Is FamilyAlbum free, and how long can videos be?

FamilyAlbum's help center says there's no limit to the amount you can upload for free, and videos can be up to 2 minutes long. Its Premium page lists videos up to 10 minutes on Premium Family ($5.99 a month or $59 a year) and Premium Family Pro ($10.99 a month or $109 a year), as listed in US dollars (October 2026). Memofu, a pet photo and health app, allows videos up to 60 seconds on its free plan, so for longer free videos FamilyAlbum is the better fit.

Can you download all your photos from FamilyAlbum at once?

According to FamilyAlbum's help center, you can save photos and videos one at a time by tapping one in the Album tab and choosing Download from the menu at the top right. Downloading many at once, called Bulk Download, is a Premium Family Pro feature that works only in the app, and on iOS it handles up to 100 items at a time. An Album Admin can also limit downloads to admins only (October 2026).

Should pet photos go in FamilyAlbum or a pet app?

You don't have to pick one. Keep sharing the kids' photos with family in FamilyAlbum, and give your pet a place that keeps their health records with the photos, lets you show a vet or sitter for a limited time, and lets you export everything for free. A photo with both the kids and the pet can go in both. Either way, keep the originals on your phone and in a backup.

Can You Use the FamilyAlbum App for Pets? What It Does Well, and 4 Things Pets Also Need

Q: Can you use the FamilyAlbum app for pets?

You can upload pet photos like any others. But FamilyAlbum's help center describes it as a free service for sharing photos and videos of your children with your family, and each month shows the ages of the children you register. An Album Admin can run only one album at a time, so if you run the kids' album, you can't also run a separate one for your pet. As of October 2026, the help center mentions pets only in a note on Personal Pages, a Premium feature that sorts photos by face: photos without human faces, such as photos of pets, may not be sorted correctly.

Q: Is there a FamilyAlbum for pets?

Not as of October 3, 2026. The Products menu on the official FamilyAlbum website lists Prints and Photobooks, with no pet edition. Pet photos go into the regular app, in the same monthly album as the kids' photos, under the kids' names and ages.

Your kids' photos have lived in FamilyAlbum since the day each of them was born. Grandma and Grandpa, two states away, open the new ones in their browser and leave a comment most evenings. This spring, a rescue dog named Biscuit joined the family. Now the album has almost as many photos of Biscuit as of the kids.

At the top of each month, the album shows the kids' names and ages, counted from their birthdays. Biscuit's birthday is a guess; even the shelter could only estimate it. A vaccine booster is due next month, and over Thanksgiving a pet sitter will look after him for a few days. Where should the vaccine record go, and the notes for the sitter?

You can put pet photos in FamilyAlbum. But it's a free service built for sharing photos of children: the album is sorted by month and labeled with each child's age. Nothing in its help center describes a feature for pets. It's very good at sharing photos privately with family, so the kids' photos can stay where they are. Alongside it, give your pet a timeline counted from gotcha day, health records in the same place as the photos, a link a vet or sitter can open that expires, and a free export of everything. Keep FamilyAlbum for the kids and add those four. That's the short answer.

This post covers what to know before you use FamilyAlbum for pet photos, and what a pet's album needs on top of that.

Memofu's developer wrote this post. Memofu, a private app for pet photos and health records, isn't affiliated with MIXI, the company behind FamilyAlbum. Every FamilyAlbum fact here comes from its official website, help center and terms of use as of October 3, 2026. Features change, so check its help center before you decide.

Can you use the FamilyAlbum app for pets?

You can upload pet photos; they go in like any other photo. But FamilyAlbum is built for children's photos, and the album is organized around the children you register.

FamilyAlbum's help center puts it this way: "FamilyAlbum is a free service that lets you easily share photos and videos of your children with your family." Its terms of use (the English version is a reference translation of the Japanese original) describe a service for sharing, with spouses and grandparents, "an electronic photo album containing a collection of photos and videos of children and other family members."

The album itself, though, assumes a child. To use FamilyAlbum, the help center says, you provide nicknames for yourself and your child, and your relation to your child. Photos and videos are sorted by month, and the top of each month shows the names and ages of the children registered in the album. Each child's age is counted from the birthday you register.

Hoping to start a second album just for your pet? The help center says, "Currently, it’s only possible to be an Album Admin (parent member) in one album at a time." If you already run the kids' album, you can't also run a separate one for your pet.

Of the help center pages on the app's features, only one mentions pets. Personal Pages, part of the Premium Family and Premium Family Pro plans, "use facial recognition to sort photos and videos between Child Pages, Children Pages, and Everyone Pages." Among the cases where photos may not be sorted correctly, the help center lists: "If the photo or video doesn't contain human faces (photos of pets, etc.)"

The terms of use don't mention pets or animals at all: they neither forbid pet photos nor offer the service for pets.

Can you register a dog or cat in FamilyAlbum?

