What is Story & Legacy preservation and why is it important?

Story & Legacy preservation captures and protects your life experiences, family history, wisdom, and memories so future generations can know who you were, learn from your experiences, and stay connected to their heritage.

Why is documenting family stories and legacy important for future generations?

Family stories create connection across generations, transmit values and cultural identity, preserve historical perspectives and lived experiences, provide children with roots and belonging, help descendants understand family patterns and characteristics, and ensure that precious memories, wisdom, and heritage don't disappear when current generations pass—transforming families from disconnected individuals into continuous multi-generational narratives.

What types of family stories should be documented and preserved?

Comprehensive family documentation includes origin and immigration stories, cultural traditions and their meanings, family values and how they developed, biographical histories of key family members, stories of resilience and overcoming challenges, humorous family anecdotes and personalities, significant family events and milestones, occupational and professional histories, relationship stories and how families formed, and the everyday lived experiences that textbooks miss—creating rich, multi-dimensional family narrative.

How do I preserve family recipes, traditions and cultural heritage?

Preserve recipes and traditions by documenting full instructions, cultural meaning, personal stories, and involving family members to ensure accuracy and depth.

Should I record video messages, audio recordings or written stories?

All three formats have unique value. Written stories provide detail and are easy to search, audio captures your voice and emotion, and video preserves your image and mannerisms. The best approach is to use different formats for different types of content.

How can families with limited information about their history still create meaningful legacy?

Families with gaps in historical knowledge can document what they do know however limited, focus on living memory and current generation stories, research available public records and archives, interview oldest living family members urgently, explore DNA testing for ancestry insights, document family culture and traditions even without origin stories, start fresh creating thorough documentation for future generations, and recognise that any preserved information creates more value than assuming complete history is required for worthwhile documentation.

How does Charli help me tell my life story?

Charli guides you through gentle, natural conversations that help you remember and articulate your life story, even if you do not know where to begin.

What stories should I record in Legacy Vault?

Record family history, childhood memories, major life events, relationships, values, lessons learned, traditions, advice for descendants, and stories about the people who shaped you.

Should I include painful family stories?

Include both positive and difficult stories, using privacy controls and context to share sensitive content thoughtfully and responsibly.

How do I tell stories about others ethically?

Focus on your own experiences and perspective, avoid sharing private details without permission, use privacy controls for sensitive content, and consider discussing stories with living people before documenting them.

I am not a good writer. How can I preserve stories?

You do not need to be a good writer. Use voice or video recordings, answer Charli's guided questions, speak naturally without worrying about grammar, or involve family members to help capture your memories.

How can I get family interested in my stories?

Make storytelling interactive, share stories during meaningful moments, create collaborative projects, send surprise memories through Evaheld, and connect stories to current events or family milestones.

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Bring together your stories, voice, future messages, care wishes, important documents, passwords, estate essentials and the people you trust — and turn them into something your family can use, add to and treasure.

Your story

Story & Legacy

Turn a lifetime of stories into something your family can keep.

Record Mum or Dad’s life story, preserve family history, capture their voice, write legacy and goodbye letters, and create messages for birthdays, weddings and milestones they can still be part of.

200+ guided ways to preserve a lifetime

Life stories, memoirs & family history

Record Mum or Dad’s life story · Create a guided memoir or family history · Preserve childhood memories and the stories behind treasured photos

Record Mum or Dad’s life story
Create a guided memoir or family history
Preserve childhood memories and the stories behind treasured photos

Videos, voice, photos & memories

Record their voice and favourite stories · Create a family history podcast · Preserve meaningful photos and videos with the memories behind them

Record their voice and favourite stories
Create a family history podcast
Preserve meaningful photos and videos with the memories behind them

Legacy letters & future messages

Write goodbye letters, legacy letters and legacy statements · Leave letters for children and grandchildren · Schedule birthday, wedding and milestone messages for the future

Write goodbye letters, legacy letters and legacy statements
Leave letters for children and grandchildren
Schedule birthday, wedding and milestone messages for the future

Values, traditions & remembrance

Pass on values and life lessons · Preserve family recipes and traditions · Record personal funeral, memorial and remembrance wishes

Pass on values and life lessons
Preserve family recipes and traditions
Record personal funeral, memorial and remembrance wishes

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Life stories, memoirs & family history

Record Mum or Dad’s life story
Create a guided memoir or family history
Preserve childhood memories and the stories behind treasured photos

Videos, voice, photos & memories

Record their voice and favourite stories
Create a family history podcast
Preserve meaningful photos and videos with the memories behind them

Legacy letters & future messages

Write goodbye letters, legacy letters and legacy statements
Leave letters for children and grandchildren
Schedule birthday, wedding and milestone messages for the future

Values, traditions & remembrance

Pass on values and life lessons
Preserve family recipes and traditions
Record personal funeral, memorial and remembrance wishes

One story becomes another. Before long, you have something no photo album could ever hold.

