Your album
Your photos come back on a USB drive you own: organized, every one labeled, with the stories in your family’s own voices. The album is how you look through it.
It opens on any computer. No membership or monthly fee.
The Harper family is a sample album. Every picture on this page is marked Sample album.
Five ways to find a photo
Each one takes you to an album. Open the whole album, or just one year, or just one place.
Search
Type a name, a place or a year.
People
An album for every person, with every photo they’re in.
Places
Grandma’s house, the lake cabin, with city and state.
Occasions
Christmas, birthdays, the trips.
Favorites
The ones your family marked with a heart.
How an album is organized
Every album has an inside cover. Before you look at a single photo, it shows you what’s in there: which years, which places, and who’s in the photos, with a count for each.
Tap “Open all” to see everything, or tap one year or one place to see just those. Christmas, 1984, Grandma’s house: three taps.
Turn a photo over, and keep adding to it
Who’s in it, when, where and what was happening, in your family’s own words. Press Hear it and Aunt Carol tells it herself.
Pile of Pics labels every photo to start. Then it’s yours: tap Change to add a name, a date or a place whenever someone remembers one. The more of the family who join in, the more each photo tells.
Questions for your family, and stories any time
Anything nobody knew is kept as a question, never a guess. The album lists them in one place. Answer when you know, leave the rest.
And press record on any photo to tell it in your own voice. Hand the laptop to your mother and let her tell the next one. Every recording is kept with its photo, with the words written out beside it.
Make a scrapbook, and share it
Pick photos, add paper and stickers, write a line, record your voice on a page. Print it, play it back, or share it with the family.
What’s on the USB drive
The drive works with no album at all. A grandchild with File Explorer finds “Christmas 1984 at Grandma’s house” in three clicks.
Your photos, organized
Folders by place, occasion and decade, in the order you choose. Every file named with its date, place and who’s in it.
The album
Double-click and it opens. Changes and scrapbooks work in Chrome or Edge.
Your recordings
Every story, with what was said written beside it.
A copy, anywhere
One click copies everything to your computer. Keep the drive somewhere safe.
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