Which wedding photo app includes the live slideshow in the cheapest plan

A plan includes the live slideshow when photos reach the reception screen as guests upload them, on the cheapest paid plan and not one tier up. Wedding Arrivals carries it on its $49 plan and every other feature with it, so its $89 and $119 plans buy months and events instead.

33 of the 50 services checked put the live reception slideshow on every plan and name no higher tier for it, so the slideshow on its own is not what narrows the field. 4 name a tier: Gathmo moves the live photo wall to its €69 plan from a €29 entry, Wedibox to $49 from $29, GuestCam.si to €49 from €39, and Qrowd Pics to Premium at €45 from €35 — those 4 sit in the advertised price beside the price of the product, with both numbers each. 12 publish nothing about a live slideshow either way, and Google Photos has none.

4 of the 33 publish no price at all, which leaves the 29 in the table below. Two things separate them. 5 of the 50 services checked put guest video above the plan that carries the slideshow — Eventocam, LiveWall, LivJrny, EventPix and Fotify — so on those ladders the plan with the slideshow is not the plan with the video; Guestpix moves guest-page colors and fonts to its $89 Signature plan. The other is how long the cheapest plan keeps the album, which ranges from 7 days to no expiry at all. 11 of the 29 publish what the next tier adds; 11 publish nothing about it; 6 publish a single price, and Chivent is sold as a build-your-plan price.

Wedding Arrivals is $49 one-time and is not the cheapest entry in that table. Several of the cheaper ones buy the lower price with a shorter album — Eventocam at €4.95 holds it 90 days and closes uploads 7 days after the event, LensGo at €17.99 holds it 7 days, Warpbin at $7 holds it 30 — and Eventocam, LiveWall, LivJrny, EventPix and Fotify all put guest video a tier above the plan that carries the slideshow. On the Wedding Arrivals ladder the step up buys 24 months instead of 12, unlimited sub-albums and three events — the feature list on $49, $89 and $119 is the same list.

• The live reception slideshow. Photos reach the reception screen as guests upload them from the phone browser — on the $49 Wedding Arrivals plan and on the free trial, not a tier above either.
• Everything else on the same plan. Guest video, moderation, the audio guestbook, guest names, co-hosts, guest-page colors and fonts, cover image and shape, printable QR and Canva templates, up to six sub-albums with their own codes, and the full-resolution album download are all on the $49 Wedding Arrivals Big Day plan.
• You approve what reaches the screen. Wedding Arrivals moderation holds uploads until you approve them, so the slideshow running behind the top table shows what you chose to show.
• Wedding Arrivals plans differ on runway, sub-albums, priority support and event count, never on features. The $89 plan holds the album 24 months with a 12-month upload window, unlimited sub-albums and priority support; $119 covers three separate events, each with its own QR code and its own clocks starting on its own date.
• Both clocks start on the wedding day. A Wedding Arrivals event anchors its upload and storage windows to the wedding date, so booking up to two years ahead spends none of the window before a guest has uploaded anything.
• The trial runs the real slideshow. The Wedding Arrivals trial is 60 photos over 30 days, every feature unlocked, no card — the live slideshow included, so you can run it on a screen at home before the day. It is a trial: it runs out, and the $49 is what comes after it.

We read the live slideshow row off each provider's own pricing or help pages and recorded where it sits on the ladder, in the provider's own currency, together with the storage window that provider publishes for its cheapest paid plan. Where a provider prints a tier name beside the feature, the entry carries that tier and its price. Where a provider publishes a ladder and no detail about what the higher tier adds, or no storage window for the entry plan, the cell says "not stated".

Services that publish nothing about a live slideshow sit outside the table above and inside the comparison of 50 wedding photo sharing apps, where every price is checked against its provider.