Keepr Creating a hub takes a couple of minutes and, for a household of three, costs nothing.
Start free#
The Starter Hub gives up to three people 10 GB of shared storage, with no card required. That's enough to find out whether your family actually uses it, which is the only thing worth learning first.
If it works, larger plans add storage and members without disturbing anything already in the hub.
Give it a name people recognise#
The hub's name is what your family sees in their invitation and in their app. Something plain works better than something clever — your surname, or "home".
Invite your household first, not everyone#
Two or three people to begin with: your partner, your kids if they have phones. Not the whole extended family.
The reason is in Start with your household, but briefly: a hub works because the people in it are already photographing the same days. As soon as someone adds a photo you didn't have, it's working. Adding an audience of relatives who won't upload anything doesn't get you there faster.
Put something real in it straight away#
One recent album — last weekend, the last trip — not a project to sort out ten years of photos. A hub with something in it invites people to add more; an empty one asks them to do the first bit of work.
Add a second admin#
Do this early. Whoever creates the hub manages it, and a hub with only one admin depends entirely on that person staying reachable.
Promoting your partner takes a moment and means the family archive survives a lost phone, a changed email address, or worse. See Admins and members.
Moving up a plan later#
Changing plan doesn't disturb the hub. The albums, the photos, the members and their permissions all stay as they are — the storage limit and the number of people you can invite change, and on the larger plans some extra capabilities switch on. Nothing is moved or re-processed.
The one thing that isn't retroactive: photo quality. Photos already uploaded stay as they were stored — see Photo and video quality.