Their life, in their own voice

One day you’ll want to hear their stories again.

A life biography, recorded rather than written. We send the questions; they answer on your phone, at their own pace. Your mother, your father, a grandparent, an aunt — or yourself.

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Free during the beta  ·  No app to install  ·  Private unless you share it

Sixty questionsWritten to get past “it was fine” — each with follow-ups for when they dry up.

Forty minutesThat's a first recording. Most families do three sittings and stop worrying about it.

Yours for goodDownload every file whenever you like. No subscription, ever.

What you end up with

A reel of answers, in their own voices

Every question becomes one short film. These four are Luis’s, filmed on his own phone in England — press any of them.

Luis is 83. He started in September and answers one question a week. His page is what yours would look like.

A question card: tell me about the house you grew up in

Step one

We send you the question

One a week, or all sixty at once if you're in a hurry. Every question comes with the follow-ups that turn a thirty-second answer into a proper story — the ones you'd never think to ask in the moment.

Family can add their own too, credited on the page: asked by Tom, aged 9.

A phone recording an answer

Step two

They answer it on a phone

Prop it on a stack of books, sit beside it rather than behind it, ask them, then stay quiet. No app, no editing, no camera crew — and no need for them to be any good at technology, because they never touch it.

Camera-shy? Record their voice over a photograph instead. It works nearly as well.

A finished page, with a photograph and the recorded answers

Step three

It becomes their page

Upload, and the page builds itself: their photograph, their dates, their answers, each one a window you press to hear them. One private link for the whole family — their sister, your kids, the cousins in Australia.

Nothing is public. No search engine, no directory, no strangers.

The questions

Six of the sixty

The easy ones come first. The ones that make people cry are near the end, once they've forgotten the camera is there.

Tell me about the house you grew up in.

Who were your parents, really — not as parents, but as people?

What did you want to be at fifteen, and what happened to that plan?

What was the hardest year of your life, and how did you get through it?

What have you changed your mind about?

What would you say to whoever watches this in fifty years?

Every question can be swapped, skipped or reworded. It's their life, not a form.

What families say

The same thing, every time

That they wish they'd started ten years earlier.

“He talked for forty minutes about a shop that hasn't existed since 1961. I'd never heard any of it.”

A daughter, recording her father

Example — replace

“My kids play the one where she does the voice. That's how they'll remember her — not a photograph.”

A son, recording his mother

Example — replace

“We put the link on the order of service. Half the church had watched him by the evening.”

A family, six months on

Example — replace

What it costs

Free to start. Paid once. Never a subscription.

Nobody should have to decide, one day, whether to switch off someone they loved.

Start here

Free

£0

  • Five questions
  • Three recordings
  • A private link for the family
  • Everything recorded stays watchable
Join the beta

Most families

Family

£79 once

  • All sixty questions
  • Unlimited recordings
  • Ten people can contribute
  • Searchable transcripts
  • Photographs, maps and papers
  • Kept indefinitely, download any time
Join the beta

Nobody pays alone

Everyone chips in

£10+ from anyone

  • Relatives put in what they like
  • Goes to the plan, or the book
  • “Twelve people helped finish this”
  • One person needn't carry it
Join the beta
The hardback book  £59 Forever archive  £49 QR cards for a funeral  £29

Paying adds. It never unlocks.

Every answer already recorded is free to watch, forever, for anyone with the link. We will never put someone behind a paywall and charge their sister to see them. Money buys more — more questions, the book, the promise it's still here in 2075.

Beta · ten families

We’re recording the first ten families now

The pages are built and the questions are written. What we need are ten mothers and fathers willing to answer one question a week while we find out what works.

What you get

  • A private page for your mother or father, made for you
  • One question a week, sent to them on WhatsApp in your name
  • They answer by filming on their own phone — no app, no account, nothing to install
  • You do nothing after signing up. We handle the rest.
  • Free, for as long as the beta runs

What we ask

  • Twelve weeks — about three months of Sundays
  • Tell us honestly when it doesn’t work, especially if they can’t manage it
  • Let us learn from how it goes. Their films and their name stay yours, and are never shown to anybody without your say-so.
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Only 10 places. When they’re gone there’s a waiting list, and no, there is nothing to pay.

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