Photo booth alternative: what a guest album does instead
Not a replacement — a different job. A booth is an attraction with a queue and a printed strip; a guest album is coverage of everything happening away from it.
Pick the booth for the moment. Pick the album for the day.
If you want guests queuing for props and leaving with a print in their hand, hire a booth. If you want the photographs from the ceremony, the tables and the dance floor, you want the album. Plenty of events are better with both, which is why this page names what each one misses.
Pick the booth for the moment. Pick the album for the day.
If you want guests queuing for props and leaving with a print in their hand, hire a booth. If you want the photographs from the ceremony, the tables and the dance floor, you want the album. Plenty of events are better with both, which is why this page names what each one misses.
What each one actually collects
| Gathmo album | Photo booth | |
|---|---|---|
| What it captures | Everything guests shoot, all evening, wherever they are | Posed shots taken at one spot |
| How many at once | Every guest phone at the same time | One group at a time, with a queue at peak |
| Printed keepsake | No prints — this is where a booth genuinely wins | A strip guests take home that evening |
| Setup | A QR code on the table cards | Delivery, setup, an attendant, and collection |
| Cost shape | One price per event | Hourly, plus travel, prints and idle time |
| Voice and video | Voice messages and video in the same album | Photos, and video on some models |
| Afterwards | The full album, downloadable by you and your guests | The prints, plus a gallery link from the operator |
The gap a booth leaves, in three parts
The rest of the room
A booth photographs the people who walk to it. The ceremony, the speeches and the dance floor happen somewhere else.
The people who never queue
Some guests will not stand in a line for props. They still take photographs all evening on their own phones.
The files, not just the prints
You end the night with a stack of strips and a link. The album ends the night with the original files, yours to download.
This compares a digital guest-media album with photo-booth rentals as a category, not with any named operator. Booth features and pricing vary widely by supplier and country; nothing here is a claim about a specific company.
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Can we have both at the same event?
Yes, and plenty of hosts do. The booth is the attraction people queue for; the album is everything happening while they queue. Put the QR code on the booth itself and it costs you nothing extra.
Do guests have to queue for this?
No. Every phone in the room works at once, so there is no line and no busiest hour where half the guests give up.
What about prints — can we still have those?
Not from us; we produce no prints. That is the one thing a booth does that this does not, and it is worth saying plainly rather than talking around it.
How much setup does it need on the day?
A printed code on the tables. Nothing to deliver, plug in, staff or collect, which is also why there is no idle-time charge to negotiate.
What happens to the photos after the night?
They stay in one album you and your guests can download. A booth leaves you prints plus a link; this leaves you the original files.
Does it work away from where the booth stands?
That is the point. It works wherever guests are — the ceremony, the tables, outside, the dance floor — not just in front of a backdrop.
Your guests get the whole album — and can download it.
- Photos, videos and voice messages, all on one page.
- Guests open the link and download whatever they want.
- Public, or behind a password — you decide.
Fra 49 USD. Betal én gang, per arrangement.
Ingen abonnement for arrangører. Gratis å starte, oppgrader bare når du trenger mer.
- 20 bilder, videoer og talemeldinger
- 5 GB lagring inkludert
- Ubegrenset antall gjester — ingen app nødvendig
- Album i 30 dager
- Video inntil 30 sek · tale 30 sek
- Gathmo-merking på delte medier
- Ingen nedlasting i originalkvalitet
- Ubegrenset med bilder, video og lyd
- 50 GB lagring inkludert
- Last ned alle originaler (ZIP)
- Ingen Gathmo-merking på mediene dine
- Album i 90 dager
- Video inntil 5 min · tale Ubegrenset
- Modereringsverktøy for arrangøren
- Alt i Essential
- 100 GB lagring inkludert
- Live fotovegg i lokalet
- Album i 6 måneder
- Video inntil 10 min · tale Ubegrenset
- Prioritert support
- Alt i Celebrate
- 250 GB lagring inkludert
- Direktesending for dem som ikke kan komme
- Talemeldingene skrives ut som tekst for deg
- Egen lenke — gathmo.com/c/ditt-navn
- Album i 1 år
- Video inntil 15 min · tale Ubegrenset
Collect the night the booth cannot reach
One QR code, one private album, no app for your guests. Free to start, hosted in the EU.