Too many photos on your phone? Try Sunslider Albums

Photos used to be rare. And we used to look at them - getting the pleasure of looking back at that scrapbook of the vacation your family took when you were 12, or seeing your parents when they were just married, or even just moments and memories that you’d forgotten until you saw *that* photo.

Today, the least we can say is that photos aren’t rare. It’s not a giant leap to say we’ve all got too. damn. many. photos. on our phones.

So after the… excitement… involved in my last update on how things have been going at Sunslider, I can unequivocally say that this email is much more fun to write.

Because not only is the Sunslider app now stable (and secure!), we’ve got a new product that just went live, ready to tame your camera roll chaos: Sunslider Albums.

Albums aims at the same problem as the main Sunslider app - how we share real moments with people we love - but comes at it from a different direction.

Because beyond addictive algorithms, Meta behaving badly, European data sovereignty, and other issues, we ALL have another issue: Our camera roll is full of photos that we never share because

1) it’s a ton of work to sort through them and

2) even if we do, they’re still just a scroll of photos on our phone, not in an easily shareable format.

So as time goes on, our photos just get lost, trapped among thousands of others.

Albums takes away the pain of curating photos, giving you an easy-to-share photo album that anyone can look at, wherever they are, all in about 5 minutes.

Here’s how it works: 

• Sign up for a free account. Everyone who signs up gets one free 30-photo album.
• Upload up to 200 photos (or 400 with our paid albums), just drag and drop.
• When you’ve put in all of those photos, hit the button and the machines take over. Don’t worry: this is tech that we’ve built in-house, relying on self-contained machine learning instead of a bunch of third-party AI hype.
• 60 seconds later, you’ve got an album: look at the selection, add some captions, swap a few out if you want (the ones that weren’t selected are easily found just below the selected photos), personalize your cover, and publish.
• Send the link to anyone you want: friends, grandparents, whoever. All they have to do is click and the album will open in their browser, no app or account needed.

So whether they’re from your last vacation, a visit from old friends, a wedding, if you’ve got memories that are going to end up lost in your photo library, give Albums a try! 

(Do note that an Albums account is separate from your Sunslider account, so you’ll need to go through the signup process to get your free album. But good news - we included magic links in this one, so if you want you won’t even need to store a new password ;)

2026 in perspective

Sunslider was founded almost exactly one year ago. In that year, we’ve developed and shipped 4 products: the Sunslider social network, ReadMoar (a reading time goal setter/tracker), Scroll Break (little nudges to help you escape infinite scrolls), and now Albums.

Each of these, in their own way, points toward a different way of interacting with digital products: more respect for users, less data tracking, and honest business models - which in large part means no ads. And they all aim to help people be more satisfied with the time they spend, both online and offline, rather than exploiting our psychologies and capturing as much of our attention as possible. 

But given our focus on developing these products, we haven’t been nearly as focused on actually marketing them. And it’s clear that, particularly for the main Sunslider app itself, that’s what’s needed to really make a positive difference in people’s lives.

So we’ll keep shipping improvements, of course, but for now we’re going to be turning towards distribution: how to get people to try our way of doing things, and improving based on their feedback.

In terms of our global society, we’re in a moment when *looks around* we need to change so much about the path we’re on. And let’s be clear: nothing about what we’ve built so far is going to have a big impact in that sense, you aren’t going to get some ridiculous startup BS about “changing the world!” out of me - especially not as missiles and bombs are flying.

But I do think that we have products that can have a positive impact on people’s lives. Besides keeping the lights on and the rent paid, that’s always going to remain the goal. Thanks for coming along with us.

Love from Lyon,

Kyle