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

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

Sound familiar?

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

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

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

Want to share with family, and only family?Hearthkeep is private to your family. Nothing leaves it unless you make a share link on purpose, and you can see every link that exists.

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.

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

Boxes of old prints nobody has scanned?Scan a print with your phone and it lands in the archive with its date and the people in it.

Where did Grandma’s recipe go?Recipes, voice recordings and stories live beside the photographs, in one place.

Forgot a birthday again?Days that matter — birthdays, anniversaries, a remembering day — come to you, with the people on them.

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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.

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.

Search on a phone: photographs and what the family recorded, found for “lake house”.

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.

The family tree: four generations, each person shown by face and name.

Your health history, kept for the people you choose

When did the hairline start going? What ran in the family? Record it once, encrypted, and decide who may read it — your children, your descendants, or only you.

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

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.

Every photo on the map

Where was this taken? Hearthkeep puts your photographs on a map, from the camera’s own record or a place you name, so a trip is a trail and a house is a pin.

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

Old prints, scanned — front and back

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

A scanned print on a phone: the face it found, and photographs already in the archive that look like it.

Lake Week, every year

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

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

A look inside

The archive your family opens every day

Rosa Example’s page on a phone: her photographs and her key dates. — A person

On this day: the photographs taken on today’s date, and what the family recorded on it years ago. — On this day

The Library: every photograph, grouped by the month it was taken. — The photographs

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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