Guides and comparisons
What Hearthkeep keeps for a family, how to keep photos and stories safe for the next generation, and how it compares with the apps families already use.
For your family
Family photo archive
Keep every family photo and video in one private archive: grouped by month, faces named, on the map, and found by name, place or year. At home or hosted.Digital family archive
A digital family archive the whole family adds to: photos and videos, the family tree, stories, voice recordings and recipes, private to your family.Family tree app
Build your family tree beside your photos: a page for each person with their photos, stories and key dates, and dates kept exact, by year or “about”.Family memories app
A private family memories app: photos and videos, stories written beside them, voices typed up, birthdays and on this day, for the whole family.Family recipes
Photograph a family recipe card and Hearthkeep Home types it up, ingredients and all. The card, the cook and the story of the dish stay together.Private family photo sharing
A private place for your family’s photos. Your family sees them and nobody else does. Nothing leaves unless you make a share link, and every link is listed.Private family social network
A private place for one family to share photos, talk about them and keep the days that matter. No ads, and nothing leaves unless you make a share link.Sharing photos with grandparents
Share the family’s photos with grandparents on their phone, tablet or computer, with three text sizes and the faces named. Nobody outside the family sees them.Family cloud storage
Hearthkeep Cloud keeps your family’s photos, videos, tree and stories on our US servers, with 500 GB included and one price for the whole family.Run it at home
Hearthkeep Home runs your family’s photo library and tree on your own computer. No graphics card or Docker needed; add a standby and an encrypted backup.
Guides
Organizing family photos
Organize thousands of family photos without sorting folders: grouped by month, faces found and named, on the map, copies stacked, and found by a word.Scanning old photos
Scan old prints with your phone, front and back. Hearthkeep finds the faces and asks who they are, and keeps the print with the family’s photos.Face recognition
Hearthkeep finds the faces in your family photos and old prints and asks who they are. Name a face, and the photo is on that person’s page.Recording family stories
Record a grandparent telling a story and Hearthkeep types it up beside the recording, kept with the family’s photos and tree in one private archive.Family history and memories
Keep your family’s history where the next generation can find it: photos, the tree, stories, voice recordings and recipes in one private archive.Family photo backup
Back up your family’s photos to more than one place: a standby on a relative’s computer, an encrypted copy at their house, or Hearthkeep Backup off-site.Storing photos long term
Keep family photos safe for generations: a copy on a relative’s computer, an encrypted backup away from home, and files that open without us.
Compare
Google Photos and iCloud alternative
How Hearthkeep differs from Google Photos and iCloud Photos: one archive the whole family shares, with the tree, the stories and the recipes, at home or hosted.Amazon Photos alternative
How Hearthkeep differs from Amazon Photos: one archive the whole family adds to, with the family tree, stories and recipes beside the photos, at home or hosted.Dropbox and OneDrive alternative
Dropbox and OneDrive keep files in folders. Hearthkeep keeps one family’s photos by who, when and where, with the family tree and stories beside them.Synology Photos alternative
Synology Photos runs on a Synology NAS. Hearthkeep Home installs on a Windows or Linux computer at home and keeps the family tree and stories beside the photos.Storyworth alternative
Storyworth turns a year of emailed questions into a printed book. Hearthkeep keeps a family’s stories, voices and photos together in one private archive.FamilyAlbum and Tinybeans alternative
FamilyAlbum and Tinybeans share a child’s photos with family. Hearthkeep keeps the whole family’s archive: every generation’s photos, the tree and the stories.
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