Press kit

All Our Years, for the press

Fact sheet, boilerplate, story angles and numbers for the Mac app that reads a family photo drive in place.

Fact sheet

The basics

Name
All Our Years
One-liner
A Mac app that reads a family's photo archive in place and sorts it into events, people and places. All processing happens on the Mac.
Category
Mac photo-archive app
Price
Free version with no time limit: it reads the whole drive, with 100 photos from every year and the 10 earliest videos fully viewable and the rest blurred. Full version $59 one-time for up to 3 Macs; Family Pack $79 for 5 Macs. Family Circle, optional end-to-end encrypted sharing with relatives, is $49/year and is the only subscription. The Mac App Store version is the same app, free with a one-time in-app unlock.
Platform
Apple silicon Mac (M1 or later), macOS 14 or later.
Status
Available now. Version 0.7.0, as a direct download and on the Mac App Store.
Developer
Independent developer
Boilerplate

Ready-to-use copy

Short

All Our Years is a Mac app that reads a family's photo archive in place, exactly where it already sits, and sorts decades of unlabeled photos into named events and a timeline for each person. It runs on-device, and none of your photos, names or faces are uploaded.

Medium

Most families have a hard drive like this: a folder of named events from the years before phones took over, followed by a decade of large, unlabeled phone-backup dumps. All Our Years opens that drive read-only and reads it on-device, using Apple silicon's Neural Engine to group photos into events, follow people across the years, and learn the family's own naming style so it can name the later decade too. There is no cloud and no account, and the app is a one-time purchase; Family Circle sharing is an optional $49/year add-on. It is built and maintained by an independent developer and is available now.

Story angles

Ideas for coverage

On-device AI

No cloud upload and no account. Face recognition and scene understanding run on the Mac's own Neural Engine, at a scale of hundreds of thousands of photos, on hardware families already own.

Folder names as event labels

A family's hand-named event folders work as labeled examples. The app was built and tested on one real family drive, using those folder names as the reference for event grouping.

One-time pricing

The app is a $59 one-time purchase ($59.99 on the Mac App Store) in a category where cloud photo storage is usually a recurring bill. The only subscription is Family Circle, an optional $49/year sharing add-on.

By the numbers

The numbers behind the app

314,391
photos and videos, 1998–2026, 1.7 TB on a 6 TB external drive, read on a single Mac
28 years
of photos on the drive the app was built on; the same face is followed from childhood to adulthood
None
None of your photos, names or faces are uploaded

Brand assets (logo, icon) and product screenshots are available on request. Email support@allouryears.com and we'll send them over.