How-to guides

What to save, and how to save it.

Children make more than single drawings. A recipe has ingredients and steps. A holiday card has a front and an inside. A comic tells a story across pages. Every creation can carry the child's own voice. Use voice notes, multi-part capture, and family spaces to keep every part together and build a family archive that grows over time.

How to store children's artwork

Store children’s artwork with a paper portfolio, a keepsake box, and digital copies. A practical family guide to saving drawings and finding them again.

Merge duplicate creations

Saved the same creation twice? Choose the one to keep in the gallery, then bring the duplicate together with it.

Add parts to a saved creation

A story can get another page, a card can have an inside, and a project can grow. Keep the new parts together with the creation you already saved.

Sign-in security guide

You can choose to add a passkey or turn on an authenticator app in Settings, under Sign-in security. Viewers have the same controls on their Account page. Once you add a passkey, new sign-ins require a passkey instead of your password.

Offline mode and child profiles

A grown-up chooses no downloads, a number of newest creations, or all creations that fit on the device. Children can keep creating offline. New work sends after a grown-up ends offline mode and a connection is available.

Frame your creation

Open a creation in Gallery. Open the three dots beside Share, then choose Add a frame or Change the frame. Search and choose a frame in the live preview.

Make your own frame

Make a reusable frame for your family’s creations. Give it a transparent middle, then arrange the creation and frame together in the preview.

Remove a child or delete their creations

Removing a child profile can be undone. Permanent deletion can't. See how each one works, including how to delete only one child's creations and keep their profile.

Search your creations by voice

Twenty years from now, ask for “all the birthday cards my children made me” and see every one. Search by child, space, date, age, or words, spoken or typed.

Find anything, years later

Print creations at home

Print one creation or make a collage. Edit the print preview, then print directly or share a PDF for free.

Free home printing

Back up years of piled-up artwork

Drawers full of old drawings? Add up to 30 independent creations in one batch, then organize each one in the family archive.

Many at once

Download your family data

Get one file with every creation, picture, and voice note, ready to keep on your own device. Make one before closing an account.

Your copy to keep

Share a creation privately

Send a creation to an approved person such as Grandma, right when you save it or later. Choose who, stop any time, and keep the rest private.

Private sharing

Add an optional child portrait

A small picture of your child that shows beside their creations. Take one or choose one, crop it on your device, and remove it any time.

Family portraits

If the original is lost or damaged

The paper is gone, but the story isn't. The image and voice note stay safe, and a free home reprint brings the moment back to the wall.

Reprints and recovery

Use multi-part capture

Most creations have more than one side, page, or step. Save them all together as one creation, with voice notes for the whole thing and for each part. The starting point for recipe books, holiday cards, comic books, and science projects.

Multi-part capture

Record a voice note

Ask what they made, then keep the answer with the creation. Their recording stays just as they said it. If you turn on voice-note transcription, Little Binder can also write out their words.

Voice notes

How to photograph children's artwork

It mostly comes down to good light and holding still. Four habits that help the creation in the gallery look like the one on the fridge.

Photo tips

Organize with family spaces

Cards, recipes, schoolwork, stories, and building projects can each have a family space. A child can name a space during capture and use it right away. A grown-up can rename or remove it later.

Spaces

Make a recipe book

Capture the cover, ingredients, each cooking step, and the finished dish. Keep it all in one multi-part creation with voice notes for the tricky parts.

Multi-part capture

Make holiday cards

Save the front, inside message, decorations, and the child reading the card out loud. Every birthday card, Christmas card, and Mother's Day card stays together.

Multi-part capture

Save a comic book

Each panel or page becomes a part in order, with the child narrating the story. The cover stays first, and the comic reads like a picture book in the gallery.

Multi-part capture

Document a science project

Capture the hypothesis, setup, observations, and results at each stage, then let the child explain what they were testing. Perfect for school projects and curiosity experiments.

Multi-part capture

Organize children's artwork

Save individual drawings and paintings as single creations, then group them in a space like "Masterpieces" or "Art Class" to build a growing portfolio over the year.

Spaces & single capture

Save a building project

For a block tower, a Lego castle, or a cardboard fort, capture the plan, the building process, and the finished creation before it comes apart. Add a voice note describing what it is.

Multi-part capture

Free activities to make and keep

A small collection for parents, grandparents and teachers. Choose something to make together, print what you need, and keep the story behind it.

Free activities