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Anthology is a native iOS and Android app for capturing the photos and video of an event from everyone who is there. The idea is simple: a collection of perspectives, captured by everyone present. Instead of one camera, the whole room contributes, and Anthology brings it together into a single curated album for the host.

It is built for weddings and private events: receptions, parties, multi-day celebrations, and brand activations.

How it works

• The host creates the event on the web at anthologystudios.com.
• Guests join by scanning a QR code or tapping an invite link. No account is needed, and guests can stay anonymous; a phone one-time code signs them in invisibly.
• During the event, guests capture photos and video in the app. A copy also saves to their phone camera roll, so each guest keeps their own.
• Anthology's AI curates the contributions, grouping faces, scoring quality, removing duplicates, and sorting photos into moments such as the ceremony, the first dance, or the toasts.
• The host reviews, approves, and locks the album, then chooses when it is revealed.

Who pays

Guests never pay. Our plans and billing are being updated — contact support for current details.

Curation, with the host in control

The AI does the sorting so the host reviews a curated set rather than thousands of raw frames. The host stays in charge throughout: reviewing, approving, hiding, and locking the album. On Premium tiers, an editorially curated highlight set and a natural-language way to search the finished album become available.

Private by design

Anthology is privacy-forward. We never sell your data. Face grouping, quality scoring, and duplicate detection run on the device by default. Marketing email is opt-in only, so you will never receive one without signing up; account and transactional messages are always delivered. You can delete a photo, or your data, on your own, and deletion is completed within 24 hours.

Anthology gathers the photos and video that everyone captures at your event into a single, curated album. A collection of perspectives, captured by everyone present. The host sets up the event, guests capture in the app, Anthology curates, and the album is revealed on the host's schedule.

The arc, end to end

• The host creates the event on the web. The host sets up and prepares the event at anthologystudios.com.
• Guests join by QR code or link. A guest scans a QR code or taps an invite link, lands on a branded event page, agrees to a short participation consent, confirms they are 13 or older, and installs the app. No account is required. A phone one-time code signs them in invisibly, and they may stay anonymous.
• Guests capture during the event. The in-app camera handles photo and video. Captures also save to the guest's own camera roll, so everyone keeps a personal copy.
• Anthology curates. The app groups faces, scores quality, removes duplicates, and sorts photos into moments such as Ceremony or First Dance, so the host reviews a curated set instead of thousands of raw frames.
• The album is revealed. The host chooses when guests see it: during the event, after a delay, or hidden until released. A notification goes out when it opens.

The host stays in control

The host reviews, approves, hides, and locks the album. A pre-publish summary shows counts before anything is shared. The host can re-tag moments, and a coverage-gap nudge can flag a moment with little footage so the host can ask guests for more.

What it costs

Guests never pay. Our plans and billing are being updated — contact support for current details.

Privacy by design

We never sell your data. Face grouping, quality scoring, and duplicate detection run on the device by default, and Anthology works from mathematical face embeddings rather than stored copies of your face. Marketing email is opt-in only; you will never receive it without signing up. A single tap removes a photo, and deletion is completed within 24 hours across live storage and backups.

Anthology is for the host of a gathering who wants every guest's perspective on the day, captured by everyone present rather than by a single camera. The host creates an event, guests capture photos and video in the app, Anthology's AI curates, and the finished album is revealed. It is built for weddings and private events where the moments worth keeping are spread across the whole room.

Who hosts with Anthology

• Weddings, including multi-day and destination celebrations held across more than one gathering.
• Milestone celebrations — birthdays, anniversaries, and other private occasions.
• Mitzvahs and family ceremonies.
• Brand activations and corporate events, including agency-run and white-label or branded experiences.
• Galleries and hospitality venues bringing guests into a shared record of an evening.

The host without a second photographer's burden

Anthology is for the host who wants the coverage of many cameras without managing any of them. Guests join by scanning a QR code or tapping a link. No account is required; a phone one-time code signs them in, and they can stay anonymous. The host stays in control of the album — reviewing, approving, hiding, and locking it — while the AI does the sorting.

For people who care how their photos are handled

Anthology is also for hosts and guests who want a privacy-forward approach. We never sell your data. Face grouping, quality scoring, and duplicate detection run on the device by default. Marketing email is opt-in only — you will never receive one without explicitly signing up. A single tap removes a photo, with deletion completed within 24 hours.

Pricing

Guests never pay. Our plans and billing are being updated — contact support for current details.

A shared album collects every frame in one place and leaves the sorting to you. Anthology does the opposite: everyone present captures the event, and Anthology curates the result into a finished album. The belief behind it is simple — a collection of perspectives, captured by everyone present.