Not as a pet. The help center says you provide nicknames for yourself and your child and your relation to your child, and neither it nor the official site describes a way to add a pet (as of October 3, 2026). You could try registering a dog or cat as a "child," but the ages are designed for children, and Personal Pages may not sort photos of pets correctly. So this post doesn't recommend it.

Is there a FamilyAlbum for pets?

Not as of October 3, 2026. The Products menu on family-album.com lists Prints and Photobooks, and there's no pet edition.

So pet photos go into the regular app, in the same monthly album as the kids' photos, under the kids' names and ages.

Is FamilyAlbum free and private? What does it do well for pet photos?

Yes on both: the core app is free, and only the family you invite can see the album. It's also good at sharing lots of photos and videos.

Unlimited storage, videos up to 2 minutes. The help center says, "There's no limit to the amount you can upload for free, and videos can be up to 2 minutes long." FamilyAlbum's Premium page lists videos up to 10 minutes under its Family and Family Pro plans; Premium One doesn't include them. Memofu's free plan allows videos up to 60 seconds. If you want longer videos without paying, FamilyAlbum is the better fit.

Only invited family can see it. "Only family members you invite can see your album," says FamilyAlbum's website. Each album has two roles, Album Admin and Album Member, and only Album Admins can send invitations. The help center says, "Every FamilyAlbum invitation link is unique and can only be used once," and it explains how to remove an account from the album later. An album can have up to 100 members.

Relatives without the app can use a browser to view, save and comment.

One subscription covers everyone. When one album member subscribes to Premium Family or Premium Family Pro, the help center says, everyone in the album gets that plan's benefits. FamilyAlbum's Premium page lists prices in US dollars: $2.99 a month for Premium One, $5.99 a month or $59 a year for Premium Family, and $10.99 a month or $109 a year for Premium Family Pro. Prices in the app may differ by country.

Prints and photobooks. FamilyAlbum's website says, "Every month, you and all your family members can each get your own set of 11 free prints." Shipping is extra: the Prints page lists a $3.99 USD fee per order. It sells photobooks too.

The main differences, from FamilyAlbum's official pages and from what Memofu does today:

Feature	FamilyAlbum	Memofu
Free videos	Up to 2 minutes	Up to 60 seconds
Paid-plan videos	Up to 10 minutes (Premium Family or Family Pro)	Up to 10 minutes
Viewing without the app	Browser version (a link for each person)	Grandparent viewer link
Counts from	Each child's birthday	Gotcha day
Export	One at a time; bulk download on Premium Family Pro	Everything, free (photos saved one at a time)
Prints	Prints and photobooks	None

What does a pet's album need that a baby album doesn't?

Four things: counting from gotcha day instead of a birthday, health records in the same place as the photos, a way to show a vet or sitter for a limited time, and a free export of everything.

1. Count from gotcha day, not a birthday. FamilyAlbum shows each child's age, counted from the birthday you registered. That's natural for a baby. A rescue dog or cat may come with an estimated birthday, or none at all.

What every pet does have is one certain date: their gotcha day, the day they joined your family. Count from that day, and you don't depend on a guessed birthday. For how to think about a rescue's age and pick a day to celebrate, see the post on rescue pets with an unknown birthday.

2. Health records in the same place as the photos. US disaster checklists put a pet's photos and medical records side by side. The ASPCA's list includes "Photocopies and/or USB of medical records" and "Recent photos of your pets (in case you are separated and need to make “Lost” posters)." The American Red Cross lists copies of medical records in the same kit as "Current photos of you with your pet(s) in case they get lost."

In a photo-only album, vaccine dates and medication schedules end up scattered across captions, a notes app and a separate notebook.

3. A link a vet or sitter can open for a limited time. A family album is meant to be looked at for years. A pet sitter or a new vet needs something else: the health records, like medications, vaccines and allergies, for the length of the stay or the visit. Humane World for Animals notes that some of the shelters, hotels, clinics and boarding kennels that might house pets during a disaster "will require vaccination records."

And you probably don't want to add a sitter to an album full of your kids' photos. It's easier when you choose, for each person, what they see and for how long.

4. A free export of everything. In FamilyAlbum, the help center says, you save a single photo or video by tapping it in the Album tab, then tapping "Download" in the menu at the top right. Downloading many at once is a Premium Family Pro feature called Bulk Download. The Premium page says it works only in the app version, and the help center says iOS devices can download up to 100 items at once. An Album Admin can also set the album so that only admins can download.

For a pet, you'll want the vaccine, medication and vet-visit records out too, not only the photos, and without paying extra. A 2012 US-CERT paper, now hosted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), recommends the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of any important file, on two types of media, with one copy offsite. It also warns that with cloud storage, "you may become locked into one provider." For a five-question exit test you can run on any photo service, see where to store your pet's photos.

Can grandparents without the app see the pet photos?

Yes. FamilyAlbum and Memofu both have a way to view photos in a browser, with no app to install.

