Simple Booth HALO User Reviews

Name: Simple Booth HALO
Rating: 4.72477 (2438 reviews)

Simple Booth HALO

SMPL Inc.

💼 Business

📷 Photo & Video

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Simple Booth HALO. Based on 2.4K reviews and a 4.7/5 average, it highlights the 4 positives and 4 negatives reviewers mention most about this Photo & Video app.

Positive things

🚀Easy to use
🎨Great customization options
👍Fun and engaging for guests
💻Supports various devices

Negative things

🐛Crashes and bugs after updates
🤔Navigation issues and lack of intuitive UI
💰Expensive subscription model
🔒Lack of transparency around pricing and features

Top reviews

Most Recent Highest Rated Lowest Rated

I LOVE THIS APP

Me gusta muchisimo esta app, pero sería maravilloso que pudieran agregar lo siguiente: Algunas veces diseñamos nuestra plantilla y quizá olvidamos colocar el filtro y el glam. Es posible agregar la opción de mejorar la foto después del evento y que los cambios se guarden? Esto sería genial !

CF personal Account

24 days ago

Hangs. Bad UX. Not possible to upgrade easily

Not worth the price. The app hangs occasionally. The interface is not easy to figure out. The one saving grace was the AI effects. However it stopped working halfway thru our event citing lack of credits. The worst part is that there’s no way to easily add credits. You have to jump thru an insane set of hoops to do it, which we couldn’t spend the time on during the image. So we had to toss it out.
Wish I could ask for my money back!

BayAreaShopper

a month ago

Update Ruined My Presets

I used this app for a year and loved everything. The update took away a lot of the features the lite version use to have. Now I can’t use it for my family events . Very disappointed. I will look for other apps that work better and update this review with options that work better than this app.

Hannah Morisheta

3 months ago

Response from developer

Hey Hannah, this is the founder here. We didn't remove any features, I would appreciate if you reach out to support@simplebooth.com so we can show you how it works! There is a lot more flexibility now. Hope we can get this sorted out for you.

Canot try without buying

Its a scam that they con you into downloading the app only to find out you cannot even look at the interface without subscribing. I even updated to iOS 26 just to make this garbage install. (Prob wrecked my old ipad with that ios update). Bait and switch cisco ith the "free download". Wasted 45 min of my time.

BsktbLKing

5 months ago

Why change

I did the update now nothing works. It was great why change

2 out of luck

5 months ago

Dont update the app!!

This used to be a great app but the recent update has taken away several options, including the option to add a logo. It seems much more difficult to navigate and they dont have a customer support number. I dont expect to hear back from them before my event, which is super frustrating. Unfortunately this will be my last time using this app. I would recommend using an app that is more user friendly.

Update: Im frustrated at the developer response.. their own customer service team acknowledged how many complaints they were getting regarding these updates. I stand by my original review. The app went from being user friendly to being incredibly difficult to figure out. Again, I DO NOT recommend using this app. There are plenty of other services out there you can use!

AmBarDR

6 months ago

Response from developer

The new update actually added tons of new functionality! Nothing is taken away, it's just in a new place. To add a logo, open up the layout and add a new image layer. Phone support is available in the Pro plan. We'd love to walk you through this if you still need help, 7 day support is available by chat or email (support@simplebooth.com).

No trial

There isn’t a basic option or a three day trial or anything. I’m not paying for something not knowing what the quality is.

GLukex12

6 months ago

Don’t buy this!!

I spent hours HOURS trying to get my Nikon Z9 to connect to no avail. Did all the recommended setting and troubleshooting steps and nothing, this app is an enormous waste of time. Save yourself the trouble!

Zonager

7 months ago

No more headaches

I have tried so many Photo Booth apps and I love this one the most. It just works!

SunshineEvents

7 months ago

Love this app

The new update is amazing! I can finally create any kind of layout with my own text and graphics. Great work Simple Booth! Just keeps getting better

Chedderbunny44

7 months ago

Nikon DSLR

I hade to switch to Luma Booth since this app is only supporting Canon DSLR cameras. I have a Nikon D600/D610. Can’t use it with Simple booth Halo. I’ll come back to use if it supports my Nikon camera.

Taurus, C.

7 months ago

Dont update the app!!

