For grandparents, aunts, uncles and trusted friends
The thing the wider family actually wants
Not another photo of a sleeping baby. A place in the story — somewhere grandparents, aunts, uncles, godparents and trusted friends can put down what they saw, in their own words, and know it survives.
How it usually goes
The photos arrive on WhatsApp at eleven at night. The godparents' version of the same afternoon never arrives at all. Grandparents, aunts and uncles tell the best stories — they've got time, perspective, and no need to be in the middle of it — and none of it is written anywhere. In ten years nobody can reconstruct who was there, what was said, or what the ordinary Tuesday looked like.
What the wider family gets
Their own login
A personal invitation for any trusted adult, not just relatives. Choose grandparent, aunt, uncle, godparent or Other — no shared password needed.
Record it out loud
A voice note in the car after they've driven home gets written down for them and attached to the child's timeline. Typing is there if they prefer it.
They see their own entries
Contributors can add memories for any child in the family but only see the ones they wrote themselves — so nobody reads anyone else's notes over a shoulder.
It's not another app to learn
Two buttons: write, and record. Add it to a phone's home screen and it opens straight to the family.
What parents keep control of
Parents run the family as admins: they see every memory any member has added, decide who gets invited and in which role, and can change or remove someone at any time. A contributor's role is the deliberate middle ground — real involvement, no access to everyone else's entries.
Reminders only ever go to the admins running the family, so nobody's inbox gets filled and grandparents, aunts and uncles are never being chased.
It also makes a better gift
For a new grandparent, a grandparent-to-be, or the aunt or uncle who was there from day one, an invite is the present that keeps producing: they're part of something from week one, and by the first birthday they've written the sections nobody else could have written. If you want to give it as a physical thing, print the invite and hand it over — the link behind it does the rest.
Start before the baby arrives
Create the family, add the due date as a child, and invite the people who'll be there. The first memories get recorded while they're still fresh, and grandparents, aunts and uncles are writing from the very beginning rather than trying to catch up a year later.
Unsure what to ask them? This page lists the questions we use, by age, from birth to sixteen.
Bring them in from the start
Set up the family, invite grandparents, aunts, uncles and other trusted adults, and let them add their own memories from day one.
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