The story keeps growing.
Static books are finished the day they're printed. Living Story is the only platform where your family's history stays alive — automatically updated, forever accessible, and preserved exactly as you told it.
Annual plans include a printed hardcover book delivered every year.
“Stories are the keys to the past and hope for the future.”
Two Ways to Tell Your Story
For Life Stories
Record your memories in your own voice. Living Story organizes them into a beautiful interactive memoir your family can explore — and prints it as a hardcover book delivered to your door each year.
For Family Chronicles
Import photos, add the stories behind them, and watch your family's year come together — complete with a Wrapped-style Year in Review.
See What a Living Story Looks Like
Explore real stories with photos, voice recordings, and interactive chapters — all built from a single family's memories.
Life Story Memoir
Bernice's Story
A grandmother's journey through 7 decades of love, family, and unforgettable moments — told in her own words.
Family Year in Review
The Martinelli Family
A family's 2025 — games, milestones, celebrations, and everyday magic captured month by month.
They make a book. We make a Living Story.
Private by Default
Your stories are only visible to people you invite.
Bank-Level Encryption
All data encrypted in transit and at rest.
You Own Your Stories
Export everything anytime. Your data is yours.
No Ads. Ever.
We make money from subscriptions, not your data.
Built differently — from the ground up
Every feature was designed around one idea: your memories belong to you, in your voice, forever.
Your voice, your words
Toggle between verbatim transcription or light AI polish. We never rewrite your story without permission.
Ask Grandma directly
Family members can submit questions. The storyteller records a personal voice answer. Real conversation, preserved forever.
Download everything, anytime
Your memories belong to you. Export a complete ZIP of every entry, photo, voice recording, and video — yours forever, no subscription required.
One subscription. Two storytellers.
Couples and partners can co-create a single shared story. No extra seat needed.
Your memories are yours forever.
Unlike platforms that lock your stories behind QR codes or proprietary apps, Living Story lets you download everything, anytime. If we ever shut down — you keep it all.
Every entry as a text file
Every voice recording as audio
Every photo as an image
How does Living Story compare?
See how the platforms stack up on the things that actually matter.
StoryWorth
- Weekly email prompts only
- Static printed book
- No AI conversations
Remento
- AI rewrites your stories
- QR codes expire if they close
- Phone/tablet only
Living Story
- Flexible rhythm, your schedule
- Living website + download everything
- Family asks questions, you answer in your voice
A Living Story
The Memories
We Keep
Your Family Name
Volume I — 2026
1 Book
Per Year
Included
Included with every annual plan
Your stories become a real book. Every year.
Every year, your stories, photos, and voice transcriptions are compiled into a beautifully designed hardcover book and shipped straight to your door. It's a real, hold-in-your-hands heirloom — not just a PDF, not just a website.
- Hardcover, lay-flat binding — built to last generations
- Your voice transcriptions, photos, and stories inside
- AI-curated layout with your chapter structure
- Ships annually — a new edition each year as your story grows
- Additional copies available to order for family members
The digital Living Story website is included too — always available, always growing.
What Families Are Saying
“I never thought I'd enjoy recording stories, but it's become my favorite part of the week. My grandkids ask me to tell them another one every time they visit.”
Margaret T.
Grandmother, 78
“We used to just dump photos in Google Photos and forget about them. Now every photo has a story, and our kids actually go back and read them.”
Sarah L.
Mom of 3
“I can ask questions about my grandfather's life and hear answers in his own words. It's like having a conversation with him even though he's no longer here.”
James K.
Grandson, 34
Simple, Transparent Pricing
Start free and upgrade when you're ready. Every plan keeps your stories safe forever.
Billed annually at $99/year
1 printed hardcover book/year
Shipped annually to your door
- Unlimited entries
- Living Story website
- 15 members
- AI organization & chapters
- Embedded in your Living Story
- Voice transcription
Billed annually at $180/year
2 printed hardcover books/year
Share copies with family members
- Unlimited entries
- Living Story website
- 30 members
- AI organization & chapters
- Embedded in your Living Story
- Voice transcription
- Voice playback for family
- Story Playlist Mode
- Paired Story (share with partner)
- Custom subdomain
- PDF book export
- Story analytics
Archive
Done adding new stories, but not done sharing them? Archive keeps your Living Story online forever — with voice playback, AI conversations for family, and memorial mode — at a fraction of the active subscription price.
- Read-only
- Living Story website
- Existing members
- 20 conversations/mo
- Voice playback for family
- PDF book export
- Memorial mode
Billed annually at $49/year