--- title: "Finally know who's who in Grandma's album" description: "Glow suggests names for the faces in your photos and gets better with every one you confirm. It never names anyone on a guess." author: "The Glow Editors" category: "Ask Them Now" date: 2026-09-23T17:57:29.886Z canonical: "https://tryglow.ai/features/who-is-who-for-the-family-memory-keeper" --- # Finally know who's who in Grandma's album > Glow suggests names for the faces in your photos and gets better with every one you confirm. It never names anyone on a guess. ## What you get - A single family space where photos, recordings, and stories from every branch of the family live together - not scattered across three people's phones and a Google Drive folder nobody updates. - Face detection that suggests names and gets sharper with every confirmation. Sit with your father and let him just say it: "left is Grandma, right is John" - voice naming does the rest. The AI never names anyone on a guess; there is a second check before anyone is named automatically. - A "who's in this?" naming game that turns identifying old photos into something grandparents actually enjoy doing. You bring the album; the game asks the questions. - Guest links that let a relative add a story to a single photo - no account, no app to install. The cousin who has the shoeboxes but no patience for new tools can still contribute. - Scan prints with your phone or add photos from your camera roll. The shoebox from the 1970s doesn't need a scanner; it needs the camera you already have. - Everything stays private to the family you invite. You control who is in the space; nothing is public. ## How it works Create a family space and give it a name - your grandmother's name, your family name, whatever makes it feel like home. Invite family members by email. They can add photos, recordings, and stories directly, and relatives who resist new tools can add a story to one photo through a guest link. Upload what you already have: phone photos, scanned prints, a voice note of Dad describing every tool on his workbench, recorded right on the photo. If you have a shoebox of old prints, [scanning old family photos is faster than it sounds](/blog/how-to-scan-old-family-photos) - a phone is all you need to get started. Sit with the people who know the names and use voice naming or the "who's in this?" game to put faces to names before that knowledge is gone. Now the whole family's pieces live in one place, and you are not the only one keeping it alive. ## The parts that matter ### Face detection and naming Glow suggests names as you add photos and gets more accurate as you confirm them. Names come from the family, or from two independent checks that agree - the AI never names anyone on its own guess. You have probably looked at a photo of four people on a porch and known you will never know who two of them are. This is how you stop that from happening to the next generation. ### The "who's in this?" game Naming old photos is usually a chore. The game turns it into a question-and-answer session that grandparents can do at the kitchen table, without needing to understand how the technology works. The "who's in this?" game and voice naming mean they just look and say the name. ### Guest links A guest link lets someone add a story to a specific photo without joining the family space. Your Aunt Carol in Arizona, who remembers the summer that photo was taken, can contribute without creating an account. You get her addition; she doesn't have to learn anything new. ### A shared family archive Every photo, recording, and story added by any family member goes into one place. You are not rebuilding the archive every time someone new gets involved. The family history grows on its own, because more than one person is adding to it. ## Start building your family archive You already know which photos need names and whose voice you want on record. A good place to start is sitting down with a parent and working through [the questions worth asking while you still can](/blog/questions-to-ask-your-parents) - the stories that seem obvious to them are the ones most likely to disappear. The work is smaller than it looks when you start with what you have - one shoebox, one Sunday afternoon, one relative who still remembers. **Join the founding families** ## FAQ ### How is Glow different from Google Drive, Shutterfly, or StoryWorth? A Google Drive folder is good for storage, but it doesn't know who is in the photos, and it doesn't have a way to get your aunt to add her version of the story. Shutterfly keeps images; it doesn't connect the people who hold the context. StoryWorth sends prompts to one person at a time. Glow is built around the whole family contributing - naming faces, adding recordings, attaching stories to specific photos - so the archive grows even when you are not the one doing all the work. ### How do I actually get started if I don't know where to begin? Create a family space, give it a name, and invite one or two relatives by email. Then upload whatever you already have - even a single photo. The first contribution is the hardest; everything after that is just adding to what's there. You do not have to plan the whole project before you start. ### What if the photos are blurry or the recordings are scratchy? A blurry photo is still a memory. A scratchy recording of Grandma's voice is irreplaceable in a way a clear recording of nobody in particular is not. Glow keeps them as they are. The quality of what you have is not a reason to wait. ### What if the relatives I need to help are not comfortable with technology? The "who's in this?" game and voice naming are designed for exactly this. A relative just looks at a photo and says a name - that is the whole interaction. Guest links mean they don't need an account to contribute. If they can look at a photo and say who is in it, they can participate. ### Who can see the photos and stories in a family space? Only the people you invite. Nothing in your family space is public. You control who is in the space; guests who use a guest link can only see and add to the specific photo they were sent a link for. --- Source: https://tryglow.ai/features/who-is-who-for-the-family-memory-keeper