MemoryPlaces app icon Apple Photos, organized by place

Organize your Apple Photos by place.

Create living albums from trips, home, family, and every place that matters — then keep them updated as new photos arrive.

iOSmacOSComing 2026
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Saved Places
A bright, smiling memory from the Tokyo trip
Refreshed today
Tokyo Trip
312 photos · 5 km radius
Tokyo · 5 km radius
+14 new memories found near Tokyo Tower
A few saved places

Tokyo Trip

312 photos5 km radius

Home

1,147 photosRefreshed today

Kids' School

246 photosSaved place

Lake Weekend

88 photos2 km radius

Downtown Toronto

477 photos+14 new
The missing layer

Apple Photos is great by time. But places are hard to save.

You can browse photos on a map. You can't save the corner of the city, the lake, or the school as an album you can return to. MemoryPlaces adds that layer — without changing anything in your library.

Before

A library that grows by date.

Years of photos, scrolled by month. Places exist only as map pins you have to rediscover every time.

Apple Photos all photos chaotic grid
After

Albums anchored to the places you love.

Pick a photo, draw a radius, save the place. Open it any time — refresh it whenever new memories land there.

A MemoryPlaces Tokyo album with a map radius and photo grid
How it works

One simple workflow for place albums.

Four small steps, then the album is yours — living in Apple Photos, ready to be refreshed whenever life passes through that place again.

01

Pick a photo

Start from any photo in your library. Its location becomes the center of the place.

02

Choose a radius

Tighten to a single block or open up to a whole neighborhood. You're in control.

03

Create the album

An Apple Photos album appears with every photo from the chosen place.

04

Refresh later

Tap refresh to pull in new photos as your library grows. Nothing else changes.

MemoryPlaces showing the Tokyo place creation screen with a radius on the map
312 photos found within 5 km
Album created Apple Photos · Tokyo
Around your library

Built around places, not another photo library.

MemoryPlaces keeps Apple Photos at the center. It helps you save, organize, and refresh the places that matter — without replacing anything you already have.

A quiet layer

A quiet layer over Apple Photos.

It opens, does its one job, and gets out of your way — built to feel native on the devices where your photos already live.

Place albums

Save the locations that matter as albums you can revisit anytime — from a single café to a whole region.

Photos integration

Your library stays in Apple Photos. MemoryPlaces organizes around it — never instead of it.

Private by design

Core location matching is designed to happen locally on device.

iOS and macOS

Made for the Apple devices where your photo library already lives.

Refreshable

Update a saved place when new photos arrive, without rebuilding the album.

Saved place detail: West Queen West
Last added Apr 28 +6 new memories
Saved places

Always one tap away.

Keep the places you care about visible — from home, to trips, to the corners of daily life. Each one carries its photo count and a quiet status: when it was last refreshed, what's new since.

Home
1,147 photos
Tokyo Trip
+14 new
Downtown Toronto
477 photos
Kids' School
246 photos
For the places you return to

For the places you actually search for later.

Not folders. Saved places — each one a living album you can open, refresh, and revisit.

Tokyo skyline at sunset Refreshed today
Tokyo Trip

Shibuya, Tokyo

312 photos · 5 km radius

Refreshed today Scarborough
Home

Scarborough, Ontario

1,147 photos · Refreshed today

Saved place Markham
Kids' School

Markham, Ontario

246 photos · Saved place

A quiet green weekend place 2 km radius
Lake Weekend

Muskoka, Ontario

88 photos · 2 km radius

Downtown tower skyline at sunset +14 new
Downtown Toronto

Queen St W · Toronto

477 photos · +14 new

Refreshed today North York
Grandparents' House

North York, Ontario

503 photos · Refreshed today

Privacy

Your places are personal.

MemoryPlaces is not a social network, cloud gallery, or travel feed. It's a calm organization layer for the library you already own.

  • Photos stay on device. Nothing is uploaded for album creation.
  • No account required for core use. Open the app, pick a place.
  • On-device matching. Location matching is designed to happen locally.
  • Albums live in Apple Photos. If you uninstall, your library is untouched.
MemoryPlaces privacy screen mockup
On-device matching No upload required
Before early access

A few things to know.

Does MemoryPlaces replace Apple Photos?
No. MemoryPlaces is designed to work around Apple Photos. Your albums still live in Apple Photos — we just give you a faster way to make and maintain place-based ones.
Does it upload my photos?
No photo upload is required for core album creation. Location matching is designed to happen locally on device.
Can it organize old photos?
It can organize photos that contain location metadata. Photos without GPS data may require future tools or manual location selection.
Will it work on Mac?
The product is planned for both iOS and macOS — built around the photo library you already use across your devices.
Is it free?
MemoryPlaces will offer early access first. Final pricing and plans will be announced closer to launch.
Early Access · TestFlight

Memories by place is coming to iOS and macOS.

Join the waitlist for TestFlight availability and launch updates. No spam, just a few quiet emails.

iOS 17+macOS 14+TestFlight 2026