What Wedbox does well
Wedbox brings the pictures of a wedding together from several directions. Guests join the album by scanning a QR code or entering the wedding code, and upload photos and videos from the browser, without installing anything or creating an account. The photographer receives a link and uploads the full gallery into the same album, and a phone or tablet set up as a photo booth saves every picture there as well. Even guests who could not come can add their photos.
Its pages set no cap on how many photos and videos guests send, and the album keeps them in original quality. Uploads are sorted along the programme of the day, such as the ceremony, the reception and the party, and guests like and comment on each other's pictures. During the celebration, a live slideshow on a TV or projector shows new photos as they arrive; the slideshow and the photo booth come at no extra cost.
The app comes in more languages than EventAssets offers today, which helps at a wedding where the families speak different languages at home. And Wedbox is free to start: the app costs nothing, and the album stays online free for a time after the wedding before you decide whether to keep it longer.
If what you need is one album that gathers the guests', the photographer's and the photo booth's pictures, Wedbox does exactly that, and asks little of your guests.
Where EventAssets offers more
EventAssets starts earlier than 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 and fill in your questions. The guest list feeds the seating chart, where you place tables and seat parties, and guests later look up their table on the same page. Budgets with planned and actual amounts sit beside it. The company behind Wedbox offers a guest list with replies, a budget and a gift list in Wedsly, a separate planning app, so they live apart from the album.
The guestbook takes written messages and voice recordings made in the browser, signed with a name from the guest list or left anonymous; the pages of Wedbox describe comments on photos, not a guestbook. In the gallery, uploads can wait for your approval before anyone else sees them, and albums keep the parts of the day apart. As the host, you download the whole gallery in original quality as a ZIP file, and the gallery stays online for the same time on every plan, with no subscription to keep it there. Hosts run all of it from the web or from the apps for iPhone and Android.
An album for the wedding, or a page for the event
The core difference is what each one is for. Wedbox is an album: it begins when the first guest scans the code, and it gathers the pictures of the guests, the photographer and the photo booth in one place, while the planning happens in another app. EventAssets is a page for the event: it begins with the page you send with the invitation, holds the replies and the seating, and keeps the photos, videos and messages afterwards.
The two also charge in different ways. Wedbox is free to start and sells its options inside the app: hosting beyond the free period by the month or by the year, downloads in HD, and a premium package. EventAssets has a free plan with a cap on photos and videos, and one payment per event lifts it, while downloads and the time the gallery stays online are the same on every plan. The table above sets both side by side, with the price and the source of each, and the typical events after it show what each one would cost.
If you only need the album, compare the rows on photos, downloads and how long the gallery stays online. If you would otherwise juggle an invitation tool, a spreadsheet for the seating and a separate guestbook, compare the planning rows as well.
What to check before you decide
Count your guests and estimate how much they will send, and decide how long the album must stay online after the day: with Wedbox, hosting beyond the free period is bought by the month or by the year; with EventAssets, it is part of the plan. Decide whether you want to download everything in original quality, whether uploads should wait for your approval before others see them, whether messages should be written or spoken, and whether the replies and the seating chart belong in the same place as the photos. If what matters to you is a photo booth and your photographer's gallery in the same album, Wedbox covers both. With EventAssets, the event page, the guest list and the guestbook are yours to set up for free before you decide to pay for anything.
