PhotoCircle
Private Photo & Video Sharing
Private Photo & Video Sharing
Total Ratings
United States
Description
PhotoCircle is a private photo-sharing app trusted by families, friends, social groups, schools, nonprofits, and businesses. Create invite-only albums to connect, share, and organize photos, videos, and documents — all in one simple, secure, easy-to-use app.
WHY 8M+ USERS CHOOSE PHOTOCIRCLE
- Simple & Intuitive: Easy for everyone — no technical skills required.
- Perfect for All Occasions: From personal memories to managing organizational media, PhotoCircle scales to meet your needs.
- Private & Secure: Share in secure, invite-only albums with full control over who can access your content.
- Scalable for Organizations: Purchase a premium plan tailored for your school, nonprofit, or business.
Explore all features and plans directly on the PhotoCircle website.
PERFECT FOR EVERY MOMENT
- Family Albums: Share birthdays, holidays, graduations, vacations, special events, and everyday moments with loved ones.
- Weddings & Events: Create private spaces for weddings, reunions, and celebrations, and let guests upload their memories.
- Education and Nonprofits: Capture and share events, projects, and community gatherings with ease.
- Businesses and Teams: Improve collaboration and securely share your content with team photo-sharing and collaborative albums for small teams and Fortune 500 enterprises alike.
FEATURES THAT FIT YOUR NEEDS
- For Friends & Families (Free & Ad-Supported Plan):
• Privacy First: Only invited members can access your albums and contribute content.
• Video Clips: Share video clips up to 1 minute long.
• Download Media: Save selected files directly to your device.
Upgrade to PhotoCircle+ for more features, starting at $1.29/month or $9.99/year. Manage your subscription via the App Store.
- For Schools, Nonprofits, and Businesses (Premium Plans Only):
• Powerful Search: Quickly find photos and videos with advanced search tools.
• Custom Branding: Personalize albums with unique group or organization branding.
• Admin Console & Moderation: Easily manage users, permissions, and content.
• Data Recovery: Retrieve deleted content for up to 90 days.
• Account Ownership: Full organizational control over all accounts and content.
For the complete list of features and plan details, check out our website.
JOIN MILLIONS OF HAPPY USERS
- "A perfect app for sharing family moments, even across long distances!" - Trinity L.
- "This is become my favorite app. It is so easy for all of our friends and family to upload picture and share with each other” - MessyJessie1111
- "With PhotoCircle we never miss an opportunity to share our events with our community." - St. Matthew’s House Member
DOWNLOAD PHOTOCIRCLE FOR FREE TODAY!
Get started with PhotoCircle, the trusted app for secure, private photo sharing. Keep your memories safe, organized, and always accessible — no matter where you are.
TERMS & PRIVACY
Terms of Use: https://www.photocircleapp.com/legal/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://www.photocircleapp.com/legal/privacy/
Support: support@photocircleapp.com, +1 949-228-9310
Screenshots
Version History
Releasing updates every 20 days on average. Last update 7 days ago.
Bug fixes
Document uploads for premium plan customers
Branding overlay on photos for premium plan customers
Ability to directly invite existing users to your circles
Improved download progress UI
Fixes for iOS 18
Swift 6 support
Improved download progress UI
Fixes for iOS 18
Swift 6 support
Improvements to video trimmer
UI fixes/enhancements
Improved ad quality
Improved ad quality
Support for sharing video from other apps into PhotoCircle
Improvement to ad quality
Improvements to MultiCircle Upload
Minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Improved ability to upload media to multiple circles at once
Improved ability to upload media to multiple circles at once
Multiple Accounts - use your personal and business accounts at the same time
Multiple Accounts - use your personal and business accounts at the same time
Improved share extension
Bug fixes
Improved share extension
Minor design improvements
Fix minor search bug
Fix upgrade path for very old app versions
Branding improvements for organizations
Improvements to email verification flow
Fix for setting profile photo
Ability to upload photos & videos to multiple circles at the same time
Video transcoding fix
Video transcoding fix
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Ad improvements
Bug fixes
Ad improvements
iPad Support
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Minor bug fixes
Minor bug fixes
View, reorder, and caption your media picker selection prior to adding
Improved profile editing
Camera rotation available when rotation is locked
View, reorder, and caption your media picker selection prior to adding
Improved profile editing
Camera rotation available when rotation is locked
Minor UI improvements
Minor bug fixes
Improvements to welcome text for new users
Improvements to the Invitation screen
Ability to "Sign back in as"
Search feature (available to PhotoCircle for Business customers)
Bug fixes
Performance improvements
Bug fixes
Performance improvements
Bug fixes
Performance improvements
Faster sync performance
Minor UI adjustments to the Activity Feed
Improvements to video processing
Minor bug fixes
Activity Feed - view all your updates in one place and in chronological order
Compact Album View - you can now choose a more compact layout for the Home Screen
Improvements to Profile management
Activity Feed - view all your updates in one place and in chronological order
Compact Album View - you can now choose a more compact layout for the Home Screen
Improvements to Profile management
Activity Feed - view all your updates in one place and in chronological order
Compact Album View - you can now choose a more compact layout for the Home Screen
Improvements to Profile management
Bug fixes for alerting and first app launch
Minor bug fixes to alerting
Minor fix for video capturing
Improved FAQ screen
Optimized photo picket loading
Improvements and bug fixes for re-authentication
More Emojis!
