Keep the moments. Tell the story.
Some moments
deserve forever.
A private home for your family's photographs, videos, voices and stories — where the people you love can find each other across the years, and nothing is ever held for ransom.
Your memories belong to you. Download every original, any time, free.
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Life is made of moments.
A birthday. A first fish. A Tuesday nobody planned.
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Moments become memories.
The photographs, the videos, the voices on old recordings.
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Memories become stories.
Who was there, what happened, why it still makes you laugh.
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Stories should survive us.
So the people who come after know where they came from.
Keep your memories
Every original, kept exactly as it was.
Upload from your phone or computer — photos, videos, recordings, scanned letters. We keep the original file untouched and make copies for viewing, so what you hand us is what you get back, even in forty years.
- Old prints welcome — “Summer 1978” or “around 1965” is date enough.
- Duplicates are spotted and skipped, so a phone backup twice doesn't cost you twice.
- Download any original, or the whole archive in one ZIP, whenever you like.
Bring family together
One archive. Everyone's memories. Nobody's secrets.
Invite the people who belong
Grandparents, cousins, the aunt with every photo from 1983. Each person adds what they have, and the archive grows.
Private until you say so
Anything you add can stay yours alone, go to the whole family, or to just one person. Sharing is one step — nobody can pass it on.
Find anything
Search by name, place, year, event, even what someone said in a recording. “Lake 1986” just works.
Their voice, not just their face
Record Grandpa telling the story behind a photo, right from your phone. We write it down so it can be found; his voice stays forever.
Events
Every photo from the day, in one place.
Weddings, reunions, birthdays, memorials. Put a QR code on the tables; guests scan it and add their photos and videos in seconds — no app, no account, no chasing people for months afterwards.
- 1Create your event and print the cards.
- 2Guests scan and share from their phones.
- 3You keep every photo, forever — and can turn it into a film.
Find anyone, years later
Name Grandma once. Find her in every photo.
If your family turns it on, we'll notice the same face across your photos and ask, “Is this Grandma Rhonda?” Say yes, and she's findable in every picture — from 1962 to last Sunday.
It's off until you choose it, it only ever compares faces within your own family's archive, and anyone can ask not to be recognized.
Tell the story behind the photo
A photo shows what happened. A story tells why it mattered.
Turn an album into a story you can read aloud at Thanksgiving. Make a slideshow for an anniversary, or a tribute for someone you've lost. A quiet writing helper can draft the words from your dates, places and captions — and you change every one of them.
“We took a wrong turn outside Bayfield in the summer of 1978 and ended up at the water's edge with a flat tire and two hungry kids. Joe fixed the tire; I fell in love with the place.”
Private by design
This is not a social network.
No public feed. No strangers.
Nothing is ever public. There's no discovery, no followers, no way to browse anyone else's family.
One hop, by design
Share an album with your cousin and only your cousin sees it. Their friends don't. Their relatives don't.
Never indexed
Private pages carry do-not-index instructions and photos are served through short-lived private links.
We can't browse your archive
Our staff see counts and costs, not your memories. The only exception is a photo someone reports — and that's logged.
No ads. Ever.
We don't sell data, and your photos never train anyone's advertising. We earn our keep with things that help.
Yours to take
Download every original, or the whole archive, any time — whether you ever pay us or not.
Pricing
Free to keep. Pay only for what helps.
We will never make you pay to get your own memories back. We charge for the extras — the clever search, the films, the big events.
The archive
Free
Uploads, albums, events, people, search, sharing, downloads and exports. For as long as you like.
Start freePremium Family
$29.99/month
Ask your archive anything, find photos by what's in them, stories and slideshows with a helping hand, more space.
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$9.99
A Family Day Pass: 24 hours of every AI feature, starting when you press start. Perfect for a holiday gathering.
How it worksStart with one photograph.
And the story behind it. That's how every family history begins.