The iPad has become the default capture device for a large share of the photo booth industry. It is light, it has a good built-in camera, guests already know how to use a touchscreen, and one tablet can run a classic booth, a roamer, a 360 platform or a sharing station depending on the software loaded on it.

The software is where the real differences show up, especially once you run more than one iPad. This piece looks at eight apps boothers commonly run on an iPad: Curator, Snappic, Simple Booth, Breeze Booth, LumaBooth (from the makers of dslrBooth), Touchpix, Booth.Events and PicPic Social. It covers pricing, how many iPads each plan allows, sharing stations, printing, editing events from home and support. Every price and feature below comes from each company's own website and help center as of October 31, 2026.

iPad photo booth software at a glance

Sorted by lowest listed monthly price. Prices are in US dollars and exclude the iPad, camera, printer and media.

Prices are list prices from each company's site on October 31, 2026, and exclude tax, the iPad and other hardware.

What makes each one stand out

Beyond price and the basics, each app has a few features you won't find everywhere. These are the differentiators each company highlights on its own site.

• Curator: printing and photo sales. USB direct printing to six printer brands with no print server, several printers on one iPad with jobs routed by size, and jumbo strips up to 6×20 on a DS620A and 8×32 on a DS820A. Guests can find their photos by taking a selfie at a kiosk (Photo Match), and you can sell photos through your own Stripe account, with a watermark until the guest buys.
• Snappic: robots and no-internet sharing. Built-in support for robot arm (Glambot) setups, a sharing station that syncs from the booth over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi with no internet, Scratch and Spin competition games, QR-linked guest galleries (SmartShare) and content moderation. An AI Video feature that turns a guest photo into a short clip is in closed beta.
• Simple Booth: hardware and brand compliance. Sells its own HALO kit with an LED ring light and a secure iPad mount. Its Select plan is built for brands with strict rules: age gating, content moderation, in-app legal opt-ins, personal data purging and help with security reviews. Pro adds an API and Mailchimp integration.
• Breeze Booth: control over everything. Controls DMX lighting, Arduino boards and Bluetooth buttons. Takes payments through Nayax, Stripe Terminal, card readers and coin and bill acceptors, with pay-per-print, pay-per-session or pay-per-share. Also offers single-use QR tickets, Photoshop processing, an audio guest book mode and a prize mode.
• LumaBooth: 360 quality on a budget. 360 capture at 120 or 240 frames per second with automatic speed ramps, a Virtual Attendant that walks guests through the session with video and audio prompts, and a glam filter. The same company also makes the Windows (dslrBooth) and Android versions, plus HashPrinter for printing Instagram hashtag photos.
• Touchpix: runs on almost anything. One license covers iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android, Windows, Linux and even Raspberry Pi. Scanpix shares photos to guests' phones over a local network with no internet. It also offers AI face replacement in photos and video, offline background removal, wired GoPro 7–13 support, a mirror booth mode with seven themes, PixCut sticker printing and a built-in CRM for bookings, clients and staff.
• Booth.Events: remote management. Live-Sync pushes changes to iPads mid-event, and Remote-In lets you see and control a booth from a browser, with a drawing mode to show your attendant what to tap. Scheduled events lock an iPad until its event starts, which helps with drop-off booths. It also imports templates straight from a PDF, prints any template size (including 6×20 jumbo strips on a DS620), sends every photo to Google Drive, Dropbox or SmugMug, and creates a branded analytics report you can send to clients. iPhones never need a license.
• PicPic Social: sharing for any booth. Its sharing station works with any Windows-based booth software, so it can serve your 360, DSLR and mirror booths too. A virtual sharing station runs on any device with internet, and QR sharing for 360 booths works offline. It also runs virtual photo booths for online and hybrid events and offers 5,000+ editable templates through Paddee.

How many iPads can you run?

This is where the plans differ most, and where a low sticker price can climb quickly. There are really three questions: can several iPads run the same event, can separate iPads run separate events at the same time, and do sharing stations cost extra?

The takeaway: if you run several iPads on a Saturday, the cheapest plan on paper may not be the cheapest for you. Touchpix and Booth.Events Pro+ bundle the most devices. LumaBooth covers two. Curator, Snappic, Simple Booth and Breeze charge for each iPad running at the same time, so price out your real fleet before you commit.

Curator and Snappic both tie licenses to the event rather than a specific iPad, so you can swap in a spare iPad mid-event without buying another license, as long as only one is running at a time.

Editing events from home

Being able to fix a typo or swap an overlay from your laptop, without driving to the venue, is a big deal once staff run your booths. Here's how each one handles it:

• Booth.Events goes furthest. Its Live-Sync pushes changes from the web dashboard to every iPad running the event immediately, even while guests are using it, and Remote-In lets you see and control a booth from a browser.
• Snappic builds every event in its web dashboard. After you save a change, the iPad needs a refresh, either on the device or remotely through LiveConnect, which is included on Premium and Scale.
• LumaBooth has a browser-based LumaBooth Dashboard for setting up and managing events before, during and after an event, and syncs event settings and layouts across your devices.
• Simple Booth settings are edited in its online dashboard; the iPad picks them up with a pull-to-refresh or an app restart while online, and most settings can also be changed right in the app.
• Touchpix events are built in the web dashboard and designer, then refreshed in the app on the iPad.
• Curator events are built on the Curator website. After changes online, the event is re-downloaded on the iPad.
• Breeze Booth events are built in a Windows Event Editor, not a browser, then synced to iPads over the internet or a local network. iPads can pull updates on demand, automatically overnight, or mid-event through a button you add. Breeze lists event sync in its cloud dashboard as coming soon.
• PicPic Social events are set up in its web app; we didn't find details on pushing live changes to a running iPad.

