Retro Downloads & RevenueRetro — Photos with Friends · App Store & Google Play
Retro — Photos with Friends gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Retro — Photos with Friends by Lone Palm Labs, Inc. is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Retro — Photos with Friends update history & changes
Last change · 73 events since 13 Jul 2023Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 73 events
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP, TW
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP, TW
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP, TW
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · All Apps · DE
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends new best rank in the overall chart: #96AndroidTop Free · All Apps · DE
- 🚀Retro — Photos with Friends: now shown next to Lemonade - Family Photos, Lumime - Polaroid DiaryiOSthe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · DE, JP
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends hit #1 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · Photography · DE · Top Free · Photography · IT
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends new best rank in the overall chart: #158AndroidTop Free · All Apps · DE
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends updated to version 127.0iOSThis update includes bug fixes and other improvements.
We love hearing from you - leave us a quick review on the App Store, follow us at @retrodotapp, or say hi at [email protected]. - 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 10iOSTop Free · All Apps · DE
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 10 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · Photography · DE · Top Free · Photography · FR
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 10iOSTop Free · Photo & Video · DE
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Photography · SE
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends charting in a new countryAndroidSweden
- ✏️Retro — Photos with Friends added hidden keywords: diaryiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Retro — Photos with Friends: new screenshotsiOS6 screenshots (was 6) · PL
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Photography · ES
- ✏️Retro — Photos with Friends: new screenshotsiOS6 screenshots (was 6) · 10 countries
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 100 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · Photography · GB · Top Free · Photography · US
- ✏️Retro — Photos with Friends: new screenshotsiOS6 screenshots (was 6) · 4 countries
- ✏️Retro — Photos with Friends: new screenshotsiOS6 screenshots (was 6) · TW
- ✏️Retro — Photos with Friends: new screenshotsiOS6 screenshots (was 6) · KR
- ✏️Retro — Photos with Friends: new screenshotsiOS6 screenshots (was 6) · JP
- ✏️Retro — Photos with Friends: new screenshotsiOS6 screenshots (was 6) · IT
- ✏️Retro — Photos with Friends: new screenshotsiOS6 screenshots (was 6) · FR
- ✏️Retro — Photos with Friends: new screenshotsiOS6 screenshots (was 6) · DE
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends updated to version 126.0iOSThis update includes bug fixes and other improvements.
We love hearing from you - leave us a quick review on the App Store, follow us at @retrodotapp, or say hi at [email protected]. - 🆕Retro — Photos with Friends: its developer released another app: Recaps Pro: Photo Layout MakeriOS
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends updated to version 2026.10.1161AndroidNo release notes
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends updated to version 2026.10.1154AndroidNo release notes
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends updated to version 125.0iOSEsta actualización incluye correcciones de errores y otras mejoras.
Nos encanta saber de ti: déjanos una reseña en la App Store, síguenos en @retrodotapp o salúdanos en [email protected]. - 📦Retro — Photos with Friends: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Photography · NL
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends updated to version 2026.10.1150AndroidNo release notes
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Photography · KR
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Photography · TW
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 100 in 4 chartsAndroidTop Free · Photography · ES · Top Free · Photography · MX · Top Free · Photography · NL · Top Grossing · Photography · TW
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends charting in a new country in 4 chartsAndroidSpain · Mexico · Netherlands · Taiwan
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends updated to version 124.0iOSThis update includes bug fixes and other improvements.
We love hearing from you - leave us a quick review on the App Store, follow us at @retrodotapp, or say hi at [email protected]. - 📦Retro — Photos with Friends: now updating weeklyAndroid4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends updated to version 2026.10.1146AndroidNo release notes
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Photography · IN
- ✏️Retro — Photos with Friends added hidden keywords: retteniOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends charting in a new countryAndroidIndia
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends updated to version 2026.10.1142AndroidNo release notes
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends updated to version 2026.10.1140AndroidNo release notes
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 10 in 2 chartsiOSTop Free · Photo & Video · IT · Top Free · Photo & Video · NL
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Photography · KR
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends hit #1iOSTop Free · Photo & Video · TW
- 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 10iOSTop Free · Photo & Video · KR
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends updated to version 123.0iOSThis update includes bug fixes and other improvements.
