Keepr Four kinds, depending on what you're inviting someone into.
To a circle#
Adds them to the group, so they see every album shared with that circle, its timeline and its chat. The usual way to bring in an extended family member.
To a single album#
Invites one person to one album, by name, without putting them in a circle:
- As a contributor — they can see it and add their own photos.
- As a viewer — they can see it and comment, but not add.
Right when someone should see one specific thing. A colleague who was at the event; a friend who took photographs at the party.
To a Family Hub#
Brings someone into a shared household archive, with its own storage and its own rules. Bigger than the others, and covered in Inviting people to your hub.
A bundled link#
One link that adds someone to several circles and albums at once, so a new person joins everything relevant in a single step rather than accepting five separate invitations.
Useful for a new partner, or a relative who should simply be in all of it. The link works for more than one person until it expires, and you can revoke it whenever you like — so it's convenient rather than something to paste anywhere public.
One link, or one person#
The difference matters, and it decides which one to use.
A link works for everyone you send it to, until it expires or you revoke it. Put it in a family group chat and everyone in the chat can join from the same message. Nobody is named in it, so it can't tell you who has used it — only whether it's been used at all.
An invitation sent to an email address is for that person alone. It's used up once they accept, it can't be forwarded to someone else, and it's the one that shows you whether they specifically have opened it.
If you're inviting someone you're already connected to, pick them from the People tab instead of sending either. They get a notification, a push and an email, and there's no link for anyone to lose track of.
Approving people before they join#
When you create an invite link, you can turn on Approve people before they join. Anyone who uses that link waits — they see nothing of the circle — until you let them in.
You get a notification, and a small badge appears at the top of the circle showing how many people are waiting. Tap it for the list, with Approve and Decline next to each name. The same list is in Circle settings → Members. The circle's owner and its admins can both decide; the badge is only there while someone is actually waiting.
It's off by default, because getting a grandparent into a family circle should take one tap. Turn it on when the link is going somewhere you don't fully control — a group chat that forwards easily, or a message you can't unsend.
It only applies to links. An invite sent to a specific email address already refuses anyone else: Keepr checks the address when they accept, which is a stronger check than recognising a name.
Declining tells them nothing. No message, no notification. A decline is usually a mistake being corrected or something you'd rather say yourself, and Keepr won't announce it on your behalf. If you change your mind, they can ask again by opening the link.
Revoking the link clears the queue. Anyone still waiting behind a deleted invite is removed with it, so you can't accidentally approve someone weeks later from a list you thought you'd dealt with.
If you've already joined#
Opening an invitation you've already accepted tells you you're already in, and offers to open the album, circle or hub. It isn't an error and you don't need a new invitation — which is worth knowing, because tapping the link again is the natural way to check whether it worked.
They don't need the app#
Keepr works in a browser on any phone or computer. Someone can accept, look at the photos and carry on using it that way indefinitely.
They do need an account. If you're sharing with someone who won't sign up for anything — which is a real and reasonable position — use a share link instead, which opens with no account at all.
Expiry and revoking#
Invitations are time-limited — currently about a week — and lapse quietly rather than sitting open forever. You can send another whenever.
A pending invitation can be cancelled before it's accepted, and a bundled link can be revoked at any time.
Whether it arrived#
For album and circle invitations you can see whether it's still waiting, whether the person has opened it, and whether they've joined.
For hub invitations you can see waiting versus accepted, but not whether it was opened.
Either way, if a few days pass with nothing, the likeliest explanation is a spam folder or an email address they never check — not disinterest. Send it again through something they actually use. That single step recovers more stalled invitations than anything else.