The Christmas gift for Mom & Dad
The Christmas gift your familywrites together.
Every sibling answers from their phone. On Christmas morning, Mom opens her life story.
They answer free from their inbox. Everything is kept privately in one place — and you can download it all whenever you want.Invite the people who know them. They answer free from their inbox, and every answer, photo and recording is kept in one private archive — one you and your brothers and sisters build together, then give to them.
Free to look around. Then $59 once — no subscription.Takes a minute to set up. Read the questions before you pay anything — then one payment of $59 opens everything for a full year. No subscription, nothing to cancel, and everyone you invite answers free.
- Paid once — $59
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Family helps free
Giving it for Christmas? Start by November so there are answers to give on Christmas morning.
Try it here, nothing to sign up for
Answer three questions right now.
Question 1 of 3
What is she like as a mother, day to day?
Free holiday guide
10 questions to ask Mom this Christmas
The ones families wish they had asked in time. We'll email them to you now — use them at the table, or let the whole family answer them in a book.
Plus two short holiday notes. Unsubscribe with one click.
- 1. What did Christmas look like in the house you grew up in?
- 2. Which present from your childhood do you still remember?
- 3. Who was your first love, and how did you meet?
- 4. What was the hardest year of your life, and what got you through it?
- …and 6 more in your inbox.
The finished gift
Not a feed. A family archive you can sit down and read.
Answers, photographs and recordings are gathered around one person, with every contributor's voice kept intact. Review it together, give it privately, or download the complete Word document.
Chapter two
The home she made
“She always said the kitchen radio was her third child. Every Sunday it played while she made more food than anyone could eat.”
Remembered by her son
Family photographs, stories in everyone's own words, and the recordings that still sound exactly like them.
Included in the gift
Your family's answers become a book — automatically.
Press Read as a book and the scattered questions and answers are arranged into chapters, from childhood to the lessons they want remembered. Nothing to edit, nothing to lay out, no extra cost. It updates itself every time someone adds a memory, and you can print it or save it as a PDF in one click.
Before
Scattered answers
- Q: Where did you grow up? — In a small farm outside town…
- Q: How did you meet Dad? — At a dance, in the rain…
- Q: What are you most proud of? — The four of you…
After
One heirloom book
- Roots & Early YearsChapter One
- Youth & Finding Their WayChapter Two
- Love & PartnershipChapter Three
- Family Life & MilestonesChapter Four
- Reflections, Wisdom & LegacyChapter Five
Written in their own words, with every contributor named under the stories they told.
Click through a sample below — this is exactly how the finished book reads.
Sample — the finished book
Chapter 1 of 5
Chapter One
Roots & Early Years
“We lived above the shop until I was nine. My father opened it at six every morning, and the smell of fresh bread came up through the floorboards. To this day, that smell is my childhood.”
Answered by Anna, about her father
How it fits together
Many people, one person, both directions.
A space belongs to one person. Everyone who knows them answers questions about them, each from their own side. And the people answering can have a space of their own, with you answering about them.
Your mum
One space, everything about her
You
answers questions about your mum — her daughter
Your brother
answers questions about your mum — her son
Her sister
answers questions about your mum — grew up with her
Her oldest friend
answers questions about your mum — knew her at 19
You
Your own space, kept the same way
Your mum
answers questions about you — remembers you small
Your partner
answers questions about you — sees you now
Your child
answers questions about you — one year at a time
Made together, given once
The gift your parents can't buy themselves — and you can't make alone.
You and your brothers and sisters build one space about your mum, your dad, grandma or granddad. Every memory, photograph and recorded voice from all of you, in one place. Then you give it to them.
One of you opens the space
Say who it's for — your mum, your dad, grandma or granddad. It stays private to the people you invite.
Invite your brothers and sisters to build it with you
Each of them adds the memories only they have: the stories, the photos, the voice notes. Nobody has to do it alone.
Give it to them
When it's ready, hand them the space. They read what their children remember about them — in everyone's own words. For a birthday, a big anniversary, or just because.
Your siblings join free. One payment of $59 covers the whole gift — no subscription.
What the family ends up with
A finished life story, kept safe and always yours.
