Backup proof you can verify.
Every event photo app eventually shuts down — servers go dark, companies get acquired, pricing changes overnight. Galeira is built around the only question that matters at year five: where are my photos now? Our answer is to keep them in a cloud you already own.
What permanence actually looks like, one year at a time.
The night of the event.
Guests scan the QR code. Photos appear on the wall within seconds. When backup is connected, approved uploads copy to your own cloud folder — not only to ours. By the end of the night, your archive can already exist in two places.
Two copies · same nightYou wake up. The archive is ready.
The slideshow link still works. Your cloud folder is filling in, sorted by time — assuming backup was connected the night before. The files there are the full-resolution originals — the same bytes your guests uploaded, never recompressed.
Full resolution · in your cloudA year goes by.
The gallery link still opens. And even if you never sign in to Galeira again, approved mirrored photos remain in your own Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, S3, or WebDAV — exactly where they landed after backup.
No subscription · still yoursThe apps change. Your mirrored photos don't.
Five years on, the event-app landscape has turned over more than once — that is simply what this industry does. If you connected a cloud destination, your mirrored photos are outside Galeira's account, because they were never ours alone to lose.
No lock-inThe decade mark.
Ten years on, the folder is wherever you connected it. Files remain in your connected cloud account — because the design was a mirror to a cloud you own, not a database we hold.
Mirrored to a cloud you ownEven if we're gone.
If Galeira shut down tomorrow, the approved originals you mirrored to a connected cloud account would not move — they sit in an account only you control. That is the design.
Yours, with or without usThings we will never do, no matter what.
- We will never delete a photo without your explicit request — except where required by law (DMCA takedowns, court orders) or to remove abusive content. In those rare cases we'll email you with the specific reason.
- We will never re-encode or downsample your originals. The bytes you upload are the bytes we mirror.
- We will never put photos you have already collected behind a new paywall after your event.
- We will never sell, license, or use your photos to train models — not now, not later, not under new ownership.
- If Galeira ever shuts down, our intent is to tell you plainly — and approved photos will already be in the cloud account you connected.
If Galeira shuts down.
Event photo apps shut down — they get acquired, they pivot, they quietly switch off. We would rather be plain about what happens to your photos if that day comes for us than pretend it cannot.
We are not promising Galeira will last indefinitely. We are promising that approved photos are mirrored to your connected cloud account so they do not depend on us.
Mirrored to a cloud you own. That's the deal.
One event. One payment. No subscription keeping the lights on.