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Use templateThree weeks after a family session, a Pic-Time gallery can still be working for you.
An automated campaign reminds the client that the canvas offer ends Friday, the selfie search finds every frame with grandma in it, and an order goes to one of more than 30 labs while you are editing someone else's wedding.
No other gallery in this category sells as hard on your behalf.
Framekit does not try to. It has no print store, no campaigns and no lab.
What it has is a gallery that holds stills and films in one link on every plan, a Frame.io-style review room for the cut before delivery, and the portfolio site, decks and digital store on the same account and the same bill.
A client gallery platform is software that hosts a delivered shoot behind a private, branded link where the client can view, favourite and download it.
Framekit is an AI website builder with client galleries, video review, Slides and a digital-download store in one account, so this is a comparison between a print-sales engine and an all-in-one creative account rather than between two versions of the same thing.
Choose Pic-Time if print, album or wall-art sales are real income, because its 30+ lab store, sales automations, album designer and client selfie search are the strongest selling tools in the category, and on Professional and Advanced you pay 0% commission when you collect payments yourself.
Choose Framekit if you are paid in session fees and deliver digital files or films, because every gallery feature is on every plan including free, a full year of 30 weddings with films fits Pro at $180 a year against $504 on Pic-Time Advanced, and that plan also runs your portfolio site, video review, Slides and a digital store.
Full disclosure: Framekit is our product and Pic-Time is a competitor we admire. Every Pic-Time price, storage figure and commission rate below was re-verified on 12 October 2026 on Pic-Time's pricing page and in its help centre, and every Framekit figure comes from the plan table on framekit.ai. This rewrite replaces an August 2026 version that described Framekit's video review as a delivery tool and Pic-Time as having no website at all; both lines were wrong and are gone.
Sources, Assumptions and What We Did Not Test
Everything in this Framekit vs Pic-Time comparison comes from the two companies' own published pages in October 2026 or from arithmetic on those pages, so every number can be checked and every calculation can be rerun with your own shoot sizes.
Read at the source. Pic-Time's pricing page and full feature table, its help article on commission rates by plan, and its help article on why the free plan drops to 3GB, dated June 2026.
For Framekit, the plan comparison at framekit.ai/pricing and the gallery settings the product ships.
Calculated. Storage for three shooting volumes using 9MB to 12MB per delivered JPEG and 10 Mbps exports for films, and commission on a sample print year.
Annual prices use each vendor's yearly billing rate; monthly-billing equivalents are shown where they change a conclusion.
Not tested. We did not run a Pic-Time store through a season, use its album designer or selfie search, or time uploads on either platform.
Pic-Time's pricing page shows several features as "Basic" or "Premium" by plan without listing every limit, and where that leaves a question open we say so rather than fill it in.
Framekit and Pic-Time Side by Side
Both platforms give you unlimited client galleries, watermarking, download controls, favourites and video in the same gallery as your stills, so the comparison turns on selling tools, storage shape and what the rest of each subscription buys.
| Framekit | Pic-Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Core idea | One account for site, galleries, video review, Slides and a digital store | Client galleries built around a print store and sales automation |
| Free plan | 10GB pooled, every gallery feature, does not shrink | 10GB photo and 1GB video, dropping to 3GB photo after 3 months |
| Entry paid plan | Starter, $7 a month billed yearly, 50GB pooled | Beginner, $7 a month billed yearly, 20GB photo plus 5GB video |
| Mid plan | Pro, $15 a month yearly, 300GB pooled, 150GB of it video | Professional, $21 a month yearly, 100GB photo plus 30GB video |
| Top plan | Business, $31 a month yearly, 2TB pooled | Advanced, $42 a month yearly, unlimited photo plus 60GB video |
| Print store and labs | None | 30+ global labs, automatic fulfilment, album builder |
| Commission | 5%, 5%, 3%, 0% on digital product sales only | On store profit when Pic-Time collects: 15%, 15%, 8%, 6%; 0% self-collected on Professional and Advanced |
| Website | Full AI website builder on every plan | Portfolio page and blogs on every plan |
| Video review before delivery | Timecoded comments, drawing, versions, approvals | Not offered |
| Native mobile app | No | Yes, for photographers |
| Smart client search | No | Keyword, people and selfie search |
In one linePic-Time sells the photographs for you and Framekit runs everything around them, so the deciding question is whether a print order or a booking enquiry is worth more to your business.
