Is Shaadi Pic really free?

Yes. No paid tier, no trial, no credit card. The full feature set runs at $0. It was built as a tool for a friend's wedding and shared with everyone.

Will my wedding photos be uploaded anywhere?

No. Shaadi Pic uses the browser's File System Access API to open the folder directly from your drive. Nothing is sent to any server — you can verify this in your browser's network tab. You can even disconnect from wi-fi after the page loads and it will still work.

Which browsers and devices does it support — laptop, iPad, iPhone?

A laptop or desktop running Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, or Opera. Those browsers support the File System Access API, which is what lets Shaadi Pic read your wedding folder and write the picks back into it. Desktop Safari and Firefox are not supported yet. iPad and iPhone are not supported either — Apple does not let any browser on iOS walk a folder of photos, so a native iOS app is being built instead; you can join the waitlist from the home page.

Does Shaadi Pic handle iPhone HEIC photos and RAW files?

Yes. HEIC photos are decoded right in the browser. JPEG, PNG, and most RAW preview formats are supported too.

How many photos can it handle?

Thousands in one sitting — a typical Indian wedding delivery of 8,000 to 15,000+ photos across ceremony, sangeet, and reception folders works fine. Point it at the top-level wedding folder and it walks every subfolder for you, so nothing needs to be flattened first.

How do I send my picks back to my photographer?

A /selected subfolder is created inside the wedding folder you opened. Your originals stay untouched, and the filenames match, so your photographer can line them up against their own library. Zip that folder and email it or drop it in Drive.

Can I stop halfway and come back?

Yes. Progress is saved locally in your browser (IndexedDB). Close the tab, come back next weekend, and pick up exactly where you left off.

My photos are split across a lot of subfolders — do I need to flatten them first?

No. Point Shaadi Pic at the top-level wedding folder and it walks every subfolder for you — /raw, /jpegs, /ceremony, /reception, anything nested — and shows them as one continuous stream so you can pick without thinking about folder structure.

for the wedding album that's been waiting.

Shaadi Pic — finally pick the photos for your wedding album

It's been months. The folder is still on your desktop, the one called something like Wedding_Final_DELIVERY_v3, with ten thousand photos inside. Your mom keeps asking. Your photographer has stopped asking. Shaadi Pic is a free, local browser tool built for exactly this evening: sit on the couch with your partner and actually finish choosing the shaadi album photos.

It runs entirely in your browser. Your photos stay on your own laptop the whole time — nothing is uploaded, there is no account to make, and there is no charge. Open the folder, go through each photo with the arrow keys or a swipe, and the ones you keep land in a /selected subfolder you can zip and send back to your photographer. Most couples get through ten thousand photos in one evening.

Open your folder and start picking →
Free · 100% local · No sign-up · Today: Chrome / Edge / Brave / Arc on laptop, iPad & iPhone app coming soon.

Three quiet promises

No upload — photos never leave your laptop.
No AI guessing — every keep is your call, photo by photo.
Built by couples — by people who actually finished their own album.

From ten thousand down to the keepers

Most couples drown in the delivery folder their photographer hands them — 10,247 photos is a normal number for a two-day Indian wedding with a sangeet, haldi, and reception. Shaadi Pic is the floor you stand on: open the folder, go through it one evening, and what comes out the other side is a tight, printable set — usually 150 to 250 keepers — ready for the album and ready to share.

How it works

Nothing to install. Nothing to upload. You'll be picking within a minute of opening this page.

Open the folder. Point Shaadi Pic at the top wedding folder on your drive. It walks every subfolder inside — /raw, /jpegs, /ceremony, /reception — and pulls every photo into one stream. You don't have to flatten or organise anything first.
Go through each shot. Left arrow skips, right arrow keeps, Z undoes. Touch and click work too, so it's just as easy on a trackpad as it is with a mouse. Bring a glass of wine.
Send the keepers. Your picks land in a /selected subfolder inside your wedding folder — the wedding album photo selection for your photographer, ready to zip and send. Originals stay exactly where they were.

Why most couples never finish

Most couples never finish. Mine almost didn't. The folder is enormous, you're already wiped from wedding season, and Lightroom is the last place you want to be on a Tuesday night.

It doesn't take a weekend. Ten thousand photos sounds like a wall. It isn't. At roughly two seconds per photo, it's one evening with takeout and your partner, and you're done.

Your photos never move. Shaadi Pic opens the folder, shows you each shot, and remembers which ones you kept. Originals stay exactly where they are.

Privacy: they stay on your laptop

There's no server. No upload. No account. Shaadi Pic uses the browser's File System Access API to open the wedding folder directly from your drive. If you don't trust that, open your browser's network tab and watch nothing happen — it really is just your laptop and the photos you already have. You can even disconnect from wi-fi after the page loads and it keeps working.

A note for photographers

Tired of chasing couples for their picks? Send the couple the folder and this link. They'll finally sit down on a Saturday, go through it, and email you back a clean /selected folder — a straightforward wedding album photo selection for your photographer workflow, with no accounts, no upload limits, and nothing for them to install.

More on fitting it into an existing delivery workflow, and where a hosted proofing gallery is still the better tool: free client photo selection for wedding photographers.

