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 + 5 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 guests can join and how many shots each gets, and set when it ends and when it reveals.
- 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, 12 or 24 hours later, or when the host taps Reveal on a manual film, 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 5 guests; bigger films are a single purchase from $2.99 to $99.99. 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 5 guests is free. Bigger films are one purchase inside the app, from $2.99. The full ladder, and how it compares with a box of physical cameras, is on the pricing page and the cost breakdown.