What's new
Updates and new features for photographers, month by month.
The site, the mobile app and the desktop app are now in Dutch, so your customers in the Netherlands and Flanders can buy in their own language.
Your customers in the Netherlands and in Flanders, Belgium, can now browse your profile and albums, use the cart, get their purchase emails and read the help center in Dutch. The site, the mobile app and the desktop app are now available in this language.
Each visitor sees their browser's language or the one they pick in the language selector, so there is nothing for you to set up. If you cover events in those countries, share them with your athletes as usual.
The site, the mobile app and the desktop app are now in Traditional Chinese, so your customers in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau can buy in their own language.
Your customers in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau can now browse your profile and albums, use the cart, get their purchase emails and read the help center in Traditional Chinese. The site, the mobile app and the desktop app are now available in this language.
Each visitor sees their browser's language or the one they pick in the language selector, so there is nothing for you to set up. If you cover events in those places, share them with your athletes as usual.
Create a link so your helpers can upload photos to an album without an account and without seeing your sales, prices or other albums.
You can now share an upload link from the upload page or your album's menu. Whoever gets it uploads photos from their phone or computer, with no account and nothing to install. They can only add photos to that album: they don't see your sales, your prices or your other albums, they can't delete anything, and their photos never replace the ones you already uploaded.
The link expires after 7 days, and you can renew it or turn it off whenever you want. Create one per person and you'll see how many photos each of them uploaded. Perfect for your second shooter or assistant on a busy race weekend.
When they pay, your buyers can add an optional tip. 100% of it goes to you, with no commission.
When a buyer pays for their photos, they now see an option to leave you a tip: 10%, 15% or 20% rounded, or any amount they choose. It is never preselected, so only buyers who really want to thank you leave one, and 100% reaches your account with no ZebraSnap commission.
You see each tip in the sale details, in the email that tells you about the sale and in the app. Tips are off until you turn them on in your payout settings. For now, tips are available when you get paid through Stripe.
The site, the mobile app and the desktop app are now in Polish and Czech, so your customers can buy in their own language.
Your customers in Poland and Czechia can now browse your profile and albums, use the cart, get their purchase emails and read the help center in their own language. The site, the mobile app and the desktop app are now available in Polish and Czech.
Each visitor sees their browser's language or the one they pick in the language selector, so there is nothing for you to set up. If you cover events in those countries, share them with your athletes as usual.
Offer a pack before the event. Buyers save their card, choose their favorites when you publish and are charged only then.
Photographers can now sell a pack of photos before the album exists, for example 3 photos for $30. Turn on Presale in your album, set the size and price of the pack, and share the reservation link with your athletes.
Buyers save their card and are not charged anything. When you publish the album they get an email, choose their favorite photos and pay only then. If they don't like them, they cancel and pay nothing, so you never chase a refund. Presale works with Stripe payments and any unpublished, public album.
Your clients see more photos at once, switch sections from a sticky bar and move from photo to photo without waiting.
Galleries load 48 photos at a time and keep loading as your clients scroll. The photo bar stays pinned at the top with a section picker and a back-to-top button, so your clients switch sections without going back to the start of the album. In the viewer, the next photos are already loaded, so moving from one to the next is almost instant.
In your dashboard, your album photos also load 48 at a time and keep loading as you scroll.
Your second shooter or assistant uploads photos and builds your albums with their own account, without seeing your sales or messages.
You can now bring the people who help you at events onto your team. Invite them by email or username from the Team section of your settings: they sign in with their own account, switch into your workspace with one click, and can create and edit albums, upload photos and adjust prices, on the web and in the app.
Your sales, earnings, payouts, messages and settings stay yours alone, and they always see clearly that they're working in your account. You can pause or remove anyone's access whenever you want. Available on Pro (up to 3 people) and Enterprise (up to 10).
Create and edit albums, organize photos into sections, check sales and messages, and upload whole folders that stay in sync.
The Mac and Windows app isn't just for uploading anymore: create and publish albums, change prices, discounts and covers, organize your photos into sections, and see your sales, analytics, messages and notifications. When you make a sale or get a message, your computer lets you know even with the app in the background.
Uploads changed completely too: drop photos or folders anywhere, keep uploading after you close the window, pick big files up where they left off if the internet drops, and get a heads-up before a photo with the same name is replaced. You can also watch your Lightroom or Capture One export folder: every photo you export uploads by itself to the album you choose.
Signing in no longer needs a password: press "Continue in your browser" and sign in with Google, Apple or your email, just like on the web. If you already have the app, it updates itself when you open it.