Your care wishes

Advance Care Planning & QR Emergency Card

Make your care wishes clear while the conversation is yours to have.

Record future healthcare wishes, Advance Care Directives, substitute decision-makers, emergency health information and personal care preferences — and share the context behind those choices with the people who matter.

14 ways to make your care wishes easier to understand and act on

Advance care planning & directives

Record future healthcare wishes and what matters most · Store or complete advance care directives where available · Record treatments or outcomes they would want or refuse

Record future healthcare wishes and what matters most
Store or complete advance care directives where available
Record treatments or outcomes they would want or refuse

QR Emergency Access

Share critical information through a QR Emergency Access Card · Keep medications, allergies and important medical information together · Make emergency contacts easy to find

Share critical information through a QR Emergency Access Card
Keep medications, allergies and important medical information together
Make emergency contacts easy to find

Decision-makers & care team

Record who should speak for them if they cannot · Identify substitute decision-makers · Keep GP, specialist and healthcare contacts together

Record who should speak for them if they cannot
Identify substitute decision-makers
Keep GP, specialist and healthcare contacts together

End-of-life, care & personal wishes

Record where and how they would prefer to be cared for · Capture hospital, home-care and aged-care preferences · Preserve cultural, spiritual and end-of-life wishes

Record where and how they would prefer to be cared for
Capture hospital, home-care and aged-care preferences
Preserve cultural, spiritual and end-of-life wishes

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Advance care planning & directives

Record future healthcare wishes and what matters most
Store or complete advance care directives where available
Record treatments or outcomes they would want or refuse

QR Emergency Access

Share critical information through a QR Emergency Access Card
Keep medications, allergies and important medical information together
Make emergency contacts easy to find

Decision-makers & care team

Record who should speak for them if they cannot
Identify substitute decision-makers
Keep GP, specialist and healthcare contacts together

End-of-life, care & personal wishes

Record where and how they would prefer to be cared for
Capture hospital, home-care and aged-care preferences
Preserve cultural, spiritual and end-of-life wishes

Clear wishes create better conversations, stronger understanding and more confidence for everyone involved.

Your essentials

Estate Planning

Bring the practical side of life into one clear picture.

Bring together your will, powers of attorney, Password Manager, important documents, property, superannuation, insurance, digital accounts and final wishes — so the right people can find what they need without piecing it together.

23 ways to organise the information your family may one day need

Wills, powers & legal documents

Create or securely store a will · Keep powers of attorney and guardianship documents together · Record executors, lawyers and other key contacts

Create or securely store a will
Keep powers of attorney and guardianship documents together
Record executors, lawyers and other key contacts

Money, property, super & insurance

List bank accounts, investments and property · Record superannuation and insurance details · Keep accountant, adviser and financial contacts easy to find

List bank accounts, investments and property
Record superannuation and insurance details
Keep accountant, adviser and financial contacts easy to find

Important documents & everyday life

Organise important documents and IDs · Record utilities, subscriptions and recurring bills · Leave the household instructions only you currently know

Organise important documents and IDs
Record utilities, subscriptions and recurring bills
Leave the household instructions only you currently know

Digital legacy, Password Manager & final wishes

Securely store passwords, online accounts, digital assets and access instructions · Decide what should happen to social media, digital files and online accounts · Leave funeral, memorial and final wishes

Securely store passwords, online accounts, digital assets and access instructions
Decide what should happen to social media, digital files and online accounts
Leave funeral, memorial and final wishes

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Wills, powers & legal documents

Create or securely store a will
Keep powers of attorney and guardianship documents together
Record executors, lawyers and other key contacts

Money, property, super & insurance

List bank accounts, investments and property
Record superannuation and insurance details
Keep accountant, adviser and financial contacts easy to find

Important documents & everyday life

Organise important documents and IDs
Record utilities, subscriptions and recurring bills
Leave the household instructions only you currently know

Digital legacy, Password Manager & final wishes

Securely store passwords, online accounts, digital assets and access instructions
Decide what should happen to social media, digital files and online accounts
Leave funeral, memorial and final wishes

Add what you know today. Keep it current as life, family and circumstances change.

Your Vault does not need to be finished. It just needs to begin.

