Convivia
Your photos. Just for you.
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
After a day together, the photos sit on five different devices — and nobody has the complete set. The usual ways all have a catch: messengers crush the quality, shared cloud albums share more than you want, and somewhere in between a server reads along.
Convivia does it differently. You post your selection to a fixed little group — family, close friends, or a one-time group for a single evening. The others save what they'd like to keep to their own photo libraries. Then you clean up. No second library, no archive, no feed.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Post. You choose what the others should get. Everything is encrypted on your device before anything leaves it.
2. Save and report done. Everyone decides for themselves: all photos, some or none — in original quality, straight into their own photo library. Then they report the post as done. When more has piled up, the deck helps: it deals you every open photo one by one — swipe right to save, swipe left to skip. Nothing is carried out until you confirm at the end.
3. Delete. Once everyone has reported done, the app lets you know, and you clear your post away. Nothing disappears automatically — and nothing sits around longer than it needs to.
PRIVATE IN THE TRUE SENSE
• End-to-end encrypted: your photos are encrypted on your device and only opened again on the devices of your group. In between, nobody can look at them — not us, not Apple.
• No account, no password: you enter a name, that's it. There is no sign-up, no phone number, no email address.
• No server of ours: your posts sit encrypted in your own iCloud storage, the others' in theirs. There is no company hoarding your photos.
• No ads, no tracking, no analytics. None of it.
IN ALL HONESTY
• Original quality means original quality: HEIC, Live Photos and all metadata stay untouched.
• Videos come later — they weigh a lot, and we want to do them properly rather than quickly.
• Convivia needs iCloud: posts travel through the members' iCloud storage. Without a signed-in iCloud account, nothing can be sent or received.
• You invite with a link or QR code. In permanent groups the admin decides who may redeem it; in one-time groups the link is the ticket for everyone at the table.
Convivia is for people who want to share their photos without giving them away.
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Convivia now runs on iPad and Mac and is optimized for iPhone Duo — and you stay the same person everywhere.
On iPad your groups sit next to the posts, large screens show more side by side, and the deck works in landscape too. iPhone Duo follows the fold: closed, it's the iPhone you know; open, your groups and posts sit side by side, just like on iPad. On the Mac it has become a proper Mac app: photos come from your photo library or straight from the Finder, with keyboard shortcuts and swiping on the trackpad.
A second device doesn't turn you into a second member. Add your iPad or Mac and it checks in with your iPhone; you confirm a short code there, and your groups are simply there — under your name, without a new invitation.
And if you delete the app and install it again, you no longer start from scratch: Convivia recognizes you and brings your groups back.
Also: old groups that were long finished and kept turning up anyway can now be removed for good — after a confirmation, naturally.
And one last thing for the eye: previews are sharper. You see more of the picture in the deck and in the post list, and it shows most on iPad and Mac.
Many views now use the system's own building blocks — it all feels more familiar and runs smoother.
Notifications can now be switched on later in Settings. And on the Mac, the keychain no longer asks for permission at every start.
The developer, Mohamadreza Khostevan, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Mohamadreza Khostevan
- Size
- 13.8 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and German
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Mohamadreza Khostevan
