A European app
A European wedding photo app, and nothing to install.
You are looking for an app to gather the photos of your wedding, and you would rather it were not one more product of a Californian platform. Medley is published and developed in Europe, hosted in the European Union, and your guests still have nothing at all to download.
What that changes shows up in use: a QR code, a browser, instructions in a language everyone in the room reads, and a person who answers when you write the night before the ceremony.
What European changes in practice
No app to install
The word is misleading: there is nothing to download. Your guests point their phone camera at a QR code, the album opens in their browser, they upload. No app store, no account, no forgotten password in front of the buffet.
It speaks your language, not a machine translation
The album your guests open, the sign you print for the tables and the legal pages are written in English, and in four other European languages besides. A guest whose phone is set to Spanish gets the album in Spanish, without asking anyone. On the evening of a wedding, a guest gives an instruction about ten seconds. It had better be clear in the language they think in.
Developed in Lille, by the person who answers
Medley is written and published by Max Bryselbout, a developer based in Lille, France, as an individual and not a company. His address and contact details are in the legal notice. A question the day before the ceremony reaches him, not a form ten time zones away.
No advertising network behind it
When a photo service is funded by advertising, your images feed an ecosystem you never see and cannot audit. Here there is no ad network to feed: your photos do one thing, which is to exist in your album. The detail is in our comparison against Google Photos.
Hosted in the EU, and proven
Your files are with OVH, in Roubaix. Who holds them, under which law, and what the GDPR asks of an organiser gathering the faces of an entire family: that is set out name by name on our page on EU hosting and the GDPR.
The day itself, and the weeks after
A wedding app is judged on two moments: the one where fifty people have to upload without hesitating, and the one, weeks later, where you get everything back.
Your guests create no account
A gallery that demands a sign-up always leaves somebody by the roadside: the uncle with no Google account, the bridesmaid who has forgotten her password. Here nobody signs up, a first name is enough to put a name to a photo, and the album fills up all the same.
The QR code slips into what you print
On the seating plan, on the back of the menu, on a sign to stand at the drinks reception: the PDF comes out in A5 for the tables and A4 for the entrance, with your names and your date on it. ISO paper sizes, the ones your print shop already stocks, not a US Letter to re-crop on the day.
Everyone leaves with the album
Downloading the lot is not reserved for the couple: your parents, your witnesses and the friend who could not make it get the same album, in one archive and in original quality. Nobody has to be chased by message ever again.
Your guests leave their voice too
The same QR code opens a guest book: a written note, a recording made on the phone's microphone, a short video. The witness who did not dare speak at dessert says in thirty seconds what he would never have written in a notebook.
Open and free, right now
Medley is in its test phase: unlimited photos and videos, in original quality, Live slideshow included, and nothing to pay. The album is kept at least until December 31, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a European alternative to the American photo apps?
- Yes: Medley is written and published in France, by an individual, and hosted in the European Union with OVH. Nothing is installed, nothing is funded by advertising, and no face is analysed. Your guests scan a QR code and upload from their browser; you run the album from your account.
- Do I have to install an app to upload the photos?
- No, and that is the whole bias of the product: asking fifty guests to download something in the middle of a party loses you half the photos. The QR code opens the album straight in the phone's browser, and a first name is enough to sign what you upload.
- Can guests leave a message, and not only photos?
- Yes: the album carries a guest book. From the same page, a guest writes a note, records their voice or films themselves for a minute, with no account and nothing to install. The messages are filed next to the photos, and months later they are still in the same place.
- Who publishes Medley, and who answers when I write?
- Max Bryselbout, a developer based in Lille, France, publishing as an individual rather than a company. The postal address and the contact details are in the legal notice: writing to the service reaches the person who builds it, not a help centre standing in front of him.
Read on
Event photos hosted in the EU
Where your guests' photos live, who can read them, and how long they stay. Named, not implied.
Wedding photo sharing
A QR code on the tables, and every photo your guests took, gathered in full quality.
The best wedding photo app: a comparison
Verifiable criteria, dated sources, a stated bias: the comparison that also tells you when a competitor does better.
A guest book that records voices
Written words, but also audio and video: what guests would never have written down, they say.
An evening gets no second take
A cut upload that resumes, fifty phones that clog nothing, an iPhone video that plays everywhere: what we built so it holds, and the measurements to check it.
Your wedding, in an album made in Europe.
Two minutes to open it, one QR code to hand round, and your guests do the rest.
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