Peak and Pixieset start from different places

Pixieset is organised around the collection; its terms describe one as made for a single event and shared with the client for that event. A library view across every upload is in early access.

Peak starts from the library: every frame you keep, at full resolution, rated, tagged and searchable. A room for a client is made from it — from a collection or a selection — rather than uploaded again.

Both let clients choose. In Pixieset, clients heart photographs into favourite lists saved under their email address, can add notes to their favourites, and you can cap how many they pick.

In a Peak room, clients pick, give 0 to 5 stars and comment, pointing at a frame with #. You choose whether they see each other’s choices, and the room’s activity shows the frames chosen most.

Both can end on a date: a Pixieset collection is hidden on its expiry date; a Peak room closes, and can be reopened for a while.

Pixieset’s own documentation describes none of these:

• Search by colour — any colour, weighted by how much of the frame it covers
• Finding similar frames across the whole library, with a burst of one moment told apart from a resemblance
• Removing the GPS location from delivered files, without re-encoding them
• Skipping a file already in the library, recognised by its pixels and its exact byte count

Selling prints and digital downloads from the gallery, with lab fulfilment; a website builder; bookings, contracts and invoices; a mobile gallery app for clients; and AI culling in its Photo Editor, in beta and sold separately.

If your gallery is also your shop, Pixieset is built for it. A public page of your own is on Peak’s list; a shop is not.

Both keep them. Pixieset says original downloads are delivered exactly as uploaded, and also offers resized downloads; originals and 3600-pixel files need a paid plan. Peak hands back the bytes you uploaded — downloads off, one by one, or the whole room as a single zip.