GeoSnapShot is a platform designed for photographers who handle high-volume photography, offering tools to manage, tag, and sell thousands of photos quickly. Its facial recognition and bib tagging features help identify participants automatically, making it especially practical for marathons, sports meets, and school events where speed and accuracy matter.
Photographers can also generate income through customizable online galleries, allowing participants to find, purchase, and download their images with just a few clicks. Pricing and sales tracking are built directly into the platform, creating a simple all-in-one solution for managing high volumes of event photos.
However, GeoSnapShot isn’t without its limitations, especially for photographers who need instant delivery and automation.
- No instant delivery: Photos can’t be delivered in real time, which misses sales opportunities during the event, when participants are most likely to buy.
- Manual editing workflow: Since GeoSnapShot doesn’t include built-in editing tools, photographers must edit elsewhere and upload manually, adding steps that slow down production and reduce sales.
We believe that photo moments are most powerful when they’re shared live. That’s why we designed Honcho as the best alternative to GeoSnapShot—where participants can view and purchase their photos instantly at the height of their excitement. By making photos available in real time, Honcho helps photographers capture not just great images, but the emotional connection that drives more sales.
For photographers who value speed and automation, Honcho lets them instantly deliver photos with face recognition and auto-apply presets during upload, ensuring every photo is ready to sell and share within seconds.
Honcho: A Modern Alternative to GeoSnapShot
Honcho is built for the speed and demands of modern event photography, bringing instant delivery, live editing, and automated sales together in one unified platform. Whether you’re photographing a marathon, sports meet, or school event, Honcho streamlines the entire process from the moment you capture a shot to the moment it’s sold.
With advanced AI face recognition, participants can instantly discover their photos simply by uploading a selfie—no manual searching or sorting required. As you shoot, images are sent directly from your camera to the cloud, where presets are automatically applied for consistent, ready-to-sell results.
From there, everything is handled within the same system: you can manage pricing, run promotions, and sell straight from the gallery. Honcho keeps your workflow fast and automated, so you can spend less time managing files and more time capturing moments that matter.
Benefits of Honcho
Honcho streamlines every part of event photography, from capturing the action to selling the final photos. Built for speed, automation, and ease of use, it lets photographers stay focused on shooting while Honcho handles delivery and sales instantly in the background.
Boost Photo Sales by Selling Instantly
With Honcho’s camera-to-cloud system, every photo is uploaded instantly as it’s taken, giving participants the chance to view and purchase their images while the excitement is still fresh. Picture marathon runners buying their finish-line photos within seconds of crossing it.
This immediacy captures the emotional high of the event, encouraging impulse purchases and boosting overall sales. It all happens automatically—uploading, delivery, and sales—so you can keep shooting while the revenue flows in.
Enjoy Lower Commissions
Honcho uses a tiered subscription model that helps photographers maximize their earnings. Indie members pay only 10% per sale, Pro users just 5%, and Studio users benefit from the lowest commission at 3%. This structure scales with your business, whether you’re a solo photographer or managing a full studio team.
Protect Everyone’s Privacy
Privacy is crucial at large public events like marathons. Honcho automatically blurs every photo in your gallery, revealing only the images matched through face recognition. This ensures that participants can view and purchase only their own photos.
With this approach, you can confidently share your gallery publicly while keeping everyone’s privacy intact. It’s a smart, secure solution made possible only with Honcho.
Save Time on Manual Editing and Uploading
Honcho eliminates the post-event grind. Photos are uploaded, edited, and delivered automatically as you shoot, so your work is essentially done when the event ends. No more long hours sorting, editing, or uploading afterward; just shoot the event and watch sales roll in.
With its end-to-end automation, Honcho helps you deliver faster and work smarter. You’ll save time, boost sales, and deliver unforgettable experiences at every event.
How to Get Started With Honcho
Honcho simplifies the entire photography workflow, from capture to delivery. Whether you’re shooting a marathon, wedding, or corporate event, it helps you move faster, collaborate effortlessly, and create a seamless experience for clients and participants. Below are the core features that make Honcho a powerful alternative to GeoSnapShot.
