Every day — from midnight to midnight — you get four slots on booth. Fill each one with a photo or a five-second video. Those four captures become two artifacts you can keep or share:
1. Sign in with your Apple ID.
2. Pick your Name, username, and birthday. Name is what you see in the app. Your @username is 4–10 characters and unique — friends see it, and it also appears on your add link. Birthday (month and day) is optional; booth uses it only for a small in-app birthday wish — nobody else can see it, and it isn’t used anywhere else.
To Friends (what friends see on posts and lists) starts the same as your Name. Change it anytime in Settings → Profile — it isn’t set during setup.
3. Add a profile photo. Optional, and you can change it anytime.
4. Choose your booth caption categories. These decide the kind of daily booth captions you get. Pick 4 or more. You can change them later, or turn Captions off in Settings if you don't want them.
5. Allow camera and microphone. These are required — booth can't work without them. Location is optional: allow it and your captures get a city label; skip it and they simply won't.
At the bottom of the screen:
| Tab | What's there |
|---|---|
| Camera (left) | Where you capture today's four slots |
| Home (middle) | Today in progress — your Log and Strip |
| Feed (right) | Me (your posts) and Friends (your friends' posts) |
Two hidden shortcuts worth knowing:
Open Camera. You'll see a booth caption and the current time. Swipe left and right across today's four pages — each page keeps its own caption for the day.
VIDEO and PHOTO sit on either side of the shutter — tap the one you want.
To take a photo: set the mode to PHOTO and tap the shutter.
To record a video: set it to VIDEO and tap the shutter once. booth records five seconds and stops on its own — you don't need to hold anything down. You'll feel a tap when it starts and a softer one when it finishes.
The label on Camera is a booth caption — a small nudge for what to capture. They're there for fun; play with them however you like. You don't have to take them literally.
If a caption isn't for you, open the menu on it and choose See less so it appears less often, or Report caption if something's wrong with it.
Prefer none at all? Turn Captions off in
Settings. The label becomes [ready. set. booth]
instead. Capture as usual, then write your own captions when you
tap Edit on review.
Slots are locked once they hold something, so you can't accidentally replace a captured moment.
To replace one: go to Home, tap your log well to open it, find the clip, and tap Retake. booth asks to confirm, because retaking deletes that capture, then takes you back to the camera on that exact slot.
Once you're happy, tap your log well on Home to review the day. On the well you can:
From here you can also:
When you publish, booth asks where it goes:
You can publish up to three posts in a single day. Each one is its own set of four slots.
After a post is up, open it full screen and use Share or Save to Photos from the toolbar or the … menu if you want a copy off your phone.
They do very different things:
Archive isn’t offered when today’s working set already matches a published Me post with nothing new to file — there’s nothing left to archive. If you’re unsure and Archive is there, use it; it’s the reversible one. booth does not back up what you delete — once it’s gone, it’s gone.
booth closes the day for you at midnight, and it never throws work away:
@booth). You have three days to
edit and publish it.
Home and Feed wells stay silent. Open a post full screen to hear audio — that way a personal clip can’t blast out if your phone volume is up.
Tap any post to open it full screen. The gestures are quiet on purpose:
Strips are always silent — there's no mute control on a strip.
On your own posts you can also:
There's no download button on someone else's Friends post.
Friends on booth is small and mutual by design. There's no follower count, no public profile, and nobody can see your posts unless you both agreed.
In person (easiest): one of you opens Add friends → Scan and points the camera at the other's QR code. You're friends right away. QR codes last 10 minutes.
From a distance: share your add link from Add friends. It lasts 24 hours from when you last open that sheet, and the same link stays usable until it expires. Treat it as public — anyone holding it can open it and see your @username. When someone uses it, you get an add request — verify the profile to make sure it's your friend, then accept or decline.
booth holds up to 15 friends for now. More spots are opening soon — stay tuned!
Open Settings → Friends:
Nobody is notified when you mute, remove, or block them.
You can also Hide a single post from your feed, and Report a post or a person if something's wrong. Reports come straight to us and we review them quickly.
If you published something to Friends and change your mind, open that post and choose Delete from the menu. booth asks Delete this from Friends? — that removes it from Friends. Your copy in Me stays on your phone.
This is the part worth knowing, because booth is different from most apps here.
Your captures and your Me posts stay on your phone. They are not uploaded to our servers, and we can't see them. The only thing that goes up is a post you publish to Friends, and that's deleted after 24 hours.
So booth is not a backup. If you delete the app or lose your phone, those captures are gone and nobody can restore them — including us. If a day matters to you, save it: open the post and use Save to Photos, or Share it out.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Profile | Name, To Friends name, @username, birthday (in-app wish only), booth number |
| Record | Everything you've published or archived, by date |
| Captions | Booth captions on or off |
| Categories | Which kinds of booth captions you get |
| Layout | Where the Location, Caption, and Time labels sit on the frame. Show or hide each one when you Edit |
| Location | City labels on or off |
| Notifications | Reminders, friend requests, booth updates |
| Friends | Mute, remove, block, and pending requests |
| Feedback / Report a bug / Help | Email us, or open this page |
| Terms of Service / Privacy Policy | The legal documents |
| Sign out | Ends the session; everything on your phone stays |
| Delete account | Erases your account, profile, username, and friends |
Username changes are limited to twice every 30 days, and a username you give up stays reserved for 30 days so nobody can grab your identity.
Under Notifications → Reminders, booth can nudge you about today:
Turn Reminders off anytime if you'd rather not get them.