Keepr Sharing shows an album to a group. The album stays yours throughout.
What you choose when you share#
Three permissions, set per share, so the same album can behave differently for different circles:
| Permission | Default | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Can add photos | Off | Whether circle members can upload into the album |
| Can download | On | Whether they can save copies of its photos |
| Can share onward | On | Whether they can share its photos outside Keepr |
The defaults are deliberate: showing people an album shouldn't quietly let them add to it, but it also shouldn't stop a grandparent saving a picture of their grandchild.
Turning uploads on#
Worth doing for the albums that are genuinely collective — a wedding where everyone has photos, a holiday several families were on. It's the difference between an album you maintain and one that fills itself.
Anyone who adds a photo keeps ownership of it, and it uses their storage rather than yours if the album is a personal one.
Who can share#
The album's owner, into circles they're a member of. You can't share someone else's album, and you can't share into a circle you don't belong to.
Sharing with several circles#
An album can go to as many circles as you like, each with its own permissions. The grandparents might get view-only; the siblings might be able to add.
If one photo in it isn't for all of them, you can hide that photo from particular circles without splitting the album.
Stopping#
You can stop sharing at any time. That circle stops seeing the album immediately.
Nothing is deleted. Photos its members added while it was shared stay in the album — they were added to your album, and removing the circle's access doesn't remove their pictures. If you want those out too, that's a separate decision, and worth thinking about: they're someone else's photographs.
Sharing versus moving to a hub#
If several people should co-own an archive rather than just see it, a Family Hub is the better fit — shared storage, everyone adding, nobody's personal allowance carrying it.
Sharing is right when the album is yours and you want people to see it. Moving is right when it belongs to the household. See Moving an album into a hub.