The best photographs are on the wrong phone
On a family holiday the record is split in a particular way: the adults take the landscapes and the restaurant tables, and the children take the dog on the beach, the strange lift in the hotel and forty pictures of a lizard. Put them together and you have the holiday. Keep them apart and you have two half-holidays, one of which is quietly more interesting.
Get the parent who organised it into their own holiday
Somebody booked the flights, packed the bags and took the photographs, and is therefore in almost none of them. Ask for the phone once a day. It takes ten seconds and it is the difference between a film about the family and a film about everybody except one person.
Children's video is worth keeping, even the bad video
The shaky forty seconds of a child narrating a rock pool is not good footage and it is the thing you will be most glad of in ten years. Clips get trimmed to the part that works, so nobody has to decide in advance whether a piece of video is good enough.
Something they can actually watch
A film is watchable at a grandparent's house on a television, which a camera roll is not. That is usually the moment the trip becomes a shared memory rather than everybody's separate one.
What Videmory does with it
One person starts the trip and shares a private link. Everybody who was there adds their own photos and video from their own phone — no account, nothing to install. Videmory reads the date and time your camera wrote into each file, puts the whole trip in the order it happened, trims the clips, and edits it to a soundtrack you choose. You watch the finished film before you decide to buy it.
Introductory launch offer: AU$49 for your first finished film and AU$15 for each additional version — another length, another aspect ratio, or both. No subscription, and nothing to pay in advance. Introductory pricing is available for a limited time and may increase in the future. See how it works · Pricing
Your questions, answered
Will the film include the parent who is always behind the camera?
Only if somebody photographs them. It is worth saying out loud at the start of the trip: hand the phone over once a day. Every family film has a person who is almost absent from the record of their own holiday, and it is nearly always the one who organised it.
Can the children add their own photos?
Yes, and they are often the best part — the things an adult would not have thought to photograph. Anyone you send the link to can add from their own device.
Can we make one film a year?
Nothing stops you. Each trip is its own project, and the films are files you keep; a row of them is a decade of the children growing up, which is a better record than a phone library nobody scrolls back through.
Is there anything to install on a child's device?
No. The link opens in a browser. There is no account, no app and no sign-up for anybody.