EventPixel vs Kululu: Honest 2026 Comparison
Kululu's free plan gives 24 hours of uploads and 7 days of viewing. EventPixel gives 30 days and a year of safekeeping. Verified 2026 comparison.
EventPixel vs Kululu at a glance
EventPixel vs Kululu comes down to clocks and caps. Both platforms do the same core thing: guests scan a QR code, upload from any browser, and never install an app or create an account. What separates them is how much room each plan actually gives you — how many photos, for how long guests can upload, how long the gallery stays open, and what quality your photos come back in.
Kululu's dials are tight at every level, and deliberately so: its free tier gives 50 uploads with a 24-hour upload window and 7 days of viewing. EventPixel's free tier gives 100 photos with a 30-day upload window and 14 days of viewing, after which photos are locked rather than lost. On the paid side, Kululu runs $39 and $99 against EventPixel's $15, $29, and $59 — and only EventPixel includes AI face search.
Every Kululu figure below was checked against kululu.com's published pricing and help centre on August 6, 2026. One caveat worth stating up front: Kululu's $39 and $99 prices were displayed that day as promotional discounts from $79 and $199 list prices, so they may revert.
The free plans, dial by dial
| Free plan dial | Kululu | EventPixel |
|---|---|---|
| Upload cap | 50 uploads | 100 photos |
| Upload window | 24 hours from event start | 30 days |
| Gallery viewing | 7 days, then no longer accessible | 14 days after the event, then locked |
| After that | Access ends | 12 months of safekeeping; upgrade unlocks instantly |
| Batch download | Not on free (Plus and Pro only) | Not on free (paid plans) |
| Event website | Not offered | Included — story and schedule |
Kululu's pricing page states 50 uploads on the free plan while its help centre states 100. We cite the pricing page. Checked August 6, 2026.
The 24-hour upload window is the sharpest difference between the two products, and the one most likely to catch people out. Guests keep finding photos on their camera rolls for days after a wedding — on the flight home, the following weekend, whenever they next clear their phone. With a one-day window, everything discovered after the event closes is lost. EventPixel keeps free uploads open for 30 days for exactly that reason.
Paid plans compared
| Kululu Plus $39 | Kululu Pro $99 | EventPixel Mid-Sized $29 | EventPixel Large $59 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upload cap | 500 | 10,000 (fair use) | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Upload window | 30 days | 3 months | 6 months | 12 months |
| Gallery access | 3 months | 1 year | 1 year | 2 years |
| Photo quality | High quality | High quality | Original | Original |
| AI face search | No | No | Included | Included |
Two things deserve a closer look here.
Quality. Kululu lists original upload quality and metadata only under its business subscriptions, which start at $99 per month. Its consumer plans, including the $99 Pro, describe photos as high quality — processed rather than original. EventPixel returns original-quality files on every paid plan, starting at $15, with ZIP export throughout.
Caps. Kululu's Pro tier describes uploads as unlimited, and its fair-usage policy sets that at 10,000 media uploads and 5,000 participants per event. Those are generous ceilings for most weddings, but they are ceilings, and a very large celebration with enthusiastic uploaders can approach them.
What Kululu does genuinely well
- Video on the free tier. Kululu's 50 free uploads can be photos or videos. EventPixel's guest uploads are photos only, on free and paid plans alike, so this is a genuine advantage for Kululu.
- Thorough live photo wall support, with dedicated setup guides for Chromecast, Apple TV, Fire TV, and smart TVs — more documentation than most competitors provide for getting the slideshow onto a screen at the venue.
- Automatic content moderation. AI screening for inappropriate uploads runs on the platform, which is a reassurance at large public-facing events.
- A clean, fast guest flow. Scan, upload, done — the part that matters most, done well.
- A dedicated business tier for event professionals running multiple events a month, with watermarking, lead capture, and photo-wall embeds.
Where EventPixel goes further
MagicFind AI face search, from $29
Guests take one selfie and instantly see every photo they appear in. Kululu has no face search on any plan — its only AI feature is automatic content moderation. For a large wedding, this is the difference between a gallery guests scroll once and a gallery that gives every guest their own album.
A complete wedding website
Story, schedule, family, registry, and travel details across more than 22 template designs, with the gallery built in. Kululu is a gallery product; it does not offer a website builder.
Audio guestbook
Voice messages from guests, recorded in the browser, on every EventPixel paid plan. Kululu's guestbook takes photos, videos, and decorated text posts — but not audio.
RSVP management
Included in every EventPixel paid plan. Kululu has no RSVP feature.
Original-quality files from $15
On Kululu, original quality with metadata is a business-subscription feature at $99 per month and up. On EventPixel it is standard on every paid plan.
