Choosing an app for family memories: honest comparisons
What Storyworth, Remento, FOREVER, Google Photos and The Memory Palace are each good at, what they cost, and what happens when you stop paying.
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How do I share photos with grandparents who don't use social media?
Prints by post, a photo frame, a link they open in the browser or a monthly letter on paper: how to keep grandparents in the loop without Facebook or Instagram.
Which family tree app also keeps photos, stories and voices?
Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch Memories and The Memory Palace compared on what matters for photos, stories and voices: what you can attach, who sees it, and what each is for.
Is there a Storyworth alternative that keeps the voice and the photos too?
Storyworth alternatives that keep a parent's voice and the family photos, not only written answers: Remento, Ancestry, MyHeritage, Google Photos, The Memory Palace.
What is a private alternative to Facebook for family memories?
Where a family can share photos and stories with only the people it invites: a private Facebook group, WhatsApp, Google Photos, iCloud and The Memory Palace compared.
Google Photos or a memory palace: when do you need more than an album?
Google Photos is the better backup for every photo. A memory palace is for the photos that matter, with their stories and voices. When to use which, or both.
The graveyard of memory apps, and which ones let you leave
Seventeen services for photos, voices and stories that closed or lost content since 2012, with the notice users got and whether they could take their files out. Plus an export index of 20 active services, scored on five criteria from their own help pages. We make one of them, and score it the same way.
Best apps to record your grandparents' stories and voices (2026)
Remento, Storyworth, Tellus, StoryCorps, FamilySearch Memories and The Memory Palace compared: how you record, what you keep, who can listen along, what it costs and how you get the recordings out.
Memory keeper app: how to choose one for your family
What a family memory keeper app does, seven questions to ask before you trust one with your photos, voices and stories, and how The Memory Palace works as one.
My Mother's Book, but digital: the tell-me journal and the apps compared
Elma van Vliet's fill-in journals are lovely books. Where paper stops, which apps do the same with voice and photos, an honest comparison, and how to start around All Saints.
Best apps to keep family stories and photos together (2026)
Storyworth, Remento, MyLifeLedger, FamilySearch, Google Photos, FOREVER and The Memory Palace: format, price, who can view, export and languages.
Storyworth in other languages? The alternatives compared
Storyworth works in English and Spanish. If your parent speaks Dutch, German or French, these services ask the questions in their language.
Storyworth: price, how it works and 5 alternatives (2026)
Storyworth sends a weekly question for a year, then prints the answers as a book. Plans listed at $69, $99 and $199, how it works, and 5 alternatives.
Remento: $99 a year, how it works and 4 alternatives
Remento turns spoken answers into written stories and a book with QR codes, $99 the first year. How it works, and 4 alternatives, two of them free.
FOREVER: one-time price, guarantee and 5 alternatives
FOREVER sells storage once, from $179.99 for 10 GB to $10,999.99 for 2 TB, guaranteed for your lifetime plus 100 years. What that means, and 5 alternatives.
Google Photos for family history: strengths and gaps
Google Photos is a superb backup and search tool. For family history it misses the story, the tree and a plan for later. What it does well and what to add.
Storyworth vs Remento vs FOREVER: prices and differences
Storyworth ($69 to $199) and Remento ($99) print a book, FOREVER sells storage once from $179.99, The Memory Palace is 14 days free. Compared side by side.
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