If you have used a shared Google Photos or iCloud album for an event, you already know the pattern. Hundreds or thousands of photos arrive in no particular order. Duplicates, blurry shots, and accidental frames sit alongside the moments worth keeping. The host is left to sift. Anthology is built to remove that work, and to do it with privacy as a default rather than an afterthought.

What Anthology adds

• AI curation. Anthology clusters faces, scores photos for quality (sharpness, eyes open), and removes duplicates, so you review a curated set instead of every raw frame. You stay in control — reviewing, approving, hiding, and locking the album.
• Moments. Photos are grouped into moments such as Ceremony, First Dance, and Toasts. A coverage-gap nudge can flag a moment with little coverage so you can ask guests for more.
• Find yourself. Finding photos of yourself is self-initiated and opt-in. Only you can search for photos of you.
• A designed reveal. You choose when guests see the album — during the event, after a delay, or hidden until you release it. A shared album simply fills up in real time.
• A shared storage pool. Each event has a fixed storage cap shared across the whole event, shown in plain terms (for example, megabytes used plus a photo-equivalent). A shared album has no shape.

Privacy by design

This is where Anthology differs most. We never sell your data. Face grouping, quality scoring, and duplicate detection run on the device by default; cloud-based face matching is a separate, explicit opt-in. Deleting a photo is real — a single tap purges it from live storage and backups within 24 hours. Uploading auto-stops when the event window closes, so contributors are never silently uploading. Marketing email is opt-in only; you will never receive one without signing up.

Joining and cost

Guests join by scanning a QR code or tapping a link. No account is required — an invisible phone one-time code signs them in, and they can stay anonymous. Guests never pay. Our plans and billing are being updated — contact support for current details. Both photo and video are supported from day one.

We're updating our plans and billing. For current pricing, plans, refunds, or subscription questions, please contact support.

We're updating our plans and billing. For current pricing, plans, refunds, or subscription questions, please contact support.

Ask your album, also called Memory, lets you search a finished album in plain language instead of scrolling through every photo. It is included on Premium tiers and above, and it becomes available at general availability in mid-2026, not on day one.

What it does

Once an album is curated and revealed, you can ask for what you want to find. For example:

• "Show me the first kiss"
• "The best photos of me"
• "Find the toasts"

Memory reads the moment and the people already organized by Anthology's curation and returns matching photos. It is a way to search and recall what is in the album. It does not edit, re-curate, or generate anything.

Who can use it

Memory is read-only. The host has access, and the host can invite one curator who also has read-only access. It does not change what guests can see in the revealed album.

Which plans include it

Memory is available on Premium tiers and above — Premium Event Pack, Premium Multi-Day Destination, and Premium Brand (Brand Activation). Our plans and billing are being updated — contact support for current details.

A note on finding yourself

Finding photos of yourself is self-initiated and opt-in. Only you can search for photos of yourself; the host cannot search the album for a specific guest by face. We work from mathematical face embeddings, not stored copies of your face, and we never sell your data.

We're updating our plans and billing. For current pricing, plans, refunds, or subscription questions, please contact support.

Guests never pay. We're updating our plans and billing. For current pricing, plans, refunds, or subscription questions, please contact support.

We're updating our plans and billing. For current pricing, plans, refunds, or subscription questions, please contact support.

Anthology protects your privacy by keeping you in control of your photos and your data. We never sell your information. Most of the intelligence in the app runs on your own device. And when you delete something, it is genuinely gone.

Here are the commitments behind that promise.

We never sell your data

We do not sell your information to anyone. We do not share your personal information outside our first-party ecosystem unless you explicitly opt in. The companies that help us run the service operate under data-processing agreements, cannot use your data for their own purposes, and are not data buyers.

The AI runs on your device by default

Face grouping, photo-quality scoring, and duplicate detection run on your own phone, not in the cloud. We work from mathematical face embeddings, not stored copies of your face. Cloud-based face matching is a separate, explicitly opt-in upgrade with its own consent dialog. Consent is always explicit, and you can delete your face data.

Deletion is real, within 24 hours

A single tap in My Contributions removes a photo. Deletion purges live storage and backups, with no soft-delete and no leftover thumbnails. Uncurated raw photos auto-delete after 90 days unless the host chooses to keep them. You can also delete your account in Settings in a few taps, completed within 24 hours.

Marketing is opt-in only

You will never receive a marketing email without explicitly signing up. There are three independent marketing consent toggles, each separately revocable. Account and transactional emails are always delivered.

Uploads stay bounded to the event

Uploading stops automatically when the event window closes. Layered pause controls mean contributors are never silently uploading in the background.

