The end-to-end Premium family system for photos, events, and communication.
ILY is the private family album, shared calendar, and family chat in one place—then surfaces those same memories on every screen you already use, from phones and desktops to Family Frame displays that show the album and kid calendar on the wall.
Native apps on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows. Family Frame on iPad, iPhone, Android phones and tablets, Mac, Windows, Apple TV, and Apple Watch. For builders, a Family Admin API to import and automate into your family space.
Capture life from pregnancy on, or catch up from your camera roll. Invite parents, grandparents, and caregivers on one whole-family plan. No per-person fees.
iPhone · Android · Mac · Windows · Family Frame · free Premium trial, then from $9.99/mo billed annually
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March
2026
Nora, 1 yr 7 mos
February
2026
Nora, 1 yr 6 mos
January
2026
Nora, 1 yr 5 mos
Who ILY is for
Built for families—and anyone who wants a private shared space.
The same album, chat, and calendar foundations, ready when you are. One account can grow with you, from a free start to full Premium and a lifelong family archive.
Families
Your private family home
Parents, grandparents, caregivers, and both sides of the family. One Premium plan for the album timeline, family chat, and kid calendar. Configurable access so each person gets what they need.
Everyone
Open to the public
Anyone can download ILY. Start free with private chat, calendar, and a starter allotment of moments, or begin a Premium trial when you want the full original-quality album.
Why ILY
The only end-to-end system for the family life that matters.
Other apps do a slice: a photo dump, a group chat, a calendar, or a digital frame. ILY is the full stack in one private home—album, chat, and kid calendar—then puts those same features on every surface you want, including wall displays and an API for importers.
Core
Album, chat & calendar
A month-by-month private timeline, family messaging with voice notes, and a kid calendar for school, practices, and handoffs—without work clutter or a public feed.
Surfaces
Phones, desktops & Family Frame
Use the full app on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows. Put the album and kid calendar on the wall with Family Frame—on tablets, phones, Mac, Windows, Apple TV, and Apple Watch.
Builders
Import & automation API
Tech-savvy families and anyone building importers can publish into the album, calendar, and chat with scoped keys—so existing libraries can land in ILY without re-shooting life.
Every device
Phone, tablet, Mac, or PC. Same family, same place.
ILY runs as native apps on iOS and Android, and as native desktop apps for Mac and Windows. Open chat on your phone, browse the album on a big screen, check the calendar at the kitchen computer. You stay connected to your family no matter which device you pick up.
Prefer the big screen? The Mac and Windows apps are full-featured: family chat, calendar, and your entire photo album, with bulk upload and a watch folder for directory sync. Edit photos on your computer, drop in exports from Google Photos, and keep everything flowing into the family album without fighting phone-only limits.
iOS
iPhone and iPad: capture, chat, and browse the timeline on the go.
Android
Full family access from phones and tablets via Google Play.
Mac
Native Mac app for chat, calendar, album browsing, and bulk upload with a watch folder.
Windows
Native PC app for the same full desktop workflow: view, upload, sync, and stay in the family loop.
Family
Ava · Miles · Helen · Priya
Ava
Just added March photos to the album
Helen · on photo
Those cheeks!! Look at that smileHelen
Ava
Love that this lives in chat, not buried under the photo02 · Chat
Family talk that stays with the moment.
Private family chat for messages, voice notes, and the everyday check-ins that keep everyone close, built into the same Premium home as your album and calendar. We built our own chat instead of relying on third-party messengers so conversation can stay album-centric: family members interact with the historical chain of memories everyone is helping create.
Comment on a photo and it lands inline in the family chat, not as a lost note stuck on the image. The photo becomes a conversation the whole family can keep going.
When life gets busy, family messages are easy to miss inside a huge contact list. ILY gives you one place to catch up with family in one go. It is also simpler for relatives who do not want another social app, another account, or a chat product tied to unrelated networks.
03 · Calendar
Family events in the same place as the photos.
School days, practices, doctor visits, and celebrations. One shared family calendar beside the album and chat, so plans and memories stay together.
Most people already juggle multiple calendars: work, personal, old recurring clutter, and apps that not every relative will join. Getting grandparents, a co-parent, or a caregiver onto the same system is hard, and sometimes you only want temporary access. A family calendar inside ILY keeps kid life separate, private, and easy to share with the people who need it.
March 2026
Family calendar
Thu · Mar 12
Pediatric checkup · 10:30 AM
Mon · Mar 16
Swim class · 4:00 PM
Included companion app
ILY Family Frame
Put the family album and kid calendar on the wall. Family Frame is the included companion display app—slideshow or mosaic photos, ages at the time of each shot, and a read-only family calendar. Link from ILY Family Chat; manage each frame on its own.