The Short List of Numbers
These seven figures settle most Framekit vs Pic-Time decisions, each read from Pic-Time's or Framekit's own pages in October 2026 or calculated from them, and each points at a specific kind of photographer rather than a general winner.
- 3GB. What Pic-Time's free plan shrinks to three months after sign-up, with galleries over the limit permanently deleted one week later, oldest first.
- 6%. Pic-Time's commission on store profit on Advanced when Pic-Time collects payment. It is 8% on Professional and 15% on Free and Beginner.
- 0%. Pic-Time's commission on Professional and Advanced if you collect store payments yourself.
- 60GB. The most video Pic-Time includes, on Advanced, which it estimates at about 6 hours.
- 150GB. The video share of Framekit Pro's 300GB pool, at $15 a month billed yearly.
- 2GB. Framekit Pro's per-file video cap, with a 2-hour maximum length on every plan. Pic-Time does not publish a per-file video cap.
- $6 a month. Pic-Time's price per additional brand, for studios running two names from one account.
Where Pic-Time Wins
Pic-Time wins whenever the gallery is expected to generate revenue after delivery, because its print store, automated campaigns, album designer and AI search are built to turn a delivered gallery into orders, and Framekit has no equivalent for any of them.
A store that sells while you work. Pic-Time connects to more than 30 global labs with automatic fulfilment, product packages, multiple price lists, coupons, gift cards and order review.
Sales automations send email flows and banners on a schedule, so a client is reminded to order without you writing a single email. Framekit cannot sell a print, an album or a canvas at any price.
Commission that shrinks as you grow. Pic-Time's help centre lists its commission when Pic-Time collects payment as 15% on Free and Beginner, 8% on Professional and 6% on Advanced, taken only from your profit, not from the lab cost, and Pic-Time says it covers card processing fees in that mode.
Switch to collecting payments yourself on Professional or Advanced and the commission is 0%.
Albums and proofing built for weddings. Client selections, album proofing and guest pre-registration are Premium workflows on the upper plans, and the Automatic Album Designer builds a draft album from a curated selection.
Framekit has favourites, named lists and notes, but no album design or album proofing.
Search that clients actually use. Gallery visitors can search by keyword, click a face to find every photo of that person, or take a selfie inside the gallery to find their own frames.
On a 1,200-photo wedding with 150 guests, that is the difference between a guest buying a print and a guest giving up.
The ecosystem. A mobile app for managing galleries, Lightroom integration that syncs client selections back into Lightroom, CRM integrations with HoneyBook, Studio Ninja, Iris Works, Light Blue and Pixifi, slideshows with a licensed music library, a vendor network for sharing curated galleries with planners and florists, and unlimited photo storage on Advanced.
The number that matters$150. That is Pic-Time's commission on $2,500 of print profit at Advanced's 6%, and Pic-Time covers the card fees in that mode. Framekit's figure is $0 because the order cannot happen.
The gotchathe free plan is a trial with a later deadline.
Pic-Time's own help article says free storage falls from an introductory 10GB to 3GB three months after the account is created, the 30-day trial included, and that galleries over the limit are permanently deleted one week later, oldest first.
Beginner also keeps the 15% commission whoever collects payment.
Skip it ifyour clients never buy prints, you deliver more film than Pic-Time's included video allowances hold and would rather not pay for its video add-on, or you want the gallery, portfolio site and review links under one account.
Verdict: Pic-Time is the right platform for any portrait, family or wedding photographer whose packages include prints, albums or wall art. For a broader look at the field, the best Pic-Time alternatives and Pic-Time's pricing explained cover the plan details.
Where Framekit Wins
Framekit wins for photographers and videographers who are paid for the shoot rather than the print, because its galleries put every delivery and proofing feature on every plan, hold films by the gigabyte inside the same link as the stills, and share one account with the website, video review, Slides and a store.
