GalleryProof VoiceNotes.
An app idea for wedding photographers.

What the search found

Who pays

Wedding and portrait photographers who deliver online galleries

The problem

Clients send feedback as texts, screenshots and vague emails like the black and white version from earlier, and the photographer cannot tell which frame they mean. Retouch requests arrive days late, after album picks are already made.

The gap

The sendphoto.io article describes the exact mess of scattered feedback channels, but it is a blog post about commenting, not a product that pins voice notes to specific photos inside the gallery the photographer already uses.

Already out there

• sendphoto.io commenting guide sendphoto.io

  Describes the problem of feedback arriving by email, text, screenshots and voice notes, but it is an article, not a tool that solves it.

People asking for it

• How far do you go with editing reddit.com

  Photographer says the client texted editing requests on her wedding night after guests sent her photos.

• How much editing is too much reddit.com

  Photographer recommends capping free re-edits at fewer than a dozen, showing how often requests pile up.

• Client says they don't like your edit reddit.com

  Photographer asks what to do when a bride wants 800 plus photos re-edited, showing the scale of vague feedback.

The big assumption

That couples will actually record voice notes instead of typing a text, and that photographers will pay for this rather than keep using email.

Test it this week

Add a voice note widget to one photographer's next gallery using an existing gallery tool's comment feature plus a shared voice memo link, and see if the couple uses it. Ask five photographers what they would pay to stop retouch email threads.