We love hearing from you - leave us a quick review on the App Store, follow us at @retrodotapp, or say hi at [email protected]. - 📈Retro — Photos with Friends entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Photography · AU
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by Apple: “APPS QUE AMAMOS”iOStoday · BR, JP
- 🆕Retro — Photos with Friends first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidUnited Kingdom
- 🆕Retro — Photos with Friends first spotted by AppInsideriOS#14 in Top Free · Photo & Video · Italy
- 🌟Retro — Photos with Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · JP
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends version 122.0iOSNo release notes
- 📦Retro — Photos with Friends version 2026.09.1126AndroidNo release notes
- 🆕Retro — Photos with Friends released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Retro — Photos with Friends released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Photography FreeRetro — Photos with Friends at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Retro is a low-pressure social photo journaling app designed for close friends and family to share curated memories without the anxiety of public metrics. The app demonstrates strong organic traction in the Photo & Video category, holding top-20 free chart positions in Taiwan, Mexico, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands while maintaining a high user rating of 4.78 across nearly 19,000 reviews.
Similar apps: BeReal, Path, Daylio
App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Retro — Photos with Friends’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 7 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v2026.08.1092, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Retro — Photos with Friends downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 10k+ | 5M+ |
| Google Play | 5k+ | 1M+ Measured |
| Total | 10k+ Confidence | 5M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where Retro — Photos with Friends's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Subscription-led
How Retro — Photos with Friends makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Weekly Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 2 | Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 3 | Monthly Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 4 | Annual Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 5 | Monthly Retro Premium subscription | |
| 6 | Annual Retro Premium subscription |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #6 Photo & Video Free | 17 of 30 countries | #82 | – |
| Google Play | #3 Photography Free | 14 of 23 countries | #105 | – |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in 
Germany ▲ +158% · 
United States ▲ +50% · 
Mexico ▲ +48%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 505 | 21% | ▲ +50% |
| Taiwan | 400 | 17% | ▲ +11% |
| Germany | 356 | 15% | ▲ +158% |
 Japan | 227 | 9% | ▲ +13% |
 France | 198 | 8% | ▲ +27% |
 Spain | 188 | 8% | steady |
| Mexico | 137 | 6% | ▲ +48% |
 Italy | 116 | 5% | ▼ -6% |
 Netherlands | 115 | 5% | steady |
 Canada | 76 | 3% | ▲ +37% |
 South Korea | 53 | 2% | ▼ -47% |
 United Kingdom | 42 | 2% | ▲ +21% |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 18k |
| Google Play | 4.5 ★ | 24k 97 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.6 ★ weighted by ratings | 42k |
What users say about Retro — Photos with Friends
From the 76 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the app's focus on private, wholesome social interaction and automatic memory recaps without algorithmic noise. However, complaints center on aggressive onboarding requirements to add friends, bugs preventing photo uploads, and frustration over premium restrictions for video features.
Mostly positive (88% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and its features and content. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Fun: “Social media as it should be and truly so much fun”
- Features & content: “Face recognition search feature suggestion”
- Ease of use: “Retro Makes it so easy to connect with my friends”
- Ads: “Love that I can share photos with only the people I want, no ads, no feed of things trying to get me to buy…just seeing my friends and their lives!!”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “At best this app has become an expensive vsco”
About Retro — Photos with Friends
It's the app that we wanted for our own family and friends, and for you, it should feel like a breath of fresh air.
Retro is a weekly photo journal that (1) brings you closer to the people you actually care about and (2) helps you appreciate your own life - all without the distractions and pressure of big social media.
So dust off those photos that are just sitting in your camera roll and spread some joy in the world.
Say hi to us at [email protected]
And if you’re still reading, here are some reasons to try Retro:
- EASY TO START: Start by choosing photos you’ve already taken and backfill the weeks on your profile with the photos and videos you want to remember.
- NO PRESSURE: Everything was designed with your comfort in mind. Your friend list is private. Likes on your posts are private. No captions required. Update any part of your profile anytime.
- PRINT & SHIP POSTCARDS: Spread some joy through snail mail by printing your photo as a high quality postcard and sending it to anyone in the world via USPS first class.
- MONTHLY RECAPS: Create a beautiful photo collage or video slideshow from the photos you’ve shared from the week, month, or year. Then share via text or Instagram in a tap.
- GROUP ALBUMS: Start a private album and drop the link in your group chat to collect and share photos after events. Perfect for parties, projects, friends, parents, and couples.
- GROUP MESSAGING: Retro is now an all-in-one home for groups large and small, with the ability to share photos, videos, and notes privately in Albums and start group chats in Messages.