Nothing in the gallery is held back for a higher tier. Watermarking, a gallery password, a separate download PIN, favourites, slideshows, full-resolution downloads, ZIP downloads of everything or favourites only, email registration, auto expiry with a reminder and email sharing from Framekit are all on the free plan.
Paid plans add your own domain, the removal of the Framekit badge and your uploaded fonts. Pic-Time, by contrast, stages design tools across Basic and Premium tiers and keeps client selections and album proofing for its upper plans.
Favourites that arrive as decisions. Clients sign in with an email address, heart frames into lists they name themselves, write a note on any photo and press Send to photographer, which notifies you in Framekit and by email.
A list can be shared with family through its own link, and the gallery's Activity panel shows each registration and each download, down to whether someone took one photo, a set, a list or the whole gallery.
Films without a separate allowance. Video sits in the same gallery as the stills, is transcoded so it plays smoothly, and is never watermarked.
It counts against one storage pool: 3GB of the 10GB free plan, 15GB of 50GB on Starter, 150GB of 300GB on Pro and 750GB of 2TB on Business.
The number that matters150GB of video on a $15 plan. Pic-Time's largest included video allowance is 60GB on its $42 Advanced plan, and more film means a video add-on at $10 a month billed yearly per extra 100GB.
At a 10 Mbps export, Framekit Pro holds 100 films of 20 minutes; Pic-Time Advanced holds 40 before any add-on.
The detail most write-ups missFramekit publishes its per-file video cap by plan, 500MB, 1GB, 2GB and 3GB, so you can check before you pay whether your longest film will upload. Pic-Time publishes how much video you can store but not how big one file may be.
The gotchathose caps are tight for long-form work. A 41-minute film at 12 Mbps is about 3.7GB, too large for any Framekit plan until you re-export, and nothing over 2 hours uploads.
There is also no print store, no album designer, no face search, no mobile app, no Lightroom plugin and no RAW support.
Skip it ifyou sell prints or albums, you want AI search or a vendor network inside the gallery, or your archive needs unlimited storage.
Verdict: Framekit is the better choice for a photographer or hybrid shooter who delivers digital files and films and wants the site, review and delivery in one place at one price.
Limits, Caps and Plan Gates in One Table
This table collects the published limits that decide whether a delivery fits, from storage and file caps to watermarking, PINs, favourites and branding, with Pic-Time's figures read from its pricing page and feature table in October 2026.
| Spec | Framekit | Pic-Time |
|---|---|---|
| Galleries | Unlimited on every plan | Unlimited on every plan |
| Photo storage | 10GB, 50GB, 300GB, 2TB, pooled with your site and reviews | 10GB (3GB after 3 months), 20GB, 100GB, unlimited |
| Video storage | 3GB, 15GB, 150GB, 750GB of the pool | 1GB, 5GB, 30GB, 60GB, up to 4K |
| Largest photo | 100MB; JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF | Not published on the pricing page |
| Largest video | 500MB, 1GB, 2GB, 3GB by plan; 2 hours maximum | Not published |
| Watermark | Every plan, photos only; videos never watermarked | Your logo and watermark, plus an AI Watermark Protector |
| Password protection | Every plan | Private and public galleries with access permissions by user type |
| Download PIN or permission | Separate download PIN on every plan | Download permissions by user type: clients, guests, vendors |
| Favourites | Named lists, notes, send to photographer, share a list | Client selections and favourites, synced to Lightroom |
| Custom domain | Starter and up | Listed in the feature table |
| Remove platform branding | Not on galleries: a small Made with Framekit footer stays on every plan; Starter adds your own domain and fonts | Listed as a branding feature |
| Gallery languages | 7 | Per-gallery language setting |
| Client sign-up needed | No; optional email gate and email sign-in for lists | No; optional pre-registration |
| Mobile app | No | Yes |
Two cells are honest blanks.
Pic-Time does not publish a per-file photo or video limit on its pricing page, and its feature table shows custom domain and branding removal as features without saying which plans include them, so check both in the plan you would buy before you migrate.
