Your photos deserve a European home.
Stored in Germany, backed up in Finland, run from the Netherlands. 50% off your first monthly or yearly payment while the End of Summer Sale runs.
First 16GB always free. Valid on your first monthly or yearly payment only. Ends September 30.
Your photos deserve a European home.
Stored in Germany, backed up in Finland, run from the Netherlands. 50% off your first monthly or yearly payment while the End of Summer Sale runs.
First 16GB always free. Valid on your first monthly or yearly payment only. Ends September 30.
Where your photos live became a political question
For years, the answer to "where are your photos?" was "in the cloud". That answer stopped being good enough.
The three photo services most Europeans use are American: Google Photos, iCloud, and Amazon Photos. This is not a complaint about their engineering. It is a point about jurisdiction. A company headquartered in the United States answers to United States law, and the 2018 CLOUD Act makes the consequence explicit: US authorities can compel a US provider to hand over data it controls, including data held on servers outside the country.
Buying European closes that gap for one specific pile of data at a time. This page is about the pile most people have never moved: their photos.
Your Library is more personal than your inbox
Think about what ten years of photos actually contains. The inside of your home. Your children as they grow up. Which streets you walk, who you spend time with, and where you were on a given afternoon.
Photo services then add face recognition on top. Under the GDPR, data that identifies people by their faces is a special category, the same tier as health data and political opinions.
Most people have thought carefully about which messaging app they use. Far fewer have thought about who holds their Library. For many of us it is the largest and most personal archive we own, and the one we have examined the least.
What buying European means here
PixelUnion is not American infrastructure with a European label on the front.
We store your Library in Falkenstein, Germany, and we keep an encrypted backup in Finland.
We encrypt your files with AES-256 while they are stored, and over HTTPS while they travel.
Our encryption keys live in memory on separate compute infrastructure, never on the storage cluster. Our hosting providers see encrypted blocks and nothing more.
We do not scan your photos for advertising, and we do not train AI models on your Library.
A Dutch company in Alkmaar runs PixelUnion, registered with the Dutch chamber of commerce under number 97002348.
We build on Immich, which is open source, and we contribute to the project we depend on.
The data security article sets out the full design, including what we can and cannot see ourselves.
Moving your Library
You can start without paying. The free Plan gives you 16GB, which is enough to install the apps and move a few Albums across before you decide anything.
Paid Plans start at €2.95 a month for 150 GB. You can pay monthly or yearly, and you can cancel a Subscription whenever you want.
If your photos sit in Google Photos, the export needs care. Google Takeout separates your metadata into JSON files, so dates and locations go missing if you upload the images on their own. Our guide on migrating from Google Photos walks through it, and our support team helps with the migration.
Move your photos to Europe
Start on the free 16GB Plan, or use ENDOFSUMMER for 50% off your first monthly or yearly payment before September 30.