Tinybeans and vildkêp both help parents capture family memories, but they take fundamentally different approaches. Tinybeans is a cloud-based shared baby album built around a daily photo feed for relatives. vildkêp is a private, on-device adventure log built around stories rather than streams. This comparison covers where each one genuinely wins.
At a glance
| vildkêp | Tinybeans | |
|---|---|---|
| Ads & data selling | Never — no ads, never sold | Data-sharing with ad partners (2023 policy) |
| Data shared with advertisers | Never — nothing leaves the device | Privacy policy permits sharing with partners |
| Story features | Voice notes, locations, AI stories | Captions and milestones |
| Sharing with grandparents | Partner Sync via private iCloud | Built-in family feed |
| Printed photo books | Coming soon, auto-layout | Via third-party partners |
| Works offline | Fully | Needs a connection |
| Free tier | Free capture mode | Free with limits |
The core difference: what happens to your children's photos
Every photo you add to Tinybeans is uploaded to Tinybeans' servers. That is what makes the shared feed possible — and it is also the trade-off. In 2023 Tinybeans updated its privacy policy to allow sharing user data with advertising partners, which surprised many parents who had chosen the app specifically to keep children's photos off social media.
vildkêp takes a different approach: your memories live in your own private account and are never used for advertising, never sold, and never shown in a public feed. Our business is the app and optional printed photo books — not your data. Anything you choose to share with family is end-to-end encrypted, and you can delete everything permanently whenever you like. If that matters to you, the choice is straightforward.
Where Tinybeans wins
Honestly: the extended-family feed. If your primary goal is giving grandparents a daily stream of baby photos with zero effort on their side, Tinybeans does that very well and vildkêp does not try to. vildkêp' Partner Sync keeps a shared log between two parents via private iCloud, but there is no follower feed for the wider family.
Where vildkêp wins
- Privacy — no ads, no data selling, ever; and end-to-end encrypted family sharing.
- Stories, not streams — voice notes and AI-written adventure stories capture why a day mattered, not just that it happened.
- Adventure logging — locations, maps and a timeline built for days out and holidays, not just baby milestones.
- A printed keepsake — memories become a printed family photo book, not a feed that scrolls away.
Verdict
Choose Tinybeans if a grandparent feed is your main use case and you accept cloud storage. Choose vildkêp if you want a private family memory app that turns adventures into stories and, eventually, into a book on your shelf. You can also read our full comparison of the best family memory apps in 2026.
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vildkêp keeps your family's photos and stories in your private account — no ads, no data harvesting, ever. Share with family only when you choose. Free on iPhone & Android.
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