A family story app for iPhone
Record your family's stories and keep them in a digital book.
A question on the screen, a big button to record, and AI that helps tidy the words and put the book together. Coming to iPhone.
Coming to iPhone. Joining the waitlist is free.
How it works
They talk. The app helps with the rest.
From the first question to a finished book, shown here on sample screens.
Step 1
A question to answer out loud
They pick a prompt, press record and start talking. Their iPhone turns the speech into text. Anyone who prefers typing can write instead.
Recording
You're telling us about:Picture yourself at age 7. Where are you? What do you see, hear, smell?ChildhoodTap to start recording
Write instead
Sample Step 2
A follow-up that goes deeper
When they finish, AI can suggest up to three follow-up questions about what they just said. They can answer one, keep talking or stop for today.
Your story
Want to tell more about this story?
What did your mother say as you stood beside her making those Sunday pancakes?
Record answerJust keep talking
I'm done with this storySample Step 3
Photos, and words that read well
They can add up to four photos to a story. AI tidies the spoken words into readable text, and they can switch back to their own words at any time.
Your story
Sunday pancakes
Every Sunday my mother made pancakes. I stood beside her on a kitchen chair, and my job was to say when the butter stopped hissing.
Your wordsSo, um, every Sunday my mother, she made pancakes, and I'd be up on a chair, you know, and I had to tell her when the butter, when it stopped hissing.
2 of 4 photos
Sample Step 4
The stories become a book
AI suggests chapters and drafts a foreword. You pick a cover photo and a page style, edit anything you like and get the book as a PDF.
My book
Suggested chapters
- Foreword
- 1. Growing up on Mill Lane
- 2. Sunday pancakes
- 3. The first job
- 4. Meeting your grandfather
Sample
Sample screens. The real app may word and arrange things a little differently.
The book
A book the whole family can open.
When the stories are in, the app puts them together as a digital book with contents, a foreword, chapters and photos. Download the PDF, read it on any screen and send it to the people who were there.
What the app includes
- Polish stories with AI
- AI follow-up questions
- Assemble your stories into a book with AI
- Regenerate AI-written sections as often as you need
- A digital book PDF to read, download, and share
Sample pages. Your book is made from your family's own stories and photos.
Sunday pancakes and other stories
Chapter two
Sunday pancakes
Every Sunday my mother made pancakes. I stood beside her on a kitchen chair, and my job was to say when the butter stopped hissing.
She never measured anything. When I asked how much flour, she said, "Enough." I still cook that way, and it drives your father mad.
Told by Margaret
The first one always went to whoever was hungriest. It was never me, because I had been eating the sugar.
Questions
Before you join
Where the stories live
Your stories are saved on your device and in iCloud. AI and book creation send selected text and photos to our service. Our service also stores book manuscripts and the original story text so you can edit your book.
The app asks before it uses AI help, and you can turn it off later in Settings.
Will my dad actually use it?
There's one question on the screen and one big button to record. He doesn't need to type anything. If he likes writing better, he can type instead.
What kind of book is it?
A digital book in PDF format. You can read it on a phone, tablet or computer, download it and share it with the family.
What does the AI do?
It suggests follow-up questions, tidies spoken words into readable text and helps arrange the stories into chapters with a foreword. You can edit the text and regenerate AI-written sections as often as you need.
What happens when I join the waitlist?
We save your email address and write when the app is ready to download. There's nothing to pay, and you can unsubscribe whenever you like.
The waitlist
Start with one question.
Join the waitlist and we'll tell you when Tell Me Your Story is ready for iPhone. Then find a quiet afternoon and ask the first question.
Free to join. We only email about the launch.