Family Story Call How it works

A family story gift

The questions you meant to ask your parents, asked for you.

Your parent or grandparent taps a link on their phone and talks with a patient AI interviewer. After each conversation, your private book page gets a chapter in their own words, with the original recordings.

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  • 12 sessions of up to 25 minutes each
  • Their voice, kept beside every chapter
  • Delete everything at any time
The interviewer's screen on a phone. In large type: It's lovely to talk with you. Let's begin with the home you grew up in. What is the first thing you remember about it? Below it, two large buttons: Answer, and That's enough for today.
Question one, as your parent sees it. The interviewer reads it aloud too.

You’ve looked up the questions to ask your parents. You haven’t asked them yet.

The lists are easy to find. Finding an evening when you’re both free, and remembering to press record, is the hard part.

So the interviewer does the asking. It listens, then follows up on what they actually said: a name, a street, the smell of the kitchen. When you set it up, you can list topics to cover and topics to leave alone.

What it asks about, over the sessions

  • The home they grew up in
  • Their parents and grandparents
  • School and friends
  • Early jobs
  • Love and marriage
  • Raising children
  • Hard times, and how they got through
  • Proud moments
  • Traditions and recipes
  • Places they’ve lived
  • What they want the grandkids to know

Mom won’t write her memoir. She’ll talk, though.

A blank journal stays blank. Plenty of people who would never write a page will tell you about their first car for an hour.

There’s nothing to type and nothing to install. They tap Answer, talk the way they would on the phone, and tap again when they’re done.

The chapter is written from their own words: their phrases, in their order, lightly tidied. It uses only what they said, and anything the AI couldn’t make out is marked [unclear] instead of guessed.

A chapter on the book page, set in a book typeface: We lived on Maple Street in a little white house. My father built the porch himself, and in summer we slept out there when it was too hot inside. My mother baked bread every Saturday.
Part of a sample chapter. The storyteller is fictional.

The stories get told at the dinner table, and nobody records them.

Every answer is kept as a recording, under the chapter it became. Read the story about the porch, then tap play and hear her tell it.

Your kids will want to hear Grandma tell it herself, not only read it. The recordings play on your private book page, for anyone you give that link to.

From the book page: Listen to the original recordings. A play button beside the interviewer's question, It's lovely to talk with you. Let's begin with the home you grew up in, and the storyteller's answer: We lived on Maple Street in a little white house. My father built the porch himself.
A question and the answer it got, with its recording. The storyteller is fictional.

Yes, the interviewer is an AI, and it says so

Before the first question, it tells your parent, out loud and on screen, that it is an AI, a computer program, not a person. It explains that the conversation is recorded so the family can keep the stories, and that they can skip any question or stop at any time.

Nothing is recorded until they tap Yes. If they tap Not now, that’s the end of it.

It is patient and speaks plainly. If a subject seems hard, it moves on gently. It doesn’t give advice, and it isn’t therapy.

The screen before anything is recorded. It reads: I am an AI, a computer program, not a person. I will record our conversation so your family can keep your stories. You can skip any question, and stop at any time. Below, two buttons: Yes, that's all right, and Not now.
Before anything is recorded, your parent sees this and hears it read aloud.

A gift that won’t end up in a drawer

Print the gift card and tuck it into a birthday card, or leave it by their plate at Thanksgiving. It has a QR code to their link and the steps in plain words.

Or skip the paper: you send the link yourself, by text or email. We never call, text or email anyone. You decide who gets the link, and when.

The printable gift card. It reads: Family Story Call. For Grandma Peg. A gift from Sam, so your stories are never lost. A QR code, then the steps: open the camera on your phone, point it at the square above, tap the link that appears and tap Start. A friendly AI voice will ask about your life.
The printable gift card. Names are fictional.

How it works

You set it up. They talk. You read and listen.

  1. You give it

    Pay once. Right after checkout, add your name, theirs, what you call them (Mom, Grandpa Joe) and any topics to cover or skip. You get their interview link, your private book link and a printable gift card.

  2. They tap the link and talk

    On their own phone or tablet, in the browser. The interviewer reads each question aloud, listens, then asks a follow-up about what they said. They can stop whenever they like and come back to the same link another day.

  3. You read the chapter and hear their voice

    Shortly after each conversation, a new chapter appears on your book page in their own words, with the recordings beside it. Fix a word, print the book, or save it as a PDF.

What you get

  • 12 sessions of up to 25 minutes each. A session ends after about 8 answers or 25 minutes, whichever comes first.
  • An AI interviewer that reads each question aloud, listens, and asks follow-ups about what was said.
  • A private book page with a chapter per session, in their own words.
  • The original recordings beside each answer.
  • Edit any chapter. The original text is kept.
  • Print the book, or save it as a PDF.
  • A printable gift card with a QR code to their link.
  • Delete everything at any time, from the book page.
  • No app and no account for them, and nothing to install.

The gift

$49one time

No subscription. Nothing renews.

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Secure checkout by Stripe. Right after checkout you set it up and get the links.

Not right for your family? Email us within 30 days for a full refund.

Questions families ask

Something else? Email us.

Is the interviewer a real person?

No. The interviewer is an AI, a computer program. It tells your parent so, out loud and on screen, before the first question.

If they’d rather not talk with a computer, they tap Not now and nothing is recorded.

Is it recorded, and who can hear it?

Yes, but only after your parent agrees. Each answer is recorded so the family can keep it, and turned into text for the chapter.

Anyone who has the private book link or the interview link can get to the stories, so share them the way you’d share a house key. The book link is the one that reads, plays and deletes. There are no public pages, and we never sell any of it or use it for ads.

The details are in the privacy policy.

Can we delete it?

Yes. Delete everything on the book page removes every chapter, transcript and recording at once, after you confirm. It can’t be undone.

Our database provider, Cloudflare, keeps short-term recovery copies of the database, so deleted text can remain in those copies for up to 30 days before they expire.

What does my parent need?

A phone or tablet with a web browser, a microphone (phones and tablets have one built in) and an internet connection. It’s built for Safari on iPhone and iPad, and Chrome on Android.

No app, no account, no password. They tap the link, then tap Start. The phone asks once for permission to use the microphone, and the page explains that in plain words before it happens.

What if they don’t want to talk about something?

They can skip any question, or tap That’s enough for today and stop. When you set it up, you can list topics to leave alone, and the interviewer moves on gently if a subject seems hard. It never pushes.

Will you contact my parent?

No. We never call, text or email anyone. The word call in the name means a spoken conversation in the browser. You send the link yourself, by text, by email or on the printed card.

What if the AI gets something wrong?

It can mishear a name or a place. When it isn’t sure, it marks the words [unclear] rather than guessing, and the chapter uses only what was said. You can edit any chapter on the book page; the original text is kept.

How many conversations are included?

12 sessions, each up to 25 minutes. They can use them at their own pace, and every session adds a chapter to the book.

What if it isn’t right for us?

Not right for your family? Email us within 30 days for a full refund. No form, and no reason needed.

Let them tell it their way. Keep it in their own words.

A patient listener for the stories you’ve only heard in pieces, and a book the family can keep.

Give Family Story Call

$49 once · No app or account for them · 30‑day refund