Everything you might ask

Parents with thousands of photos on their phone who mean to share them and never do. And the grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends who’d love to see more of them.

You share a handful, not a dump. Every photo carries a caption in your own words, sits on a timeline that shows your child’s age each month, and turns into memories over the years. Family get a calm weekly email instead of a stream of notifications, and nothing gets lost in a chat.

Free for your first 5 GB. Plus gives your family 100 GB for $4 a month billed yearly ($48), or $6 month to month. Family members never pay to view.

An iPhone with your photos on it. Small Years is an iPhone app for parents. Family view it on the web in any browser, so there’s nothing for them to download.

Not yet, but it’s coming soon. Small Years is iPhone only for parents for now. Family on Android can view everything on the web.

A small team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, led by our founder, Giles. We’re parents, and we built the thing we wished existed.

No. You choose every photo. Nothing is uploaded until you keep it, and nothing is looked at in the background. The app does count how many new photos are waiting since your last review so it can remind you, but it never opens them.

A few minutes, whenever you sit down to it. Your first review starts with your newest 30 photos, and each review after that picks up where the last one ended.

Tap the mic and say what happened, or type it, or leave it blank. We tidy your words, fixing punctuation and dropping the ums. We never write a caption for you or add anything you didn’t say.

No. AI only ever sees the words you spoke or typed, to tidy them. No photo is ever sent to an AI model.

Yes. On Free, clips can be up to 30 seconds; on Plus, up to 5 minutes. A longer clip can be trimmed before you post it.

Yes. Add each child, tag who’s in a photo, and family can filter the timeline by child. Each child’s age shows month by month.

You tag faces yourself. As you go, your phone learns who’s who and suggests names, and once it’s sure it names someone for you, marked so you can see it and change it. All of the face matching happens on your phone.

Yes. Pets can be tagged like anyone else, and they show up in the family digest too.

Yes. Add a milestone to any photo in your own words, like “first steps” or “first day of school”. Your timeline gathers them into a milestones page.

Yes. Invite a partner, nanny or grandparent as a contributor and they can send photos in. You can choose to approve each one before it appears.

Yes. Make them a co-owner. They can post, tag, invite family and manage the timeline with you.

You can upload photos on the web too, but the quickest way, swiping through your library, is in the iPhone app.

An invite link works once and lasts 3 days. A QR code lasts 1 hour. If one runs out, they can ask you for a new one from the page, and you can send it in a tap.

You’re told the moment someone joins with your link, and you can remove them right away. If the wrong person opens it first, they can tap “Not Rose?” to cancel the link, and we’ll let you know.

Viewers see the timeline, react and comment. Contributors can also send photos in. Co-owners run the timeline with you: post, tag, invite and manage family.

Up to 20 people can be on a timeline.

Yes, any time, from Family. They lose access straight away.

Yes, from the app you can send the photo itself to anyone. There are no public links to your timeline.

No, never. Open the invite link you were sent, enter your email, and type the 6-digit code we email you. That’s it.

Go to smallyears.com and sign in with your email. We’ll send a link and a code, and either one works.

Invite links last 3 days. Tap “Let them know” on the page and the person who invited you can send a fresh one.

Check your spam or promotions folder, and make sure you typed your email correctly. You can ask for a new code from the same page.

You’ll get a weekly email on Sunday at 7pm your time, and only when there’s something new. You can switch it to daily, or off, from your account.

Yes. Leave a reaction or a comment on any photo. The parents see it, and so does the rest of the family.

If the parents make you a contributor, yes. Your photos may wait for their approval before they appear.

One sign-in covers every family you’ve been invited to. Switch between them from the top of the timeline.

Yes. Download the app and start your own with the same account. The family you’re already in isn’t told or changed.

Yes. Anyone in the family can pay for Plus, as a gift. Paying doesn’t change what you can see or do.

On your phone. Face matching runs on the device, and what it learns about faces never leaves it.

No. Only the photos you choose to keep leave your phone. Your camera roll isn’t synced, watched or copied. So a review can pick up where you left off, we keep a private record of what you kept or skipped: a scrambled id and a mark for each photo, never the photo itself.

No. Location data is removed from the file before it leaves your phone, and family never see exact locations. You can add a place in your own words if you want.

Never. Your photos aren’t shared with advertisers, brokers or partners, and they’re never used to train any model, ours or anyone else’s.

Card payments go through Stripe, and App Store purchases through Apple. We never see your full card number.

100 GB of storage and clips up to 5 minutes. It’s $48 a year (that’s $4 a month) or $6 month to month.

Around a couple of thousand photos, depending on your phone’s camera and how many clips you add.

Either. Plan storage belongs to the family, and anyone on the timeline can pay for Plus. One person pays at a time.

Both. In the app you pay through Apple. On the web you pay by card through Stripe.

Only the person paying can stop. On iPhone, cancel in your Apple subscriptions. On the web, choose “Stop paying” in your account. Plus carries on until the end of the period you’ve paid for, and nothing is deleted.

Everything you’ve posted stays, and family keep seeing it. You won’t be able to add more until you move to Plus or remove some photos.

Write to us and we’ll help. App Store purchases are refunded through Apple.

Only if you send one. You choose which memories go to the family, and they’ll get at most one memory email a day.

Yes. Switch between the timeline and a calendar, which shows your child’s age for each month.

From Account. If you own a timeline, you’ll have 30 days to change your mind, and during that time family can no longer open it. After 30 days every photo, caption and comment is erased, and we email you when it’s done.

Their account goes right away. Anything they posted on your timeline stays, under their name.

Yes. Leave from your account at any time. The parents can always invite you back.

Only purchase receipts, for our accounts: the date, the amount and the payment reference. They hold no name, address, email, card number or photo, and they aren’t linked to you.

Yes. An owner can transfer the timeline to a co-owner.

Write to us from the About page, or reply to any email we send you. A person reads every message.