PixBooth 2 Alternative: Companion App or Real Tool

PixBooth 2 is not really sold as a booth product in the way LumaBooth or Simple Booth are. It is the iPad capture end of Curator, and it makes sense to whoever already runs Curator for galleries and delivery.

That changes what you are evaluating. You are not comparing two booth apps, you are deciding whether to adopt an ecosystem. The capture app is the small end of it, and its quality matters far less than whether the platform behind it does what your business needs, at a price you can see. Everything in a companion app is downstream of a decision you make about the platform.

Twelve ratings at 4.3 stars is a very small sample, and it is the most useful data point on this page. It does not mean the app is bad. It means almost nobody outside the existing platform has picked it up, which is exactly what you would expect from a component rather than a product.

For comparison inside this same batch, Simple Booth HALO carries 2,438 ratings and twineSNAP carries 838. Those are products people found on their own. A companion app with twelve is discovered through the platform it belongs to, and it lives or dies with that platform rather than on its own roadmap.

There is a real argument for buying an ecosystem. One vendor, one invoice, one support address, and everything already wired together. If Curator is doing your galleries and your delivery, adding its own capture app removes an integration you would otherwise have to build or accept.

The argument against is switching cost. When capture, galleries, branding and delivery all come from one vendor, changing any one of them means changing all of them. A standalone app that talks to whatever you already use costs you an integration and buys you the ability to leave. Neither answer is wrong, but you should know which one you are choosing before the second year of the contract.

Snap360App is 24,99 € a month or 239,99 € a year, which is 19,99 € a month, on PLAN PRO, and 36,99 € a month or 359,99 € a year on DIAMOND PRO, with unlimited events on every plan. Buying from the web rather than the App Store, where PRO is 29,99 €, saves roughly 17 percent on the same licence.Nebular Design publishes a pricing URL for Curator, but we could not verify a figure for PixBooth 2 itself on 28 August 2026, so the price row says exactly that instead of a number we would be inventing.

No 360 spinner support is published for PixBooth 2, and given what the app is for that is unsurprising rather than damning. Photo capture on an iPad and a 360 video workflow have almost nothing in common under the hood.

A spinner needs the camera to sit on the arm or beside the platform, a capture loop that knows the arm is turning, segment speeds including slow motion and reverse, vertical 15 second templates, and delivery to a guest phone by QR while the next guest steps up. Snap360App does that on iOS 13 or later and Android 7 or later, records offline, supports GoPro cameras, and never charges per event.

If Curator already runs your galleries, if your clients receive their images through it, and if your iPad capture is working, pulling one piece out to save a few euros is a bad trade. Ecosystems are worth what they cost precisely because everything is already connected.

What we would do is keep the 360 outside it. A spinner is a separate machine, a separate quote and a separate product line, so run Snap360App alongside rather than waiting for a companion app to grow a feature it was never designed for. The trial is free with a watermark, so testing that costs you an afternoon.