LumaBooth vs OpenBooth

LumaBooth is event photo booth software for Windows, Apple devices, and Android. Its Apple app supports photo, video, GIF, boomerang, and 360 booth modes, with tools for templates, event branding, overlays, filters, stickers, and guest signatures and responses. Listed cameras include Canon, Nikon, Sony, built-in cameras, and webcams; Windows also lists GoPro support. Guests can share by email, SMS, Instagram, QR code, AirDrop, or WhatsApp, and the app supports physical prints. When an Apple booth is offline, email and SMS shares queue until it reconnects. Booth Copilot can monitor session information remotely, start sessions, and send print commands over the internet. Pricing starts at $17 a year for Windows, billed at USD $17/month annually; Apple and Android annual plans are $18 a year, billed at USD $18/month. Monthly Apple and Android plans are $19.99 a month. A trial is available without a stated time limit, but its watermark stays on photos and videos, and it is not intended for events.

OpenBooth is free, open-source photobooth software for Linux. It is designed for touchscreen operation and photo capture, with image filters, a live preview of the filtered result, and wireless triggering. The software communicates with cameras through the gPhoto2 library and its Java bindings, while OpenCV handles image processing. OpenBooth is still in development, and its project page describes initial tests in progress. The project began as an assignment at the Technical University Vienna and continues with Otelo Wien through a five-student computer-science team. It is released under the MIT License, allowing use, copying, modification, distribution, sublicensing, and sale under the license conditions. The project Wiki provides program documentation, hardware information, and build-and-run tutorials. Questions are invited through the Wiki or by email.