What Happens When Things Go Sideways
The situations that cost photographers an evening are rarely on a feature list, so this section covers the six that come up most and says what each platform documents for them, without filling gaps with assumptions.
You stay on the free plan past month three. On Pic-Time, storage drops to 3GB and galleries above the limit are permanently deleted after one week, oldest first; Pic-Time's help article says high-resolution files purged more than a week ago cannot be restored.
On Framekit, the free plan keeps 10GB with no time limit, shared with your website and review files.
A film is longer or larger than expected. On Framekit, files over the plan's per-file cap or longer than 2 hours are refused at upload, so you re-export or upgrade before delivery.
On Pic-Time, the limit you can see is the video storage total; the per-file ceiling is not published.
The client wants prints. On Pic-Time they order inside the gallery and the lab ships. On Framekit you collect the order by email, place it with your own lab and invoice outside Framekit, which keeps the margin and costs you the time.
A guest arrives who is not your client. Pic-Time sets access, download and share permissions per user type, including guests and vendors.
Framekit has one set of rules per gallery, so a guest who has the link and password sees what the client sees, and the download PIN is how you keep guests from downloading.
The gallery should come down. Framekit unpublishes a gallery on its expiry date, keeps the files in your account, shows visitors a message to contact the photographer, and can email you and the linked contacts three days before.
Pic-Time's pricing page does not list its expiry options, so check them in the plan you choose.
You downgrade. Pic-Time's pricing FAQ says downgrades take effect at the end of the current subscription period. Framekit plans are month-to-month or yearly and can be cancelled at any time.
A Year of Delivery at Three Volumes
The cheapest platform changes with how much you shoot and whether you deliver film, so these three worked examples price a full year of galleries kept online on each platform's yearly billing, with the arithmetic shown.
Assumptions: portrait JPEGs at 12MB, wedding JPEGs at 9MB, films exported at 10 Mbps (a 20-minute film is 1,500MB), every gallery kept online for twelve months. Framekit prices include the website, review, Slides and store.
| Volume | Storage needed | Pic-Time plan that fits | Pic-Time a year | Framekit plan that fits | Framekit a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portraits: 20 sessions of 40 photos | 9.6GB photos | Beginner (Free shrinks to 3GB) | $84 | Starter (Free's 10GB is too tight beside a site) | $84 |
| Weddings, stills only: 30 weddings of 700 photos | 189GB photos | Advanced, since Professional stops at 100GB | $504 | Pro (300GB) | $180 |
| Hybrid weddings: the same 30 weddings plus a 20-minute film each | 189GB photos and 45GB video | Advanced (60GB video) | $504 | Pro (234GB of 300GB, 45GB video, 1.5GB files) | $180 |
The first row is a tie, and it should be: at that volume both entry plans cost $84 a year.
The second and third rows move because Pic-Time's photo storage jumps from 100GB to unlimited between Professional and Advanced, so a busy stills shooter pays for the top plan.
If you take wedding galleries down after six months, the stills-only year needs about 95GB and Pic-Time Professional at $252 fits, which narrows the gap with Framekit Pro to $72.
Now add prints. Suppose your clients order $6,000 of prints and albums in a year with $2,500 of that being your profit over lab cost.
| Print-year setup | Commission on $2,500 profit | Who handles card fees | What you keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pic-Time Beginner, Pic-Time collects | $375 at 15% | Pic-Time | $2,125 |
| Pic-Time Professional, Pic-Time collects | $200 at 8% | Pic-Time | $2,300 |
| Pic-Time Advanced, Pic-Time collects | $150 at 6% | Pic-Time | $2,350 |
| Pic-Time Professional or Advanced, self-collected | $0 | You | $2,500 minus your card fees |
| Framekit, any plan | Not applicable | Not applicable | $0, unless you take orders by hand |
That second table is why print sellers should stop here and choose Pic-Time. A $2,300 profit on Professional pays for the plan nine times over.
Run it yourself. Take last year's delivered photos times your average JPEG size, add each film's seconds times your bitrate divided by eight, and add last year's print profit.
