SYNC vs AfterGlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SYNC
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SYNC turns every camera in an event into a shared, live photo album. Create an event, share a six-character code, and everyone at your wedding, birthday, festival, or weekend trip can start capturing the same album from their own phone. No accounts to set up. No app for guests to install — they can join from a web browser if they want. Photos appear in everyone's feed as soon as they're taken. WHY SYNC IS PERFECT AS EVENT CAMERA? You hire a photographer for the posed shots. You take a selfie for the group chat. But the in-between moments — the hug at the door, the cake on the floor, the sunset everyone watched together — those live in twelve different camera rolls and never end up anywhere. SYNC fixes that. One album. Everyone contributing. Everyone gets to keep the result. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create an event. Set a name and an end time. That's it. 2. Invite people. Share a QR code, a link, or just the six-letter code. 3. Capture. Anyone in the event can take photos that go straight to the shared album. 4. Reveal. Choose when guests see the photos: live as they're taken, all at once after the event ends, or after a delay you set. 5. Save. When the event closes, everyone can save their favorites to their own camera roll. MOMENTS Big events have phases. Wedding ceremony. Reception. After-party. Use Moments inside an event to organize photos by stage, with their own QR codes and reveal timings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN We don't sell your photos. We don't run ads against them. We don't show them to anyone outside your event. Photos are encrypted in transit, stored in scoped buckets, and access is enforced by per-event row-level security on our database. Your full privacy policy is at sync.camera/privacy. You can join an event without creating an account at all — SYNC will create an anonymous identity for you that you can later upgrade to Apple or Google sign-in without losing any of your photos. SYNCPASS The free tier lets you create unlimited events with up to ten guests and ten photos per guest, plenty for a casual get-together. SyncPass unlocks larger guest counts, more photos per guest, longer events, and custom event covers — pick the tier that fits the size of your gathering. DESIGNED FOR EVERY DEVICE SYNC works on iPhone. Guests without the app can join from any modern phone browser via a one-tap deep link. We built SYNC for the events we cared about and couldn't capture properly any other way. We hope it helps you keep yours.
AfterGlow
This app creates a private, shared disposable camera roll for events like weddings and parties. Guests can capture candid moments, and all photos are collected in one private album for easy reliving.
- Private event camera
- Shared disposable camera roll
- QR code and invite code joining
- Live collaborative photo album
- Guest limits and event duration controls
- Private event-only access
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Create a private wedding camera for your guests. AfterGlow helps you collect the candid photos your photographer, group chat, and camera roll usually miss. Create a private film for your wedding, party, trip, or event. Invite guests with a QR code or 6-letter code. Everyone captures photos into one shared disposable camera roll. Instead of chasing photos after the event, AfterGlow keeps every real moment together in one private album. The ceremony reactions. The dinner table laughs. The dance floor chaos. The blurry late-night memories. The photos your friends captured when you were busy living the moment. AfterGlow is not a public social app. No followers. No strangers. No public feed. No random discovery. Just one private shared camera roll for the people who were actually there. HOW IT WORKS • Create a private film for your event • Set the guest limit and event duration • Invite guests with a QR code or 6-letter code • Everyone captures photos into one shared roll • Watch the album fill during the event • Lock the film when the night ends WHY AFTERGLOW Most event photos disappear into different phones, group chats, and social apps. AfterGlow keeps them together in one private disposable film. It gives your guests a simple way to capture the moments they see, while giving you one beautiful place to relive the whole event later. FEATURES • Private wedding and event camera • Shared disposable camera roll • QR code and invite code joining • Live collaborative photo album • Limited shots per guest • Guest limits • Event duration controls • Private event-only access • Automatic or manual film locking • No public feed • No followers • No social discovery • Designed for weddings, parties, birthdays, trips, and celebrations PERFECT FOR • Weddings • Rehearsal dinners • Birthday parties • House parties • Vacations • Weekend trips • Bachelor and bachelorette weekends • Team events • Private celebrations • Family gatherings FOR WEDDINGS Your photographer cannot be everywhere. AfterGlow lets your guests capture the real in-between moments from every angle: emotional reactions, table laughs, dance floor memories, and the small moments you may never have seen. FOR PARTIES AND TRIPS Create one private camera roll for the whole group. Everyone joins the same film. Everyone captures their own perspective. Everything stays together. PRIVATE BY DESIGN AfterGlow is built for memories, not attention. Your event film is private to the people you invite. There is no public profile, no follower count, and no social feed. Because some memories are not made for the internet. They are made for the people who were there. Download AfterGlow and create your first private event film today.
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Verdict
SYNC and AfterGlow are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. SYNC sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and AfterGlow sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on August 5, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SYNC | AfterGlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Silmaril | Lucie Valentova |
In-app purchases
SYNC
- 10 Guests$1.99
- 25 Guests$4.99
- 50 Guests$14.99
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- 100 Guests$29.99
- 150 Guests$49.99
- 200 Guests$69.99
- Unlimited Guests$99.99
AfterGlow
- Up to 10 Guests$1.99
- Up to 25 Guests$4.99
- Up to 50 Guests$9.99
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- Up to 100 Guests$19.99
- Up to 150 Guests$29.99
- Up to 200 Guests$39.99