Your logo, your colors and a minimal footer on your custom domain, with a Brand page that gets your logo ready for light and dark backgrounds.
Your clients now see your brand on every page of your custom domain: your logo at the top, linking to your page, your colors on the buttons and a minimal footer with your terms and "Powered by ZebraSnap". When you share a link from your domain, the preview shows your logo and your domain.
On the Brand page you upload your logo and, if you want, a version for dark backgrounds. We trim empty margins for you, tell you whether your logo is light, dark or has a background, and you choose what goes behind it: a white logo, for example, sits on a dark chip in light mode. You also get a preview in light and dark, the recommended size for your cover, and you can hide "Member since" on your profile.
The iOS and Android app gets a full refresh: a dashboard with your earnings, interactive analytics and dark mode throughout.
We redesigned the app from top to bottom to make it faster and easier to use. Once you update, you'll find a new dashboard with your weekly earnings, your best-selling albums and the storage you have left. In analytics you can scrub through the chart day by day, compare it with the previous period or last year, and see which countries and platforms your customers come from.
Each album shows its cover, price, sales and visitors at a glance. From there you can edit the price, discounts or cover, and browse your photos full screen. Everything looks great in dark mode too.
Split an album into parts like Swim, Bike and Run so your clients jump straight to their photos.
You can now split an album into sections: the stages of a triathlon, the start and the finish, or the days of an event. Your clients see a card for each section and jump straight to the part they want, and they can still search by selfie, bib number or color.
Pick the section when you upload from the web, or sort photos afterwards by dragging them or selecting several at once. The help center has all the details.
Hide the full gallery: your clients only see their photos after taking a selfie.
You can now keep the full gallery hidden. Anyone who opens the link takes a selfie and only sees the photos that match them.
Turn it on in the album privacy settings, next to the password. Face recognition switches on by itself. Perfect when you share the event link and don't want anyone browsing every photo.
Glass lenses drift over the enlarged preview. The photo stays clear, and a screenshot freezes the glass: whatever leaks is unusable.
The optional motion mask is no longer lines: glass lenses float over the enlarged preview and warp the photo. On screen they barely get in the way - zoom and all - and a screenshot freezes them in place, so whatever leaks is unusable.
You turn it on from watermark settings (it's off by default). Right there you pick how many lenses, their size, the distortion and the glass thickness, and you see how a capture comes out. It applies to all your albums, and each album can have its own recipe.
Create albums with no event for weddings, graduations or brands: off the marketplace, with your logo, colors and templates.
You can now create private albums for work outside races: weddings, graduations, brand events. They stay off the marketplace, your public profile and search engines; only people with the link can see them, with an optional password and private folders for multi-album jobs.
We also shipped the brand kit: upload your logo, set your colors and pick from three page templates with a live preview. Your clients see a gallery with your brand and check out with the same selfie search as always. Available on every plan.
When you upload an album or event cover, or your profile header, an editor opens so you can frame the image - on web and in the app - and you can recrop anytime without uploading again.
No more guessing how your cover will look. When you upload an album image, an event image or your profile header, a crop editor opens: drag to frame and zoom until it looks exactly how you want. In the mobile app it works with gestures, just like your gallery.
The crop never touches your original photo: it's stored separately, so you can adjust it anytime with the crop button, without uploading the file again. And for the profile header, the editor marks the safe zone that always stays visible no matter the screen size.
Override your global watermark on specific albums: text or logo, position, opacity and more, with a live preview on your own photos.
You can now give each album its own watermark. From the album panel, the new watermark action opens an editor with the same controls as your global settings - text or logo, position, opacity, quality, tiling, rotation and the protection mask - and a live preview on a real photo from the album. What you save there stays on that album even if you later change your global settings, and you can revert with one click; a dot on the button reminds you which albums have their own setup.
If you turn the watermark off on an album, previews now show at full quality with no blending protection: ideal for albums you want to share clean.
New payment engine: sell from Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia, and offer local payment methods in 15 more countries across Latin America, Africa and Asia.
We added dLocal Go as a new payment engine. If you're in Brazil, Indonesia or Malaysia, you can already sell with ZebraSnap: connect your dLocal Go account from your payment settings and your buyers pay with the methods of their country - PIX, Boleto and local cards in Brazil - while the sale lands in your own account, in your currency.
In 15 more countries, like Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Peru, dLocal Go joins as an alternative to Stripe: local cash and transfer methods that in some cases cost less per sale. In your payment settings you see the exact cost per sale of each option before you choose how to get paid.
