Move my Meural photos to Nimbus
If you have a Meural Canvas, you can copy your Meural photos into your Nimbus account so they show on your Nimbus frames and Bridge. You'll need your Meural email and password. We use them only to fetch your galleries and don't store them.
Before you start
- A paid Nimbus plan. Without one, the import won't run; you'll see a See plans link.
- Room in your plan's photo limit. If you're at the limit, the import won't run; upgrade your plan or delete some photos first. If your Meural library is bigger than the room you have left, we copy photos up to the limit and list the rest as left out. Upgrade, then run the import again.
- Cost:
- Annual plan: free.
- Monthly plan: a one-time $29 for your account, paid on the website (the button says Pay $29 and continue). Running the import again later isn't charged again.
- In the app, if the import would cost $29 you'll see "Meural import isn't included with your current plan in the app." The app doesn't show a price; use the website.
- Friends and lifetime-frame accounts import free, within the photo limit.
Steps (website or app; same steps)
- Sign in to Nimbus and open the Meural import page (in the app, the Meural import screen).
- Enter your Meural email and password and tap Connect to Meural.
- You'll see a list of your Meural galleries with photo counts.
- Tap Import All My Meural Photos. This brings over everything; you can't pick single galleries.
What you get
- Each Meural gallery becomes a Nimbus playlist named "Meural" followed by the gallery's name (for example, "Meural Vacation").
- Photos that weren't in any gallery go into a playlist called Meural Library.
- Your own photos come over at the size Meural provides, about 1000 pixels on the long side. For sharper pictures, upload your original files to Nimbus directly.
While it runs
A progress bar and percentage show, with counts for Imported, Skipped, Failed and Total, and a live activity log. It usually takes a few minutes; a very large library takes longer. You can leave the page open and check back, or reload it; your progress comes back. There's no email when it finishes, so come back to the page.
When it ends you'll see Import Complete! with buttons Review your Meural art (only if something needs a look), Go to My Media and Import More.
Running the import again is safe: it skips what's already there.
Meural's own art ("Review your Meural art")
Art from Meural's own library (anything Meural supplies with an artist) isn't copied. Where we have a confident match, we put our own copy of the same work in its place, often at higher resolution. Where we don't, or where our copy is smaller than Meural's, it's listed for you to review.
Open it with the Review your Meural art button at the end of the import (and a link in the app's import result). There's no menu link, so use that button. You'll see only your own items. For each piece you'll see the title, artist, year, the playlists it was in, and our suggested replacements, best first. Suggestions can take a few minutes to fill in. A LOW-RES badge marks a match smaller than Meural's.
For each piece you can choose:
- Use this on a suggestion.
- Keep this to keep the copy you have now.
- Skip.
- Delete my copy, where an earlier import saved it as a photo. This can't be undone.
There are also Use the best match for all and Skip all remaining. We can't keep copies of Meural's collection in Nimbus accounts, so please choose by November 30. After that, anything you haven't chosen is settled for you: we use the best Nimbus match where there is one, and delete the copy where there isn't. A few copyrighted works show "we can't show it in Nimbus".
Quick answers
- Can I pick only some galleries? No, the import brings everything. You can delete playlists or photos you don't want afterwards.
- Will my photos be full resolution? They come over at the size Meural provides, about 1000 px on the long side.
- It says I'm over my limit. Upgrade your plan or delete some photos, then import again.
- Can I pay the $29 in the app? No. Use the website.
Need a hand? support@nimbusdigitalart.com or https://calendly.com/nimbussupport/nimbus