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Our Family Socials features

Our Family Socials is a private family social network, and these are the features it ships with today. Everything below is live in the product; anything still being built is marked as such.

A private, chronological family feed

Follow the family members and close friends you care about. Their events appear in a feed ordered by time, not by an engagement algorithm, so a quiet post about a grandparent's birthday is just as visible as a three-week holiday. Following is request-based: every follow request is yours to accept or decline.

Chronological feed with no algorithmic ranking
Follow requests you accept or decline
Likes and comments from the people you have approved
Notifications for major life events
Email invitations so you can bring relatives in directly

Rich event pages instead of single posts

The core unit in Our Family Socials is an event, not a post. An event is a trip, a birthday, a graduation or a Sunday dinner, with everything that belongs to it in one place.

Photo galleries with full-screen lightbox viewing
A rich text editor for the story behind the photos
Video clips, with a built-in trimmer before upload
Multiple locations per event, for road trips and multi-stop holidays
Dates, categories and tagged family members
Drafts that only you can see, and a trash that holds deleted events for 30 days

Maps, journeys and timeline

Because every event can carry locations, your family history becomes something you can browse geographically as well as chronologically.

An interactive world map with a marker for every event you have access to
Journey maps that connect the stops of a single multi-location trip
A timeline view grouped by year
Filters by person, place, category and date
Automatic GPS extraction from photo metadata, so locations are suggested for you

AI Create (beta)

AI Create helps with the part most people never get round to: writing the story. You upload a batch of photos, it groups them into a coherent album, asks you a few questions about the trip, and drafts a description you can edit. It is a beta feature, it can make mistakes, and you always review the draft before publishing. AI Create requires an active paid plan or an active free trial.

Family trees and relationships

You can record how people are actually related - sister, dad, cousin - and both people have to confirm the relationship before it counts. Confirmed relationships build an interactive family tree. For relatives who are not on the platform (young children, older relatives, even pets) you can create a tag profile, tag them in events, and let them claim the profile if they join later.

Audience and privacy controls

You choose an audience for every event you create: Followers (the default), Close Family, a custom group, Private (only you) or Public. Public events can be opened by anyone who has the link, including people without an account, so choose a narrower audience for anything you want kept inside the family.

Five audience settings per event: Followers (the default), Close Family, a custom group, Private, or Public
Public events are readable by anyone with the link, signed in or not - they are the one setting that is not family-only
Private share links let someone view one specific event without an account, and nothing else
Follow requests are approved by you, and verified relationships need both people to confirm
No advertising anywhere in the product, and no selling of your data

One thing worth knowing: signed-in members can see an event in the shared feed unless you set it to Private, and opening the event page itself is then gated by the audience you chose. People who are not signed in only ever see events set to Public.

Works on the device you already have

Our Family Socials is a progressive web app. It runs in the browser on phones, tablets and computers, and on most phones you can add it to your home screen so it opens like a native app. There is no App Store or Google Play download to wait for.

Coming soon

Printed photo books from an event are advertised on the home page as coming soon. They are not available yet, so do not pick Our Family Socials for printing today.

What it costs

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.

Every new account starts with a 30-day Pro trial and no credit card is required. During the trial you can publish up to 5 events - only published events count, so drafts and deleted events are free. Pro and Lifetime remove the 5-event limit. If the trial ends and you have not subscribed you keep a free account for viewing, liking and commenting, but you cannot create new events until you subscribe.

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