Capture your parents' memories.
Their stories stay forever.

Memoir turns the life stories of the people you love into a beautifully produced audiobook — in their own voice, to keep forever.

Ten of you will get your parents' memoir at no cost.

A family gathered around their grandmother, listening to her memoir on a phone in warm lamplight.

One records. The family receives. Forever.

A daughter helps her mother set up Memoir on a phone.

Set it up

Together or remotely, you can set it up in 5 min.

An older woman speaking into the phone, wearing headphones, telling her story.

They tell their story

Memoir gently guides the conversation and captures every memory.

A family listening together to the finished memoir.

Your family listens forever

A beautifully produced audiobook in their voice. For generations.

A pilot chapter

Hear what an audiobook of a life sounds like.

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Martha

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Three pilot chapters — in their own voices.

Why we built this

Every week my mother leaves her house at two in the morning, dressed for a nine a.m. class. She tells me she sees 1:30 on the clock but no longer knows what it means. She's stopped cooking. She's eighty.

The window to capture her voice — her humor, her stories — is closing every week.

Memoir is what I wish I'd had a year ago. We built it for our parents first.

Ron Levi · Founder, Memoir

What Memoir Is

A patient interviewer for your parent. An audiobook for your family.

For the parent

One button. No menus. A friend, waiting.

Twice a week, twenty minutes at a time. A warm, patient interviewer — chosen by you — calls and asks the questions you've never quite known how to ask. They listen. They follow the thread. They never rush.

For the family

An audiobook of their life. In their own voice.

About ninety minutes of polished audio. Branded chapters. Scored music. Their stories — the ones you grew up hearing, and the ones you didn't — told the way they tell them. Yours to keep. Theirs to leave behind.

What Arrives

It begins with a box.

A keepsake box arrives at their door — a studio-grade lavalier mic, ready to clip on and begin. No setup, no fuss. Just press record.

The Keepsake Box

A Memoir-branded keepsake box on a wooden side table, opened to reveal a studio-grade lavalier microphone.

Yours to keep — long after the last chapter.

The Biographers

Choose who interviews them. Each with their own voice.

Eight biographers, each with a distinct style. Warm and curious. Nurturing and wise. Reflective. Elegant. The right one becomes a friend who keeps coming back.