Milestones
First steps, first words, the day they finally slept through. Mark a moment as a milestone and it stands out forever in the timeline.
Features
Everything you would otherwise lose.
Storygarden is built around one idea: capture has to be faster than posting it somewhere else, or it will not happen on the day it matters.
Photos and short videos
The pictures that deserve better than page four hundred of a camera roll. Stored privately, in a timeline that reads as a story — and a gallery, by month, when you just want the pictures.
Voice and words
Record how they actually sounded saying it. Save the sentence you would otherwise have forgotten by Thursday.
A timeline per child
Every child gets their own story page, in order, from the day they were born. Home shows all of them together, newest first.
Text Capture
Text a photo or a sentence to Storygarden and it becomes a memory. No app to open, no moment lost while you find the right screen.
Saved for later
Write a letter now and set the date it opens. A birthday years away, or the morning they leave home.
Room for the family
Share exactly what you choose with the people you choose, and keep a shared family calendar for the dates everybody needs.
Capture
Whatever the memory happens to be.
- Text. A sentence they said, typed before you forget it.
- Photos. One or many, kept in private storage rather than a public bucket.
- Short videos. Up to a minute, 100 MB each — the clip where it actually happens, with a poster frame in the timeline and no autoplay.
- Voice notes. How they sounded, not just how they looked.
- Milestones. Mark a moment as a first, and it stands out forever.
- Tags and favourites. Loose organisation you can add later, or never.
- A gallery. Every photograph and video, by month, when you want the pictures rather than the story.
Ten gigabytes of storage, shared across everything you save. Location is never recorded: the app does not ask for it, and location permissions are stripped from the Android build outright.
Text Capture
Save a memory without opening anything.
Connect your phone number once. After that, texting a photo or a sentence to Storygarden turns it into a memory.
- Confident messages are saved straight to the right child
- Anything ambiguous waits in a review inbox for you to correct
- You can edit the title, note, date, child, and tags before publishing
- Storygarden reads nothing on your phone — only the messages you send it
Text Capture costs money to run on every message, so it is a separate subscription. See pricing.
Sharing
You decide who sees what, one share at a time.
A link to exactly what you picked
Choose the child and the memories. Anyone holding the link sees those and nothing else. Add a passcode, give it a date to stop working, and turn it off by hand whenever you like.
Invite someone by name
A named person accepts an invitation and sees the memories you granted them. It costs them nothing. Comments and reactions are off unless you turn them on, and anything reported waits in a queue for you rather than appearing and being dealt with later.
Deliver it years from now
Write a letter and set the date it opens. It waits until then, and it is delivered to an address you typed — Storygarden never creates an account for a child.
One calendar for the family
Birthdays, appointments, school runs, holidays — colour-coded by the kinds of thing your family actually does, with reminders and repeats. Subscribe to it from the calendar app already on your phone. Anyone without editing rights can ask for something to be added, and you approve or decline. Family members see the calendar; being in a family never reveals a child’s timeline.
Control
Things you can always do.
Put a timeline away without losing it
Archive a child and their story stops appearing without being deleted — and stops counting against how many children your plan holds. Bring it back whenever you want.
Make it look like yours
Light or dark, and five colours to pick from. Each child carries their own colour through their timeline, their story and the calendar.
Export everything
An archive of your memories and media, by a private link that expires.
Delete everything
From inside the app, or from the web without installing anything.
Keep what you have saved
If a subscription lapses, nothing is deleted. Your memories stay readable, and you can go on writing. What pauses is adding new photographs, video and voice notes, until it is sorted out.
Start building their story today.
It takes about a minute to add your first child and save the first thing you would hate to forget.