Support when something breaks mid-event

• Curator: live chat 24/7/365 on every plan, plus an emergency phone line (phone support listed on Event Pro and Agency Pro).
• Touchpix: 24/7 chat support on its website, plus scheduled one-on-one sessions; it no longer offers phone support.
• Snappic: 24/7 support on every plan, with priority support from Business up.
• Booth.Events: online chat and email for everyone during event hours for most time zones; Pro+ adds a 24/7 emergency phone line.
• Simple Booth: live chat and email seven days a week on every plan; phone support on Pro and Select, plus a dedicated account manager on Select and Enterprise.
• PicPic Social: live chat and phone support.
• LumaBooth: live chat inside its online dashboard, plus a help center and Facebook groups.
• Breeze Booth: help guides, tutorials, a user forum and a Facebook group; we didn't find live chat listed.

Printing from the iPad

• USB straight to the printer. Curator connects an iPad directly to supported DNP, Citizen, Mitsubishi, Sinfonia, SwiftFoto and HiTi printers with no print server, and can run several printers from one iPad. LumaBooth also prints over USB from an iPad or Mac. Snappic has added direct USB printing to its plans, though its Starter card still marks it as coming soon.
• AirPrint and print servers. Booth.Events supports AirPrint, print servers like the AirCastPro 3 and DNP WCM Plus, macOS printer sharing and its own Windows print server. Simple Booth prints to AirPrint printers directly, and to dye-sub printers through a wireless print server such as the AirCast Pro or DNP WCM. Breeze Booth prints to AirPrint printers directly, or to almost any dye-sub printer through its Windows Hub.
• Print controls. Booth.Events caps prints per session or per event and prints any paper size the printer supports. Breeze supports pay-per-print. Curator tracks prints remaining since the last media change.

Built-in camera or a real camera

• Canon, Nikon and Sony: LumaBooth, Touchpix and Booth.Events.
• Canon and Sony: Simple Booth, which has setup guides for both, wired and wireless.
• Canon: Breeze Booth supports most Canon DSLR and mirrorless bodies.
• GoPro: Touchpix (models 7 through 13) and Snappic.
• DSLR support listed: Curator and Snappic, with camera lists on their sites.

What happens when the Wi-Fi drops

• Curator keeps running offline: photos queue, printing continues, and texts and emails send once the connection returns.
• Breeze Booth can run fully offline.
• Snappic keeps capturing and can sync a sharing station locally without internet, but AI-FX and LiveConnect need a connection.
• Booth.Events keeps the last pushed settings and reconnects Live-Sync when the internet returns.
• Simple Booth keeps running with weak or no Wi-Fi; uploads and guest shares queue and send automatically once the iPad reconnects.
• LumaBooth queues email and SMS shares until internet is available.
• Touchpix removes backgrounds offline and shares without internet through Scanpix.
• PicPic Social offers QR sharing for 360 booths that works without internet.

Which app fits which kind of operator

Based on what each company publishes, here's where each app lines up:

• Beginners watching every dollar. LumaBooth is the cheapest way in at $18 a month billed annually, and that covers two devices. If you only run a few events, look at short-term options: Booth.Events sells a one-week pass for $19, Simple Booth Core runs $24 a week, and Curator and Snappic both start at $29 for a single event.
• Advanced users who want full control. Breeze Booth offers the deepest customization: custom screens, surveys, DMX lighting, Arduino and button control, and Nayax, Stripe Terminal, coin and cash payments. For 360, AI and video experiences, look at Snappic Business and up (AI-FX and VideoFX), Curator Event Pro and up (360 CustomFX, AR and AI rendering) and Touchpix, which is built around 360 and offers AI face replacement.
• Operators who want to white label. Curator sells white-label URLs and emails on any plan for $59 a month or $449 a year, included with annual Agency Pro. Snappic includes white-label URLs and emails on Premium and Scale ($79 add-on on Business), and Scale adds an unbranded app. Booth.Events offers a white-label app, custom domains and vanity URLs with no Booth.Events logo in front of guests. PicPic Social lists grey-label and white-label options on its plans. Simple Booth adds custom branding from its Plus plan, and Breeze Cloud Pro ($39.99/mo) adds custom domains for galleries.
• Multi-op companies running several booths at once. Touchpix allows unlimited devices and up to 12 active events on Multipass Enterprise. Booth.Events Pro+ includes four iPads plus unlimited iPhones, with Live-Sync, Remote-In and scheduled events for managing booths from afar. Curator Agency Pro and Snappic Scale add sub-account management for staff or partner companies, and PicPic Social Agency covers unlimited events with sub-users. On per-device plans, budget for an extra license for every iPad running at the same time.

Before you choose

1. Count your iPads on your busiest day. Include capture iPads, sharing stations and booths running separate events at the same time, then price each app for that number.
2. Check how you'll edit events. If staff run your booths, live remote changes from a browser can save a trip.
3. Test support before you need it. Send a chat on a Saturday night during your trial and see how fast someone answers.
4. Confirm your printer. Check that your exact model is supported and whether you need a print server, a laptop or just a cable.
5. Check your camera. Decide if the iPad camera is enough or if you need DSLR, mirrorless or GoPro support.
6. Plan for weak venue internet. Ask what still works offline, especially sharing and AI.

All details come from each company's own website and help center on October 31, 2026. PicPic Social's main site footer is dated 2022 and its pricing page was last updated in January 2025, so confirm current pricing with the company.