# Tinybeans Private Family Album — user reviews > 485 indexed App Store user reviews of Tinybeans Private Family Album by Tinybeans USA Ltd., rated 4.90/5 from 104,228 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tinybeans-private-family-album/id521633042/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tinybeans-private-family-album/id521633042.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 94,949 · 4★ 6,581 · 3★ 1,201 · 2★ 452 · 1★ 1,045 ## What do users think of Tinybeans Private Family Album? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Easy to use - 🔒 Safe and secure photo sharing - 👍 Organizes photos in calendar view - 👍 Keeps family connected - 👍 Helpful for tracking baby's milestones **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy, crashes frequently - 🐛 Uploading issues, photos not loading properly - 💰 Expensive subscription fees - 🔍 Cluttered with irrelevant content and ads - 🤔 Lack of features for managing users and permissions **Commonly reported bugs** - Captions getting erased randomly - Photos uploading out of order - Inconsistent performance on older devices **Most requested features** - Ability to create separate calendars for multiple children - Option to reply to comments - Landscape mode support for iPad - Higher quality video uploads - More photo editing tools and filters ## Newest reviews (16 of 485) ### 2/5 — My how the mighty have fallen *2026-08-26, version 5.88.0* In the most recent upgrade they removed picture captions from the upload page (which means you have to add them after you upload) and removed the dates from your pictures so when you’re uploading you can’t tell what day your picture was taken. It’s made the app so cumbersome I’m considering canceling my subscription. I hope they will fix this soon because I’ve loved Tiny Beans for the past 8 years! ### 2/5 — Obsessive Notifications! *2026-08-10, version 5.87.1* Love the app, hate that the company sends constant notifications asking for pictures to be uploaded. No one wants emails every day! ### 2/5 — New update sucks *2026-08-07, version 5.87.0* 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. ### 2/5 — New update stinks *2026-08-05, version 5.87.0* New update is awful. So hard to navigate. Did anyone QA this at all? ### 4/5 — The best photo sharing app for families *2026-08-05, version 5.87.0* 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! ### 2/5 — New GUI *2026-08-03, version 5.86.0* 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. ### 2/5 — Not impressed so far *2026-07-26, version 5.85.2* 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. ### 2/5 — Couple of bugs *2026-07-26, version 5.85.2* 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. ### 4/5 — 6 years & 3 Babies Later *2026-06-26, version 5.84.10* 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! ### 4/5 — Great Alternative to fb *2026-06-25, version 5.84.10* 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? ### 2/5 — iPad App is Unusable with Keyboards *2026-05-06, version 5.84.7* 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. ### 2/5 — iPad App is Unusable with Keyboards *2026-04-26, version 5.84.5* 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. ### 2/5 — Incredibly ANNOYING! *2026-03-15, version 5.84.3* 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! ### 3/5 — Premium without upgrade *2026-02-01, version 5.84.0* I’ve paid for premium. Never got benefits. FAQ include this problem which put me off. Why would that be a FAQ? I followed instructions to fix. Not fixed. I don’t like when my lack of time costs me money. I have to find the time now to contact. I feel that I should be refunded for poor app function or whatever it is. I believe my daughter has had the features but I have not. Definitely not self explanatory. Difficult to figure out and troubleshoot. I don’t recommend ### 4/5 — Great app. Too many adds *2026-01-02, version 5.83.4* We pay annually for this app and we love it. It’s perfect for sharing your kids with your family and friends without posting the online. My Family members love getting daily emails with the kids photos and I love the archive of photos and memories. I love seeing flashbacks and remembering cute photos/moments I have forgotten about. 4stars because we pay a good amount annually and the new rearrangement of the app focuses of ads and the store and less on your photos and interacting with family comments. It seems like every year the app moves a bit further away from its original intention. ### 3/5 — Photos take time to load *2025-12-26, version 5.83.4* As you’re trying to flick through photos each takes a few seconds to load which makes it quite laborious ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Expensive and glitchy, horrible app, greedy!!!! *2026-06-30, version 5.84.10* 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. ### 1/5 — Glorified safari skin *2026-04-17, version 5.84.3* 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. ### 1/5 — No longer free *2026-03-28, version 5.84.3* 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. 