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Photo booth & print

A photo booth that runs on a tablet you already own.

Prints in seconds, right there at the table. Sends a copy to a guest's phone. Keeps working when the venue's wi-fi does not.

A browser, a camera and a printer. Nothing to install — and the demo takes no sign-up and sends nothing anywhere.

Prints on the spot Collect by QR Your own artwork Works offline

Everything a booth does, without the booth.

A web page that uses the camera in front of it and the printer beside it, and behaves like equipment rather than software.

Layouts

Drawn, not coded

A layout is a picture of itself — rectangles where the photos go. Drop the image in and the positions are read out of it, tilts and all. Twenty-three come with it.

Frames

Your artwork, your seasons

Design a frame however you like and give it a season. It appears when that season comes round and steps aside when it passes.

Backgrounds

A cloth and an idea

Hang a green cloth and put anything behind your guests. No model to download, nothing fetched at the venue — it is arithmetic, and it runs with the aerial off.

Props

Hats that stay on

Props pinned to a face and following it, leaning as the head leans. Or pinned to a corner, which works on any device at all.

Delivery

Guests keep their own

A code beside the photo. Point a phone at it and the picture opens, ready to save — without anybody borrowing your tablet.

Second screen

Something for the queue

Another screen facing the room, showing the night filling up. Or facing the guest, showing the photo just taken with the code to keep it.

An evening's setup, then it looks after itself.

Open it on a tablet

Add it to the home screen and it opens like any other app. No store, no install.

Point it at a printer

Any AirPrint or Mopria printer on the same network. No driver.

Choose a layout and a frame

Or load your own. The layout follows the frame, so there is nothing to keep in step.

Leave it on the table

Kiosk mode shows guests the camera and nothing else. It invites the next person over when nobody is there.

What it needs, plainly

  • A tablet with a decent camera, and somewhere to stand it.
  • A printer that speaks AirPrint or Mopria, if you want prints at the table.
  • A green or blue cloth, only if you want backgrounds behind your guests.
  • An internet connection for guests to collect photos by code — everything else, including shooting and printing, works without one.

Made for people who run events, not for people who run software.

Every decision in it was made at half past ten at night, wondering why the printer had stopped.

Weddings and parties

Set it up once

Choose a layout and a frame, put it on the table, and leave it. It invites the next person over when nobody is standing there, and shows guests the camera and nothing else.

Booth hire

Several booths, one library

Add whoever runs a booth for you. Layouts, frames and backgrounds are the business's, not one tablet's, so a spare picks up exactly what the first had.

Schools, clubs, fundraisers

Your own artwork on every print

Draw the layout, design the frame, give it a season. It appears when that season comes round and steps aside when it passes.

The questions people actually ask.

What if the venue has no wi-fi?

It shoots and prints anyway. Everything on the night runs on the tablet. Only guests collecting photos by code needs a connection, and anything that could not be sent goes up on its own once there is one.

Which printer?

Anything that speaks AirPrint or Mopria on the same network — most dye-sub photo printers do. No driver to install, because the tablet already knows how.

Do guests need an app?

No. They point a phone camera at the code beside their photo and it opens in their browser, ready to save.

Where do the photographs live?

On your tablet, and — if you turn on collection by code — in your own Cloudflare storage under your own account. Not ours. You set how long they are kept; we suggest thirty days.

Does the face detection recognise anyone?

No. It finds that a face is there so a hat can sit on it. It runs on the device, identifies nobody, and stores nothing — the position is used to draw one frame and is gone by the next.

What if I want to leave?

One button writes the whole booth to a single ordinary zip file. That is deliberate: leaving should never be something you ask permission for.

More questions, answered plainly →

One subscription. Every booth you run.

No limit on events, guests, photographs or tablets. Everyone who runs a booth for you shares the same library.

Monthly

See the price

Billed monthly. Cancel whenever you like.

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Yearly

See the price

Billed yearly. The cheaper way if you run booths all year.

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What comes with it

All of the booth

Printing at the table, guests collecting by code, twenty-three layouts, your own frames and backgrounds, props, second screens, kiosk mode, and the whole booth exportable to one file whenever you want it.

Artwork made to work together is sold separately as packs — bought once, yours at every event you run.

Two days to change your mind, for any reason. See refunds.

Set it up once. Then just point people at it.

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