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1. [R1] Tinybeans Private Family Album 1/5 · US Expensive and glitchy, horrible app, greedy!!!!: They want $75 a year when it used to be free. I HATE them with a passion. Everything that used to be great SUCKS now and this is one of those things. I would never pay for this because the app doesn’t work half the time anyway. It crashes when you’re loading a bunch of photos at once and it’s a huge waste of time.
2. [R6] Tinybeans Private Family Album 3/5 · US Going downhill: Used to love this app. Expected the experience to at least stay the same and not degrade when the price increased to almost double. Since then we have had weekly issues with the app. Most recently, more than once a week, we are unable to upload photos because they all show as back in the preview.
3. [R10] Tinybeans Private Family Album 1/5 · US No longer free: No notice to my email or on the app it would no longer be free. Log in today and have to pay. So disappointed. Edit: My MIL paid for a year and repaid when it was up a few months ago and there must have been an upgrade and bumped me down to the free plan out of nowhere when we paid for the year plan. Can I rate below 1 star? Update -1000 stars as I went to find a specific memory
4. [R18] Tinybeans Private Family Album 3/5 · US Pricey: I started on here posting our family’s first grandchild and it was great until the price got jacked up to an incredibly high one. I think of it as an investment for my 95 yr old grandmother happy but no other reason to use this specific expensive product anymore.
5. [R5] Tinybeans Private Family Album 4/5 · US 6 years & 3 Babies Later: I truly love this app. We’re a military family and have moved every 2 years, including an overseas move. Staying connected to family is the most important thing for me and this app helps that tremendously! I also love having the memories pop up. The only thing is that for close to a year it has been glitching and no longer lets me select which child is in the photos I sel
6. [R9] Tinybeans Private Family Album 3/5 · US Glitchy: Great app we have been using for almost 8 years but lately it has been so glitchy. I reached out to customer service for trouble shooting and they told me to re-download the app. I have done so a couple times and it is still not helping the glitches! I miss the old app.
7. [R3] Tinybeans Private Family Album 3/5 · US Premium without upgrade: I’ve paid for premium. Never got benefits. FAQ include this problem which put me off. Why would that be a FAQ? I followed instructions to fix. Not fixed. I don’t like when my lack of time costs me money. I have to find the time now to contact. I feel that I should be refunded for poor app function or whatever it is. I believe my daughter has had the features but I h
8. [R16] Tinybeans Private Family Album 1/5 · US No support: I paid for a subscription but the app is limiting my posts. I’ve reached out to their “support” twice and received no help.
9. [R30] Tinybeans Private Family Album 3/5 · US Love the app, but terrible communication: We’ve been using this app for years, and we love it. We even paid for the subscription. However, I’ve tried reaching out to the developers many times for various questions, including issues with the website when trying to take advantage of a Black Friday deal. No response ever. I was willing to continue paying for the subscription but changed my mind out o
10. [R25] Tinybeans Private Family Album 1/5 · US Great app till it’s not: I have used this service for 7 years, and every year the quality goes down. Now the free plan is so restrictive that I’m locked out of my account. I tried to upgrade and they happily take the payment but don’t actually give me access to my photos. One year they charged me for the same service twice and balked when I asked for a refund. Great idea, poor execution, questiona
11. [R37] Tinybeans Private Family Album 1/5 · US Used to be great: This was the best app ever when I started using it in 2020. Totally free! Then they started charging. Understandable that at some point it would happen. The next year the price DOUBLED! So I opted for the free version with limited uploads. Now they say my storage is full and I can’t even see the photos I had or upload new ones. I definitely regret recommending this app to so ma
12. [R40] Tinybeans Private Family Album 1/5 · US Surprise Terms Change: It is evil capitalist garbage to suddenly require payment to access my own family photos. My family has been leaving photos and comments for years. Now they’re hidden until I pay. Absolutely sinister corporate nonsense. BEWARE!!
13. [R46] Tinybeans Private Family Album 1/5 · US App holding my memories hostage: We loved tiny beans when we first downloaded. We used it to share photos from 2014-2024 and had great experiences but now the app said out album was full (no previous mention of a limit) and we have to pay to upload anything new. What’s worse is we now no longer have access to look at older photos we’ve uploaded. They are archived and not visible unless we pay. See
14. [R17] Tinybeans Private Family Album 4/5 · US Great app. Too many adds: We pay annually for this app and we love it. It’s perfect for sharing your kids with your family and friends without posting the online. My Family members love getting daily emails with the kids photos and I love the archive of photos and memories. I love seeing flashbacks and remembering cute photos/moments I have forgotten about. 4stars because we pay a good amount annu
15. [R28] Tinybeans Private Family Album 2/5 · US Product is useful; business practices are disappointing: The product is fine. It's not great, it does the bare minimum. The frustrating part is that the price will increase without any added benefit. And you receive ads in the app when you open it. I think I started paying $4.99/month, and now I pay $7.99 and I don't get anything more of value. And there's an ad that takes over the screen eve
16. [R48] Tinybeans Private Family Album 3/5 · GB Prepare for ads: Unfortunately my enjoyment of this app is severely hampered by the large amount of ads. Despite paying the yearly subscription. The lack of an ad free tier is a real shame.
