The day he stayed
“He was leaving for Detroit that morning. It rained, the bus never came, and he never went.”
Every life holds a story worth keeping.
A Story is an AI biographer that calls your parents and grandparents, asks about their lives, and keeps what they tell in a private book the whole family can add to.
Start free in your browser, no card. The calls ring in the A Story app on your parent’s iPhone, now in private beta. Reserve, and we email you when the calls open.
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the milestones usually survive.
It’s the everyday.
Mia, 2019 …what she said the night she asked where the moon goes in the daytime.
You were sure you’d remember it word for word. You remember that she asked.
Dad’s garage, 1984 …the story Grandpa only tells with a screwdriver in his hand.
Everyone has heard a piece of it. Nobody has heard all of it at once.
Dan & Sam, ’98 …why you and your oldest friend still can’t say “the canoe trip” without laughing.
The photo shows the canoe upside down. It doesn't settle who tipped it.
Those slip away quietly.
A Story exists to catch what the photograph can’t.
You set it up once on their iPhone. A Story calls in its app, asks about their life from a bank of 547 questions, and keeps what they say in their own words, for the whole family.
Every memory has more than one witness.
Invite the people who were there. Each adds what they remember, under their own name, through one link and with no account needed. Nothing replaces anything else, and nothing appears until the storyteller says yes.
The lake monster
Grandpa Walt · told in a call
I told Lily there was a monster in that lake. I never thought she’d believe me for three whole summers.
Everyone’s version
- Sarah12 photos
She didn’t sleep. She kept watch at the tent door with a flashlight.
- Lily, 11A drawing of it
There WAS a monster. I heard it breathing.
- Uncle BenWritten
The monster was me. With a paddle. Sorry, Lily.
3 additions waiting for WaltReview
One life.Many witnesses.
Seventy years, still being written.
A sample family’s book, the Hartleys’. Each page is a memory one of them told on a call, with what someone else in the family remembers beside it. Turn the pages.
Made to be held.
Made to be passed on.
But this is not the end.
The story keeps going.
Because so do you.
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1952 - still being writtenThe Hartleys
Family is everything to us.
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The Hartley Family
1952 - still being writtenForWalt & Ruth
Who sat on the porch steps and told every story twice.
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Moments & Memories
The Hartley Family
1952 - still being writtenForWalt & Ruth
Who sat on the porch steps and told every story twice.
One day it leaves the screen. Print it at home for free, or order a printed edition from $39.
Start the family’s book today.
Free in your browser, with no card: the archive, the writing and the whole family. The calls are from $19.99 a month and ring in the A Story app on your parent’s iPhone, now in private beta.