Photos from tonight

Every phone at your party, one album. A poster by the door, a wall on the TV, and nothing for your guests to install.

For organisers

There is nothing to switch on. The room for your photos exists the moment the event does, and three things are yours to do with it — all optional, none technical.

1. Print the poster. Open the event, then The page, then Photos from tonight, and tap Print. It is a plain black-on-white code that says “Scan to add your photos”, with the address typed underneath for the one phone whose camera will not cooperate. The same link pastes into a WhatsApp group, where it shows up as “Photos from” your event.
2. Put the wall on the big screen. Same place, Show on the big screen, on any laptop plugged into the TV. Full screen, dark, newest photos first, the code in the corner. Nobody has to operate it.
3. The flash, when you want it. One tap on your phone starts a countdown the wall shows too. When it hits zero every screen in the room lights up and every open camera fires on the same second.

Photos land on the event page as they are taken. A guest who came in through your poster has already shown they were in the room, so nothing waits for your approval — your job is the opposite one. Open any photo in the album and hide it, and it is gone from the page.

The next morning a recap drafts itself from the night. It is a draft. It never posts anything on its own.

For guests

1. Scan the poster, or open the link from the group. It opens in your phone's browser — no app, no account, no name.
2. Tap the one button. That tap is when the camera is asked for, and not before. Or choose From camera roll to add photos you already took.
3. Shoot. Every photo you take shows up on the wall and lands in the album. Tap any thumbnail to save it to your phone.

Find yourself

Take one selfie and the album shows you the photos you are in. The selfie is compared once and thrown away — it is never stored.

Your night

The photos you took, together in one place, to save or share.

The album

Lives on the event page after tonight. The link from the room takes you there, and it keeps working.

What the flash is

The host's one party trick. Every phone in the room that has the camera open counts down together, the screens go bright, and the shutters fire — one second, the whole room, from every angle at once.

It lights screens, not camera flashes. Made for a dark room; in daylight it is a countdown and a lot of shutters.

What it isn't

• Not live video. Photos only; nothing streams anywhere.
• Not private. Photos land on the event's public page — the one you sent people to. If your crowd would want to know that, tell them.
• Not an app. It runs in the phone's browser, and works best in Safari on iPhone and Chrome on Android.
• Not a photographer. Phones in a dark room take phone photos. The flash helps; it does not work miracles.

Privacy, in two sentences

Photos are public on the event page, and nobody in them is named, tagged or identified — “find yourself” compares a selfie once and keeps nothing.

The host can remove any photo at any time, and a guest is never asked for a name, an account or their location to take part.