A private Jewish family story archive

Keep your parents' stories, in their own voice.

Sit down together, choose one gentle question, and record a real conversation. Their voice, memories, photographs, and wisdom are saved in a private archive your family can return to for years.

Free to begin. No credit card, no app to install, and no memoir to write.

  • Private by default
  • Your family owns the recordings
  • Easy for parents and grandparents
Demonstration

A gentle question

Tell me about Shabbos in the home where you grew up.

Bubby Leah

Friday afternoons

4:12
Original voice, preserved and private

Bubby Leah’s Stories

12 stories · 34 photographs

This is not another memoir assignment

You keep meaning to ask. They keep meaning to tell you.

Your parents may have shared pieces of these stories at the Shabbos table, during Yom Tov, on family trips, or while looking through old photographs. Told & Treasured gives your family a simple place to begin and a private place to keep what is shared.

  • Stories are scattered across conversations, phones, and old photographs.
  • Writing an entire memoir feels overwhelming, so it never quite happens.
  • Children may know the traditions without knowing the stories behind them.

How it works

Three gentle steps, starting with a conversation, not a questionnaire.

1

Choose one gentle question

Begin with a person, a photograph, a place, a recipe, a tradition, or a memory. No plan required.

2

Record the conversation together

Sit together and speak naturally. Pause, continue, and add context at your own pace.

3

Keep it in your private archive

Preserve the original voice, photographs, people, places, and details. Invite only the relatives you choose.

Stories worth keeping, in their own voice

Every family is different. Begin wherever a story lives, and let one question open the door.

Shabbos in the home where they grew up
A family's Pesach traditions
How their grandparents met
Recipes no one ever wrote down
Coming to America, or to Israel
Weddings and other simchas
School, yeshiva, camp, and the old neighborhood
An act of chesed they never forgot
A family minhag and where it began
Lessons they want their grandchildren to carry
A funny everyday memory
Their very first job

What your family receives

Real, lasting things you own.

  • Original voice recordings
  • Photographs and story context
  • A private family archive
  • Jewish and general prompts
  • Recording downloads
  • Story controls (edit and delete)
  • Read-only access after cancellation
  • Invite trusted familyComing soon
  • One-step archive exportComing soon

Gentle enough for parents and grandparents

The product does the guiding, so no one has to be technical.

  • Clear, simple controls
  • No writing required
  • Family-assisted setup
  • A microphone test before you start
  • Pause and continue anytime
  • Gentle prompts, one at a time
  • No pressure to finish a book
  • Email help when you need it

Private, and truly yours

Stated plainly, and matching how the product works.

  • Private by default. No public profiles, no feeds, no discovery.
  • You control who can listen, view, and contribute.
  • The original recording is preserved and never overwritten.
  • Download your original recordings whenever you like.
  • Delete a story, or your whole account, when you choose.
  • Your family owns its recordings and photographs.
  • Recordings are not used to train public AI models.
  • After a plan ends, your archive becomes read-only, never deleted.

If you cancel, you keep access through the end of your paid year. After that, your archive becomes read-only: you can still play and download every original recording, and nothing is ever deleted.

Read about your data and ownership

Give as a gift

A gift for one person. A treasure for the whole family.

  1. 1. You buy Told & Treasured for your parent or grandparent.
  2. 2. They receive a warm invitation by email.
  3. 3. They never enter payment information.
  4. 4. Your family begins with one story.
  5. 5. Children and grandchildren can listen as the archive grows.

A gift preview

For Bubby Leah

“We would love to hear your stories, Bubby.”

Delivered todayPrepaid yearSecure redemption

$99

one prepaid year

Founding families

Help create something Jewish families will keep for generations.

Founding families receive early access and help us make Told & Treasured simpler, warmer, and more useful for parents, grandparents, children, and grandchildren.

Simple, honest pricing

Begin free. When you are ready, one calm annual plan keeps everything in one private place.

Free First Story

Free

One story, no card required

Founding Family Plan

$99

per year, one simple annual price

Gift Told & Treasured

$99

a prepaid year to give

See full pricing and what is included

A 30-day satisfaction guarantee

Record your first story. If Told & Treasured does not feel meaningful for your family within 30 days, contact us for a refund. See the refund policy.

The things families wonder about

My mother will never use an app.

She does not have to figure it out alone. Sit together, choose one question, and press record.

We already have voice memos.

Voice memos are easy to lose. Told & Treasured keeps the recording together with its photographs, people, places, date, and story.

This sounds like a large project.

One story is enough to begin.

I do not want this to feel morbid.

This is about connection now, not only remembrance later.

Will our stories remain private?

Your archive is private by default. There are no public profiles or feeds. Recordings are stored privately, only people you invite can listen, and you can download or delete them at any time.

Questions families ask

Read the full FAQ

The stories are still here. Begin with one conversation.

Choose one gentle question, sit down together, and preserve a voice your family will always be grateful to hear.