Mother's Day · May 10

Give Mom her first chapter.

Free this Mother's Day. Two minutes to set up, five for Mom to answer — chapter delivered to your inbox before Sunday.

Start her chapter — free

Tell us a story.
We'll help you write it — for free.

A 5-minute conversation with Mom becomes a real chapter from her life — written, polished, and read back in a warm narrator's voice. Free this Mother's Day.

Free to start · No credit card required · No app to download · Mom's voice never leaves our servers
Grandmother and grandchild sharing a moment at the kitchen table in warm golden light

What you'll have by Sunday

A real chapter from Mom's life — about 800 to 1,200 words — written from her own conversation, in her own emphasis. Delivered to your inbox with audio and a shareable link.

No card. No charge. If she doesn't open the link, nothing happens.

Start her chapter — free

Three steps to a chapter you'll keep.

Three steps: You Record, We Listen and Write, You Receive
1

Send Mom a link

She doesn't need an app. Or a password. Or your help. She taps a link on any phone or computer, anywhere, and starts typing — or talking. That's it.

2

A friendly conversation, not a survey

Our AI asks questions in a warm narrator's voice, then asks the next question — the one a family historian would ask. "You mentioned the diner — what did your mother order there?" Real conversation. Real depth.

3

A polished chapter you can keep or share

Our AI shapes her answers into a real chapter — the kind you'd find in a memoir, not a transcript. Share it with the family. If everyone loves it, the full book brings 26 more chapters and a printed hardcover to your door.

Each storyteller gets their own private page they can visit anytime. Their conversation builds up over weeks. Their book writes itself.

Built for the way families actually share stories.

The follow-up question is the whole point. Other products treat your parent like they're filling out a survey. We treat them like they have a story worth listening to.

Other memory books

  • $99 paywall before anyone records a word
  • Static prompts — same questions for everyone
  • Voice or text, never both
  • Your loved one's voice sent to third parties
  • If your parent never engages, you're out $99

Kept Voices

  • Free first chapter — pay only if you love it
  • AI follow-ups unique to every answer
  • Typing or talking — their choice, switch anytime
  • Self-hosted — voice never leaves our servers
  • If your parent never engages, you're out nothing

Here's what one conversation becomes.

A real chapter from a real Kept Voices session. She typed her answers on her iPhone over a quiet afternoon. Our AI asked the follow-ups. Read what we made of her words.

Mom Stories hardcover book open on a wooden table
The Porch and the Hands
Margaret, 73 — on her grandmother's porch and her father's workshop

There was a screened porch on the side of my grandmother's house in Knoxville that I can still feel under my bare feet. The boards were soft pine, worn smooth by fifty summers of grandchildren, and in the late afternoon they held the warmth of the day the way a cast-iron skillet holds heat long after the stove is off.

Mamaw sat in the same green metal chair every evening. She'd shell butter beans into a paper sack and talk about absolutely nothing that mattered — the price of tomatoes, whether the Hendersons' dog had gotten loose again — and somehow those were the conversations I remember more clearly than anything else.

My father's hands were different. They were a mechanic's hands, always nicked, always stained with something that soap couldn't quite reach. But he built things after work — birdhouses, mostly, then furniture. He never drew plans. He just started, and the thing became what it was going to be.

Hi. I'm Kept Voices.

We'll spend about 5 minutes recording one chapter of a story. It's free.

What part of their life would you like to start with?

Let's write your first chapter.

Kept Voices

Question 1 of 7

Your Chapter Preview

Save this chapter forever.

Your free chapter is ready. Enter your email to keep it — and when you're ready, the full hardcover book is just one step away.

$129
Full hardcover memoir · 26 chapters · Pay once
  • 26 polished chapters covering a whole life
  • 6 months of weekly gentle prompts
  • Family collaboration (up to 6 members)
  • 8" x 10" hardcover delivered to your door
  • Digital PDF + EPUB for everyone
  • 30-day money-back guarantee

No credit card now. We'll send the chapter to your inbox. We'll text or email Mom a friendly link — no app, no password, no account.

Start free. Pay only when you know it's worth it.

Free First Chapter

$0
  • 1 polished chapter
  • AI follow-up questions
  • Beautiful prose from your words
  • Shareable web preview
  • No account needed
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Their Words

$50
  • Free chapter polished into book typography
  • Audio narration in our warm storyteller voice
  • 16-page softcover chapbook, printed and shipped
  • Free US shipping
  • Permanent shareable web link
  • Digital PDF
  • 90-day upgrade window to Their Voice
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30-day money-back. No subscriptions. Pay once.

Questions families ask.

No. She gets a text or email with a link, taps it, and starts. Works on any phone or computer. No app, no account, no password.
Either. Some people love typing; others prefer talking. Kept Voices works both ways and switches between them as she goes. The free first chapter can be entirely text — no microphone required.
Remento gives Mom a list of static questions and prints whatever she says. Storyworth sends one written question per week. Kept Voices reads what she writes and asks follow-up questions in real time — the way a journalist or family historian would. "You mentioned the diner — what did your mother order there?" The result is a real chapter, not a transcript. Plus, you try it free first.
Yes. Mom writes one chapter. You see the polished version. You share it with the family. No credit card, no commitment. If you want the full hardcover book ($129), you pay then.
Yes. Once you upgrade to the full book, family members can suggest prompts, add photos, edit chapters, and read along in real time. Up to 6 collaborators per book.
Your stories are yours. We never train AI on them, never share them, never use them for marketing. The voice that asks the questions is a professional AI narrator. But your loved one's voice, when they speak, is processed and stored only on our servers. It is never sent to ElevenLabs. It is never sent to OpenAI. It is never sent to any third party. You can download or delete everything anytime.
The free first chapter exists for exactly this reason. If she doesn't engage, you don't pay. We refund 100% within 30 days of any paid order — no questions.
Yes. Every chapter is editable until you commit it to print. You can revise wording, add photos, restore filler words for authenticity. Family members can collaborate.
Standard US delivery: 14 business days from order. International: 14-21 days.

One chapter. No charge.
Just see what happens.

Send Mom a link. She writes one story this week. You read what we make of it. From there, the rest is up to you.

Start her chapter — free
No credit card required. No subscription. Just one conversation.