With FamilyAlbum, the help center says, relatives invited to the browser version get their own link and can view and comment without downloading the app. If you just want the grandparents to see the dog, put the dog's photos in the same album as the kids'. If they already check on their grandkids there, there's nothing new to learn.

If you'd rather show only your pet's photos, separate from the kids' album, use a share link from wherever your pet's photos live. How to share pet photos with grandparents who won't install an app walks through how to choose a method and what to check before you send the link.

How do you split photos between the kids' album and the pet's?

Ask two questions: who should see this photo, and what does it belong with? Photos of the kids growing up go in FamilyAlbum. Your pet's photos go with their health records. A photo with both in it can go in both.

Keep the originals on your phone and in a backup. Whichever service you use, keep the originals in a backup you control as well. The Federal Trade Commission advises regularly backing up the data on your phone "to the cloud or your computer." With a copy outside both services, a problem with one of them isn't a crisis.

Before a photo goes in two places, check who can see each. A photo of the kids with the dog will be visible to everyone in both albums. Look, too, for anything in the background that gives away your address, and check whether location data is still attached. Before you share, run through the checks in how to share puppy and kitten photos privately.

Choose your pet's place by whether the family can share the records. If you take turns with meals and medication, everyone needs to see who recorded what, and when. How to choose a shared pet care app covers what to check.

You can also skip a pet app. Put the photos in FamilyAlbum with the kids', and keep the health records in a paper notebook. Write the gotcha day on the first page, keep the vaccine and medication records together, and hand a copy of the pages that matter to whoever looks after your pet. There's no export to worry about. What you give up: photos and records live in separate places, and family who live elsewhere, or a sitter, can't see the same record when they need it.

What to do this week

Four things to start with:

Check where the originals are. For photos already in FamilyAlbum, make sure the originals are still on your phone or in a backup.
Write down your pet's gotcha day. Even if you don't know their birthday, you know the day they came home.
Gather the health records in one place. Medical records, current medications, any medical conditions, your vet's name and number. The American Red Cross puts these on the same checklist as your pet's photos.
Decide what to show on boarding days. A sitter or a new vet needs only the health records that matter, and only for the stay.

Where Memofu fits

Memofu is a private app for your pet's photos and health records, shared with your family; your kids' photos can stay in FamilyAlbum. The family members who share a pet's photos and records form its circle. Here is how Memofu handles the four things above, limited to what the app does today.

A timeline counted from gotcha day. When you add your pet, enter their gotcha day, and the timeline shows something like "Family for 847 days". The birthday can stay "Not set". Memofu brings memories back on gotcha day, birthdays and "one year ago today". Originals still on your phone can come in from the camera roll, up to 100 at a time, each placed on the day it was taken.
Health records in the same app as the photos. Owners and co-owners get a notification when each medication dose is due, one tap marks it given, and everyone in the circle sees who gave it and when. Vet visits keep what the vet said, photos of prescriptions or results, and the next appointment, with reminders as it gets close. Reminders for vaccines, flea and tick or heartworm prevention, grooming and vet appointments repeat weekly, monthly or yearly, notify owners and co-owners on the day, and record who marked each one done. Weight gets a trend chart, and you can log meals, potty breaks and other daily care.
A free health link that expires. A read-only link for a vet or sitter opens in any browser with no account, and stops working after 1 day, 1 week or 1 month. It shows your pet's name and species, plus breed, sex and age where set, allergies and care notes, current medications, vaccines and preventives, weight (the last 24 entries) and vet visits (the last 20). Medications appear as the schedule, not a log of each dose. Photos, notes on vet visits and weigh-ins, and your family's names are never included, and the page says it is "not a veterinary certificate."
A full export, free on every plan, forever. Photos (JPEGs up to 2048px on the long edge) and videos (as uploaded) are listed by date on the export's page, and you save them one at a time. Posts and health records come as a JSON file plus a readable health-records page. The download links last 7 days, and a fresh export is always free.
An invite-only family circle. The roles are owner, co-owner and viewer; viewers can see but not log. Invite links expire and can be revoked. The grandparent viewer link opens in a browser with no app and no account, and anyone with it can open it, so choose who gets it and turn it off when it's no longer needed.
What it doesn't do. Free-plan videos are capped at 60 seconds, shorter than FamilyAlbum's free 2 minutes. There are no prints or photobooks. The free plan holds two pets. The Android version is still on the way.

Every health record, including the full history, is free on every plan, along with health links, the grandparent viewer and the full export. Premium adds the vet-ready PDF, more than two pets, videos up to 10 minutes and highlight collages with no stamp on your photos, for $34.99 a year or $3.99 a month. One subscription from an owner or co-owner covers everyone in the circle. There are no ads, no data sales and no public feed. You can see what Memofu does on the features page and what is and isn't paid on the pricing page.

Kids' photos in the FamilyAlbum you already use; your pet's photos with their health records. Hold both to the same test: can you take everything with you?

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