Photo access stays surgical

The app needs camera access to capture photos and video. It does not require full access to your photo library. Captures save to your camera roll so you keep a personal copy. Notifications are optional and requested only after your first capture. Finding yourself is self-initiated and opt-in: only you can search for photos of yourself.

Your data rights

We support GDPR and CCPA. You can access, export, correct, delete, and opt out of the use of your data. You can export your photos and a copy of your data, and request deletion, from within the app. We rely on carefully vetted service providers in a few categories — authentication, cloud storage, payments, email and notifications, and analytics — each bound by a data-processing agreement. For details on the specific vendors in any category, contact our privacy team.

Your photos are seen by the people at your event, on the host's terms, and you stay in control of your own contributions. The host curates the album and decides when it is revealed. You can hide or delete anything you have added.

What the host can see

The host of your event sees the contributions and uses them to build the album. Anthology's AI groups photos into moments, scores quality, and removes duplicates, so the host reviews a curated set rather than thousands of raw frames. The host reviews, approves, hides, and locks the album, then publishes it.

The host cannot search the album for a specific guest by face. Finding photos of yourself is something only you can do, and only if you choose to.

What other guests can see

Guests see the finished album according to the host's reveal settings. The host can reveal it during the event, after a delay, or keep it hidden until released. A notification goes out when the album opens.

What you control

Your contributions are yours to manage. In My Contributions, a single tap removes a photo, and deletion is real: within 24 hours it is purged from live storage and backups, with no soft-delete and no leftover thumbnails. You can also hide a contribution so it does not appear in the published album.

Privacy you can count on

• We never sell your data.
• On-device by default. Face grouping, quality scoring, and duplicate detection run on your phone. Cloud-based face matching is a separate, explicitly opt-in upgrade with its own consent step.
• Face data is mathematical, not a stored copy of your face, and you can delete it.
• Marketing email is opt-in only. You will never receive marketing email without signing up; account and transactional messages are always delivered.

Photos that may include minors

Guests confirm they are 13 or older. Face clusters the system infers may be of minors are hidden from the published album by default and visible to the host only. The host can choose to include them.

Sharing beyond the event

The host may share a read-only web album with people who were not present, using a share link that can be password-protected. Whether your contributions appear there depends on the curated album the host publishes, which you can shape by hiding or deleting your own photos.

Face-Finder lets you find photos of yourself in an event album. It is self-initiated: only you can search for photos of you, and only after you choose to turn it on. The host cannot search the album for a specific guest by face. This asymmetry is by design.

On-device by default

By default, the app groups faces, scores photo quality, and detects duplicates directly on your device. Anthology works from mathematical face embeddings, not stored copies of your face. Your consent is explicit, and you can delete your face data at any time.

Enhanced matching is a separate opt-in

Cloud-based face matching is a separate upgrade with its own consent dialog. It is never on by default. If you do not opt in, your face matching stays on your device.

Why only you can find yourself

Finding yourself is something you start. The host reviews, approves, and curates the album, but the host cannot run a face search to surface one guest. Face Finder works for you, on your request, not as a way for anyone else to locate you.

Your privacy

• We never sell your data. We do not share your personal information outside our first-party ecosystem, except with the sub-processors that run the service and, only with your explicit opt-in, with your event organizer and the Anthology brand portfolio.
• Real deletion. A single tap in My Contributions removes a photo. Deletion purges live storage and backups within 24 hours, with no leftover thumbnails.
• Marketing is opt-in only. You will never receive a marketing email without signing up. Account and transactional emails are always delivered.

You can review or remove your face data, and you can download or delete your data from Settings at any time.

Anthology works from mathematical face embeddings, not stored copies of your face. An embedding is a set of numbers that represents the patterns in a face. It is not a photograph of you and it cannot be read back as one.

How face grouping works

By default, the work of grouping faces happens on your device, not in the cloud. Your phone looks at the photos, groups the ones that appear to show the same person, and scores image quality. This helps the host review a curated set quickly instead of thousands of raw frames.

Cloud-based face matching is a separate, optional upgrade. It is never automatic. It turns on only if you explicitly opt in through its own consent dialog.

Consent is explicit

You agree to participate before you capture anything, and any feature that goes beyond on-device grouping asks for your consent first. Nothing about your face is processed in the cloud unless you have chosen it.

Finding photos of yourself

Finding yourself in an album is self-initiated. Only you can search for photos of yourself. The host cannot search the album for a specific guest by face.

You can delete it

Face data is deletable. You can remove your contributions and your data at any time. A single tap in My Contributions removes a photo, and deletion purges live storage and backups within 24 hours, with no soft-delete and no leftover thumbnails. You can also use Download my data to export your photos and a copy of your data, and delete your account from Settings.

