Geist resident creates safe photo app

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A screenshot of the app. (Submitted photo)
A screenshot of the app. (Submitted photo)

By Anna Skinner

There are plenty of photo apps for iPhone and Android users out there, although none quite like Sherish.

Whereas users of Instagram and Facebook risk unwanted eyes viewing their personal family photos, Sherish is strictly private. The photos are shared with only who the user decides to share them with.

Brown
Brown

Yet privacy is not the only different aspect of this photo app. Co-founder and CTO, Jared Brown, said the idea actually originated from his fellow co-founder Alan Stanford.

“The genesis of the app is that Alan’s mother was getting older and he was spending a lot of time by her bedside talking to her about some old photos he had found going through a lot of family memories,” Brown said. “He was searching for a way through app store on how to archive all these and attach audio notes of what she was saying.”

However, Stanford could not find an app that offered all he desired. So he and Brown got together and created Sherish.

“It gives you a general purpose of a private photo app and not a social network,” Brown said. “You are very much in control of who can see all the photos because you are explicitly sharing them with certain people and you can revoke that privilege at any time. Privacy is a key feature of it.”

The app costs $4.99 a month, or $49.99 a year. There is a six month free trial. Since the app only came into the app store about two months ago, Brown said it is too early to say how sales are going. However, they have increased by 200 percent each month.

In about two weeks, the app will be available for Android.

“We saw such a broad market with using the iPhone as a camera,” Brown said. “The phone makes it so easy to take photos, but the problem has been what do I do with all these photos that I take.”

To learn more, visit https://sherish.com/.


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Geist resident creates safe photo app

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A screenshot of the app. (Submitted photo)
A screenshot of the app. (Submitted photo)

By Anna Skinner

There are plenty of photo apps for iPhone and Android users out there, although none quite like Sherish.

Whereas users of Instagram and Facebook risk unwanted eyes viewing their personal family photos, Sherish is strictly private. The photos are shared with only who the user decides to share them with.

Brown
Brown

Yet privacy is not the only different aspect of this photo app. Co-founder and CTO, Jared Brown, said the idea actually originated from his fellow co-founder Alan Stanford.

“The genesis of the app is that Alan’s mother was getting older and he was spending a lot of time by her bedside talking to her about some old photos he had found going through a lot of family memories,” Brown said. “He was searching for a way through app store on how to archive all these and attach audio notes of what she was saying.”

However, Stanford could not find an app that offered all he desired. So he and Brown got together and created Sherish.

“It gives you a general purpose of a private photo app and not a social network,” Brown said. “You are very much in control of who can see all the photos because you are explicitly sharing them with certain people and you can revoke that privilege at any time. Privacy is a key feature of it.”

The app costs $4.99 a month, or $49.99 a year. There is a six month free trial. Since the app only came into the app store about two months ago, Brown said it is too early to say how sales are going. However, they have increased by 200 percent each month.

In about two weeks, the app will be available for Android.

“We saw such a broad market with using the iPhone as a camera,” Brown said. “The phone makes it so easy to take photos, but the problem has been what do I do with all these photos that I take.”

To learn more, visit https://sherish.com/.


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