Good questions. Honest answers.

It's a gentle companion app for parents and grandparents. Every day it asks one personal question out loud — about childhood, family, work, love, wisdom. The storyteller answers by talking, and their words are turned into a beautifully written life story, organized into chapters, that the whole family can read.

The storyteller is usually a parent or grandparent — the app is designed for older adults, with big buttons, large text, spoken instructions, and nothing technical to learn. The readers are their family: children, grandchildren, siblings, anyone they invite.

No. If they can answer a phone call, they can use Family Diary. The companion speaks every question aloud, and answering is just talking. There are no menus to learn and only one thing to do each day.

iPhone and Android. Family members can also read the diary on any web browser — no app needed.

Typing is always available with a large, comfortable text box. Voice is just the easiest way for most storytellers.

It works from a map of 65 life-story topics across 10 chapters — from first memories to hard-won wisdom. It tracks what's already been told (even things mentioned in passing) and never asks about something the story already covers. Questions get personal fast: if Dad mentioned his father's bakery, tomorrow's question might be about how it smelled on a Saturday morning.

It polishes — it never invents. Grammar is smoothed and rambles are organized, but the meaning, the voice, and the charming phrasings stay. Nothing is ever added that wasn't said, and every passage can be edited or removed with a tap or a sentence.

Yes. Open any passage and just say the change — "add that the dog was named Rex" — or type it. The diary rewrites the passage gracefully and keeps everything else intact.

Yes — photos can be attached to any chapter, right beside the memories they belong to, and they appear in the diary's photo gallery and on the family website.

There's a head start option: talk freely for 10 or 20 minutes — the whole life story, in any order — and the diary sorts it into chapters immediately. From then on, the daily questions fill in what's missing.

Two ways. In the app: scan the diary's QR code, create a free account, and the diary appears in the app. On the web: the same QR code opens the diary's own page at familydiary.ai, readable on any device.

No. Reading a diary is completely free, forever. Anyone can create a free account to read along, love a story, ask a question, and explore the family tree. Only the storyteller — the person telling their own life story — needs a subscription.

Yes, and it's free. Family readers can love a story with a tap, and ask a question they've always wondered about. That question becomes the storyteller's next daily prompt — so the people who love them help shape the story.

Each storyteller can build a warm family tree of their relatives, with real faces. When a relative has their own diary, tapping them opens their life story — so the tree becomes a living map of your whole family's memories.

The storyteller. Every diary starts private: it needs both the unguessable link and a 6-digit family code. It can be made public (anyone with the link can read) or reset — new link, new code — at any time with one tap.

No. Family members are readers. Only the storyteller can add, edit, or remove memories.

It stays with the family, always. A storyteller can name a trusted family member as a steward. When the time comes, that steward can turn the diary into a gentle memorial — it remains readable for the whole family forever, with no subscription required to keep it.

Yes. You can order a small, weatherproof QR sticker for a headstone or memorial. A visitor scans it and the person's whole life story opens — their voice, their chapters, their photos. Learn more on the memorial keepsake page.

Yes. A completed life story is meant to outlast us. Memorialized diaries stay readable for the family at no cost, and you can always export the entire story and photos as a PDF to keep offline as well.

Private by default, and built security-first. Access rules are enforced in the database itself, not just the app; diary links are unguessable; family codes are stored encrypted and locked out after repeated wrong guesses; and photos live in private storage that only permitted readers can open.

No. Stories are processed only to write the diary itself, are never used to train AI models, and are never sold or shared with advertisers.

Yes — export the complete story and all photos whenever you like. And if you delete the account, everything is permanently deleted with it.

In professionally managed, encrypted cloud infrastructure in the United States, with security controls enforced at every layer. Payment details never touch our servers at all — billing is handled by Apple and Google.

Reading is always free. Telling your own story is free for the first 7 days, then $6.99/month — or $49.99/year, which saves over 40%. Everything is included on either plan. See Pricing.

Straight from the phone's subscription settings (App Store or Google Play), any time. No phone calls, no hoops.

It stays. The full diary and all photos remain readable for the storyteller and the family, forever. Only adding new memories pauses until the subscription restarts.

Yes — it's one of the most loved ways to start. Buy a full year of Premium for someone right in the app (Settings → Give Family Diary as a gift). You get a code to share; they redeem it in the app and get a whole year to tell their story. It's a wonderful gift for a parent or grandparent who has stories worth keeping.

Yes. Premium is $6.99/month, or $49.99/year — the yearly plan saves over 40% (about $4.17/month). You choose when you subscribe; everything is included on either plan.