Is this only for milestone birthdays?

No. The wall works for any birthday, milestone or not; it is simply more common for people to want a fuller record when the gathering itself is bigger.

Will older relatives who are not used to QR codes be able to use it?

Scanning is just the phone's camera app, and the guest page itself is two buttons. Anyone who prefers can type the short address printed under the code instead.

Can we use it for a surprise party?

Yes. Set the wall up beforehand and it is ready the moment guests arrive, before the guest of honour knows anything about it.

Does the wall's look need to match the party's theme?

It can, since there are ten looks and your own cover photograph to choose from, but it does not have to; a plain, calm look suits most birthdays on its own.

A live photo wall for a birthday party

A birthday brings together people who do not usually share one album: school friends, work colleagues, grandparents, cousins. One QR code on the table or by the cake lets all of them add photographs from their own phone, no app and no account, and the wall shows the party live on a screen as it happens, from the first guests arriving to the candles going out.

Create a wall for the party How it works

Free to try with 50 photographs. One payment of $49 per event when you are ready.

Galawall

Birthday

12 June

Live on the wall

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Birthday

Milestone birthdays

A 30th, 40th, 50th or 60th usually means a room with decades of a person's life in it at once: university friends next to colleagues, siblings next to people the guest of honour has known since school. A shared wall gives everyone one place to add to, rather than the photographs staying scattered across whoever happened to take them. For a milestone, the album afterwards ends up being a fuller record of who actually came than the photographs any one guest took alone.

A wall that suits the party

Ten looks, from restrained to warm, mean a wall can suit a formal 50th in a private dining room as easily as a garden party for a 30th. The look, and the cover photograph, are chosen when the wall is created, so the QR code, the sign and the screen all match the rest of the day without extra design work.

Guests of every age

No app: the phone's own camera opens the code.
No account: nobody is asked for a name or an email.
Two buttons on the guest page: take a photo, or choose from the gallery.
Works as well for a grandparent scanning a code for the first time as for a teenager who has done it a hundred times.

A surprise party

For a surprise, the wall can go up before the guest of honour arrives and start filling as guests do, so the moment itself is already part of the album by the time the cake comes out. Because nothing needs installing, guests can start adding photographs the second they walk in, without missing anything to set a phone up.

Updated September 16, 2026

Add yours

Choose how the wall shows the evening, and change it while the party is on.

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Create a wall for the party

How it works

A minute to set up. A lifetime to look back on.

Create.
Give the evening a name and a look. No account needed to begin.
Print.
A sign for the door and cards for the tables, ready for the printer.
Watch.
Put the wall on a screen. Your guests do the rest.

Questions

Is this only for milestone birthdays?: No. The wall works for any birthday, milestone or not; it is simply more common for people to want a fuller record when the gathering itself is bigger.
Will older relatives who are not used to QR codes be able to use it?: Scanning is just the phone's camera app, and the guest page itself is two buttons. Anyone who prefers can type the short address printed under the code instead.
Can we use it for a surprise party?: Yes. Set the wall up beforehand and it is ready the moment guests arrive, before the guest of honour knows anything about it.
Does the wall's look need to match the party's theme?: It can, since there are ten looks and your own cover photograph to choose from, but it does not have to; a plain, calm look suits most birthdays on its own.