Shared photos that stay private.
You choose the photos, you choose who sees them, and it stays that way.
No ads. No tracking.
Who this is for
Parents who want the grandparents to see the kids, not everyone they've ever met. Eight people back from a trip with eight different sets of photos.
Anyone who's dropped photos into a group chat and watched them scroll away under three lines of "so cute."
An album, not a post.
An album goes to people you name, whatever phone they've got and whether or not they have an account.
You're sharing your photos, not giving them away — and you can take them back. Nothing ends up in someone else's library.
One shared album can hold photos from everyone who was there. One trip, one album, instead of eight camera rolls and a group chat.
And you can find it again. Which sounds obvious until you go looking for photos from a trip two years ago.
Your family is not AI training data.
Your photos aren't sold, aren't handed to anybody else, and don't train a model — not mine, not anyone's.
You can delete a photo. You can't remove it from an AI model that already learned it.
Nothing here is public. No follower counts, no algorithms deciding who your kids get shown to — just your photos, shared with your people.
Who made this
I'm one person. I built Homeroll to share photos with my own family without handing them to some huge company to use however they want.
No investors, no growth target, no acquisition where all these promises evaporate. Storing photos costs money, so eventually this will too — that's the whole business model.
Things do end. Google shut down Picasa and everyone's photos went somewhere they didn't choose. If Homeroll ever ends, you'll hear it from me first, and you'll get everything out at full quality.