A Qeepsake alternative the whole family can add to

Why parents look for a Qeepsake alternative

Qeepsake sends you a question about your child by text message. You reply to the text and your answer is saved in that child’s journal. In the app you can add photos and video, edit entries and order the journal as a hardcover or softcover book. A partner or another relative can be added as a contributor.

On 6 October 2026 the pricing page showed two plans. Essential was $4.99 a month, or $3.99 a month billed yearly, with two questions a day, up to 50 photo uploads a month and two journals. Premium was $9.99 a month, or $7.99 a month billed yearly, with four questions a day, up to 100 photo uploads a month and unlimited journals. Both start with a seven-day free trial, and both include credit toward a printed book.

The reasons people move on are easy to read from that list. The texts pile up unanswered, or the photo caps feel tight for the price. Often it is that you wanted the grandparents to see the memories and add to them, and found a journal that is mostly yours.

Sources: Qeepsake: Pricing; Qeepsake Help Center: How does Qeepsake work?; App Store: Qeepsake

The stories about your child are spread across the whole family. Give them one place to land.

1. Everlittle: one archive the whole family adds to

Everlittle is ours. It is a private family archive: photos, written stories, voice recordings, video, milestones and letters on one dated timeline, each with room for the story behind it.

Qeepsake collects your answers. Everlittle collects everyone’s. Invite grandparents, aunts and uncles by email as Contributors and they add memories from their own phones: the photo from their visit, a story about you at the same age, a recording of the lullaby they sing. Invite them as Viewers if they would rather just look. Invited family are free on both plans, however many you add.

What you write does not have to be read now. Seal a letter as a capsule with an opening date and it stays unreadable until that day, even to the person who wrote it. Your child can also have a view of their own, opened with a family PIN and no email account, which shows only what has been shared with them.

You can start without paying and without a deadline. The free plan holds 100 MB, asks for no card and does not expire. The family plan is $6 a month or $60 a year for 25 GB. There are no ads, and nothing is public unless you create a link to a single memory, which expires after 30 days.

Start your family archive, free

See Everlittle’s plans

Sources: Everlittle: Pricing

Everlittle or Qeepsake?

Qeepsake’s plans count photos: 50 uploads a month on Essential and 100 on Premium. Everlittle counts storage and leaves the number of photos to you. Qeepsake begins with a seven-day trial. Everlittle’s free plan has no end date, so you can add a memory a week for months before deciding anything.

Qeepsake does two things Everlittle does not: it texts you questions every day, and it prints your journal as a book. It also has a phone app, where Everlittle is a web app you add to your home screen. Choose Qeepsake instead if the daily text is the only thing that gets you writing.

If you can manage without the text, a list of prompts and a reminder on your phone does much the same work. The checklist of baby firsts is a good place to start, and each one you tick off is a memory to add.

A checklist of 90 baby firsts to record

How a baby memory journal works in Everlittle

Sources: Qeepsake: Pricing; App Store: Qeepsake

2. Tinybeans, and Tinybeans vs Qeepsake

They used to be rivals. On the App Store, Qeepsake is now published by Tinybeans USA Ltd, the same company that publishes Tinybeans, so this is a choice between two products from one owner.

The difference is what each one asks of you. Qeepsake asks for a sentence: it sends a prompt and you type an answer. Tinybeans asks for a photo: you post it and the family sees it in the app or by email. Qeepsake ends in a printed journal. Tinybeans ends in a shared photo history, and it sells photo books too.

On price, Tinybeans has a free plan with 20 uploads a month and 5 GB, and Tinybeans+ at $7.99 a month or $74.99 a year. Voice notes and exporting your memories are listed as Tinybeans+ features. Choose Tinybeans instead if relatives following along by email is the whole point.

If you want the words and the family in one place, that is what Everlittle does.

Tinybeans alternatives compared

Sources: App Store: Qeepsake; App Store: Tinybeans Private Family Album; Tinybeans Help Center: How much is a Tinybeans+ subscription?; Tinybeans

3. The Short Years

The Short Years is a baby book with an app attached. Once a week the app reminds you to upload a photo and answer a couple of questions, and it turns those into finished pages. After you have bought the book, pages are printed and shipped each time you finish three chapters, and you add them to a ring-bound cover.

It covers the first year in 119 pages, with an add-on that continues to age five. The app is free to download and the book is the purchase; the price was not shown on the pages we read, so check it at checkout. Choose it instead if the object on the shelf is what you want and you do not plan to keep going past the early years.

Sources: The Short Years; App Store: The Short Years Baby Book

4. Baby Notebook

Baby Notebook works on the same idea: weekly reminders to add a photo or answer a prompt, with the layout done for you, and a hardbound book ordered at the end of the first year. You can hide pages that do not apply to your family, which helps if a standard baby book never fit.

The first three chapters, covering pregnancy, family and home, are free without a card. After the baby arrives it offers a monthly Plus plan and a yearly Premium plan; the site did not state the prices when we looked. Like The Short Years, it is built around one book for one year.

More baby book apps, compared

Sources: Baby Notebook

5. A notes app and a weekly reminder

If the prompt is what you valued, you can make one. Set a repeating reminder for Sunday evening that says “one thing they did this week”, and keep a single note per child with the newest entry at the top and the date at the start of each.

It costs nothing. It also sits on one parent’s phone, holds no voices, and nobody else can add to it unless you share the note. The same Sunday reminder works just as well pointed at an archive the family shares.

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Start with one memory

Whichever you choose, keep your original photos somewhere of your own.

To try Everlittle, add one photo from this week and write two sentences about it. Then invite one grandparent as a Contributor and ask them for a memory of their own. You will know within a few days whether it suits your family, and it will have cost you nothing.

Create your free archive and add the first memory