Gallurio vs Pixieset: portfolio and CRM alternatives

The short version

Start with Gallurio if you want one regional plan for the public portfolio, inquiry, booking, client, calendar, team, and invoice workflow, while photo delivery already happens elsewhere.

Pixieset is the most serious competitor on this list, because it is not one product. Client Gallery delivers photos. Website builds a site. Studio Manager runs bookings, contracts and invoices. There is a genuine free tier, and the Suite bundles everything from around $28 per month.

Gallurio is one plan at $15.00/mo — $150/yr, with configurable Home and Gallery canvases for services, video, featured projects, and gallery collections, plus bookings, clients, calendar, and invoices. It does not deliver galleries in the sense Pixieset means — no proofing, favouriting, downloads, or print store.

So the honest framing is not "which one wins." It is: if photo delivery is the centre of your business, Pixieset is built for that and Gallurio is not.

Price

Pixieset's free tier is real and worth taking seriously. If you are delivering a handful of galleries a year and not much else, free may beat a paid all-in-one plan.

What Pixieset does that Gallurio does not

• Client gallery delivery. Proofing, favourites, download controls, expiry, password protection, a mobile gallery app. This is the product and Gallurio has no equivalent.
• Print and product sales with fulfilment, which for many photographers is revenue rather than convenience.
• Contracts and e-signatures in Studio Manager.
• Payment processing on invoices.
• Photographer-specific structure throughout — shoots, deliverables, galleries per session.

What Gallurio does that Pixieset does not

• Serves any event business, not only photographers. Planners, caterers, venues and DJs use the same workspace, which matters if you do more than shoot.
• A flexible storefront for the whole creative business. Home and Gallery can mix services, video, individual images, featured projects, and collection-led grid or masonry layouts rather than treating the public site only as a delivery portal.
• One inquiry becomes a client and a booking in a single transaction from your public page.
• A single plan with no product-by-product pricing. Everything is included rather than assembled from Gallery plus Website plus Studio Manager.
• Regional pricing with a local estimate. Gallurio bills the applicable USD tier and shows a converted headline when available; Pixieset is USD.
• Five interface languages, including right-to-left Arabic.

Portfolio discovery versus client gallery delivery

These are different jobs. Search engines need a public page that explains the photographer's service, location, and work. Clients receiving finished photographs need proofing, favourites, downloads, privacy controls, and sometimes print sales.

Gallurio focuses on the first job and the booking workflow behind it. Owners can configure Home and Gallery search descriptions, canonical URLs, social previews, structured business/gallery data, and whether the published portfolio is indexable. Pixieset is the stronger specialist for the second job. A photographer can reasonably use Gallurio to be discovered and manage the booking, then Pixieset to deliver the finished gallery.

Who this is not for

Stay with Pixieset if:

• Gallery delivery is central to how you work and get paid.
• You sell prints or products through your galleries.
• The free tier already covers your volume.
• Contracts and card payments need to sit inside the same tool.

Running both is a reasonable answer and worth saying out loud: Pixieset for delivery, Gallurio for the bookings behind it.

Related comparisons

• Gallurio vs Studio Ninja — the photographer CRM comparison
• Gallurio vs Squarespace — if the site is the thing you are paying for
• Gallurio vs HoneyBook — the broader service-business platform

Sources

Pixieset pricing checked on 2026-08-23 from its first-party pages for Client Gallery, Studio Manager, and the Pixieset Suite. The pages listed annual-billing entry prices of $8, $12, and $28 per month respectively, alongside ongoing free tiers. Confirm current plan boundaries directly before relying on them.