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AI Family Memoir · Now in early access

Your family's stories,
written beautifully. Forever.

Just talk. Memoira's AI listens, asks the right questions, and writes a polished memoir chapter in your loved one's authentic voice — every month.

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Works via text message — no app needed
Memoira · Chapter 4 — The Brooklyn Years
AI biographer
You mentioned the corner store on Fulton St. What was its name, and what do you remember about it?
Castillo's. It smelled like coffee and sawdust. Mr. Castillo knew everyone's name. Even the kids.
That's a beautiful detail. What age were you when this was your neighborhood?
Oh, eight or nine. Maybe 1953. Before we moved to the Bronx.
AI writing live

Chapter 4 — The Brooklyn Years

📷 AI placed: Brooklyn 1953 photo at this moment

Castillo's was the kind of place that smelled like coffee and sawdust — a combination that, even now, takes me straight back to Fulton Street. Mr. Castillo knew every name in the neighborhood. Even the kids. Especially the kids...

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How it works

Three steps to a beautiful family memoir

You talk. We write. No tech skills, no writing required — just genuine conversations with the people you love.

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Have a conversation

Memoira's AI starts a monthly conversation — via text, voice, or SMS. It asks warm, thoughtful questions that draw out real stories. Your family member just talks naturally.

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AI writes the chapter

While they talk, our AI writes a polished, beautifully worded memoir chapter in their authentic voice — capturing their humor, rhythm, and vocabulary. Not a transcript. A story.

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Build a lasting memoir

Chapters compile into a stunning digital memoir — with photos woven inline at the right moments. Print a hardcover anytime. The stories live in the Legacy Vault forever.

Try it yourself

See the AI write in real time

Type a memory or answer the AI's question below. Watch as Memoira turns your words into a beautifully written memoir passage — instantly.

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George Rivera · Chapter 5

The Bronx · Coming to America

15% done
🤖 Memoira AI · learning George's voice
Memoira AI
George, tell me about the day you first arrived in New York. What's the first thing you remember seeing?
AI writing live
Chapter 5 · Draft
Coming to America
Start the conversation on the left — your chapter will appear here as you talk...
Every feature you need

Everything the others got wrong — we fixed

We studied every competitor's reviews and built the features their customers kept wishing existed.

AI ghostwriter

Talk naturally. Memoira writes a publication-quality chapter in your loved one's authentic voice. Not a transcript — a real story with narrative arc.

✕ StoryWorth & Remento: you still have to write or edit yourself
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Voice style learning

After 2 conversations, our AI learns how this person tells stories — their humor, their vocabulary, their pacing — and matches it in every chapter it writes.

✕ No competitor offers this
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Smart photo weaving

Upload a photo album. Our AI reads dates and faces, then places each image inline at exactly the right narrative moment — not just at chapter headers.

✕ Remento: header-only · StoryWorth: manual upload
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Life timeline view

Every chapter becomes a point on a visual chronological timeline of your family member's life. Tap any decade to see what's captured — or start a new chapter there.

✕ No competitor has this
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SMS — no app needed

Grandma doesn't need a smartphone or camera. She just texts. Memoira's AI responds via SMS, pulls out the story, and writes the chapter automatically.

✕ Remento requires smartphone + camera + account
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Inherited story connections

When two family members mention the same place, person, or event, Memoira links the chapters — showing the same moment from two different perspectives.

✕ No competitor has this
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"This Day" prompts

On birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays, Memoira sends a perfectly timed question: "Dad, what were you doing on this date forty years ago?"

✕ No competitor has this
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Legacy vault

All stories, voice recordings, and photos stored in an encrypted vault. Designated family members gain access after the subscriber passes. The memoir lives forever.

✕ StoryWorth: account deleted on inactivity
Life timeline

A whole life, beautifully mapped

Every chapter you record becomes a point on a visual timeline spanning your family member's entire life. See what's captured, what's missing, and start any new chapter with one tap.

George Rivera · Life timeline

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1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
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George Rivera
Born May 25, 1942 · Brooklyn, NY · 8 chapters recorded
1942 — birth

Born in Brooklyn, New York

"My mother always said I came into the world already arguing. She wasn't wrong about much."

1953 — childhood

The Brooklyn summers — Castillo's corner store

Playing stickball, Castillo's bodega on Fulton St., the smell of coffee and sawdust, Hector's transistor radio...

1963 — milestone

Meeting Rosa — the party in the Bronx

"She was the only one not dancing, watching everyone with a look that said she'd already figured us all out."

1965–1980 — not yet recorded

Marriage, children, early career — tap to record

AI has 14 questions ready for this era, based on everything George has already shared.

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Inherited story connection found
George and his father both mention "the Bronx summers" and cousin Hector. Three chapters from two generations reference the same record player. Memoira has linked these automatically — tap to see the full family thread.
Simple pricing

Start free. Pay only when you're hooked.

14 days free, no credit card. Cancel anytime. Unlike StoryWorth's forced annual commitment, you print your book whenever you're ready.

Monthly Annual Save 35%
Starter
$9.99
per month · 1 family member
  • Monthly AI conversation
  • AI-written memoir chapters
  • Life timeline view
  • SMS text input
  • 50 photos in vault
  • Voice style learning
  • Printed book included
Legacy
$99
per year · full family archive
  • Everything in Family
  • Unlimited family members
  • Unlimited photos
  • 2 printed hardcovers/year
  • Perpetual legacy vault
  • Family genealogy tree
  • Priority support
Real families

The stories that matter most, finally preserved

★★★★★
"My mother is 84 and has never used a smartphone in her life. I set up Memoira to text her. Two weeks later I was reading her childhood in Cuba in her exact voice, her exact words. I cried for an hour."
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Maria M.
Miami, FL · Family plan
★★★★★
"We tried StoryWorth and my dad wrote three sentences and gave up. With Memoira, the AI just asks him questions and he talks. The chapters it writes are genuinely beautiful — it sounds exactly like him."
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James K.
Chicago, IL · Family plan
★★★★★
"The inherited story feature floored me. My grandmother and my father had both mentioned the same street in Santo Domingo — from 40 years apart — and Memoira connected them. I didn't even know they'd both lived there."
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Sofia R.
New York, NY · Legacy plan
Questions

Everything you're wondering

Not at all. Memoira works over simple text message — your family member gets an SMS, types back their answer, and our AI handles everything from there. No app, no login, no camera required. If they can send a text, they can use Memoira.

After the first 1–2 conversations, our AI analyzes how your family member naturally tells stories — their vocabulary, sentence length, use of humor, tendency to digress (or not), and emotional register. It then uses this voice profile to write every chapter, adjusting as it learns more over time.

Every chapter comes with a full editor. You can tweak any word, swap a phrase, move a photo, or ask the AI to rewrite a specific section in a different tone. You always have complete control before anything is finalized or printed.

Any time. Unlike StoryWorth, which locks you into a year-end book, Memoira lets you order a printed hardcover of any chapter set whenever you're ready. A 10-chapter book, a holiday gift of the first three chapters, the full 40-year memoir — you choose. Additional copies start at $29.

Your stories are yours. You can export everything — chapters, photos, audio — at any point. On the Legacy plan, your vault remains accessible to designated family members indefinitely, even after the subscriber is gone. We believe these stories should outlast us all.

Yes — this is one of Memoira's most powerful features. On the Family and Legacy plans, each family member has their own conversation thread and voice profile, but all chapters compile into one shared family memoir. Memoira also detects when different members reference the same event and links those chapters together.

Start preserving the stories that matter most

14 days free. Your family's first chapter, written beautifully.