About Lysbilde
Lysbilde is where the people from a trip or a hike gather their photos. Make an album, invite the others, and everyone adds what they took. The album lasts 30 days: long enough for everyone to add and download what they want, short enough that the photos don't linger.
Albums for the trip
Your albums are on the front page. Create one for each trip, give it a name and a few words about where you went and who came along. You become its owner.
Invite the others from the People page with their username or email address. People with an account accept in the app; anyone else becomes a guest, who gets a personal link by email. Everyone in the album can look, comment and like; with Contribute they also upload and download. Give Manage to someone who should invite and handle people, and Tidy up to someone who may remove other people's photos and comments. An album has one owner, who can hand it over.
Adding photos
Tap Add photos, or drop photos anywhere on the album page from a computer. JPEG, PNG, WebP and HEIC from iPhone work, several at once. The app makes smaller copies for viewing and keeps the original for downloads.
Open a photo to see it large. Swipe or use the arrow keys to move on; at the end you go back to the start.
Captions, comments and likes
Each photo can have a caption, comments and likes. Everyone in the album sees who added what. The bell at the top tells you about invitations, warnings and replies.
30 days, then the album falls like leaves
An album is deleted 30 days after it was created. Everyone in it is warned 7, 3 and 1 days before. From day 20 the owner can ask an admin for more time.
When the time is up, the album is hidden for the members. For 14 more days the owner still sees it and can ask an admin to bring it back; after that, it and all its photos are gone for good.
Keep the photos
Download one photo with the download button when it is open in full screen, or the whole album as a zip file from the album's menu. You get a notification when the zip is ready. Location (GPS) is taken out of downloads unless the album is set to keep it.
When something is wrong
Report a photo, caption or comment that should not be there, for example a photo of you that you don't want shared. It is hidden for everyone until an admin has looked at it, and the person who added it is not told who reported it.
Your account and your data
Accounts are made by an admin. You get an email with a link to choose your own password; if you forget it, "Forgot your password?" on the sign-in page sends a new link. On your profile you change your name and password, choose theme and language, download everything the app holds about you, or delete your account.
Guests have no password: they get their personal link by email, and a code to their address each time they sign in on a device. Lysbilde emails only links and codes like these, never newsletters, and has no ads or tracking. The privacy notice says what is stored and for how long.