- HOME SCREEN WIDGETS: See the newest posts from friends or time hop back to your own memories with our new widgets.
We've poured our hearts into this, and we hope you love it.
Terms of use: https://retro.app/terms
Retro — Photos with Friends App Store
Retro — Photos with Friends gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Retro — Photos with Friends is #12 in Photo & Video Free in Japan and charting in 17 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026 Photo & Video FreeRetro — Photos with Friends at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Retro is a low-pressure social photo journaling app designed for close friends and family to share curated memories without the anxiety of public metrics. The app demonstrates strong organic traction in the Photo & Video category, holding top-20 free chart positions in Taiwan, Mexico, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands while maintaining a high user rating of 4.78 across nearly 19,000 reviews.
Similar apps: BeReal, Path, Daylio
Retro — Photos with Friends on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Retro — Photos with Friends’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 7 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Retro — Photos with Friends downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Retro — Photos with Friends's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Retro — Photos with Friends before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How Retro — Photos with Friends makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Weekly Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 2 | Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 3 | Monthly Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 4 | Annual Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 5 | Monthly Retro Premium subscription | |
| 6 | Annual Retro Premium subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | Photo & VideoFree | #12 |
| Taiwan | Photo & VideoFree | #6 |
| Germany | Photo & VideoFree | #20 |
| South Korea | Photo & VideoFree | #18 |
| Spain | Photo & VideoFree | #8 |
| United States | Photo & VideoFree | #82 |
| France | Photo & VideoFree | #56 |
| Netherlands | Photo & VideoFree | #17 |
| Mexico | Photo & VideoFree | #30 |
| Italy | Photo & VideoFree | #37 |
| Canada | Photo & VideoFree | #49 |
| Taiwan | Photo & VideoGrossing | #33 |
 Australia | Photo & VideoFree | #59 |
| Taiwan | All AppsFree | #112 |
 India | Photo & VideoFree | #135 |
 United Arab Emirates | Photo & VideoFree | #70 |
 Argentina | Photo & VideoFree | #56 |
 South Africa | Photo & VideoFree | #46 |
 Colombia | Photo & VideoFree | #83 |
Apps near Retro — Photos with Friends on the chart
Photo & Video Free, around #12.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in Germany ▲ +158% · United States ▲ +50% · Mexico ▲ +48%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 505 | 21% | ▲ +50% |
| Taiwan | 400 | 17% | ▲ +11% |
| Germany | 356 | 15% | ▲ +158% |
| Japan | 227 | 9% | ▲ +13% |
| France | 198 | 8% | ▲ +27% |
| Spain | 188 | 8% | steady |
| Mexico | 137 | 6% | ▲ +48% |
| Italy | 116 | 5% | ▼ -6% |
| Netherlands | 115 | 5% | steady |
| Canada | 76 | 3% | ▲ +37% |
| South Korea | 53 | 2% | ▼ -47% |
| United Kingdom | 42 | 2% | ▲ +21% |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Retro — Photos with Friends
From the 76 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the app's focus on private, wholesome social interaction and automatic memory recaps without algorithmic noise. However, complaints center on aggressive onboarding requirements to add friends, bugs preventing photo uploads, and frustration over premium restrictions for video features.
Mostly positive (88% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and its features and content. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Fun: “Social media as it should be and truly so much fun”
- Features & content: “Face recognition search feature suggestion”
- Ease of use: “Retro Makes it so easy to connect with my friends”
- Ads: “Love that I can share photos with only the people I want, no ads, no feed of things trying to get me to buy…just seeing my friends and their lives!!”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “At best this app has become an expensive vsco”
About Retro — Photos with Friends
It's the app that we wanted for our own family and friends, and for you, it should feel like a breath of fresh air.
Retro is a weekly photo journal that (1) brings you closer to the people you actually care about and (2) helps you appreciate your own life - all without the distractions and pressure of big social media.
So dust off those photos that are just sitting in your camera roll and spread some joy in the world.
Say hi to us at [email protected]
And if you’re still reading, here are some reasons to try Retro:
- EASY TO START: Start by choosing photos you’ve already taken and backfill the weeks on your profile with the photos and videos you want to remember.
- NO PRESSURE: Everything was designed with your comfort in mind. Your friend list is private. Likes on your posts are private. No captions required. Update any part of your profile anytime.
