Coming to iPhone and Android
Forty thousand photographs is not a memory. LifeMuseum turns the things that mattered into exhibits — the date, the place, the people, and what you actually want to remember about it. Then it cuts your year into a film.
Free. No account needed. Nothing leaves your phone.
The museum of
Alex Moreau
Explorer
1,240 XP to Photographer
128 exhibits in the collection
Santorini, finally
14 JUN 2025 · Oia
Mum's sixtieth
02 MAY 2025 · Home
The wings of your museum
Travel
31 exhibits
Family
24 exhibits
The problem
A camera roll is a warehouse. It is sorted by the one thing that never mattered — the second the shutter closed — and it has no idea which of eleven near-identical frames is the one you would cry at. Scroll far enough back and you will find an entire day you cannot place.
Nothing in there is labelled. Nothing in there was chosen. It is a pile, and a pile is not a memory.
The idea
It chooses. It labels. It puts one thing on a wall, gives it a date and a place and a sentence, and lets it mean something. That is the whole design of this app, applied to a life: an exhibit for each thing worth keeping, a brass plaque under every one, and twelve wings already waiting when you open it.
The collection
Every museum opens with these. Add your own for the parts of your life that do not fit anybody else’s categories — and they will not, because they are yours.
Every place that changed you.
What you learned, and where.
Every machine you called yours.
The doors you had keys to.
The people you chose.
Small hearts, huge dents.
Proof you did the hard thing.
Worlds you lived in.
Meals worth remembering.
Nights that were too loud.
The ones who were always there.
The wing you visit most.
Unlimited wings. Unlimited exhibits. Both free, and staying that way.
The studio
Choose a month, a year or a single wing. The app edits a real cinematic trailer out of it — your own photographs and video, colour graded, with camera moves, transitions, title cards and an original score written for this app. It renders on the phone and saves as a genuine MP4.
Rendered on your device. Your photographs are never uploaded to make it.
A month, a year, a wing, or the whole museum.
Grading, Ken Burns moves, transitions and titles, chosen to fit what is in the frame.
Six original cues, written and mastered for this app. Nothing licensed, nothing generic.
A real vertical MP4, ready for Stories or Reels. No watermark.
Before I Die
One hundred and fifty things worth doing, from the ordinary to the enormous. Tick one and it does not get a line through it — it opens as an exhibit, waiting for the photographs you took while you were doing it.
150
Posters
Turn one exhibit, one year, or the whole museum into a designed poster — typeset properly, in the museum’s own hand. Story and square, saved straight into your photos.
Time capsules
Put a memory and a letter inside, set the day, and it closes. No preview, no peeking, nothing left in the museum to tempt you. The app finds you on the morning it opens, even if you have not opened it in years.
The numbers
Days documented, countries stood in, the busiest month you ever had, the weekday you actually live on. None of it was asked for in a form — it is all read back from what you already kept.
2025
214
days
19
countries
41
streak
The part that matters
Your museum is a database on your own device. No account is needed to use it. No internet is needed to use it. Nothing is uploaded unless you press Publish on a single exhibit, share one with your partner, or switch Cloud Sync on yourself.
There is no ad network in the app, and no plan to add one.
Nothing follows you between apps, and there is nobody to sell it to.
The app measures nothing about you. Not screens, not sessions, not taps.
We cannot see your photographs, because they never arrive. That is not a policy we could change quietly — it is how the app is built.
Price
The museum, the movie studio, the posters, the list and the numbers are the app. They are not a trial, and they do not run out.
€0No trial, no cap, no expiry
Nothing that is free today will move behind a payment. That is a promise made in public, on purpose.
A full backup, photographs and video included, restored onto any phone you sign in to. A subscription; everything else is a one-time purchase.
A genuinely shared museum for two, with its own wing, its own theme and its own timeline.
A wing behind Face ID or a PIN. Vaulted exhibits are absent from every query in the app, not filtered out of a list.
The world, filled in as you go, with pins you can open and a poster of the result.
Time Capsule Pro, Statistics Pro, Memory Challenges, Cinematic Themes and Poster Studio.
Each one adds something new beside the free app — never in place of it. Everything above stays free whatever you buy.
Questions
On your phone — in a local database and your own photo library. Nothing is uploaded unless you publish an exhibit, share one in Couple Mode, or switch on Cloud Sync.
No. The app opens straight into your museum. An account only exists if you want the parts that involve somebody else: publishing, Couple Mode, or Cloud Sync.
Entirely. Everything — exhibits, the movie studio, posters, statistics — runs on the device with the aeroplane mode switch on.
Without Cloud Sync, it is gone: the data lives only on that device. With Cloud Sync, sign in on a new phone and it rebuilds itself.
Yes. Movies and posters export to your photo library as real files. For anything else, write to us and we will help.
Through your store account — iPhone: Settings, your name, Subscriptions. Android: Play Store, Payments and subscriptions. Cancelling changes nothing on your phone; the local museum was always the original.
No. All six cues were written for this app and mastered for it. That is why there is no watermark and no claim on anything you export.
Write to us from the address on the account. We delete it, and anything you published, within thirty days.
The last room
It takes about a minute to hang the first exhibit. The wall is already waiting.