Runs on the screens you’d actually leave up: iPad and Android tablets, phones, Mac and Windows desktops, Apple TV, and Apple Watch. Up to 5 live frames per family member on Trial and Premium; up to 50 live frames per family member on Max.
Nora · 1 yr 7 mos
Nora · 1 yr 6 mos
Nora · 1 yr 5–7 mos
Nora · 1 yr 5 mos
Family calendar
Ava & Miles · Mar 2026
This week
Coming up
Start early
From pregnancy to every first.
Begin documenting the most precious family moments as soon as you can: ultrasounds, bump photos, birth day, first steps. So your timeline grows with your family from the very beginning.
Start late
It’s okay if you missed years.
Dig through your full camera roll, pick the photos and videos that matter, and add them in. ILY organizes everything into a month-by-month family album timeline. No need to have started on day one.
Why parents capture early
Documenting early memories is a way of showing love from the start.
We studied the research on early memory, parent–child reminiscing, and family attachment, and it shaped how ILY works. Capturing moments and later sharing them with your child is not only about nostalgia. It helps children feel held in a family story, and it gives parents a concrete way to show care from the earliest years.
Developmental research finds that talking about the past with children, especially in warm, detailed ways, supports autobiographical memory and is linked with socioemotional development and attachment relationships [1][2]. Sharing family photos and stories also helps keep relatives emotionally connected across distance, including grandparents who want to stay close to a grandchild’s life [3].
That is also why childhood amnesia matters. Most adults cannot recall lasting autobiographical memories from before about age 3 to 4 [4]. ILY keeps those first years safe so the family can look back together, even when the child cannot remember alone.
Read the full research notes or jump to citations.
Love made visible
Early photos and stories become proof that someone was paying attention from the beginning.
Attachment over time
Reminiscing together helps children place themselves in a caring family narrative, not just a pile of files.
A hub for the whole family
Parents, grandparents, and caregivers stay engaged with the same living timeline, even when they cannot be in the room.
Family access
Invite Nora’s people, with the access each person needs.
One family plan covers everyone. You can grant limited access when full album rights are not needed: chat only, calendar only, or full album access for the people who should help build the timeline.
That makes ILY especially useful when you hire a nanny. Parents stay close to the day, the nanny can send photo updates in chat, and either of you can choose whether a moment also belongs in the family album.
Nora’s family on one plan
12 people · no per-member fee. Access is configurable.
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Ava · Mom
Full access · album, chat, calendar
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Miles · Dad
Full access · album, chat, calendar
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Helen · Grandma
Ava’s side · album + chat
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Robert · Grandpa
Ava’s side · album + chat
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Mei · Grandma
Miles’s side · album + chat
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Kenji · Grandpa
Miles’s side · album + chat
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Dorothy · Great grandma
Album · follow the timeline
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Arthur · Great grandpa
Album · follow the timeline
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Sophie · Aunt
Album + chat · visit and stay in the loop
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Theo · Uncle
Album + chat · visit and stay in the loop
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Priya · Nanny
Chat + upload · send updates, optional album adds
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Lena · Preschool teacher
Calendar + upload · schedule and share classroom moments
Chat only
Updates and conversation without album access.
Calendar only
Schedules and handoffs without the full gallery.
Album access
Help build the private family timeline.
Real families
Family dynamics can be complicated. Your album does not have to be.
We know not every side of the family gets along, and that can make sharing photos harder than it should be. A trip, a celebration, or a quiet day at home might be something you want to keep with one group, not cross-shared with everyone.
ILY makes it easy to group members the way your family actually works: mother’s side, father’s side, a secondary household, or both homes after a divorce. Everyone can still stay connected to the child, while sensitive moments stay with the people you choose.
Mother’s side
Share everyday moments with grandparents and relatives on one side without opening every album to the other.
Father’s side
Keep trips, holidays, and private days with the people who should see them, and leave the rest out of the cross-share.
Two homes
After a divorce or in a blended family, both households can stay involved. Grouping helps everyone get along without forcing one feed.
Why we built it this way
Album first. Then chat. Then calendar.
After studying how early memories, reminiscing, and family connection work, we realized the product should start with the album. It is a subtle reminder of your family’s progress, and it gently encourages you to capture more. Chat keeps everyone emotionally connected. Calendar keeps everyone on track.
01 · Album, not camera roll
Camera rolls are disposable. Albums are for looking back.
A camera roll keeps filling up while life stays busy. People take more photos than they ever revisit. You scroll to whatever is newest, and older moments slip away even though the files are still there.
