A Pic-Time alternative where video gets the same room as the photos.
Pic-Time puts video on a separate, smaller allowance next to the photo storage. FRGMT puts photos and video in the same storage, with a page built for each.
At a glance
Galleries, video and review, side by side.
| FRGMT and Pic-Time compared | FRGMT | Pic-Time |
|---|---|---|
| Client photo galleries | Selects, flexible layouts | Yes |
| Print sales | Through WHCCStarter and above | Built-in store and lab fulfillment |
| Video storage | Same storage as photosNo separate cap | Separate allowance1 GB on Free to 60 GB on Advanced |
| A page built for the video | Cinema, with the original to download | Inside the gallery |
| Timecoded video review | Every planFree included | Not listed |
| Video embeds on your site | Starter and above | Professional and Advanced |
| Nested folders and upload links | Every plan | Not listed |
| Moving your archive in | Self-serve import from Dropbox or Google DriveStarter and above | Migration service on paid plans |
| First paid plan | $12 a month billed annually$15 a month billed monthly | $7 a month billed annually$8 a month billed monthly |
FRGMT
- Client photo galleries
- Selects, flexible layouts
- Print sales
- Through WHCCStarter and above
- Video storage
- Same storage as photosNo separate cap
- A page built for the video
- Cinema, with the original to download
- Timecoded video review
- Every planFree included
- Video embeds on your site
- Starter and above
- Nested folders and upload links
- Every plan
- Moving your archive in
- Self-serve import from Dropbox or Google DriveStarter and above
- First paid plan
- $12 a month billed annually$15 a month billed monthly
Pic-Time
- Client photo galleries
- Yes
- Print sales
- Built-in store and lab fulfillment
- Video storage
- Separate allowance1 GB on Free to 60 GB on Advanced
- A page built for the video
- Inside the gallery
- Timecoded video review
- Not listed
- Video embeds on your site
- Professional and Advanced
- Nested folders and upload links
- Not listed
- Moving your archive in
- Migration service on paid plans
- First paid plan
- $7 a month billed annually$8 a month billed monthly
The problem
Video on Pic-Time is an allowance. On FRGMT it is just storage.
Pic-Time prices photos and video as two meters. Each plan carries its own video allowance beside the photo storage, and the top plan's 60 GB is, by Pic-Time's own estimate, about 6 hours of video.
A studio that delivers video alongside the stills spends the video allowance long before the photo storage, and the video still sits inside the gallery rather than on a page of its own.
FRGMT gives photos and video the same storage, and each its own delivery. A Gallery for the stills, a Cinema page for video delivery for clients with the master to download, React for the review round and an embed for your site.
All of it comes from one folder in a real library, so a project ships every way it needs to without a second upload. More on photo delivery for photographers.
Where each one wins
Pick by the job, not the logo.
Pic-Time wins if print sales drive the business.
- Sales automation.Sale campaigns, coupons and gift cards built to sell prints and products.
- Vendor Network.Labs and vendors for prints, albums and products, on Professional and Advanced.
- Smart Image Search.Find any image in a large gallery, with client face search on Advanced.
- A move done for you.Their team transfers your galleries from another service.
FRGMT wins once video is part of the work.
- No separate video meter.Video uses the same storage as photos.
- A page built for the video.Cinema plays it up to 4K when the source is, and hands over the original.
- Review before it ships.Timecoded notes on every plan, with no reviewer accounts.
- Embeds from Starter.Your video on your own site, with your logo and no FRGMT branding.
- A real library underneath.Nested folders, tags and upload links.
The video math
60 GB is about 6 hours of video.
Pic-Time prices photos and video separately. Here are its plans as published, with its own estimate of how much video each allowance holds.
| Pic-Time plan | Annual | Monthly | Photo storage | Video storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 a month | $0 a month | 10 GB, then 3 GB after three months | 1 GB |
| Beginner | $7 a month | $8 a month | 20 GB | 5 GB, about 30 minutes |
| Professional | $21 a month | $25 a month | 100 GB | 30 GB, about 3 hours |
| Advanced | $42 a month | $50 a month | Unlimited (T&C applies) | 60 GB, about 6 hours |
A studio delivering regular video
Ten hours of 4K video is a few hundred gigabytes. On FRGMT it sits in the same terabyte as the photos.
What the biggest plan costs
FRGMT Pro adds review, Cinema and a library, and has no separate video cap.
The mid tier
Professional holds 30 GB of video, about 3 hours by Pic-Time's estimate.
Save up to 20% with annual billing. Embeds, prints and import from Starter.
One folder, every delivery
The photos and the video ship from the same place.
On Pic-Time the gallery is the container and the video sits inside it. On FRGMT the folder is the container, and the gallery and the video page are two views of it.
- Stills under the video.A Cinema page shows the photos from the same folder below the player.
- Video in the grid.Or send a Gallery with the video playing beside the stills.
- Nothing uploaded twice.Every delivery uses the same files.
Moving over
Bring your originals across at full resolution.
FRGMT does not connect to Pic-Time directly. Your files come across in three steps.
- Download your originals.
Download the full-resolution files from your Pic-Time galleries.
- Upload or import.
Upload directly at up to 100 GB per file, or import from Dropbox or Google Drive on Starter and above.
- Keep working.
Imports run in the background. Dropbox brings whole folders; Google Drive brings the files you pick.
Questions
Pic-Time, answered.
How much does Pic-Time cost?
Pic-Time has a free plan, then Beginner at $7 a month billed annually or $8 billed monthly, Professional at $21 or $25, and Advanced at $42 or $50, with photo and video storage priced as two separate allowances that grow with each plan. Advanced includes 60 GB of video.
How much video can Pic-Time store?
Pic-Time sets a separate video allowance on each plan, 1 GB on Free, 5 GB on Beginner, 30 GB on Professional and 60 GB on Advanced, which Pic-Time itself estimates at about 30 minutes, about 3 hours and about 6 hours of video on the three paid plans. On FRGMT video uses the same storage as photos, with no separate cap.
Is Pic-Time free?
Pic-Time has a free plan with 1 GB of video storage and photo storage of 10 GB, then 3 GB after three months, which is enough to try the galleries and the store but not to run a studio's client delivery on, since one finished video can fill the video allowance by itself. FRGMT Free includes 5 GB shared between photos and video.
Can you embed video from Pic-Time?
Pic-Time lists video embedding on its Professional and Advanced plans, so a studio on Beginner or Free cannot put a gallery video on its own site, and the video an embed plays still counts against the separate video allowance on whichever plan the studio pays for. FRGMT includes embeds from Starter, with your logo and no FRGMT branding on the player.
What is a good Pic-Time alternative for video?
A good Pic-Time alternative for video is a platform where video shares storage with photos instead of sitting on a smaller separate allowance, with a page built for the finished video, review on a timecode before it ships, and an embed for your own site. FRGMT does all four from the same library as your galleries.
How do I move from Pic-Time to another platform?
To move from Pic-Time to another platform, download the full-resolution originals from your Pic-Time galleries, then upload them to the new platform or import them from a cloud drive, and rebuild each client gallery there, since no gallery platform imports another platform's galleries directly. FRGMT imports from Dropbox and Google Drive on Starter and above.
Give your video the same room as your photos.
Free to start. Bring your originals across from Dropbox or Google Drive whenever you are ready.
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