In the gallery, uploads can wait for your approval before anyone else sees them, and you download everything at once as a ZIP file. Hosts run all of it from the web or from the apps for iPhone and Android.
A photo app for the day, or a home for the event
The core difference is what each one is for. everlense is a photo app for the wedding: it gathers the pictures, sets the tasks and plays the slideshow, with a schedule for guests on the side. EventAssets is a home for the event: it begins with the page you send with the invitation, holds the replies, the seating and the budget, and keeps the photos, videos and messages afterwards.
The plans follow from that. The plans of everlense set how many photos and guests an event can take, tier by tier. The free plan of EventAssets already includes the event page, RSVP, the seating chart, budgets and the guestbook, and a one-time payment per event lifts its caps on photos, videos, storage and voice recordings. The table above sets the plans of both side by side, with the price of each and how long the gallery stays online.
What to check before you decide
Count your guests and estimate how much they will send, videos included, and match that to a plan of either provider. Decide whether photo challenges matter to you, whether you want to approve uploads before they appear, whether messages should be written or spoken, and whether the replies and the seating chart belong in the same place as the photos. Think about how often you will want to download everything, and how long the gallery should stay online after the day. Then try the free plan first. With EventAssets, the event page, the guest list and the guestbook are yours to set up before you pay anything.
