SnapMonkey

The problem

Wedding and event photographers shoot 2,000+ frames across multiple cameras in a single day, then spend the drive home wondering whether the SD cards survived. Studio shooters tether for the hero shots but lose the candid roll between sessions. Real estate and product shooters need every frame on the editor's desk before they're back at the office.

The existing options all bottleneck on a human moving a card. Canon's own EOS Utility wants a tethered laptop. Canon's phone app wants the phone in your hand and pairs one camera at a time. Manual SD-card shuffling is how good frames go missing. SnapMonkey replaces the human-with-a-card with the camera's built-in FTP radio, pointed at a server we run for you.

How SnapMonkey works

Three steps, one-time setup per camera.

1. Sign up and connect your cloud. Create a SnapMonkey account at snapmonkey.app and authorize OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox (or more than one — see below). The dashboard then shows you a set of FTP credentials: a server address, a port, a username, and a password unique to your account.

2. Enter the credentials into your Canon's WiFi menu. On the camera, open Communication settings → Network settings → Transfer images to FTP server, point it at the SnapMonkey FTP address shown in your dashboard, and paste in the username and password. Take one test shot. It should appear in your cloud folder within a few seconds.

3. Shoot. Every photo and video the camera writes hits the FTP server, gets routed to your chosen cloud destination, and shows up in your dashboard's transfer history with a timestamp and a delivery status. You don't open the app. You don't touch the phone. You shoot.

Why this matters for working photographers

The value isn't "automation" in the abstract — it's that the frames are already in your editor's Lightroom catalog before you're back at the car. A second-shooter at a wedding can be pointed at a different cloud folder than the lead so the cull starts on the way home. A real estate shooter can have the listing photos in the agent's Dropbox before the open house ends. If a card fails mid-shoot, you've still got every frame transmitted up to that point.

The honest secondary benefit: there's a complete, timestamped transfer log in the dashboard. If a client claims a photo wasn't delivered, the answer is in the history view, not in your memory.

Multiple cameras, multiple destinations

SnapMonkey is built around the way working photographers actually shoot. Add as many cameras as your plan supports; each one gets its own FTP credentials so you can route the R5 to one folder and the R6 II to another. Pair a single camera with multiple cloud destinations — OneDrive for your archive, Dropbox for the client's shared folder — and SnapMonkey fans the file out to both in one pass. Regenerate any camera's credentials from the dashboard if a body changes hands or a credential leaks.

What you get

• Multi-camera support with individual cloud destinations per body
• Send each shot to multiple cloud providers simultaneously
• Transfer dashboard with full, timestamped delivery history
• Per-user FTP credentials, regenerable from the dashboard
• Works with Canon EOS R-series mirrorless (R3, R5, R5 II, R6, R6 II, R1) and pro DSLRs (1D X, 5D Mark IV)
• Free plan — 200 transfers per month, no credit card required

Cloud destinations

Free plan includes 200 transfers per month. Paid tiers unlock higher volume and additional cameras.