Birdsuite Book
Your booking page: guests pick a time, both get a calendar invite — with its own video room if you like. Plus free group polls, without ads.
Birdsuite Folio
Deliver your photos in a gallery your clients will love
Upload a shoot, share a beautiful gallery by link. Photos go straight to storage in Germany, as fast as with Transfer.
- Fast upload
- No tracking
- Free
Alternative to Pixieset, Pic-Time, ShootProof
Birdsuite Folio
- As fast as Transfer
- Many photos at once
- Gallery styles
Free
Free: what Birdsuite Folio does without a subscription
Create galleries and upload photos with Transfer's fast pipeline
Included for free
- Rows, columns and one-by-one styles, portrait or landscape focus, cover layouts, your logo and accent colour
- Sections and a full-screen viewer with zoom
- Up to 1,000 photos per upload
- Share by link
- Client favourites, labels, comments and approval
- Selection export as file names or CSV
Free, with no catch
- Guests need no account Only you create a free account; everyone you invite just opens the link.
- No ads No banners, no pop-ups, no sponsored results — in the free plan too.
- No tracking No tracking cookies, no profiles. We only count visits, cookieless and with shortened IP addresses.
- Servers in the EU (Germany and France) What needs a server runs on servers in the EU (Germany and France). Exceptions are listed openly under data and privacy.
- No payment details No credit card and no trial: the free plan stays free for as long as you use it.
There is no paid plan: everything Birdsuite Folio does is free, with no trial that runs out.
Open Folio for freeBirdsuite Folio is a client photo gallery for photographers. You create a gallery, upload the photos with the same fast pipeline as Birdsuite Transfer and share the link. Clients see the photos in a clean, responsive gallery in the style you pick - rows, columns or one by one, with portrait in focus if you like - with your logo, colours and fonts and a full-screen viewer with zoom. A free Birdsuite account is needed to create galleries; viewing one needs none.
The problem
Sending a shoot as a pile of files is clumsy, and many gallery services are slow to upload to, tied to US servers or bury the photos under their own branding.
The solution
Folio uploads straight from your browser to storage in Germany over many parallel streams, so a few hundred photos do not take all afternoon. The gallery you share is simple and puts the photos first.
How it works
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Create a gallery
Give the gallery a title. It gets its own link right away.
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Upload the photos
Drop up to 1,000 photos at once. Uploads run in parallel and a failed part is retried.
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Share the link
Send the gallery link to your client. They view the photos on any device, no account needed.
Features
As fast as Transfer
Folio uses the upload pipeline of Birdsuite Transfer: photos go directly to storage in parts, many at the same time, and a failed part is retried on its own.
Many photos at once
Add up to 1,000 photos in one go. Files and parts upload in parallel.
Gallery styles
Choose rows, columns or one photo per screen, and whether portrait or landscape is in focus, or let Folio pick automatically. Every photo keeps its aspect ratio, nothing is cropped. A live preview shows the result on desktop and phone while you edit.
Your brand
Pick a cover layout, a light or dark theme, an accent colour and a font pairing, and add your logo and studio name. Fonts are served without a font CDN.
Sections and viewer
Group photos into titled sections. The full-screen viewer works with keyboard, swipe and zoom.
Every feature switchable
Per gallery you decide what visitors may do: select photos, comment, add colour labels and download photos. “View only” makes the gallery a plain link; the presets “View & download” and “Client selection” set everything in one click. Visitors only see what is switched on.
Client proofing
When you switch it on (preset “Client selection”), clients heart their favourites, add colour labels and comment on single photos, with no account. They send the selection when done (with the minimum and maximum you set), you see it live and export it as a file-name list for Lightroom or Capture One, or as CSV.
Cover and selection
Pick the cover photo of the gallery and remove photos you do not want to show.
Data and privacy
- Processing
- Photos are uploaded by your browser directly to our storage. Our server plans the upload and hands out short-lived links to view the photos.
- Storage
- Photos are stored in Germany until you delete them or the gallery. If clients pick photos, their favourites, labels and comments are stored with the gallery, plus the name and e-mail address they chose to give.
- Processors
- The storage provider in Germany. The page itself is served by our server at Host Europe in Strasbourg, France.
Test it yourself: Open a gallery link in a private window: no account and no tracking scripts are involved.
Pricing
Free – no subscription
Create galleries and upload photos with Transfer's fast pipeline
- Rows, columns and one-by-one styles, portrait or landscape focus, cover layouts, your logo and accent colour
- Sections and a full-screen viewer with zoom
- Up to 1,000 photos per upload
- Share by link
- Client favourites, labels, comments and approval
- Selection export as file names or CSV
Birdsuite Folio compared
| Criterion | Birdsuite Folio | Typical gallery services |
|---|---|---|
| Viewing a gallery | No account needed | Often a sign-up prompt |
| Storage location | Germany | Mostly the USA |
| Upload path | Direct to storage in parallel parts | Differs by vendor |
Last updated: 8 November 2026
Who is it for?
Wedding and portrait photographers
Deliver a shoot in a gallery that looks the part.
Event photographers
Upload hundreds of photos and share one link.
Studios and agencies
Keep galleries for clients in one place, stored in Germany.
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Frequently asked questions
- How are photos uploaded?
- Your browser sends the photos directly to our storage in parts and many at once, the same way Birdsuite Transfer does. They never pass through our application server.
- What happens if my connection drops?
- A failed part is retried automatically. If photos still fail, "Retry unfinished photos" uploads only the missing parts.
- Do my clients need an account?
- No. Anyone with the gallery link can view it. You need a free Birdsuite account to create galleries.
- How does my client choose photos?
- They tap the heart on a photo, optionally set a colour label or leave a comment, and send the selection. A name and e-mail address are optional. Once sent, the list is locked until you reopen it. You get an e-mail for the approval and a batched e-mail for new comments, and export the picks as file names (for the Lightroom filter) or CSV.
- Where are my photos stored?
- In Germany.
Ready? Birdsuite Folio runs right in your browser.
Last updated: 8 November 2026