Closed beta · in active development

Your photos and videos, in full quality.

Crate keeps your library exactly as you shot it — HEIC, RAW, Live Photos, 4K HDR video — organized, searchable, and easy to share, on storage in Germany.

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Invitations only during the beta. Features and prices may still change.

Everything your photo library needs

Built for people who shoot a lot and want to keep all of it.

  • Made for iPhone and camera files

    HEIC, ProRAW and RAW, Live Photos, 4K HDR and Dolby Vision video. Originals stay exactly as they are; Crate makes the previews.

  • Uploads that don't give up

    Drop whole folders. Uploads resume after a lost connection, skip what's already there, and can be limited so the rest of your home stays online.

  • Find anything

    Albums, people, animals, and tags; search by date, place, camera, or file name. Your library loads fast even with tens of thousands of items.

  • Edit without losing the original

    Crop and adjust photos; trim, split, crop, speed up, or mute videos. Keep the original next to the edit, or replace it — your choice.

  • Share on your terms

    Links to albums or people with a password and an expiry date, downloads with or without location, and Save to Photos on iPhone. Anyone in a shared photo can ask for it to be taken down.

  • Your files, in Germany

    Originals are kept on Hetzner storage in Germany. Export everything as a ZIP at any time, and restore it here or on your own server.

  • Know what's backed up

    See which photos are also in your iCloud Photos library — and which exist only in Crate.

  • Private by design

    No ads, no tracking, no AI training on your photos. Shared links can be revoked at any moment.

Simple pricing by storage

Planned prices, incl. 19 % VAT. Nothing is charged during the closed beta.

  • Starter

    500 GB

    €7.49 / month

    €89.90 billed yearly

    • 500 GB of originals
    • Previews and web copies included
    • Unlimited shared links
    • Full backups to download

  • Standard

    Popular

    1 TB

    €14.16 / month

    €169.90 billed yearly

    • 1 TB of originals
    • Previews and web copies included
    • Unlimited shared links
    • Full backups to download

  • Plus

    2 TB

    €28.33 / month

    €339.90 billed yearly

    • 2 TB of originals
    • Previews and web copies included
    • Unlimited shared links
    • Full backups to download

  • Pro

    5 TB

    €69.16 / month

    €829.90 billed yearly

    • 5 TB of originals
    • Previews and web copies included
    • Unlimited shared links
    • Full backups to download
How the prices are calculated

Your originals are stored on Hetzner Object Storage in Nuremberg, which costs €0.01 per terabyte-hour (€7.59 per TB and month, incl. VAT).

On top of that come previews and web copies (about 18 % of the originals), traffic for viewing and downloading, and the server that processes your uploads: about €10.58 per TB and month in all. The yearly price adds 30 % to keep Crate running and growing. A year costs as much as 10 months paid monthly: two months free.