Not a pile of messages in a chat group. One private archive: their answers in their own words, the photographs, the films, their recorded voice — gathered from everyone who knows them and readable in one place for the rest of your family's life.
Their own words and voice
Written answers and recordings, kept exactly as they said them, alongside the photos that belong with them.
Yours to take away, always
Download everything — every question, answer and memory — as a Word document whenever you like. Nothing is ever locked in, including if you stop paying.
Kept on a highly secure database
Encrypted storage, private by default, access given person by person and taken back at any time. Nothing is public and nothing is used to train anything.
Who you can ask
One space per person, and different questions for each.
The questions you'd ask your mother are not the questions you'd ask your brother or your eight-year-old. Choose who the space is for and the questions change to match — hundreds written for each relationship, so nobody is ever asked the same thing twice.
Your parents
Their childhood, the years before you existed, and what they were thinking the day you arrived.
Your partner
The version of them you never met, and the story of how the two of you actually happened.
A grandparent
The generation whose stories disappear first. Their voice, recorded, alongside their words.
A sibling or a friend
The people who remember your own life from the outside, and remember it differently.
Your child
A year at a time, in their own words, kept for the adult they'll become.
Yourself
Answer for yourself, and let the people around you add their memories of you.
Inside a space
Everything they send back, gathered in one place.
Their written answers sit alongside photographs, films and recordings — plus anything you or other relatives add yourselves.
Their actual voice
They can record an answer instead of typing it, or you can upload the voicemail you never deleted.
Everyone who knows them
Invite brothers, cousins and old friends to add their own memories of the same person.
A highly secure database
Encrypted storage, nothing public ever. Access is per space, per person, and you can take it back at any time.
Download it whenever
Export every question, answer and memory to keep on your own computer, any time you like.
The questions
Nobody writes a memoir. Almost everyone answers one question.
Every space starts with 100 questions written for that relationship, and three go out each week on the day you choose. Finish them and ask for the next 100 at no extra cost — up to a thousand. Here are five of them.
- 01What was a normal Tuesday like for you at twenty?
- 02What do you remember about the day I was born?
- 03Which decision changed the direction of your life?
- 04What did your own parents never tell you until much later?
- 05What do you hope I remember about you?
Want the full lists? Read our free question guides for your mum, dad, grandparents and parents, or browse gift ideas and comparisons.
Questions that fit the person
The questions for your mum are not the ones for your brother or your daughter. Pick the relationship and the whole set changes with it.
Questions every week, at your pace
They get questions by email on the day you choose — 3, 5, 10, 15 or 25 at a time, whatever suits them. Small enough to answer over coffee, and every answer lands straight in the space.
Never the same question twice
Each relationship has hundreds of written questions. Finish a hundred and open the next hundred free — up to a thousand per space.
Private until you give it
The person the space is for sees nothing until you press "Give the gift" — send it straight away or schedule it for a birthday or Christmas morning.
Weekly questions, your own wording, group rounds and reminders are part of Story Keeper. See the price.
What we promise
An archive is only worth keeping if you trust where it lives.
Their words, not ours
Everything in a space is exactly what your family wrote, photographed or recorded. Nothing is invented on your behalf, and nothing you write is used to train anything.
The family builds it, the person receives it
Everyone you invite to help — brothers, sisters, old friends — can read the space and add their own memories from the start. The person the space is about only answers their questions, and sees nothing until you hand it over.
You stay in control
A space stays hidden from the person it is for until you press Give the gift — that is the moment they get to read it. Download the whole archive as a Word document whenever you like, and delete a space permanently whenever you choose.
Start with one memory. The rest will follow.
Create your account free — set up a space and read the questions before you pay a thing. No card needed to start.
Start free — no card neededFinishing services
When you want help turning the archive into something finished.
These human-led services are available by request. Tell us what you are making and we will confirm the scope and price before any work begins.
Ask about a finishing serviceBy request
Archive Review
A human checks the organization, captions, repeated stories and obvious gaps.
By request
Life Story Edit
A human editor shapes the collected answers into a readable narrative while preserving your family's words.
By request
Print-Ready Keepsake
A professionally arranged PDF and Word package, ready for the printer you choose.
By request
Interview Concierge
A guided family interview, with its recording and edited transcript added to the space.