Obsessive Notifications!
Love the app, hate that the company sends constant notifications asking for pictures to be uploaded. No one wants emails every day!
Awesome app but I do have a suggestion.
Love the app now using it for 4 years. Would be a really cool idea to be able to make a profile than can only view pictures on the account. Can't add anything, can't comment...just look. I would love for my lil guy to be able to explore his memories once in a while. Keep up the great work.
New update sucks
The new update sucks. I can’t tell what date i took the most recent pics i want to upload until after i choose them.
New update stinks
New update is awful. So hard to navigate. Did anyone QA this at all?
The best photo sharing app for families
We love Tinybeans! We downloaded it because we wanted to share photos of our son and we were hesitant to "over-share" on social media. We also wanted a way for grandparents who aren't active on social media to see pictures. It's such a simple, private and user-friendly way to share photos with family and friends. We especially love the month-in-review collage and the option to create a book with the photos. Our family and friends love that they can see pictures via the email updates or within the app. It's been so much fun to be able to share moments from each day with the people we care about most!
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New GUI
The newest GUI removed the ability to see the date of the pics when uploading, captions must be made with very small pictures (hard to see which was which), and the upload button seems to have disappeared unless you do this silly dance of canceling and uploading again. Please take it back a revision for ease in use.
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Not impressed so far
This app is very frustrating to use by grandparents, who are already not necessarily adept at apps on phones and other devices. I do not want to see adds and it is constantly showing them, but the only way around seeing them is to buy a subscription. And if you are just trying follow your new grandchild, I don’t think requiring a $75 subscription to avoid ads is a viable solution, at least not in our budget. It’s great for the company though! That is why I am giving this app two stars.
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Couple of bugs
It would be nice to see all albums instead of having to scroll through 22 years of photos. Would also be helpful if user could deselect photos and they save. I uploaded 19 photos and 1 video. I got an error stating “video is too long”. Yet edit didn’t work and i wasn’t able to deselect it or save what i had. So after 10 minutes of scrolling through 22 years and selecting 19 photos and 1 video. All progress was LOST bc no save option.
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Happily using for 9+ years!
We’ve been using Tinybeans for almost 10 years now and are thankful for the organized space to hold and share our memories.
They have been very helpful anytime we’ve had hiccups.
They have been very helpful anytime we’ve had hiccups.
Updated Review
Update as of 2026
They have made some major updates and things are so much better. I am so glad I stuck it out, because this really is the best app. Now that I don’t have uploading issues, I have no complaints. Since they worked on the changes, they even reached out to me checking in because I had sent so many emails about the struggles to support. I appreciated that. It’s much easier to upload photos. There’s now a status bar that shows how many have been uploaded. There are better features like making a photo just private to you and your other account owner. There are some newer features I haven’t tried out yet, but will be cool. These updates also make me feel better about the cost. Now I can confidently say, if you want a safe place to share photos with family and close friends, look no further- this is it!
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 most of it, but it’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 too 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.
They have made some major updates and things are so much better. I am so glad I stuck it out, because this really is the best app. Now that I don’t have uploading issues, I have no complaints. Since they worked on the changes, they even reached out to me checking in because I had sent so many emails about the struggles to support. I appreciated that. It’s much easier to upload photos. There’s now a status bar that shows how many have been uploaded. There are better features like making a photo just private to you and your other account owner. There are some newer features I haven’t tried out yet, but will be cool. These updates also make me feel better about the cost. Now I can confidently say, if you want a safe place to share photos with family and close friends, look no further- this is it!
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 most of it, but it’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 too 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.
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Expensive and glitchy, horrible app, greedy!!!!
They want $75 a year when it used to be free. I HATE them with a passion. Everything that used to be great SUCKS now and this is one of those things. I would never pay for this because the app doesn’t work half the time anyway. It crashes when you’re loading a bunch of photos at once and it’s a huge waste of time.
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6 years & 3 Babies Later
I truly love this app. We’re a military family and have moved every 2 years, including an overseas move. Staying connected to family is the most important thing for me and this app helps that tremendously! I also love having the memories pop up. The only thing is that for close to a year it has been glitching and no longer lets me select which child is in the photos I select to upload. So I haven’t had that feature and no matter how many times I’ve uninstalled and installed it again it won’t work. Overall love the app but would love for that to be fixed!
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Great Alternative to fb
TB allows you to keep your inner family and friends up to date on your baby's progress. Especially great for newborns.
Not sure why many of the tracking is linked to me AND not linked to me?
Not sure why many of the tracking is linked to me AND not linked to me?
Safe place to store memories
Tinybeans has, without exaggeration, changed our family for the better. We’re able to look back on 9+ years of wonderful memories and pictures. The app is user-friendly and secure, so I feel safe sharing my children’s photos and videos with loved ones. Thank you, Tinybeans. 💜
iPad App is Unusable with Keyboards
Hello! Just checking in to see when landscape mode may be available on the TB iPad app. I would really like to use my iPad Pro keyboard. Thanks!
Still waiting on landscape mode on iPad, and it would be nice to be able to scroll faster when adding photos many months in the past.
Still waiting on landscape mode on iPad, and it would be nice to be able to scroll faster when adding photos many months in the past.
iPad App is Unusable with Keyboards
Hello! Just checking in to see when landscape mode may be available on the TB iPad app. I would really like to use my iPad Pro keyboard. Thanks!
Still waiting on landscape mode on iPad, and it would be nice to be able to scroll faster when adding photos many months in the past.
Still waiting on landscape mode on iPad, and it would be nice to be able to scroll faster when adding photos many months in the past.
Glorified safari skin
It’s no secret most apps are basically modded browsers. TinyBeans implementation is about as lazily average as you can get. Like when you click on support it brings you to their site support pages, but then you aren’t logged in and so the authentication loop begins. Also, if tinybeans is emailing my family and friends every week with images of my kids referenced from their server, it ain’t secure - anyone can see the photos. Finally - and this was the big one for me - when the March 25 newsletter’s lead article is “An Astro Compatibility Chart for Kids & Parents” and they didn’t respond to my repeated inquiries asking if this was an early April fools joke, despite claims that they are a customer responsive company. tinybeans doesn’t deserve my money.
EDIT: three years since I requested and received confirmation that my account and data were deleted, there are still pictures of my kid available on their site.
EDIT: three years since I requested and received confirmation that my account and data were deleted, there are still pictures of my kid available on their site.
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No longer free
No notice to my email or on the app it would no longer be free. Log in today and have to pay. So disappointed.
Edit: My MIL paid for a year and repaid when it was up a few months ago and there must have been an upgrade and bumped me down to the free plan out of nowhere when we paid for the year plan. Can I rate below 1 star?
Update -1000 stars as I went to find a specific memory that I downloaded here as my main storage app years ago when my kids were babies and you now have to pay to see your old memories you downloaded when it was free and when my MIL paid for a few years. Insane. I need to pa to get my previous memories back. 🤬😡
Edit: My MIL paid for a year and repaid when it was up a few months ago and there must have been an upgrade and bumped me down to the free plan out of nowhere when we paid for the year plan. Can I rate below 1 star?
Update -1000 stars as I went to find a specific memory that I downloaded here as my main storage app years ago when my kids were babies and you now have to pay to see your old memories you downloaded when it was free and when my MIL paid for a few years. Insane. I need to pa to get my previous memories back. 🤬😡
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Incredibly ANNOYING!
Constant nagging to “add to my Tinybeans” drives me insane! I DON’T HAVE A TINYBEANS OF MY OWN! I just use it to follow others’ kids who live far away!
Love this app
I think this app is the best one I’ve found so far for what it does
