Their voice echoes through generations

Echoes is an iPhone app that guides a thoughtful conversation, turning a lifetime of stories into a produced audio memoir — built from their real recordings.

One-time purchase · No writing required · Their stories stay theirs

[laughs softly][pauses]

And that's when your grandfather looked at me and said…

Three steps from a first conversation to a finished audio memoir

Step 01

Start a Conversation

A warm interviewer asks thoughtful questions about their life. No scripts, no preparation — just natural conversation.

Step 02

Build Their Story

Choose your path — a life timeline, themed storytelling, curated highlights, or a freeform conversation. The interviewer is an AI, informed by decades of interviewing research, and each session builds on the last: it keeps notes on what they’ve shared.

Step 03

Hear Their Audio Story

Their voice becomes a produced Audio Story memoir — a keepsake to play for the whole family.

A transcript remembers the words. A voice remembers the person.

[laughs softly] Text can capture what they said. Only Echoes captures how they said it — the warmth, the humor, the pauses that speak volumes. [pauses]

Not a folder of recordings.
An audio memoir made to return to.

One purchase, $199 — no subscription, no tiers. Everything below is theirs, with nothing to renew.

  • Guided voice interviews A warm interviewer guides them through their story in whichever of the four journey paths suits them. No scripts, no typing.
  • Every word, transcribed Transcripts of every session.
  • Their Audio Story A produced audio memoir built from their real recordings: raw, narrated, or documentary style.
  • A print-ready memoir Book-quality PDF and ePub, ready for the shelf.
  • Family sharing Invite family to listen and leave comments.
A storyteller's chapter list in Echoes: Earliest Memories, Family and Home, Growing Up, and on through Wisdom and Legacy

Four ways to tell a life story

Every storyteller is different. Choose the path that feels right — or explore freely.

Themes

8 chapters

Organized around the big themes of life — people, places, values, joy, and what you want to leave behind.

The People Who Shaped MeWhere I Come FromWhat I BuiltLove StoriesWhat Tested MeWhat I BelieveJoyWhat I Want You to Know

Highlights

5 chapters

Five powerful stories — the turning points, the peak moments, and the message you want the future to hear.

The Moment That Changed EverythingMy Greatest AdventureThe Person I'll Never ForgetWhat I'm Most Proud OfA Letter to the Future

Freeform

No structure

No chapters, no order. Just open conversation — go wherever the stories take you.

Talk about anythingFollow the threads that matterOpen threads are remembered and picked back up

A voice memoir for a parent, a grandparent, or yourself

The gift

For a parent or grandparent

The stories they've been meaning to tell, kept in their own voice — every pause and every laugh. This is the Echoes most people give.

Gift Echoes
Your own story

For your own memoir

Sit down with a thoughtful interviewer and leave the people you love something no photo can — you, in your own words.

Start Your Story
Someone who shaped you

For a mentor, partner, or friend

Anyone whose voice you'd want to hear again. Give them the gift of being truly heard.

Gift Echoes

Still deciding? See how Echoes compares with other ways to keep a life story, or read our guides to asking about one.

The research behind the Echoes interviewer

Every voice carries a lifetime of stories. The laughter that fills a room. The warmth in a grandparent's tone when they say your name. These aren't just sounds — they're the echoes of who we are.
The Echoes Vision Founding Principle

Conversation design informed by established research in cognitive interviewing, motivational interviewing, life review, and narrative identity.

Each institution is where key work on one of these traditions was done. Echoes isn't affiliated with any of them.

See the research behind Echoes →

Give them the gift of their own audio memoir

For anyone who wants to preserve a voice that matters — a parent, grandparent, mentor, or friend. Give them the gift of their story, told in their own voice.

$199 · everything included

Gift Echoes

An Echoes Gift

"I want to hear your stories — all of them. In your own voice."

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Every story deserves to be heard.

Whose voice do you want to keep close?

The story behind Echoes