Xposure or Picflow.
Picflow is a modern proofing and digital-asset-management tool built for the review-and-approval workflow, not for selling or booking. Xposure combines a public portfolio, client galleries, digital sales, and a booking manager in one platform.
Xposure
Better if you want a portfolio, sales and bookings next to your galleries.
- A public portfolio, not only private proofing
- Sell downloads and prints from the gallery
- Booking, contract and deposit in one flow
Picflow
Better if you only need proofing and approval, with a lot of storage.
- 100 GB on the entry paid plan, against 25 GB
- Built for commercial review and approval
- No store or booking to set up
What does each plan cost per month?
Yearly billing, US dollars for both, by how much you store. Shorter is cheaper.
Studio includes team logins. Monthly billing: Xposure $21 and $52, Picflow $15, $24 and $179. Source: picflow.com/pricing.
How do Xposure and Picflow compare, feature by feature?
| Xposure | Picflow | |
|---|---|---|
| Galleries | ||
| Client galleries with proofing | ||
| EXIF-aware photo presentation | No | |
| Targeted at | Wedding & portrait photographers | Commercial/agency review & approval workflows |
| Selling | ||
| Sell digital prints & downloads (0% commission on Pro & Studio)Picflow has no built-in e-commerce or print sales. | No | |
| Bookings | ||
| Online booking with deposits & contracts | No | |
| Website | ||
| Public photographer portfolio / websitePicflow is a private proofing tool, not a public portfolio site. | No | |
| Custom domain | Every paid plan | Pro plan & up |
| Plans | ||
| Starting price (entry paid plan) | $9/mo (Starter) | $15/mo, or $12/mo billed annually (Plus) |
| Storage (entry paid plan)Picflow leads here at the entry paid tier. | 25 GB (Starter) | 100 GB (Plus) |
| Free tier storageXposure leads here on the free plan. | 5 GB | 2 GB |
| Number of client galleries | Unlimited on every paid plan | Unlimited on every plan |
Picflow 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 Picflow pricing breakdown.
Proofing, not delivery
Picflow is a review tool for creative approval workflows: commercial and editorial work where a client marks up selects before anything is finished. It is genuinely good at that, and its storage tiers are generous because working files are large.
It has no store, no public portfolio and no booking. For a wedding or portrait photographer it is not a Pixieset or Xposure replacement, whatever the comparison posts say, because the job it does is a different job.
Storage is where it wins
Picflow's entry paid tier includes 100 GB, which is more than our Starter plan and more than most gallery platforms give you several tiers up. If your bottleneck is raw capacity for work in progress, that is a real advantage.
The trade is that the capacity is aimed at files under review rather than galleries you keep online for clients to revisit, and the product is shaped accordingly.
If you do both jobs
Plenty of photographers proof and deliver. Done with Picflow, that is two subscriptions: one for the review round and one for the finished gallery and any sales.
Our proofing is built into the same gallery the client eventually downloads from, with a separate guest PIN so family can view without changing the selection. Less capable than Picflow at pure review; one bill instead of two.
Picflow 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.