Why choose Gather?
Gather is for people who care about the album they share. A theme shapes the whole experience, from its opening headline to its photo layouts and captions, with useful ways to make every detail your own.
Make the presentation personal.
Pick a complete design and fine-tune its typography, colours and layout. Atelier, Cinema and every other managed theme are included in the $79 plan.
Keep the important details with the photo.
Gather compresses photos for the album and preserves available capture time, GPS, camera and lens metadata in downloads by default. You can turn metadata retention off for new uploads.
Choose who looks after the hosting.
Let us handle hosting and backups, or run the free Apache-2.0 edition on your own server. Self-hosting includes six themes with no Gather-imposed storage quota.
The difference, at a glance.
GuestCam offers original-quality storage, audio guestbooks, live slideshows and optional MagicFind photo search. Gather’s emphasis is a complete, customizable album design. One file-handling distinction: Gather’s downloadable photos are compressed with retained metadata, while GuestCam describes original-quality files.
GuestCam features and file handling ↗
Written by Gather · Official source reviewed September 10, 2026.
Make it yours.
Put the design to the test. Switch between Gather’s themes, try your names, and see which album feels like you.
Explore the album themes