Ability for business users to join circles in their group
Updated media picker
Advanced video capturing, with 3-2-1 countdown and ability to take multiple clips
Updated media picker
Advanced video capturing, with 3-2-1 countdown and ability to take multiple clips
Ability to unblock users that were previously removed & blocked
Ability to remove members without blocking them from rejoining
Saving All Photos will create a new album within the Photos app for those photos
Increased video bitrate for higher quality video clips
Updated UI with new pull-down menus
Ability to unblock users that were previously removed & blocked
Ability to remove members without blocking them from rejoining
Saving All Photos will create a new album within the Photos app for those photos
Increased video bitrate for higher quality video clips
Updated UI with new pull-down menus
Fix title bar layout for enterprise users in iOS 16
Ability to reorder photos & videos in your circles
Batch share, save, and delete
Address iOS 15.7 issue, where screen flips upside down
Photo picker enhancements
Layout improvements
Bug fixes
Layout improvements
Bug fixes
Photo picker enhancements
Faster app launches from push notification
Stability improvements
Faster loading
Bug fixes
Improved upload reliability
Improvements to upload reliability
Faster launch times from push notifications
Bug fix for sharing video to other apps
Update video trimmer to more easily expand to 60 seconds
Minor bug fixes
Added support for "Sign in with Microsoft"
Improved media transitions and animations
Auto-hide video controls
Stability & performance improvements
Ability to promote other members to the Moderator role
Delete account capability
Performance improvements
Improved video playback
Features for enterprise customers
Bug fixes
Improved video playback
Features for enterprise customers
Bug fixes
Reduced app bundle size
Minor bug fixes
Fix for option menu not showing up on first photo
Tweak gradient on photo overlay
Fix for showing member list upon circle creation
Minor bug fix
Performance enhancements
Stability improvements
Performance improvements
UI enhancements
Fixed issues with video controls
Fancier push notifications for iOS 15
Addressed issues with photo transitions
Added "What's New" dialog
Fixed issues with video controls
Fancier push notifications for iOS 15
Addressed issues with photo transitions
Added "What's New" dialog
Ability to set cover photo for a circle
Vertical orientation of cover photo to better show faces
Made video playback smoother
Improved media details layout
Authentication fields now work with password managers
PhotoCircle Reactions (love, laugh, celebrate)
Fixes for video player
Fix crash issue when joining large circles
Improve login performance for users with large circles
Address issue of occasional video stalling
Fix crash issue with image transitions
Fix iOS 12 permissions issue in media picker
Addressed crash issue on iOS 12
Improved open/close of comments window
Better layout of comments on top of media
Fixed issue with Join Links not always working
Fixed comment view layout
Improvements to opening from push notifications
Swipe down to dismiss photos photos
Bug fixes for sync
Fix for badge count
Fix for new/unseen filter
Fix for photo/video picker on iOS 12/13
Improved dismissal of comments view
Improved indicators for new/unseen content
Fixed intermittent network issues
Fixed issues with push notification not opening properly
Improved ad quality
Fix for saving photo to local photo library
Improved loading from push notifications with background sync
Better handling on slow networks
Improved ad quality
Minor fixes for video player and media scrolling
Faster image loading
Tweaked app icon (less orange)
Improvements to Media Picker: album selection and previews
Better handling of offline and poor network scenarios
Changes to comment layout
Fixes for launching app via push notifications
Bug fixes for comment sorting. Improved text layout for accessibility. Faster loading times.
