Xposure vs ShootProof
ShootProof is the closest thing to a like-for-like alternative on this page: galleries, print and digital sales, a portfolio site, and client booking with contracts and retainers, all in one subscription. The differences are in how you are metered, what currency you are billed in, and how much of your sales you keep.
Quick verdict
ShootProof charges no commission on any plan, including its free one, which is hard to beat if selling is the centre of your business. Xposure is the better fit if you would rather budget in gigabytes than count how many photos are online, if you are billed in euros, and if you want EXIF-aware galleries and a full portfolio on the same flat plan.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Xposure | ShootProof |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (entry paid plan) Both are the annual-billing rate. | €8 ($9)/mo (Starter) | $10.99/mo (1,500 photos) |
| What the plan meters ShootProof also publishes an estimated GB capacity per plan, assuming a 50 MB maximum file size. | Storage in GB | Photos online at once |
| Capacity (entry paid plan) ShootProof leads on raw capacity at the entry tier. | 20 GB (Starter) | 1,500 photos, up to 75 GB |
| Billed in | EUR in Europe, USD elsewhere | USD |
| Platform fee on digital and print sales ShootProof takes no commission even on its free tier. This is their strongest card. | 0% on Pro & Studio, 10% on Starter (of your markup on prints) | 0% on every plan |
| Unlimited client galleries | ||
| PIN or password protected galleries | ||
| Proofing and favourites | ||
| Watermarked previews, clean downloads | ||
| Online booking with contracts & retainers Both let a client pick a slot, sign, and pay a retainer in one flow. | ||
| Google Calendar integration | ||
| Public photographer portfolio | Full portfolio site | Simple no-code portfolio site |
| Galleries on your own domain ShootProof points a subdomain such as galleries.yourname.com at its servers rather than serving a root domain. | Every paid plan | Custom subdomain |
| Print lab fulfilment ShootProof integrates with several professional print labs. Xposure prints are made and shipped by our lab partner, at the prices you set. | Built in, through our print lab | |
| EXIF-aware photo presentation Camera, lens, and settings rendered automatically on every photo. | - | |
| Free tier | 1 GB, unlimited photos in storage | 100 photos, up to 5 GB |
ShootProof pricing and plan details checked on 2026-09-17 against 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 ShootProof pricing breakdown.
Photo counts, not gigabytes
ShootProof is the one major platform that bills by how many photos you store rather than how many bytes they take up. Each tier pairs a photo allowance with a storage ceiling, so a plan can run out on either count.
This inverts the usual maths. If you deliver a modest number of large files, ShootProof is cheap. If you deliver thousands of small JPEGs, the photo cap bites long before the storage does. Count your annual delivered images, not your export folder size, before comparing this against a platform selling you gigabytes.
The most generous fee structure here
ShootProof charges 0% commission on every plan, including the free one. Almost everyone else reserves 0% for paid tiers and takes a cut on free, so this is a real difference rather than a marketing line.
For a photographer selling prints at low volume, that makes ShootProof's free tier genuinely usable rather than a funnel. The catch is the size of it: 100 photos and 5 GB is one small portrait session, not a wedding.
Where we differ
ShootProof is the closest like-for-like alternative to Xposure in scope, and we would not pretend otherwise. Both cover galleries, sales and the business side on one subscription.
The differences are narrow and specific: we meter gigabytes rather than photo counts, we bill Europe in euros rather than dollars, and we render camera and exposure data on every image automatically. If none of those three matter to you, ShootProof is a good product and its track record is longer than ours.
Pick ShootProof when
Where ShootProof pulls ahead
- Print and digital sales are the centre of your business and you want 0% commission from the very first plan, including the free tier.
- You want to choose your print lab yourself from several partner labs.
- You archive aggressively and keep few galleries live, so a photo count is a cheaper unit than gigabytes.
- You are billed in dollars and would rather not carry a currency conversion.
Pick Xposure when
You want the cleanest delivery
- You would rather budget in gigabytes than track how many photos are online at once.
- You are in Europe and want to be billed in euros at a price that does not move with the exchange rate.
- You want camera, lens, and settings rendered automatically on every photo.
- You want galleries served from your own domain rather than a subdomain pointed elsewhere.
- You sell digital packages and want 0% commission from €18 ($21) a month, with bookings and contracts included at that price.
ShootProof compared with other platforms, without us in the middle: ShootProof vs Pixieset, CloudSpot vs ShootProof, and picdrop vs ShootProof.
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