Salsa Booth alternatives: five iPad booth options and what each costs

Salsa Booth alternatives: the short list

Five Salsa Booth alternatives are MoveBooth's kiosk (its own iPad booth hardware), a MoveBooth rental kit (a booth shipped to you for a day or a week), and the LumaBooth, Simple Booth and Snappic apps. Salsa Booth is the iPad booth Photo Booth Supply Co sells as Salsa 2.

As read on 5 October 2026, MoveBooth's kiosk is $2,499 one-time, against $2,999 for the Salsa 2 Starter Package. Neither includes an iPad.

Salsa 2's Essentials Package is $4,999 and adds a year of Fiesta Pro, Photo Booth Supply Co's booth software.

MoveBooth kiosk against the Salsa 2 packages

Pick MoveBooth's kiosk for a lower one-time hardware price before shipping. It holds an oval head with a dimmable LED ring, a metal stand, two faceplates for 10.2 to 12.9 inch iPads and a flight case. What equipment is needed for a photo booth covers the rest of a setup.

The Salsa 2 Starter Package holds the booth and a carrying case. Essentials adds a backdrop bundle and the Salsa 2 Care extended warranty. US delivery is free and all sales are final. Salsa 2 and the MoveBooth kiosk both carry a 1-year limited warranty.

MoveBooth ships the kiosk to the lower 48 states and takes it back within 30 days if it is unused, unassembled and never used at an event; the buyer pays return shipping unless it is defective. A kiosk purchase includes a 30-day MoveBooth Pro trial with no payment method, and the software alone has a 7-day free trial that needs one and converts to a paid subscription unless you cancel.

Afterward the software starts at Lite, $49.99 a month, billed monthly, which has no lead capture, the contact form guests fill in before their photo is sent. Plus adds it at $149.99 a month, billed monthly; MoveBooth pricing lists every plan.

Renting a booth before buying one

Pick a MoveBooth rental to test before buying. Lite is $399 a day or $799 a week, Plus $599 a day or $1,199 a week, and Pro $799 a day or $1,499 a week. A day price covers one or two days, and a week price covers three days or more.

A one-day Lite rental is $399 before shipping and tax, against $2,499 for the kiosk; cost to start a photo booth business lists the other costs of a booth. A trade-show booth that collects contacts needs a Plus or Pro rental, since Lite has no lead capture.

Kits ship to the lower 48 states and need 10 days of advance booking. Round-trip shipping and any sales tax are added at checkout. A cancellation refund shrinks as the start date nears:

• 14 or more days before: full refund.
• 7 to 13 days before: 50% refund.
• Fewer than 7 days before, or after shipping: no refund.

Booth apps billed by the month

Pick LumaBooth, Simple Booth or Snappic for software billed by the month. No hardware price was read for any of the three, so they compare on software alone. LumaBooth for Apple runs on iPad, iPhone and Mac, includes two devices, and each iPad beyond them costs extra.

Simple Booth's 7-day trial is capped at 15 photos a day. On monthly billing, its data capture forms, Mailchimp and API access start at Pro, $149 a month, and Snappic's data capture starts at Business, $189 a month. MoveBooth's software is billed monthly or annually only.

Who should stay with Salsa Booth

Stay with Salsa Booth when the booth has to print and you want the booth and its software from one maker: Salsa 2 prints through an AirPrint compatible printer, and Essentials includes a year of Fiesta Pro, the Fiesta plan that adds printing. MoveBooth's own comparison pages say its app does no printing, and its rental pricing guide says its rentals have no print station. Of the apps above, Snappic lists wired printing and AirPrint on every plan, LumaBooth for Apple lists paper prints, and Simple Booth supports print servers.

Stay with Salsa Booth also for free US delivery and for delivery outside the lower 48 states. Pick MoveBooth for a 30-day return on an unused kiosk, where Salsa 2 sales are final, or to rent before buying. The MoveBooth review lists the plans and their limits.