What we will and will not do

• We never sell your data.
• Marketing email is opt-in only. You will never receive a marketing email unless you sign up for it.
• Service providers that help run the app operate under data-processing agreements and are never permitted to use your data for their own purposes.

A note on minors

Guests confirm they are 13 or older. Face groups the system infers may show a minor are hidden from the public album by default and visible only to the host, who can choose whether to include them.

You can delete any photo you contributed at any time, and Anthology removes it within 24 hours. There is no soft-delete: deletion purges the photo from live storage and from backups, with no leftover thumbnails. Below is how retention and deletion work across your contributions, raw photos, the finished album, and your account.

Deleting your own contributions

In My Contributions, a single tap removes a photo you captured. The removal completes within 24 hours and purges both live storage and backups. Finding photos of yourself is self-initiated and opt-in, and the controls over your own contributions stay with you.

Raw photos auto-delete after 90 days

Uncurated raw photos are kept for 90 days and then automatically deleted. If the host wants to retain the originals beyond that window, they can add Keep Raws; contact support for current pricing. Without Keep Raws, the raws are removed after 90 days as a matter of course.

The curated album

The finished, curated album is retained for as long as album hosting is active. How long hosting and retention last is being updated — contact support for current details.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account yourself in Settings. It takes a few taps and a type-to-confirm step, and completes within 24 hours. Where the law requires us to keep a record of consent, that record is anonymized rather than deleted, so it can no longer be tied to you.

Your broader data rights

Anthology supports GDPR and CCPA rights, including access, export, correction, deletion, and opt-out. You can export your photos and a copy of your data from within the app, or exercise these rights through our privacy contact.

What we will not do

We never sell your data. Marketing email is opt-in only, with separate toggles you can revoke at any time, so you will never receive marketing without signing up for it. Account and transactional emails are always delivered.

Under the GDPR, you have a set of rights over your personal data, and Anthology Studios supports each of them. The same rights are available under CCPA for residents of applicable regions. You can exercise most of them yourself, from the app, in a few taps.

Your rights

• Access — see the personal data we hold about you.
• Portability — receive a copy of your data in a portable format.
• Rectification — correct information that is wrong or out of date.
• Erasure — delete your photos and your account.
• Objection and opt-out — opt out of optional processing, including marketing.

How to exercise them

Download my data. You can export your photos and a copy of your data from within the app. This covers your access and portability rights.

Delete your account. Self-service account deletion lives in Settings. It takes a few taps and a type-to-confirm step, and it completes within 24 hours. Deletion removes a photo from live storage and from backups, with no soft-delete and no leftover thumbnails. Where the law requires us to keep a consent record, that record is anonymized rather than deleted.

Correct or object. For rectification, or to object to a specific use of your data, contact our privacy team. Marketing is opt-in only, so you will never receive a marketing email unless you sign up, and each marketing consent can be revoked independently. Account and transactional messages are always delivered.

CCPA and Global Privacy Control

If you are covered by CCPA, you hold equivalent rights to know, delete, correct, and opt out, and you exercise them the same way. On the web, you can manage these choices through our consent manager.

What we do not do

We never sell your data. We work from mathematical face embeddings rather than stored copies of your face, and face grouping runs on your device by default. If you ever have a question about your data, in-app Help is in Settings.

Everyone who joins an event confirms they are 13 or older before they can take part, and any faces the system infers may belong to a minor are hidden from the public album by default. The host stays in control of what is shown.

The 13+ confirmation

To join an event, a guest scans a QR code or taps an invite link, lands on the event page, and agrees to a short participation consent that includes confirming they are 13 or older. This keeps the app in line with children's privacy law (COPPA). There is no account to create and no password to set; sign-in happens invisibly with a phone one-time code.

How minors appear in the album

Anthology's curation groups photos by the faces it recognizes. When the system infers that a face cluster may belong to a minor, that cluster is hidden from the public album by default and visible to the host only.

The host can choose to include those photos in the album. Until the host does so, they stay out of what guests see. This gives families a deliberate, considered choice rather than an automatic one.

What stays private

Face grouping runs on the device by default, and Anthology works from mathematical face embeddings rather than stored copies of anyone's face. Cloud-based face matching is a separate, explicitly opt-in upgrade with its own consent step.

We never sell your data. Marketing email is opt-in only, so no one is contacted because they appeared in an event. Any photo can be removed with a single tap, and the deletion is real: it purges live storage and backups within 24 hours.

If you have a concern

Hosts and guests can reach support from in-app Help under Settings. Photos can be deleted at any time, and a guest who wants to leave an event can do so from their contributions.

