The single place your family manages their entire life — media, memories, cameras, calls, and everything your home connects to. On hardware you own. Free from any company's future decisions.
Keep Google Photos. Keep iCloud. Run FamilyCloud alongside them — and see for yourself.
One screen
Your photos and videos. Your movies and music. Your cameras, inside and outside. Family video calls without accounts. Your files. And expanding: your lights, your thermostat, your car, your appliances, the temperature inside and out, reminders that know where you are. One place. Yours.
Photos & videos
TodayMovies & music
TodayLive cameras
TodayFamily video calls
TodayFiles & documents
TodayDisaster recovery
TodayLights & smart home
ComingThermostat & sensors
ComingCar integration
ComingIt’s yours
FamilyCloud is the default name. But this is YOUR hub — not Apple's cloud, not Google's cloud. Call it "The Johnson Hub." Call it "HomeBase." Call it "Ours." The software is Skyfire's. The hub is entirely yours.
Every role, every permission, every view is adjustable. If a feature doesn't fit your family, turn it off. If you want something configured a specific way, it can be. This hub reflects YOUR family — not a product designer's assumptions about what a family looks like.
The Johnson Hub
Five members, shared photo library, cameras at the front door and garage.
HomeBase
Solo setup — all my files, all my media, my phone backs up the moment I walk in.
Ours
Three generations, two anchor locations, view-only access for grandparents.
FamilyCloud
The default. Works great as-is. Change it whenever.
The foundation
Data ownership architecture, end-to-end encryption, CGNAT relay so it works on any internet connection without router config, multi-site sync for offsite backup, family access with roles, media + photos + cameras + calls all in one place, Recovery built in. That took years to get right. It’s done. Everything else is expansion.
The foundation — available today
The next chapter — coming
Each new capability plugs into the same data ownership model. Everything you add stays on your hardware. No new subscriptions. No new companies in the loop.
Permanence
In 2045, Google Photos might not exist. iCloud's terms will have changed several times. Ring will have been acquired again. Plex will have pivoted or been shut down.
The hardware you buy today still works. The photos you store today still exist — on drives you own, in a format you control. No subscription required. No company's permission needed. No emergency migration when a service shuts down. FamilyCloud's only job is to run on your hardware. It will keep doing that whether Skyfire exists or not.
Google Photos
Already changed its free tier once.
iCloud
Raises prices. Terms change. Apple decides.
Your hub
Your hardware. Your format. Still yours in 2045.
If Skyfire shuts down tomorrow, your hub runs exactly as it did today. Forever.
The software doesn’t phone home to authorize itself. Your data doesn’t live on our servers. There is nothing to take away.
If your hardware eventually stops being supported by new macOS versions, stay on the last version that ran it. Your hub keeps running on that machine. The internet still works. Your family still connects. The floor is always what you had yesterday — and that floor never drops.
No subscription to lapse
No license server
No activation
No cloud dependency for core function
Legacy
Someone passes away. Their iCloud account locks. Their Google account suspends after inactivity. Their Ring footage is gone. Everything they curated, every photo, every video — controlled by companies whose policies weren’t designed around grief.
FamilyCloud doesn’t work that way. The hub is hardware in a home. It doesn’t belong to a person — it belongs to a family. When someone passes, the drives still spin. The photos are still there. Because they were never tied to a person’s account at a company.
Roles as inheritance
The role system becomes an inheritance model. Multiple people can hold admin rights. When someone passes, another admin already has full access. No form to petition Apple with. No 60-day waiting period. The family already has it.
Multi-site redundancy
Multi-site means the legacy exists in multiple places. If the primary node is in the home of someone who passes, the secondary node at another family member’s house already has a full copy. The legacy survives the loss of any single location.
The silent admin
Before you need it, you can designate someone — a spouse, an adult child, a sibling — as a silent admin. They don’t need to know. Like a will, it’s simply in place. When the time comes, they already have everything. No forms. No waiting. No loss. Just continuity.
Every family’s history has a last keeper. FamilyCloud lets you choose who that is — and make sure they’re ready — before anyone has to think about it.
No commitment required
Import your Google Photos library via Google Takeout. Keep iCloud running. Run both. Decide for yourself when you no longer need them.
Most families keep both running for six months. Then they cancel — not because anyone told them to, but because they forgot they were still paying.
See the full migration pathImport from Google Takeout
Request your archive, point FamilyCloud at it. About 20 minutes. Your full library lands in the hub — Google Photos keeps running.
iCloud keeps syncing
FamilyCloud backs up your iPhone over home Wi-Fi in parallel. You now have two copies: Apple's and yours.
Run both as long as you want
No deadline. No pressure. Watch the hub work for a month, six months, whatever builds your confidence.
Cancel when you're ready
Most families save $50–80 a month. The hardware pays for itself in under two years.
Pick a deployment option, get the hardware, and run your hub alongside what you already use. No lock-in. No deadline.
