Keepr The photos worth seeing again are rarely the ones you go looking for. "On this day" brings back what you took on today's date in previous years.
What it shows#
Photos from today's date in earlier years, going back up to fifteen.
It doesn't show everything from those days. It picks a handful of the strongest from each year, and skips near-identical shots of the same scene, so you get a few good photographs from a birthday rather than a slow scroll through forty frames of one afternoon.
Your photos, and your household's#
"On this day" brings back every photo you took, wherever it now lives. A photo you added to somebody else's album is still yours, and it still comes back to you.
Other people's photos are treated differently. Those only appear if they are in a shared album of a family hub you belong to. A hub is a household: the people in it were mostly at the same things, so a photo one of them added is genuinely a memory for the others.
An album you were only invited to contribute to is a different relationship. Your afternoon of somebody else's trip comes back to you. The rest of their year does not.
Private hub albums never appear. Their creator still sees those photos, as their own.
Reminders are optional#
There's a daily notification and an occasional email, both optional and each with its own setting.
Two things about how they behave, since both are unusual:
- They arrive in your local morning, not whenever a server happens to run. Keepr uses your device's time zone for this.
- They back off if you're not interested. If several notifications go unopened they pause by themselves, and resume the moment you open the app again. The email is capped at twice a week with a widening gap.
A feature meant to be a small pleasure shouldn't become a nuisance, so it's built not to be.
Sharing one#
A resurfaced photo can be posted to your circles as a Moment without moving it out of the album it lives in. It stays where it is; the Moment is just a way of showing it to people for a day.
Where to find it#
On the home screen when there's something to show, and in a dedicated view where you can look through the years properly rather than only what surfaced today.
The card on the home screen moves through the day's memories on its own every few seconds. Swipe it left or right to go at your own pace; once you do, it stays on the photo you chose instead of moving on. Arrow keys do the same on a computer, and tapping the photo opens it full screen.