Keepr An album is where photos and videos live. Making one is the second thing to do, after setting up your household hub.
Choose where it lives first#
This is the only decision that matters, and it's easier to make now than to change later.
In your Family Hub — everyone in the hub can see it, and it uses the hub's shared storage. This is where the family's photos should go.
In your personal space — only you can see it, and it uses your own storage. Good for things that aren't the family's: work photos, screenshots, a surprise you're planning.
You can also create an album inside the hub that's private to you, which uses the shared storage but stays yours alone. And you can move an album from one to the other afterwards, so a wrong guess isn't permanent.
Add photos and videos#
Most formats from phones and cameras work, including HEIC from iPhones. There's no cap on how many you can add at once, and no limit on how long a video can be — a longer video just uses more of your storage.
If your connection drops part-way through, uploads pick up where they left off rather than starting again.
What happens to your photos when you add them#
Two things worth knowing, because they're easy to be surprised by later.
They're optimised for browsing. Photos are stored at up to 1920 pixels on the long edge and videos at 720p, so albums load quickly on a phone and over a weak connection. For looking at photos — which is what you'll do with them ninety-nine times out of a hundred — this is indistinguishable from the original.
On larger plans, the original is kept too. On 500 GB and above, the actual file your camera produced is stored alongside the browsable one. Not a bigger copy — the original, the thing a print shop wants. That applies to photos rather than videos.
If print quality matters to you, this is worth deciding early: an original that wasn't kept when you uploaded can't be recovered later by changing plan. Full detail in Photo and video quality.
Near-identical shots get grouped#
If you take eight photos of the same moment — which everyone does — Keepr recognises them and stacks them behind a single tile with a count, so one burst doesn't bury the rest of your day.
Nothing is deleted. Every copy is still there; open the tile to see them all, choose a different one to sit on top, or split them apart for good. See Duplicate stacks.
Deleting is permanent#
There's no trash and no undo. Removing a photo removes it, and it's gone from the album for everyone who could see it.
Most photo apps hold deleted items for thirty days. Keepr doesn't, so it's worth pausing before you confirm — particularly when you've selected a lot of things at once.
Then share it, if you want to#
An album in your hub is already visible to the household. If you want people beyond it to see the album, that's what circles are for, and there's also a link you can send to someone without an account.