Scott from BoothUp reviews Flassh Photo Booth app

This video is a quick review on Flassh software. It’s built for photo booths. I own a photo booth company. I’ve owned a photo booth company for about five years now. I built these photo booths when I was in high school and I kind of modeled the photo booth design after Photo Booth Supply Co.

I’d never considered trying new software until recently when I had an event where all my booths were rented out in other places and I needed to borrow one of my friend’s booths for a big event I was doing. This event I needed two booths for, and I only had one of mine available. So I used one of mine, and then I used one of my buddy’s, which is a Photo Booth Supply Co. booth, and he runs a software on it called Flassh.

I probably wouldn’t have considered this software before I’d used it, because it didn’t have all the features that the other softwares have. But what I realized is that I bought the software I use originally because it has tons of features — and I never use any of them.

I print with it, I take pictures, and people email them to themselves. That’s all I use my photo software for, because I found that when I enabled all these other features, I just wasn’t even using them, or they were slowing down the experience at the events.

Let me tell you about the software. I probably wouldn’t tell my clients this, but I set up my booth and then, for the software, I literally got on my computer, figured out how to set up the software, and I was running it at the event within five or 10 minutes from start to finish — from getting the software on my computer to running it at the event.

Usually my setup process is pretty clunky. I have to haul the booth around, I have to set it up on something, or I’ll be on my knees at an event logging in, trying to load up my templates and all that kind of stuff: naming the event, where to save the files, etc. After the event, I have to set up my booth again at home, in my garage or in the office, and upload all the photos.

Here’s what’s unique about Flassh. When you want to set up an event, you don’t have to get your clunky photo booth out. You literally go to a computer. It could be any computer, because it’s cloud based. You can make your events right there, put in all your credentials, and then you’re ready to go once you set up the photo booth.

So the setup time for a Flassh-run photo booth is way less than a typical photo booth.

I felt like I was missing steps when I first set it up. But it’s really that simple.

The other thing that is really cool about this, and something that I’ve never done with my booths running on Social Booth software, is that when photos are being taken, they’re uploaded live to a gallery that the attendees can see, or that you can have sent to an iPad kiosk to share the photos.

So those are the two main parts of Flassh. You can do all your setup from anywhere — on a computer, or on the actual photo booth itself. You don’t have a lot of settings to mess with. You hook up your high-end camera, like a DSLR — they support Canon and Nikon cameras — and guests come up and take pictures like usual, but they don’t do all the sharing and stuff right on that computer.

You usually have a separate device; it could be a phone or an iPad. In our case, we had an iPad set up. Once you’re taking photos in the software, they go to the cloud, so you need a Wi-Fi connection. And Flassh doesn’t have live view, which actually makes the experience a lot faster.

When my other photo booth was using live view, there were longer lines and it took more time to load. And if people are trying to plan jump pictures, live view actually slows down the photo booth experience.

The strong suit is super fast software that sends photos to the photo booth gallery right away, ready to be shared online.