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Everything in Hearthkeep

The tree, the photos and the stories, and how your family keeps them.

The tree

  • Every kind of familyParents, partners, adoption, marriages that ended and kin at a distance each have their own line.
  • Dates as you know themA date can be exact, a month, a year, or “about”.
  • A page for each personTheir photos, stories and key dates in one place.
  • Pets in the familyPets have their own place in the tree, with their own families.
The family tree: four generations, each person shown by face and name.

Photos and faces

  • The LibraryEvery photo and video, grouped by the month it was taken.
  • Faces found and namedHearthkeep finds the faces in your photos and asks who they are.
  • Who is in each photoEvery photo lists the people in it, and each name opens their page.
  • Photos on the mapPhotos stand where they were taken, from the camera’s record or a place you name.
  • Old prints, scannedScan a print with your phone and Hearthkeep reads the date written on the back.
  • AlbumsGather photos into albums for a trip, a house or a person.
  • Copies foundThe same photo added more than once is stacked together, not shown twice.
The Library: every photograph, grouped by the month it was taken.

Finding things

  • SearchFind photos by a face, a name, a place, a year or a word.
  • The ArchivistAn AI helper that answers questions about your archive and shows the sources it used.
  • On this dayPhotos taken on today’s date in earlier years, on the home page.
Search on a phone: photographs and what the family recorded, found for “lake house”.

Stories, recipes and voices

  • Stories on photosWrite the story behind a photo, and it stays beside it.
  • Recipes from a cardPhotograph a recipe card and it is typed up, ingredients and all.
  • Voice recordingsRecord a story and it is typed up beside the recording.

Together

  • EventsAn event gathers everyone’s photos from it into one album.
  • Days that matterBirthdays, anniversaries and remembering days come to you, with the people on them.
  • Suggestions you approveNames, dates and places suggested by the archive wait for someone to say yes.
  • ConversationsTalk about a photo in a conversation kept with it.
  • GuardiansA child’s account has a guardian who approves what they add.

Privacy and control

  • Private to your familyYour family sees it. Nobody else does.
  • Share links, on purposeNothing leaves unless you make a share link, and every link is listed in one place.
  • Kept to the people in itA photo can be kept to the people pictured in it and whoever added it.
  • Medical factsHealth facts are encrypted and have their own list of who may read them.
  • Every change recordedEvery change is written down, and yours can be undone.
  • Deleting can be undoneNothing is deleted on the spot; a deletion can be taken back.

Your family’s computers

  • On your own computerHearthkeep runs on a computer at home.
  • A standbyA relative’s computer keeps a copy and takes over when yours is off.
  • An encrypted backupA copy at a relative’s house that they cannot read.
  • An AI helper computerA computer with a graphics card finds faces for the archive and keeps no photos.
  • Yours to takeYour whole archive is one file and one folder, and you can take it any time.

Phone and desk

  • Phone and tablet appsHearthkeep on your phone and tablet, for the whole family.
  • The full archive on any deskEverything works in a web browser on any computer.
  • Light and darkA bright theme and a dark one, and three text sizes.