Keepr A circle is a named group of people. "Grandparents". "Cousins". "The NCT lot". You share particular albums with a circle, and its members can see those albums.
What a circle is for#
Drawing a boundary you can hold in your head. Most people's sharing isn't one audience — it's three or four, and the photos that go to each are different.
Rather than deciding per photo who should see it, you decide once who's in "close family", and then share albums with that group.
The album stays yours#
Sharing an album with a circle doesn't hand it over. It stays your album, on your storage, and you can stop sharing it at any time.
That's the difference from a Family Hub, where the album becomes part of a shared archive on shared storage. Circles are about audience; hubs are about storage and co-ownership.
Circles are separate from each other#
Each has its own members, its own timeline and its own chat. Someone in one circle can't see who's in another, and can't see albums shared with another.
The one place they meet is a Keepr Chain post, where you deliberately give several circles one shared conversation — and you can turn that off if the groups shouldn't read each other.
Each circle has a timeline and a chat#
Posts you make to a circle appear in its timeline, where members can like and comment. And every circle has its own conversation, so the family can talk about the photos where the photos are.
Both are optional. A circle used purely to share albums, with nobody ever posting or chatting, is a perfectly normal way to use one — and a circle's owner can switch chat off entirely.
See The timeline and posts and Circle chat.
Who runs a circle#
The person who created it is its owner, and can make other members admins.
The owner controls the circle's settings, including whether chat is on and whether posting is limited to admins. Only the owner can change someone's role, and the owner's own role can't be changed.
How many#
As many as you like, and you can be in as many as you like. There's no cost to a circle — they don't have their own storage or subscription, because the albums they show stay on whoever's storage they already lived on.
Leaving one#
You can leave a circle at any time, and you'll stop seeing albums that were shared with it. Anything you'd added to those albums stays where it is.