Your photos. Your clients.
Your platform.
Vremly is the independent alternative to Aryeo — built by a media company that got tired of its software being owned by a portal.
“You shall retain all of your ownership rights in your Media. You hereby grant the Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, fully paid-up, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, display, transmit and prepare derivative works of your Media, and to additionally distribute and publicly perform Media in connection with the Service and the Company’s (and its successor’s) business, in any media formats and through any media channels.”
The clause
Cancelling doesn’t end it
Four words do the work: irrevocable and perpetual mean the licence has no end date and can’t be withdrawn. Sublicenseable means it can be handed to someone else. Transferable means it can move with the company.
Section 10 of the same agreement lists which sections outlive the contract:
“Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8 and 10 through 16 will survive any termination of this Agreement.”
Aryeo Terms of Service, §10
So closing your account ends your subscription. It does not end the licence. And “transferable” reads differently once you notice the clause names its own successor — Zillow acquired Aryeo in July 2023.
What it doesn’t say
It doesn’t reach work you never uploaded — §7.3(a) says so explicitly. It isn’t permission to put your photo on a billboard; advertising use needs your consent, though display on Aryeo’s own sites and social channels doesn’t. And you keep ownership. It’s a licence, not a sale. We’d rather you hear the limits from us than find them yourself and wonder what else we skipped.
The clause nobody quotes
Your client list isn’t licensed. It’s assigned.
Section 7.3 gets the attention. Section 7.4 is the one that surprised us, and it’s about your contact information and property details rather than your photos:
“You agree that Company shall own all Property Data, and hereby assign all right, title and interest in and to the Property Data to Company. Company hereby grants you a … non-sublicenseable and non-transferable license to use … your uploaded Property Data…”
Aryeo Terms of Service, §7.4. “Property Data” is defined in §7.1 as textual contact information, property details, and other listing information.
An assignment is stronger than a licence — it’s a transfer of ownership. And note the shape of the trade: the two rights you grant on your media, sublicensing and transfer, are the two you don’t get back on your data. Section 7.4 survives termination as well.
Side by side
The same question, two answers
| Term | Aryeo | Vremly |
|---|---|---|
| Licence to your media | Perpetual, irrevocable | Limited to running the service |
| Survives cancellation | Yes (§10) | No, ends with your account |
| Can be sublicensed | Yes | Never |
| Can be transferred | Yes, incl. to a successor | Never |
| Your client + property data | Assigned to them (§7.4) | Stays yours |
| Export your data | — | Anytime, no ticket |
Aryeo column quoted from their Terms of Service, last updated March 11, 2025. Read it yourself — every claim on this page links to its source.
The conflict
Your platform shouldn’t compete with you
Zillow employs its own photographers and sells media packages directly to agents through Zillow Media Experts. When an agent books media for a Showcase listing, they’re offered Zillow’s team alongside independent companies.
So the platform holding your galleries, your client list and your order history is owned by a company that also sells media services to the agents you shoot for. That may never affect you. But it’s an org chart, not a policy — no feature request changes it.
Vremly has no portal parent, no media arm, and no interest in your client list. We make money when you do. That’s the whole model.
Pricing
February shouldn’t cost what June costs
Aryeo’s Pro tiers run $49, $99 and $179 a month, and each one is capped by annual listing volume — 100, 250, then 500. So the tier you need is set by your busiest stretch, and you pay for that capacity in every month, including the ones where you shoot twelve.
We charge for what you actually shoot. Slow month, small bill.
We’re still finalising public tiers, which means founding customers get to influence them. Tell us your volume and what you pay now, and we’ll tell you exactly what you’d pay here — on the call, not after a form.
Migration
Switching is the part everyone lies about
We won’t tell you it’s one button. Here’s what actually happens:
You map your data
Clients, order history, products, team. You preview how each field lands before anything moves.
You keep Aryeo running
Nothing gets cancelled. Both platforms stay live for as long as you want them to.
You check your own data in our system
Take as long as you need. Look up the jobs you remember and see whether they're right.
You cut over when you're ready
Not when we are. If it doesn't look right, you've lost nothing, Aryeo never went away.
Who built it
Built by people who dispatch photographers at 6am
We run a real estate media company — around 300 shoots a month for a clientele of over 1,000 agents. We ran it on Aryeo, iGuide, Asana and a pile of spreadsheets, and every one of those was built by someone who had never dispatched a photographer at 6am.
Our own operation runs entirely on Vremly — booking, dispatch, capture, delivery, invoicing and payroll. That means when you tell us something is broken, there’s a good chance we hit it ourselves that week.
This isn’t a proptech startup’s guess at your workflow. It’s ours.
The offer
25 founding seats
Guided migration, run with you. Founding price, held as long as you stay. A direct line to the person who builds it. You help set what gets built next.
Twenty-five because that’s how many migrations one person can personally run — not because scarcity sells.
Questions
The ones worth asking
- Is Aryeo shutting down?
- No. Zillow has said the Aryeo brand and product continue as part of ShowingTime+, and it’s still shipping features. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something.
- Do I lose Zillow Showcase?
- Depends which part you mean, and the honest answer is better than you might expect. If you only need to deliver media for Showcase listings, Aryeo Lite is free — keep an account for that and run the rest of your business here. You lose nothing.
If you get real booking volume through Showcase Select, that requires a paid Aryeo Pro plan and we can’t match it. If that’s a meaningful share of your work, stay with Aryeo — genuinely.
Either way, one thing worth knowing: whatever you upload to Aryeo, Lite included, is still “Media” under §7.3, so the licence attaches to those files. - Doesn't every platform have a clause like that?
- Most take a licence to run the service. Fewer take one that is simultaneously perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable and transferable, survives cancellation, and names its own successor. Read ours, read theirs, compare the four words above.
- What if I want to leave Vremly?
- Export everything, whenever you want. No ticket, no retention window. Our licence to your media ends when your account does, and that’s in our terms, not just on this page.
- How long does migration take?
- Minutes. The importer connects to your Aryeo account and runs it — and you keep Aryeo running until you’re satisfied.