AmBarDR

7 months ago

Response from developer

No longer works well

I’ve been using this app for over 5 years now. Unfortunately this latest update has made the app hard to navigate and doesn’t set up correctly from the settings done on the back end. Won’t let us take pictures horizontally anymore. Doesn’t let clients to opt out if they don’t want to share. I had to tear it down at our event as it was causing too much of a commotion for not performing well. Such a disappointment.

Dj Biff Piner

8 months ago

Response from developer

So bummed to hear you had to tear it down! The app can still shoot horizontal but you have to create a layout with horizontal frames. We did this to support more frame sizes (tall, portrait, wide, landscape, etc) and so that when you design a layout it will look exactly how you designed and rotating the iPad won't affect it anymore. Guests can still always opt out so that's surprising to hear. Our team would really love to help you out with what was going on and get to the bottom of it with you, if you can reach out to support@simplebooth.com

Settings wouldn’t save

Very disappointed in the app this time around. I used this app for my best friend’s baby shower a couple years ago and it worked fantastically. This time around I couldn’t get it to work properly at all. I set it up to take strips of three photos however, every time I tried to take a photo, it kept defaulting to a single. Also, despite ensuring the iPad was an appropriate distance away and the screen and test photo was clear, not a single photo we took actually came out clear. overall, I found the set up to be incredibly challenging this time around and none of my photos saved. It was a waste of $30 and memories lost.

Additionally may I suggest the save option default to saving onto the device or into the app. I had so much trouble setting up the app this time around that I didn’t notice neither were selected.

CaliRN20

9 months ago

Response from developer

We’re so sorry for the disappointment and the trouble you experienced. It’s possible the app version on your iPad was outdated since we sometimes see this happen with customers who use the app only occasionally, and that can definitely lead to unexpected behavior. If you decide to use Simple Booth again in the future, we’d love to help make sure things go smoothly. You can reach out to us at support@simplebooth.com and we can help confirm everything is up to date and set up correctly ahead of time!

Account

I’m giving this two stars because My daughter had a graduation and she recommended the simple Booth for our business. She set it up under her name. We use our business card to pay for it during her graduation. I decided to use it for other events and realized that all of our new pictures was under her account. I logged out of her account and I created my own account and when I made a payment that should be applied to my account it applied the subscription to her account even though I was not logged in under her account when I made the payment. It tells me that I have to login under her account if I want to use the subscription I just paid for and there’s no support ready ready to call to get it fixed . I did a chat and they said that they were responding, but I haven’t heard anything back yet. We want to use it for the business and we paid for a business plan. We are in crunch time trying to get ready for an event and cannot use the services that we paid for.

No supporting again

10 months ago

Response from developer

Hello! We were able to update your account for you, we're so sorry about the stress that caused. If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reconnect with us at support@simplebooth.com.

This app Is absolutely amazing

This app Is absolutely amazing, the only thing I would say would put the Cherry on cake and make this app the best in the business is DSLR compatibility and surface Pro compatibility! Maybe 1 day we will get the update of my dreams lol other than that 5 star app ! The team at simple booth did an incredible job!

theguyzofficial

10 months ago

Kein Probe Abo

Keine Möglichkeit die App zu testen. Ganz mies.

Maurício

a year ago

Worst Photo Booth app ever

Don’t bother can’t customise it to your needs

Brattanja

a year ago

Understand user experience before using this app

It works quite well, but I was not aware that photos would not be saved in ANY WAY unless the users complete the dialogue after the photo is taken. If they walk away without hitting done, the app considers it to be abandoned and it is not saved. I lost all the photos from my mom’s 70th birthday party and they cannot be recovered. If you use this app, consider having someone stationed by it to help users complete thr process.

Mra266

a year ago

Response from developer

We're so sorry for your experience and understand how disappointing it is to lose those photos. We believe our support team has already connected with you via email about this, but we want to express our apologies again. We appreciate your feedback and are always looking for ways to ensure photos are never lost under any circumstances.

Not navigation friendly

I created 4 different themes to use, but once inside one theme, no option to go to the others. Like no Home Screen or option to go back. I had to delete and reinstall to get to Home Screen.

Also the Core doesn’t allow you to change background color.
I will not be using this again.
Wasted my $16.99.

Very disappointed.

GameKid2