Capture a story. Record a wish. Add one important detail. Invite someone you love. Build something your family can keep growing with you.

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THE HARSH REALITY

Most family stories are not lost because people don't care. They are lost because nobody captures them in time.

Photos sit unnamed. Recipes stay in someone's head. Grandparents repeat the best stories at dinner, then one day the details are gone. Evaheld turns "one day we should ask" into a simple, guided system.

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Stories fade

Names, places, traditions and life lessons disappear when nobody records them clearly.

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Photos lose context

A photo file is not a memory. Your family needs the story behind who was there, where it was and why it mattered.

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Blank pages stop people

Most people want to leave something meaningful, but they do not know where to start or what questions to answer.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

With Evaheld, preserving your story is simple, guided and ready to share when the time is right.

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Two lifetime vaults.
One lasting family legacy.

Two private Premium Lifetime Vaults for any two family members—independently owned and controlled, with shared Rooms for the stories, memories and important information that belong together as a lasting family legacy.

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Estate PlanningWills, assets, digital legacy and executor guidance

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THE OBVIOUS CHOICE

Compare the Best Life Story Apps and Family Storytelling Platforms

Evaheld is the better option when you want guided storytelling, family participation, privacy controls and future delivery in one place.

Option 1

Cloud photo folders

Useful for storage, but weak for meaning.

Files become unlabelled and hard to interpret
No guided prompts or memoir structure
No controlled future message delivery

Option 2

Traditional memoir services

Helpful for one finished output, but often expensive and static.

Slow project-based process
Less flexible for ongoing family contributions
Not built for private Rooms or milestone delivery

Best fit

Evaheld Story & Legacy

A guided, private, shareable family story system.

Video, voice, written and uploaded memories
Charli prompts for memoirs, biographies and legacy letters
Rooms, Content Requests and future message delivery

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HOW IT WORKS

From one memory to a living family archive.

Evaheld is designed so people can start small, build over time and involve family without losing control.

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Choose your path

Start with family history, childhood memories, legacy letters, recipes, values, photo stories or future messages.

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Record your way

Speak, type, upload photos, record video, capture voice or let Charli guide the next question.

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Invite contributions

Create private Rooms and send specific Content Requests so relatives can add one story, photo or detail.

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Control delivery

Share today, keep private, deliver on a future milestone or prepare posthumous access through trusted-party settings.

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DASHBOARD PROOF

The Story & Legacy Checklist gives people a clear place to start.

Not just a promise about preserving stories — the product doing it: a guided checklist, suggested story items, Photo Manager, Charli recommendations and a clean next action.

🎉Family traditions

Capture rituals, celebrations, food, sayings and cultural details.

📖Family story

Document the people, places and chapters that shaped the family.

🎂Family milestones

Create messages and memories around birthdays, graduations, weddings and anniversaries.

🖼️Photo Manager

Add context to image libraries so they become understandable stories.

Actual dashboard: the Story & Legacy Checklist with Charli's suggested next item.

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MEMOIRS & BIOGRAPHIES

Write a Memoir or Biography with Guided Life Story Prompts

Charli can help structure a life story into chapters, ask the next meaningful question and turn memories into a biography that still sounds like the person telling it. Prefer no AI? Record, write or upload manually at any time.

Guided prompts. Childhood, family, values, love, work, hardship and wisdom.

Chapter-style structure. For memoirs, biographies and legacy letters.

Self-led mode. For people who already know exactly what they want to say.

Start with Charli See creation modes

Charli memoir outline in the Evaheld dashboard with chapter prompts and a prompt preview

CREATE YOUR WAY

Video, voice or written — the format should fit the person.

Some people tell stories best on camera. Some prefer voice because it feels natural. Others want to write privately and polish it later. Evaheld keeps the creation path flexible so more people actually finish.

🎥Video

Record stories, messages and reflections in your own words.

🎙️Voice

Capture the sound, tone and personality your family will miss most.

✍️Written

Use templates or write freely, with or without Charli's help.

Together

Invite family to add their own memories and voices, so the story is not carried by one person alone.

Evaheld dashboard showing create my own options for video, voice and written stories

Actual dashboard: video, voice and written creation modes.

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FAMILY PARTICIPATION

Family legacy is stronger when the family can help build it.

Evaheld Rooms and Content Requests let you invite the right person to add the right contribution — a photo, recipe, voice note, memory, letter or missing detail — without giving broad access to the whole vault.

Create Rooms. For family history, childhood memories, recipes, letters or special people.

Send specific content asks. To the relatives who hold the missing details.

