Lnsly vs Google Drive + WhatsApp + Excel
Google Drive for the photos, WhatsApp for the client, Excel or a notebook for the money. This is not a product — it is how most Egyptian studios actually work, and it is what we are really competing with.
Price and storage
- Lnsly
- The Studio plan: 250 GB of storage, billed in Egyptian Pounds.
- Google Drive + WhatsApp + Excel
- No subscription. The cost is your time, and whatever Google charges once 15 GB runs out.15 GB free, then a Google One plan
Lnsly and Google Drive + WhatsApp + Excel, feature by feature
Checked against public pricing and feature pages on August 31, 2026. Where a tool's coverage is unclear or depends on the tier, it is marked partial rather than missing.
| Capability | Lnsly | Google Drive + WhatsApp + Excel |
|---|---|---|
| Client galleries with access control | ||
| Booking page with your availability | ||
| Lead pipeline | ||
| Contracts with e-signature | ||
| Installment schedules | ||
| Payment records and receipts | ||
| Expenses tied to each booking | ||
| Profit reports per booking | ||
| Team roles that hide prices | ||
| Crew assignment per shoot | ||
| Arabic interface with RTL | ||
| Billed in Egyptian Pounds | ||
| WhatsApp delivery and codes | ||
| Print and product storewe don't have this | ||
| Watermarking and client proofingwe don't have this | ||
| Workflow automationwe don't have this | ||
| Collect client payments onlinewe don't have this | ||
| Custom domain and white-labelwe don't have this | ||
| Mobile appwe don't have this |
Which one to choose
Choose Lnsly if
Nothing here is written down in one place. A Drive link expires and the client asks again six months later. A deposit gets agreed in a chat and forgotten. Nobody knows what a wedding earned after the second shooter and the transport. Lnsly is the same working day with a record behind it — and it still runs on WhatsApp and pounds, because that is how you already work.
- Client galleries with access control
- Booking page with your availability
- Lead pipeline
- Contracts with e-signature
- Installment schedules
- Payment records and receipts
- Expenses tied to each booking
- Profit reports per booking
- Team roles that hide prices
- Crew assignment per shoot
Choose Google Drive + WhatsApp + Excel if
You shoot a handful of jobs a year and you can hold all of it in your head. Free is hard to beat, and a system you do not need is overhead. Come back when the chats start getting lost.
- Mobile app
Lnsly is not a new way of working — it is your way of working, with nothing forgotten.
Try it against what you use now
We will move your data across for you.
This page describes Google Drive + WhatsApp + Excel as advertised on its own public pages on August 31, 2026. We are not affiliated with them, product names belong to their owners, and capabilities change — if we have got something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.