# Retro — Photos with Friends

> Memories, Albums & Recaps

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6443709020](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6443709020)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6443709020`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Lone Palm Labs, Inc.
- **Category:** Photo & Video
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (14,988 ratings)
- **Version:** 121.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-04
- **First published:** 2023-07-13
- **Size:** 140 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/retro-photos-with-friends/id6443709020)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://retro.app/privacy](http://retro.app/privacy)

## Description

**Retro — Photos with Friends** is a private social photo app designed to help you share meaningful moments with the people you care about. Create a weekly photo journal using photos and videos from your camera roll, with no public likes, pressure, or captions required.

Build private group albums for parties, trips, family memories, and projects, or connect through private group messaging. Create beautiful weekly, monthly, or yearly photo recaps as collages and video slideshows, then share them via text or Instagram. Retro also lets you turn favorite photos into high-quality postcards and mail them through USPS. Home screen widgets make it easy to see friends’ latest posts or revisit personal memories.

## Rankings

- #13,805 — Overall
- #58 — friend

## Review summary

Retro is praised as a privacy-first, ad-free, memory-focused app for sharing with close friends and family. It’s nostalgic and a refreshing alternative to algorithm-driven feeds, helping users mindfully catalog weekly memories. However, onboarding gate, account-recovery issues, paywalls for video features, a confusing weekly framing UX, and import limitations hinder the experience.

### Pros

- Privacy-focused, ad-free experience with a close-friend oriented vibe.
- Memory-centric, week-by-week organization that helps catalog memories over time.
- Family-friendly with shared albums for easy family sharing.
- Polished interface and a refreshing alternative to algorithm-driven feeds.
- Strong memory app that users use daily and see as a replacement for similar apps.

### Cons

- Onboarding forces inviting four people to enter the app.
- Account access issues when changing phone numbers, with weak support and risk of losing content.
- Video uploads/downloads are locked behind a premium paywall.
- Confusing weekly framing UX that makes it hard to find old weeks.
- Import limitations prevent full camera-roll usage and accurate dating of memories from other apps (e.g., Snapchat).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6443709020)