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The photographs your family takes end up somewhere nobody looks. This is a frame you send to someone you love — it sits on a counter in their kitchen and quietly fills up with your children, all week, without anybody being asked to learn an app.
Free to enter
One family wins the 15.6-inch frame together with lifetime full access, including Grow Book sync. Answer a question or two about your family and you earn extra entries. Drawn December 1.
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No purchase necessary.
An illustration, not a photograph — we have not shot the finished frame yet. The screen is showing our own artwork.
How it is set up
Take it out of the box and scan the code on the back. That is the whole setup. The code opens a page on your phone, you say which frame it is — “Grandma’s kitchen” — and it is yours.
No account on the frame. No password typed with a remote control. Nobody at the other end has to do anything at all.
You choose, from your phone, and change your mind whenever you like.
Anything you send from your phone or from a Grow Book page. This is the main one.
The letters you have printed, as pictures. No text you did not write.
The seasonal coloring page, so a grandparent knows what to print this week.
Quiet paintings that change with the year, so the frame is never blank.
A card on the morning of a birthday, naming the child and the age.
Museum scans of Rembrandt, Monet, Van Gogh and more, with the story of each piece read aloud. Needs a Masterpiece 360 subscription.
The frame writes a short story for the day and reads it aloud in a storyteller’s voice — emotion, suspense, the lot. A child can press one button and be read to. There is a print button underneath it for a bedtime sheet, and you choose whether the storyteller is a woman or a man.
You buy the frame. That is the whole transaction. Sending pictures, changing what it shows, the stories, the calendar and adding more frames all come with a free account, and none of it stops if you never pay us another penny. The one paid extra is turning your own photographs into coloring pages, below, because each one is drawn to order. The frames people compare us with charge $39 a year for the settings.
Tap a photograph on the frame — the children at the beach, the dog, their grandmother — and it comes back as a coloring page, with clean black outlines a child can color inside. Print it on the family printer and it is on the kitchen table in a minute. The picture is sent away to be drawn, and the frame tells you that before it does. This one is part of the subscription.
One in your kitchen, one at your mother’s, one at his. Each keeps its own separate set of pictures, so the bedroom frame is not showing what the kitchen frame is showing. There is no limit and no extra charge for another one.
Your husband adds the photographs he took; you add yours; they all land on the same frame. Everyone sends from their own account and their own phone — nobody passes a password around.
The cousins together, a Saturday at the park. You make a shared album, invite the other family by email, and it shows up on both sets of frames. Only what goes in that album is shared — they never see anything else on your frames, and you never see anything else on theirs.
Tap the glass and a menu comes up: the pictures on it, today’s date and what happened on it, all thirty keepers with their paintings, and a code to point a phone at. The buttons are big, meant for a kitchen and for older eyes.
Birthdays, anniversaries and every holiday we keep, on the frame. Bring birthdays in from your phone’s own contacts export rather than typing them all out again.
Every picture it has been sent stays on the device. Through a broadband outage, a router reboot or a power cut it carries on showing your family. It never shows an error message to a grandparent.
Dark from nine until seven, or whatever suits the room it lives in. In a kitchen you can have it show a quiet line over dimmed artwork instead, which is nicer than a black rectangle and still not a glowing one.
A ten-second hello from a grandchild plays on the frame with sound. The sound starts switched off, because a frame that talks the first time somebody walks past it is a frame that gets unplugged.
Send any page straight to a frame. Your book stays encrypted on your own device — we cannot read it — and a page only leaves it when you choose to send that one.
On the morning, it shows the child and the age, so the grandparent who cannot keep track never misses one.
The frame asks us what to show, so improvements arrive on their own. Nobody is asked to update anything, and there is no app store on it to update from.
No microphone. No camera. No app store. It asks our server for a list of pictures and shows them, and it cannot see or hear a thing in the room.
The whole point. They should have to do nothing at all.
It arrives already belonging to you. We claim it to your account before it ships, so there is no code for them to enter, no account to make and no app to install. They take it out of the box, plug it in, and join their wi-fi on a screen that asks them one thing.
Then you fill it from your kitchen, six hundred miles away, and it quietly becomes the thing they look at every morning.
If they would rather add their own photographs too, you can invite them and they can. If they would rather never touch it, they never have to.
Illustrations of how one sits in a room.
Two sizes
10.1" — The one for a kitchen counter or a bedside table. $149, free shipping.
15.6" — Big enough to read a letter across the room. The one we use. $249, free shipping.
More than one frame costs less. Your first frame is full price. Every additional frame is $10 less, and when you order six or more, every additional frame is $20 less. A grandparent’s frame and your own come to $288.
Coming soon — not on sale yet. These are the prices they will be. Shipping inside the US is included and there is nothing to subscribe to afterwards: you buy the frame once and it keeps working.
Tell me when it is ready
We will write to you once, when it is actually for sale. Not a newsletter.
Make a free accountA free account is enough. We will not email you about anything else unless you ask.
Already have one? Set it up here.
Yes. The Keepers of Childhood frame writes a new short story every morning and reads it aloud on the frame itself, in a storyteller’s voice you can set to a woman or a man. A child presses one button. The story is tied to the day — what happened on that date, or one of the thirty keepers — and there is a print button for a bedtime sheet. No other digital picture frame does this; the rest show photographs only.
Yes. The Keepers of Childhood frame is bought once and has no subscription. Sending photos to it, changing what it shows and adding more frames are all included with a free account, and the frame keeps working whether or not you pay us for anything else. Several well-known frames charge a yearly fee for remote settings or video; this one does not.
They plug it in and join their wi-fi. That is all. A Keepers frame is claimed to the family who bought it before it ships, so there is no account to make, no app to install and no password to type on the frame itself. The photographs start arriving on their own.
From the phone in your pocket. You open the frame on your phone, choose photographs from your camera roll, and they appear on the frame within a few minutes. Photos are resized before they are sent, so a full album goes up in seconds rather than minutes.
Yes. Both parents, or any family member the owner invites, can send photographs to the same frame from their own account and their own phone. Each person sends their own pictures; nobody shares a login.
Yes. Two Keepers of Childhood households can share one album between their frames — the cousins together, a Saturday at the park — and only the photographs put into that album cross over. Neither family sees anything else on the other family’s frames. The album’s owner invites people by email address, each person chooses which of their own frames show it, and anybody can be removed again afterward.
Yes. Every frame on a Keepers account keeps its own separate set of photographs, so the kitchen frame, the bedroom frame and the one at a grandparent’s house can each show something different. There is no limit on how many frames one account can have.
Yes. You set the hours it sleeps — nine at night until seven in the morning, or whatever suits the room it lives in — and the screen goes dark between them. You can instead have it show a quiet affirmation over dimmed artwork, which suits a kitchen better than a bedroom.
Only to receive new photographs. A Keepers frame keeps every picture it has already been sent on the device, so it carries on showing them through a broadband outage or a power cut. It never shows an error message to the family.
The Keepers frame has no microphone, no camera and no app store on it. It asks our server for a list of pictures and shows them, and it cannot be used to see or hear anything in the room.
The 10.1-inch frame is $149 and the 15.6-inch frame is $249, with free shipping in the US and no subscription. Your first frame is full price. Every additional frame is $10 less, and when you order six or more, every additional frame is $20 less. Both are coming soon and are not on sale yet.
Keepers by The Compendium Company, LLC