We are taking more photos than ever. Smartphones, digital cameras and action cams are all around us, and capturing our best memories has become a part of everyday life.
Unfortunately, storing, organizing and accessing these memories is still very difficult, requiring a computer and lots of time. And while cloud services offer a partial solution, we have to pay monthly fees for the rest of our lives. Plus the whole privacy thing.
The tools we need to manage our photos have not evolved at the same pace as our awesome cameras.
We knew there had to be a better way, and we set out to find it with one simple mission:
“Make managing our photos and videos as easy as taking them!”
The Monument app on iOS and Android automatically transfers photos and videos from your phone to Monument.
By default, syncing starts upon connecting to your home Wi-Fi network. This achieves a faster transfer rate and relieves stress on your smartphone battery. You can also sync your photos and videos when you’re away from home by enabling remote syncing in the app settings.
The SD Card slot on Monument accepts standard SD Cards. When a new SD Card is inserted for the first time, a notification is displayed in the app asking you whether the content should be imported. Upon approval, all the content is stored in Monument.
Our advanced AI (Artificial Intelligence) algorithms start organizing all of your content as it is stored on Monument. It sorts everything by date, time, location, cameras as well as faces and what’s in a photo.
Since everything is organized, instead of just browsing photos on a simple timeline, Monument provides you multiple ways to view them.
Our algorithms analyze your photos to understand what’s in them. So you can find the photo you’re looking for by searching with keywords, such as snow, beach, mountain or outdoor. No manual tagging or organizing required.
Monument makes it easy to enjoy all of your content on any iOS or android device.
To view your photos and videos on big screen, Monument offers direct HDMI connection to your TV.
Monument uses external USB drives for storage to give you complete flexibility. You can have as much or as little storage as you need. Below you can see some configurations and corresponding capacity:
Calculations are based on photos taken by an entry level DSLR Camera (Using JPEG Fine settings) and videos recorded by an iPhone 6 (1080p at 60fps). Actual figures may vary.
As you need more space by time, you can increase Monument’s capacity by adding another drive or replacing one with a larger model.
Everyone we have talked to loves the idea of flexible storage, and we’re sure you’ll love it, too.
Backups are a must for everyone, but we rarely remember to back up our photos and videos. Monument provides two options to protect your precious data.
Monument is developed specifically to answer all photo and video management needs. It tries to simplify all the steps involved in managing your photos, namely; storing, organizing, viewing, sharing and making sure they are protected.
We also wanted to provide users a solution without any strings attached. A solution that will be with them in the long haul.
Using an iPhone? Watch this video to see what Monument can do for you.
Using an action cam? Watch this video to see how Monument can help you.
Using a camera and a smartphone? Watch this video to see what Monument can do for you.
Monument’s Artificial Intelligence technology understands the scenes in photos and performs face recognition. Monument is able to classify photographs into classes such as beach, mountains, snow, city, indoor etc. The final list of categories will be later determined.
As photos are classified, you can easily search your archives and quickly find your photos.
Monument detects the faces in your photos and our app provides an easy to use interface to manage these faces. Once you teach Monument whose face is whose, it will automatically group your photos according to who is in them.
You have full control over which people will be detected by Monument, and you can add or remove people whenever you want.
Our passion for photography and making things inspired us to build the photo management solution of our dreams. In the last year, we have designed, coded and built prototypes to make our vision a reality.
We showcased Monument at CES in January. From start to finish, our booth was packed with visitors. We received great feedback and met many wonderful people throughout the show. They loved Monument, and you will, too.
We’re a passionate team of eight that has become a family, including industrial designers, electrical engineers, software engineers and UI/UX experts. We embarked on to a mission: to make photo and video management as easy as taking one.
We started our journey in Istanbul, and are currently headquartered in beautiful Chicago.
And most importantly, we thank our families for their tremendous support, without them this wouldn’t have been possible.