Frequently asked questions

YouTim is a free social network for groups. It gives a family, a group of friends, a club, a team, a flatshare or a condo one private space with all the practical tools they need — group chat, polls, a shared calendar, expense splitting, shared lists, a photo gallery, announcements and more.

Yes. YouTim is free to use, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no per-feature paywall. A generous storage quota is included at no cost.

YouTim works in any web browser and as native iOS and Android apps. Your group and its data stay in sync across all your devices.

Create your group in a few seconds, turn on the services you need, and invite people by email. Your group is active instantly — no complicated setup.

No. You can invite members by email, and people without the app still receive notifications and a daily email recap so they can follow along. The full interactive experience is in the app or web app.

You can create several groups and invite as many members as you need. Each group can run multiple services at once, and you can even run several instances of the same service.

Group chat, polls, shared calendar, budget and expense splitting, group fund (piggy bank), shared checklists, bring lists, photo gallery, documents, announcements, resource booking and travel itineraries. Turn on only the ones your group needs.

Yes. You can add or remove services from a group at any time — same members, no reconfiguration. Every tool shares the same circle of people.

Every YouTim is private and invitation-only — no public profiles, no algorithm, no ads. Data is hosted in the EU, GDPR-compliant, and never sold.

WhatsApp handles chat but not polls, budgets, calendars or shared lists; a spreadsheet handles none of the communication. YouTim replaces that patchwork with one private space where every tool already shares the same members.

Members are notified in real time by push, or by a single daily email recap — each person chooses their channel and frequency, so no one is overwhelmed.

YouTim is available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, both in the app and on this website.

Yes, completely free, no subscription or in-app purchases, no hidden premium tier. Free on iOS, Android and web.

Your conversations are visible only to invited people. No public profile, no search engine indexing, no data resale. YouTim is built in Europe and respects GDPR.

Unlike general messengers, YouTim bundles chat with other group tools — polls, calendar, budget, lists, photo gallery. Everything ties to the same members.

YouTim also cleanly separates each circle (family, friends, club) instead of merging everything in an endless conversation list.

No strict limit. YouTim Chat works for a 4-person family as well as for an association of dozens of members.

Long-press the message: a 6-emoji palette (👍 ❤️ 😂 😮 😢 🎉) opens instantly. One reaction per message, changeable anytime.

No. YouTim Chat works directly in your web browser on desktop, tablet or mobile. Free native apps are available on iOS and Android for push notifications.

Yes. Take a photo or pick from your gallery, share directly in the chat. Photos stay private to the group.

Each member picks their preferred channel: mobile push, email, or both. Notifications arrive in real time.

Yes, completely free, no event or participant limit, no in-app purchase, no ads.

YouTim sends an .ics file for every event, addable to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook in one click.

The admin chooses: enable everyone (family/friends use case) or restrict to admins (club/association use case).

Yes. An event can repeat (weekly, monthly…): create it once and it shows up automatically each time.

Yes, auto reminders via email or push. Each member sets their preferences.

Yes, only group members see events. No public indexing, no data resale. GDPR.

Yes, fully free, no item or user limit, no in-app purchase, no ads.

The admin chooses: enable all members (family shopping use case) or restrict (association tasks use case).

Yes. Each item can be assigned to a specific member who gets notified.

YouTim Checklist is built into a group that also shares chat, calendar and budget. Members already invited.

Yes. When a member checks or adds an item, everyone else sees the change instantly.

Yes — for example "Shopping", "Chores" and "Vacation packing".

Yes, fully free, no subscription, no in-app purchase, no ads.

All group members by default. Admin can restrict.

Yes. Photos are visible only to YouTim members. No public indexing, no resale, no AI training use.

YouTim Gallery requires neither Google nor Apple account. It lives in the same group as chat, calendar and lists.

No strict limit. Designed for daily albums and event memories.

Each photo downloadable in full resolution.

Yes, fully free, no in-app purchase, no ads.

Plans a group trip stage by stage: dates, places, accommodation, transport.

Car, bike, train, plane: trip's main mode set at creation.

YouTim Itinerary is built into the group that also shares chat, budget and gallery. Participants already invited.

Yes, editable anytime. Participants see changes in real time.

Yes, only group members see it. No public indexing.

Yes, fully free up to 1 GB per member, no in-app purchase, no ads.

Office documents (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, RTF, TXT, CSV, Markdown), images (JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, HEIC, BMP, TIFF, SVG), audio (MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG, AAC, FLAC), videos (MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, AVI), unencrypted archives (ZIP, 7Z, TAR, GZ).

Executables and scripts are rejected (.exe, .bat, .sh, .js, .apk, etc.) — that's our first line of defence.

Yes. Every uploaded file passes through ClamAV before being visible to other members. Signatures are updated daily. An infected file is blocked and deleted; the uploader gets a notification.

On Scaleway Object Storage in Paris, a French hosting provider in the European Union. Encrypted at rest, access only via signed URLs with short expiration. Files never transit through our backend — everything goes directly client ↔ Scaleway.

1 GB per member, shared across all your YouTims. If you're in 3 YouTims, that's 1 GB total across them, not 3 GB.

• Documents: 50 MB
• Images: 25 MB
• Audio: 50 MB
• Videos: 100 MB
• Archives: 100 MB

Hard cap: 100 MB per file.

By default, all members can upload. The admin can restrict it to themselves. Deletion of a document is allowed for its uploader or the admin.

Yes — only members of the YouTim can access them. Download URLs are signed and expire after 5 minutes. Nobody else, not even Scaleway without backend access, can download a document.