Gabyly began with a feeling almost every parent knows: the quiet hesitation before sending a photo of your child. You want the grandparents to see the first steps, the birthday cake, the seaside laugh — but you do not want that image to live forever on servers you do not control, copied and re-shared far beyond the people you trust.
It started with a simple worry
We realised the tools we all use every day — group chats and social feeds — were built to spread content, not to protect it. Once a photo leaves your phone, you lose control of where it goes, how long it stays, and who can save it. For ordinary messages that may be fine. For your family's most personal moments, it is not.
What we decided to build
So we built Gabyly around one idea: a memory should not have to be public to be shared. Every design decision follows from that principle.
- Private links you can share with anyone — no account needed for the people who receive them.
- A lifetime you choose, from 10 minutes to forever, after which the memory self-destructs.
- End-to-end encryption, so the files are unreadable to anyone but you and the person you share with.
- Password protection, a discreet watermark and screenshot alerts for sensitive moments.
- European servers and a GDPR-first design, because where your data lives matters.
How secure is it, really?
Gabyly encrypts your photos and videos on your device before they ever reach us. The encryption key stays with you and travels only inside the private link — which means even Gabyly cannot open your files. This is what people call zero-knowledge: we store your memories, but we can never see them.
How Gabyly helps you
The result is simple to live with. You share a beautiful moment with the people you love, you decide exactly how long it stays online, and you never wonder again whether a private photo has quietly become permanent. You stay the owner of your family's presence on the internet — today and in ten years.
Your memories, your footprint, your call. That is the whole point of Gabyly.
