Tinybeans Private Family Album 4+

I have grown tiresome of social media. And since my first child was born in 2015, I have been posting every baby memory on my social media. I wanted to delete all social media but I couldn’t because all my memories were there. So I started searching for something that could help me get everything organized and safe! Enter, TinyBeans! It has been very easy to navigate. I usually go to my social media page and search through my timeline. When I see a memory I copy it, check the date, and go input it into my TinyBeans app. I love that you can adjust the date yourself for older memories you forgot to put in. All of my children’s memories are now organized and safely saved. And I love that I can also share with family, especially those who don’t have social media.
I do wish for some adjustments though. I wish that family could add to the calendar as well. My kids grandparents take lots of photos of them and I would love for them to go in and add them in. And if that is possible, maybe have a “share with parents only, or share with everyone” option. That way not everyone can see those memories? Not sure if that makes sense but my kids grandparents fight and I’d rather them not see each other’s photos 😅 but would still like for them to be all added. I also wish there was a newsfeed page option where you can just see new things added vs a calendar look. That way you can be updated on what is new. Other than that, it’s a great app and I highly recommend it

Thanks so much for sharing. We're so glad that you've had a good experience so far!

As a journal owner, you can give permission to add photos/videos to any of your followers from your Family & Friends page (the same place where you initially invited folks). We don't have an option to limit certain posts to certain people quite like you've described, but we do have some interesting hidden upload options for our Premium subscribers. We'd be happy to share more! Shoot us a note at info@tinybeans.com with any questions - we're always happy to help!

Absolutely love this app, it’s concept, and (former) usability. So great for sharing daily moments of my three kids with friends and family near and far. I’ve been a loyal and regular user since 2015, but HOLY MACKEREL the *app* is so slow now. SO SLOW! The last year has been virtually unusable. I’ve been able to work around it by using the mobile web version from my phone instead of the app but I’m coming up on my yearly subscription and definitely not sure I’m renewing as a paid user. I hate to be the gal who’s like “fix this or I won’t pay,” but it’s been so good (with great customer service!!!!!) for 7 years. I love that for $25/year I can: avoid ads, upload more than one photo at a time, and upload longer videos. The slow is no joke though—I’m not exaggerating, it seriously takes over a minute to click a name and upload a photo each time now. When I emailed customer service they said it’s bc I have one of the larger journals… am I not using this app as intended?! It is for sharing photos and videos is it not? That almost made me feel like I was being punished! 🤨 I’m too much of a creature of habit to follow through on my threats to quit entirely, but I’m definitely not paying for something this slow— P L E A S E F I X I T ! **edit: I’ve already been emailing with customer service, see above**

Hi Caitielin, so sorry to hear about the issues you've been having. We'd like to look into this more with you. Please email socialsupport@tinybeans.com so we can troubleshoot.

It’s all truly excellent. My main recommendations so far would be to make it easier to correct errors entered into height and weight measures (as I learned from a very prompt and clear customer service person named Toni, this can be done by swiping left on a given measurement, but this is not intuitive, so some kind of indication on that page would be helpful). Secondly, I recommend adding a similar measurement system for head circumference, since most doctor’s visits include that anyway, and is of higher importance in the age of Zika. Another, more challenging, issue is this: the statistics should be calibrated to take account of where children are relative to due date, not actual date of birth, so as to take into account preemies (and ‘posties’). There is a publicly available set of alternate statistics for preterm babies that can be used, as well as variant benchmarks used by CDC and WHO (the app Growth+ includes two variants for each organization, plus the preterm variant). By using the actual date of birth rather than the estimated due date, the measurement percentiles used by the Tinybeans app end up being highly skewed toward babies born exactly at their due dates. This would seem a major area of opportunity in an otherwise highly evolved, sophisticated, and delightful app!

This is great feedback!!! Thanks so much for sharing this with us. We are working on our overall product and this is something we will definitely keep in mind as we go forward. If you have anymore suggestions, we would love to hear. You can always email us at info@tinybeans.com.