Qeepsake: Family Photo Album

I love Qeepsake! Such an amazing service to capture all of the precious moments in life. I would never have documented the sweetest moments of childhood/parenthood If it weren’t for this app. The prompting text questions are great. Tonight the text question made me stop and document a beautiful moment putting our daughter to bed and the things that were said. It’s one of a million moments that will be forever changed as she grows up. I now have this documented in a way that will allow me to be reminded of it years later. I started with Qeepsake while pregnant and have printed a book of that year’s memories every year since (7!). The collection of books is growing and there is no way I can stop until my daughter is at least 18…who knows, maybe I’ll keep it going after. Digital pictures just stay in a cluttered photo file on your phone never to be seen again. I think most of us have become wise to posting our every minute of life and children on social media. Qeepsake gives me a way to post my own memories and child’s milestones as conveniently as social media but just for me.

This app was great for the first part of using it. Then they got money hungry I guess and deactivated my account and kept all of my journal entries locked until I paid to buy a book of the journal entries or a membership when it originally had been free, when I finally caved and paid $30 for a book, they send me a notification that says my book is printing and will send me a notification when it ships. Even though I had been upset I was excited to get this until it was almost a month later and I never got a shipping notification, so I reached out. They said they sent me a pdf instead…. This wasn’t explicitly stated that I wouldn’t be also receiving the physical copy like they misleadingly made it sound. So for $30 I might get to see my children’s memories I logged again… and the pdf also says it is “non-printable”. This company took my journal entries hostage and scammed me into paying a ransom for something I never received. I do not recommend, go look for another app or buy a physical journal. These are dirty liars and scammers. 👎🏼 To the response- yeah, you didn’t answer for keeping the memories “hostage”. You locked the journal entries until you could force payment to get them back. DIRTY. It’s not like you locked the account just for further use or anything- you kept the journal entries hidden until paid. Not a family focused app, just money focused. No warning before either.

So thankful something like this exists. It makes it so easy to answer questions by sending you the texts, and add photos and other entries just by just opening up the app. And I like how you can add a photo collage with four photos, because I usually have trouble picking just one! It is definitely worth upgrading to the paid version to be able to do this. I also like how I can add my own entries about whatever else is going on or whatever else I want to put in there. The first printed book was disappointing quality but I didn’t care that much because the memories are what I wanted and ease of getting it done (so easy!!). The second book I did less collage pics (because they’re too small) and more singular pics and kept them bright, so the quality seemed better this go round. Their customer service is great! Every time had a problem they’re quick to fix. I love this app. Books can be pricey but they have sales so I take advantage of those. Because of the low quality of the pics (especially the collage pics, pretty bad.. solo pics are better), I am considering trying Shutterfly books.. but til then, I’m going to stick with Qeepsake because me and my kids love having these memory books!