Your family’s tree and photographs, kept by your family.

Hearthkeep is a private archive for one family: the tree, the photographs and the stories behind them. It runs on your own computer, or we run it for you, and it is yours to take with you.

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Phone and tablet appsThe full archive on any desk

Scrolling through the Library on a computer, month by month.

The Hearthkeep home page on a phone, with the week the family is in.

Sound familiar?

Does your family have photos scattered across phones, computers and cardboard boxes?Your family’s Hearthkeep archive holds them all.

Who’s that in the photo?Hearthkeep finds faces and remembers names, so nobody has to guess in fifty years.

Have you ever lost heirlooms and pictures in a fire or a flood?Back up your legacy and your loved ones’ memories with Hearthkeep.

Worried your favorite service could shut down, or close your account, and take every picture with it?Hearthkeep is yours to run. Your pictures and your backups live on computers you choose, and you can take them anywhere.

Is social media the only place your family shares memories?Hearthkeep is a private place for your family.

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A safe place your family controls

Hearthkeep stores your family’s memories where you decide — your own computer, or ours — and you can take it home any time. Your family sees it. Nobody else does.

The Hearthkeep home page on a computer: on this day, what is waiting, and what is happening now.

Faces found and named

Hearthkeep finds the faces in your photos and asks who they are. Press a face, pick a name, and the photo is on that person’s page.

Pressing an unnamed face in a photo and picking who it is.

Find anyone, anywhere, any year

Search by a face, a name, a place, a year or a word. Hearthkeep finds the people in your photographs and the moments you’d forgotten you had.

Typing “lake” into search on a phone, and the photos and stories it finds.

An archive passed down through the ages

Your family’s archive can be passed down for generations. Do you know your great-grandparents’ names? Most of us don’t. Write down the moments that mattered and make them findable for the ones who come after.

Moving across the family tree and opening a person.

The Archivist

An AI helper that works inside your archive: ask it who is in a photograph, when something happened, or where a story is — and it helps you add what’s missing.

A look inside

The archive your family opens every day

See everything in Hearthkeep

The map: photos standing where they were taken, some in piles with a count.

Every photo on the map

From the camera’s own record or a place you name, so a trip is a trail and a house is a pin.

A scanned print on a phone, with the face Hearthkeep found in it.

Old prints, front and back

Point your phone at a print. Hearthkeep reads the date on the back and asks who’s in it.

Events: Lake Week happening now, and the weeks before it, each with its album.

Lake Week, every year

An event gathers everyone’s photographs into one album while it happens.

On this day

Photos taken on today’s date in earlier years, on the home page.

Rosa’s Sunday Sauce, typed up from her card: in the family since circa 1962, ingredients and all.

Recipes from a card

Photograph a recipe card and it is typed up, ingredients and all.

A person’s medical section on a phone, with the choice of who may read it.

Your health history, kept for the people you choose

Record what ran in the family once, encrypted, and decide who may read it.

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One email when it opens. Nothing else. Leave with one click.

Two ways to run it

At home, or with us

How it works

On your own computersHearthkeep HomeInstall it like any program on a computer at home. Add a relative’s computer as a backup, or as a standby that takes over when yours is off.Hosted by HearthkeepHearthkeep CloudWe run it for you. Take it home whenever you like.

Launch pricing

One price per family

Hearthkeep Home

On your own computer

$8a month· $96 a year paid monthly

Or pay yearly — cheaper every year you stay

Year 1: $79
Year 2: $63
Year 3 on: $47

30-day trial, everything on
Every computer in the family included
Phone and tablet apps
Updates included while paid
Unpaid: read-only, nothing deleted

Hearthkeep Cloud

Hearthkeep runs it for you

$20a month· $240 a year paid monthly

Or pay yearly — cheaper every year you stay

Year 1: $199
Year 2: $179
Year 3 on: $159

500 GB included
$10 per extra TB a month
The license is included
Phone and tablet apps
Take it home any time, free
Unpaid: thirty days to take it home

Hearthkeep Backup

An encrypted copy, kept off-site

$5a month· $60 a year paid monthly

250 GB included
$6 per extra TB a month
Encrypted before it leaves your house

Trust

What we promise

Your archive is yours. One family, one archive, never mixed with anyone else’s.
It sends us nothing. Your archive runs on your computer and reports nothing to us. The license is checked there after a one-time activation. You can switch a usage report on; it is off until you do.
Stop paying, keep your archive. On your own computer it stays open to read, nothing deleted, until it’s paid again. On Hearthkeep Cloud you have thirty days to take it home, and taking it home is free.
On Hearthkeep Cloud, we can see what you store. Finding faces and searching need it. We never sell it, never give it to anyone, never show ads, and never train AI on it.
Hearthkeep Backup is sealed before it leaves your house. It is encrypted on your computer. We cannot read it; your printed recovery kit is the only key.
No ads. Not on this site, and never in your archive.

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