Does your family have photos scattered across phones, computers and cardboard boxes?
Your family’s Hearthkeep archive holds them all.
Your family’s tree and photographs, kept by your family.
Hearthkeep is a private archive for one family: the tree, the photographs and the stories behind them. It runs on your own computer, or we run it for you, and it is yours to take with you.
Phone and tablet appsThe full archive on any desk
One person pays. Everyone in your family signs in free.
Never sold. No company builds a profile on your family.
Sound familiar?
Who’s that in the photo?
Hearthkeep finds faces and remembers names, so nobody has to guess in fifty years.
Have you ever lost pictures in a fire or a flood?
Hearthkeep keeps a copy on a relative’s computer, so your family’s memories survive.
- archive.dbYour people, dates, stories, and who can see what.
- mediaEvery photo and video, exactly as you added it.
Worried your favorite service could shut down, or close your account, and take every picture with it?
Hearthkeep is yours to run. Your pictures and your backups live on computers you choose, and you can take them anywhere.
Is social media the only place your family shares memories?
Hearthkeep is a private place for your family.
Try Hearthkeep.
Join the waitlistA safe place your family controls
Hearthkeep stores your family’s memories where you decide — your own computer, or ours — and you can take it home any time. Your family sees it. Nobody else does.
Faces found and named
Hearthkeep finds the faces in your photos and asks who they are. Press a face, pick a name, and the photo is on that person’s page.
Find anyone, anywhere, any year
Search by a face, a name, a place, a year or a word. Hearthkeep finds the people in your photographs and the moments you’d forgotten you had.
An archive passed down through the ages
Your family’s archive can be passed down for generations. Do you know your great-grandparents’ names? Most of us don’t. Write down the moments that mattered and make them findable for the ones who come after.
The Archivist
An AI helper that works inside your archive: ask it who is in a photograph, when something happened, or where a story is — and it helps you add what’s missing.
A look inside
The archive your family opens every day
Every photo on the map
From the camera’s own record or a place you name, so a trip is a trail and a house is a pin.
Lake Week, every year
An event gathers everyone’s photographs into one album while it happens.
Old prints, front and back
Point your phone at a print, front and back. Hearthkeep finds the faces and asks who’s in it.
On this day
Photos taken on today’s date in earlier years, on the home page.
Recipes from a card
Hearthkeep Home onlyPhotograph a recipe card and it is typed up, ingredients and all.
Start your family’s archive.
Leave your address and we’ll tell you when Hearthkeep opens.
Join the waitlistA confirm email now, one email when it opens, nothing else. Leave with one click.
Two ways to run it
At home, or with us
Hearthkeep Home
Install it like any program on a computer at home.- Where photos are kept
- On your computer.
- What we can see
- Only a daily license check, plus an optional, opt-in only usage report for improving the app. Never what you add.
- Leaving
- All your files are already on your computer. Yours to keep.
Hearthkeep Cloud
We run it for you.- Where photos are kept
- On ours.
- What we can see
- What you store. Faces and search need it.
- Leaving
- Take it home any time, free.
Pricing
One price per family
One person pays. Everyone in your family signs in free.
Own your archive
Runs on your own computer. Computer required.
Hearthkeep Home Monthly
Computer required. Nothing to pay up front.
Coming soon
- Always the latest version
- 30-day free trial
- All family members connect for free, on phone, tablet or desktop
Checks in online daily · Details
Hearthkeep Home
Computer required. No monthly fee.
Coming soon
- A year of updates included
- 30-day free trial
- All family members connect for free, on phone, tablet or desktop
Checks in online daily · Details
We run it for you
It’s kept on our computers. Nothing to install, no computer needed.
Hearthkeep Cloud
No computer needed. We run your archive for you.
Coming soon
- 500 GB included
- Backed up as you go, and deleted files can be brought back
- License included
- All family members connect for free, on phone, tablet or desktop
- Take it home any time, free
- Unpaid: 30 days to take it home, free of charge
Add-on for Own your archive
A copy of your home archive, kept off-site.
Hearthkeep Backup
A copy outside your home, in case of disaster
Coming soon
- 500 GB included
- Encrypted before it leaves your house
- Restore‑tested every week
Not sure which?
Have a computer at home that can stay on? Own your archive. You keep everything, and it costs less over time.
Rather not run anything? We run it for you.
Compare the two waysTrust
What can we see?
On your own computer:
Just your license check, plus an optional, opt-in only usage report for improving the app.
Never your names, photos or anything you add.
On Hearthkeep Cloud:
What you store, so faces and search work.
Never sold, never shared, no ads, and never used to train AI. Take it home any time, free.
What we promise
Your archive is yours. One family, one archive, never mixed with anyone else’s.
Stop paying, keep your archive. On Hearthkeep Home Monthly it stays open to view and download, nothing deleted, until it’s paid again. Hearthkeep Home keeps working on the version you have. On Hearthkeep Cloud you have thirty days to take it home, and taking it home is free.
Hearthkeep Backup is sealed before it leaves your house. It is locked on your computer before it leaves; only your printed recovery kit opens it.
No ads. Not on this site, and never in your archive.
Join the waitlist
Leave your address and we’ll tell you when Hearthkeep opens.
Check your email to confirm your place.
Check your email. We sent a link to confirm your place. Until you confirm, your address is held only to send this link, and it is deleted seven days after the last link we send.