- PRINT & SHIP POSTCARDS: Spread some joy through snail mail by printing your photo as a high quality postcard and sending it to anyone in the world via USPS first class.
- MONTHLY RECAPS: Create a beautiful photo collage or video slideshow from the photos you’ve shared from the week, month, or year. Then share via text or Instagram in a tap.
- GROUP ALBUMS: Start a private album and drop the link in your group chat to collect and share photos after events. Perfect for parties, projects, friends, parents, and couples.
- GROUP MESSAGING: Retro is now an all-in-one home for groups large and small, with the ability to share photos, videos, and notes privately in Albums and start group chats in Messages.
- HOME SCREEN WIDGETS: See the newest posts from friends or time hop back to your own memories with our new widgets.
We've poured our hearts into this, and we hope you love it.
Terms of use: https://retro.app/terms
Latest updates
Store changes
What Retro — Photos with Friends changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
More from Lone Palm Labs, Inc.
Retro — Photos with Friends Android
Retro — Photos with Friends gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Retro — Photos with Friends is #3 in Photography Free on Google Play in Taiwan and charting in 14 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Photography FreeRetro — Photos with Friends at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Retro is a weekly photo journaling social app designed for users who want to share memories with close friends and family without the pressure of public metrics or algorithmic feeds. The app has secured strong positions in the Photography Free charts across multiple international markets, notably reaching #2 in Taiwan and top-20 placements in Spain, Mexico, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Similar apps: BeReal, Path, Instagram Close Friends
Retro — Photos with Friends on Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v2026.08.1092, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Retro — Photos with Friends downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Retro — Photos with Friends's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Retro — Photos with Friends before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How Retro — Photos with Friends makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Weekly Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 2 | Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 3 | Monthly Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 4 | Annual Retro Premium (Trial) subscription | |
| 5 | Monthly Retro Premium subscription | |
| 6 | Annual Retro Premium subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | PhotographyFree | #3 |
| Spain | PhotographyFree | #7 |
| Germany | PhotographyFree | #21 |
| Japan | PhotographyFree | #54 |
| South Korea | PhotographyFree | #27 |
| United States | PhotographyFree | #105 |
| Taiwan | PhotographyGrossing | #18 |
| Mexico | PhotographyFree | #18 |
| Italy | PhotographyFree | #27 |
| France | PhotographyFree | #47 |
| United Kingdom | PhotographyFree | #99 |
| Netherlands | PhotographyFree | #21 |
| Canada | PhotographyFree | #63 |
| Australia | PhotographyFree | #86 |
| Taiwan | All AppsFree | #187 |
| United Arab Emirates | PhotographyFree | #178 |
Apps near Retro — Photos with Friends on the chart
Photography Free, around #3.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Retro — Photos with Friends
From the 104 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users generally praise the app's clean interface and ability to store personal memories, though some express frustration over recent updates removing key features. Critical issues include data loss from disappearing accounts and cache problems that hinder messaging functionality.
Mostly positive (86% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its design, and being fun.
What people like
- Design: “The interface and ux is soo clean”
- Fun: “it is a nice app to have fun with friends”
- Price & subscription: “I loved because we don't have to pay !!”
About Retro — Photos with Friends
Retro is a weekly photo journal that (1) brings you closer to the people you actually care about and (2) helps you appreciate your own life - all without hijacking your time and attention.
So dust off those photos that are just sitting in your camera roll and spread some joy in the world.
Say hi to us at [email protected]
And if you’re still reading, here are some reasons to try Retro:
- EASY TO START: Start by choosing photos you’ve already taken and backfill the weeks on your profile with the photos and videos you want to remember.
- NO PRESSURE: Everything was designed with your comfort in mind. Your friend list is private. Likes on your posts are private. No captions required. Update any part of your profile anytime.
- PRINT & SHIP POSTCARDS: Spread some joy through snail mail by printing your photo as a high quality postcard and sending it to anyone in the world via USPS first class.
- MONTHLY RECAPS: Create a beautiful photo collage or video slideshow from the photos you’ve shared from the week, month, or year. Then share via text or Instagram in a tap.
- GROUP ALBUMS: Start a private album and drop the link in your group chat to collect and share photos after events. Perfect for parties, projects, friends, parents, and couples.
- GROUP MESSAGING: Retro is now an all-in-one home for groups large and small, with the ability to share photos, videos, and notes privately in Albums and start group chats in Messages.
This is the app we wanted for our family and friends, and we’re so excited to share it with you. We hope you love it.
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