The disposable camera app for parties
House party, dinner, New Year's Eve, a night out: one film, a set number of shots each, and the whole night revealed together the next day.
- Free for you + 4 guests
- One-time price, no subscription
- Full resolution, no watermark
- Shoot without signal
- Hidden until the reveal
- iOS and Android
Party photos have two failure modes
Either nobody shares them, and the best photo of the night lives on a phone you will never see again, or everyone shares them, and the party turns into a room of people checking how they look. Both come from the same thing: the phone camera shows you the picture immediately, so you review, retake, and post instead of staying in the room.
A film in Keeps removes the screen from the loop. You shoot, the shutter fires, and that is it. There is nothing to look at until tomorrow, so people put the phone back in their pocket. And because everyone shoots into the same film, the whole night lands in one place without a group chat.
The reveal is a second party
The morning after, the film ends and everyone in it gets a notification at the same moment. The hangover brunch has entertainment. Each photo is credited to the guest who took it, so the story of who saw what survives, and the originals save straight to your camera roll at full resolution.
How to run it
- The day before. Create the film sized for the guest list, set the shots per person (fifteen to twenty-five suits a party), and set the end for after the last guest leaves. Drop the link in the group chat so people install Keeps and join on the sofa.
- At the door. One printed QR card by the drinks, and a line when people arrive: "You're the disposable camera tonight. No peeking."
- During. Everyone shoots. Nobody sees. Guests with no signal in the basement keep shooting; photos upload later.
- The morning after. The reveal. Everyone opens the same gallery at once.
Which party, which film
- Dinner for eight. A 10-person film for $1.99. Give everyone ten shots; you will get eighty photos of a table that usually gets none.
- House party. A 25- or 50-person film. Put the card where the queue forms.
- New Year's Eve. End the film at six in the morning and reveal it over brunch. Midnight from every corner of the room.
- A night out. Five friends, five bars, one free film. Nobody has signal in the club and it does not matter.
- A surprise party. The guest of honour joins on arrival and gets the reveal notification with everyone else the next day. The photos of their face when the lights came on are all in there.
What to send, and what the card should say
The message in the group chat the day before:
Tomorrow you are all the disposable camera. Join our film now (link), twenty shots each, nothing shows until Sunday morning. No peeking, no retakes, bring your worst angles.
The card by the drinks:
Both do the same job: they say the number, they say nothing is visible, and they name the reveal. Guests need all three, and the number is the one that turns a chore into a game.
Size and price
Films are sized by how many people can join, and you count as one. Most parties fit the first three rows.
| People in the film | One-time price |
|---|---|
| Up to 5 | Free |
| Up to 10 | $1.99 |
| Up to 25 | $4.99 |
| Up to 50 | $14.99 |
Bigger films and add-on packs are on the pricing page. US prices; the stores show yours.
It stays in the room
Only people in the film can see it. There is no feed, no public gallery, and no way to stumble on it. If someone shot something the room would rather forget, the host can remove that guest, which deletes every photo they took. Photos are kept for up to about a year after the film ends, so save the keepers to your camera roll after the reveal.