Moments are how Anthology organizes your album. As guests capture photos and video, Anthology groups them into named moments, such as Ceremony, First Dance, or Toasts, so the finished album reads as a sequence rather than thousands of loose frames.

How moments are formed

Anthology curates automatically. It scores photos for quality, sets duplicates aside, and groups the rest into moments. You review a curated set rather than every raw frame, and you stay in control throughout: you approve, hide, and lock the album when it is ready.

Re-tagging a moment

The grouping is a starting point, not a verdict. If a photo lands under the wrong moment, you can re-tag it. Every event has its own rhythm, and you decide how the story is told.

Coverage-gap nudges

If a moment has little or no coverage, a coverage-gap nudge can flag it. This gives you a chance to ask guests for more before the album is finished, so no key part of the day is left thin.

What you see before publishing

A pre-publish summary shows the counts that matter, including the total number of photos, photos with no faces, quality-flagged photos, and any photos a contributor has chosen to hide. Borderline photos sit in a holding set for a second look. When you are satisfied, you explicitly lock the album. A lock is reversible by support for a short window of about seven days.

Your privacy stays intact

Face grouping and quality scoring run on the device by default. We never sell your data. Marketing email is opt-in only, so organizing your album never signs you up for anything.

Curation means you review a curated set, not thousands of raw frames. After your event, Anthology automatically sorts the photos by quality, removes duplicates, and groups them into moments, so you can approve a finished album quickly while staying in control of every decision.

What the AI does first

Before you open the album, Anthology does the sorting:

• Scores quality. It checks for sharpness and whether eyes are open, then surfaces the strongest frames.
• Removes duplicates. Near-identical shots are collapsed so you are not reviewing the same moment ten times.
• Groups into moments. Photos are organized into moments such as Ceremony, First Dance, or Toasts. You can re-tag a moment if something belongs elsewhere.

The holding set for borderline photos

Photos that are not clearly in or out are kept in a holding set for a second look, rather than discarded. You decide whether each one belongs in the album. Nothing is deleted on your behalf during review.

Your review

You stay in control throughout. You can approve, hide, and reorganize photos. Before you publish, a summary shows you the counts that matter, including total photos, photos with no faces, quality-flagged photos, and any a contributor has hidden, so there are no surprises.

Locking the album

When the album is ready, you explicitly lock it. A lock is reversible by support for a short window of about seven days, in case you need to make a change after finalizing. You also choose when guests see the album: during the event, after a delay, or hidden until you release it.

Your privacy

Face grouping, quality scoring, and duplicate detection run on the device by default. We never sell your data. Cloud-based face matching is a separate, explicitly opt-in upgrade with its own consent dialog.

You invite guests by sharing your event's QR code or invite link. Guests scan the code or tap the link, land on your event's branded page, agree to a short participation consent, confirm they are 13 or older, install the app, and begin capturing. No account is required.

How guests join

Every event has a QR code and an invite link. Both lead to the same place: a branded event landing page. Print the QR code on a sign or card, drop the link into a group chat or invitation, or send an optional SMS invite. Guests choose whichever is easiest.

Once on the landing page, a guest confirms they are 13 or older, agrees to the participation consent, and installs the app. Sign-in happens invisibly through a one-time code sent to their phone. There is no password to create and no account to set up. Guests may stay anonymous, and guests never pay.

Guest limits

Each plan includes a fixed number of guests; your event's allowance is set by your plan. Our plans are being updated — contact support for current guest limits.

Sharing the finished album

To share with people who were not present, use the read-only web album viewer. It produces a share link that you can optionally password-protect, so friends and family who could not attend still see the finished album. They do not need the app.

You decide when guests see the album: during the event, after a delay, or hidden until you release it. A reveal notification goes out when it opens.

Privacy

We never sell your data. Marketing email is opt-in only, so you and your guests will never receive one without explicitly signing up. Account and transactional messages are always delivered.

You decide when guests see the finished album. As the host, you control the reveal: it can open during the event, open automatically after the event with a delay you set, or stay hidden until you release it by hand.

Choosing when the album opens

There are three reveal options:

• During the event — guests see photos as they are captured and curated, so the album builds in real time.
• After the event, with a delay — the album opens automatically once a set period has passed after the event window closes. You can choose a preset delay, such as 12 or 24 hours, or set a custom one.
• Hidden until you release it — the album stays private until you choose to open it. This suits hosts who want to review and lock the curated set first.

Before any reveal, you stay in control of the album. Anthology AI pre-sorts photos by quality and groups them into moments, and you review, approve, hide, and lock the set. The album opens to guests only on the timing you set.

