Memtly, previously known as WeddingShare, is a self-hosted media-sharing site with one job: collecting the photos and videos that guests take at an event into a single gallery. You create a gallery, hand out the link or a printed QR code, and guests can browse everything shared so far and upload their own images and videos from the venue. It is written in C# and ships as an official Docker image, so it runs on any container host.

Key Features

• QR code sharing — every gallery generates a share code you can print and hand to guests on arrival
• Guest uploads — visitors add their own photos and videos straight from a phone browser, no account needed
• Upload review — an approval step keeps embarrassing or unwanted uploads off the screen until you release them
• Presentation and slideshow modes — project the gallery onto a screen for the room to watch
• Admin panel — manage users, galleries and site settings, including how the site looks, from one place
• Audit logs — every user action is recorded so problem accounts can be spotted and stopped
• Configurable by environment — allowed file types, storage and the rest of the behaviour are set through environment variables
• Optional cookie consent — a built-in consent feature for GDPR compliance in the EU

Why Use Memtly?

Most event photo sharing means asking guests to install an app or hand their pictures to a commercial service. Memtly avoids both: guests just open a link, and the files land on your own server. The review queue and audit log make it practical to run in public at a wedding, concert or trip, and the slideshow mode turns the collection into something to show during the event rather than an album nobody opens afterwards.

Use Cases

• Weddings and parties where guests share their own photos
• Concerts, conferences and meetups with a shared photo wall
• Group trips and family reunions
• Any event where you want the media to stay on infrastructure you control

Deployment

The project publishes an official image at memtly/memtly on Docker Hub (current release 1.0.7.6). Deployment works on Docker, Kubernetes, Linode or any other container platform; setup steps and every configurable option are documented at docs.memtly.com. JPEG, PNG, MOV and MP4 are accepted out of the box and the list is adjustable through GALLERY_ALLOWED_FILE_TYPES — HEIC is deliberately unsupported because browsers cannot display it.

Licence

Memtly is free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License v3.0. The community edition’s front-end and back-end source is published on GitHub.

Alternatives

• Piwigo — mature self-hosted photo gallery with albums and extensions
• Lychee — fast self-hosted photo management for photographers