If print profit is above about $1,000, Pic-Time almost certainly pays for itself. If it is near zero and your film total is above Pic-Time's video allowance for the plan you would buy, Framekit is the cheaper home.
Selling Prints and Albums: Pic-Time's Home Ground
Pic-Time is the stronger platform for print and album sales by a wide margin, because it combines a 30-plus lab network, automated campaigns, packages, album design and AI search in one gallery, and Framekit offers none of those features on any plan.
The parts that matter most to a portrait business are the ones that run without you. Sales automations send scheduled campaigns and banners. A personalised catalogue shows the client's own photos inside product mock-ups.
Product packages bundle items at one price. Shipping rerouting lets you check an order before it goes to the client.
Automated tax and multiple currencies are listed in the feature table, though a store can only run one active currency at a time.
Framekit's selling is narrower and different in kind.
Its store sells digital products, such as presets, LUTs, editing guides or templates, from your own site and through shareable buy links, with a 5% fee on Free and Starter, 3% on Pro and 0% on Business, Stripe processing on top, and you as the merchant of record.
It is not connected to galleries, so there is no per-photo cart and no way for a client to buy extra frames from their own shoot inside the gallery.
If you sell prints only now and then, ordering by hand from your own lab keeps the whole margin and costs around fifteen minutes an order, and the guide to selling prints from a client gallery walks through it.
If prints are a steady line, Pic-Time's automation is worth more than any saving on the subscription.
Films, Review Rounds and the Delivery Link
Video is the part of the job where the two platforms differ most in shape, because Pic-Time stores film in a separate byte allowance next to the photos while Framekit pools it with everything else and adds a review room for the cut before it is delivered.
Pic-Time's pricing page lists video storage from 1GB on Free to 60GB on Advanced, with estimates of about 30 minutes on Beginner, 3 hours on Professional and 6 hours on Advanced, up to 4K quality.
Beyond that, Pic-Time sells video storage add-ons from 100GB, about 10 hours, at $10 a month billed yearly, up to 5TB, so a heavy film year is a cost question rather than a hard ceiling.
Its galleries show clips and photos side by side, and the free plan card still labels that feature as beta.
Framekit galleries take video on every plan, with per-file caps of 500MB, 1GB, 2GB and 3GB by plan and a 2-hour maximum length. MP4, MOV, M4V, WebM and MKV are accepted, and ProRes or HEVC MOV files are transcoded so they play in the browser. Films are never watermarked.
The step Pic-Time does not cover is approval.
On Framekit's video review, you upload the cut, send a link, and the client comments at the exact frame, draws on the frame, replies and reacts, with no account.
Upload version 2 and version 1 and its notes stay in the stack; set the status to approved; then put the final film in the gallery with the stills.
A wedding filmmaker on Pic-Time typically runs that round in another tool, and the video review tools for wedding videographers roundup covers the options.
Portfolio, Store and Slides on the Same Bill
The gallery is the end of a job that began with someone finding your work, and the strongest argument for Framekit over Pic-Time is that the portfolio site, proposal decks and digital store sit on the same account rather than in separate subscriptions.
Pic-Time includes a portfolio page on every plan, which it describes as fully customisable and easy to integrate into your site, plus a blog tool with SEO features and an AI writing assistant.
That is a showcase inside a gallery platform, and most Pic-Time photographers still run a separate website for their main domain.
On Framekit, the website is the core product. The AI builder generates full sections, writes copy and can recreate a layout from a screenshot, with hosting and SSL on every plan and your own domain from Starter.
Each gallery lives under /client/ on one of your sites, so a returning client lands on the same domain as your portfolio and contact form.
Slides makes proposals and lookbooks, with unlimited decks on every plan and a monthly AI allowance for generation. The store sells presets or guides through a hosted checkout with your name and logo.
What Framekit does not add is studio management. There are no contracts, invoices or booking calendar, so a Pic-Time photographer who leans on its Studio Ninja or HoneyBook integration would keep that tool.
