A lifetime of photos.
A little piece of paper.
Photographs are heavy. They fade, they curl, they fill whole bookshelves, and every one of them is full of details — the rain, the receding hairline, the tent that leaked. InkEgg keeps the part that matters: the memory. We describe each photo in a few loving words, keep the words, and draw you a fresh picture whenever you want to remember.
How Memory Compression Works
Our advanced process looks carefully at each of your photographs and writes down what it was about. Then the photograph is no longer needed.
1. We read your photo
Our process studies the light, the colors and the general mood, then writes a short, loving description. "Our family at the beach, summer 1987." That's it. That's the photo now.
2. You keep the words
A whole lifetime fits in a single text file smaller than this sentence's font. Email it to yourself. Print it on one page. Read it aloud at Thanksgiving.
3. We draw it back
Whenever you want to see a memory, the words go to an image model and a brand-new photograph is drawn, at any resolution you like. The quality of your memories is limited only by the model you use.
Same Prompt. Fresh Memories.
Why let the details spoil a lovely memory? A rainy weekend in a leaky tent becomes the summer you'll always want to have had. Same family. Same dog, more or less.
“I don’t remember the yacht. But what a lovely honeymoon!”
★★★★★
Dolores, 71, married 46 years. Original honeymoon: a rowboat on Lake Manawa, 1978. Saved text: “Our honeymoon by the water, 1978.”
Just enter your saved text whenever you want to see a photo. Every time you look, it's a little more beautiful — and a little more like the honeymoon you would have chosen, if you'd had the choice.
Re-expand one of yours“I printed my whole photo album on a single page of text!”
Margaret had 41 albums, 1958 through 2024. Now she has one sheet of paper on the refrigerator, held up by a magnet shaped like a rooster. “It's all there,” she says. “The weddings. The birthdays. The Christmas we don't talk about. It just says ‘A lovely Christmas, 1994’ now, and honestly, that's how I'd like to remember it.”
- Your entire photo library in one small text file
- Searchable with Ctrl+F — try “birthday”
- Fits in an email, a wallet or a fortune cookie
- Edit a memory as easily as editing a sentence
Editing your photos is as easy as editing a sentence.
No more squinting at sliders. To change a memory, change the words. Was it raining? Not anymore. Did Uncle Gary come? Not unless you type him in.
memories.txt — line 214
Our family at the lake in the rain, Uncle Gary in the background, summer 1991.
Our family at the lake on a perfect sunny day, summer 1991. Everyone is smiling.
We Do the Decluttering for You!
Box up your albums and send them to the InkEgg offices. We concentrate every photo down to text, email you the file, and lovingly dispose of the originals at no extra charge — so that shelf can finally hold what matters.
We handle the originals.
Every album that arrives at our offices is personally received by Bev, who has been with InkEgg since the beginning. Once your photos have been concentrated to text and your file has been sent, Bev retires the albums in our on-site disposal drum. Complimentary album disposal is included with every order.
That empty shelf is an opportunity. Our customers tell us it's the perfect place for a porcelain figurine of two adorable Caucasian children kissing over a mailbox, or a piece of faux-rustic farmhouse signage from HomeGoods bearing a humorous phrase. We sell both. Make room for what matters.
Start a mail-in orderBetter than we remembered
“My husband always said our wedding photos didn’t do me justice. Well, now they do, and so does he. He looks like a different man. I think he might be one.”
— Carol, Council Bluffs
“We were never a beach family. We are now! Fourteen summers at the beach, according to the file. The kids don't remember them either, but they look wonderful.”
— The Hendersons, Papillion
“Every time I look at Dad’s retirement party he has a different cake. One star off because once it was a ham.”
— Dale, Lincoln
Frequently Asked
Is the re-expanded photo the same as my original?
It's better. Your original was one photograph, taken once, with whatever happened to be in front of the camera. Your re-expansion is drawn fresh every time from the essence of the moment. People, places, weather, pets and outfits may vary. The memory does not.
Who is that man in my re-expanded wedding photo?
Your husband, as described: “the groom.” If you'd like a more specific groom, edit your memory to describe him in more detail. Many customers find they prefer the new one.
How small is my photo library, really?
A typical memory is about 60 bytes. A 12-megapixel photograph is about 4,000,000. That's a saving of 99.998%, which is so much space that our engineers have stopped counting. A family's entire library, fifty years of it, usually comes to less than one photo of the cat.
What resolution are re-expanded photos?
Any resolution you like. Because your memory is stored as words, it has no resolution at all until you choose one. Our free plan renders up to 4K, which is more pixels than your original ever had.
Why do my memories look different this year?
Image models improve constantly, and your memories improve with them. That's the InkEgg promise: the quality of your memories is limited only by the model you use. See our Plans to upgrade. (Downgrading your plan downgrades your memories, retroactively.)
Can I get my albums back?
Album disposal is complimentary, immediate and final. Bev is very good at her job. Your memories are safe in your text file, which we will have emailed you, probably.
Do you keep a copy of my photos?
We keep nothing but words. That's the whole idea. On this website, the free compressor runs entirely in your own browser — your photo never leaves your device, and neither does its description.