StorywellSee how the beta worksGuided conversations for families
Storywell helps you sit down with someone you love, ask what matters, and preserve the whole conversation in their own voice.
Questions that open them up
One natural conversation
Their voice, unchanged
Every answer easy to find
What Storywell preserves
Stories can be written down. Presence cannot. The laugh before the answer, the long pause, and the unexpected turn are part of what makes their story theirs.
Built for being together
Choose thoughtful prompts from Begin Gently, Go Deeper, or From the Heart—then follow the conversation wherever it goes.
Record one continuous conversation while Storywell quietly marks each new question in the background.
Question timestamps turn a long conversation into chapters, without cutting it into disconnected clips.
Recordings stay on your iPhone by default. No account, no automatic upload, and no sharing unless you choose it.
How Storywell works
No writing project or complicated setup. Create a journal, choose a few questions together, and let the conversation unfold at its own pace.
Give each person one place for their conversations.
Start light, then decide together where the story goes.
Storywell keeps the time and chapters so you can keep listening.
Why Storywell
Some tools turn memories into books. Others use AI to interpret a life. Storywell keeps the original thing: a real conversation, in the storyteller’s own voice, with someone they trust.
One ordinary visit
Before the visit, choose a few questions you have always meant to ask. At the kitchen table, press record once and let the conversation wander. Later, jump straight to “What was your first job?” without cutting the rest of the story apart.
One continuous recording. Every question easy to return to.
Private by design
These are not just files. They are voices, family history, and words meant for particular people. Storywell keeps recordings on your iPhone by default, with Face ID available for another layer of protection.
Storywell betaHave one conversation
The early beta is for iPhone owners willing to sit down with someone they love, try one guided conversation, and tell us what would make the experience feel even more natural.
Opens Apple’s TestFlight app. The Storywell invitation link will appear here when beta seats open.
Early and honest: the screens on this page come from the working Storywell beta. Family feedback will appear only with permission.
A few good questions
TestFlight is Apple’s free, official way to install and test an iPhone app before its public App Store release.
No. Storywell does not rewrite a person’s memories or tell you what their life means. It helps two people have a natural conversation and preserves the original recording in the storyteller’s own voice.
Not in the current beta. Storywell is local-first, so recordings stay on the iPhone unless you intentionally export and share them.
No. Storywell is for everyday memories, family traditions, wisdom, and messages you want to preserve. Limited time can make those conversations feel urgent, but it does not define them.
An iPhone running iOS 26, Apple’s TestFlight app, and a willingness to try one real guided conversation and share honest feedback.