What POV does well
POV is built around one idea: the disposable camera on the table, moved onto the guests' phones. The host decides how many photos each guest can take and when the album reveals, during the event, right after it or on a delay, so the pictures arrive the way a roll of film once did. That turns taking photos into part of the evening, and the reveal into a moment of its own.
Guests join from a link or a QR code. On iPhone, POV opens as an App Clip, so guests need not install the full app from the App Store; on Android, it runs as a web experience. Guests can also add pictures from their camera roll. Hosts set up and follow the event in the apps for iPhone and Android, and the app comes in more languages than EventAssets offers.
As the host, you can review and delete guests' photos at any time, keep the gallery private so that photos come only to you, and download all images from the album. POV's pages say the gallery stays online without an end date. POV is priced by the number of guests, with a free tier for a few guests, and a live slideshow comes with an optional package. The table above lists the tiers.
What EventAssets offers
EventAssets is an event page rather than a camera. Guests open a link or scan a QR code and use it in the browser, with no app and no account. They upload the photos and videos they want to share, in original quality, while you sort them into albums, approve uploads before others see them if you wish, and download everything as a ZIP. A full-screen slideshow picks up new uploads while it runs, so it works on a screen at the venue.
The same page carries the rest of the event. It shows the schedule, the location on a map and what guests should know, and it collects the replies: guests find their name, answer for their whole party, plus-ones and children included, and fill in your own questions before your deadline. From the guest list you build the seating chart, and guests look up their table on the page. Budgets hold the costs of the day with planned and actual amounts, and the guestbook takes written messages and voice recordings made in the browser, signed with a name from the guest list or left anonymous. Hosts run all of it from the web or from the apps for iPhone and Android.
A camera for the night, or a page for the event
The core difference is what each one is for. POV gives the evening a game of its own: a limited roll per guest, and a reveal that everyone waits for. EventAssets gives the event a place: the page you send with the invitation, the replies and the seating before the day, and the photos, videos and messages during and after it. EventAssets has no disposable camera mode; if that experience is what you want, POV is built for it.
The prices follow a different logic too. POV charges by the number of guests, in tiers. EventAssets charges by event, with a free plan to start and one payment that lifts the caps on photos, videos, storage and voice recordings, whatever the size of the guest list. How long the gallery stays online differs as well. The table above sets the tiers, the windows and the prices side by side, and the typical events show what each would cost.
What to check before you decide
Count your guests first, since that sets POV's price, and decide what you want from them: a set of film-style shots revealed later, or every photo and video they want to share. Decide whether you want to approve uploads before they appear, whether the replies, the seating chart and the guestbook belong in the same place as the photos, and how long the gallery should stay online. Then try the free plan of either. With EventAssets, the event page, the guest list and the guestbook are yours to set up before you pay anything.