Photos are never stranded
This is the philosophical difference. On Kululu's free plan, gallery access ends after 7 days. On EventPixel's free plan, the gallery locks after 14 days but the photos stay safely stored for 12 months and unlock the moment you upgrade — including months later, when you finally get round to it. The copy we use internally is that photos are always safe, never expired, and the product is built to match.
Which should you choose?
Choose Kululu if you want free video uploads for a short, contained event where 24 hours of uploads and 7 days of viewing genuinely cover it — a birthday dinner, a corporate evening, a party where the photos matter for a week. Or if you are an event professional whose volume suits their monthly business plans.
Choose EventPixel if you are running a wedding or any event where photos keep surfacing for weeks, if you want guests to find themselves through face search, if you want original-quality files back without a business subscription, or if you want the website, RSVP, and invitations in the same place as the gallery.
Why the upload window matters more than the upload cap
Most people compare photo-sharing platforms on the number of uploads allowed. That is the wrong dial to focus on, and Kululu's free tier is the clearest illustration of why.
Think about how guest photos actually arrive. A handful get uploaded during the reception, usually by the same three enthusiastic people. A larger batch lands the next morning, when guests wake up, scroll their camera roll, and remember the QR code on the table. More trickle in over the following week — from the friend who was travelling, the aunt who needed her daughter to show her how, the groomsman who forgot entirely until someone mentioned it in the group chat.
That long tail is where a surprising share of the best candid photographs live, because they come from the guests who were enjoying themselves rather than documenting. A 24-hour upload window, as on Kululu's free plan, captures the first wave and loses most of the rest. A 30-day window, as on EventPixel's free plan, captures nearly all of it.
The same logic applies to viewing. A gallery that closes after 7 days is closed before most guests have thought to look at it twice. That is why EventPixel's free gallery locks rather than disappears: viewing pauses at 14 days, but the photos remain in safekeeping for a full year, so a couple who upgrades three months later gets everything back intact rather than discovering they lost the tail of their own wedding.
None of this makes Kululu's free tier a bad product. It makes it a product designed for a different shape of event — a party where the photos matter for a week, not a wedding whose photos matter for a decade.
A note on comparing quality claims
Photo quality is the hardest thing to compare across platforms, because the vocabulary is deliberately vague. "High quality" is not a technical term, and it does not mean the same thing as "original".
Kululu is unusually transparent here, if you read carefully: original upload quality and metadata appear in its feature list only under the business subscriptions, which start at $99 per month. Its consumer plans describe photos as good quality on free and high quality on Plus and Pro. The reasonable reading is that consumer-tier files are processed rather than untouched.
This matters for two reasons. First, metadata — the timestamp and camera information embedded in each file — is what lets you sort a thousand guest photos into chronological order later, and it is routinely stripped during processing. Second, if you ever want a large print from a guest photo, the difference between an original file and a re-encoded one is visible.
EventPixel returns original-quality files with full ZIP export on every paid plan, starting at $15. When comparing any two platforms in this category, the question worth asking is not whether quality is high, but whether the file you get back is the file your guest's phone produced.
FAQ
Is Kululu really free?
Kululu has a genuine free plan, but it is tightly capped: up to 50 uploads, a 24-hour upload window from the event start, and 7 days of gallery access, after which photos are no longer accessible. Batch download is not included on the free plan. Figures per kululu.com's pricing page and help centre, August 6, 2026.
Is EventPixel's free plan bigger than Kululu's?
On most dials, yes: 100 photo uploads against 50, a 30-day upload window against 24 hours, 14 days of full gallery viewing against 7, and locked photos stay in safekeeping for 12 months instead of becoming inaccessible. Kululu's free tier does accept video, which EventPixel's does not.
Does Kululu have AI face search?
No. Kululu has no face search or face recognition on any plan — its only AI feature is automatic moderation of inappropriate content. EventPixel includes MagicFind AI face search in its Mid-Sized ($29) and Large ($59) plans.
Does Kululu give you original-quality photos?
Kululu lists original upload quality and metadata only under its business subscriptions, which start at $99 per month. Its consumer plans, including the $99 Pro, deliver processed high-quality files. EventPixel returns original-quality files with ZIP download on every paid plan, starting at $15.
Do guests need an app for either platform?
No. Both are fully browser-based. Guests scan a QR code or open a link and upload without installing anything or creating an account.
Are these prices current?
All Kululu figures were verified against kululu.com on August 6, 2026, when its $39 Plus and $99 Pro prices were displayed as promotional discounts from $79 and $199 list prices. Check both pricing pages before buying, since promotional pricing can revert.
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