You do the easy setup. They just talk.
My Family Porch turns the conversation you keep meaning to have into something that actually happens — and lasts. Here's exactly how it goes, from the day you set it up to the keepsake your family keeps.
Three steps, start to keepsake.
The hard part — remembering to ask, and saving it before it's gone — is the part we handle.
Set it up for your loved one — in minutes
Add the person whose stories you want to keep, and choose the topics you'd love to hear about.
You pick what matters to your family — childhood, how they met, the years nobody talks about anymore — or let our guided library lead the way. There's nothing for your loved one to install or sign up for. You do this part once, from your phone or computer.
They get a gentle prompt — and simply answer
Every so often a warm, one-at-a-time question arrives. They answer out loud, in their own time.
The prompts are designed to feel like a grandchild asking, not a form to fill out. There's no app to learn, no screen to figure out, no timer counting down — it works over a normal phone. If they're not in the mood today, that's fine; the next gentle nudge comes around later.
Their voice becomes a keepsake you keep forever
Each answer is transcribed and saved into a growing collection of stories — in their actual voice.
Stories gather automatically into a private, beautifully laid-out collection your whole family can listen to and read. Over weeks and months it grows into a real keepsake — a book you can hear, with voice QR codes — that's yours to download and keep, whatever happens next.
Gentle enough for the least techy person you love.
The whole experience is designed around the person answering — large, calm, forgiving, and voice-first.
No app to learn
It works over a normal phone. Nothing to download, no password to remember — they answer a prompt out loud, and that's the whole experience.
Unhurried, never pushy
Prompts arrive gently, one at a time. There's no timer, no scolding, no dead-end if they miss one — the next warm nudge simply comes around again.
It's their actual voice
We keep the real recording — the pauses, the laugh, the way they say your name — not just a transcript. That's the part you'll treasure most.
A keepsake, not just a pile of recordings.
Their stories come back to you in the ways your family will actually use — to listen, to read, to share, and to keep.
- Every story in their voice, gathered into one private collection.
- A beautiful book you can hear — with voice QR codes on the page.
- Shared with the whole family: siblings, kids, and grandkids.
- Download everything, any time — it's yours, not ours.
“We didn't have much, but we had that porch, and on summer nights the whole street would end up on it.”
Your family's stories stay your family's.
Recordings are kept private and family-isolated — visible only to the family members you invite. They're never sold, and they're always yours to download and take with you.
Ready when you are. So are their stories.
Setup takes a few minutes, and the first question can go out today.