ILY is built for reflection: swipe through a year, two years, or ten, and watch your family grow. The point is to document everything you reasonably can in the early years, because most children will not remember those days on their own [4].
02 · Family chat, not another messenger
One place for the people raising this child together.
We wanted an album-centric chat: conversation attached to the shared history the family is building, so everyone feels more connected to the memories themselves [1][3].
Around the age many people have children, contact lists are huge and days are full. Family messages get buried. A dedicated family space means you can catch up with the people who matter in one go, without asking every relative to master a complicated chat app or join a social network that has nothing to do with family life.
03 · A family-only calendar
Kid life should not compete with work clutter.
Families often live across several calendars: office schedules, personal apps, abandoned recurring events, and systems that not every relative uses. Getting everyone onto one shared calendar is hard, and sometimes access should be temporary.
That is why ILY includes a family-only calendar: preschool, doctors, practices, and handoffs in one private place, shared with the people who need them, without mixing in the rest of adult life.
Research notes
We reviewed this literature while designing ILY. Citations are for orientation, not medical or clinical advice.
- Fivush, R., Haden, C. A., & Reese, E. (2006). Elaborating on elaborations: Role of maternal reminiscing style in cognitive and socioemotional development. Child Development, 77(6), 1568–1588. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00960.x
- Fivush, R., & Nelson, K. (2006). Parent–child reminiscing locates the self in the past. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24(1), 235–251. doi:10.1348/026151005X57747
- Xu, L., et al. (2023). Learning about grandparents’ past life: Reflections of grandchildren in an intergenerational reminiscence project for Asian American families. Behavioral Sciences, 13(9), 733. doi:10.3390/bs13090733
- On childhood amnesia and the scarcity of lasting autobiographical memories before about ages 3–4, see reviews such as Nelson, K., & Fivush, R. (2004), The emergence of autobiographical memory: A social cultural developmental theory, Psychological Review, 111(2), 486–511 (doi:10.1037/0033-295X.111.2.486), and Bauer, P. J. (2015), A complementary processes account of the development of childhood amnesia and a personal past, Psychological Review, 122(2). (doi:10.1037/a0038939).
Privacy
No ads. No selling your data. A platform you can trust with family photos.
We do not run ads inside ILY, and we do not sell customer data. Family photos can be extremely sensitive, and privacy is of the utmost importance. You should be able to trust the platform you use to keep them.
The only exception is that we may tell you about other apps in our own ecosystem: products we own and develop for child development or for keeping the family together. Never third-party ad networks. Never selling your family’s information.
Read the full Privacy Policy.
No ads in the app
Your family timeline stays a private space, not a place for advertising.
We do not sell data
Customer data is not a product. Your photos and messages are not for sale.
Our ecosystem only
We may share news about our own family and child-development apps, nothing else.
Security & privacy
Private object storage. No family media on our app servers.
Photos, videos, and voice notes live in private Amazon S3 storage with strong access policies and encryption in transit. Application servers coordinate the family system. They are not a dumping ground for your archive. That storage layer sits on AWS infrastructure covered by ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, and 27018 (certified services list). Everything stays family-scoped—never a public social feed.
Media stays in private S3
Signed uploads and short-lived signed reads. Not public open buckets.
ISO-backed cloud storage
We use Amazon S3 under AWS ISO programs for durable family media.
Family-scoped by design
Album, chat, calendar, frames, and API access stay inside your circle— not opened to the public web.
Pricing
Free Premium trial. Then one family plan.
Start on a free Premium trial at 50 GB of Premium’s 100 GB. Subscribe for $9.99/mo billed annually or $12.99/mo. Original-quality media, chat, and calendar for the whole family. Need more room? Premium Max brings you to 2,100 GB for an extra $9.99/mo.
- Invite the whole family. One plan covers every member. No per-person fees.
- Premium chat & calendar. Included with Premium and during your trial.
- 100 GB on Premium. Trial includes 50 GB of that allotment; paid Premium unlocks the full 100 GB.
- Need more room. Premium Max adds +2,000 GB for +$9.99/mo (2,100 GB total · ~21× Premium space).
- Private by default. No ads in the app, no selling customer data.
- Store billing. Subscribe and cancel through Apple or Google.
Your family’s photos, events, and chat—end to end.
Get ILY on iOS, Android, Mac, or Windows. Surface the same album and kid calendar on Family Frame. Import with the API if you want. Create your circle, invite the people who matter, and start with a free Premium trial.
Native apps for iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows—plus Family Frame for digital photo frames. Desktop details.