Give Clients a Photo Delivery App — Without Building One
Clients can save their gallery to the phone home screen as an app — its own icon from their photos, fullscreen, no app store. Here's how it works and why clients love it.
The most-loved delivery touch isn't a bigger gallery or a fancier email — it's when the couple's photos live on their phone's home screen, behind an icon made from their own picture. It feels like you built them an app. You didn't. Here's the trick.
How do clients get the gallery as an app?
Every GalleryLink gallery is installable: on their phone, clients tap “Save this gallery to your phone” inside the gallery. On Android the browser shows a real install prompt; on iPhone it's two taps (Share → Add to Home Screen). The gallery lands on the home screen with its own name and a cover-photo icon, and opens fullscreen — no browser bars, no app store, no account.
Why it beats a real app
- Nothing to download — it's the same live gallery, so it's always current. Add photos to the Drive folder and the "app" updates.
- No review process, no updates to ship — because there's no store involved, every client gets it instantly, on both platforms.
- It spreads — clients show the icon to friends; friends ask their photographer why they didn't get an app. That conversation is free marketing.
Is it private?
As private as the gallery: password-protected galleries ask for the password before anything shows, and their icon is a neutral brand mark rather than a photo — nothing leaks onto a lock screen or a shared phone.
Setting it up
There is no setup. The install button appears automatically on every gallery viewed on a phone, on every plan. Mention it in your delivery note — "save it to your home screen like an app" — and clients do the rest.
It's one piece of a delivery flow built around one link doing everything: gallery, downloads, favorites, guest photos, and now the home screen. Start free.