A complete copy of your family archive on a computer you own — kept as ordinary photo and text files you can open, move or hand to anyone. It is where you bring a lifetime of photos in from everywhere else.
About a minute, and it is the standard Mac way.
Famileze.dmg. Double-click it and a window opens.The first three are things the phone genuinely cannot do on its own.
Your whole archive on your own disk as ordinary photo and text files, laid out by date. No database, no export step, nothing locked inside an app — and it keeps working exactly as it does today whether or not you keep subscribing.
Years of photos exported from Google Photos, Snapchat, iCloud or an old hard drive, read straight off your computer and filed by the date they were taken. This is the heavy lifting, and it is why the desktop app exists.
A desktop copy is limited only by your own hard drive, and Back up everything copies the lot to an external drive — photos by date, named with your captions, next to one page that opens on any computer.
The same timeline, folders, calendar and search you use on your phone — just with your whole history in it rather than the recent slice a phone can hold.
Full detail: privacy policy.
It keeps a full copy of your family archive on a computer you own, and it keeps it as ordinary photo and text files — not locked inside an app database. It is also where the heavy lifting happens: importing years of photos out of Google Photos, Snapchat or an old hard drive, and copying the whole archive to an external drive. Everything it takes in syncs back to your phone.
No. Famileze runs completely on your phone — capture, calendar, health notes, lists, newsletters and co-parent sharing all work with no computer involved, and your archive is backed up to your family’s private cloud either way. The desktop app is for two things the phone genuinely cannot do: hold a copy you control as plain files, and take in a lifetime of photos from somewhere else.
Neither. The desktop app is free, and a computer does not take the co-parent seat — so you can run it and still invite your partner.
Yes. A second computer keeps its own full copy, which is the safest arrangement there is: if each parent runs it, your family’s story lives in two homes as well as the cloud.
It only works while it is open, and it stores what your archive actually holds — photos and video are the bulk of it, exactly as they would be in a Photos library. You can see the size at any time, and you choose where the archive folder lives, including an external drive.
The copy on your computer keeps working exactly as it did. It is ordinary files on your own disk, so nothing is held hostage — that is the whole reason the desktop app exists and it is free for the same reason.
Not yet. Mac first; Windows is on the list. The phone app is the product either way, so nothing about your archive depends on owning a Mac.
This appears when a download is still being verified, or if the file was interrupted on the way down. Right-click (or Control-click) Famileze in your Applications folder and choose Open — you will get the same message with an Open button on it, and that only has to be done once. If it keeps happening, download the file again rather than working around it.
Almost always an interrupted download. Delete the .dmg from your Downloads folder and get it again — a half-finished disk image looks like a corrupt one.
That is right. The Mac joins the archive you already have, so it needs to be linked once: open Famileze on your phone → Settings → the computer pairing code, and scan it. Nothing is copied until the two are linked, and the pairing code expires after 24 hours.
The Mac only talks to your archive while Famileze is actually open on it. Open the app on the computer and give it a minute. If your phone has been waiting a long time, opening the desktop app about once a week is the one habit that keeps everything collected.
Those codes are deliberately single-use and expire in 24 hours. Generate a fresh one from Settings on the phone.
Still stuck? Email support@famileze.app and tell us what you saw — a real person reads it.