Moving From Pic-Time to Framekit, Step by Step
Moving from Pic-Time to Framekit works best as a forward switch, where new jobs go to Framekit from a set date and existing Pic-Time galleries run until they expire, because galleries do not transfer between platforms and Framekit has no redirect manager for old links.
| Step | Action | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Prints first | Decide whether to keep a Pic-Time plan for the store or open your own lab account | Framekit cannot take print orders, and Beginner keeps a 15% commission |
| 2. Save selections | Export client selections and favourites, or sync them to Lightroom, before you close anything | Lists and notes do not travel between platforms |
| 3. Keep originals | Make sure every active gallery exists on your own drives | Pic-Time purges free-plan galleries over 3GB after one week |
| 4. Build the site | Generate the Framekit site and connect your domain on Starter or above | Galleries publish under /client/ on that domain |
| 5. Size your films | Check your longest film against 1GB on Starter, 2GB on Pro and 3GB on Business | Pic-Time published no per-file cap, so your exports may never have been checked |
| 6. Rebuild active galleries | Upload only what clients still need, then set watermark, password, PIN and expiry | Migrate a season, not an archive |
| 7. Rewrite delivery emails | Update templates and the link in your welcome guide | Email templates do not move |
| 8. Overlap | Keep the Pic-Time plan until the last gallery sent there has expired | Downgrades take effect at the end of the billing period |
Choosing Between Them, Question by Question
This decision path puts the questions in the order that removes options fastest, starting with print revenue, because that single answer decides Framekit vs Pic-Time for most portrait, family and wedding photographers before storage or price matter.
1. Did your clients buy more than about $1,000 of prints or albums last year, or would they if asked? If yes, choose Pic-Time Professional and switch on the campaigns. If no, go to question 2.
2. Do you need AI face or selfie search, vendor galleries or a mobile app? If yes, choose Pic-Time; Framekit has none of them. If no, go to question 3.
3. Do you deliver films, and do they add up to more than 60GB a year? If yes, Framekit Pro's 150GB of video at $180 a year is the better home, with review on the same account. If you deliver films under that, go to question 4.
4. Do you deliver more than 100GB of stills a year and keep them online? If yes, compare Pic-Time Advanced at $504 with Framekit Pro at $180, and remember Framekit tops out at 2TB. If no, go to question 5.
5. Do you pay separately for a website, a review tool or a store? If yes, Framekit replaces them under one plan. If you have none and want none, start on Pic-Time Beginner or Framekit Starter, both $84 a year.
Frequently Asked Questions
Framekit vs Pic-Time: which is better in 2026?
Pic-Time is better for photographers who sell prints and albums, because its 30+ lab store, sales automations and album designer turn galleries into orders.
Framekit is better for photographers and videographers paid in session fees, because every gallery feature is on every plan, films share the gallery with no separate allowance, and one subscription also covers the portfolio site, video review, Slides and a digital store.
Does Framekit have client galleries now?
Yes.
Framekit ships unlimited client galleries on every plan, with watermarking, passwords, a separate download PIN, favourites with named lists and notes, slideshows, full-resolution and ZIP downloads, email registration, auto expiry and email sharing, all included on the free plan.
Photos and videos sit in one gallery. Comparisons written before September 2026 often describe Framekit only as a website builder.
Does Framekit sell prints like Pic-Time?
No. Framekit has no print store, no lab fulfilment, no price lists, no packages and no album ordering on any plan. Its store sells digital products such as presets, LUTs and guides from your website at a 5% to 0% fee by plan.
Photographers who sell prints either keep Pic-Time for the store or order from their own lab by hand and invoice outside Framekit.
What are Pic-Time's commission rates?
Pic-Time's help centre lists its commission, when Pic-Time collects store payments, as 15% on Free, 15% on Beginner, 8% on Professional and 6% on Advanced, taken only from your profit over lab cost, with card fees covered by Pic-Time.
If you collect payments yourself on Professional or Advanced, the commission is 0%. Beginner pays 15% however payments are collected.
Does Pic-Time's free plan really drop to 3GB?
Yes.
Pic-Time's help article, dated June 2026, says free storage falls from an introductory 10GB to 3GB three months after the account is created, a period that includes the 30-day trial, and that galleries over the limit are permanently deleted one week later, oldest first.
