Every kind of family
Move across the tree and open anyone. Parents, partners, adoption, marriages that ended and kin at a distance each have their own line.
Everything in Hearthkeep
The tree, the photos and the stories, and how your family keeps them.
The tree
A page for each person
Their photos, stories and key dates in one place.
Dates as you know them
A date can be exact, a month, a year, or “about”.
- Pets in the familyPets have their own place in the tree, with their own families.
Photos and faces
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.
The Library
Every photo and video, grouped by the month it was taken.
Who is in each photo
Every photo lists the people in it, and each name opens their page.
Photos on the map
Photos stand where they were taken, from the camera’s record or a place you name.
Old prints, scanned
Scan a print with your phone, front and back, and the two stay together.
Albums
Gather photos into albums for a trip, a house or a person.
- Copies foundThe same photo added more than once is stacked together, not shown twice.
Finding things
Search
Find photos by a face, a name, a place, a year or a word, and the stories and memories that mention it.
The Archivist
Hearthkeep Home onlyAn AI helper that answers questions about your archive and shows the sources it used.
On this day
Photos taken on today’s date in earlier years, on the home page.
Stories, recipes and voices
Recipes from a card
Hearthkeep Home onlyPhotograph a recipe card and it is typed up, ingredients and all.
- Stories on photosWrite the story behind a photo, and it stays beside it.
- Voice recordingsRecord a story and it is typed up beside the recording.
Together
Events
An event gathers everyone’s photos from it into one album, while it happens.
- Days that matterBirthdays, anniversaries and remembering days come to you, with the people on them.
- Suggestions you approveNames, dates and places suggested by the archive wait for someone to say yes.
- ConversationsTalk about a photo in a conversation kept with it.
- GuardiansA child’s account has a guardian who approves what they add.
Privacy and control
Kept to the people in it
A photo can be kept to the people pictured in it and whoever added it. Everything else is open to your family, and to nobody else.
Share links, on purpose
Nothing leaves unless you make a share link, and every link is listed in one place.
Every change recorded
Every change is written down, and yours can be undone.
- Private to your familyYour family sees it. Nobody else does.
- Deleting can be undoneNothing is deleted on the spot; a deletion can be taken back.
Your family’s computers
On your own computer
Hearthkeep runs on a computer at home, and the rest of the family’s computers can help it.
- A standbyA relative’s computer keeps a copy and takes over when yours is off.
- An encrypted backupA copy at a relative’s house that they cannot read.
- An AI helper computerA computer with a graphics card finds faces for the archive and keeps no photos.
- Yours to takeYour whole archive is one file and one folder, and you can take it any time.
Phone and desk
Phone and tablet apps
Hearthkeep on your phone and tablet, for the whole family, and the full archive in a web browser on any computer.
- Light and darkA bright theme and a dark one, and three text sizes.
Start your family’s archive.
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