Founding Families — early access

Your family's story is already being written.

The Book We Keep helps you preserve it as it happens — and give your children a story they can continue.

No credit card. Demo family content only. Production security features are in development.

A parent and child sharing a quiet moment together
The quiet problem

Thousands of photos. Almost no context.

30,000+
photos in the average parent's library
1 in 20
photos ever gets revisited
Almost none
carry the story of why they mattered
A generation
of family voices going unrecorded
How The Book We Keep works

A calmer way to hold your family's story.

Relationships, not files

Navigate your child's story through the people who shaped it — Mom, Grandpa, Aunt Sarah, siblings, teachers, pets.

One gentle question

The Book We Keep quietly surfaces a photo you had almost forgotten and asks one small question. Twenty seconds later, the story is safe.

Voices, not just pictures

Record a grandparent telling the story behind a photograph. Their voice stays with your family forever.

Chapters and keepsakes

Every year becomes a beautiful storybook — "This Was Three," "Summers at the Lake," "Our Yellow House."

Voices, saved

A twenty-second story is a lifetime of remembering.

The Book We Keep records voice memories, keeps the original audio, and creates a searchable transcript. The parent's words and original recording always remain distinguishable from anything The Book We Keep organizes.

Grandma, 0:22
"She always insisted on stirring the batter herself…"
A grandmother and grandchild in a kitchen
A printed chapter book for a family
Chapters & keepsakes

This Was Three.

Every year of childhood becomes a beautifully typeset chapter — with your voices, your photos, and the small moments that made the year itself. Optional printed keepsakes ship separately.

Preview a keepsake
Trust

What The Book We Keep will and won't do with your family's memories.

Private by design

No public profiles. No advertising. Nothing about your family is for sale.

Your family, not our dataset

We will not use your photos, voices, or stories to train AI models.

You control who contributes

Invite grandparents, aunts, and close friends — one person at a time.

Built for the long term

Encrypted family vaults and independent security review are in development for the production release.

Encrypted vaults and independent security review are in development for the production release. See Security for the full list of current and planned protections.

Founding Family pricing

Simple. Honest. One family.

Pricing details →
Monthly
$14.99
per month
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Annual
$119
per year
Save $60
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Printed keepsakes
Sold separately
chapters & annual books
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Founding Family pricing is being tested with early families and may change before general availability.

A note from the family building The Book We Keep

We started The Book We Keep after realizing that our own children would grow up with more photographs of themselves than any generation in history — and almost none of the stories behind them. The Book We Keep is what we wish had existed for our own grandparents.

Answers to what families ask most

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Is The Book We Keep end-to-end encrypted today?

Not yet. The current build is an interactive prototype for founding families. Encrypted family vaults are in active development for the production release.

Will you sell or share our family's data?

No. Family content will never be sold or used to train AI models.

Can grandparents contribute?

Yes. You control who can view and add — one person at a time.

Do you offer printed books?

Yes, sold separately. Chapters and annual books ship as premium keepsakes.

Your family's story deserves more than a camera roll.

Join the first families shaping The Book We Keep.