people-book compared
Three of these four products are good. They are simply not built for thirty adults who write, argue and vote.
Free up to 5 Members and 100 photos. No account until your first import.
Famileo turns family messages into a printed paper, around 5,99 to 9,99 € a month. For a grandparent with no screen, it is exactly right.
It is not a place where thirty friends write the account of a weekend. And the archive stays paper.
FamilyAlbum and Mitene keep a child's photos beautifully, in an app, with short captions.
There are no Articles, no shared Agenda and no Polls, and the shape assumes parents rather than a group of friends.
A Nextcloud or HumHub of your own is the ideal: your machine, your rules, no middleman.
But somebody becomes the administrator, for life. The day that person gets bored, the group's memory goes dark.
One payment of 49 €, twelve months, the whole group. Albums, Articles, Agenda, Polls, and nothing more.
Nobody maintains anything, and the one-click export means choosing us locks nobody in.
| people-book | Famileo | FamilyAlbum | Nextcloud, self-hosted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | 49 €, once, 12 months | 5,99–9,99 € a month | Free, paid books and Premium | Free software, paid server |
| Who maintains it | Nobody | Famileo | FamilyAlbum | One of you, forever |
| Shaped for | 10 to 40 adults who write | Grandparents, on paper | Parents and babies | Anything, once configured |
| Articles with comments | Yes | A printed gazette | Short captions | With a plugin installed |
| Album by date | Yes | Monthly print | Yes | Yes |
| Shared Agenda | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Polls | Yes, with names | No | No | With a plugin |
| Advertising | None | None | None | None |
| Ranking | None, time order | None | None | None |
| Export of everything | One click, open formats | Paper only | Paid book or DVD | Your own disk |
| Mobile app | No, web and email | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| What leaving costs | Nothing | The archive stays paper | A purchase | Nothing |
