The private family photo album
MayBirthday is a private family photo album app. It keeps your family's photos and videos in one place: every birthday, plus the beach trips, Sunday lunches and days out in between, sorted by person and by year. Only your family can open it.
Free while we test it with our first families. To start your album you'll need an invite code: email us for one.
Why "MayBirthday"?
Even when we're far apart, we reach out. Tita calls from abroad. Lola sends a message. Someone finds the old photos and says, "Look how small you were."
That's the feeling we built MayBirthday around. A home for your family's photos that brings everyone back together, not just once a year, but every time you want to remember.
The problem, and how we solve it
MayBirthday one album for the whole family. Everyone in the family adds to the same place.
MayBirthday every photo goes into the right person's timeline and the right year, by the date it was taken. Days out become "moments" with a name, a place and who was there.
MayBirthday it sorts them for you. Pick a pile from your gallery; you check, and they land in the right years.
MayBirthday every photo is kept safely in two separate places. Lose your phone, and your family, your Recovery Kit or your family helpers get you back in.
MayBirthday send her a link. She taps it and sees the party. No app, no account.
MayBirthday photos are locked on your phone before they upload. Only your family's phones can open them. Not even we can.
They grow up so fast. You'll never get these years back. But you can keep them.
Fair question
They're great at keeping everything on your phone. Keep using them. But everything is the problem: your family's best moments sit between screenshots, receipts and thousands of other photos. MayBirthday keeps only your family's story.
What's inside
Every person in your family gets a timeline: the kids from their first year up, and the grown-ups too. Each year holds that birthday, plus the first days of school, graduations and trips.
Each year is labelled with how old they were, so you can watch everyone grow up.
Pick as many photos from your gallery as you like. MayBirthday reads when each one was taken and puts it in the right year.
You check before anything is added. Photos and videos are kept apart, so you can always find them.
MayBirthday turns the day's photos into a short film with music. It's made right on your phone.
Watch it, save it, share it with the family.
Share just the photos you pick, or one whole birthday. Lola and the titas tap the link. No app, no account.
Guests at the party can add their photos the same way. Nothing shows up until you approve it.
A nudge the evening before and on the morning of every birthday in your family.
A trip, a picnic, Sunday at Lola's: make it a moment, give it a name and a place, and tick who was there. It shows up in each of their timelines.
Beach weekends and Sunday picnics come back to you, a year later.
Mark a photo "Family only" and it never leaves the family, not even in a link.
Private, and always yours
How it works
No password to remember. You sign in with a one-time code.
A first name and a birthday for each person. Their timelines appear, year by year.
Pick them from your gallery. They're sorted into the right person and year for you.
So you both keep the album, and each of you can let the other back in if a phone is lost.
Questions
Yes, during the beta. Before we ever ask you to pay, we'll show you the plan, the price and how cancelling works, and you choose. Nothing is charged without you agreeing first.
No. You send them a link, and they just tap it. No app and no account. They only see what you chose to share.
No. Your photos and videos are locked on your family's phones before they're uploaded, so we only ever store them locked. Not your photos, not your videos, not your children's names.
Lock it from our lost-phone page, on any phone or computer. Then the other parent's phone can let your new phone in. Lost every phone? Your Recovery Kit, a saved passkey or 2 of your 3 family helpers get you back in.
No. Birthdays are where it starts, but you can keep any day: trips, picnics, Sunday lunch, a first day of school. Make it a moment, give it a name and a place, and tick who was there.
Yes. Download everything any time, as normal photo and video files, and delete your account whenever you like.
At a size that's sharp on any phone and for prints up to 5R. We make each photo smaller on your phone before it's uploaded, so years of photos fit. Keep your originals too.
Yes. It works on both, and a family can mix them: one parent on iPhone, the other on Android, sharing the same album. During the beta we send you the app directly.
We're letting in our first families now. Install the beta, then email us for your invite code to start your album.
iPhone: the link installs Apple's free TestFlight app, then MayBirthday. Android: we send you the app directly.
