PixBooth 2 vs Darkroom Booth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PixBooth 2
This app provides a comprehensive photo booth experience for events, offering various capture modes like filters, greenscreens, and boomerangs. It allows for branded photo delivery directly to guests' phones for easy social sharing.
- Filters and photographic effects
- Greenscreen and green screen GIFs
- Boomerangs and GIFs
- Digital props and face altering
- Branded photo delivery
- Social share tracking
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The ultimate Photo Booth tool or social photo app allows you to capture photos of your guests in a variety of ways including filters, greenscreens, gifs, green screen gifs, boomerangs, digital props, face altering, photographic filters, and more! All of your events are managed in a single platform which allows you to brand photos and deliver them in a branded way, track social shares, clicks, views, and much more. Photos are delivered directly to the guests' phones where they are already signed-in to social media channels and can easily share their branded photos or videos to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and other social media channels. * Some experiences will not run on older model iPads.
Darkroom Booth
Create professional photo booth experiences on your iPad. Generate stills, GIFs, and Boomerangs with custom branding, and share them instantly via email or text. Offers advanced features like green screen effects and cloud storage for seamless event management.
- Stills, GIFs, Boomerangs, and Photo Strips
- Custom overlays and branding
- Email, SMS, and AirDrop sharing
- Green screen effects with remove.bg
- Cloud storage (Dropbox, OneDrive)
- White-labeling options
- Event reporting and printing
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A feature packed and affordable iPad photo booth app. - Creates amazing Stills, GIFs and Boomerangs for sharing Stills, Photo Strips, GIFs & Bursts - We do Still Images, Photo Strips, GIFs and Bursts. Add an overlay or logo to keep it on brand or suit the event. Sharing via Email, Text Messaging and AirDrop - We are keeping it simple with sharing via email from your own email address. - Sharing also available via text messaging (SMS) via your own Twilio or MessageBird account. - No annoying logging into Facebook or Instagram (who remembers their password!?). Green Screen - Green screen without the green screen by using our remove.bg integration. Microsites - Create live galleries and microsites by using Event Gallery integration. Cloud Storage - Automatically sync all image assets to either Dropbox or OneDrive. - Easily create galleries and share images without having to manually save from your iPad. White Label - We like our logo and colours. You can use them. Or not. Replace our logo with yours. Replace our colours with yours. - You can also use your own mail servers, so that all the emails come from your@company.name - how professional is that? Event Reports - Download an event report from each event with all the event data. - Includes number of shares, email addresses and phone numbers. Printing - Print 6x4" stills using AirPrint or hot folder monitoring and cloud sync. Marketing Automation - Use our BCC mode to link with Zapier to automatically grow your mailing list. - Or use any other app that integrates with Zapier to automate your photo booth business. If you choose to upgrade to a Pro subscription, a payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at the end of the free trial period. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Pro upgrade prices are listed in the app as they vary depending on your country and currency. Current pricing in US Dollars is $29.99 per month or $299.99 per year. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms and conditions: https://app.eventgallery.com/static/darkroom-terms-conditions.pdf Privacy policy: https://app.eventgallery.com/static/Privacy_Policy.pdf
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PixBooth 2 at 4.3 against Darkroom Booth's 3.6. PixBooth 2 also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Darkroom Booth sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. PixBooth 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
PixBooth 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 16 respectively.
PixBooth 2 ships an update every 3 weeks, Darkroom Booth every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PixBooth 2 | Darkroom Booth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (12 ratings) — better | 3.6 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 45.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 178 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nebular Design, LLC | darkroom software llc |
Customer experience
PixBooth 2
Darkroom Booth
In-app purchases
PixBooth 2
No in-app purchases
Darkroom Booth
- Pro - Monthly$29.991 Month
- Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$299.991 Year
- Hula Booth Pro$349.99
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