The reveal notification

When the album opens, guests receive a reveal notification letting them know it is ready to view. Notifications are optional for each guest and are only requested after their first capture, so not every guest will have them enabled.

Sharing beyond the guests

To share the finished album with people who were not at the event, you can open a read-only web album viewer. This is a share link to a viewing-only version of the album. You can optionally protect the link with a password.

The web viewer is for sharing the completed album outside the event. Capturing photos and video still happens only in the app, during the event window, by guests who joined.

A note on privacy

You control who sees the album and when. We never sell your data. Marketing email is opt-in only — you will never receive one without explicitly signing up, while account and transactional messages are always delivered.

For a wedding weekend or a multi-day celebration, the Premium Multi-Day Destination tier is built to cover the whole arc. Storage and a guest allowance are shared across the weekend, and guests never pay. Our plans and billing are being updated — contact support for current details.

Up to four events, together

Premium Multi-Day Destination supports up to four events. A welcome dinner, the ceremony, the reception, and a farewell brunch can each be their own event while living under one structure. The storage and guest allowance are shared across all of them rather than counted separately for each day.

How the shared allowance works

• The total storage is pooled across every event in the weekend.
• The guest allowance is shared as well, so a guest who attends more than one day is counted within the same pool.
• Each contributor's capture is drawn from the event's shared storage total and shown in-app in megabytes plus a photo-equivalent (for example, "180 of 200 MB used, ~12 photos left").
• The universal limit of 100 MB per file applies. Photo and video are both supported; video is 1080p, capped by file size rather than by length.

Day-by-day or cumulative viewing

Each event keeps its own album, so the weekend can be reviewed and revealed day by day, or viewed together as one collection. As host, you choose when guests see each album: during the event, after a delay, or hidden until you release it. A reveal notification goes out when an album opens.

What is included on this tier

Premium Multi-Day Destination is a Premium tier, so it includes Ask Your Album natural-language search (read-only for the host and an invited curator, available at general availability in mid-2026) and an editorially curated highlight set, the Curator's Cut. AI curation clusters faces, scores quality, and groups photos into moments across each event, while you stay in control of what is approved, hidden, and locked.

Getting set up

We never sell your data, and marketing email is opt-in only. Our plans and billing are being updated — contact support for current details.

If your celebration runs to more than four distinct events, or you are planning a branded activation, contact support to discuss the right fit.

Premium Brand is the Anthology tier built for brand and agency activations, including white-label and branded experiences. Guests never pay. Our plans and billing are being updated — contact support for current details.

What you get

Storage is a fixed total cap shared across the entire event. The app shows usage in megabytes plus a photo-equivalent (for example, "180 of 200 MB used, ~12 photos left"), so contributors always know how much space remains in the shared pool. There is a universal 100 MB maximum per file. Photo and video are both supported; video is 1080p, capped by file size rather than duration. There is no unlimited option on any axis.

How an activation works

You create the event on the web at anthologystudios.com. Guests join by scanning a QR code or tapping an invite link, which opens a branded event landing page; they agree to a participation consent, confirm they are 13 or older, install the app, and capture. Sign-in is invisible, through a phone one-time code, so no account is required. During the event, guests capture photos and video, Anthology's AI curates, and you choose when the album is revealed.

Curated deliverables

Anthology automatically groups photos into moments, scores quality, and removes duplicates, so you review a curated set rather than thousands of raw frames. Premium tiers and above, including Premium Brand, receive an editorially curated highlight set, the Curator's Cut. A printed photobook may be available as an add-on — contact support for details. You can also share the finished album through a read-only web viewer, with an optional password, for people who were not present.

Privacy and control

You stay in control throughout: review, approve, hide, and lock the album, and choose the reveal timing. We never sell your data. Face grouping and quality scoring run on the device by default; cloud-based face matching is a separate, explicitly opt-in upgrade. Marketing email is opt-in only, with separately revocable consent toggles. Account and transactional email is always delivered.

Support

Support runs through the knowledge base and Fin, our AI support agent, which handles requests directly. Our plans and billing are being updated — contact support for current details.

To join an event, scan the host's QR code or tap their invite link. That opens the event's landing page, where you agree to a short participation consent and confirm you are 13 or older. Then you install the Anthology app and start capturing. There is no account to create, and you never pay anything as a guest.

How joining works

• Scan or tap. Use your phone camera to scan the QR code, or tap the invite link the host shared.
• Open the event page. The link opens a branded landing page for that specific event.
• Agree and confirm. You agree to a participation consent and confirm you are at least 13 years old.
• Install the app. Anthology is a native app for iOS and Android.
• Capture. Use the in-app camera to take photos and video during the event.

