Her voice. Her stories. Yours forever.
HeartTold captures your parent's life story through guided weekly conversations, an optional hardcover memoir when you're ready, and a voice you can still talk to, in her words, whenever you need to.
A year of gentle weekly conversations, that you can turn into a hardcover book in her own words, and a voice you can still talk to.
How it works
A real interview. Not a questionnaire.
Pick the questions
Choose from hundreds of prompts across 7 life themes, childhood, family, career, love, wisdom, or let HeartTold guide the whole conversation.
She just talks
By laptop or phone call, whatever she's comfortable with. No app, no login, no password. She picks up and talks.
Her words become a story
Every answer is saved in her own voice and woven into flowing, written chapters, fully editable, nothing invented.
The family hears it, forever
Every new story is shared instantly. Read it, listen to it, ask it questions. Then, when she's ready, a beautiful printed memoir.
The conversation doesn't have to end.
For most of us, the hardest part of losing someone isn't forgetting them. It's that the conversations stop.
HeartTold was built so they don't have to. Once she's shared enough of herself, around five meaningful conversations is all it takes, HeartTold can answer you in her true voice, drawing only on what she actually said. Nothing scripted, nothing invented, nothing she didn't say herself. It's a way to hear “I'm proud of you” one more time. To ask the question you never quite got to ask. To let your children hear their grandmother the way you did.
She chooses this, that comes before everything else. It's never switched on for her, only by her. Every answer is built from her recorded words and nothing more. And it grows richer with every conversation you have while she's still here to have them.
How it works inside our books
Every memoir is a real printed hardcover, not a PDF you print yourself. These are real pages from Eleanor's book.
Step inside a real HeartTold memory vault
This is Eleanor Brooks' actual vault — six completed interviews, her memoirs, her family tree, all built the same way yours would be. No signup required to look around.
The real book, 42 pages, her chapters and her photos. Yours will look just like this.
My mother is 80.
She has always been the storyteller of our family — her childhood, her values, the recipes she never wrote down, the things she believed in and the things she'd never have stood for. She tells me these stories on the phone, at family gatherings, in passing. And every time, the same thought: I have never actually captured any of this. Not properly. Not in a way that lasts.
I went looking for something that would. There was nothing built for an 80-year-old who isn't tech-savvy — nothing warm enough to sit with her, week after week, and gently draw the stories out. So I built it. HeartTold calls her, warmly, every week. Gentle questions, her answers, her voice — kept.
Then she mentioned some upcoming heart tests. She'd had a severe heart attack fifteen years ago. And a cold thought landed: she won't always be with us.
That changed what HeartTold had to be. Because if we capture enough, her stories, her memories, the way she sees the world, something becomes possible that never was before. Not a recording you play back. A conversation you can still have, in the voice you know, drawn entirely from what she actually told us. Five meaningful conversations is where it begins, and it only grows richer from there.
I'm not building HeartTold as a startup. I'm building the thing I needed and couldn't find, for the person I most want to keep in my life, and for everyone who feels the same about someone in theirs.
— Scott, Co-Founder
Read the full story →Not a questionnaire. A conversation.
Most services send a question once a week by email. HeartTold conducts a real interview, listening to every answer and deciding what to ask next.
Smart follow-up questions
Every answer unlocks a deeper question. Where did you grow up? becomes What was your street like? becomes Tell me about your neighbours. The stories people have never told come out.
Interview by phone call
Not everyone is comfortable with technology. HeartTold can call her. She picks up the phone and talks. The AI listens and guides the whole conversation.
A searchable family memory
Stories don't sit in a PDF. Ask the family AI anything ("What did Gran say about her first job?") and get her answer in her own words.
Beautiful printed memoirs
When you're ready, add a gorgeous printed memoir book, included on the Family and Legacy plans or ordered separately. But the interview is the product. The book is just one of many ways to share it.
Don't lose the stories that matter most
Their life story, in their own voice
Guided conversations capture the moments, memories and lessons that rarely get written down.
Conversations that feel natural
Simple phone calls that flow like a real discussion, not an interview or a form to fill in.
Something your family keeps forever
Structured, stored and easy to revisit for years to come.
Simple pricing
Start free. No credit card required.
- 1 saved interview
- Smart follow-up questions
- Type or speak your answers
- Basic PDF export
- Unlimited interviews
- All 5 memoir PDF styles
- Automated weekly calls
- Unlimited interviews
- Smart follow-up questions
- All 5 memoir PDF styles
- Family sharing
- Photo and document uploads
- Automated weekly calls
- Gift invites
- 5 family member seats
- Unlimited interviews per seat
- All 5 memoir PDF styles
- Family sharing
- Photo and document uploads
- Automated weekly calls
- 1 printed book per year
- 10 family seats
- Unlimited interviews
- All 5 memoir PDF styles
- Family sharing
- Photo and document uploads
- Unlimited printed books
- Priority support
- White-glove setup call
Secure checkout via Stripe. Cancel anytime.
Her stories belong to your family. Forever.
Every recording and every story you create is yours to keep, whether or not you renew.
Yours to download
Save the original recordings and stories to your own device anytime.
Private by design
Only the family members you invite can see and hear a story.
A permanent keepsake
The printed book, included on the Family and Legacy plans or ordered separately, lasts for generations, with no subscription required to keep it.
A gift for yourself, or someone you love
Give a year of HeartTold, and every week becomes a reason to call.
Her voice. Your gift. Forever.
Give a year of HeartTold Pro to someone you love, $79 one-time. We deliver by warm gift email, a friendly phone call to walk Mum through her first interview, or straight to your inbox so you can hand it over yourself. Magic-link activation, no passwords, no apps.
Frequently asked questions
Your first interview is completely free, no card needed, with a basic PDF of the story. Paid plans unlock unlimited interviews and all 5 memoir PDF styles; Family and Legacy plans include a printed hardcover book (one a year on Family, unlimited on Legacy).
No. HeartTold can call their normal phone, no app, no login, no password. They just pick up and talk. If they prefer, they can also answer online at their own pace, typing or speaking.
After around five meaningful conversations, HeartTold can answer new questions in your loved one's own cloned voice, drawing only from what they've actually shared with us. It's consent-first: they choose to turn it on, and every answer comes from their own words.
Yes. The voice is cloned from their real recordings, not a generic synthetic voice. An optional emotion-reading session adds a natural range of warmth, surprise and expression.
Private by design. Only the family members you invite can see and hear a story. Stories are stored securely and never shared or sold.
The first interview is free. Paid plans start from $84 a year. Checkout is secure via Stripe, and you can cancel anytime.
The stories are there. They just need someone to ask.
Every day without a recording is a story closer to being lost forever. HeartTold asks the questions nobody else thinks to ask, by laptop or by phone.
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