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Far more than a photo album

Album keeps the family tree, the photographs and the stories, and the private records the next generation will one day need. Every picture on this page is the real album.

A family tree that keeps the photographs meaningful

Record how everyone is related, so a photograph still makes sense to somebody in 2075 who never met these people.

  • Four generations on one page, and more, without a spreadsheet
  • Tap a person to see every photograph they are in
  • Several wives, second marriages and adopted children, drawn as families really are

Photographs, sorted the way a family remembers

Upload from a phone or a computer. Sort by event, by year, or by who is in them, whenever you feel like it rather than all at once. Every photograph is kept at full quality, exactly as it was taken.

Already on Google Photos? Choose the photographs there and they arrive in your album at full quality, with nothing to download first.

How many fit? Do It Yourself holds about 2,000 to 3,000 photos, and Done For You about 10,000 to 15,000 photos. A photograph from a phone is usually 3 to 5 MB; smaller pictures, like ones saved from WhatsApp, take far less.

A family photograph in an album

Videos, on YouTube and inside your album

A few minutes of phone video can be bigger than a thousand photographs. So videos live on YouTube, free and unlisted, which means only people with the link can watch, and they play inside your album beside the photographs.

The recording of a grandparent telling a story in their own voice finally has a home.

The Videos tab of an album, with a video playing from YouTube

The stories, before they are lost

Write down what a photograph does not show. Where it was taken, who was laughing, and why the day mattered. Each story is linked to the people in it.

Tribute pages give a dignified place to remember someone, written by the whole family together rather than left to one person to compose alone.

The Stories tab of an album

Wishes and assets, written down while it can be

Where the signed will is kept, who the executor is, the land, the accounts and the SACCO shares. The things that are in one person's head until the day they are needed most.

  • Private to the owner and the people they choose
  • Opened to a chosen relative after a death, only after a waiting period the owner can stop
  • A family record, not a legal will: it says where the real one is
The Wishes and assets tab of an album

Family health: what runs in the family

Sickle cell, diabetes, a cancer that came early. Written down once, so the next generation and their doctors know what to watch for.

As private as wishes and assets: only the owner and the people they choose.

The Family health tab of an album

And the parts you should not have to think about

Private by default

Every request is checked against the list of people you invited. Albums are never public and never indexed by search engines.

Members and roles

Some can add photographs, some can only look. Invite by email, no limit on numbers and no charge per person.

Sign in without a password

A link or a code sent to your email. Nothing to remember.

An app on every phone

Install your album like an app on a phone or a computer, with your family's name under the icon.

Your own name

Your album comes with yourname.ke or yourname.co.ke, registered for you. Not a borrowed address on somebody else's domain.

Backed up every night

Every photograph is copied to separate storage each night, so a mistake can be undone rather than mourned.

See it working

The whole album in one short video, or open the demo album and try every tab yourself.

See it with your own family in it

Start with ten photographs this afternoon. The album is live the moment your payment clears.

Create your family album

Not ready? See what is inside an album first.