A Living Memoir, woven from phone calls with your loved one.
Kept by your family - in an heirloom book and a digital memoir.
Everyone says “we should record Dad’s stories.” Nobody does.
The awkwardness problem. When you pull out a recorder, everything changes. The conversation becomes self-conscious. The magic evaporates.
The “getting around to it” problem. Life is busy. You keep meaning to sit down and ask about the war, the immigration, the love story - but there’s never quite the right moment.
The accessibility problem. Your dad doesn’t want to type his memoirs. But he’ll happily talk for an hour about the dance where he met your mum.
No apps. No screens. Just a friendly phone call.
Your loved one doesn’t need to learn anything new. They just answer the phone and talk - the way they always have.
Tell us about them
Share key life events, family relationships, and what makes them special. Takes less than 10 minutes.
We call and listen
A warm, patient call at the scheduled time. We mention family by name, ask permission, and truly listen.
Stories come to life
Every call surfaces new stories in their voice. Chapter by chapter they build into the printed heirloom book your family will keep and hand around.
And it keeps growing
The digital memoir holds every story, voice recording and photo online - included for the first year, so the whole family can read, listen, and add to it.
An heirloom book your family will read again and again.
From the calls, the book takes shape
Chapter by chapter, in their own voice. Add photographs, set aside what you’d rather leave out, and shape it until it’s right. One beautiful hardcover is included - extra copies can be ordered at any time.
- ●Written in their voice - not a transcript, not a summary. Their words, their cadence, their personality.
- ●Six dimensions - not just what happened, but how it felt, who was there, and what it meant.
- ●Growing with every call - each conversation adds depth, new stories, new connections.
- ●Beautiful enough to frame - printed on cream stock with Lora serif typography. An heirloom, not a report.
A digital memoir - kept by your family.
Every storyteller gets their own beautiful digital memoir - growing with every conversation. Share it with family near and far, or keep it private.
- ●Browse stories by theme, era, or person - not a wall of text, but an experience you can explore.
- ●Listen to highlights in their voice - audio moments pulled from the calls, so you hear them telling it.
- ●Add family photos - upload photos that match the stories. The memoir weaves them together.
- ●Invite the whole family - wherever they live - the memoir stays private to the people you choose.
The family album, restored.
Time fades the photographs. The faces don’t have to. We bring back the colour, the detail, the moment - without changing the face you remember.
From the family album
Restored for the book
Geoff, as a young man - the original on the left, restored on the right, ready to sit in his chapter. Send us the photographs you love most. They’ll come back warmer, sharper, themselves again.
Like talking to a friend who’s genuinely interested in your life.
Ray is our sample storyteller - here’s what a conversation sounds like.
LifeLoom
Ray, last week you told me about the ’76 grand final - Mark on your shoulders half the game so he could see over the Hill. What do you remember about the moment they got up?
Ray
The whole place went off. Grown men crying, blokes I’d never met hugging me. Mark still talks about that day.
LifeLoom
You said it did more for the two of you than words ever had. Next call, would you tell me about the day Mark was born?
Ray
You don’t forget a thing, do you? I’d like that.
It remembers - the way someone who truly knows them would
The guide doesn’t start over each call. It remembers what was shared last time, and it knows the people who matter - by name. It might ask how your mum’s sister in Adelaide is keeping, or pick up the thread of the story she started last week. Each conversation builds on the one before, so the memoir deepens call after call - the personal attention of a biographer who’s known the family for years.
We don’t just capture highlights. We capture a life.
Every conversation explores six dimensions - so the memoir has the depth and richness it deserves.
Chronological
The arc of their life - childhood, milestones, turning points.
“Tell me about growing up in the 1950s.”
Relational
The people who shaped them - family, friends, mentors, rivals.
“Who was the most important person in your twenties?”
Geographic
The places that defined them - homes, journeys, landscapes.
“What did the neighbourhood look like when you first moved in?”
Thematic
The threads that run through their life - work, passions, beliefs.
“What did you love most about your work?”
Inner Life
What they felt, feared, hoped for, and dreamed about.
“What were you most proud of? What kept you up at night?”
Legacy
What they want remembered - wisdom, values, messages to the future.
