FamilyAlbum: Share Baby Photos

FamilyAlbum Review: Unlimited Free Storage, Paid For With Ads and Upsells

Free tier: unlimited storage, 2-minute videos and 11 prints a month

The free plan does not meter storage, and one album holds up to 100 invited members. Videos are capped at 2 minutes. Each member can order 11 free prints a month, but every order carries $3.99 shipping, extra prints cost $0.33, and unused free prints do not roll over. The price of free has shifted: App Store release notes have listed "In-app ads" since November 2025, and 14 of the 35 one- and two-star reviews among the 199 newest English Play reviews (June 7 to September 30, 2026) complain about ads or pop-ups. MIXI's replies cite rising server and operating costs.

1s Movies: one-second clips picked by face recognition

1s Movies stitch one-second clips from your uploads together. MIXI's engineering page describes the selection in three stages: deep-learning face and person recognition, then a rating that weighs visibility settings, Favorites and comments, then a balanced mix of photos and videos from across the season. Free albums get one every three months; Premium adds monthly and yearly editions. Album Members who are not Admins only get clips from uploads shared with the whole family, and if the Album Admin lives in the EU, the UK, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway, those members receive no 1s Movies at all. Deleting a photo, or switching it to Admins Only, does not remove it from a movie already made.

Premium One $2.99, Family $5.99, Family Pro $10.99: what each adds

Premium One costs $2.99 a month, covers only the subscriber and hides third-party ads in every album they belong to; it has no yearly option. Premium Family, at $5.99 a month or $59 a year, covers everyone in one album and adds 10-minute videos, computer uploads, Share Groups for per-photo visibility and Personal Pages that sort photos by child. Family Pro, at $10.99 or $109 a year, adds 1920 x 1080 video instead of Family's 1280 x 720, bulk download, descriptive search, tags and TV casting, which needs Chromecast or Google TV. The one-month free trial is for first-time subscribers only, and MIXI does not refund a renewal you forgot to cancel. Prices are U.S.; check the app, as they vary by region.

Data safety, Apple's tracking label and the 30-day deletion window

Sign-up asks only for nicknames for you and your child and your relationship to them; everything else is optional, and there is no public feed. Google Play's Data safety form lists user IDs and device IDs shared for advertising or marketing, and Apple's privacy label lists identifiers used to track you across other companies' apps and sites. MIXI's engineering page confirms face recognition runs on uploads for 1s Movies, stickers and Personal Pages. Answering a July 2026 Play review about AI search, MIXI said uploads are not provided to third parties to train AI models. Deleted photos and, on request, accounts leave its servers within 30 days; removing a whole album means contacting support. Read the developer's privacy policy before uploading your child's photos.