Digital disposable camera for weddings — without the shot limit

What a digital disposable camera is

It is the table camera moved into the phone every guest is already holding. The host makes one event, prints one QR code, and what guests capture goes to one private album instead of forty camera rolls.

The name comes from the ritual, not the hardware. What people buy it for is guests taking the pictures — the table before the speeches, the face watching the first dance, the bit at 1am.

Where the shot limit goes

• —Nobody's camera runs out. There is no per-guest allowance on photos and films, so the person having the best night is not the person who used their frames up at the ceremony.
• —The album has one ceiling instead of one per camera: 50 memories on a free event, counting photos, films and voice notes together, and 800 photos and films on The Event, with voice notes outside that pool.
• —Used never returns. Deleting a memory does not free a slot, and an expired event's usage still counts.
• —There is no lab. The pictures exist the same evening, so nothing waits a week to find out whether the flash fired.

How a guest joins

A guest points their phone camera at the QR code and a page opens. There is no app to install, no account and no sign-up; a name is optional. That is the whole flow, on iPhone and on Android.

On an iPhone, a full page load in Safari also offers an App Clip: a piece of the app that runs without an App Store install. It is not offered from an in-app browser, and not when the full Gooya app is already installed. Android guests use the same camera in the browser.

What guests can send

• —Photos, short films up to 5 minutes, voice notes and text notes, from the same QR code.
• —Film filters and boomerang, so the result looks like the thing it replaces rather than a file upload.
• —On the iPhone App Clip, a dual camera that takes the front and back in one shot, and a Reaction camera that films the guest watching a memory.
• —Guests may also add from their own library when the picture they want is already on the phone.
• —The album is private. Guests are write-only by default, and the host controls when it is shared and with whom.

Against the cameras on the tables

A disposable camera is an object. People pick it up, wind it on and hand it to the next person, and that is a real part of why it works — it is a toy that invites being used, and a QR code on a card is not.

You also end up holding prints. If what you want at the end is a shoebox of physical photographs with a thumb in the corner of three of them, buy the cameras. Some couples do both.

A film camera also does neither of the other two things here: no short films, and no voice notes from the person who would never write in a guest book.

What it costs

• —Free — one event, up to 10 guests, 50 memories in one pool, kept one week after the event. One free event at a time.
• —The Event — $89 once, one event, unlimited guests with no per-guest charge, 800 photos and films, voice notes outside that pool at three per guest device, kept 3 months.
• —The Keepsake — $149 once, up to three events sharing one pool of 2800 photos, films and voice notes in any split, kept 1 year after each event.
• —The Vault — $49.99 a year, renewing, to keep every album reachable past its free window. It locks if it lapses and reopens on renewal.