Signing in

Sign-in is invisible. You confirm your phone number with a one-time code, and that is all. There is no password and no account setup. You can stay anonymous if you prefer.

What it costs you

Nothing. Guests never pay.

Your copies and your privacy

Everything you capture in the app also saves to your phone's camera roll, so you keep your own copies. The app needs camera access to capture. It does not require full access to your photo library. Notifications are optional and are only requested after your first capture.

We never sell your data. Face grouping, photo quality scoring, and duplicate detection run on your device by default. You can remove any photo you contributed with a single tap in My Contributions, and the deletion is completed within 24 hours. Marketing email is opt-in only; you will never receive one without signing up.

No. You do not need an account, and there is no password to set up. You join an event by scanning a QR code or tapping the host's invite link. After you agree to a short participation consent and confirm you are 13 or older, the app signs you in invisibly with a one-time code sent to your phone. That is the whole sign-in.

You can stay anonymous

Attribution is optional. You can contribute photos and video without attaching your name to them. Guests never pay for anything; the host covers the event.

You control your contributions

Your captures are yours to manage. A single tap in My Contributions removes a photo, and that deletion is real: it purges live storage and backups within 24 hours, with no soft-delete and no leftover thumbnails. Captures also save to your phone's camera roll, so you keep your own copy.

Uploading stops when the event ends

Contribution is event-bounded. Uploading stops automatically when the event window closes, and layered pause controls mean you are never silently uploading in the background.

What we ask for, and what we do not

• Camera access is required, so you can capture.
• Full photo-library access is not required. An optional limited auto-pull can be enabled later and is off by default.
• Notifications are optional and are only requested after your first capture.

How your data is handled

We never sell your data. Face grouping, quality scoring, and duplicate detection run on your device by default; any cloud-based face matching is a separate, explicitly opt-in upgrade with its own consent dialog. Marketing email is opt-in only, with separate toggles you can revoke at any time. You will never receive a marketing email without signing up. Account and transactional emails are always delivered.

Finding photos of yourself

Searching for photos of yourself is self-initiated and opt-in. Only you can search for yourself; it's designed so that the host cannot search the album for a specific guest by face.

Your data rights

You can export your photos and a copy of your information, and you can delete your account from Settings, completed within 24 hours. These rights are supported under GDPR and CCPA. If you need help, in-app Help lives in Settings.

Face-Finder is an opt-in feature that lets you find photos of yourself in an event album. You turn it on; it is never on by default. Only you can search for photos of you.

How it works

When you opt in, Face-Finder groups the photos that appear to include you so you can find them quickly. The grouping that runs on your device works from mathematical face embeddings, not stored copies of your face. Cloud-based face matching is a separate upgrade with its own consent dialog, which you choose to accept or decline.

It is private to you

Finding yourself is self-initiated. You decide whether to search, and the results are for you. We never sell your data.

The host cannot search the album for a specific guest by face. There is no host-side tool to look you up. This separation is by design: the ability to find a person rests with that person.

You stay in control

• Face-Finder is off until you opt in, and you can decline the cloud-matching upgrade while still using the rest of the app.
• You can delete your face data.
• You can remove any photo of yourself from your contributions; deletion purges it from live storage and backups, and completes within 24 hours.

Marketing email is opt-in only. Using Face-Finder does not sign you up for anything; you will never receive a marketing email without explicitly choosing it.

Related

For the full detail on face embeddings, on-device processing, and consent, see the Face-Finder privacy article.

We're updating our plans and billing. For current pricing, plans, refunds, or subscription questions, please contact support.

We're updating our plans and billing. For current pricing, plans, refunds, or subscription questions, please contact support.

As a host, you sign in to Anthology Studios with Apple, Google, or email and password. Choose whichever you prefer when you create or open your account. Sign-in is handled by our authentication provider, so your credentials are kept secure.

Your sign-in options

• Apple — sign in with your Apple account.
• Google — sign in with your Google account.
• Email and password — use an email address and a password you set.

Passkeys

You can add a passkey for sign-in. A passkey is a passwordless credential: it replaces typing a password, using your device's built-in authentication instead. A passkey is a way to sign in, not a second factor on top of another method.

Multi-factor authentication

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is optional and recommended for hosts. When enabled, you confirm your identity with a second step after your primary sign-in. Supported methods are:

• An authenticator app (time-based one-time codes).
• SMS.
• Backup codes.

How guests sign in

Guests do not create an account or set a password. They join by scanning a QR code or tapping your invite link, and they are signed in invisibly with a one-time code sent to their phone. Guests can remain anonymous, and guests never pay.

Need help?

In-app Help lives in Settings, where you will find a self-serve knowledge base and our AI support agent, which handles your request directly.

