A family photo and home library that lives in your house
It runs on a computer in your house, so the pictures, home movies, lists and to-dos stay with the family that made them. No subscription, and no one else's servers holding your kids' photos.
In use in one home today: ours. Not for sale, and nothing to sign up for.
Inside the line
The originals, the thumbnails, the faces it learns and the search index all live on the home computer and the drive beside it. Nothing gets copied to a cloud to make it work.
The promise
That's the line RunBackHome is built around, and we won't call it kept until it is. Reaching it away from home doesn't fully meet that line yet, so no other family gets it until it does.
Not a mockup and not a pitch. These are its new screens, shown here with sample data so our own pictures stay ours.
Sample data. Real pictures never appear on this site.
Find a photo or video by who's in it, where it was taken or the day it happened, across the whole family library.
It learns the faces in your family on your own computer, so every picture of Grandma is one tap away.
Videos play straight from the drive they live on. No upload, no waiting on someone else's servers.
Adult content gets flagged on its own and stays out of sight until a parent unlocks it.
The house shopping list knows what you're out of and what you paid last time.
Menus, recipes and the family to-dos on one screen everyone in the house can reach.
Each family will own its own install, on its own computer, with its own pictures in plain folders it can copy anywhere. If RunBackHome went away tomorrow, your pictures would still be right where you left them.
It's being built to be community-driven: the families who run it will shape what it becomes.
We'd rather tell you what isn't done than sell you something that isn't true.
Our family uses itPictures, people, places, lists, menus and to-dos.
Yes
A sign-in for each parentBoth parents, each with their own password.
Working
Everyone sees who's been inEveryone who can sign in sees every visit.
First version
Nothing leaves unless you've trusted where it's goingThe promise above. Not claimed until it's true.
Not yet
Security signed offBefore any other family runs it.
Not yet
A way for your family to get itNo download, no sign-up, no price. When there is one, this page will say so.
Not yet
Our pictures were in Google Photos and our movies were on a hard drive in the closet. When Google changed its storage terms, I saw that we'd handed our memories to a company that could change the rules any time.
I've built for the web for twenty years, so I built our family a place for them at home. Before it goes to anyone else, it has to earn the trust I'd want for my own kids' pictures.
Matt Ebersole, husband, dad and the one who built it. Greer, South Carolina.
Until then there's nothing to buy and nothing to sign up for. RunBackHome is a MattCreates project.