Can only invite family members via email which is very confusing for my old grandparents who don’t understand how to get their email on their phone… Also have no idea how to set up more than one album for them ,when they have two great grandchildren (and one set up for the first baby). How do I add my baby when their account is connected to the other one?? Not very user friendly

I’m so sad because honestly, this should be the best photo sharing app out there but there are just too many problems with it. I swear every 6 months I have a huge issue that I have to email support about. They say we’re working on it which they are and they do eventually fix it, but that’s so frustrating. There shouldn’t be issues uploading, that’s what this whole app is for. I spend a lot of time writing captions and uploading photos and too often it just stops and everything I did for that day is lost. We are tired parents, we don’t need to add difficult things to our lives. Not even to mention the outrageous cost. If I wasn’t already so invested I would run far, far away from this app. I can’t say I will continue to pay the fee, it’s way to expensive and then on top of that to have problems so often is just not worth it. I’m sad to say it, but keep looking. This is not the app you want.

My tips on the latest version as of 6/11/24: Double check after every upload and change (eg. updating captions, resorting memories) you make because there is a 50/50 chance the app fails to process them. If you don't see the prompt "uploading x moment" after uploading/changes, close and reopen the app. This seems to clear the app cache to properly process the upload/change. It should then give you these prompts: "Complete!" followed by "uploading x moment" (Yeah, the prompt order seems backward). Sometimes it does not give you any prompt and that means the upload/change fail. I loved everything about Tinybeans before the app became buggy back in Sept 2023. Uploading and making changes become a stressful experience because the app will often fail to process them. So many times I need to reload and retype the prompts on multiple photos & videos. I still love the calendar view and tagging capability which I don't see in other similar apps, but would NOT recommend it anymore until this issue is fully fixed. I know the deceloper team has always been responsive to feedbacks, but the issue should have been fully fixed by now.

I’ve used this app for 3.5 years, back when it was free. Now it’s like $70/year and I feel stuck because all my memories are here and my family members are here. Ever since they “updated” the app to be paid, it’s been very hit or miss on: 1) whether pictures upload, or 2) if they upload in the correct order. It is SO ANNOYING having to re-upload, re-tag, and re-caption multiple photos. Otherwise I do enjoy it and enjoy sharing my family with those closest to me, but for $70 you’d think they would figure out THE ONE THING it’s supposed to do.

They don’t make it easy to follow two families.

This is a wonderful app to keep track of milestones, share videos and pictures, and to help keep photos organized. From a price perspective, it’s not super expensive for what you get. A couple of bugs that seem to be exclusive to iOS devices and some flagship Android (Samsung) devices. - Pictures/the page “jumps” if you try to view a day with lots of pictures/videos (at least 10). This has been raised several months ago, but the issue still seems to be there. On Android tablets, that issue doesn’t seem to occur. - If you were to go back and add/update captions on a picture/video, they do not always save. This is frustrating when you update/reorg a bunch only to find out the changes never save. - At times, pictures or videos do not always upload with iOS devices the first time. I would say around 90% of the time things are uploaded the first time. Given the fact that it’s $80/year, it would be expected that most of these bugs wouldn’t be consistent. Otherwise, it’s a great app to share content when everything works.

Am not computer skilled. Can’t send comments to Paese family. Pls advise how to do that.

I’ve been using TB to share pictures of grandkids for more than five years. I understand the need to charge users but there is a continual bug. My spouse pays for a subscription and has added me as a family member for free. Yet every 8 or 10 months, I’m randomly kicked off and we have to add my account again. With the entire internet at our fingertips, I can’t imagine anyone is using this app for parenting lifestyle guidance. I wish they would charge half the price and stick with only safe photo sharing.

I would like to be able to recommend Tinybeans again. I think it has great features- not requiring accounts/apps for all family members, and the calendar view especially. but the uploading on iOS just has a lot of friction (I’m here writing this after battling for the third time this week and now being way behind on uploading our photos). - Scrolling back more than a couple days in photos in upload view shows the same pictures over and over. This has been an issue for years. I was told it’s because I have a lot of photos on my device. (yes, I take a lot of pictures, as many people using a photo album sharing app probably do). - Can’t choose personal iOS albums to upload from (I would love to have a “Tinybeans” album and be able to upload from there unless/until native upload via share sheet is possible). Favorites is the workaround, but it’s still not great due to the issue above and many other items in the favorites album. - Native upload via share sheet shows Tinybeans, but is not functional. It does nothing most of the time. I have referred many friends and family members to the app over the last nearly 7 years. I’ve uploaded daily. We have 4 other in our extended family still using it after the subscription model changed. In the last 6 months or so, I don’t recommend it so much. People I referred more recently are not impressed and end up choosing other options because of missing basic functionality.

Seriously the best. So easy to use. I love that it’s basically a curated collection of my photos now because it’s just the ones good enough to share.