For working photographers
Apture runs the booking, contracts, client galleries and website for your photography studio. Your clients see your name on every page. You get one login and one bill.
Free for 14 days. No card needed.
They're good at what they do. The trouble is the space between them: typing a client's details into each one, and four bills every month. Apture keeps all of it in one place.
Session, Acuity
Pixieset, Pic-Time
HoneyBook, Dubsado
Squarespace, Showit
One login, from $15 a month.
How it works
01Booking
Set your packages and the hours you work. Clients choose a session, pick a time and pay the deposit on your website, and the date is theirs. You wake up to a confirmed booking instead of an email thread.
02Galleries
Deliver in a gallery with your name on it. Clients mark their favorites, download what they've paid for and send the link to family. Nobody has to make an account.
03Website
Pick one of six templates made for photographers, add your photos and words, and connect your own domain. The booking page, the client portal and the gallery links are already part of it, so there's nothing to wire together.
04Contracts & forms
Write your contract once. It goes out with every booking, clients sign it on their phone, and the signed copy is filed with the booking. Questionnaires work the same way, so you arrive knowing names, outfits and the shots that matter.
05The business side
Every booking moves from booked to delivered in one view, so nothing waits on your memory. Confirmations, session reminders, balance links and gallery notices go out on time, and payments land in your own Stripe account.
Not for chasing a signature, resending an invoice or digging for the email with the client's address in it.
Pricing
Plans differ in storage, team size and the small Apture line in your footer. That's all. Try any of them free for 14 days, no card needed.
Everything Apture does, for a studio of one.
$15a month
$180 billed once a year
Room for a small team and a busy season.
$23a month
$276 billed once a year
The most storage, unlimited seats, and no Apture footer.
$39a month
$468 billed once a year
No credit card for the trial. You choose a plan before it ends, and you can change it any time.
Add storage in packs whenever you need it, stack as many as you like and drop them when you don't. There are no overage charges.
| Pack | Adds | A month |
|---|---|---|
| Starter Pack | 50 GB | $3 |
| Standard Pack | 150 GB | $7 |
| Professional Pack | 350 GB | $14 |
| Studio Pack | 600 GB | $22 |
| Enterprise Pack | 1.5 TB | $45 |
It takes about five minutes. Example clients and bookings show you around, and you can clear them out when you're ready. Free for 14 days, no card needed.