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A digital memory studio for the first years

Beautiful memories of the moments that matter.

TenderShots turns the photographs you already have into memories worth keeping. Better light, truer colour, the right words, and your baby, exactly as they are.

A baby girl with a pink bow headband, looking up

Kitchen light, 7 pm → TenderShots

Parents already capture the moments. We help them keep them.

10,000

photographs in the gallery

The camera roll

Your phone remembers everything.

A newborn can have hundreds of photographs within the first few weeks, and thousands before their first birthday. More photographs, though, are not more memories.

Somewhere in there

is the first smile.

Between screenshots, receipts, forwarded messages and forty photos of the ceiling. Still in your phone, but its meaning has gone missing.

The curated layer

The gallery stores everything. TenderShots preserves what matters.

Ten thousand photographs in the gallery and a hundred and fifty TenderShots is not a problem. That is the product working.

Feature 01 · Make it beautiful

Your photograph, on its best day.

No sliders, no jargon. Just: make this beautiful. TenderShots reads the photograph and corrects what the moment deserved, and nothing else.

  • White balance. Removed a cold blue cast.
  • Light. Brightened the mid-tones by +0.7 stops.
  • Highlights. Recovered the brightest areas.
  • Contrast. Added a gentle depth.
  • Colour. Vibrance +22%, skin tones protected.
  • Noise. Cleaned the grain of low light.
  • Detail. Sharpened fine detail, gently on faces.
Structure preserved: 99.8%Try it on your own photograph
Before: A mother gazing down at the newborn in her arms, in cold window light
After: the same photograph, enhanced by TenderShots
Original · Cold window lightTenderShot
The original and the TenderShot, as made by the TenderShots engine with nothing tuned by hand.

The TenderShots promise

Make the photograph better. Never make the person different.

Many AI photo apps are built to transform. They can make a beautiful image, sometimes at the cost of the person in it.

A beautiful photograph is not valuable if it no longer looks like your baby. We are enhancing memories. We are not manufacturing people.

A father holding his young son outside, cheek to cheek

Sunday afternoon

Just us boys

Protected
Protected
Identity check · unchangedLight, colour and setting changed. Father and son did not.

The TenderShots Standard

Baby A must still look like Baby A.

Protection is part of the product, not a technical detail. You can see what is locked, and what TenderShots is allowed to touch.

Protected

  • Identity
  • Face
  • Body
  • Age
  • Skin tone
  • Physical characteristics
  • Pregnancy appearance
  • Hands and feet

Editable

  • Lighting
  • Background
  • Colour
  • Atmosphere
  • Decorative elements
  • Typography
  • Composition · Environment

How it works

From photograph to memory.

When you open TenderShots you don’t see fifty tools. You see one question: what moment would you like to make beautiful?

01

Capture

You take a photograph, or choose one you already have. Nothing new to learn, no shoot to book.

OriginalTenderShot
02

Create

TenderShots enhances it: light, colour, clarity. Or, in Create mode, imagines it somewhere new.

First smile3 monthsWith GrandmaSunday

“She laughed at the dog. We all did.”

03

Contextualise

Why does this photograph matter? A date, a milestone, a name, a feeling. A sentence is enough.

Your First Year · 3 of 150
04

Preserve

It joins a collection: My Pregnancy, The Day You Arrived, Your First Year. The gallery keeps everything; this keeps what matters.

Kofi · 14 June

First steps

He did it! Six whole steps 👣

Grandma: I can’t stop looking at this

Shared privately, to the family group

05

Share, or keep

Send it privately to the people who matter, or simply keep it. Nothing is public. There is no feed.

Feature 04 · Milestone Maker

Every month, a page of the story.

Add a name, a date, a few words. The photograph becomes both a beautiful thing to share and a record of the journey.

Make a milestone card
A father holding his young son outside, in Natural Light
The same father and son in Little Astronaut: a night sky, stars and a ringed planet around them

Two modes, never confused

Documenting reality, or imagining it.

Memory

“Keep this moment beautiful.”

Create

“Imagine this moment differently.”

Create mode is for play.

Storybook, Teddy Bear World, Little Astronaut, Winter Wonderland. Faces are found first, and kept clear: the world changes, the child does not.

Open Create mode

Feature 07 · My First Year

A thousand photographs. One story.

TenderShots builds it as you go, chapter by chapter, from before you arrived to the first birthday.

  1. A father's hands and a mother's hands together on her bump in a red dress

    01

    Before you arrived

    Pregnancy memories.

  2. A mother in braids holding her newborn by the window

    02

    The day you arrived

    Birth and hospital memories.

  3. A father smiling down at his newborn on the changing table

    03

    Your first days

    Coming home, and the early newborn moments.

  4. A father reading a picture book to his baby

    04

    One month

    The first milestone.

  5. A baby girl with a pink bow headband, looking up

    05

    Three months

    Growth and development.

  6. A baby girl in a white cardigan sitting on the sofa

    06

    Six months

    Halfway through the first year.

  7. A baby girl in an orange dress sitting on a white rug

    07

    Nine months

    New experiences.

  8. A toddler in a little jacket taking steps, holding a hand

    08

    One year

    The first birthday.

Feature 08 · Memory Stories

A photograph captures what happened. A story says why it mattered.

Photo+Date+Story+Design= a memory

Write the story of a photograph
A mother and father leaning in over their newborn on the sofa

Tuesday · 14 March · Day 3

The day you came home.

We had been waiting for this moment for nine months. Your dad wouldn’t stop smiling. Neither of us slept, and neither of us minded.

Privacy by design

Your memories belong to you.

These are some of the most personal photographs a family owns. Privacy is part of the product itself, not a setting.

In this preview

Every edit happens on your device. Nothing leaves it until you choose.

The enhancement and face protection run in your browser. Keep a memory without an account and it stays on this device. Keep it in your account and it’s stored encrypted, visible only to you, so you can see it anywhere.

How we handle photographs
  • Photographs private by default
  • No public baby profiles
  • No public feed
  • We never sell photographs
  • Clear consent before any model training
  • As little image data kept as possible
  • Location and camera metadata removed on export
  • A plain explanation of how photographs are handled

A Neonatal DAO product

Knowledge, care, and memory.

TenderShots is a consumer brand in its own right. It also sits beside the rest of Neonatal DAO’s work, around some of the most important stages of human life.

  1. RHOUnderstand the evidence.Research and reproductive-health knowledge.
  2. AskNeoMake better decisions.Consumer health guidance and care navigation.
  3. Neo CareSupport the professionals.Professional healthcare infrastructure.
  4. TenderShotsPreserve the moments.Family memories and early-life experiences.Open the studio
Grandparents smiling side by side, in black and white

A photograph captures what happened. A memory tells you why it mattered.