Now on the App Store
Our Little World finds each child’s photos and videos on your iPhone so you can watch them grow month by month. Bring both parents’ photos together and spend a few minutes looking back in Tonight.
iPhone and iPad. Eligible subscriptions: 7 days free on monthly or 14 on yearly, then auto-renew.
Each parent connects Photos and agrees to sharing. How sharing works
Their world
Start with the photos and videos already on your phone. Confirm who’s who, then explore each child’s photos by age and watch them grow month by month. Siblings get their own spaces, and shared pictures can belong to both.
Photos and videos from both parents
Open a photo you didn’t take. Play a video from the other parent’s day. Recently taken brings both parents’ photos and videos together, and you can see who sent each one. Invite the other parent onto your plan; each of you connects Photos and agrees to sharing. Your unrelated camera-roll photos aren’t included.
See how both parents’ photos come together
Tonight
Open a short look-back through recent photos and older memories, turning like pages of a book. Watch together on the couch. You can add a line or a voice note as it plays, but there’s nothing you have to write. Reminders are optional.
In your words
Open a photo, tap the mic to record, then tap again to stop and save. Play the saved note beside the picture, with its words transcribed on your phone. Or write instead. Share my journal in Settings controls sharing with the other parent. Letters for later stay private to you.
“This was the most beautiful sunset and the light on his face was amazing.”
How it works
Their names and birthdays tell the app where to start. Add brothers, sisters and twins on the same screen.
The app looks through your library on your iPhone, and you choose which photos it can see. Nothing is uploaded to be sorted.
It shows you a few faces and you pick your child. When siblings look alike, it asks you instead of guessing.
Then their world fills in, starting with the photos already on your phone. See the full walkthrough.
More to explore
One portrait for each month, from the day they were born. Press play and watch them grow in a few seconds. Put brothers and sisters next to each other at the same age. Where you haven’t confirmed a face, the app’s pick is marked as one.
Heart a photo in the app and it’s here. Photos you’ve hearted in Apple Photos join them too, when the app recognizes your child in them.
Albums fill in on their own from what’s in the photos, like mealtimes, birthdays and trips, alongside their best memories. Rename one or take a photo out whenever you like.
The app looks through your photos and your own notes for likely firsts, like a first smile or the day they stood up, and asks. One tap adds it to Firsts. A suggestion is not a confirmed milestone; you decide what belongs in Firsts.
Who it’s for
You have thousands of photos of them and no time to sort them. The app finds each child, asks you to confirm who’s who, and keeps their photos in order. Twins and siblings included.
Download on the App StoreA gift for the first year. Their baby's photos are gathered into one private place on their iPhone, month by month, from the day they were born.
See giftsParents can invite two family members at no extra cost, or up to ten with Family Plus. You’ll see the children’s photos, and the moments they share with you with their words and voice notes.
How family sharing worksPrivacy
Our Little World sorts your photos on the phone in your hand. Once you both say yes, photos of your child go to the other parent. Family members you invite see the children's photos and the moments you share, never face data.
Read the privacy policyPricing
Eligible App Store subscriptions offer 7 days free on monthly or 14 days on yearly, then auto-renew. Check the terms offered before subscribing.
$69.99 a year
$5.83 a month, 27% less than monthly
$7.99 a month
Cancel any month
For a bigger family circle, Family Plus covers up to ten invited family members for $11.99 a month or $99.99 a year. Prices in US dollars. The App Store shows the price, the trial and the renewal terms before you pay. Pricing details
Questions
Our Little World is a private family photo and memory app for iPhone and iPad. It finds each child in the photos and videos already on your phone and brings both parents' photos together. Explore each child's life by age, enjoy a short evening look-back in Tonight, and add your own words, voice notes, Firsts and letters. It supports siblings and twins, with no public feed, followers or ads.
No. It organizes your library on your iPhone. Once you and the other parent each say yes, your photos of the children join theirs and theirs join yours. Shared copies are resized and sent without their location or camera details.
In Our Little World, invite the other parent into the same family. Each parent connects Apple Photos on their own iPhone or iPad, confirms who’s who and agrees to photo sharing. Photos and videos sorted into your children’s spaces and Our Family can then appear in both parents’ views, without maintaining shared albums by hand. One plan covers both parents and every child.
Open Recently taken in Our Little World to see recent photos and videos from both parents. A contribution label identifies the other parent, so you can see who sent each one. Open a shared photo or play a shared video in the app, alongside the photos from your own phone. You do not need to add words or voice to enjoy it.
Their birthday tells it where to start looking, and you confirm their face from a few photos. It doesn’t decide who your child is on its own.
Add them together. When a match is close, the app asks you which child it is.
No. Your originals stay where they are, and taking a photo out of an album never deletes it.
Sign in with the same account. Our Little World can restore data that reached your account backup; your original photos still come from Apple Photos and need access on the new device. Before changing phones, keep the app up to date, leave it online and check the backup status in app Settings. Leave your old phone and a separate backup of your originals intact until you have checked your photos, words and recordings on the new one. If something is missing, leave the old copy intact and contact support.
Only the parents in your family and the people you invite. The Family plan includes two invited family members, like grandparents, at no extra cost, and Family Plus up to ten. A family link shows nothing in a browser.
The app becomes read-only. You can still read your Journal, look at your Favorites and export everything you made. Photos the two of you shared are kept for 30 days after a paid plan ends, so you can renew or export them. After a trial that ends without a plan, they’re removed about a day later. Nothing in Apple Photos is touched.
Eligible App Store subscriptions offer 7 days free on monthly or 14 days on yearly, then auto-renew. Check the price, trial eligibility and renewal terms shown before subscribing.
No. One plan covers both parents and every child. For a bigger family circle, Family Plus covers up to ten invited family members for $11.99 a month or $99.99 a year.
iPhone and iPad. It also has widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen.
A year of Our Little World
For Emma, Daniel and the baby
For the tiny moments, before they blur together.
Gifts
For a baby shower, a new brother or sister, or a first birthday. You pick the day it arrives and write a note. They get an email with a code for a year of Our Little World, for their whole family.
$69.99 for a year, or $99.99 for Family Plus.
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A 12-point checklist for baby's first Christmas and holidays: the photos, voices and notes worth keeping, plus AAP safety tips for holiday photos.
The CDC's first-year milestones at 2, 4, 6, 9 and 12 months in its own words, why the checklists land at those ages, and five habits for keeping the dates.
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Get the app
Download Our Little World for iPhone and iPad from the App Store.