Framekit's free plan keeps 10GB with no time limit, shared with your website and review files.
How much does Pic-Time cost in 2026?
Pic-Time costs $0 on Free, $7 a month billed yearly on Beginner ($8 monthly), $21 on Professional ($25 monthly) and $42 on Advanced ($50 monthly), according to its pricing page in October 2026.
Storage runs from 20GB of photos and 5GB of video on Beginner to unlimited photos and 60GB of video on Advanced. Extra brands cost $6 a month each.
Which is cheaper for a busy wedding photographer?
Framekit is cheaper once you store more than 100GB of stills.
Thirty weddings of 700 photos at 9MB come to about 189GB, which needs Pic-Time Advanced at $504 a year because Professional stops at 100GB, while Framekit Pro holds it in a 300GB pool for $180 a year.
Add $2,500 of print profit and Pic-Time earns back far more than the difference.
Which handles video better, Framekit or Pic-Time?
Framekit handles larger video volumes and the review round, and Pic-Time keeps photos and video in separate allowances that are easy to watch.
Framekit Pro includes 150GB of video and publishes per-file caps of up to 3GB with a 2-hour maximum length, plus timecoded client review before delivery.
Pic-Time includes up to 60GB of video on Advanced, sells add-ons from 100GB at $10 a month billed yearly, and does not publish a per-file cap.
Does Pic-Time include a website?
Pic-Time includes a customisable portfolio page and a blog tool on every plan, which it says can be integrated into your site, but it is not a full website builder.
Framekit is an AI website builder first, so the portfolio, about page, contact form and every client gallery live on the same domain from the Starter plan at $7 a month billed yearly.
Can my clients find their own photos by face in a Framekit gallery?
No. Framekit galleries have no keyword, face or selfie search. Clients browse the gallery, filter to their favourites and work through sets.
Pic-Time offers keyword search, people search and selfie search for gallery visitors, which matters most for weddings and events where dozens of guests are looking for themselves.
Does Framekit watermark videos or downloads?
Framekit watermarks photos as they are shown in the gallery but never watermarks videos, and downloads always deliver clean originals.
To control downloading, you switch downloads off or set a download PIN, a separate code from the gallery password, on any plan including free. Pic-Time offers logo and watermark branding plus an AI Watermark Protector.
Can I keep Pic-Time for prints and use Framekit for everything else?
Yes, and it is a sensible split for wedding studios with print income. Pic-Time Professional at $252 a year runs the store and lab, while Framekit Starter or Pro runs the portfolio site, film review and digital delivery.
The cost is two logins and two places a client might look, so send each client one clear link per job.
Will Pic-Time move my galleries to Framekit?
No. Pic-Time's migration service moves galleries into Pic-Time from other platforms on paid plans, not out of it, and Framekit has no importer.
Switching means rebuilding the galleries clients still need on Framekit and keeping Pic-Time running until older galleries expire. Most photographers move one active season rather than an archive.
Final Verdict
Pic-Time is the better platform for print-selling photographers, and it is not close.
A 30-plus lab store, automated campaigns, album design, face and selfie search, a vendor network and 0% commission on self-collected payments from Professional upward add up to a gallery that earns money after delivery, which Framekit was never built to do.
Framekit is the better platform for photographers and hybrid shooters paid in session fees.
Every gallery feature sits on every plan, films share the gallery and a 150GB video allowance on Pro, review happens before delivery on the same account, and $180 a year also pays for the website, Slides and a digital store.
Where Framekit loses: it does not sell prints, has no album proofing or price lists, has no mobile app or AI search, does not take client uploads or RAW files, does not offer unlimited storage, and is not a studio manager.
If any of those runs your business, Pic-Time is the better fit.
Related reading: Pic-Time vs Pixieset and ShootProof vs Pic-Time cover the other common shortlists, the best client gallery platforms ranks the field, and commission-free client galleries compares selling costs.
More head-to-heads: Framekit vs Pixieset, Framekit vs ShootProof and Framekit vs Zenfolio.
