Your life, in your own words.
Most people mean to write it down. Almost nobody does — because a blank page is a hard place to start. Memoira starts with a question instead.
Nobody remembers it the way you do.
Tell me about the house you grew up in.
It was on Mercer Street. Small. My mother kept a lemon tree in a pot by the kitchen door and it never gave more than four lemons a year but she wouldn't hear of getting rid of it.
Who else was in the house?
My grandmother, after 1958. She had the back room. She used to sit with that tree like it was company.
The house on Mercer Street was small. By the kitchen door my mother kept a lemon tree in a pot, and though it never gave more than four lemons in a year, she wouldn't hear of getting rid of it.
After 1958 my grandmother lived with us, in the back room. She used to sit with that tree as though it were company.
Your words, arranged. Nothing invented, nothing added — and you can change any line of it.
It works the way talking works.
You don't need to know where to start, or what the chapters are, or how to write. You need someone to ask.
The house on Mercer Street, though small, was filled with the warmth of a mother's care — and with that stubborn little lemon tree by the kitchen door.
It never gave more than four lemons in a year. She wouldn't hear of getting rid of it.
You talk. It listens.
Type it or say it out loud — whichever is easier. A few sentences is plenty. When you trail off, you get one good question back, not a form to fill in.
It writes it down with you.
What you said comes back as proper prose, in your voice. Keep it, change a word, or say put it differently and see another version.
The chapters become a book.
Add photographs. Reorder chapters. Read it back at whatever size is comfortable.
A book, not an app that owns your memories.
- Pictures travel with the book when you export it
- Share with the family in one tap — and stop sharing in one tap
- Write your life, and shorter pieces alongside it
Your words are yours, always.
Nothing you write is public. If you ever stop paying, you keep everything you have written and can export all of it — we will never hold your life story hostage.