WholeFamily

The family album everyone can actually open.

No ads. No strangers. No AI training on your photos.

Post photos and videos once. Grandparents see them in the app, on the web, or in a simple email, in English or Spanish.

Request an invite

Invite-only for now. Once you are in, it is 14 days free, then $12.99 a month or $99 a year for the whole family.

Built for the parent with the camera, and the grandparent with the iPad.

Three steps, and the last one is the family's.

  1. 1 · Invite

    Send one link.

    Your family joins in a tap, in their language. No account maze, no password to remember.

    The welcome screen a new family member sees after tapping an invitation: the family's name and who is already there.
  2. 2 · Post

    Post once.

    Add the photos and videos from your phone, a few words and the date. That is the whole job.

    Writing a post: photos chosen, a caption and the date.
  3. 3 · Open

    Everyone sees it. Even without the app.

    The family opens your post in the app, on the web, or in a simple email digest. Grandparents never have to install anything.

    The daily email digest: the family's name, the day's photos and a short note.

What keeps it private

Plain claims we can prove in the code.

It is not end-to-end encrypted: we hold the keys, so the family can open photos from any device and in email. Here is exactly what that means.

How we protect your family's photos

  • Each family space has its own encryption key, held in AWS KMS.
  • Photos and videos are stored encrypted, and location data is stripped from photos before storage.
  • Only the people you invite can open your family space. No ads, no strangers, no ranked feed.
  • Only text goes to an AI provider, for translation and the digest summary. Photos and videos never do, and nothing of yours trains a model.
  • Every photo link expires: within a day in the app, and after seven days in an email.

Price

One subscription for the whole family.

The person who creates the family subscribes. Everyone they invite joins free, with no card and no account to pay for.

Family

$12.99 a month

or $99 a year. 14 days free once your invitation arrives.

  • Unlimited photos and videos
  • Up to 5 people who post and 30 who follow along
  • English and Spanish, in the app and in every email

See every plan

Questions families ask first

Do grandparents need to install an app?
No. Once a day they get one email with the previous day's posts and up to four photos from each, right in the message. Tapping a photo opens it in their web browser. Installing the app is optional.
Who can see our photos?
Only the members of your family that you invite. There is no public feed, no discovery and no way for someone outside your family to browse your photos. A family admin can choose to share a single post outside the family with a link that expires.
Does WholeFamily use our photos for AI training or advertising?
No. Photos and videos are never sent to an AI model, never used for advertising and never sold. Two features send text only to an AI model, translation when you ask for one and the daily email summary, under terms that prohibit using it for training.
Does every family member need to pay?
No. One subscription covers the whole family. The person who created the family subscribes, and everyone they invite joins at no charge.
What happens to our photos if we stop paying?
Your family's photos are not deleted when a plan ends.

Every question, answered

Ready when your family is.

We are letting families in a few at a time. Ask for an invitation and we will write when yours is ready.