Keep collaboration scoped. Private, permission-based and traceable.

Evaheld dashboard showing Rooms, Content Requests and Charli AI insights for connected rooms

Actual dashboard: Rooms, Content Requests and Charli insights.

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PHOTO STORIES

Photos become valuable when the story around them is preserved.

Evaheld is not another photo dump. The value is context: who is in the image, where it happened, why it mattered and which family members should be invited to add the missing details.

Add context. Names, places, dates and the emotional story behind the image.

Invite annotation. Prepare photos for family contributions inside Rooms.

Build an archive. Turn scattered images into an organised memory archive.

Photo story annotation in the Evaheld dashboard with who, where, when and why prompts

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FUTURE DELIVERY

Send Legacy Letters and Future Messages for Milestones

Birthday wishes, wedding advice, graduation messages, letters for grandchildren, anniversary reflections and posthumous messages can be created while the person still has the chance.

⚡Share instantly

Send a story or message today.

🎓Choose a milestone

Prepare delivery for a future date or occasion.

🔒Keep private

Hold content until you decide.

🕊️Posthumous release

Set up trusted-party pathways where available.

Future message delivery illustration with now, milestone, later and posthumous delivery options

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PERSONALISED TO YOUR JOURNEY

Charli adapts to the life chapter people are actually in.

A young parent, grandparent, family historian and person reflecting near end of life do not need the same prompts. Evaheld understands context.

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Where It Began

Roots

•Childhood memories
•Hometowns and schools
•First jobs and traditions

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Life Lessons

Turning points

•Choices, work and travel
•Adversity and growth
•What it all taught you

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Parent Stories

For your children

•Messages to children
•Family values
•Moments worth preserving

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Grandparent Legacy

Across generations

•Ancestry and heritage
•Recipes and customs
•Letters for grandchildren

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Where It Began

Roots

•Childhood memories
•Hometowns and schools
•First jobs and traditions

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Life Lessons

Turning points

•Choices, work and travel
•Adversity and growth
•What it all taught you

👨‍👩‍👧

Parent Stories

For your children

•Messages to children
•Family values
•Moments worth preserving

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Grandparent Legacy

Across generations

•Ancestry and heritage
•Recipes and customs
•Letters for grandchildren

Charli Knows Your Context

When you tell Charli you’re a new grandparent, she suggests stories your grandchildren may treasure, prompts memories from your own grandparents, and helps document family traditions to pass down.

Adapts questions to your life stage

Suggests relevant story types

Prompts for meaningful details

Connects stories across generations

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Every type of story, every precious memory.

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Family History

Traditions, ancestors, cultural identity, family tree context and origin stories

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Memoirs & Biographies

Structured life stories, personal chapters, reflections and legacy letters

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Recipes & Rituals

Food memories, holiday routines, sayings, customs and small habits that define a family

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Love & Relationships

How people met, marriage stories, friendships and relationships that shaped a life

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Wisdom & Advice

Values, lessons learned, mistakes, hopes and guidance for younger generations

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Milestone Messages

Birthday, wedding, graduation, new baby and future messages for loved ones

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Photo Stories

Who, where, when and why behind the images families already have

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Voice Archive

Record accent, tone, laughter and personality that text can never fully preserve

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Hard Stories

Space for truth, grief, resilience and difficult chapters — shared only when and with whom you choose

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Family History

Traditions, ancestors, cultural identity, family tree context and origin stories

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Memoirs & Biographies

Structured life stories, personal chapters, reflections and legacy letters

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Recipes & Rituals

Food memories, holiday routines, sayings, customs and small habits that define a family

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Love & Relationships

How people met, marriage stories, friendships and relationships that shaped a life

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Wisdom & Advice

Values, lessons learned, mistakes, hopes and guidance for younger generations

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Milestone Messages

Birthday, wedding, graduation, new baby and future messages for loved ones

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Photo Stories

Who, where, when and why behind the images families already have

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Voice Archive

Record accent, tone, laughter and personality that text can never fully preserve

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Hard Stories

Space for truth, grief, resilience and difficult chapters — shared only when and with whom you choose

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PRIVACY CONTROL

Not every story belongs to everyone at the same time.

Keep stories private, share selectively and change access as relationships and timing change.

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Private by default

You decide what you create, who sees it and whether it remains private.

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Room-level sharing

Share specific family memories with selected people instead of exposing the whole vault.

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Timing control

Share today, schedule for later, or prepare trusted release pathways for after death.

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REAL FAMILIES. REAL EXPERIENCES.

