How to collect prom photos from the whole class (no app needed)

The simplest way to collect prom photos from a whole class is a shared QR-code gallery. Print one code, put it on the tables and the entrance, and every student scans it to upload straight from their phone. All the getting-ready shots, group photos and dance-floor moments land in a single album everyone can keep.

Prom is one night, one year group, and hundreds of phones. The photos start hours before the venue — in bedrooms and hair salons — and don't stop until the last song. No single photographer catches all of that, and by Monday those pictures are scattered across a hundred camera rolls you'll never see.

A QR-code gallery fixes the scatter. Guests scan, upload, and you download the whole night as one ZIP.

The fastest way to collect prom photos from your class

1. Create a shared gallery for your prom and get a QR code (about a minute).
2. Print the QR code on the table cards, the photo backdrop, and a sign by the door.
3. Everyone scans and uploads — the code opens a simple page in the phone browser. No app, no account, no login.
4. You download everything as one ZIP the next day.

Because it runs entirely in the browser, it works the same on an iPhone or an Android — for the class president and for the friend who never installs anything.

Start collecting before the venue

The best prom photos happen before anyone arrives: the getting-ready chaos, the corsage, the group meeting up for pictures in someone's garden. Share the gallery link in the class group chat that morning so those shots go into the same album as the dance floor. By the time you walk in, half the night is already collected.

Getting the group shots without losing anyone

Group photos are where prom albums usually fall apart — one person has the good one, three people have blurry versions, and nobody ever sends them round. With a shared gallery, whoever takes the shot uploads it once and the whole year group has it. No "can you AirDrop me that?" the next week. For more ways to nudge people to actually upload, see our guide on how to get guests to upload photos.

Can a teacher or organizer keep an eye on what gets uploaded?

Yes. A good gallery lets an organizer turn on moderation, so a teacher or committee member approves photos before they appear. That keeps the album appropriate for a school event without anyone hovering over shoulders. You can also remove any photo after the fact, and the gallery stays private — reachable only by the people with the link or code, never indexed by search engines.

Keep it private and safe for a school event

Phone photos carry hidden metadata, including the exact GPS location where each shot was taken. A gallery that strips EXIF and GPS data before anything is shared means those tags never travel with the images — worth having for a room full of teenagers. Combined with moderation and a private, unlisted link, it's the safe way to run a class-wide album.

Everyone keeps the album before summer

Prom lands right before exams and the long goodbye of summer, when a year group scatters. Downloading the full-resolution set as one ZIP means every student can have the complete night — not just the few photos that happened to land on their own phone. Share the ZIP or the gallery link in the class chat and the whole year keeps the same memories, at full quality, before everyone goes their separate ways.

Set the gallery to stay open for a couple of weeks. People keep adding photos in the days after, once they've slept and gone back through their camera rolls.

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Ready to try it? You can create a prom photo gallery in a minute and print your QR code straight away. The free plan collects the first stretch of photos without paying; the one-time upgrade lifts the limits and adds video for the dance-floor clips.