Bring the whole family in, privately.

Every family space has three roles: Owner, Admin and Member. When you sign up, Ancestorii creates a family space with you as its Owner.

Only Owners and Admins can send email invites or share the family link, from the My Family page on the website. They also see pending email invites and can cancel any that have not been accepted. Members can add to everything but cannot send email invites or the family link, and people who join with the share link come in as Members.

There is no limit on family members on either plan, so you can invite grandparents, cousins and in-laws without counting heads. Invited relatives pay nothing to join.

Plans belong to the family, not the person. On the Free plan the whole family shares 1 GB of storage. Premium costs £3.99, €4.99 or $5.99 a month, and one subscription covers everyone in the space, with 100 GB of shared storage, 15-minute videos and unlimited Loved Ones profiles. See plans and pricing.

Under Ancestorii's Terms, everyone with an account must be 16 or over, and anyone under 18 needs a parent's or guardian's consent. Younger children cannot have their own account, but they can still be part of the family's photos and stories.

There are no per-item sharing settings, so you cannot hide one album from one relative. If something should not be seen by everyone in the space, keep it out of the space.

The new member gets a welcome email for your family's space, and everyone already in it gets an email with their name, saying they have just joined. An in-app notification goes out too, which the phone app shows as a push notification.

From then on they see the whole library, including everything added before they arrived, and anything they add is visible to the rest of the family straight away.

No. Each account belongs to one family space at a time. If you invite someone who already belongs to another family space with other members in it, the invite is refused, and the share link will not let them in either.

If your family has two sides that both want to take part, such as in-laws, invite everyone into one shared space. With no member limit, there is room for both.

Send the link where your family already talks. Ofcom's Online Nation 2025 report found that WhatsApp is used by 90% of adults in the UK, so the family group chat is often the quickest route, and the share link is made for it. If you are weighing the two up, see Ancestorii vs a WhatsApp group.

Give people something to see when they arrive. Post one memory first, with a photo and a few lines, so a new member opens a real moment rather than an empty page. Then send one person a question from the app: a specific question is easier to answer than “add your memories”.

Some relatives will need a hand. The app is free on iPhone and Android and uses the same email and password as the website, so someone can set it up with them once. Our guide to getting family to share memories has more ideas, and the My Family feed shows what they will be joining.