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Thousands of photos. Almost none of them shared.

Every parent we know has the same camera roll: thousands of photos of one small person, most of them from the last year. The grandparents see a dozen.

It isn’t for lack of love. Scrolling back through a month, choosing the good ones, writing something about each and sending them to the right people is a second job — and nobody has time for a second job with a baby on one arm. So the photos stay on the phone.

Small Years makes that job small. You swipe through a stretch of your library and keep the good ones with one tap. You say a line about each one. The people you invite get them in their inbox.

  1. You choose the photos.

    You swipe through a stretch of your library and keep the good ones with one tap. No photo leaves your phone until you keep it.

  2. The words are yours.

    Say a line about a photo and we tidy it — the punctuation, the ums. We never write a caption for you.

  3. Only the people you invite.

    Family open their invite, confirm their email from a link we send, and they’re in. No password, no app to install.

Small Years is made by a tiny team in Brooklyn and Lisbon. We’re parents and we built the thing we wished existed.
— the Small Years team