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Our Family Socials vs Tinybeans
Tinybeans is a private photo-sharing app built around young children, and Our Family Socials is a private social network for a whole family's events. They overlap, but they are aimed at different jobs. Details about Tinybeans below are general and taken from tinybeans.com as of October 2026; check their site for current features and prices.
Last updated October 2026
The short answer
Choose Tinybeans if your main need is a private day-by-day journal of a baby or young child, shared with a small circle, from a polished mobile app. Choose Our Family Socials if you want one private space for the whole family's events - kids' milestones but also holidays, anniversaries, reunions and grandparents' birthdays - organised on a map and a timeline.
Where Tinybeans is stronger
- Native iOS and Android apps, where Our Family Socials is a progressive web app you install from the browser.
- Purpose-built for the baby and toddler years, including milestone tracking and a daily journal format that fits that stage well.
- Printed photo books are available today. Photo books in Our Family Socials are advertised as coming soon and are not available yet.
- A large library of parenting articles published alongside the app.
- A much longer track record and a far bigger existing user base.
Key differences
| Tinybeans | Our Family Socials | |
|---|---|---|
| Who the content is about | Primarily a child: a private journal of a baby or young child shared with invited loved ones. | The whole family: kids' milestones, holidays, weddings, reunions, Sunday dinners, grandparents' birthdays. |
| Unit of content | Dated photo and video entries in a journal, organised by day and month. | Event pages: a trip or celebration with a story, galleries, videos, dates and several locations. |
| Maps | Not a focus of the product. | Interactive world map, multi-stop journey maps, and GPS extraction from photo metadata. |
| Network shape | An invited audience for your own journal. | A follow graph across the extended family, plus confirmed relationships and a family tree. |
| Platform | Native mobile apps plus a web view. | Progressive web app on phone, tablet and desktop; installable to the home screen. |
What it costs
Tinybeans offers a free tier and a paid Tinybeans+ subscription; see tinybeans.com for current pricing, which we deliberately do not quote here because it changes. Our Family Socials: Free plan $0/forever, Pro $9/month billed annually ($108/year) or $12/month billed monthly, and a one-time Lifetime plan at $294. Every new account gets a 30-day free trial of Pro, no credit card required.
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