Say Hi to Groupsy 👋 A Private Space for Sharing the Moments that Matter to Your Groups

Every group you're in has a photo problem, but you probably don't even realize it.

Picture this: the memories from your latest vacation with friends are scattered across four camera rolls. Your cousin took the group family photo where your grandmother's eyes are open, but nobody remembers whose phone it was taken on. (Hmm, was it Jimothy’s?) A few team parents posted winning goal photos and videos, but you’re not sure which parents. Your workout instructor took a cute class photo, but forgot to send it to you afterwards. When you finally get a chance to look at the group chat photos, they’re squished into blurry little thumbnails so you’re not even sure who you’re looking at and why everyone thought it was so funny.

You deserve better, so we built something that fixes all of that. Today we're introducing Groupsy by Photobucket — built for private group photo sharing.

What Groupsy does

Groupsy gives every group in your life its own private space for sharing and enjoying photos and videos. It’s not a public feed where you’ll feel pressure to post only the perfect photos, a group chat that buries everything and goes off in 17 different directions, or a storage folder you'll forget about days after you’ve dumped photos in.

Groupsy is a shared place where the people who were there share moments with the people who want to see what happened. Members in Groups can add their own photos and videos, react to each other's, and find and relive great memories day after day, year after year.

Who is Groupsy for

It’s for your family, your friends, your team, your crew. You know, the people who matter most to you. The ones who get you, the real you. The people you want to stay close with over shared memories and real connections, no matter the distance between you. These groups already exist. Groupsy just gives them somewhere better to share in, together.

Why we built Groupsy

Since 2003, more than 70 million people have trusted Photobucket to keep their memories safe, uncompressed, and private. We've protected over 14 billion photos and videos, and we've done it while maintaining a carbon-neutral footprint.

But storing memories and sharing them are two different things.

Photobucket already made storing and saving your photos easy. Groupsy is our answer to making sharing them enjoyable, easy, and fun — built on the same infrastructure, by the same people, with the same privacy promise about who your photos belong to. You.

What you can do on day one

1. Sign up in seconds. Create an account and access Groupsy on mobile (iOS or Android), tablet, or desktop. It’s free to join and you don’t have to keep track of a trial period that you’ll get kicked out after. Plus, everything stays in sync across devices.
2. Create a private Group for any circle or occasion. Your immediate family, a wedding weekend, your child’s current seasonal soccer league, your besties from college scattered across the country, your monthly volunteer group, an upcoming birthday dinner — you pick who you want in your Groups!
3. Invite anyone in seconds. You can invite whomever you want to join your Groups. It’s free to start for them too and takes only seconds to join. Just send one link or QR code, sent however you normally text, email, or share QR codes.
4. Get everyone's photos, not just yours. Every member can upload photos and videos to their Group. This makes it so easy to collect the shots from everyone - no excuses, ok? Albums and Sub-Albums keep it all organized by event, trip, season, location, or however your Group wants to curate their shared Albums.
5. Connect conversations to their moments. Leave comments and emoji reactions under photos and videos, keeping the commentary connected to each moment. This keeps the group chat energy going even after events end and everyone goes home, but without the chaos of disconnected threads and replies. Thank you, next.
6. Keep every pixel just as it was captured. Zero compression, always. What you upload is how it stays. Never worry about pixelation, blurry images, upload or download compression, or any quiet downgrades. You won’t get just "good enough" here –– we guarantee it! (Fun tip: You can also use the in-app camera to directly take photos and videos that will immediately upload to your Group.)
7. Bring your WhatsApp groups along. Link existing WhatsApp groupchats to get photos and videos shared there automatically synced straight into your Groupsy Group. No re-downloading or re-uploading required. No more compression or blurry photos!
8. Stay in the loop with your Groups. Your activity feed and notifications show what's new across all your Groups, so you can get a quick update on what’s been going on since the last time you checked in.
9. Organize personal photos and memories too. You’ll also have a personal Library that only you can access. Save photos and videos, plus build Albums, in your own space that’s just for your eyes only. Sharing anything in your personal Library to your shared Groups is easy, but only when and what you want.

Introducing Groupsy by Photobucket: private spaces for the people who matter most and the real moments you share. No algorithms, no strangers, and no outside noise. It’s just for your people, sharing your moments, in your private space.

Groupsy FAQs

What happened to Photobucket? Don’t worry, Photobucket is still here. Groupsy is simply our new group-sharing experience, built on Photobucket's infrastructure and backed by the same team that's been safeguarding photos since 2003. If you're an existing Photobucket member, you won’t need a new account or password. Just use your Photobucket login the same way you always did to get access to Groupsy.

Is Groupsy free? You can start a new account with a free plan! You’ll be able to join and participate in unlimited Groups, get your own personal Library, create 3 shared Groups, and build Albums in your personal Library as well as your shared Groups. Invite an unlimited number of people who can join your Groups, also for free. When you’re ready to get more for your Groups, the Plus plan gives you more features and additional storage when you're ready to upgrade.

Does everyone need a paid plan? Nope! Anyone you invite can join and participate in a Group using only a free account. Start for free without worrying about keeping track of a free trial period. And if you want, upgrading to the Plus plan is available to all users –– new ones and people who already have been enjoying Groupsy for free.

What is a Group? Groups are your private, invite-only spaces for the people who matter most to you. Albums can be created inside Groups, so you can organize photos and videos with the people who shared those moments with you. (For more detailed organization, you can also create Sub-Albums within Albums. Each account also comes with a personal Library, where you can upload your own photos and videos, and create Albums, just for your eyes only.)

Will Groupsy compress my photos and videos? We will not. We promise to keep your photos and videos safe without any loss of quality. What you upload and what you download never changes, so every upload keeps its original quality. This means your photos and videos won’t get blurry, compressed, or pixelated.

Need help? Reach out to our support team!

Try Groupsy today!

We've spent over two decades keeping people's memories safe. Groupsy is what happens when we build for the fun part that keeps you connected to the people that matter most to you — the sharing, the reacting, the remembering out loud, and all the laughs in between.

Your groups already exist. Groupsy gives them a new home.

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