All your family photos — past, present, and future — in one private, shared archive.
A 1962 print, last summer’s trip, and today’s snapshot, read on one calm timeline. Invitation-only. No feed, no algorithm, no ads — and yours to export, in full, forever.
Do it yourself
Build it together
Family members add photos from their phones; the historian who holds the shoebox gets an upload link — no account needed. Set true dates on scanned prints so 1962 lands in 1962.
Pro-delivered
Have it done for you
A photo organizer or digitization service builds your archive in their own tools and hands it over finished. You take ownership; their access ends. Nothing locked behind them.
Hold it in your hands
Turn any stretch of the timeline into a printed book, laid out from the dates themselves. The archive lives online; the heirloom sits on the shelf.
How it’s different
Most photo apps are built to keep you scrolling, or to keep your memories inside their walls. We built the opposite.
iCloud / Google Photos
Your archive lives inside one company; leaving means losing the structure.
Full export to ZIP, any time, free — the whole archive, never a subset.
Tinybeans / FamilyAlbum
Feeds, streaks, and nudges engineered for daily engagement.
A quiet chronological timeline. No feed, no likes, no streaks, nothing to keep up with.
Remento
Prompts you to record, standalone from your photos.
Voice and stories anchored to the moment on the timeline they belong to.
Permanent
Archival, but you do all the organizing yourself.
A Studio can deliver yours finished — then it’s entirely yours.
Built on trust, not reach.
Invitation-only
No public pages, no profiles, no discovery. A family archive is reachable only by the people in it.
No algorithms, ever
Nothing is ranked, surfaced, or recommended across families. The timeline is exactly what your family put there, in order.
Real voices, never synthetic
We do not generate or “clean up” voices with AI. A recording is what was actually said — nothing more.
Yours to take with you
Export the entire archive to a ZIP at any time, at no cost. The portability is the promise.
Request an invitation.
We’re opening artefakt.family to a small group of families first. Leave your email and we’ll reach out when there’s room.