Xposure or Pic-Time.
Pic-Time is a strong delivery and print sales tool, but it doesn't offer client management or online session booking. Xposure is the all-in-one alternative: client galleries, a portfolio website, and a native bookings manager are all in one plan.
Xposure
Better if you want bookings, contracts and deposits in the same plan as your galleries.
- Booking, contract and deposit in one flow
- Camera and lens shown on every photo
- Your own domain on every paid plan
Pic-Time
Better if your income comes from print sales and you want automated sales emails.
- A wide lab network and an album designer
- Slideshow and abandoned-cart sales emails
- Several polished gallery templates
What does each plan cost per month?
Yearly billing, US dollars for both, by how much you store. Shorter is cheaper.
Monthly billing: Xposure $9 and $21, Pic-Time $8, $25 and $50. Source: pic-time.com/pricing.
How do Xposure and Pic-Time compare, feature by feature?
| Xposure | Pic-Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Galleries | ||
| Premium gallery design | Block builder with saved layouts | Multiple polished templates |
| PIN-protected client galleries | ||
| Watermarked previews, clean downloads | ||
| EXIF-aware photo presentation | No | |
| Selling | ||
| Built-in print store + lab fulfilment | Built in, through our print lab | |
| Marketing automations (slideshow emails, abandoned-cart) | No | |
| Sell digital downloads | ||
| Platform fee on digital and print sales | 0% on Pro & Studio, 10% on Starter (of your markup on prints) | 6% to 15% of your markup. 0% on Professional and Advanced if you collect payments yourself |
| Bookings | ||
| Online booking with deposits & contractsXposure's Studio Manager handles bookings, contracts, and deposits at no extra cost. Pic-Time has no built-in booking tool. | No | |
| Two-way Google Calendar sync | No | |
| Website | ||
| Custom domain | Every paid plan (from $9/mo) | Professional ($25/mo, or $21/mo billed annually) and up |
| Plans | ||
| Pricing modelXposure includes a booking manager in every paid plan (from $9/mo). Pic-Time focuses on delivery and sales, so bookings need a third-party tool like HoneyBook or Dubsado. | One plan with portfolio, galleries and bookings | Tiered storage plans, plus a separate booking tool |
Pic-Time pricing and plan details from their own pricing page. Competitor pricing changes, so treat this as a snapshot rather than a quote. For every plan and what each one includes, see the full Pic-Time pricing breakdown.
Built around selling prints
Pic-Time's automated sales campaigns, album designer and lab network exist to turn a delivered gallery into a second invoice. Photographers who work that way consistently report the subscription pays for itself, and nothing else in this category matches it for that job.
If you deliver digital files and have no intention of selling prints, you are paying for a storefront you will not open. That is the whole decision, and it is worth being honest with yourself about which of the two you are before comparing prices.
The entry price is lower than most comparisons say
Most write-ups quote Professional at $21 a month billed annually. The actual entry paid tier is Beginner at $8 a month, or $7 billed annually, with 20 GB, which is roughly one to two full wedding deliveries at typical export sizes.
Whether Beginner is enough comes down to how many galleries you keep online at once rather than how much you shoot in a year. Photographers who take galleries down after ninety days live on it comfortably; photographers who leave everything up do not.
Read the free plan carefully
Pic-Time advertises 10 GB free, and that drops to 3 GB after three months. If you are trialling it with a real wedding, the gallery will outlive the storage holding it.
It is a fine way to evaluate the product and a poor way to run a delivery workflow. Treat it as a demo rather than a plan.
Pic-Time against the others.
Moving galleries from another platform? Read how switching works, one gallery at a time.
Try it on your next client.
Fourteen days of Pro, no card. Move the rest once you have seen a gallery delivered.