Skip to content
  • Essence GU
  • Beautycon
  • NaturallyCurly
  • Afropunk
  • Essence Studios
  • Soko Mrkt
  • Ese Funds
  • Refinery29
  • 2025 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture
  • Celebrity
  • Fashion
  • Beauty
  • Lifestyle
  • Entrepreneurship
  • News
  • Shopping
  • Video
  • Events
  • Subscribe
Home • Tech

The Upgrade: 3 Apps You Need to Preserve All Your Amazing Throwback Photos

Make sure all your favorite memories last a lifetime with these three must-have apps.
The Upgrade: 3 Apps You Need to Preserve All Your Amazing Throwback Photos
Getty Images
By Danielle Pointdujour · Updated December 6, 2020
From family affairs to fireworks in France, there are plenty of reasons to capture life’s moments in photos. But what do you do with all those wonderful memories when the moment is over? Sure you can upload pictures to social media, but at any time those photos can disappear without notice, and uploading them to your computer is a great idea, but that’s boring and can take up way too much space on your hard drive. So what’s a pro-selfie taker to do?
Thankfully there are several easy and fun ways to preserve your favorite throwback photos. Whether you need unlimited storage, creative ways to display your memories or fun ways to share them with friends and family, these three apps are just what you need to make sure your priceless moments last a lifetime.
01
Google Photos
Like most people, chances are some part of your life is attached to Google – emails, calendars, and even your home. So it makes sense that when it comes to preserving your memories, Google be a part of that too. With Google Photos you can access and back up your photos from anywhere, as well as edit, share with friends and family and even search easily by person or location. Google Photos even automatically creates albums for you and super cute movies and gifs from your photos. A bonus? The storage is unlimited – Google Photos for the win.
The Upgrade: 3 Apps You Need to Preserve All Your Amazing Throwback Photos
Photo Credit: Google Photos
02
Social Print Studio
So you’ve taken all these amazing photos – now what? What’s the point of taking photos if there’s no way to enjoy them over and over again? Social Print Studio allows you to collect all the photos you’ve taken, plus the ones you’ve posted to Instagram and Facebook, and print them out in cute and fun ways so you can enjoy them long after the moment is over. From photo strips to jumbo prints, posters, stickers, buttons and more, there’s no shortage of ways to showcase your memories.
The Upgrade: 3 Apps You Need to Preserve All Your Amazing Throwback Photos
Photo Credit: Social Print Studio
03
Shutterfly
Shutterfly is best known for the gorgeous photobooks you can create with your photo memories, but these days they are so much more. You can put your best photos on pretty much anything from dog dishes and pillows to keychains and mugs. You can also print photos and create beautiful canvas prints for your home, and just like Google Photos, the storage is unlimited and free.
The Upgrade: 3 Apps You Need to Preserve All Your Amazing Throwback Photos
Photo Credit: Shutterfly
TOPICS:  Apps Tech travel