# Photoboot: a party photo booth that prints stickers

> A photo booth in the browser. Any laptop or tablet with a camera takes the photos, a cheap Bluetooth thermal printer turns them into black-and-white stickers, and guests can take a colour copy home on their phone.

URL: https://www.small-victories.co/projects/photoboot
Author: Marijn Vandevoorde

- Status: Live on the web
- Platforms: Any browser with a camera; printing needs Chrome or Edge (Android, macOS, Windows, ChromeOS) or Bluefy on iPhone and iPad
- Languages: English, Dutch, French
- Price: free
- Use it: https://boot.small-victories.co
- Source code: https://github.com/marijnvandevoorde/photoboot (MIT licence)
- Publisher: Small Victories BV

Photoboot turns a laptop, tablet or Mac mini with a webcam into a party photo booth. Guests strike a pose, watch the countdown and walk away with a sticker, printed on the spot by a small Bluetooth thermal printer of the kind you find for a few euros online. Scan a QR code and they get a colour copy on their phone too.

## Who it's for

Anyone throwing a party: weddings, birthdays, company parties, school fairs. Open the site, connect the printer, put the tablet on a stand and let the guests do the rest. No app to install and no account needed.

## Features

- **Prints from the browser.** It talks to the printer over Bluetooth, straight from the web page: Phomemo, the "cat printers", LuckJingle, PeriPage, Paperang, Niimbot and more.
- **Looks, live on the camera.** Classic, Pop art, Woodcut or Stipple, shown before the photo is taken, plus a mirror and a big-head twist.
- **Photo strips** of one to four shots, with a header and footer of your own: names, a date, a hashtag or your own artwork.
- **Runs on its own.** Automatic printing, a print limit, a paper-low warning for the host, a "tap to take your photo" screen while nobody is around, and camera and printer connections that recover by themselves. A PIN keeps guests in the booth.
- **Every photo kept on the booth.** A colour copy of each photo stays in the browser, ready to download as a ZIP the next morning.
- **Three languages:** English, Dutch and French, or your own wording for every message.
- **Event galleries, if you want one.** For €19 every photo of the party lands in one private online gallery, with a ZIP download, kept for a year, and as many booths as you like.

The booth itself is free, with or without a printer. "Start without printer" works on anything with a camera.

## Privacy

Taking a photo or printing a sticker sends nothing anywhere: the picture is processed on the booth device and the printer is reached over Bluetooth. A photo only goes to the server when a guest asks for a copy on their phone, or when the host has bought an event gallery. Shared photos are deleted after 30 days (a year for a paid gallery), and every photo page has a button to delete it for good. Analytics only run if you accept them. The details are in the [privacy policy](https://boot.small-victories.co/privacy) and the [terms](https://boot.small-victories.co/terms).

## Open source

Photoboot is open source under the MIT licence: the [code is on GitHub](https://github.com/marijnvandevoorde/photoboot), with a Docker setup to host your own booth.

## Made by

Made in Belgium by Marijn Vandevoorde, as Small Victories BV.

## Legal

- [Privacy policy](https://boot.small-victories.co/privacy)
- [Terms of use](https://boot.small-victories.co/terms)