Free, and Livo Plus

Free, forever

Everything you need to name your photos, make something from them, keep it safe and pass it on. No account, no sign-in, no counts.

• Bring in your photos and videos from the Camera Roll and iCloud Photos, with the duplicate clean-up. Your photos stay where they are.
• Moments, the Gallery, Filter and Livo Search. Search by a name, a place, an event, a date, or words Livo has read on screenshots and saved pictures; tap the field to pick a person, place or event, and keep your favorite searches under the star (saved and pinned searches are free).
• Tag the Moment, Name the Faces, Edit Tags. Who is in a day’s photos, what the event was, where it happened; the faces one by one with the photo peek, the clean-up of tags, the recent names, Always offer.
• People, Places, Events, Life Events and Tags, with their lists under Organize. A birthday or a wedding date on a person is what makes “Emma’s 5th birthday” and “when Dad was my age” searchable. The Tags list renames, merges and deletes a tag across every photo, so a typo on forty photos is one fix.
• Stories and tags on photos, written into the files themselves.
• Edit Photo and Rotate. Crop and adjust a photo, and turn it a quarter at a time. Edit Photo always saves a copy; the original is never touched.
• Memories, as many as you like: make, edit, narrate in your own voice, reorder, combine. Scrapbook pages and Collage pages, Save page to Photos, and Share as Video for anyone, anywhere.
• Time Capsules: seal, look inside, Keep a copy in iCloud Drive or any folder in Files, the weekly checks and repairs, Keepsakes, Bring in, Export, Share with Livo. The page inside opens in any browser.
• Make a Gift: the dedication, the video Livo makes for you (with a small “with Livo” line at the end), the whole sealed gift, the folder of photos for a frame or a TV, plain print-size photos, and sending by AirDrop, Messages, Mail or Files.
• Receiving, always: opening a capsule or a gift someone sent you, Watch, Add to My Livo, Save to Photos as an album. Nobody has to buy anything to receive what you made.
• Backup & Restore to this phone and to Files or iCloud Drive; Activity, what Livo is doing in the background, with Pause and Stop; the Trash; Getting Started, this Guide, Settings and all five palettes.

Livo Plus, one purchase

Made once, shared with your Apple family, never a subscription. It adds three kinds of thing.

For giving — the finished forms of a gift, for the people who like something in the hand or on the wall:

• The gift book: an 8 × 8 inch PDF with the dedication on the cover, a page per photo with the names under each, and the people at the back; plus the same pages as pictures, for print services that want images. The PDF is sealed into the gift, so whoever receives it can print it too.
• The collage poster, 16 × 20, for a frame or a canvas.
• Print-size photos with the names strip, “Anna and Laurie · November 2019” under each, so nobody has to write on the back.
• Order prints from Memory Lane: a book from any Memories, Scrapbook pages and Collage pages, in your order.
• Give it again: the whole “Your gift is ready” screen for a gift you already made (the free rows in it work for everyone).
• Gift videos without the “with Livo” line.

For creating — three things Photos cannot do, nice when making and not needed to name, seal or give:

• Edit Segments: cut a long recording, a transferred videotape or an hour of a party, into pieces, each dated so it lands in the Moment of its own day.
• Stitch videos: several clips joined into one video, in your order, for a Memory or a gift.
• Save Frame as Photo: a still from any moment of a video, saved as a photo of its own.

For the family’s archive (Curator) — for the one person who keeps thirty years of everyone’s photos:

• Scan Prints: the shoebox in, with the camera, a stack of prints at a time, named as you go.
• OneDrive: photos from OneDrive folders brought in; backups and a copy of every capsule kept in your own OneDrive; capsules sent as links.
• Family Share and the Family Library: what each person shares from their own OneDrive, read-only to the others, with a catalog so the family’s phones find photos by name.
• Buckets: a shelf for photos you want out of sight but not gone. The thirty near-identical shots of a burst, the photos from a past relationship you are not ready to see every day but would not delete forever, the paperwork photographed for a form. They leave the Gallery and search, and come back with a tap.
• The full selection bar, with every action one tap away.
• Reference and Saved-image Kinds, thumbs-down and Hide Thumbs Down, Picks and To Review: the triage tools for a very large library.
• Media Sources, Where my photos are, Send to Photos, and Check a backup drive, which proves a mirror of your photos on an external drive is complete.

The rules, either way

• Nothing already made is ever locked. Without Plus, everything you have made stays yours to see, edit and export, and what the Curator tools made (Buckets, OneDrive copies) stays readable with Curator off.
• Tools, never a clock or a count. No trial that expires, no limit that fills up. Plus unlocks tools, once.
• One product. Livo Plus is the only purchase. Curator is the name of its archive tools, and the switch for them is in Settings.
• Restore Purchases is under Settings › About, for a new phone or a family member’s.

Why it is drawn this way

Everything that makes a gift worth sending, and everything needed to open one, is free, because a gift that arrives is how Livo reaches the next family. Naming is always free, because names and stories are the point. The finished forms of a gift, the two extras for creating, and the tools of the person who keeps thirty years of everyone’s photos are where a one-time purchase is fair.