“What do you want your grandchildren to know about you?”
In their words
“I ended the call with a smile on my face. I wasn't expecting that. It was really nice to have someone, or something, genuinely interested in what I had to say.”
“It feels like talking to a human, and it asked me really penetrating questions.”
From words to worlds.
For the stories where no photograph survived, a scene that sits alongside the chapter - so the reader doesn’t just hear the story, they see it.
Margaret’s words
“Old Belle the horse knew the route by heart. She’d stop right at the bottom of our porch steps every morning, no reins needed.”
Margaret remembered the milkman’s dairy cart on her road in Kangaroo Flat. No photograph of it survived. Her family commissioned the scene to sit alongside her chapter in the book.
Coming soon: LifeLoom crafts scenes like this directly from your storyteller’s own words.
Every person’s life is worth remembering.
Everyone has stories their family would love to hear - about adventures taken, loves found, countries crossed, and lessons learned the hard way.
Sharing those stories is a gift. It brings families closer, sparks conversations across generations, and turns memories into something the whole family can hold onto.
Every family deserves an heirloom that isn’t an object, but a voice. A story. A life, celebrated with warmth and care.
Telling your own story?
You don’t have to write a word. Answer the phone, talk about the life you’ve lived, and watch it take shape - woven into an heirloom book and a digital memoir that’s yours to shape and keep. You decide what’s kept and what’s set aside; the editorial chair stays with you. The memoir you don’t have to write - without giving up the say in how it’s told.
What you’re joining.
One Living Memoir package. Three things kept by your family.
20 guided phone calls
Warm, patient conversations with your storyteller - scheduled around their week, never the other way around. Verbal consent every call. They can pause or stop at any time.
A printed heirloom book
A hardcover memoir written in their voice. Cream archival stock, Lora serif typography, layflat binding available. Beautiful enough to keep on the shelf for generations. Extra copies can be ordered at any time.
Your first year of digital memoir
A private, beautifully designed online home that grows with every call. The whole family can read, listen, and add photos. Continues at $9/month after the first year to keep it living.
Founding Storyteller price: $249 AUD. Becomes $349 after Father’s Day.
Questions families ask
- Is it a real person who calls, or AI?
- It's AI - and we're glad to say so. A gentle LifeLoom guide calls your loved one, listens, and asks caring questions - remembering what was shared last time and the people who matter by name, following the thread call after call. It's not a person, and it's not a chatbot anyone has to operate; your loved one just answers the phone and talks. AI is what makes this possible - the patient attention that turns ordinary phone calls into chapters worth keeping. The stories are theirs; the book and the digital memoir are your family's to keep.
- My mum is in her 80s - will she find this hard?
- No. There are no apps, no screens, no logins. She just answers the phone and talks, like a chat with a friend who's genuinely interested in her life.
- How soon do we see something?
- The first stories appear in the family's digital memoir within the first couple of calls - written, readable, and ready to share. The heirloom book takes shape from there, call by call.
- What do we actually get?
- Twenty guided phone calls, a printed heirloom book, and the first year of a digital memoir that keeps growing as more stories are added. Extra printed copies can be ordered at any time.
- What happens to the stories?
- They're your family's to keep - woven into the book you hold and the digital memoir you can keep adding to. The storyteller is always in charge of what's kept and what's set aside.
- Can I do this for my own stories?
- Yes - many storytellers set up LifeLoom for themselves. You don't have to write a word: answer the phone, talk about the life you've lived, and the chapters take shape in your digital memoir and heirloom book. You decide what's kept and what's set aside.
- Can the rest of the family take part?
- If you'd like. You can invite siblings, grandchildren, and in-laws to follow along and add their own photos and memories - always at your choosing.
- Is there an Australian version of Storyworth?
- Australia has its own service: LifeLoom, made in Sydney - 20 guided phone calls woven into a hardcover heirloom book printed in Australia, plus a digital memoir your family keeps. For an honest, dated comparison with Storyworth, Remento and others, see our comparison page.
The best stories are the ones
you haven’t heard yet.
Founding Storyteller places open now - $249 until Father’s Day, then $349. Set up in minutes.
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