Gooya keeps guest photos and videos in one host-controlled gallery, and the host decides what to keep, share, download, or reveal later. By default, guests see nothing until the host sends the album.
Feature
A phone-first capture flow for the photos and videos guests already take.
Guest camera
Tap photo
Hold for video
Private album
Sealed
By default, until the host sends
Export
ZIP
Download all visible files
Private collection
Shared albums turn into public feeds. Gooya is built around a private memory book where every guest can add something without seeing everyone else's uploads while they are adding.
Organization
A good event gallery should be scannable after the party. Gooya separates media types so hosts can listen to voices, browse photos, and play videos without digging through a messy folder.
Control
A private album lets the host remove duplicates, hide awkward clips, and decide what family sees later. That is much safer than sending every guest into a shared public album.
Keepsake
Gooya's advantage is emotional packaging. The gallery can be a place to revisit the day, not just a transfer folder for the photos your photographer missed.
| How guests' photos get collected | Gooya | Group chat | Shared album | Pro photographer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guests need an app or account | No — just scan a QR | Yes (the chat app) | Yes (an account) | — |
| Captures everyone's angle | The whole crowd | Only people in the chat | Only who you invite | One photographer |
| Photo, video and voice | All three | Compressed photos/clips | Photos & video | Photos (video extra) |
| Full-resolution originals | Yes | No — compressed | Yes | Yes |
| You own & download it all | One-click ZIP | Screenshot the thread | Yes | Depends on contract |
| Typical cost | From $89 / event | Free but scattered | Ongoing storage fees | $1,500–$4,000+ |
| Ready | Same day | — | — | Weeks later |
No. Guests scan one QR code and nobody installs an app or makes an account. On an iPhone in Safari, Gooya's own camera opens without downloading any app, with a dial of cameras: Reaction, Faces, Reel, Video, Photo, Boom and Rewind. Android phones, older iPhones and in-app browsers use the web camera, into the same private album. Guests can also send from their own library.
Not by default. Guests see nothing until the host sends the album (the default); then they can view and react for 24 hours. At the event they send their own memory, see that it landed, and go back to it. The private album belongs to the host.
Yes. The host can download the visible memories in one ZIP, including the original photo and video files Gooya stores for the event.
“I cried when I saw my mom's reaction to the father-daughter dance — the dual camera caught the dance and her face in the same shot. I'd never have gotten that myself.”
“The best part was seeing real footage from real people, not just the photographer's version of the night.”
“It didn't dump hundreds of photos onto my phone and eat my storage — I got to pick exactly what I wanted to keep.”
Feature
Gooya hosts can download all visible event memories in one ZIP, including photos, videos, and voice files when enabled.
Feature
Gooya lets hosts keep an event gallery sealed, reveal it instantly, or schedule a private reveal after the event.
Wedding photo sharing
Wedding photo sharing without an app: guests scan one QR code and send photos and short videos to your private Gooya album. No guest account needed.
Gooya is a private, no-app guest camera for weddings and events. Guests scan, shoot, and send. You keep the gallery.