Client gallery software is where your work lands in front of the client: the gallery they open, the photos they pick, the prints they buy, and the files they download. They all show photos well. The differences are in proofing (how clients choose), selling (labs and commission), and whether the rest of the job, the contract and the invoice, lives somewhere else.
Full disclosure: I’m Tyler, a working headshot, product, and food photographer, and I built Edit. Every fact about the other apps was checked on their own pricing pages and help centers in October 2026, and each links to a full side-by-side.
The short answer
- Best for proofing and the business in one app: Edit, with selection limits, Guest picks, and a Matched view, plus booking, agreements, and invoices.
- Best for selling prints and albums: Pic-Time, with 30+ labs and sales automations.
- Best all-rounder gallery with a website: Pixieset, especially with the Suite.
- Best for a portfolio site and archive: SmugMug or Zenfolio.
- Best on a budget: CloudSpot.
1. Edit: best for proofing, with the business built in
Galleries are fully designable, with fonts, colors, eight cover layouts, and Justified, Masonry, or Square grids. Proofing is the deepest here: a selection limit for the gallery or each section, the client’s picks and their team’s Guest picks side by side, Photographer’s picks they can filter to, and the Matched filter for the shots everyone agrees on. Selling galleries take card, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, including one shoot sold to many buyers, like a team. The booking, agreement, and invoice sit on the same project.
- Price: $29, $59, or $99 a month, free for 60 days with no card. 0% of your sales.
- Watch out for: no print lab fulfillment or website builder. Paid extra retouches, file delivery packages, and client logins start on Studio ($59).
2. Pixieset: best all-rounder with a website
Clean galleries, favorite lists with a max, a print store, and no commission on paid plans. The Suite adds Studio Manager for business tools and a website builder.
- Price: $10 to $50 a month for galleries, or $35 to $65 for the Suite.
- Watch out for: each person keeps their own favorites list, with no combined view, and there’s no client login portal. Edit vs Pixieset
3. Pic-Time: best for print and album sales
Pic-Time is built to sell, with 30+ partner labs, sales automations, an AI album designer, and strong selection requests on Professional and up.
- Price: $8, $25, or $50 a month, with a commission that depends on your plan and who collects payment.
- Watch out for: no contracts, invoices, or booking, so you’ll pay for a business app too. Edit vs Pic-Time
4. ShootProof: best for galleries plus simple invoicing
ShootProof pairs galleries and print sales with contracts and invoices on paid plans, takes no commission, and white-labels galleries on every plan.
- Price: $9.99 to $60 a month, with booking $6.99 extra.
- Watch out for: selection limits are for one linked client, and there’s no client portal. Edit vs ShootProof
5. CloudSpot: best on a budget
The Lite plan covers galleries, a WHCC print store, contracts, invoices, and booking for $17 a month.
- Price: $7 to $50 a month. Invoice payments carry a flat 2.5% fee in place of your own processor’s. Invoicing is US only.
- Watch out for: proofing is per-person favorites, and a custom domain wasn’t found. Edit vs CloudSpot
6. Zenfolio: best for a website and volume work
Zenfolio bundles a website builder, galleries, lab sales, and school and sports workflows like QR codes and bulk folders.
- Price: $9 to $40 a month, plus a 7% fee on store orders. Booking is $10 extra below Advanced.
- Watch out for: no contracts found, and proofing is per-person favorites. Edit vs Zenfolio
7. SmugMug: best for storage and a portfolio site
Unlimited full-resolution storage on every plan, polished portfolio websites, lab sales, and 24/7 human support.
- Price: $29 to $52 a month, and SmugMug keeps 15% of your markup on sales.
- Watch out for: favorites are on Pro only, and there are no contracts, invoices, or booking. Edit vs SmugMug
8. HoneyBook: galleries inside a business app
HoneyBook added galleries in July 2026, with favorites, sets, watermarks, and unlimited storage from Essentials up, next to its contracts, invoices, and automations.
- Price: $36 to $129 a month.
- Watch out for: favorites only, with no selection limits or submit step, and the print store is still in beta. Edit vs HoneyBook
How to choose
Ask what clients do in your galleries. If they mostly buy prints, pick the strongest store. If they choose which photos you retouch, proofing matters most: look for selection limits and a way to see everyone’s picks together. And if you’re tired of sending a contract from one app, a gallery from another, and an invoice from a third, pick one that does all three.
