Their stories, in their own voice — before they're gone.
A recorder so simple a parent can use it alone: press one button, tell a story, and it arrives safely with the family within seconds. No phone. No app. No setup.
There are questions we always mean to ask. Stories we assume we'll hear again. Then one day the chance is gone — and a voice we'd give anything to hear is only a memory.
Most recorders are built for us, not for them: menus, apps, tiny buttons, logins. For a 95-year-old, that's a wall. So the recording never happens.
How it works
One button. That's the whole thing.
Press
A gentle voice offers a prompt — "Tell me about the house you grew up in." Or just start talking.
Talk
However long you like. Press again when you're done — a gentle buzz confirms it heard you.
Kept safe
The recording reaches your family automatically, within seconds — nothing to send, upload, or manage.
No smartphone. No Wi-Fi fiddling on their end. No monthly login to forget. It's designed for the person telling the story — not the person who set it up.
Built for the people who need it most
Designed around a real person.
Memory Thread was built for David — 95 and legally blind. That's why nothing depends on reading a screen: just a button you can feel, a voice that guides you, and a gentle buzz that confirms it's listening. If it works beautifully for him, it works for anyone.
And the first one? It's school-bus yellow with a big red button — because David drove a school bus for fifty years, and because bright color and light are what his remaining sight can still catch. A red light blinks while it records, so he always knows it's listening. That's how Memory Thread is built: around the person, not the spec sheet.
One family. Three ways to remember.
Each shaped for a different moment
in a family's life.
Ember
Voices that live on.
For preserving a voice when time is short — hospice, memorial, remembrance.
Stitch
One story. Woven together.
For weaving a family's history together across generations.
Hearth
Stories from home. Kept close.
For everyday family stories, kept close at home.
More than a recording
A story worth keeping.
A voice is the beginning. Memory Thread can turn those recordings into something you hold: a written transcript, a bound memoir, a keepsake audio collection — your loved one's life, in their own words, preserved for the people who come after.
This is the piece families tell us they want most. If it matters to you, tell us on the waitlist.
The actual ask
Memory Thread is coming soon.
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Join the waitlist and we'll reach out the moment it's available. It also helps us build the right thing.