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Snap the Photo
Take a picture of that old photo from the album. iPhone cameras are good enough now — no scanner needed.
Beta
Before It's Too Late
What to do with old photo albums?
Flip over that faded photo. Maybe there's a date. Maybe not.
If mom and dad aren't here, you'll never know the story.
The clock is ticking.
Every day, the people who know the stories behind those photos are getting older. The context, the names, the places, the emotions — all living in memories that won't last forever.
10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every single day.
Their parents' stories are running out of time.
The difference
This isn't a scanning service.
Scanning services digitize the image. We capture the story. The photo is just the trigger — what matters is who's in it, why it was taken, and what happened next.
Scanning Services
- •Ship your albums, wait weeks
- •Get back digital files with no context
- •Still don't know who's in the pictures
- •Folders of images nobody looks at
HeritageWhisper
- •Snap with your iPhone, done in seconds
- •Record the story in their own voice
- •AI guides them through the memory
- •Family listens anywhere, anytime
Left: A photo with no context. Right: The same photo, with its story preserved forever.
How it works
Three minutes. One photo.
A story forever.
2Record the Story
Let Pearl guide them with thoughtful questions, or just hit record for a quick 1-2 minute story.
3Share with Family
It saves to the timeline. Family gets notified and can listen from anywhere.
To preserve stories from old photo albums: First, snap a photo of the album picture with your smartphone. Second, record the story behind the photo using HeritageWhisper's AI guide Pearl. Third, share with family members who can listen from anywhere.
Simple to use
Made for parents and grandparents.
Big buttons. Clear text. No complicated menus. Just open the app, snap the photo, and start talking.
Pearl asks gentle follow-up questions to draw out the details: "Who is this person to you? What do you remember about that day?"
A picture is worth a thousand words.
The wisdom from a lived experience is priceless.
When my grandpa tells the story of the internment camp — when the FBI broke down his father's door and took him without a word — you don't read that in a book.
You hear the emotion in his voice. That's what gets preserved.
Built to last generations
Download Everything
Export your entire archive anytime. Your stories, your data, always.
Works Offline
Your exported archive works with no internet. Open it 20 years from now.
Family Access
Invite unlimited family members to listen and contribute their own memories.
Common Questions
Start with one photo.
Pick up that album tonight. Find one photo you don't know the story behind. Then call mom, call dad, and hit record.