About Hoard

Hoard is a private reference-image library and moodboard app for one primary user, plus a handful of invited family and friends.

Hoard is invite-only. There is no public signup and no way to create an account yourself — every account is created by invitation from the owner. See the Privacy Policy for what data is collected.

Why is this invite-only?

A few reasons, in the developer's own words:

  1. This isn't a new idea — Hoard is a personal clone of refern, which I'd genuinely encourage you to check out. I don't want to take someone else's original idea and turn my copy of it into competition for them.
  2. Hosting and storage costs scale with the number of users, and I don't want to be on the hook for hundreds or thousands of dollars a month running this for strangers.
  3. Copyright enforcement and other legal exposure get significantly more complicated the more widely accessible something like this becomes, and I have no interest in needing a lawyer on retainer.
  4. Given the chance, some people will always try to use an open platform to share illegal or harmful content — CSAM, or sexually explicit material shared without the subject's consent, being the worst of it. Reliably detecting that automatically is extremely expensive and never fully effective. I'm not interested in handing people like that another venue to do that in. Yes, they ruin things for everyone else.
  5. Making this publicly available would mean enforcing age restrictions, which isn't something I want to take on.

What it does

  • Save reference images by uploading them, or with a Chrome extension clipper.
  • Organize saved images into boards and folders, with tags.
  • Arrange images on infinite-canvas moodboards.
  • Search your own library by text, tag, and color.
  • Optionally share a board with other invited accounts, or make one board's grid viewable via a public, view-only link.

Why Hoard requests Google Photos access

Hoardoffers an optional “Import from Google Photos” feature, so a signed-in user can bring photos from their own Google Photos library into their private Hoardlibrary. It uses Google's official Photos Picker API and requests only the narrowest available scope for this (photospicker.mediaitems.readonly) — access is limited to the exact photos a user explicitly selects in Google's own picker UI during one session. Hoardnever requests or stores a long-lived refresh token: the short-lived access token is discarded once that one import finishes, so there is no standing access to a user's Google Photos library between imports.

More

See the Privacy Policy for what data Hoard collects, and the Terms & Copyright page for acceptable use. Questions: contact@my-hoard.app.

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