Keepr Keepr has four ideas in it. You need two of them to start, and the other two exist for when you want to share beyond your own household.
Albums hold your photos#
An album is a set of photos and videos — a holiday, a birthday, a year, whatever grouping makes sense to you. Everything you add to Keepr lives in one.
Albums are the only one of these four that's about organising. The rest are about people.
A Family Hub is your household#
A hub is a shared space with one storage plan that several people use. Everyone in it reaches the same archive: you add the photos from your phone, your partner adds theirs, and neither of you has to send anything to the other.
This is the part most families actually want, and it's the fastest way to get value out of Keepr — see Start with your household. Being in a hub doesn't cost you privacy either: any member can keep an album private to themselves inside it.
Circles are for sharing wider#
A circle is a named group of people — "grandparents", "cousins", "school friends" — that you share albums with. The album stays yours and stays on your storage; the circle just decides who can see it.
Circles are how you share outward, past your household. They're optional. Plenty of people use Keepr with a hub and nothing else.
An album can be shared with several circles at once, and you can hide an individual photo from one circle without hiding it from the others.
Connections are the people#
Everyone you share with, in one list — whether you met them through a hub, a circle, or an invitation to a single album. Opening a person shows exactly where you overlap and lets you remove any of it.
It answers "who can see my things?" from the direction of the person rather than the album, which is usually how the question actually arrives.
How they fit together#
The short version:
- Albums are what.
- Hubs and circles are who.
- Connections is the list of everyone across both.
And the shorter version: make a hub with the people closest to you, put albums in it, and add circles later if you ever want to share further. Nothing about starting that way limits what you can do afterwards.