Amazon Photos vs Tinybeans

Amazon Photos stores, searches, shares, displays, and prints photos and videos from compatible devices. It is available on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. Auto-Save can back up a mobile camera roll, while Desktop Backup saves folders from Windows or Mac computers. Image recognition organizes photos by people, places, things, and dates, and the service supports natural-language search. Family Vault can include up to six members, each with an account at no additional cost; sharing groups can have up to 50 members each. Photos can also appear on Echo Show, Echo Spot, and Fire TV devices. The built-in editor can crop, adjust, and filter photos, while U.S. customers can use Amazon Prints for prints, photo books, and gifts. Free storage is 5 GB shared across photos and videos. The Amazon Prime Photos benefit includes unlimited full-resolution photo storage and 5 GB for videos and other files. Paid options include 50 GB for $0.99 a month and 2 TB for $11.99 a month. The service is for personal, non-commercial use only.

Tinybeans is a private family photo-sharing app that parents can use as a journal, visual diary and time capsule for photos and videos. Uploaded media is viewable by family and friends invited by the account holder. Memories appear in a date-based calendar, with daily or weekly email recaps. Users can add text, stickers, filters and effects to photos, create custom albums or have the service arrange photos by theme and date, and make printed photo books through the app or website. The Free plan allows 20 photo or video uploads per month and includes ads; it also lists 5 GB of free storage. Tinybeans+ costs $7.99 a month and includes unlimited monthly uploads, 200GB storage for 50,000+ photos/videos, videos up to five minutes, ad-free use, priority support and benefits shared with one other person. Paid features are available in a 14-day trial with no upfront payment or commitment to upgrade. Tinybeans is available on Android, iOS and web and was founded in 2012.