🤬😡 ### 1/5 — No support *2026-01-27, version 5.83.6* I paid for a subscription but the app is limiting my posts. I’ve reached out to their “support” twice and received no help. ### 1/5 — Fine for Apple users but TERRIBLE for android phone owners *2025-12-31, version 5.83.4* Works pretty well on Apple phone but it’s got too many bugs for android phones! Can TinyBeans please fix this? ### 1/5 — THIS IS A SCAM *2025-12-29, version 5.83.4* We've been using Tiny Beans for a few years. It is a service that allows us to upload photos of our kids, and it then organizes them by date. It also allows us to share photos with our extended family like a private social media page. We have honestly loved it though it is really just a private facebook page at best. We've had a premium membership for a year or two which was $40 per year. However, they just announced a price hike to $75 per year. Not wanting to pay the higher price, my wife and I decided to cancel. THIS IS WHERE THE FRUSTRATION STARTS. The cancellation page is easy to find, however, when you hit cancel subscription, there is a pop up offer for a discount to get you to stay. The options are "Send me the offer!" or "Cancel Subscription". Neither button works. Frustrated, I look for payment options to try and delete my credit card from the account. No visibility for the card on the account. Even payment history just has XXXX instead of the card number. There isn't even an option to swap to a new card. So I look for a phone number on the page to call. No phone number. No readily available email, though I did eventually dig one up. Our renewal date is in a week, and I have no recourse to stop the payment other than cancelling my credit card. Do not subscribe to Tinybeans! If you do, do it through the Apple App Store or Google Play so that cancellation is streamlined. It was a great service that we have recommended to friends in the past, but now it seems like a scam site. I believe they came under new ownership during the time that we have had them. Stay away! ### 1/5 — Great app till it’s not *2025-12-02, version 5.83.1* I have used this service for 7 years, and every year the quality goes down. Now the free plan is so restrictive that I’m locked out of my account. I tried to upgrade and they happily take the payment but don’t actually give me access to my photos. One year they charged me for the same service twice and balked when I asked for a refund. Great idea, poor execution, questionable business practices. There are better options, at least for now. ### 1/5 — Useless *2025-11-15, version 5.82.7* You need to know people’s emails to invite them to view your album. This is the only way?! What is this, 1997??? ### 1/5 — No one can figure it out *2025-10-22, version 5.82.3* I know the Elderly are bad at technology. But half the people I invite get an email with a password and when they open the app they are promoted to enter the password and boom they’re connected. The other half end up on their own island completely disconnected from our family’s page and I have no way to help them as their experience is radically different from that of my own. The developers have to understand for parents trying to share pictures but protect their children we are already inconveniencing our confused and elderly loved ones. It needs to be so user friendly an 80 year old can do it. ### 1/5 — Used to be great *2025-09-29, version 5.81.3* This was the best app ever when I started using it in 2020. Totally free! Then they started charging. Understandable that at some point it would happen. The next year the price DOUBLED! So I opted for the free version with limited uploads. Now they say my storage is full and I can’t even see the photos I had or upload new ones. I definitely regret recommending this app to so many other moms. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — App is finally good again, even better than ever *2026-08-12, version 5.87.1* I just updated to Version 5.87.1 and can say thay the app is finally good again after a long period of buggy mess! I honestly was on the verge of switching to a different service but I’m glad I stayed with Tiny Beans. Uploading & captioning are now a swifter and faster process with a new interface, making this version the best it’s ever been. Kudos to the dev team and please keep up the good work!!! ### 5/5 — Awesome app but I do have a suggestion. *2026-08-09, version 5.87.0* 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. ### 5/5 — Happily using for 9+ years! *2026-07-23, version 5.85.2* 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. ### 5/5 — Updated Review *2026-07-11, version 5.85.1* 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. ### 5/5 — Safe place to store memories *2026-06-24, version 5.84.10* 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. 💜 ### 5/5 — Love this app *2026-03-15, version 5.84.3* I think this app is the best one I’ve found so far for what it does ### 5/5 — 10+ years of memories *2026-02-12, version 5.84.1* I’ve been using this app for 10 years. It’s been a great way to keep my kids off social media while still sharing with close family. I love how easy it is to find memories! It’s even been helpful at doctors visits when I ended up in the hospital with one of my kids and was able to document the day to day to report later to my doctors! ### 5/5 — Fun Memories *2025-12-25, version 5.83.4* ‘‘Twas the night… ### 5/5 — Best app for parents! *2025-10-03, version 5.81.3* I love Tinybeans! And extended family does too! I love how easy it is to share our photos and memories with family and close friends near and far. I’m told how much my grandparents love seeing so many pictures of their great grand babies, every single time I talk to them. It’s a great app and I have enjoyed using it for the last 17 months! (Also, premium is worth it if you’re on the fence about that!) Edit to add: we’ve been using tiny beans nearly daily for a little over 8 years now, it’s become really fun for my kids to get to look back at themselves on any specific day in years past! Thankful for this resource to safely share our kids with family that lives far away! ### 5/5 — 5 year user w/ 3 kids *2025-09-26, version 5.81.3* This app works great to share every day happenings with family and friends across the US without us having to worry about strangers having access to our children’s images. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*