PartyLab vs Hopin

Hopin is a conference platform, not a photo collection tool

Hopin was designed for virtual and hybrid conferences — ticketed events with stages, booths, networking sessions, and registration flows. It is a powerful platform for running large-scale online events, but it has no guest photo upload feature, no live photo gallery, and no way to collect candid shots from attendees during an in-person reception, gala, or social event. Organizers who try to use Hopin for wedding receptions, birthday parties, or corporate parties quickly discover there is no photo collection workflow at all. PartyLab is purpose-built for exactly this use case: one QR code, instant upload, live gallery.

Enterprise pricing designed for conference budgets, not social events

PartyLab offers Starter at $44.99 USD, Plus at $89.99 USD, Max at $179.99 USD per event. Each package is a one-time payment. There is no free upload tier or recurring event subscription. Starter: up to 100 guests, 2,000 uploads, and 25 GB storage. Plus: up to 500 guests, 10,000 uploads, and 100 GB storage. Max: no guest cap, 50,000 uploads, and 1 TB storage. Starter includes 3 months of upload and download access. Plus includes 1 year of upload and download access. Max includes 1 year of upload and download access. Download your files before access ends; downloaded copies are yours to keep.

No live gallery, no TV slideshow, no QR upload flow

Even at hybrid events where Hopin handles the virtual logistics, there is no built-in mechanism for collecting candid photos from in-person attendees via a QR code. There is no live photo gallery that updates as guests upload, no TV slideshow to display photos on venue screens in real time, and no digital guestbook where guests can attach captions to their photos. PartyLab fills this gap seamlessly: set up a PartyLab event, share the QR code at the venue and the link in the Hopin chat for remote attendees, and every photo — from both in-person and virtual guests — lands in one gallery.

“We used Hopin for the virtual portion of our hybrid company summit but had no way to collect photos from in-person attendees. Someone suggested PartyLab — we put the QR code on every table and dropped the link in the Hopin chat for remote guests. 600 photos from both groups ended up in one gallery. Exactly what we needed.”

“Our conference gala dinner followed a full day on Hopin. We needed photo collection for the dinner and Hopin simply doesn’t have that feature. PartyLab took five minutes to set up, the QR code went on every table tent, and we ended up with 400 photos from 200 guests that the comms team used for the post-event newsletter.”

“I run a professional association that uses Hopin for our annual summit. For the networking drinks and awards ceremony we used PartyLab alongside it. The two tools complement each other perfectly — Hopin for the sessions, PartyLab for the photos. Our members loved seeing their photos appear on the big screen in real time.”