Mantel: Family Album

Mantel is a private photo album for the moments your family wants to keep close — engagements, weddings, ring ceremonies, birthdays, festivals, and the small candid frames in between. Sign in with the email your family administrator gave you, and the entire collection — every retouched portrait, every candid, every traditional photographer frame — appears in a hand-tuned cinematic dark interface that lets the photographs do the talking. BROWSE • Pinterest-style staggered grid with every photo at its true aspect ratio • Categories laid out as flowing horizontal strips on the album page • Tap any photo for a fullscreen viewer with swipe paging SAVE & SHARE • Tap the heart to favorite a photo; favorites get a tab of their own • Save originals straight to your gallery • Share to any installed app via the system share sheet SLIDESHOW • Auto-advancing slideshow plays the most recently opened album, or just your favorites • Configurable interval, crossfade duration, shuffle, and loop • Rotate to landscape for a digital-photo-frame mode — ambient blurred backdrop and slow Ken Burns motion. Set your phone on a stand and let the album play. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Invitation-only. Accounts are created by the family administrator; no public sign-up. • No analytics. No advertising. No third-party tracking. Ever. • Your favorites stay on your device — they are never uploaded. • Photos are served over HTTPS from a private CloudFront CDN. CINEMATIC DARK Mantel is built from the ground up for a near-black background with restrained gold accents. Georgia serif for titles, system font for everything else. Designed to look like an heirloom album that happens to live on your phone. If you've been invited to a Mantel album, sign in to start browsing. For help, visit https://family.cdn.zynclave.com/legal/support.html

First release of Mantel. Sign in, browse a private family album in a Pinterest-style staggered grid, favorite photos, save or share originals, and watch a configurable cinematic slideshow. Rotate to landscape for a photo-frame mode with ambient blur and slow Ken Burns motion.