How Galawall works

No account is needed to start. Give the wall a name, a date and an occasion, pick one of ten looks, and choose a cover photograph, either one you upload or one already curated for that occasion. An email is optional at this stage. The whole thing takes about a minute, and the result is a working wall with its own guest page and QR code, ready to try before you decide on anything.

Each wall's QR code comes in ten designs, from a heart to a laurel wreath, in six colours, matched to the look you chose for the guest page. Every design is tested to scan before it is offered. Download the code as a large PNG for your own materials, or take the print-ready A4 PDF, which lays out one sign and four table cards with the short address printed under the code for anyone who prefers to type it rather than scan.

The wall itself is a page, not an app: open it in a browser on a television, a projector or a laptop, and put it full screen. It shows one photograph at a time with a slow cross-fade, or six at once with the newest largest. New photographs are shown next without cutting the current one short, and when nothing new has arrived it walks back through the evening so far. The screen stays awake and the cursor hides itself; a few keyboard shortcuts control it without a mouse.

• A guest page in the host's own language, opened by scanning the code or typing the short address under it.
• Two choices: take a photo, or choose several at once from the gallery.
• No app to install, no account, no name or email asked.
• Uploads continue in the background and survive a weak connection; a failed one can be retried.
• Each guest sees their own photographs marked as they arrive in the stream.

Every wall has its own dashboard: the QR code, the guest and wall links, every photograph as it arrives, and the whole album as one download. On the paid plan the album stays online for 365 days, so a photograph someone adds a week later still lands in the same place. An account, made with an email and a six-digit code, or with Google or Microsoft, keeps every wall you create safe across devices, and a wall made without one can be moved into an account later with the same six-digit code. From the dashboard the owner can edit the wall, take a single photograph down, or delete it outright.