Who is behind Keepr Circle?
Kacper Orlowski, a parent in the Netherlands who built the app after losing about six years of his own family photos.
Keepr is a private place for a family's photos and videos. Every member of a Circle adds their own albums into a shared timeline, and you choose which groups of people see which parts of your library. There are no ads on any plan, for anyone. It is built and run by a small team in the Netherlands.
Keepr started with a problem its founder had himself: family photos scattered across Messenger and WhatsApp groups, quality crushed on the way, impossible to find again months later. Then he lost about six years of photos when a cloud backup quietly stopped syncing and he lost the phone. The question that stuck was how you hand these on one day — a login to a drive full of screenshots and receipts is not passing anything on.
Keepr does not run ads, does not sell your data, and does not use your photos to train AI models. It is paid for by the families who use it. Photos are encrypted in transit and at rest — not end-to-end: Keepr holds the keys and the servers decrypt your files to serve them to you.
Keepr runs no facial recognition — no face vectors, no age or gender estimation. The AI that does run stacks near-duplicate shots and, on larger plans, searches by what is in a photo. Those are open models running on Keepr's own servers; no third-party AI service is in the path.
Every account starts with 5 GB free, and families who need more can combine storage into a single Family Hub subscription. Viewing a shared album never requires an account, so nobody has to sign up to see the photos you send them.
Kacper Orlowski, a parent in the Netherlands who built the app after losing about six years of his own family photos.
Subscriptions only. No ads, no data selling, and no AI training on your photos.
No. Photos are encrypted in transit and at rest, but Keepr holds the keys and the servers decrypt files to serve them to you. Any consumer photo app offering search and web viewing while claiming end-to-end encryption is overstating it.