What works today

Two ways to start.

Browser story layout

The free browser demo prepares one text story with a speaker, original-language text, optional manually supplied translation and family context. Preview, review and download a self-contained HTML page. Private reminders never enter that export. Save one unfinished text draft on this device, or download and restore a private JSON draft containing reminders. Attach an existing WAV, MP3 or M4A recording up to 10 MiB and explicitly include it in a reviewed, playable story page. Text drafts exclude audio. A separate story-with-recording save keeps one complete editable draft locally; a private recording JSON backup can restore text and original bytes together. No photograph, cloud saving or automatic translation is included.

Native iOS development app

• One local project, up to 20 stories, speaker/language labels, interview prompts and private notes.
• Import original audio, or record an explicitly started take of up to ten minutes. Preview before keeping it.
• Add a photograph, original-language text and your own translation.
• Review and export selected stories with originals as a portable ZIP; private-note fields and unselected stories are excluded.
• Keep a private backup containing the entire project and original files.

The native app is a development build, not an App Store or TestFlight release. It is not available for purchase here.

Know the limits

There is no automatic transcription, translation, family account, invitation, hosted archive or payment. Native audio imports are capped at 25 MB, photographs at 5 MB, and total originals at 50 MB. Neither the browser HTML story nor its private JSON draft is a native backup or can be restored into the native app. You can copy its text manually.

Try the browser layout · Read saving and sharing guidance

Build a text booklet

Import up to ten private text drafts into an ordered booklet workspace. Select stories, review the full printable collection and download offline HTML for Letter or A4. The workspace is temporary; existing saves and recordings stay separate.