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Voices of your family

Every family is a library of voices waiting to be heard.

Hearthkeep is a quiet place where grandparents, parents, and children record the stories that make a family theirs — and keep them, in their own voices, for every generation that follows.

Private
End-to-end encrypted
For all ages
5 to 95
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Free, forever plan
Three generations of a family talking together on a moss-covered bench in a forest

A small manifesto

A text message gets read once. A photograph holds a moment.
A voice — a voice holds the whole person.

Open family album with pressed ferns

The stories that make you, you

The way your mother says your name. The pause before your father tells the punchline.

These are the moments that bind generations. Hearthkeep gives every member of your family — young and old — a gentle, private way to share them. Not text on a screen. Real voices, telling real stories.

Because a story told in someone's own voice is a story that truly lives on.

Three quiet steps

How a story is kept

  1. 01

    A gentle prompt

    We send a single, beautiful question — by email, by post, by phone. Something a grandparent will actually want to answer.

  2. 02

    A simple recording

    They press one button and speak. No app to learn. We listen in the background, transcribe, and chapter the moments.

  3. 03

    A family heirloom

    The story arrives in your family library, searchable by voice or theme. Yours. Private. Kept for the people not yet born.

From a family that uses Hearthkeep

“My grandfather died last winter. I can still play the message where he tells me how he proposed to my grandmother in the rain. That recording is the single most valuable thing I own.”
— Maya R., third generation
Hands holding a vintage microphone wrapped with a green ribbon

Begin today

The voices you love will not always be a phone call away.

Start a free family hearth in under two minutes. Invite the people you love. We'll send the first prompt for you.