A private family timeline, compared fairly with BackThen.

BackThen is a mature private family journal with original-quality media, family permissions, chronological timelines, sharing, and a print-product offering. Our Pear Tree is for families who want the archive itself to read like a story from pregnancy on: every memory gets an age, photo imports aim for the original capture date, relatives can view through a private browser link, and the most sensitive memories can live in an end-to-end encrypted vault.

BackThen may be the better fit if you want an established, cross-platform family journal with its own timelapse and same-age comparison features, or if ordering prints, calendars, and photo books inside the service is central to how your family keeps memories. Its public materials also describe a lower-cost entry route for trying the service with a small archive.

Choose Our Pear Tree if the thing you most want is a private, from-pregnancy keepsake with age labels that mean something years later, a date-conscious import, simple browser viewing for relatives, and a vault for the parts of a family story that should never be shared.