Tinybeans Private Family Album

I paid for this app when I first downloaded it because I wanted to share with distant relatives. But now, some of my followers, and even myself, are continuously asked to pay the fee even though I already did! My followers are supposed to be free according to the FAQs, but asking me to pay AGAIN is extremely frustrating. I can’t upload any new memories without the demand for payment. And once again, I have already paid. I’ve emailed them but no return from their customer support. Shameful. Update May 2024; They’ve increased the price significantly since my last post. But that’s not the worst of it. The app is extremely buggy now. Photos don’t load, some people can comment and others can’t, and my husband is limited to his quantity of uploads even though we should have the same permissions. I can’t believe that with the increase of price, that the user experience got worse. I won’t be renewing my subscription for another year.

I was really enjoying tiny beans as it was a great way to share photos. It was super disappointing to discover the price of tinybeans+ has literally doubled from $50 to $100 annually with no reasonable explanation. The free version only allows 20 pictures per month which is not nearly enough. If it wasn’t for the photos I’d already uploaded, I’d likely delete the app all together

Do not use! They get you emotionally invested with a couple years of free use and then, when you already have all kinds of personal comments and photos and videos uploaded, which would take hours to move to a different platform, they start charging you and the cost goes way up eventually! Better to use Facebook and make a private album that continues to be free into the future!

The $100 price tag would be fine IF the app worked. There are waaaay too many bugs to warrant the price tag now. We have nearly 10 years of data in TinyBeans so we’re not going anywhere, but if you’re new, I’d look around for something more stable. 1. Scroll doesn’t work, it skips images. 2. Caption screen doesn’t scroll as you type 3. Captions are cut short without the ability to scroll 4. Some features are country specific so you’re paying for something you can’t get 5. Customer service response time is 10-30 days 6. Uploading is unstable so you sometimes have to close the app and load photos one at a time 7. Spellcheck doesn’t work when typing captions

Love this app, love how it’s keeps our family connected across the country! Easy to use & upload! Customer service is Superb 👍🏼 I have always felt confident in Tinybeans privacy policy - we have never had a concern and we are particularly conservative. Love it & our recipients do too 🤩

I’ve been a user for over 8 years. We LOVE the original app. It had cost us $40 for the premium version but when we divorced, we thought it was a great way to share the memories from days we don’t have custody. Now the price is being jacked up to $100 plus tax!!! I don’t see the validation in increase. When I emailed and asked about it I was told about a bunch of products that I can’t even get as a Canadian user. Then I was told about the free version with ads. That part doesn’t bother me to keep using the app, however, there is a limit of 20 images per month to upload! That’s not even an image a day!!!! Sooooo very disappointed by the greed this once wholesome little app is displaying. Shame on you Tinybeans.

This service has been free for many years and in the last 3 years they are charging us 100$ for the same service.

We’ve used this app for 7+ years. It went through a very bad, buggy period where it was almost unusable, but it has steadily gotten into better and better shape. Looking good once again.

Choosing photos and videos to share in this app has always been challenging but it’s recently become so difficult so as to make the ap unusable. You have to use their custom photo selection interface rather than the native one you’re used to in every other app. This results in only limited access to your photos and repeated views of the photos it does display for you. It’s incredibly frustrating and results will in an overall inability to actually share the photos and videos you want to share. I’ve reached out to the developer to complain and they’ve explained they’re not planning to fix the issue any time soon. Also, there’s an incredible level of noise from “prompts” and ads/sponsored content in the feed. This content appears even after you’ve paid for a subscription. What’s more, the app makes you experience so many “flashbacks” you start to feel like a middle-aged hippie. It would be nice to be able to turn them off, but they in fact form the main interface of the app. Many people I invited to view our posts couldn’t find the new posts for all the flashbacks. What’s more, there is no landscape mode. So if you’re an iPad user and you use a keyboard, the app will appear sideways for you, really limiting the functionality of the app and making it very difficult to enter posts. This app is the best of the bunch, but it still has a ways to go from a positive user experience perspective, namely: ditch the ads for paid users, reduce the “flashbacks” noise in the feed, and - most importantly - enable a landscape view like every other contemporary iOS app.

We have been premium members for several years and have loved being able to share our little one with friends and family across the globe. Being a military family it is always challenging to share our child’s milestones and photos with friends and family who don’t live anywhere near us. It was important to us to have a safe and secure way to share but with the price point constantly increasing and the application never really improving it is hard to justify the cost. When we began with Tiny Beans it was was worth while to pay but there have not been enough improvements or added features to explain a 99$ cost. An increase of over 110% in my books needs to have a lot of improvement over the year. The app is clunky and hard to manage, the interface is poor and the value for money just isn’t there. I’ve cancelled my premium membership and moved to the free version for now but we are looking for better ways to share with friends and family.