Why Potluck
The name Potluck comes from the app's core mechanic. At a potluck dinner, everyone brings a dish to share, and you leave having tasted what other people made, not the thing you brought yourself. Potluck the app works the same way: everyone contributes their photos to a shared album, and when it's time to take the memories home, you collect what the others captured rather than re-downloading your own shots. The name says in one word what the app actually does: contribute together, take home what isn't yours.
What Potluck is
Potluck is a shared photo album for a single group event — a wedding, a trip, a dinner, a party. You create an album, share one link, and everyone who was there adds the photos they took. When you collect the album, Potluck gives you the photos the others contributed rather than re-downloading your own, so each person leaves with the moments they would otherwise have missed. Photos are saved to your library at full resolution.
A few things make it different from a shared iCloud or Google Photos album. It works the same on iPhone, Android, and the web, so a mixed group is never split by ecosystem — no AirDrop dead-ends, no group chats crushing the quality. There's no password and no account for guests beyond a one-time email code. And albums are ephemeral by design: each one auto-deletes 30 days after the last upload (365 days on Potluck Pro), so Potluck is for sharing an event, not long-term storage. Photos live in private storage and are served through short-lived signed links, so they're never publicly browsable.
Potluck is free to use — up to 3 albums, 150 photos each, with unlimited people. Potluck Pro raises those limits to 25 albums and 2,000 photos each and keeps albums for a year, for €4.99/month or €39.99/year. There are no ads, and we don't sell your data.
P.S. — Every good idea needs a co-conspirator to hand you the thread when the maze closes in. Ours found us on the island of Minos, somewhere between an espresso and the Aegean. Ευχαριστώ, Σ.Κ. 🧵