You searched for a digital guest book. A digital wedding guest book.
In 2026 that usually means a QR code. A phone. Photos and a short message, in one place, instead of a paper book by the door.
That is a real want. The paper book is half-filled by midnight. The pen dries. The page goes in a loft. You wanted the night, with a line from the person who was there.
Then the category forks.
One kind is a QR that opens a live folder. No account. Pictures land while the speeches are still going. The book fills in public, in the middle of the meal.
The other kind waits. A short roll. A note on the frame. Nobody looks until you choose one moment.
Polajoy is the second one.
A QR that opens a live folder with no account is easy at the table. The pictures are already somewhere people can open before the first dance. We do not do that. There is no live album at dinner, and no slideshow on the wall while people are still eating.
The download is deliberate. We are not a no-download browser camera.
Guests download the free Polajoy app, iPhone or Android. They type an event code and join with an account. Two minutes once. Then it is just a camera.
Guests have accounts so after the wedding everyone who attended can be sent the photos. A page with no account has nobody to send the set to.
Each ordinary guest gets one 30-shot roll. Hard-stop at 0. No second roll. No paywall. If you nominate a photographer, the friend with the good eye, they can start another free 30-shot roll. Ordinary guests do not.
After each shot, ten seconds to Accept or Void. Timeout or a screenshot voids it. A void does not spend a frame. After Accept they still see the photo on the sign screen. A short handwritten note is optional, up to 34 characters. Initials always go on the frame. It seals on Send, then it is gone until unlock.
That note is the guest book. Not a page people queue for. A line under the picture they just kept.
Nobody sees the photos before unlock, including the couple. One reveal: end of the night, the next morning, a week later, or a time after the event ends. Prints come afterwards, only if you order them. Nothing prints itself on the night.
Then the shop is there if you want paper. Nothing auto-ships. Free downloads carry a small wordmark. £2.99 takes it off. Prints never have it.
You do not sit on the sofa the next morning with hundreds of mixed guest phone photos landing in a chat. WhatsApp. iCloud. Every look, half of them blurred. A night you now have to sort.
If the thing you wanted was the peel-apart book, there is a note on a Polaroid guest book, without the Polaroids. If you were looking at guest book alternatives more broadly, a paper book, a video booth, a live album, there is a note on guest book alternatives that are actually photos. If the search was the QR itself, the scan on the table card, there is a note on a wedding QR code for guest photos. If you wanted the app, not the guest book, there is a note on a wedding guest photo app without the morning-after chat. If the search was a wedding photo app with no download, there is a note on why we still ask for one.
If the morning after used to mean mixed guest phone photos in a chat, there is a note on wedding guest photos, without the WhatsApp pile.
Setup is free. Pay only if you want prints afterwards. Retroprints, a 12×12" layflat photo book, a wall frame with 16 or 25 apertures, thank-you cards. The complete guide walks through looks, table cards, and the reveal. These notes are written by Richard Lovatt, with Kitty. The rest live with the other articles.
A digital guest book is not the photographer of the day. Keep them. Names we have written up live on the directory, including London, Bristol, Manchester, South Woodham Ferrers, Helensburgh, Loch Lomond, and Tarporley.
We host a handful of weddings. Cash, or store credit and free products. Apply on the host page. We read every one.