Keepr The mirror image of asking for photos: here you're the one who owns them and would rather someone else did.
It's offered from your library and from the page Keepr shows when an upload finishes — which is often the moment you notice, because some of what you just sent is really someone else's. See Organising an upload.
When this is the right move#
You've been the family's photographer. Years of pictures of your sister's children are in your account, using your storage, and they should really be hers.
You're moving on from a shared space. Leaving a hub, or winding down an album, and the photos should stay with the person they're about.
Someone else is now the archivist. A parent handing the family record to an adult child is exactly what this is for.
What happens#
You choose the photos and offer them. The other person accepts or declines.
If they accept, ownership moves to them. The photos stay in the album they're in — nothing is copied and nothing is moved — and you can still see them as long as you can still reach that album. You stop being the owner, not the audience.
Whether the storage moves depends on the album#
This is the part people get wrong, and it is worth checking before you count on it.
In a personal album where everyone pays for what they upload, the storage follows the ownership: it leaves your allowance and joins theirs. In a personal album whose creator pays for everything in it, the creator goes on paying whoever owns an individual photo. In a Family Hub album, the hub pays and neither personal allowance changes.
They have to accept#
Where ownership does carry a storage cost, nobody gets photos pushed onto them. Someone with a nearly-full plan may reasonably decline a hundred videos, and that's a fair answer — and if they have no room at all, accepting is refused outright.
The window is 14 days#
Twice as long as a request, and deliberately so: an unanswered gift leaves you waiting on somebody else's decision, which is a worse kind of limbo than waiting on something you asked for. One reminder goes out partway through.
If it lapses, nothing changes and you can offer again.
This isn't a way to free up space quickly#
It can free space — but only in an album that bills per uploader, only if the other person agrees, and only after they do. If you're near your limit and need room now, two faster routes:
- Remove originals you've finished with — keeps every photo and usually frees the most.
- Review your duplicate stacks.
Stacks#
Offering a photo that's the top of a stack will ask whether you mean just that one or all of them. For handing over a set of pictures of somebody, "all" is usually what you want.
Keep your own copy#
Giving a photo away doesn't give you a copy. If it's one you'd want regardless — and for photos of your own children it usually is — download it first. Nothing stops both of you having the picture; ownership is only about who holds it in Keepr.