Our Story

The frustration

It started the way most side projects do — with a problem that wouldn't go away.

Every photographer knows the drill. You come home from a shoot, dig out the USB cable, plug in the camera, wait for the import, copy files to the right folders, maybe upload to the cloud for backup. It's 2026 and we're still doing this manually.

Canon cameras have had built-in WiFi and FTP transfer for years. The hardware is there. But the software side? Canon Camera Connect requires your phone. image.canon has limited cloud support and auto-deletes your files. And if you use OneDrive? Forget about it — there's no native support at all.

Remember Eyefi?

If you've been shooting long enough, you remember the Eyefi card. Pop it in your camera, take a photo, and it wirelessly appeared on your computer. Pure magic. Then Eyefi shut down, and that magic disappeared.

SnapMonkey exists to bring that magic back — but better. Instead of a proprietary SD card, we use the FTP transfer your Canon camera already has built in. Instead of syncing to just one computer, your photos go straight to the cloud. OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox — wherever you want them.

How it works

The idea is simple. Your Canon camera can send photos via FTP over WiFi. SnapMonkey gives you a secure FTP endpoint in the cloud. When a photo arrives, we route it to your connected cloud storage — automatically, in seconds, with zero effort on your part.

One camera can send to multiple destinations simultaneously. JPEGs to Google Drive for sharing, RAW files to Dropbox for archiving, everything to OneDrive for backup. You set it up once and never think about it again.

Built by a photographer, for photographers

SnapMonkey is built by Llama Monkey, a small studio that builds tools for creative people. We're photographers ourselves, and we built SnapMonkey because we needed it.

We're not trying to be everything to everyone. We're focused on one thing: making the journey from camera sensor to cloud storage as seamless and invisible as possible. Shoot, and your photos are just there.

What's next

We're just getting started. Here's what's on our roadmap:

• More cloud destinations — SharePoint, Amazon S3, Box, and more
• Photo and video sites — upload directly to Flickr, SmugMug, YouTube, and Vimeo
• Smart file routing — send JPEGs one place and RAW files another
• Auto-organization — sort uploads by date, camera, or file type
• Browser uploads — drag and drop files from any device
• Support for more camera brands — Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, and others

We ship fast and we listen to our users. If there's something you need, let us know.