How Kinrelic works
The guide to your family archive
Everything Kinrelic can do — what each feature is, how to use it, and real ways families use it.New here? Start your free trial and record one story.
Kinrelic keeps your family's memories — the stories, voices, recipes, and photos of the people you love — in one place, exactly as they were told.
- A story can be video or audio. Add your family members, draw how everyone's related, and a living family tree takes shape.
- Not everyone speaks the same language — or speaks a mix of two — so we transcribe every recording and can translate it, always keeping the original voice untouched.
- For elders who don't get on with technology, Kinrelic can phone them or send a simple record link — so their memories are captured before they're gone, no app required.
- And it doesn't stay a pile of files. Your stories become a book you can turn the pages of, a cookbook of her recipes in her own words, a film for the next birthday, and a card you send the family each year.
Start where you are
Capture
Record a story
Capture a memory as video or audio. Download every original recording any time while your plan is active — and for 60 days after it ends.
Before a long flight home, Priya sat with her grandfather and recorded him telling the story of the shop he opened in 1971.
Guided interview
A real conversation that listens and asks the next question — not a list of prompts.
"Tell me about your wedding" gets a one-line answer.
Phone interviewer
We call your storytellers each week. They just talk. No app, no login.
Maria's dad is 84, in Guadalajara, and has never opened an app in his life.
Recordings you already have
Voicemails, voice notes and clips from other people's phones — added several at a time, and transcribed.
After his father died, Sam asked the family to check their phones for saved voicemails.
Story ideas
Prompts that spark a recording when you don't know what to ask.
The family kept meaning to "get Grandpa's stories" but never knew where to start.
Recorded video visits
Coming soon: sit with them over video, and the visit will become a story, automatically.
Every other Sunday, Ana calls her grandfather in Manila.
The living archive
Translations
Every story, in your family's languages — as a separate track, never overwriting the original.
Nonna told her stories in Sicilian dialect.
Recipes & cookbook
Turn handwritten cards into a searchable, translatable family cookbook.
Great-grandma's tamale recipe lived on a stained index card only one aunt could read.
Photos & faces
Albums, and a name on every face — so a photograph still means something in fifty years.
Elena spent an evening tagging her grandmother's shoebox of photographs while her grandmother was still able to name everyone.
The family journey
Every place your family has lived, on one map — the whole migration in a glance.
Oaxaca to Tijuana to San Antonio to Houston, in four generations.
DNA matches
Bring your DNA results in and attach them to the people they belong to.
A half-brother nobody knew about turned up as a match.
Bring it back
Family film
A reel that weaves your recordings into one film to watch together.
At Grandma's 80th, instead of a slideshow, the family dimmed the lights and played a ten-minute film of her own stories in her own voice.
On this day
The right memory resurfaces on anniversaries and birthdays.
On what would have been Grandpa's 90th, the story he'd told about the day he arrived by boat was waiting at the top of the archive — surfaced automatically.
Time capsules
Record something now, and set it to arrive on a future date — a birthday, an anniversary, a moment years away.
Before her treatment, a mother recorded a message for her daughter's 18th birthday — eleven years away.
The family cookbook
Every recipe you have saved, bound into a real book you turn the pages of — in her words, with her photos.
Marisol scanned her mother's recipe cards one winter — the handwriting, the splashes, the notes in the margin.
The living storybook
Your family's stories gathered into chapters that write themselves — and grow every time someone records.
The Alvarez storybook opens in 1950s Oaxaca and ends with a grandchild born last spring.
The annual family card
A year of your family, gathered into one card you can send to everyone.
Instead of a photo card in December, the Reyes family sends a link: eleven new stories, Abuela's flan, and the recording of Sol's first word.
Crowdsourced event films
Coming soon: everyone will film a message on their phone, and Kinrelic will stitch them into one film for the birthday.
For their father's 80th, four siblings on three continents each sent ninety seconds.
People & privacy
Living family tree
Names as leaves on a real tree — tap anyone to hear their stories.
The kids thought the family tree was homework — until they tapped a name and their great-aunt's voice came out of it.
Storytellers
Choose whose life you're actively preserving. Seats scale with your plan.
The family put both grandparents and a great-aunt on Family's 3 seats — three living voices being captured every week — while dozens of relatives fill out the tree around them without costing a thing.
Your memories are yours
Download every original recording any time while your plan is active — and for 60 days after it ends.
The family wanted to know the videos of Grandpa were theirs to keep — so they exported a copy to their own drive.
Remembrance pages
A gentle place for someone who has died — their stories, their recipes, their voice.
The week after the funeral, the family had one link to send to everyone who asked whether there was anything of his voice left.
Family address book
Everyone's contact details in one place — family and the friends who feel like family.
Sending the annual card took ten minutes instead of an evening, because every address was already there.
Nothing is lost by accident
Deleted something? It waits in Trash for 30 days. One click brings it back.
A grandson tidying up removed what he thought was a duplicate.
Who changed what
A plain record of every change, so nothing happens to the archive in the dark.
Two siblings disagreed about whether a story had been edited.
How to do it
Keeping a family's stories in two languages
What to do when the person telling the story and the grandchildren who'll hear it don't share a language — and why you should never ask for the English version.
3 min read
Interviewing a grandparent with memory loss
What still works when recent memory doesn't — and why the stories you can still reach are often the oldest and best ones.
3 min read
How to record a parent who won't use apps
You don't need to teach them anything. Three ways to capture a story from someone who has never installed an app — and the one that works best.
4 min read
Recording a relative who lives far away
How to capture someone's stories across an ocean or a time zone, without waiting for the visit that keeps not happening.
3 min read
Someone has just died — what to gather first
A short, practical list for the first few weeks, when there is too much to do and one window that closes faster than the others.
4 min read
StoryWorth alternatives — what a book can't do
An honest look at what the mail-a-question-get-a-book model does well, where it falls short, and how to work out which one your family actually needs.
3 min read
What to ask before the 80th birthday
A birthday is a deadline you can actually use. What to collect, who to ask, and how to turn it into something to play on the day.
3 min read
52 questions to ask your grandparents (before it's too late)
One question a week for a year. Real questions that unlock real stories — not the yes-or-no kind. Print them, or work through them slowly.
6 min read
Cómo guardar las recetas de tu abuela (antes de que se pierdan)
EspañolLas recetas de la familia casi nunca están escritas. Así se conservan — con su voz, sus manos y sus medidas de "un poquito".
2 min read
Which plan includes what
| Plan | Storytellers | Languages | Storage | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keepsake | 1 | 3 | 25 GB · ~3h video | $89$59Introductory Price |
| Family | 3 | 6 | 250 GB · ~35h video | $199 |
| Heirloom | Unlimited | 20 | 1 TB · ~146h video | $499 |
Features, plans, and availability may change at any time. Kinrelic is provided "as is" — see our Terms.