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.
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.