ThisLife app review - Telegraph ThisLife offers a simple and beautifully designed way to organise, browse and share large photo collections. You can import pictures directly from services including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and many others. And, of course, you can upload them from your computer too. Once your photos are uploaded to your library, you can start organising them into a 'Story' or multiple stories. A story could be something big and general, such as photos of your child growing up, or something specific, such as a weekend away or a birthday party. As you would expect, you can share stories with others and they can participate by adding their own photos - known as 'Moments', in ThisLife lingo - or by commenting or liking pictures. ThisLife's free 'Starter Plan' lets you upload 1,000 photos or one hour of video. You can upgrade to 20,000 photos or 10 hours of video for $7.99 per month (around £5) or get the 'Family Plan' - 50,000 photos or 25 hours of video - for $14.99 per month (around £10). There are cheaper ways to store photographs online, of course, but you're paying here for a superior user interface and a range of features including face recognition and advanced tagging that you can't get in straight online storage services. The site will soon offer publishing tools as well, making it easy to create photo books and other products. The ThisLife apps bring the same experience to the iPhone and iPad and an Android version is coming soon. The apps have two key benefits over the website: first, the touch interface makes browsing your photos feel more intimate - you can navigate between levels of the service, for example, simply using pinches and taps. Second, you can upload pictures from your iPhone or iPad directly to ThisLife using the app. ThisLife's free service is well worth trying. Once you have a few pictures in there, I'd be very surprised if you didn't want to upgrade. Once you've joined, the apps are an essential part of the service.