A disposable camera app built around the reveal
Keeps turns every phone in the room into one disposable camera. Everyone gets a fixed number of shots, nobody sees a thing until the film is revealed, and the originals arrive at full resolution.
- Free for you + 4 guests
- One-time price, no subscription
- Full resolution, no watermark
- Shoot without signal
- Hidden until the reveal
- iOS and Android
What a disposable camera app actually is
A physical disposable camera did three things a phone does not: it gave you a fixed number of shots, it showed you nothing until the roll was developed, and it belonged to the occasion rather than to a person. A disposable camera app puts those three rules back on top of the phone camera and shares the roll with everyone who is there.
That is a different object from a shared album. A shared album is a bucket people upload into afterwards, with everything visible the moment it lands and a queue of chores nobody finishes. A film in Keeps is shot live, from inside the moment, and the whole thing opens at once when it is over.
How a film works in Keeps
- Create the film. Name the occasion, choose how many people can join and how many shots each guest gets, and set when it ends.
- Invite the room. Share the link, the QR code, or a printable card. Guests install Keeps once and sign in, so their photos stay theirs on any phone.
- Everyone shoots. Each guest shoots from their own phone. No previews, no retakes. Every frame stays hidden until the reveal, even from the host.
- The reveal. When the film ends, or when the host decides, the gallery opens for everyone in the film at once. Save the originals to your camera roll.
What Keeps does differently
- The roll is sealed for everyone. Not even the host can peek. The reveal is one moment the whole room shares, not a feed the organiser watches fill up.
- Originals, untouched. No filter burned in, no downscaling, no watermark on any film size. What you save is what the camera took.
- A real camera app on both platforms. Native on iOS and Android, with flash and background upload, rather than a camera inside a browser tab.
- Limited on purpose. The host sets the shots per guest. People look up between frames, and every frame is a choice.
- Private by design. No public galleries, no feed, no discovery. Only people in the film see it, and the host decides whether guests see everything or only their own photos.
- One price per film. Free for you and 4 guests; bigger films are a single purchase from $1.99 to $89.99. Nothing recurring, nothing per photo, and guests never pay.
What to look for in a disposable camera app
There are several apps in this category and they differ more than their home pages suggest. The questions worth asking, with Keeps' honest answers:
- How do guests join? Some apps open a camera in the browser or an App Clip with no install. Keeps asks guests to install the app and sign in once. The trade is a minute up front for a real camera, background uploads, and photos tied to a person rather than a phone. Put the link in the invitation so that minute happens at home, not at the table.
- Is the reveal real? Can the host see photos early? In Keeps, no.
- What do you get back? Full resolution or a web-sized copy? Is a filter baked in? Is there a watermark on the free tier? Keeps: originals, nothing baked in, no watermark, on every film size.
- Does it work without signal? Barns and basements are where weddings happen. Keeps saves the photo locally first and uploads later.
- How is it priced? Per event or a subscription? Per-photo fees? Keeps is one purchase per film, sized by how many people can join.
- How long are photos kept? Keeps keeps a film for up to about a year after it ends, so save what you love after the reveal.
- Who can see it? Any public galleries or social features? Keeps has none.
Where a film fits
- Weddings: one film for the whole guest list, revealed the morning after.
- Parties: dinners, house parties, New Year's, a night out.
- Birthdays: kids' parties, milestones, and surprises.
- Trips: a film that runs for the whole week and reveals on the way home.
- Bachelorette and stag weekends: private, sealed, and revealed to the bride.
What it costs
A film for you and 4 guests is free. Bigger films are one purchase inside the app, from $1.99. The full ladder, and how it compares with a box of physical cameras, is on the pricing page and the cost breakdown.