Your Family's Digital Home
Preserve precious memories, build your family tree, share recipes passed down for generations, chat privately, and stay connected — all included free.
4.9/5 from 2,400+ families
Family Album
Everything Your Family Needs
One secure platform for all your family's memories, connections, and shared experiences.
Photo Memories & Albums
Upload and organize photos into beautiful shared albums. Rediscover forgotten moments with automatic timeline grouping and smart tagging.
Interactive Family Tree
Build a rich genealogy chart with photos, bios, and historical records. Add relationships, import from GEDCOM, and see your heritage come alive.
Direct Messaging
Private, encrypted messaging between family members. Send text, voice notes, photos, and videos in dedicated family DMs.
Family Hubs
Create topic-based group channels for holidays, travel, milestones, or any occasion. Keep conversations organized and focused.
Legacy Stories
Record oral histories, write memoirs, and preserve family lore. The stories that define your family, captured forever.
Health Organiser
Keep track of family health records, appointments, and allergies. Share with trusted family members when needed.
Get Started in Minutes
Setting up your family's digital home is quick and easy. No credit card required.
Create Your Family Circle
Sign up in seconds. Create your private family circle and invite members via link or email. No complex setup.
Build Your Family Tree
Add family members, upload photos, and document relationships. Your tree grows with your family's history.
Share & Stay Connected
Post memories, send messages, create albums, and share recipes. Your family's story, all in one place.
Why families love Family Shell
We built Family Shell because we believe every family deserves a safe, private space to preserve their story — without ads, without data harvesting, without a price tag.
Learn MoreSimple, Transparent Pricing
Start free, upgrade when you need more. No credit card required to begin.
Free
Everything a family needs to get started and grow together.
- Up to 10 family members
- Unlimited photo uploads
- Family tree (50 profiles)
- Direct messaging
- Family hubs (3 channels)
- Recipe sharing
- 5 GB storage
- Community support
Premium
For larger families with advanced needs and archival goals.
- Unlimited family members
- Unlimited photo uploads
- Unlimited family tree profiles
- Voice messages & video calls
- Unlimited hubs & channels
- Advanced health organiser
- 500 GB storage
- Priority email support
- GEDCOM import/export
- Custom family domain
Legacy
Permanent archival for families committed to long-term preservation.
- Everything in Premium
- Permanent lifetime access
- 1 TB cloud storage
- Dedicated account manager
- Custom branding
- API access
- Historical data migration
- Family historian tools
- Annual plan: $29.99/yr
- Monthly plan: $3.99/mo
Families Love Family Shell
Join thousands of families who've made Family Shell part of their daily lives.
“My son got a job in Bangalore and my daughter is studying in Pune. The house felt so empty after they left. Family Shell brought us back together — beta shares his tiffin photos, beti sends voice notes after her lectures, and my husband uploads his morning walk pics from the park. It's not WhatsApp forwards. It's actually us, our real moments. I check it before chai every morning.”
“Our Dadi passed away in 2022. Before that, I spent months recording her — her stories about Partition, her secret dal recipe she never wrote down, the lullaby she sang to all 11 grandchildren. When I built our family tree on Family Shell — five generations, going back to our village in Punjab — my father saw his grandfather's photo and went completely silent. He said he hadn't seen that face in 40 years.”
“My father was in the Navy — posted in Vizag, Kochi, Mumbai, we moved every two years. We lost so many photos in those transfers. Old albums got damaged in monsoons, negatives were misplaced. I put everything we had left into Family Shell — Appa's passing out parade photo from 1978, Amma's first Pongal after marriage, my brother's school photos from Kendriya Vidyalaya. Now nothing can be lost again. My kids finally know where they come from.”
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