The problem with subscription baby books
A baby book is a five-to-eighteen-year project. Subscriptions were designed for services you might cancel next month, not for the one file you want to hand your child at graduation.
- The maths adds up. A plan at $5 a month is $60 a year and $300 over five years, for a book you could hold yourself.
- Ask what happens when you stop. Before you commit years of memories to a subscription, check what you can still see and export if you cancel.
- Prices can change. When the memories live on someone else’s server, you pay whatever comes next.
What a fair, no-subscription baby journal looks like
Everkeep’s model is simple, and it is written into the app’s store listing:
| Free, and stays free | Everkeep Pro, $9.99 once |
|---|---|
| Photos, videos, voice and notes, as many as you like | The printed book as a clean PDF to share, save or send to a printer |
| The book, in chapters by month of life | Month films saved to your phone |
| Firsts, and growth with height, weight and head size | A book for every child |
| Import from your photo library, with undo for 30 days | Looking Back: pages that return on their anniversaries |
| The cover colour, the lock, backup files and gentle reminders | Handwriting read into text and voice notes written out, without a limit |
Nothing free expires. The free app also reads handwriting into text and writes out voice notes five times each. Everkeep Pro is bought once through Google Play or the App Store, and you can restore the purchase on a later phone from the same store account.
No account, so nothing to cancel. Everkeep has no login. Your book is on your phone, and your backup file is wherever you saved it.
How to switch to a no-subscription baby journal
If you are leaving a paid app, the goal is to get your photos out while you still can, then rebuild the book in Everkeep.
- Export from your current appBefore your plan lapses, use the app’s export or download option to save your photos and videos to your phone. Note the dates.
- Install Everkeep and open the bookGet Everkeep free on Android or iPhone. Enter your child’s name and birthday and choose the cover.
- Bring the photos inImport from your photo library. Everkeep files each photo and video under your child’s age on the day it was taken. Importing is free, and you can undo an import for 30 days.
- Keep pages for freeUse the + button for a photo, a video, a voice note or a note. Keeping pages is free and stays free.
- Buy Pro when you want the printed bookIn Settings, open Everkeep Pro and pay $9.99 once. The purchase belongs to your store account, so you can restore it on a later phone.
- Back up on your termsSave a backup file from Settings every few months and keep it wherever you trust. You are no longer renting your memories.
Stop renting your baby bookEverkeep is free to keep. Pro is $9.99, once. Download it and drop the subscription you did not need.
No-subscription baby journal FAQ
Will Everkeep ever add a subscription?
Everkeep Pro is sold as a single purchase, and the store listing says so: “Everkeep Pro is a single purchase, not a subscription.”
What happens to my memories if I never buy Pro?
Nothing. Keeping pages is free and stays free, and so are the book, firsts, growth, import, the lock and backups. Pro adds to the book; it never holds back the pages you already have.
Can I share the Pro purchase with my partner?
Everkeep Pro belongs to the store account that bought it, and you can restore it on other devices signed in to that account. It is not shared through Family Sharing.