How to use Yaadgaar
See it in eleven short videos
Each one shows the real app, step by step, in a minute or so — 14 minutes for all of them. Start with the first two, then make your first yaadein.
Start a circle and bring everyone in
Whoever starts the circle opens Circle, taps Invite someone and sends one code on WhatsApp. The others join with “I have an invite code”. For another circle, such as one for a trip, tap the circle’s name at the top: start a new one, join one with a code, or switch between them.
Read the stepsAdd photos from your phone
When your phone has new photos, a note on the Timeline says so: tap it, untick any you don’t want, and tap Add. They upload on their own, even after you leave the app. For older photos, tap Add photos and pick them by month or by place, or choose them from Google Photos.
Read the stepsMake yaadein
Under “Days worth keeping”, at the top of the app, are cards for days like a festival just gone or last month. Tap Make yaadein on one, tap any photo to leave it out, and pick the paper and a cover. The book lands on your shelf: turn its pages, watch it as a video, save the PDF or share it.
Read the stepsMake a yaadein of a trip
Open Look back and search the place you went, or pick the trip’s dates if you went to more than one. Photos from those days still on your phone can be added in one go. Make yaadein of all of them, or hold a photo to choose just some, then name the book and pick a cover.
Read the stepsFind any photo with Look back
Tap Look back on the timeline and pick one of your circle’s festivals, or search any festival by name, to see it year by year. Or pick a date, like a birthday, or a place your photos were taken. Photos from those days still on your phone can be added right there.
Read the stepsWhat a jhalak is
A glimpse of your album, with a line about it. One is waiting in the Jhalak tab, or make your own from any photo. Keep the ones you love in groups the whole circle can see, share one on your WhatsApp Status, or turn them into yaadein.
Read the stepsTidy the album
Tap Added on the Timeline to see what came in most recently. Tap a month’s name, hold a photo to select it, and tap any others: Delete takes out what you added (whoever looks after the circle can delete any photo), and Save to phone puts a copy in your gallery.
Read the stepsLook after your circle
Open Circle to see who is in it and what each has added. If you look after the circle, you can remove someone (what they added stays), stop the invite code, or hand it over with Make owner. Somebody changed phones without an email? Send them a Re-join code.
Read the stepsKeep your account on a new phone
Joined with an invite code? Add an email in Settings before you change phones. On the new phone, sign in with that email and your album is right there.
Read the steps