17. [R49] Tinybeans Private Family Album 2/5 · US Ads, glitchy: A great idea for a platform but like all others, it gets worse every year. Once we had to start paying I thought it would be worth it, and that’s when the ads started. So aggressive now! And it glitches and refreshes and bounces that it makes scrolling thru photos difficult, which was the whole point of the app!
18. [R4] Tinybeans Private Family Album 2/5 · US iPad App is Unusable with Keyboards: Hello! Just checking in to see when landscape mode may be available on the TB iPad app. I would really like to use my iPad Pro keyboard. Thanks! Still waiting on landscape mode on iPad, and it would be nice to be able to scroll faster when adding photos many months in the past.
19. [R15] Tinybeans Private Family Album 3/5 · US My opinion, only one problem.: I love the set up and design of this app entirely! My only problem is I’m not able to share this with family and friends like how it’s supposed to, I’ve tried everything from deleting them and re-adding them to adding their emails to their contacts and trying to re-add them, I’ve checked the FAQ and done exactly what they say! I’d love to use this app and give it a 5
20. [R31] Tinybeans Private Family Album 1/5 · US Useless: You need to know people’s emails to invite them to view your album. This is the only way?! What is this, 1997???
21. [R33] Tinybeans Private Family Album 3/5 · US Problem: Can’t see gallery photos
22. [R51] Google Photos 1/5 · US Too hard: Way too difficult to figure out. It seems like it will back up every single photo in your phone or nothing at all. I wanted to backup only specific photos, not every one. But it’s all or nothing. Junk
23. [R52] Google Photos 5/5 · US My baby girl and I: Thank you for holding all my memories
24. [R54] Google Photos 2/5 · US black screen when i open the app: google photos used to work great on my ipad but for the past couple of months when i open the app its a blank screen. still shows the UI and i can navigate to "collections" and "create" and other stuff but my photos wont load no matter what button i press. my ipad is up to date and so is the google photos app but the problem still persists
25. [R56] Google Photos 3/5 · US I do like it, however: I need to turn off notifications, or minimize them. I just get too many.
26. [R65] FamilyAlbum 1/5 · US added ai into the mix: why can’t we just enjoy sharing photos without the use of ai to protect our children from ai & to have clean WATER for them! AI is not more important than our children. we dont need to search for photos that’s what our eyes are for 😵‍💫
27. [R66] FamilyAlbum 4/5 · US Still waiting on ordered photos: Enjoy being able to see all the photos. I have had trouble receiving the photos I have ordered the last few months.
28. [R67] FamilyAlbum 3/5 · US Love the app, but…: I love being able to share photos in the app with family, but I bought photos in April and May and I still have not received them. While sharing photos is awesome, if you want them printed, you’re better off ordering them through your local photo printing place like Walgreens or Walmart.
29. [R68] FamilyAlbum 2/5 · US Worried: I love the app. I truly do but recently my orders have not showed up. My address is correct and yet the photos still say shipped but they never deliver. It scares me because I don't know where my photos are going and they are pictures of my children. I keep getting replacement free photos and they also don't show. I just feel super uncomfortable that I don't know where my personal photos
30. [R79] Huckleberry 1/5 · US Beware of inaccuracies: After a few weeks of using the app and the Berry AI chat I discovered that the app has been inexplicably using the incorrect age of my baby the entire time, even though the birthdate is recorded correctly in the app. I have been getting tips and advice about wake windows and feeding volumes as if my baby is one week old but they are nine weeks old. I have been dealing with
31. [R80] Huckleberry 5/5 · US Love this app!: First time mom and this app has definitely made tracking things so much easier! I wish I got it sooner! Now I know when, how long and how far apart my babies feedings were! I use the free portion and it still lets you use so much! Definitely a must have
32. [R81] Huckleberry 3/5 · US Good concept but not accurate: Great idea and love the features, but the reports that add up how much you pumped and how many oz baby ate from bottle etc are wildly inaccurate. For instance the the report will say he ate 5oz from the bottle today, when in reality if I got add up manually what he ate it will Be closer to 15oz…same with pumping sessions says I pumped twice today but I pumped 5 times
33. [R82] Huckleberry 2/5 · US Not worth the price: Huckleberry is $120/year when it should be significantly less. The app looks and feels dated and does the exact same job other appa do better. Big disappointment to use for 2 weeks and then delete for the money.