Pricing: it's free. That's the whole pricing page.

No paid tier. No trial. No credit card. It was built for one wedding and shared so nobody else has to write the same tool. What you get, forever, at no cost:

Pick as many photos as you like
Unlimited folders, unlimited weddings
Keyboard shortcuts, touch, and click — all work
HEIC, JPEG, and RAW previews
Saves your progress so you can come back later
Updates included, forever

Shaadi Pic vs. the heavy tools

It's not Lightroom, and that's the point. If you're a working photographer running a studio, use the heavy tools. Shaadi Pic is the free, local option for couples who just want to finish.

Feature	Shaadi Pic	AfterShoot	FilterPixel	Lightroom
Price	Free	$10/mo+	$15/mo+	$10/mo+
Upload required	No	Yes	Yes	No
AI picks for you	No — you pick	Yes	Yes	No
Works offline	Yes	No	No	Yes
Built for couples	Yes	No	No	No

A note from the founder

Our photographer sent us 10,247 files and we just froze. Lightroom felt like another job. Every weekend we said "next weekend." Six months in, my mom stopped asking. Then the photographer stopped asking.

So one Saturday I built the thing I wished existed: open the folder, two arrow keys, done by Sunday morning. The shaadi album got printed. My mom cried.

If your folder is still sitting there, this is for you. It's free. It doesn't try to be Lightroom. It just helps you finish. — Harshit, finally done with our album.

Frequently asked questions

Is Shaadi Pic really free?: Yes. No paid tier, no trial, no credit card. The full feature set runs at $0. It was built as a tool for a friend's wedding and shared with everyone.
Will my wedding photos be uploaded anywhere?: No. Shaadi Pic uses the browser's File System Access API to open the folder directly from your drive. Nothing is sent to any server — you can verify this in your browser's network tab. You can even disconnect from wi-fi after the page loads and it will still work.
Which browsers and devices does it support — laptop, iPad, iPhone?: A laptop or desktop running Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, or Opera. Those browsers support the File System Access API, which is what lets Shaadi Pic read your wedding folder and write the picks back into it. Desktop Safari and Firefox are not supported yet. iPad and iPhone are not supported either — Apple does not let any browser on iOS walk a folder of photos, so a native iOS app is being built instead. You can join the waitlist from the home page.
Does Shaadi Pic handle iPhone HEIC photos and RAW files?: Yes. HEIC photos are decoded right in the browser. JPEG, PNG, and most RAW preview formats are supported too.
How many photos can it handle?: Thousands in one sitting — a typical Indian wedding delivery of 8,000 to 15,000+ photos across ceremony, sangeet, and reception folders works fine. Point it at the top-level wedding folder and it walks every subfolder for you, so nothing needs to be flattened first.
How do I send my picks back to my photographer?: On a laptop, a /selected subfolder is created inside the wedding folder you opened — your originals stay untouched, and filenames match so your photographer can match them back to their library. Zip that folder and email or share it back.
Can I stop halfway and come back?: Yes. Progress is saved locally in your browser (IndexedDB). Close the tab, come back next weekend, and pick up exactly where you left off.
My photos are split across a lot of subfolders — do I need to flatten them first?: No. Point Shaadi Pic at the top-level wedding folder and it walks every subfolder for you — /raw, /jpegs, /ceremony, /reception, anything nested — and shows them as one continuous stream so you can pick without thinking about folder structure.

Guides

How to select photos for your wedding album — the three-pass culling method, start to finish.
How many photos should be in a wedding album? — the numbers by album type, and why you hand over more than the album holds.
How to cull 10,000 wedding photos fast — the two-second rule, burst frames, and a realistic time budget.
Which wedding photos to keep — a checklist for mehendi, haldi, sangeet, baraat, pheras, vidaai and reception.
Printed album vs online gallery — what each is for, and why most couples want both.
How to send your picks to your photographer — filenames, folders versus lists, and the two mistakes that create a redo.
All wedding photo selection guides

Comparisons

Every way to pick album photos, compared — Google Photos, Lightroom, client galleries, your file browser, and this. Including where each one loses.
Using Google Photos to pick album photos — the storage cost, the upload time, and the compression trap.
A free Lightroom alternative for culling — flags versus keep-and-skip, and when Lightroom is still right.

For wedding photographers

Free client photo selection for wedding photographers — how to stop chasing couples for their album picks, and what to put in the message you send them.
The client photo selection workflow — a number, a deadline, and a delivery email you can copy.
A free Pixieset alternative for client picks — where client galleries win, and the narrow case where they do not.

Support

Frequently asked questions — cost, uploads, browsers, formats, and what your photographer gets back.
Privacy — exactly what is stored, what is sent, and how to verify it yourself.
Browser support — why it needs Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc or Opera on a laptop, and why iPhone and iPad cannot work.

Sit down. Open the folder. Finish the album.

Your photographer has stopped asking. Your partner keeps mentioning it on Sundays. The folder isn't going to open itself. Tonight is the evening you actually do it.

Open the app and start picking your shaadi album →

Built by Harshit Luthra. Questions: [email protected]