Jambo Pics

Stuart Ridout

About this app

Jambo.pics — the shared scrapbook for Scout units on the road to the World Scout Jamboree in Gdańsk, Poland in 2027.

Forty phones. One album. Every photo from every scout, automatically sorted into the right camp, the right trip, the right day — from first training weekend to closing ceremony.

—— HOW IT WORKS ——

Post a photo. Jambo reads the date and drops it straight into the right event. No folders. No chasing people for their camera rolls. No WhatsApp groups scrolling into oblivion.

The whole 18 months, in one place, for everyone.

—— WHAT'S INSIDE ——

Auto-sorted by event — every photo lands where it belongs, using its own date
Photos, videos, voice notes and text — capture every kind of memory
Polaroid scrapbook feel — every scout's own handwritten-style captions
Offline ready — queues on the mountain, posts when signal returns
Tag and filter — find any moment by feeling, activity or event
Favourites — save the keepers
One shared timeline — every scout posts to the same album
—— MADE FOR UNITS, NOT INDIVIDUALS ——

Jambo.pics is built for groups that camp together, travel together and remember together. Leaders manage events, membership and settings. Scouts just post.

—— SAFEGUARDING FIRST ——

Every under-18 account needs parental consent before it's activated
Automated image moderation on every upload, human review on anything flagged
Report any memory to troop leaders, or escalate to Jambo.pics admins
Block another member: their posts disappear from your view instantly
Everyone at Jambo.pics with access to members' content is an adult member of The Scout Association (UK) with a current enhanced DBS check
—— PARENTS TOO ——

Parents get their own view. Browse the scrapbook, watch your child's posts roll in, save the ones you want. No posting rights — the scouts run the feed. Parental approval emails include a plain-English explanation of what Jambo.pics is before you're asked to consent.

—— WHY NOT WHATSAPP? ——

Because forty scouts shouldn't scroll a year of messages to find one photo. Because group chats lose older media when phones change hands. Because your unit's trip deserves more than an infinite scroll that ends when the chat moves on.

Jambo.pics is a scrapbook, not a chat. Every photo lands in its event. Every event stays searchable forever.

—— FUNDRAISER-FRIENDLY ——

1 GB free per unit
Pay by the unit, not per scout
Fund it from your kitty, not forty individual wallets
Upgrade once — everyone shares the storage
—— PRIVATE ——

Your unit's album is invitation-only. No public feeds. No discovery. No ads. No AI training on your photos. Leaders control who joins and what stays.

—— BUILT BY A UK SCOUT LEADER ——

Volunteer project. Hosted in the UK on Microsoft Azure. No tracking cookies, no data sold to anyone. Run on donations from the units that use it.

—— WORKS EVERYWHERE ——

iPhone, iPad, Android and the web — same scrapbook, same memories, every device.

—— FROM TRAINING CAMP TO CLOSING CEREMONY ——

Fundraising weekends. County events. Kit checks. Shake-down camps. Travel days. The Jamboree itself. Jambo.pics holds all of it — a single living scrapbook your unit keeps forever.

Together till Gdańsk.

What’s new

Initial release
Following user feedback we have lots of improvements
• Inbox tab — notifications in one place
• Push notifications for tags, hearts, comments and event reminders, with per-album and per-person mute
• Tag yourself, and tag the whole group in one pass
• Live progress bars on uploads
• Edge-to-edge on Android 15

Plus dozens of fixes: stale badge counts, login placeholder, event banners, leader notification settings, voice-note polish and more.