34. [R93] Qeepsake 1/5 · US Scammers: This app was great for the first part of using it. Then they got money hungry I guess and deactivated my account and kept all of my journal entries locked until I paid to buy a book of the journal entries or a membership when it originally had been free, when I finally caved and paid $30 for a book, they send me a notification that says my book is printing and will send me a notification
35. [R94] Qeepsake 5/5 · US Love this for my kids and my memories: My two girls were born within 19 months of each other and the fact that I could answer texts about each of them in real time from the time they were babies was essential. When I give them their Qeepsake books every few years, they get so excited and read every word. Now that they are older, I sometimes ask them to answer and it’s a fun family activity of refl
36. [R95] Qeepsake 3/5 · US Please Improve:: I want to love this app, but a couple of years into using it and there are a handful of things that make it difficult for the customer. If uploading photos from my iPhone 15, even though the app asks me if I want the original date of the photo to be uploaded and I select "yes", it will upload with the current date. This caused me a nightmare of having to go in and hand adjust ever
37. [R96] Qeepsake 1/5 · US Shady Business Practices - Avoid This App: I’ve been using this app for many years now on their free tier. I’ve recently received notice that my account is being deactivated unless I sign up for a paid membership. I get that business needs change, but you started the free option, not me and now my memories are being held hostage unless I purchase a membership OR pay for a PDF of everything I’ve
38. [R107] Jambl 1/5 · US Awful: This was the worst thing ever it delays every time I tap and I can’t do what I want you guys also have the worst beat pack imaginable maybe get some more? And n top of that. ADDS OUT THE EFFIN WAZOO!!
39. [R108] Jambl 5/5 · US Having fun: Awesome tool for sketching ideas love it
40. [R109] Jambl 3/5 · US It's Brittany bishh: I had all the beats unlocked and then one day they were almost all locked again. I also can't exit an add when I try to unlock a beat most of the time. There's too many adds tbh. I get it, there needs to be some, but....😐 Buttttt I really like making the beats when I'm able to do so. Oh and I feel like there should be new beats often, maybe I would pay if there was. 😏
41. [R110] Jambl 5/5 · US Needs an update!: I love this app so much although there should be chats in here so we can make our band even if we invite our band members to the app we need to communicate! Make the update!! This is a good app it recommended!
42. [R39] Tinybeans Private Family Album 3/5 · GB Too expensive!!: I’ve been using the app for the last (almost) 4 years. It was free the first two years and I was hesitant to pay when they started charging but decided to do it. I’ve just found out they want to charge £70 for the next year!! Just ridiculous! I’ll be switching to a cheaper option.
43. [R24] Tinybeans Private Family Album 3/5 · US Love it but Glitchy: We’ve used this app for almost 5 years and since the payment requirement change, it’s very glitchy. You can only add a message on one photo at a time even if uploading multiple. So then you have to back to each individual photo and edit. If I wasn’t already so many years in, I would definitely look for another app. Additionally, it often shows photos have uploaded on my phone
44. [R69] FamilyAlbum 5/5 · US Big fan!: What a great was to share pix without having to send to everyone individually or post everything on FB.
45. [R72] FamilyAlbum 5/5 · US Best Family Album Ever: Great way to share photos and videos with family members and close friends. Love getting to see pictures and videos my grandkids daily. I also love the fact that I can get the 11 pictures every month for $ 3.99. there are usually so many good ones I end up getting more than my 11 every month.
46. [R78] FamilyAlbum 5/5 · US Best photo sharing app 💯: This has been by far the best photo sharing app. I can share with my family in Italy who have android with ease and they get high quality photos without having to over share on social media. Don’t waste time with other apps, Family Album is endgame.
47. [R87] Huckleberry 1/5 · US Unfortunately, this app wasn’t a good fit for me.: The biggest issue is that all of the sleep analysis and recommendations are delayed. For example, by the time they generated a sleep schedule, my daughter was already 4 months and 3 weeks old, but the app gave us a schedule for a 4-month-old. At this age, even two weeks make a huge difference in wake windows, so the recommendations were already ou
48. [R99] Qeepsake 1/5 · US Used to be worth it…: They just changed to a paid only app. I have almost 6 years of memories on my account and I have to either pay for an annual membership or pay to have my memories sent on a one time pdf. There’s no other option but to delete the account. I can’t even view what was saved. This is shameful. Unless you can pay $10/$15, some literally can’t, doesn’t matter how long you’ve used th
49. [R104] Qeepsake 1/5 · US Good until it’s not: I started this with my first born in 2022 and was pleased with the ease of adding daily pictures and memories. But with the addition of new kids and the pricy upgrades I tried to do minimal charges. Now I am confronted with a notification that my account will be deleted and I will lose all my progress if I do not buy or upgrade. I can’t even adjust the book entries if I decide