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Textual vs Lense

Lense rations the shots. Textual keeps every photo.

Lense is a disposable-camera app priced by guest count, $44.99 for up to 150 guests. Each guest gets 25 shots unless you buy unlimited, video is another $9.99, and photos are stored for a year.

Textual includes a beautiful guest album with every wedding. Guests add any photo from their camera roll, one tap from the texts they already read, with no app. $299 once, everything included.

Friends in their wedding best, arm in arm under the night sky.

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Sun 11:00 AM · Sam & RileyStill smiling about last night. Here’s what everyone caught.
Every photo, not 25
Guests add the photos they already took. No shot counter.
Set up in minutes
Paste your wedding website and your album and texts are ready.
One price, no add-ons
Nothing to unlock per guest or per shot.
It just works
Nothing for you or your guests to download. Just a link.

Scorecard

Textual vs Lense, at a glance.

Textual compared with Lense
FeatureTextualLense
No cap on photos per guest

Textual

Yes.

Their whole camera roll

Lense

Partly.

25 shots unless you pay more

Album link in every guest’s texts

Textual

Yes.

Sent at the right moments

Lense

No.

A QR code or link you hand out

Guest texts for the whole weekend

Textual

Yes.

Included

Lense

No.

No texting

No app for guests

Textual

Yes.

Any phone browser

Lense

Yes.

QR code or link

AI assistant, works with ChatGPT and Claude

Textual

Yes.

Change anything in plain words

Lense

Not listed

Price

Textual

$299 once, everything included

Lense

Per guest, plus add-ons

Lense details from its own pages, October 2026: Lense pricing, Lense on the App Store.

No switching

Keep what you love. Let Textual host the weekend.

Paste your wedding website and your texts and album are ready in minutes. Nothing to move, nothing to retype.

Keep Lense for

  • A disposable-camera game for the night
  • A small party
  • A delayed photo reveal

Let Textual handle

  • One beautiful album of every guest photo
  • The album link in every guest text
  • Your planner and assistant, on hand all weekend

Sunday morning

The ones you didn’t know they took.

One link in a text, and every guest’s camera roll finds its way to Sam & Riley’s album. No app, and no chasing the group chat.

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Guests

  • A candid guest photo from the sample album.

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  • A candid guest photo from the sample album.

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  • A candid guest photo from the sample album.

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  • A candid guest photo from the sample album.

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  • A candid guest photo from the sample album.

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  • A candid guest photo from the sample album.

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  • A candid guest photo from the sample album.

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  • A candid guest photo from the sample album.

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Saturday · 2:14 PM

Every guest has one small question.

Multiply it by 86. That’s your phone, an hour before you walk down the aisle.

Textual answers the questions before anyone has to ask, so your phone can stay in someone else’s bag.

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Saturday, October 3

2:14

37 unread messages

Friday to Sunday

The weekend, text by text.

Friday · 5:30 PM

They land. You say hello.

The first text sets the tone: where to be, when to be there, and how glad you are they came.

Delivered to all 86 guests

+1 (855) 555-0148

Text Message · SMS

Saturday · 3:15 PM

The shuttle question, answered early.

Only the 42 people catching the shuttle get this one. Everyone else enjoys a quieter phone.

Delivered to 42 shuttle riders

Sam & Riley

Text Message · SMS

Saturday · 11:40 PM

You’re on the dance floor. The text goes out anyway.

Every message is written and scheduled ahead, so nobody hands their phone to the maid of honor.

Delivered to all 86 guests

Sam & Riley

Text Message · SMS

Sunday · 11:00 AM

One very happy morning after.

A thank-you, and every photo your guests took, gathered in one place before brunch is over.

Delivered to all 86 guests

Sam & Riley

Text Message · SMS

5:30
+1 (855) 555-0148

Text Message · SMS

For your guests

Kind to everyone’s phone.

One number to save
Every text comes from the same number, with a contact card so guests know it’s you.
Only what matters
Around five texts a weekend, each one something a guest would otherwise have asked.
Your words, approved
Nothing sends until you’ve read it, and you can change any message right up to the minute.
Easy to step away
Any guest can reply STOP and they won’t hear from us again.

A few good questions.

How much does the Lense app cost?

Lense prices by guest count, from free for 7 guests to $99.99 for 500, with $44.99 covering 150. Unlimited shots and video uploads are each about $10 more.

What is the best camera app for weddings?

Your guests already have one: their phone’s camera. Textual gathers those photos into one beautiful album, with the link in the texts they already read.

What is the best wedding app to use?

One your guests don’t have to download. Textual runs on ordinary texts and a link: one tap and every guest photo lands in one beautiful album.

How do guests share photos with Textual?

Every wedding includes a shared album. Its link arrives in your texts, guests add photos from their browser with no app, and you see every one by the morning after.

Your weekend starts here.

Bring your website and your guest list. We’ll help with everything in between.