They are shared at the funeral or celebration of life. Exchanged in text messages. Recounted over meals and phone calls. Remembered during conversations between old friends who haven’t seen each other in years.
People remember the moments that made someone unique.
A favorite saying.
An unexpected act of kindness.
The story everyone tells at family gatherings.
For a brief time, memories that have been tucked away for years begin to surface.
Then life moves forward.
People return home. Daily routines resume. And many of those stories are never recorded.
tellmystory helps families gather those memories in one place before they are lost.
Together, friends and loved ones contribute stories, photographs, and reflections that become a lasting keepsake—a beautiful book created by the people who knew them best.
Memorialize your loved one by telling a free story. We’ll make it easy. You can answer a few simple questions and if you’d like, upload photos.
We’ll use the power of narrative arcs to help shape a story told in your own words, a story that truly captures your unique experience with the loved one who passed.
Once you’ve experienced the power of tellmystory, you can start a Circle to ask family, friends, colleagues, and anyone else with a memory to contribute.
As a Curator, you can customize your message before sending it. No complicated setup or special accounts—just a simple invitation to remember someone together.
The people you invite will receive a simple link where they can share memories in the way that feels most natural to them.
They can write a story, record it in their own voice, or upload photos. They, too can expand the circle to help collect more memories.
The person who died is the center of a flower, and each member of the community contributes a petal.
As the Curator, you can review the stories, organize the collection, and prepare them for sharing with the Circle.
You can arrange the story order, choose featured photos, and decide what format you’d like for the final tribute.
You can do all of this in 30 minutes or less. Or, you can choose to let tellmystory shape the collection for you.
Your story collection will continue to grow over time, revealing more facets of the life of the loved one you are memorializing.
At any point, you can choose how you’d like to share the stories with others:
Choose an ebook format and/or a hardcover book.
Long after the flowers are gone, the stories remain.
