Pic-Time vs Curanta: photographers vs video-first creators
Pic-Time built a beautiful home for photographers. Curanta builds one for video. Here's where they overlap, and where they don't.
If you shoot photos, Pic-Time is probably the right answer. It was designed for RAW workflows, print sales, and the exact rhythm a photographer's client goes through — favoriting, ordering, hanging on a wall.
If you shoot video — especially vertical video for Reels and TikTok — Pic-Time is a photo gallery with video added on top. And you feel it the moment a 9:16 clip loads.
The player is the whole product
Curanta was built video-first, vertical-first. Autoplay muted, tap to unmute, Instagram-quality scrub. On desktop, we frame 9:16 the way a phone does — not stretched to fill a photo grid. On mobile, the player is the page.
What overlaps
- Branded gallery URL with your logo and color
- Client favorites and download tracking
- Password protection and expiry
- Store-front for selling deliverables
Where Curanta pulls ahead for video
- Native 9:16 player on every surface, not a resize of a 16:9 frame
- Reels-ready MP4 downloads at the right aspect ratio, no re-encoding
- Editorial, Reel, and Grid gallery layouts — one is literally the TikTok feed
- Client pages, not folders. No filename lists.
- Sneak-peek mode: deliver one hero clip before the full gallery, drives client hype
How to choose
If more than half your revenue comes from photo prints and packages, Pic-Time. If more than half your work is 9:16 for social — weddings-as-Reels, brand content, short-form deliverables — Curanta was made for you.