The disposable camera app for group trips
Road trip, ski week, the annual friends' holiday: one film that runs the whole trip and reveals itself on the way home.
- Free for you + 4 guests
- One-time price, no subscription
- Full resolution, no watermark
- Shoot without signal
- Hidden until the reveal
- iOS and Android
A group trip already has six photographers
Everyone shoots. Then comes the part nobody finishes: the AirDrop session in the airport, the shared album three people add to, the "send me that one" messages that go unanswered for a month. The photos of the trip end up split six ways, and the good ones are always on someone else's phone.
A film in Keeps collects the trip as it happens. Everyone shoots into the same roll, nobody scrolls it at dinner because nobody can, and on the way home the whole week opens at once with every photo credited to whoever took it.
Built for places with no signal
Mountains, boats, festivals, the middle of a road trip: the phone saves each photo locally the moment you take it and uploads when a connection turns up, on the hotel Wi-Fi that night or on the train home. A film can run for days, so you set the end for the journey back and forget about it.
A trip that ends with a screening
The reveal works differently on a trip. Nobody is checking a shared album over breakfast because there is nothing to check. Then the film ends on the last day, everyone gets the notification at once, and the flight home becomes the screening. Save the full-resolution originals to your camera roll before you land.
How to set it up
- Before you leave. Create the film with the trip's name, how many people can join, and an end time on the way home. Give everyone a generous roll: thirty-six shots for a week feels like real film.
- In the group chat. Share the link. Everyone installs Keeps and joins at home, on Wi-Fi, not at the gate on roaming.
- On the trip. Shoot. Do not look. Let the phone upload when it can.
- On the way home. The reveal.
How many shots for how many days
The shot limit is per guest and it is the setting people get wrong. Too few and the roll is empty by Tuesday; too many and it turns back into a camera roll. A starting point:
| Trip | Shots per person | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A weekend | 24 | Two nights, one real day. About a roll. |
| A week | 36 | Five a day, with a few spare for the last night. |
| Two weeks or more | 50 | Still scarce enough that people choose. |
| A road trip | 36 | Most of them get taken through a window. Allow for it. |
Whatever the number, tell the group on day one. "Thirty-six each, for the week" is a game people play; a camera with no limit is just a camera.
Prompts for a week away
- The first coffee, wherever you are.
- Whoever is navigating, and their face.
- The view from the room, on arrival and on the last morning.
- A meal from directly above.
- One stranger who made the day better.
- The group, self-timer, from the ground.
- The thing you drove two hours to see.
- The last photo before the airport.
Sizing it
- Up to five travellers: free. Most trips end here.
- Up to ten: $1.99. The villa.
- Up to twenty-five: $4.99. The ski chalet, the reunion weekend, the whole tour group.
One purchase per film, nothing recurring, and nobody but the host pays. Larger films are on the pricing page.
The photos stay yours
Keeps stores the original the camera took, with no filter burned in and no watermark. Only people in the film can see it. After the reveal, pick what you want and save it at full resolution; the film itself is kept for up to about a year after it ends.