Bug fixes for new/unseen indicator and caption/commenting
Major UI refresh
Major UI refresh
Major UI refresh
Major refresh of the UI
Major refresh of the UI
Bug fixes
Bug fixes and minor updates
Improved support for Apple's App Tracking Transparency. Updated Facebook authentication to use "Limited Login".
Support for Apple's App Tracking Transparency
Bug fix for photo picker. Mute volume of ads where possible.
Improved ad quality
Improved duplicate handling. Faster video loading.
Minor improvements to photo picker. Bug fixes.
Bug fix for duplicates with photo picker
Update the picking and cropping of profile photos
Fix issue where tapping Add button more than once in photo picker creates duplicates. Better handling of large photo/video batches.
Bug fixes
Fix for "Deleted User" bug
Bug fixes. Ad improvements.
Bug fixes
Integrated Apple's new Photos Picker
Bug fixes
Fix for videos that become corrupted with black vertical stripes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
PhotoCircle Pro subscription upgrade now available as monthly option. Bug fixes.
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes and improved onboarding
Bug fixes, UI enhancements
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where the Create and Join buttons weren't tappable.
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Now with iPhone X support!
Bug fixes
You can now share VIDEOS
Bugfixes
Improved compatibility with 3rd party keyboards
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
- Added support for German, French, Japanese, Chinese and Korean
- Improved the way inviting people to a circle works
- Bug fixes, of course
Bug fixes
Bug fixes
Fixes for photo uploading and handling
Bug fixes!
- FIXED: some users have photos that always fail to upload
- FIXED: some users have circles that freeze the app when you view them
- and a few more minor bugfixes
High-res screenshots
Bug fixes
- Improved main screen: sharper images / better crop
- Bug fixes
Everything! Welcome to PhotoCircle 2.0!
- Create circles for your Facebook events so you can share photos privately. Tap the calendar icon on the home screen to get started.
- Bug fixes and enhancements related to iOS7.
Bug fixes and performance improvements
We now support some of our most frequently requested features:
✓ Save an entire album to your camera roll with a single tap (v1.4.0)
✓ Upload multiple photos at the same time (v1.3.3)
✓ Circle creators can now delete any photo in the circle
✓ Improved messaging for photo privacy settings
✓ Performance improvements & bug fixes
This update includes our most requested feature:
• Upload multiple photos at the same time
Have an idea of how we can improve this feature? Contact us from the settings screen or email support@circlewithme.com.
• Fixes occasional corrupt image downloads (most commonly seen with iOS6)
• Improved filtering mode for viewing new photos and comments
• Improved extend PIN functionality for weddings, birthdays, and other events
• Bug fixes
PhotoCircle 1.3.1:
• Fix crash when viewing photos while uploading
• Improve image download speed for some Verizon users
PhotoCircle 1.3.0:
• We now support the iPhone 5, so taller screens will display even more thumbnails and photos.
• You can now filter albums so only new photos and comments are visible. Great for seeing the comment added to that photo from last week.
• We've added Facebook Open Graph support to better support sharing photos on your Facebook stream.
• When using a manual PIN to connect, we display how long the PIN is valid for. We've also added support for extending the lifetime of a PIN.
This a big PhotoCircle update for all users:
• We now support the iPhone 5, so taller screens will display even more thumbnails and photos.
• You can now filter albums so only new photos and comments are visible. Great for seeing the comment added to that photo from last week.
• We've added Facebook Open Graph support to better support sharing photos on your Facebook stream.
• When using a manual PIN to connect, we display how long the PIN is valid for. We've also added support for extending the lifetime of a PIN.
Updated Circles would not move to the top of the list
Improved photo sharing functionality
Improved readability of comments
Bug fixes
Make it easier to add friends remotely to a Circle
Bug fixes
There are many improvements with this latest release:
• App icon now shows the number of Circle updates.
• Reduce the number of push notifications sent.
• New and improved login screen.
• Better invitation system for adding users to Circles.
• Bug fixes
This update includes two highly requested features:
COMMENTS - Now anyone in a circle can comment on a photo. You'll receive a notification whenever new comments are added.
SAVE PHOTOS - Download photos from your Circles to your camera roll.
We've also removed the location (GPS) requirement from the application. We connect you and the people you're with without ever asking for your location.
Automatic connect is now supported on the iPod Touch 4th Generation.