Encore
The CloudSpot alternative

Same shape. Different thing underneath

CloudSpot is the closest comparison on this list: storage-metered galleries, a print store, studio management on the higher tiers. The separation is narrower here, so it is worth being exact about it.

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The argument

01

CloudSpot's published tiers are storage-metered like ours - 5GB free with a three-gallery cap, then 15GB, 100GB, 500GB and unlimited - with the print store on every plan and commission at 15% on the two lowest tiers, commission-free above them. Studio management appears from their Lite tier up. That is a coherent product and the pricing is legible, which is more than can be said for parts of this category.

02

What Encore does that is not in that list is treat delivery as a record. Every view, favourite and download is written into a per-studio append-only chain where each entry carries the hash of the one before it, so altering history is detectable rather than silent, and the head is periodically countersigned by an RFC 3161 timestamp authority. The trail exports. If you have ever had a client insist they were never sent anything, you already know why that matters.

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The other two are timing and identity. Pit Pass makes a gallery live during the shoot. Roll IDs give every frame one permanent, quotable identity that survives being copied into another gallery, exported, or reprinted years later.

04

On file types, read their tiers: their published free and entry plans are JPEG-only, with the full set of formats from Lite up. Worth knowing before you pick a plan around a price.

Where they fall short

Four reasons photographers leave CloudSpot

DELIVERY AS EVIDENCE

A chain, not a counter.

Hash-chained per studio, tamper-evident, exportable, and periodically anchored by an independent timestamp authority's own token. The point is that it is checkable by somebody who does not trust us.

LIVE DURING THE SHOOT

Pit Pass.

Frames land in a live gallery while the night is still happening, not after you get home and cull.

ONE ID, FOREVER

Roll IDs across the archive.

A permanent ID per frame, across every gallery it appears in. Copy a photo elsewhere and it is still the same photo, with the same name.

ALL FORMATS, EVERY TIER

No JPEG-only floor.

CloudSpot's published free and Entry plans accept JPEG only; the rest of the formats start at Lite. Encore does not gate file types by plan.

Brutal honesty

Who Encore is not for

We respect your time enough to name when CloudSpot (or another platform) is genuinely the better call. Read this before you switch.

  • 01

    You sell prints through the gallery.

    CloudSpot's store is on every tier and commission-free from Lite up. Ours is not shipping. That is the clearest reason on this page to stay where you are.

  • 02

    You want CRM and studio management included.

    Their higher tiers bundle studio management. Encore is a delivery tool and does not do this.

  • 03

    Unlimited storage is the whole requirement.

    If a bottomless archive on one bill is the job, their unlimited tier is a direct answer and our metered plans are not.

Side by side

Encore vs CloudSpot

Metered by

Encore

Storage

CloudSpot

Storage

File types on entry plans

Encore

All

CloudSpot

JPEG only below Lite

Gallery cap on the free tier

Encore

No cap

CloudSpot

3 galleries

Live gallery during the shoot

Encore

Yes

CloudSpot

No

Tamper-evident audit chain, exportable

Encore

Yes

CloudSpot

No

Permanent Roll IDs across galleries

Encore

Yes

CloudSpot

No

Print store

Encore

Not yet

CloudSpot

Yes, all tiers

Print commission

Encore

n/a

CloudSpot

15% on Free/Entry, none above

Studio management

Encore

No

CloudSpot

Lite tier and above

Custom domain

Encore

Yes

CloudSpot

Not stated on their pricing page

One-tap 9:16 highlight reel

Encore

Yes

CloudSpot

No

CloudSpot column checked against their published pages on 2026-08-24 · Pricing. "No" means we could not find it shipped. Spot something stale? Tell us and we'll fix the row.

Migration

Coming from CloudSpot? Export a gallery, drop the zip on /import. We'll Roll-ID every frame.

Export a gallery from CloudSpot as a zip. Drop it on the Import page. We unzip, run every frame through the variant pipeline, and assign Roll IDs starting from your studio's next number. Multi-GB shoots run server-side so you can close the tab - Roll IDs appear as photos finalize.