Your children's childhood was captured on whoever's phone happened to be nearest, filed in whoever's iCloud was active, and scattered across both households. Post-separation, the risk is simple: one parent's account becomes the whole archive, and the other side disappears. BrainCopy gives each parent an independent, portable archive — same childhood, two legitimate copies.
Post-split, the photos of your children's early years are on a shared iCloud you no longer control, or a Google account nobody wants to fight about, or a Dropbox that one of you forgot the password to. Half of your children's childhood is in custody of the other parent — and neither of you has a plan.
The child themselves, years later, wants to look at photos from their 5th birthday. The photos exist — probably — but in an account no one actively uses, that may or may not auto-delete when the subscription lapses. The digital archive of their childhood is one missed payment from gone.
And on the current side, each of you only has the photos from your own phone — a slice of childhood, not the whole. The holidays you weren't on. The milestones the other parent captured. The grandparent visits on the other side of the family. All missing.
No shared account, no co-owned thing, no dependency on your ex renewing a subscription. Each parent has a BrainCopy, imports their own phone/cloud, and owns their own copy of the files on their own Nextcloud. What you have, you keep, regardless of what the other parent does.
You can share "Summer holiday 2024 with the kids" as a tag with the other parent, giving them copies of those specific photos. They can share "2nd-grade school year" with you. Neither has to hand over their whole archive. The co-parenting relationship stays boundaried.
If the pre-separation archive is in the other parent's iCloud, request a data export (or have them do the same) and import. Same photos, dedup'd across both imports. Over a few rounds of exchange, you can both rebuild a complete archive of the pre-split years.
Each parent can generate a photobook for each child, in their own framing, from their own archive. The child eventually gets two books — not a diplomatic compromise book, but two legitimate versions. Many separated families find this more honest and more meaningful than one merged volume.
At 18 (or whenever appropriate), you can legacy-transfer the relevant parts of your archive to your child directly. They get a personal record of their childhood they can browse themselves, independent of both parents. The divorce doesn't determine what they know about their own life.
50% off the €10/month subscription, forever, for co-parenting households. Your discount never expires.
COPARENT50). Each parent has their own subscription — fair, and nobody is dependent on the other paying.Takes about 30 seconds to sign up. You can start importing immediately.
Start rebuilding togetherDifferent people, same problem: too many memories scattered across too many places.