Private shared photo album appEveryone’s photos in one album.Then a book you can hold.
One private album for family, friends or a trip, from everyone’s phones and WhatsApp chats. Turn any month, or every Diwali, into yaadein: a photo book to print at any photo shop.
How it works
Your first photo book, in three steps
Install Yaadgaar from Google Play and start a circle: your family, your friends, the people on a trip. Send the invite code on WhatsApp so everyone can join.
Yaadgaar shows the photos you’ve taken lately, already ticked. Untick what doesn’t belong and add the rest, or share photos in straight from WhatsApp. Each photo lands in the month it was taken, alongside everyone else’s.
Pick a few months, or the photos from one day, and choose a cover. Yaadgaar lays them out as a photo book, in regular photo size or A4. Turn its pages in the app, send the PDF round, or print it at any photo shop.
Who it is for
One album for any circle of people
A circle is the people you invite and the one album they share. Start one for each group you take photos with.
A family
Parents, children, cousins and grandparents, in one city or in five. Every Diwali and every birthday side by side, year after year.
Friends
The school gang, the college batch, the building. Everyone’s photos of the reunion, the birthday and the night out, in one place.
A trip
Everybody on the trip adds what they took, and that includes people you met on the way. Members see each other’s names, never a phone number or an email.
A wedding or a function
The people who were there add what they took, and the hosts get the day from every side.
An office or a class
The offsite, the annual day, the farewell. One album for the team or the batch, and a photo book to print at the end.
Several at once
Be in one circle for your family, one for your friends and one for each trip. Nobody in one circle sees another.
While the album fills up
A jhalak every day
Each day Yaadgaar brings back a few old photos worth another look, such as the same month years apart or every Diwali side by side, with a short caption. Keep the ones you love for your next yaadein.
Reminders around festivals
A gentle nudge before, on and after Diwali, Holi and Raksha Bandhan, so the day’s photos don’t sink into the camera roll.
Only your circle sees it
Photos are seen only by the people you invite. No ads, no public feed, no likes. How we keep it private
Free, and it grows with you
Free to join. Each member who joins and verifies their email adds space to the album and pages to every book.
Questions
What people ask us
What is Yaadgaar?
Yaadgaar is a private shared photo album app for India. Everyone in a family, a group of friends or on one trip adds their photos to one album, and turns the best of them into yaadein: a photo book to read on the phone, share on WhatsApp or print. Photos are arranged by the month they were taken. It is for Android phones, on Google Play.
Is Yaadgaar only for families?
No. A circle is any group of people who want one album: a family, a group of friends, the people on one trip, the people at a wedding, a team at work. You can be in several circles at once, and nobody in one circle sees another.
Is Yaadgaar free?
Yes. Yaadgaar is free to join, with no ads. Each circle’s album starts with its own space, and the space, and the pages in each book, grow as more people join and verify their email.
Who can see our photos?
Only the people in your circle: the people you invite with a code. There is no public feed, nothing is shared outside the circle, and members see each other’s names, never their email or phone number.
How do I get our photos out of WhatsApp and into one place?
On Android, share photos straight from WhatsApp or Google Photos into Yaadgaar. Each photo is filed under the date it was taken, not the day it was shared, so old photos land in the right month. Yaadgaar also offers the photos you have taken lately, already ticked.
Can I print the photo book?
Yes. Yaadein are made as a PDF in regular photo size (4R, 4×6 inches) or A4. Read it in the app with real page turns, send it on WhatsApp, or take it to any photo shop to print.
Is Yaadgaar on iPhone?
Right now Yaadgaar is for Android phones, on Google Play. On an iPhone you can still read any yaadein somebody shares with you, in your browser. Tell me when it’s on iPhone
What does “yaadgaar” mean?
Yaadgaar means a keepsake in Hindi and Urdu. People who have only heard it also write it Yadgaar or Yadgar. Yaadein means memories, the name for the photo books you make, and a jhalak is a glimpse: the few old photos the app brings back each day.
Step by step
How to use Yaadgaar
Eleven short guides. Each is a video from the real app, with the steps written out.
- How to start a circle and invite family and friends
- How to add photos from your phone
- How to add photos from WhatsApp or any app
- How to make a photo book on your phone
- How to make a photo book of a trip
- How to share a photo book as a video, a link or a PDF
- How to find old photos by festival, date or place
- What a jhalak is, and how to keep, share or print one
- How to sort, delete and save photos in the album
- How to remove a member or hand over a circle
- How to keep your account when you change phones
Photo albums, photo books and Status videos
- How to make a photo book on your phone and print it at a photo shop
- How to make a photo album on your phone
- Mobile se photo album kaise banaye
- How to turn photos into a video for WhatsApp Status
- Everyone’s Diwali photos, in one album
Start with this month’s photos
There’s a month on your phone that deserves a book. Add it tonight, and ask the others to add theirs.