From the card to the people in the pictures.

Yes. The file you upload is stored byte for byte, and it is what you download or export later. Media Moana makes a preview of it for viewing, so a RAW or HEIC file opens in any browser. Presets and AI actions always make a new photo and leave the original untouched.

Look through the album full-screen, play it as a slideshow, print it or save it as a PDF, mark the photos they love with a heart, and download it as one zip. By default they get viewing copies; allow original downloads and they get your files as you uploaded them. A link can also expire after 1, 7 or 30 days, or ask for a password — and you can turn it off at any time, after which it no longer opens.

Not by default. The photos shown in a shared album carry no location at all, and originals downloaded from it have their GPS position removed unless you choose to keep it. You can choose to show the city or the country each photo was taken in, on the album's Preview tab — never the exact spot. Your own library keeps the location, for the map and for search.

Your library turns read-only — never held hostage. Uploads, copies and new photos from presets or AI actions wait until you upgrade or empty the trash (photos in the trash still count); browsing, sharing, downloading and exporting keep working. The same holds after a failed payment's 7-day grace, when a cancelled plan ends, or after a move to a smaller plan. The library warns you once it is nine-tenths full.

Yes. Export is always available — at any time, on any plan, over your storage or not: Account → Privacy & GDPR → Export your library. You get your originals, byte for byte, in their folders, a metadata file for each photo and your account data, as one or more zip files. We email you when it is ready, and it stays downloadable for 7 days.

No — we don't train any model on your photos. The analysis is only sent to model providers that don't collect the data they are given, and for an AI action the provider gets a copy of the photo with its metadata, location included, removed.

One of the one-click fixes — restore faces, colorize, upscale, reduce noise, clean dust and scratches off a scan or remove the background — on one photo. Restore Old Photo does the first three in one go and uses one action for each: 3 a photo, or 2 for a photo already in color, which it does not colorize. Draft captions, which writes first captions for an album's photos, uses one for every 50 drafts. Pro includes 20 a month and Studio 50; the count starts over every month, on yearly plans too. The Free plan has none. When you run out, you can move up a plan — there is nothing to buy per photo.

No. You use Media Moana in a web browser, and the people you share with open albums in any browser, on a phone too. There is no app and no automatic backup of a phone's camera roll — it is made for the photos on your camera's card.