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Collect with intention.
Give private photos a place that feels separate, calmer, and yours.
Private Curio · In development
Private sharing you can take back.
Curio gives personal photos a more intentional place to live. Private Curio adds the higher-trust experience for sharing, collecting, and protecting what should not feel disposable.
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The premium promise
A private photo should not become an uncontrolled copy.
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Share with confidence.
Send a private photo into a more protected experience, not an ordinary message thread.
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Change your mind.
Private Curio is built around the expectation that access can change.
Curio
Your personal collection, cleaned up.
Curio is a private photo library without the feed, the ads, or the pressure to perform. Keep a collection apart from Photos, organize it cleanly, lock the app, and save what matters without turning your camera roll into the only boundary.
Private Curio / Premium
Private Curio is for photos you cannot afford to lose control of.
Private sharing you can revisit
Share a photo without treating the send button as surrender. Private Curio gives private access a life after the first send.
A wider net for your collection
Bring in more of what you find: batches from Photos, saved images from the web, and selected images from pages worth keeping.
A more guarded private room
Private Curio adds a separate entry, stronger unlock moments, private capture, and cleaner handling for sensitive photos.
Collection luxury
The luxury is control, not clutter.
Curio should feel refined before you ever upgrade. Private Curio earns its place when the photo matters enough to ask more from everyone who handles it.
What Private Curio adds
Share privately. Collect beautifully. Stay in control.
Send private photos into a more protected Curio experience, with access that can be changed later.
Build your collection faster from Photos, saved web images, and pages with more than one image worth keeping.
Keep the most sensitive photos behind a separate private entry, private camera, and cleaner import handling.
What changes with Private Curio
Curio, with a more exclusive private tier.
| Feature | Curio | Private Curio / Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Private collection outside Photos | Included | Included |
| Camera, folders, favorites, crop, slideshow | Included | Included |
| Save from Photos and the share sheet | Included | Included |
| App lock and privacy cover | Included | Included |
| Sharing with another Curio user | Standard sharing | More protected sharing |
| Change or remove access after sharing | - | Planned for Private Curio |
| Bulk Photos, web, and page imports | - | Included |
| Separate Private Curio collection | - | Included |
| Unlock required for every private entry | - | Included where supported |
| Private Camera and review tray | - | Included |
| Cleaner private imports | Limited / TBD | Included |
Why it feels different
Private sharing should feel harder to mishandle.
Most apps make sharing easy and leave the regret to you. Private Curio is for people who want the extra ceremony, because the extra confidence is the point.
Only the right people
Private sharing starts with the people you choose, not a loose file passed from place to place.
Control after sharing
Private Curio is built toward changing access later, so a private photo is not automatically permanent.
Less exposure by default
Photos are handled so ordinary storage and ordinary screens are not treated as the privacy boundary.
The result is a quieter kind of sharing: fewer casual copies, clearer boundaries, and a private collection that still feels like yours.
Choose the circle
Private photos are shared with people, not tossed into a public feed.
Curio prepares a protected invite
Recipient experience
Private Curio can require a more guarded way to open what was sent.
Your control
Access can be limited, reviewed, and changed as the relationship changes.
Private collection
Your photos stay in a collection designed for privacy, not ads or feeds.