Everyone who knew them has photos, some on their phones and some in a shoebox in the loft. Keepcove gives family and friends one private place to add them, before the funeral and for a long time after, and the family keeps every original.
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Most of the photos that matter now were taken long before the funeral: a school friend's holiday snaps, or the cousin with the only copy from a family wedding. They are spread among the people who loved them. One link lets all of them add what they have.
If you share the link as soon as the date is set, photos start to arrive while there is still time to choose one for the front of the order of service, or a handful for a board at the wake. Every photo downloads at its original size, which matters when it is going to be printed.
Many of the best photos only exist on paper. Anyone can photograph a print on their phone, laid flat near a window, and add it in the same way. Relatives abroad and friends who cannot travel can add theirs from wherever they are.
The gallery sits behind one private link. It is never listed on Google, there is no public feed and there are no ads. Anyone with the link or the QR code can see it and add to it, so it reaches the people you share it with. Whoever created the gallery can sign in and remove any photo, and everyone can download every original to keep.
When you let family and friends know the date and place, add the link with a line in your own words, for example: ‘We're gathering photos of Mum. If you have any, you can add them here.’
A card beside the book of condolence, or the QR on the back of the order of service, lets people add photos from their own phones in their own time. If the family would like it, the photo wall can run on a laptop at the wake, or on a TV with a laptop connected, showing the latest photos people have shared.
Some people will only feel ready to look through their photos weeks or months later, and a friend may find an old album long after the funeral. The link keeps working while the gallery is online, with no cut-off date, and the same gallery can be shared again for a memorial service or the first anniversary.
When the photos have gathered, the family can download every original, full size and with the date it was taken, to keep at home.
Share the link or the QR code with family and friends. It opens in the phone's browser, with nothing to install and no account to create, and whatever they add goes into one private gallery that the family keeps.
It is always the family's decision. Many families would rather people did not photograph the service itself, while a photo of the flowers, or of people together at the wake, is often welcome if the family is happy with it. This gallery is mainly for something else: photos of the person, taken over their life, that friends and relatives already have.
You can, but a notice in the paper, on a funeral website or on social media can be read by anyone, and so can the link in it. If you would rather keep the gallery to people who knew them, send the link in messages and put the QR on the order of service instead.
Setting up is free, and the first 10 photos can be added before you pay anything. It is £39 once to go live, and that includes a year online from the day you pay. After 12 months it renews automatically at £14.99 a year unless you cancel. If you cancel, the gallery stays online to the end of the paid year, so download every original before then. If you change your mind after paying but before anyone has added a photo, you can ask for a refund within 14 days. No one you share it with ever pays anything.
Setting up takes a few minutes and costs nothing. You only pay when you're ready for more than the first 10 photos.
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