Upload Photos From Camera to Cloud
With Honcho, you upload photos as you shoot. Every image you capture appears instantly in a gallery that can be shared with clients and guests in real time, turning photo delivery into a live experience.
Getting started is simple. Just connect your camera to your smartphone running the Honcho app. Once paired, every shot you take is automatically uploaded to the cloud within seconds.
Photos are instantly viewable on any device through the mobile or web app, so both photographers and clients can access event galleries anytime, anywhere.
Honcho supports wired tethering for maximum stability and speed, using any standard data cable. Full-resolution uploads typically complete in under five seconds. For even faster performance, you can choose smaller upload sizes—from the original resolution down to 640px—perfect for live event coverage.
Unlike traditional tethering tools like CamRanger, Honcho doesn’t require extra hardware. It works entirely through your existing camera and phone setup, offering essentially unlimited range so you can move freely around the venue without losing connection.
Instantly Edit Photos With Presets
With Honcho, photos can be enhanced the moment they’re uploaded. Its built-in editor automatically applies presets, giving your images a polished, ready-to-share look in seconds. You can also create custom presets on the platform to maintain a consistent editing style across all your events.
Edited photos sync instantly to the gallery, ensuring clients and guests always see the latest version without delay. This seamless connection between editing and delivery helps photographers maintain a professional standard without spending hours in post-production.
Honcho also enables live collaboration. Invite an assistant or teammate to edit alongside you in real time using the collaborative photo editor. Every change is synced instantly, making it easy to divide tasks, speed up edits, and maintain consistent quality, even for large-scale events.
What sets Honcho’s editing system apart is its efficiency. By combining editing, syncing, and delivery in one platform, photographers can skip the back-and-forth between apps and focus entirely on creating polished, share-ready images while the shoot is ongoing.
Sell Photos Instantly
With Honcho, selling your photos happens in real time. Create price lists for any gallery, whether it’s a marathon, wedding, school event, or corporate shoot, and control exactly how each image is priced.
You can offer a variety of options within each price list, including different download sizes—from a quick 640px preview to full-resolution files. For added flexibility, set up packages or tiered pricing so customers can select the option that fits them best.
Once your products are linked to a gallery, participants can browse, purchase, and download their photos through Honcho’s online store. This streamlined system turns every event into a revenue opportunity while keeping your workflow automated and efficient.
Protecting privacy is a top concern when sharing photos from marathons, sports tournaments, or school events. Many organizers hesitate to make galleries public, worried that sensitive or personal moments could be seen by the wrong eyes. Runners want to relive their finish line moments without exposing them broadly, athletes may prefer to keep certain action shots private, and schools have a responsibility to safeguard students’ identities. Without proper privacy measures, galleries often go unshared, and photos lose their value.
Honcho solves this problem with built-in privacy controls that make sharing secure and simple. For private events, galleries can be password-protected so that only authorized viewers have access—a perfect solution for corporate functions or internal events.
For public events, Honcho offers a smarter way to protect privacy. You can activate automatic blurring across the gallery, and face recognition ensures that each participant sees only their own images. Each runner, athlete, or student can view and purchase their photos, while all other images remain blurred.
This approach lets photographers and organizers confidently share a single gallery with the public while maintaining privacy for all participants. It’s a powerful solution that combines wide distribution and privacy protection.
Conclusion
Traditional photo delivery methods often miss opportunities for engagement and revenue. While platforms like GeoSnapShot are useful for sharing photos after an event, there’s a significant advantage to letting participants view and purchase their images in real time, while the action is still happening.
Honcho is designed to make that possible. As a smarter alternative to GeoSnapShot, it delivers the right photos to the right people instantly using face recognition, all while safeguarding privacy. This real-time access drives more sales, since participants are more likely to buy in the excitement of the moment.
Event photography is about creating experiences. Runners want to relive crossing the finish line, athletes want to see their highlights immediately, and parents expect instant access to school photos. If photography is treated solely as documentation, it risks being replaced—after all, everyone now carries a capable camera in their pocket.
By providing instant delivery, seamless access, and an easy purchasing experience, Honcho helps you elevate the event experience, delight participants, and grow your business. The more value you add to the event, the more successful your work becomes—both creatively and financially.
