Alternatives
Switching baby photo apps
What people leave each app over, what to use instead, and how to take your photos with you.
- Tinybeans alternativesTinybeans works, and plenty of families have used it for years. The usual reasons people look elsewhere are the 20-upload cap on the free plan, ads shown to grandparents, and the price of removing both.
- FamilyAlbum alternativesFamilyAlbum's free plan is generous, so the reasons to leave are rarely about storage. They're about what pays for it: third-party ads, a privacy policy that allows selling cookie data, and paywalls on things like bulk download.
- Qeepsake alternativesQeepsake is good at one thing: getting you to write. People look elsewhere when they want photos and video to be the main event, or want family involved without paying for Premium.
- 23snaps alternatives23snaps is ad-free and has run quietly since 2012. Families move on when they want milestone tracking, or want grandparents posting rather than only liking.
- Google Photos alternativesA shared Google Photos album is the default for a lot of families because it's already there. It gets awkward when you notice the link can be forwarded, or that nothing in it knows your child's age.
- iCloud Shared Albums alternativesiCloud Shared Albums are free and on every iPhone. Families look further when an Android relative can't join easily, or when they want more than a stream of photos.