You are hosting an event: a wedding, a birthday, a conference or a party. You love the idea of a disposable camera on every table, with its candid shots and its wait for the reveal. You do not love buying cameras, collecting them, and paying to develop them. You want your guests to take photos, you want them all in one place, and you want to control who sees them and when. A digital disposable camera gives you that feel without a single roll of film.
What is hard right now
- I put disposable cameras on the tables, and half of them walked out the door with guests or never got used.
- Guests say they will send me their photos later. Weeks pass and I have almost nothing.
- I do not want guests to download an app or make an account just to share a photo.
- My photos are going into a public feed or an ad-funded service, and I want them kept to my event.
Scenarios
A wedding with three stages
You split the day into ceremony, reception and after-party using Moments. Each stage gets its own QR code and its own reveal timing, so the photos from each part of the day can be handled the way you want.
Guests move between stages without switching apps. You set the album to unlock after the event ends, so nobody sees shots early and the whole set arrives as one surprise. Learn more about reveal modes.
A birthday party with a mixed phone crowd
Aunt Sarah is on Android and the group chat is mostly iOS. She scans the QR code or types the eight-character invite and joins from her phone browser. No account, no install.
Everyone's shots land in the same album, and you can filter by photographer to see just her candids. Nobody has to promise to send photos later, because they are already in your album. See how guest upload works.
A conference or corporate event
You create the event, name it and pick an end time. Attendees join from a QR code on a slide or badge, with no account to set up between sessions.
Choose the During reveal mode so people see photos live as they are taken, then export your favorites afterwards. If you are planning this kind of day, see our page for the conference use case too.
The big reveal at a milestone party
You pick Additional delay so the gallery unlocks a set number of hours after the event ends. Guests wake up to the full set the next morning, like film coming back from the lab, but without the wait for developing.
The surprise stays intact, and you did not have to chase down a single camera to get it.
Features that make this work
Reveal modes
Pick During, After the event, or Additional delay, so you can recreate the disposable-camera surprise or let guests watch the album fill live.
Digital disposable camera
You get the candid, pass-it-around feel of a disposable camera without buying, collecting or developing a single roll.
Guest upload
Guests join from a QR code or an eight-character invite with no account required, so nobody is chased for photos later.
QR code invites
Put one QR code on a table card or a slide and every guest can join from any modern phone browser.
Private event albums
Photos are encrypted in transit and stored in event-scoped buckets, with access enforced by per-event row-level security. sync.camera does not sell your photos or your data.
Downloads
Export your favorites once the event is over and keep the shots that matter.