Yes. Protecting your photos and your personal information is built into how Anthology works, not added on afterward. Your data is encrypted, kept within your event, and yours to delete at any time. We never sell your data.

How your data is protected

• Encrypted in transit and at rest. Photos, video, and account data are encrypted while moving between your device and our systems, and while stored.
• Per-event isolation. Each event is kept separate from every other event. Your photos belong to your event and are not pooled with anyone else's.
• Scoped, time-limited access. Album and share links are scoped to grant only the access intended, and a host's read-only share link can be password-protected.
• On-device by default. Face grouping, photo-quality scoring, and duplicate detection run on your device. Cloud-based face matching is a separate upgrade with its own consent step, and only if you opt in.

What we do with your information

We never sell your data. We do not share your personal information outside our first-party ecosystem, except with the service providers who help run the app and, only with your explicit opt-in, with your event organizer or the Anthology brand portfolio.

The providers we rely on fall into a few categories: authentication, cloud storage and delivery, payments, email and notifications, and product analytics. Each operates under a data-processing agreement, none may use your data for their own purposes, and none are data buyers. For details on the specific providers in each category, contact our privacy team.

Your face data

Anthology works from mathematical face embeddings, not stored copies of your face. Grouping is done on your device by default, consent is always explicit, and you can delete this data. Finding yourself in an album is something only you can start.

Marketing is opt-in only

You will never receive a marketing email without signing up for it. Account and transactional emails are always delivered. Marketing preferences use three independent, separately revocable toggles.

Deleting your data

Deletion is real. Removing a photo in My Contributions purges it from live storage and backups within 24 hours, with no soft-delete and no leftover thumbnails. You can also export your photos and a copy of your data, and delete your account from Settings. Uncurated raw photos auto-delete after 90 days unless the host adds Keep Raws.

Your rights

We support GDPR and CCPA, including access, portability, correction, erasure, and opt-out. Most rights can be exercised in-app, or through a privacy contact.

If something goes wrong

We maintain a breach-response process and will notify affected people where required.

We never sell your data. To run the service, we rely on a small set of carefully vetted third-party providers, called sub-processors, each operating under a data-processing agreement. None of them are permitted to use your data for their own purposes, and none of them are data buyers.

What a sub-processor is

A sub-processor is a service provider that processes data on our behalf so the product can function. We use them only for the operational work behind the app and website. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with parties outside our first-party ecosystem and the customer tenant, except with the sub-processors that run the service, and only with your explicit opt-in, with your event organizer and the Anthology brand portfolio.

The categories we use

Our sub-processors fall into a few defined categories:

• Authentication — secure sign-in for hosts and invisible phone-code sign-in for guests.
• Cloud storage and content delivery — storing and serving your photos and video.
• Payments — processing payments and renewals.
• Email and notifications — account, transactional, and event messages.
• Product analytics — understanding how the product performs.

The terms we hold them to

Every sub-processor operates under a data-processing agreement. Each is bound to process data only on our instructions, only to deliver the service, and never for its own ends. We maintain a current list of the sub-processors we work with and the categories they support. For details on specific vendors, contact our privacy team through Help.

A note on marketing

Marketing communication is opt-in only. You will never receive a marketing email without explicitly signing up, and there are three independent, separately revocable marketing consent toggles. Account and transactional messages are always delivered.

You can reach support from inside the app. Open Settings and tap Help. From there you can search the knowledge base or ask Fin (our AI support agent).

The ways to get help

Help is layered, so the fastest answer usually comes first.

• Knowledge base — a self-serve library of articles covering joining an event, capturing, privacy, billing, and your data rights. Most questions are answered here.
• Fin, the AI support agent — ask a question in plain language and Fin answers from this knowledge base. Fin is available in-app and can handle most common requests.
• Email — for privacy, security, or other formal requests, reach us at hello@anthologystudios.com.

Reporting a problem

If something is not working, start in Settings > Help. Describe what happened and what you expected. The more specific you are — which event, what you were doing, what you saw — the faster we can help.

Billing questions

Guests never pay. Our plans and billing are being updated — for billing questions or to manage your plan, contact support.

Making a privacy request

You control your data, and most privacy actions are self-service.

• Download my data exports your photos and a copy of your data.
• Delete a photo from My Contributions removes it within 24 hours, from live storage and backups.
• Delete your account from Settings with a type-to-confirm step, completed within 24 hours.

We support GDPR and CCPA rights — access, portability, correction, deletion, and objection. If you would rather not use the self-service tools, you can reach our privacy contact through Help. A reminder on what we do with your information: we never sell your data, and marketing email is opt-in only — you will never receive a marketing message without signing up, while account and transactional emails are always delivered.