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The family photo hub
Stop Renting Your Family's Memories From Apple.
AiCube is a small home appliance that gives every family member one shared smart photo library — kids, parents, grandparents, all automatically organized. Plug in, scan one QR, and stop paying the cloud forever.
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Refundable any time before shipping · Founder pricing $349 · Ships Q3 2026
Built on Immich·2-drive mirror·30-day money-back
The problem
Your photos are scattered. Your bill keeps coming.
You opened your iPhone storage screen this morning. iCloud says "almost full." Apple wants $9.99/month to fix it — and again next year, and the year after that. Meanwhile, your kids' photos are on your phone. Your spouse's are on theirs. Your parents have asked, again, for the trip photos.
- The bill compounds. iCloud has raised prices multiple times in recent years.
- Every holiday, the same "send me the trip photos" group chat.
- When a phone breaks, the anxious moment of "did everything back up?"
- Self-hosted alternatives demand Docker, YAML, a free weekend you don't have.
The solution
AiCube is the family photo hub no one had built.
A small box you plug in once. It runs Immich — the open-source photo platform the self-hosting community trusts — preconfigured and OTA-updated by us.
Every family member scans one QR. From that moment, every photo backs up to ONE shared library, organized into Kids, Parents, Trips. Your spouse sees the same album. Your parents see the grandchildren automatically.
Why parents are switching
Why parents are trading iCloud for AiCube.
One shared family library — by default
Every household member sees the same automatically organized timeline. Kids, parents, grandparents — across iOS and Android. Stop scrolling group chats for "send me the photos."
5-minute setup. Zero CLI. Zero Docker.
Plug in, scan one QR per phone. If it takes longer than 5 minutes, return it. We're that confident.
Two-drive mirror at the $349 tier
Drive failure ≠ data loss. Beats every other appliance under $500 — including Synology BeeStation Plus at $409, which ships single-drive without RAID.
$349 once. No monthly fee, ever.
Pays back vs iCloud+ in ~35 months ($349 ÷ $9.99/mo) — and keeps saving you money forever after that. Optional encrypted offsite mirror at planned $4.99/mo, but never required.
Built on Immich — AGPL-clean, portable
We ship upstream Immich unmodified and contribute back. Even if AiCube the company disappears, the open-source software keeps running. Your library stays yours.
How it works
From box to backup, in 5 minutes.
01
Plug AiCube in
Connect power and ethernet to your home router. AiCube boots in about 60 seconds (based on early prototype testing). The setup screen appears on your phone automatically.
02
Scan one QR per phone
Every family member — your spouse, your parents, your kids old enough — scans the family-pairing QR. Their phone joins the shared library instantly. No accounts, no passwords.
03
Photos start backing up
From this moment, every photo and video taken by anyone in your family backs up to AiCube automatically. The shared library populates within minutes. Cancel iCloud whenever you're ready.
Pre-launch
This isn't built yet — that's why we want to hear from you.
AiCube ships in Q3 2026. We're talking to parents who've already abandoned an iCloud cancellation, given up on a Synology setup, or hand-built a self-hosted Immich and wished it were easier for their family. If that's you — reserve a AiCube and we'll fold your feedback into the product before the first units ship.
No fabricated testimonialsCustomer outcome quote will appear here once first reservations ship and real interviews are recorded — we won't fabricate one.
Customer outcome quote will appear here once first reservations ship and real interviews are recorded — we won't fabricate one.
Questions parents ask us
Things worth knowing before you reserve.
What if a drive fails or AiCube the company goes away — am I about to lose my kids' photos?
AiCube ships with a 2-drive mirror at the $349 tier — drive failure does not mean data loss. Because AiCube runs upstream Immich unmodified (the 60K-star open-source photo platform), your library is portable to any hardware: even if AiCube the company disappears, the software keeps running and your photos stay yours. Optional encrypted offsite mirror at planned $4.99/mo, available for full 3-2-1 redundancy.
Is this really 5 minutes? I've tried Synology / Docker / Raspberry Pi setups before.
Yes — the 5-minute claim covers AiCube boot + family-pairing QR scan + first photo backing up. We don't ship a Docker prompt, a YAML editor, or a Linux command line. If your setup takes longer than 5 minutes for the first photo to back up, return AiCube within 30 days for full refund.
How does AiCube compare to Synology BeeStation Plus?
BeeStation Plus is $409 with a single non-replaceable drive (no RAID — drive failure means total data loss) and explicitly cannot host a shared family library: every invited user is siloed into their own private space. AiCube is $349 founder pricing with a 2-drive mirror and a single shared family library by default. Both run Plex-class hardware; we differ on what you do with it.
Does AiCube work for iPhone + Android households?
Yes. AiCube ships with both iOS and Android apps that join the same shared family library via the family-pairing QR. iCloud Family Sharing has notable cross-platform gaps; AiCube is built for mixed-ecosystem households from day one.
Why shouldn't I just keep paying iCloud or Google One? It works fine.
If your current setup works, keep it — we built AiCube for the moment when "works fine" stops being true: another price hike, another storage-full notification, another year of group chats asking for the trip photos, or a phone breaking and revealing what didn't back up. At $349 founder pricing vs iCloud+ $9.99/mo, AiCube pays back in ~35 months and replaces the bill forever.
What does "ships Q3 2026" mean for my $50 deposit?
Your $50 is fully refundable any time before your AiCube ships — no questions, no fee. If we miss our shipping window, you get your deposit back automatically. If we hit our window, the $50 applies to your $349 founder pricing (non-reservation buyers pay $399 retail).
Reserve your AiCube. Lock in founder pricing.
$50 fully refundable deposit holds your spot. We ship Q3 2026 at $349 founder pricing (vs $399 retail). 30-day money-back from the moment your AiCube ships. 3-year hardware warranty. If we don't ship for any reason, you get your deposit back automatically.
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Refundable any time before shipping·30-day money-back·3-year warranty