FamilyStorysteadWhere your family's stories live on.

A home for your family's history

Keep the stories you never want your family to lose.

FamilyStorystead preserves written memories, authentic voices, photographs, video, relationships, and traditions—connected to the people who make them meaningful.

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Grandma's kitchen Summer 1988
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FAMILYSTORYSTEAD

My Family

YOUR FAMILY ARCHIVE

Welcome back. Every story you add becomes part of something lasting.

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Always make time to sit around the table.

— Family advice

Our mission

Every family deserves to preserve its history.

Not just names and dates. The voices, jokes, hard-earned lessons, ordinary moments, and stories that make a family feel like your family.

Simple on purpose

Start with a story. Build a legacy over time.

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Create your family vault

Give your family a dedicated home for the people and memories you want to preserve.

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Add the people who matter

Build profiles and relationships so every memory stays connected to the people behind it.

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Capture stories in their own voice

Write a memory or record audio when hearing their voice matters just as much as reading their words.

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Pass it forward

Organize, back up, export, and someday hand down a family archive designed to outlive any one device.

Built around family, not content

Your archive should feel like a home for memories—not another social network.

FamilyStorystead is designed around preservation first: meaningful context, simple capture, authentic voices, understandable relationships, and durable exports.

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Stories & memories

Preserve written memories alongside the people, dates, and places that give them meaning.

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Voice recordings

Save the sound of a loved one's voice telling a story in the way only they can tell it.

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Family relationships

Build the family structure around real relationships, including complex and blended families.

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Photos, audio & video

Keep multimedia memories with captions and family context instead of scattered across apps.

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Invite contributions

Let relatives add their perspective while keeping the vault owner in control of what is added.

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Portable family archive

Create backups and readable exports so your memories are not trapped inside one screen forever.

YOUR STORIES
STAY YOURS

Your family is not a product

Preservation should start with trust.

FamilyStorystead is local-first, with your family content stored in app-controlled storage on your device unless you choose to export, save, print, or share it.

  • No public follower counts
  • No advertising feed
  • No AI impersonation of deceased relatives
  • Backups and portability are built into the product
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Beautiful Family Books

Turn preserved memories into something your family can keep.

Build a Family Book from selected stories and photographs. Export a printable PDF or an EPUB designed for Apple Books, with customization options that help the finished book feel like your family.

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OUR FAMILY

My Family

Stories, memories & voices

A MEMORY

Sunday at Grandma's

Every Sunday, the kitchen filled before noon. Someone always brought too much dessert...

Choose what fits your family

Start free. Make more room with Pro.

Your memories are never held hostage. Existing content stays accessible if you reach a Free creation limit.

FamilyStorystead Free

$0

A meaningful place to begin.

  • 1 local vault
  • 10 family members
  • 10 memories
  • 5 multimedia memories
  • Basic Family Books
  • Backup and restore
  • Import Memory Responses and Vault Updates

FamilyStorystead is in development

The best time to save a family story is while someone can still tell it.

We are building a warm, private home for the history your family should never lose.

Coming to iPhone