We serve public previews so a direct download never yields a clean file, plus an optional motion mask that spoils screenshots.
We strengthened the protection on your public albums. Previews are now served in a way that stops a direct download from giving up a clean file. And you can switch on a motion mask for all your albums from watermark settings: on screen you barely notice it, but a screenshot comes out striped. Every album still ships with a watermark; the clean original is only delivered after a sale. You can preview how a capture looks from watermark settings.
If you sell in Mexico, your buyers can now pay in cash at any OXXO store or by SPEI bank transfer - no card needed.
If you charge on the Mexican platform, your buyers now choose between card, cash at OXXO or a SPEI transfer at checkout. There is nothing to set up: the methods appear automatically and your commission works the same no matter how they pay.
OXXO payments confirm within one business day and SPEI transfers within minutes. We handle the instructions, the reminders and let you know as soon as the payment is confirmed. More ways to pay means more closed sales.
The app story maker was fully redesigned: open it and find finished designs with your photos, your brand and the sales QR, ready to share in two taps.
The story maker in the mobile app now does the work for you: open it and you already have several finished designs with photos from your album, your profile and a QR code that leads straight to your sales page. Swipe, pick the one you like best and share it straight to Instagram - with your album link already copied so you can paste it as a sticker.
If you want to fine-tune it, everything edits like in Instagram: tap any element to move it, resize it with two fingers or remove it; switch templates (there are eight styles, from classic to polaroid), pick another photo from your album, adjust text and colors - with a palette pulled from your own photo - and choose the format for story, post or square. Your settings are remembered for next time.
When you create an album, copy the price and discounts from the previous one in one tap.
When you create a new album, you can now copy the price and offers from your last album in a single tap, without setting up discounts from scratch. Available on web and the mobile app.
When you publish an album you can turn on color search: your buyers filter the photos by the clothing color they wore. Beta and approximate.
You turn color search on with a toggle when you publish, next to face and bib recognition. Your buyers pick a color from the palette and see the photos of people wearing it - a shortcut for finding themselves when the bib isn't visible.
It's Beta and approximate: it groups photos by the dominant clothing color, so it can miss some or include the wrong ones. Selfie and bib search stay the most reliable, and we remind your buyers of that with a notice.
Your clients can now message you directly, and you reply from your inbox - on the web or in the app. Get an email and push alert for every new message.
We're launching direct messages on ZebraSnap. Anyone can now message you from your profile - with an account or as a guest - and you reply from a chat-style inbox, on both the web and the mobile app, with avatars and dates.
We notify you by push on your phone and by email the moment a message arrives. If someone messages you without an account, they can reply to your answer right from the email, no sign-up needed.
Pick any month, quarter, year or exact date range, step between periods, and compare against the previous one with up/down indicators on every metric.
Your stats are no longer stuck on "last 30 days": pick a month, quarter, year, week or an exact date range, and step to the previous or next period with one click. Turn on comparison and every metric shows how much it went up or down against the previous period - or the same period last year - with the earlier trend drawn over the chart.
It works on web and in the mobile app, both in your analytics dashboard and in each album's stats.
The whole app now shares the web's visual language, with automatic dark mode and a more polished experience on every screen.
We redesigned every screen of the mobile app with the same visual identity you already know from the web: consistent colors, icons and components from start to finish. The app now follows your phone's dark mode automatically.
It also feels better in the hand: haptic feedback when you tap buttons, smoother animations and carefully crafted details in every corner. Update from the store to see it.
Every discount type now explains exactly how it charges, per-photo pricing arrives, an optional cap per package, and real savings shown in the cart.
Setting up discounts no longer leaves room for doubt: each type explains how it charges and shows you a preview of the result ("They'll pay $237 total when buying 3 photos or more"). We're introducing the per-photo price discount ("3+ photos at $79 each") and an optional photo cap, so a "5 photos for $600" package doesn't apply to purchases of 20.
Your buyers now see the real savings in the cart, get a nudge when they're a few photos away from completing a package, and a new help center article explains every discount type.
Any visitor can report a photo, album or event without creating an account. Every report goes straight to our team.
Keeping the platform safe benefits everyone: anyone can now report a photo, an album or an event from the public pages, no account needed, choosing between inappropriate content, copyright or another reason. Our team receives every report instantly and reviews it.
The Lightroom plugin now uploads several photos in parallel - much faster exports - and lets you know when a new version is out.
