Turbo Link vs Pixieset for photographers
Pixieset has polished gallery delivery. Turbo Link adds a website, booking, and a CRM in the same subscription. Here is the real comparison.
Pixieset is known for gallery delivery, and it is good at it. What Pixieset is not built as is a full studio platform: booking, contracts, a CRM, and a website live outside the core gallery product or as separate add-ons. Turbo Link keeps the whole client journey, inquiry through delivered gallery and a print sale, inside one subscription and one client record.
Pricing, side by side
Pixieset’s pricing page returned a blocked response when checked directly, so its current prices are marked unverified below rather than guessed. This comparison instead lines up what each product publishes about its features.
| Turbo Link Studio | Pixieset | |
|---|---|---|
| Price, billed annually | $49/month | Unverified, check pixieset.com/pricing |
| Client galleries | Included, 100 GB | Included, core product |
| Watermarking and proofing | Included | Included |
| Print store with fulfillment | Included | Included |
| Website | Included, own domain | Separate product line |
| Online booking | Included | Add-on |
| Contracts and e-signing | Included | Separate product line |
| CRM with rebook flags | Included, due at 6 weeks, at-risk at 10 | Not published as a core feature |
| Card processing | 2.9% + 15 cents | Unverified |
Storage beyond 100 GB on Turbo Link Studio runs $10 per 250 GB. Features read from turbolinkstudio.com on September 2, 2026 and from Pixieset’s public product pages where its pricing page could not be fetched.
What Pixieset does better
Be fair about it. Pixieset has real strengths:
- Gallery presentation. Pixieset’s gallery templates and client proofing flow are polished and widely used, and that reputation is earned.
- A gallery-first focus. A photographer who only wants gallery delivery and nothing else may find Pixieset’s narrower product easier to learn, since it is not trying to also be a booking system or a CRM.
- A large existing user base, which means more third-party guides, community answers, and familiarity among clients who have seen a Pixieset gallery before.
If gallery delivery alone is the need, and a studio already has a website and booking system it likes, Pixieset is a fair standalone choice.
What Turbo Link does that Pixieset does not offer as one product
Turbo Link is a designed website on your own domain, online booking, a client book, contracts and e-signing, client galleries with watermarking and proofing, a built-in print store with fulfillment, payments and payouts, and a client portal, all in one subscription.
- One client record end to end. An inquiry, a booking, a signed contract, a deposit, and a delivered gallery all live under the same client profile, not split across a gallery tool and a separate booking tool.
- A CRM built for rebooking. Clients are flagged due at six weeks and at-risk at ten weeks, with birthdays and anniversaries surfaced automatically. See photography crm.
- A website that ships with the studio. Eight switchable looks on your own domain, with the booking and gallery already wired in, no separate tool to connect.
- A client portal that needs no download. Magic link or 6-digit code, works inside Instagram’s in-app browser. See photography client experience.
- A person answers the phone, and the studio offers Done For You website design from $349 for photographers who want the build handled for them.
Which one fits
A studio that only needs polished gallery delivery, and already has a website and booking system it is happy with, has good reason to look at Pixieset on its own terms. A studio that wants one login for the entire client journey, from first inquiry to a delivered gallery and a print sale, without stitching a gallery tool to a separate booking and CRM setup, will do better on Turbo Link.
See the full photography build at for photographers, the client side at photography client experience, and the CRM at photography crm. Ready to see it running: get a demo. Full pricing: the pricing page.
Questions people ask
Is Pixieset cheaper than Turbo Link?
Unverified. Pixieset's pricing page could not be fetched to confirm current tiers and prices, so treat any number you see elsewhere as unconfirmed until checked directly on pixieset.com. Turbo Link Studio is $49 a month billed annually, and includes a website, booking, and a CRM alongside galleries, which Pixieset's published features describe as a gallery-and-store product rather than a full studio platform.
Does Pixieset include a website and booking?
Pixieset's published product pages describe gallery delivery, client proofing, and a print store as the core product, plus a separate booking add-on. It is not built as a single all-in system the way Turbo Link is, where the website, booking calendar, contracts, and galleries share one client record.
What does Pixieset do better than Turbo Link?
Gallery presentation. Pixieset has spent years refining how a gallery looks and how proofing feels to a client, and it shows. If gallery polish is the single most important thing to a studio, Pixieset's gallery experience is a genuine strength.
Can I move my client galleries from Pixieset to Turbo Link?
Client records move by CSV export and import, see /help/import-clients-csv. Existing hosted galleries do not transfer automatically, delivered images would need to be re-uploaded into a new Turbo Link gallery. See /help/switching-from-another-tool for what does and does not carry over.
Does Turbo Link have watermarking and proofing like Pixieset?
Yes. Galleries include watermarked previews until purchase, guest PIN links, favorites and notes, and a print store with lab fulfillment. See /help/create-a-gallery and /help/gallery-watermark-and-proofing.