A Pic-Time alternative for wedding film delivery

Pic-Time for video, in its own words

Pic-Time's video delivery puts full-length featured videos and short clips beside the photos in one gallery, in HD or 4K. You can embed them, set download permissions, and sell videos from the store or straight from the gallery. Featured videos go up as .mp4 or .mov files, and short clips are always downloadable by the client.

Around that sits a photographer's toolkit: client galleries, AI search by keyword and face, a print store with more than 30 lab partners, an AI album designer, slideshows, blogs, sales automations, a mobile app and a vendor network. If you shoot photo and video under one brand, a single link that holds both is a real advantage, and Hailo does not offer it.

A gallery that starts from the film

A Hailo gallery is built around the feature film. The couple opens an entry splash with their names and your line, a music bed that fades out when the film starts, and a cover cut from the film itself. The player picks the best quality their connection can carry, up to 4K, and the download sheet offers the full 4K file or a smaller 1080p copy. More on that in 4K delivery.

Below the film come your personal note and signature, any extra films, a Google review prompt, the add-ons you sell, credits for every vendor from the day, and your footer. You choose which of those show and in what order.

Where Hailo works as a Pic-Time alternative

Hailo is a wedding video delivery platform, but the gallery is its last step, not the whole product. The same app runs the front office: an inquiry form for your website, a lead pipeline, proposals the couple signs and pays from their phone, invoices with payment plans, and automations that stop when the couple writes back. Publishing a gallery marks the project delivered, so the couple's record closes itself out.

Before delivery, Hailo handles the footage. It offloads every card at once and verifies each file, labels every main camera clip by wedding moment with a sentence on what is in the shot, and trims the shaky stretches without touching your originals. It syncs up to eight camera angles with your lavs and recorders, cuts the ceremony and the toasts as real multicams you can re-cut, and opens all of it in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

What you give up by moving

Anyone comparing Pic-Time alternatives should know the trade before switching. Hailo delivers films only: there is no photo gallery, no proofing, no print store, no album designer and no photo search. Hailo's wording is American English throughout, while Pic-Time's site comes in seven languages.

Gallery lifetime differs too. A Hailo gallery closes a year after its newest film was uploaded, unless you buy extra years for it or let the couple pay you for them. Hailo is a delivery page, not an archive, so your own drive should always hold the master. Every limit is listed on what Hailo does.