The disposable camera app for stag and hen dos that organises itself.
Nobody is building a shared album at two in the morning. A stag or hen do generates more photographs than any other weekend of the year and collects fewer of them, because the organising has to happen at exactly the moment nobody is capable of organising anything.
Whatever happened is on one roll, and it lands when everybody is home.
Nobody is organising a shared album at 2am. They scan once at the start of the weekend and shoot for two days. The delay is doing real work here: the photos arrive when people are sober, at home, and pleased to see them.
- Runs for three days
- Countdown on the lock screen
- Nightly nudge
- Host-only voice notes
20 shots each · develops 24 hours after it closes
How it works
One scan, on the Friday
Everybody joins once, at the start. After that there is nothing left to organise, which is fortunate, because at no point this weekend is anybody going to.
Twenty shots, three days
The roll stays open across the whole weekend, and the app nudges everyone each evening: enough to get phones back out, not enough to be irritating.
It lands once everyone is home
It develops a day after it closes, so the photographs meet a sober, rested audience on Monday rather than the same people at 3am in a bar.
Scan once, on Friday
The whole administrative burden is one scan at the start of the weekend. After that there is nothing to join, nothing to name, nobody to add and no group to chase on Monday. Fourteen people who scanned a code on Friday evening are still shooting the same roll on Sunday afternoon without anyone having thought about it since.
The delay is the feature, not a compromise
Set the roll to develop a day after it closes and the photographs arrive when everybody is home, rested and slightly nostalgic, which is a considerably better audience for them than the same people at 3am in a bar. Over a multi-day event the app also nudges everyone each evening, which is enough to get phones back out and not enough to be irritating.
What it costs
Usually eight to twenty people over two or three days. Crowdroll is free for events of up to five guests, and you are not counted as one of them. Above that you pay once for the event rather than by subscription — every size, add-on and pack is set out on the pricing page, with a builder that adds your own night up. There is nothing to cancel afterwards.
If you want more than the roll
The party pack
€44.99
Three days and nobody rationing. Unlimited shots is the part that matters here, because a stag or hen weekend takes more photographs in one night than most weddings take all day, and the video messages turn out to be the half anybody rewatches, because they are the only record of what people sounded like.
- Slideshow of the night
- Unlimited shots
- 6 video messages each
€14.98 less than buying those parts separately
Added when you create the event, and it applies to that event only.
Questions about stag and hen dos
- Can a roll run for a whole weekend?
- Yes. The roll length is set when you create the event, so it can cover one evening or several days. On anything longer than a night, everyone gets a quiet reminder each evening.
- What happens abroad with no data?
- Shooting works offline. Photos are held on the phone and upload themselves when there is signal again, at the hotel, at the airport, or on the way home. Nobody has to remember to do anything.
- Can the organiser leave a message on it?
- Yes. Every guest gets five voice notes of up to forty-five seconds, included free, and they surface with the roll when it develops. A lot of hosts use theirs for the thing they were too busy to say in person.
Also worth a roll
Start a roll
A weekend like this gets photographed constantly and collected never. The roll is the only version anybody still has in a year.
20 shots each · develops 24 hours after it closes
Free for events of up to five guests, and you are not counted as one of them.