Shot List Planner vs Pix
Pix has a genuinely good free generator: pick your venue and party size and it builds a customised list of 100+ shots. It stops at print. Shot List Planner picks up where that ends.
| Shot List Planner | Pix | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Generates a starting list | Yes | Yes — 100+ shots |
| Venue-specific suggestions | In the template | Yes |
| Printable | Yes | Yes |
| Priority flagging | Yes | No |
| Live mobile checklist | Yes | No |
| Photographer can tick off shots | Yes | No |
| Guest headshots | With Seat the Day | No |
| Outfit & timing notes | Yes | No |
| Second shooter sync | Yes | No |
| Guest list integration | With Seat the Day | No |
What Pix does well
Their free generator asks for your venue type, party size, and preferred categories, then builds a checklist of 100+ shots organised by wedding phase, with venue-specific suggestions for outdoor, church, barn, beach, garden, ballroom, and vineyard weddings. You can check items off, add your own, and print it.
As a way to stop staring at a blank page, that's good. If all you want is a comprehensive starting list on paper, Pix will get you there in about three minutes and it costs nothing.
Where it stops
Pix's output is a document. Once it's printed, it can't do anything else — which means it can't do the three things that change what photos you actually end up with.
It can't tell your photographer what matters
A list of 100+ shots with no ranking is, on a wedding day that's running forty minutes behind, roughly the same as no list. Your photographer has to guess which of the hundred to protect. Priority flagging is the difference between a list and an instruction.
It can't be used during the day
A printed sheet has no shared state. If you have a second shooter, they're working from a separate copy or no copy, and there's no way to know at 7 p.m. that eleven priority shots are still outstanding — while there's still light to fix it.
It doesn't know your people
This is the big one. Pix generates shots by category, so it produces “bride with grandparents.” It cannot produce “Ruth, 93, leaving at eight, table two” because it has no idea who Ruth is. Every generic generator has this ceiling.
The honest recommendation
If you already ran the Pix generator and liked the list, keep it. Paste the shots you kept into the free planner, star the ten you'd be sad to lose, add faces to your wedding party, and share the link. That takes fifteen minutes and it converts a good document into something that works on the day.
Note that Pix's main business is guest photo collection via QR code — the shot list generator is a free tool alongside it. That's a different product category from planning, so it's not really competing for the same job.
Which one you should use
Pick Pix if…
- You want a comprehensive printable list in three minutes
- You're also using their QR guest photo collection
- You don't need anything to happen after printing
Pick Shot List Planner if…
- You want the list to be usable on the wedding day itself
- Some shots matter more than others and you want that recorded
- Your photographer would benefit from faces and notes
Comparison based on each product's own public pages, checked August 2026. Products change — if something here is out of date, tell me and I'll fix it.
Common questions
Is the Pix shot list generator free?
Yes. It's a free tool on their site — you select your venue and categories and it builds a printable checklist of 100+ shots.
Which generates a better starting list?
They're comparable, and Pix's venue-specific suggestions are a nice touch. The starting list isn't really where either tool is won or lost — a hundred generic shots is a hundred generic shots. What matters is what you can do with it afterwards.
Can I import a Pix list into Shot List Planner?
There's no direct import, but you can paste shots in bulk. Most people find they only keep 30–40 of the 100+ anyway.
Build your shot list free
No account needed to start. Add your shots, flag the ones that matter, share a link your photographer can check off on their phone.
Free forever. The paid tier lives inside Seat the Day.