Tinybeans Private Family Album

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R5] 5/5 · US Safe place to store memories: Tinybeans has, without exaggeration, changed our family for the better. We’re able to look back on 9+ years of wonderful memories and pictures. The app is user-friendly and secure, so I feel safe sharing my children’s photos and videos with loved ones. Thank you, Tinybeans. 💜
2. [R10] 5/5 · US 10+ years of memories: I’ve been using this app for 10 years. It’s been a great way to keep my kids off social media while still sharing with close family. I love how easy it is to find memories! It’s even been helpful at doctors visits when I ended up in the hospital with one of my kids and was able to document the day to day to report later to my doctors!
3. [R25] 5/5 · US 5 year user w/ 3 kids: This app works great to share every day happenings with family and friends across the US without us having to worry about strangers having access to our children’s images.
4. [R32] 5/5 · US The best photo sharing app for families: We love Tinybeans! We downloaded it because we wanted to share photos of our son and we were hesitant to "over-share" on social media. We also wanted a way for grandparents who aren't active on social media to see pictures. It's such a simple, private and user-friendly way to share photos with family and friends. We especially love the month-in-review colla
5. [R1] 5/5 · US Updated Review: Update as of 2026 They have made some major updates and things are so much better. I am so glad I stuck it out, because this really is the best app. Now that I don’t have uploading issues, I have no complaints. Since they worked on the changes, they even reached out to me checking in because I had sent so many emails about the struggles to support. I appreciated that. It’s much eas
6. [R49] 5/5 · US Ứng dụng tuyệt vời để lưu giữ kỷ niệm gia đình: Mình thực sự rất hài lòng với Tinybeans! Giao diện thân thiện, dễ sử dụng, đặc biệt phù hợp cho những bậc cha mẹ muốn ghi lại từng khoảnh khắc quý giá của con cái. Mình có thể chia sẻ hình ảnh và video với gia đình mà không lo bị công khai như trên mạng xã hội. Tính năng nhắc nhở hàng ngày để đăng ảnh giúp mình không bỏ lỡ bất kỳ kỷ niệm nào. Ngoài
7. [R65] 5/5 · US The whole family loves it!: It makes it so easy for me to share photos of my family to only people I choose to have access to! I post daily and my family looks forward to photos each day! It helps keep us connected. Very easy app to use!
8. [R3] 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
9. [R40] 5/5 · US love it: great product, it's been 8 years and we still use it almost every day.
10. [R13] 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
11. [R71] 4/5 · US Love it! But glitchy :(: I love this app! The idea behind it, display, it’s awesome! The app has always been glitchy for me, with a variety of issues… but, I have been keeping up with it for 5 years, with probably 5-30 photos a day, so maybe it’s just the size of my album! … despite the glitches, I highly recommend this tool to keep memories of you children! I get weekly “flashback” emails that ma
12. [R2] 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.
13. [R8] 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
14. [R14] 1/5 · US THIS IS A SCAM: We've been using Tiny Beans for a few years. It is a service that allows us to upload photos of our kids, and it then organizes them by date. It also allows us to share photos with our extended family like a private social media page. We have honestly loved it though it is really just a private facebook page at best. We've had a premium membership for a year or two which was $40 pe
15. [R59] 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.
16. [R21] 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.
17. [R27] 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.
18. [R24] 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
19. [R26] 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!!
20. [R29] 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
21. [R31] 1/5 · US Can’t add or see photos: We have been using this app for about 10 years and now all of the sudden we cannot add any photos or access any previous photos from the past decade. Our photos of our childrens’ births and early years have been effectively stolen by Tiny Beans
22. [R11] 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
23. [R12] 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.
24. [R17] 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
25. [R41] 3/5 · US Slow app support response: Since the birth of my first grandchild, my daughter has been posting pictures of my now grandchildren daily. It has been great to be able to share the children’s growth with family and friends across the globe. Their great grandmother used to look at Tinybeans every night before she went to sleep. Last week, without any notification, my daughter was not able to upload pi
26. [R6] 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.
27. [R34] 2/5 · US App for iPad is Trash: the app is extremely buggy on an ipad.
28. [R127] 3/5 · US Great and phone, worthless on iPad: Love this app on my iPhone and can’t get it to work at all on my iPad.
29. [R18] 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
30. [R30] 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!
31. [R45] 1/5 · US Boo pop up ads: I liked this app much better before they added screen wide pop up ads to the premium subscription tier.
32. [R19] 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???
33. [R20] 1/5 · US No one can figure it out: I know the Elderly are bad at technology. But half the people I invite get an email with a password and when they open the app they are promoted to enter the password and boom they’re connected. The other half end up on their own island completely disconnected from our family’s page and I have no way to help them as their experience is radically different from that of my
34. [R56] 4/5 · US Keeps freezing-would be 5star but frustrated: I’ve used tinybeans for almost 6 years now, premium. Would be five stars, but lately it keeps freezing and glitching. It’s ESPECIALLY frustrating when you have your batch of 25 photos ready to upload, with detailed captions you lovingly wrote, only for it to completely freeze and you loose everything. I’ve noticed the last couple months has been more g
35. [R78] 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
36. [R4] 4/5 · US Great Alternative to fb: TB allows you to keep your inner family and friends up to date on your baby's progress. Especially great for newborns. Not sure why many of the tracking is linked to me AND not linked to me?
37. [R155] 3/5 · US Love the app - subscription cost is INSANE: I love this app and have been a user for about four years. My family loves it and I love being able to keep some photos more private. It used to be FREE and now the subscription is doubling from $40 annually to basically $80.
38. [R39] 1/5 · US Used to be good: I understand needing to charge for the service if you want more than the 20 photos/month to upload but when we first started using it over 6 years ago, the idea was all past photos would always be there free. Was tired of paying for the premium version when only my husband and I could have unlimited photos to upload (what a pain for grandparents to have to text photos and me uploa
39. [R77] 2/5 · US I wish I could but I can’t: My brother, and my two cousins all used TinyBeans dating back between 2016 and 2021. Over 9,000 photos between 5 children, my family LOVED this app. Focus on the past tense. I just had my first child and was so excited to share the photos the same way with my family, but now it costs $75 a year to share more than 20 photos a MONTH. I took more than 20 photos the first d
40. [R33] 4/5 · US Overall a good app: We have been using Tinybeans for close to 7 years. I have posted every day. Lately (several months now) the app glitches. It glitches at different points too. Sometimes it’s when I go to select photos to login. Sometimes it’s once I have selected photos and then waiting to write the caption and sometimes it is when you’re actually trying to upload. It is frustrating especially
41. [R23] 5/5 · US Best app for parents!: I love Tinybeans! And extended family does too! I love how easy it is to share our photos and memories with family and close friends near and far. I’m told how much my grandparents love seeing so many pictures of their great grand babies, every single time I talk to them. It’s a great app and I have enjoyed using it for the last 17 months! (Also, premium is worth it if you’r