Everyone brings a few photos. Take home the whole table.

Questions, answered

• What is Potluck?+

  Potluck is a shared photo album for a group event — a trip, a wedding, a dinner. Everyone adds the photos they took, and when you collect the album you take home the shots the others captured, not the ones you took yourself.

• How does Potluck work?+

  Create an album, share the link with your people, and everyone adds their photos to the same album. When the event is over, each person collects the album and takes home the photos that everyone else brought — so you all end up with the whole night, from every angle.

• What does “take home what isn’t yours” mean?+

  When you export an album, Potluck gives you the photos contributed by other members rather than re-downloading your own. You already have your shots; Potluck fills in everyone else’s, so the memories you take home are the ones you would otherwise have missed.

• What happens after 30 days?+

  Each album and its photos are automatically deleted 30 days after the last upload (365 days on Potluck Pro). Albums are meant to be ephemeral: Potluck is for sharing an event, not long-term storage, so collect the photos you want to keep before then and nothing lingers on our servers indefinitely. This is both a product feature and our data-retention policy.

• Who can see my photos?+

  Only the members of an album can see its photos. Photos live in private storage buckets, and full-resolution originals are served through short-lived signed URLs that expire — so images are never publicly browsable or guessable. We don’t sell your data or use it for advertising.

• Is Potluck free?+

  Yes. Potluck is free to use — create albums, invite your people, and take home your memories at no cost. On the free plan you can run up to 3 albums, add up to 150 photos to each, and albums auto-delete 30 days after the last upload. Potluck Pro raises those limits to 25 albums and 2,000 photos each, and keeps albums for 365 days — for €4.99/month or €39.99/year.

• Is there a limit on how many photos or albums I can add?+

  On the free plan you can run up to 3 albums and add up to 150 photos to each. Potluck Pro raises that to 25 albums and 2,000 photos per album. There's no limit on how many people you invite to an album, on either plan.

• What is Potluck Pro?+

  Potluck Pro raises the free-plan limits: up to 25 albums (instead of 3) and 2,000 photos per album (instead of 150), and your albums are kept for 365 days instead of auto-deleting after 30. It's €4.99/month or €39.99/year. Potluck is still for sharing an event rather than long-term storage — Pro just gives you a longer window and more room. Everything else stays the same: no ads, no accounts for your guests.

• Can I use Potluck to back up or store my photos?+

  No — Potluck is for sharing a moment, not long-term storage. Albums automatically clean up after the last upload (30 days on Free, 365 days on Pro), so nothing is kept indefinitely. The idea is to gather everyone's shots from an event and let each person take home the set; once you've collected an album, save the photos you want to keep to your own photo library or cloud backup.

• Do I need an account or a password?+

  You need an account, but there’s no password to remember. We email you a one-time sign-in code; enter it and you’re in. All we need is your email address.

• Can I install Potluck on my phone?+

  Yes. Potluck is a Progressive Web App (PWA). On iPhone, tap Share then “Add to Home Screen”; on Android, choose “Install app” from your browser menu. It then opens full-screen like a native app, with no app store required.

• Do iPhone (HEIC) photos work?+

  Yes. Potluck supports the HEIC/HEIF photos that iPhones capture by default, so you can upload straight from your camera roll without converting anything first.

• Can I upload videos?+

  Not yet — Potluck is photos only for now. Video uploads aren’t supported, so albums stay focused on the pictures everyone took. Video may come later.

• Does it work across iPhone and Android?+

  Yes. Potluck runs in the browser and installs to the home screen on both iPhone and Android, and it works on a laptop too — so everyone is on the same album regardless of their phone. No more AirDrop stopping at the first Android, or group chats crushing the quality.

• Can I manage my album — rename, remove people, or delete it?+

  Yes. Swipe an album in your list (or tap the ⋯ menu) for quick actions: the owner can rename it, set a cover photo, remove members, or delete the whole album; anyone can leave an album they joined. You can also delete your own photos. Deleting an album removes its photos for everyone.

• How do I collect everyone's photos after a wedding, trip, or party?+

  Create a Potluck album for the event and share the link with everyone who was there. Each person adds the photos they took to the same album, and when you collect it you take home all the shots the others captured — not just your own. It's the simplest way to gather group photos in one place without chasing people for their pictures.

• How is Potluck different from a shared iCloud or Google Photos album?+

  Shared iCloud/Google albums work best within one ecosystem and surface everything to everyone. Potluck is built for mixed groups: it works the same on iPhone, Android, and the web, needs no account in a specific ecosystem (just an email code), and is designed around a single event — everyone contributes, you collect what others brought, and the album auto-deletes after 30 days so nothing lingers.

• Can I download all the photos from an album?+

  Yes. When you collect an album, Potluck saves the full-resolution originals straight to your phone's photo library (via the share sheet on mobile, or a ZIP download on desktop). By default it gives you everyone else's photos — the ones you'd otherwise be missing — and you can include your own too.

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