See what changes when everything that matters has a place.

From preserving stories and future messages to documenting care wishes and important information, families share how Evaheld makes it easier to begin, stay connected and leave something meaningful behind.

★★★★★ 5/5 Verified Google reviews

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“Evaheld has been really great. We started using it to capture stories, but what surprised me was how much it got everyone else involved too. People actually interacted and shared their own memories. It’s been really nice to see.”

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“As a carer for my mum, Evaheld has been incredibly helpful. It’s given us a way to capture her stories while she’s still able to share them, and it’s also helped our family stay connected and involved. I didn’t realise how much it would mean until we started using it.”

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“What I didn’t expect was how much it got the whole family involved. It made some harder conversations easier than I thought they’d be, and everything flowed really naturally. What started as something practical has turned into something that’s brought a lot of joy.”

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Partner recognition

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✦Awards & recognition

Winner University of Sydney Genesis Startup Competition 2022 Recognised for innovation in legacy preservation and advance care planning.

Winner Evaheld wins APAC Insider Business Awards 2024 Most Innovative Memorialisation & Care Planning Business 2024 — Social Impact Startup of the Year 2024

Corporate Vision Evaheld wins Australian Enterprise Awards 2025 Innovation & Advance Care Planning Company 2025 — Service Excellence 2025

Winner Evaheld wins APAC Insider Business Awards 2025 Most Compassionate Legacy Planning CEO 2025 — Michelle Gomes

Championing Health State Finalist Telstra Best of Business Awards 2025 Recognised for innovation in healthcare technology and legacy preservation.

Built for Real People

No technical skills needed. No overwhelming blank pages. Just natural conversation.

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Speak or Type — Your Choice

Share your stories by voice or text. Charli adapts to how you prefer to communicate.

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Rich Media Support

Add photos, videos, voice recordings and documents to bring your stories to life.

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Automatic Organisation

Charli helps organise stories by theme, person, life stage and memory type.

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Complete Privacy Control

Choose who can see each story, message, photo or memory.

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Unlimited Stories

Capture as many stories, reflections and messages as your legacy deserves.

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Guided Questions

Never face a blank page. Charli asks prompts that help stories flow.

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Speak or Type — Your Choice

Share your stories by voice or text. Charli adapts to how you prefer to communicate.

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Rich Media Support

Add photos, videos, voice recordings and documents to bring your stories to life.

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Automatic Organisation

Charli helps organise stories by theme, person, life stage and memory type.

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Complete Privacy Control

Choose who can see each story, message, photo or memory.

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Unlimited Stories

Capture as many stories, reflections and messages as your legacy deserves.

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Guided Questions

Never face a blank page. Charli asks prompts that help stories flow.

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Story & Legacy — Family Storytelling, Life Stories & Memories

Create the Vault your family will actually want to keep.

Story & Legacy

Turn a lifetime of stories into something your family can keep.

Life stories, memoirs & family history

Videos, voice, photos & memories

Legacy letters & future messages

Values, traditions & remembrance

Life stories, memoirs & family history

Videos, voice, photos & memories

Legacy letters & future messages

Values, traditions & remembrance

Advance Care Planning & QR Emergency Card

Make your care wishes clear while the conversation is yours to have.

Advance care planning & directives

QR Emergency Access

Decision-makers & care team

End-of-life, care & personal wishes

Advance care planning & directives

QR Emergency Access

Decision-makers & care team

End-of-life, care & personal wishes

Estate Planning

Bring the practical side of life into one clear picture.

Wills, powers & legal documents

Money, property, super & insurance

Important documents & everyday life

Digital legacy, Password Manager & final wishes

Wills, powers & legal documents

Money, property, super & insurance

Important documents & everyday life

Digital legacy, Password Manager & final wishes

Your Vault does not need to be finished. It just needs to begin.

Two lifetime vaults.One lasting family legacy.

Compare the Best Life Story Apps and Family Storytelling Platforms

From one memory to a living family archive.

The Story & Legacy Checklist gives people a clear place to start.

Write a Memoir or Biography with Guided Life Story Prompts

Video, voice or written — the format should fit the person.

Family legacy is stronger when the family can help build it.

Photos become valuable when the story around them is preserved.

Send Legacy Letters and Future Messages for Milestones

Not every story belongs to everyone at the same time.

See what changes when everything that matters has a place.

"Your legacy: A gift that lasts forever"

You're In Safe Hands

A whole life.One story at a time.

The voice you know by heart.

Two lifetime vaults.
One lasting family legacy.

A whole life.
One story at a time.