If you publish from Lightroom you'll notice the difference: the plugin uploads up to 4 photos at the same time instead of one by one, so large exports finish much sooner. And so you don't miss improvements like this one, the plugin lets you know when a new version is ready to download in the downloads section.
Upload MP4 videos alongside your photos and sell them the same way - they play and download from the same gallery.
You can now upload MP4 videos to your albums and sell them just like your photos. Your buyers play and download them from the same gallery, and they get the original file exactly as you uploaded it.
On the Pro and Enterprise plans, your videos are also found by selfie and bib number, just like your photos - so your athletes go straight to their videos without digging through the whole event.
If you sell free albums, your visitors can download the photos without going through the cart.
If you sell free albums (available on paid accounts), you can now turn on "Allow direct downloads". Your visitors see a download button instead of the add-to-cart one and grab the photos directly - with your post-sale watermark if you have it set up.
Turn on a post-sale watermark so the files your buyers download carry your brand. Off by default.
By default, the photos your clients buy are delivered exactly as you uploaded them, with no watermark baked in. If you'd rather have your brand travel with every sale, the watermark settings now include a new Post-sale watermark tab where you set text or logo, position, opacity and rotation, independent from your album watermark.
The watermark is applied when the buyer's download is prepared, so if you tweak the settings after a sale, earlier orders keep the file they already had.
Share your invite link: when a photographer you invited makes their first sale, you both get credit that waives ZebraSnap's commission on your sales.
You now have a rewards program. From the rewards section in your settings you'll find your code and invite link to bring other photographers on board. When someone you invited makes their first sale, you get credit and they get a welcome bonus too.
That credit works on its own: on your next sale it automatically waives ZebraSnap's commission (never the payment processing fee, and it never costs your buyer more), so you keep a bigger share. You can also top up with promo codes and see every movement with its reason in your history.
Filter your sales by order number, buyer name or email, or album title - on the web and in the app.
When you rack up hundreds of sales, finding a single one used to mean endless scrolling. Now there's a search box on your sales list and on each album's orders: type the order number, the buyer's name or email, or the album title, and the list filters instantly.
It works the same in the mobile app, so you can answer a client's question from wherever you are.
Put your portfolio on your own brand - connect a domain you already own or buy a new one through us.
Your portfolio can now live on your own domain. Connect one you already own - like yourdomain.com or photos.yourdomain.com - or buy a fresh one from the domains section. Athletes and clients find you under your name, not a ZebraSnap URL, and sharing your portfolio feels natural - a link people actually remember.
Included in the Lite, PRO, and Enterprise plans.
We lowered the free plan commission from 17% to 16% - more margin on every photo sold, with nothing to do on your side.
The free plan now charges 16% commission on every sale, down from 17%. It applies automatically starting with your next payout - nothing to switch on.
That's one extra percentage point in your pocket on every photo sold, all year round, no contracts and no minimums. If you sell regularly from a free account, that extra margin adds up fast.
Your event gets discovered faster: cleaner cards, simpler filters, and a sticky toolbar on mobile.
We redesigned the public events page so your athletes can spot your race among thousands. More compact cards with a readable date, a clear location, and a representative photo when one exists - they scan more events per scroll and recognize yours before they give up.
The country and state filter has been merged into a single combobox with text search. If an athlete from another country is hunting for your event, they type "Mex", "Chile", "Esp" and the matching options pop up - no more wrestling with two chained selects or an endless scroll of flags.
On mobile the filter toolbar stays anchored at the top while they scroll, so they don't lose the filter while exploring cards. In practice: less drop-off and more athletes who actually make it to your album.
The public profile gets a new design built to show your work like a personal site.
Your public profile gets a new design built to showcase your work. A wide cover photo, your best albums up front, contact info, and links to your socials - a clean layout that feels more personal site than platform page. Combined with folders, it works as a portfolio you can send straight to a potential client.
Every place fees show up now displays them in full, including what Stripe charges. We also opened a help center with worked examples.
We made another pass over every spot where a fee shows up - pricing, estimated payout, sales panel, plan settings - and made sure the number you see is the full one. It now explicitly includes what the payment processor (Stripe) charges on top of ZebraSnap's commission, so you can work out your margin without surprises.
We also opened a help center with worked examples, breakdowns of how each charge is split, and country-specific notes. It's where we'll keep adding the practical info that today only support knows: tables, use cases, frequent questions. If you've ever wondered "but exactly how much do I get?", the answer lives there.
If an athlete bundles photos from different photographers, we now warn them before checkout so there are no download surprises.
