Notabli is a calm and private family social network for sharing kid moments with your other favorite people. In addition to posting photos and videos, you can capture audio recordings, notes, and even the funny things they say as quote moments.
Just add your kids to Notabli and share your unique invite link with the world (e.g., "Introducing baby Buzz!", or "My kid is 17, but I still privately document their life, of course!"). When people request to keep up, you choose who to approve and grant access — you have complete control. Anyone you approve will be able to see the moments in the app, on the web, and via email. And they can optionally print beautiful hardcover photo books of the kids they choose, automatically with Notabli Book subscriptions.
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Our tiny, independent team built Notabli based on three core principles:
- It's yours. You own the content you post.
- Ad-free: Notabli is private, even from advertisers.
- Simple & beautiful: Notabli should be a joy to use.
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"[Notabli] delivers the simplicity and productive limitations that the symbol of family stands for. It’s a human-scale model for giving and receiving the records of our lives with the family-or-friend, neighbor-or-colleague communities we belong to, and want to build."
— Sara Hendren, Care is not an infinite scroll (New_ Public)
"Notabli is an app for (securely) capturing photos and memories of your kids. What a great concept."
—Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times Technology Columnist
Love this app, but lack of updates is starting to worry
Socialjerm
We’ve been using Notabli for nearly 10(!?) years at this point and it has served us well. Private, we own the content, and not an ad to be seen anywhere. Pretty easy to get the family setup and convince them to stay away from Instagram when the platform works so similarly. So I have been more than happy to pay the annual subscription fee. We would love it if Notabli could continue to grow with our kids. But the updates have slowed to a crawl over the past couple years and while we don’t typically encounter bugs, it would be nice to see some UX polishes to keep up with iOS at the least and feature parity with the popular ad-supported options at best. There really aren’t a lot of options out there if you want to stay away from shady Terms of Service or ad tracking, so we will continue to support Notabli for as long as it exists, but we hope the app we love can get some attention every once in awhile!
Two years in and still loving it
aismicdoy
Downloaded Notabli two years ago to use to share photos of our baby with friends and family because we aren’t big fans of giving our kid an online presence before they can give permission. Now with even more privacy red flags with Facebook Im really glad we did. Two years in and we love it. Looking back I’m so glad we’re using it, as it basically has become a digital baby book. Because I didn’t want to overload people I curated the couple of things I posted every week or two, and it’s created a really special collection. Friends and family get email updates with no ads and they aren’t added to a spam list (a friend of mine uses tinybeans and the ads and spam they send me drives me crazy). The platform is intuitive and easy, both in an app and in a traditional browser. My only complaint is that I wish you could reply to people’s comments. And I wish that more of my friends had kids on the platform. Highly, highly recommend.
Can’t say how much with love this app!
TodoColorado
If you have a young child in your life, this app is a wonderful piece of the puzzle. How do you record those spontaneous moments and utterances so you’ll remember them in 5 years much less 5 minutes? How do you share them with your loved ones and nobody else? I am so glad we stumbled upon this app in its early days and used it diligently when our son was younger. My only request would be that the app developer partner with someone to make books out of the material we’ve uploaded so that we can store the material offline forever.
Developer Response
Glad you're enjoying Notabli! We do offer printed book subscriptions — pick the kids, turn on auto-printing, and we'll automatically print and ship every 50 photos. We plan to expand our book offerings and add more customization in the future. Thanks!
6 years and going strong
WendersJoy
We have used this service for 6 years beginning with the birth of our oldest. We captured the weather the day she was born “feels like -40” (screenshot of weather app) and haven't looked back. It’s the only way I share photos with family. Private, ad-free and easy to use. My whole family uses this app and loves it. We also get the photo books sent automatically.. baby book, done! Family albums, done. Highly recommend!
- Improved location handling to ensure your feed loads smoothly, even when location data isn't perfect (thanks, Pete!)
- Additional minor changes and performance improvements to ensure a great experience.
Version 4.3.4
The developer, Super Important, Company, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
User Content
Usage Data
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Information
Seller
Super Important, Company
Size
77.1 MB
Category
Lifestyle
Compatibility
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
