Add the photos
Bring photos and videos in from your phone or your Google Photos, or scan the pages of an old printed album.
Invite the people who were there
Keep the voices, not just the pictures.
Gather everyone’s photos and voices from the dinner, the trip, the reunion, and hear the story behind every picture, in the words of the people who lived it.
Gathertell is a private app for families and events: share photos and videos into a shared album, record voice and video stories on each picture, and turn them into narrated films. Connect Google Photos and it imports only the photos you pick.
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Free to start · no accounts needed to listen
Illustrative demo · AI-generated narration
At the gathering · pass the phone, catch the storyAfter the event · everyone’s photos, one albumFor the ones far away · a film with their voice in it
How it works
Two taps per memory. That’s the whole thing.
Pass the phone around
One giant button. They talk about each photo. Two taps per memory: start, stop, saved.
Get the film
Every voice becomes a film, with their words and their name on screen, ready to share with the whole family.
No typing. No menus. Made for hands that didn’t grow up on phones.
The voice stays with the photo
A recording belongs to the picture, everywhere it goes.
Films with their name on screen
Every scene says who’s speaking.
When Grandma Rose narrates a photo, her name and relationship ride along on screen, the same bar the finished film burns in, in whichever style you pick. Years from now it’s unmistakably her.
Karaoke captions light the words up as they’re spoken, even on mute
Grandma RoseGrandmother0:18
Ask, and the answer is a story
Ask a question. Get a story back.
Send someone a gentle prompt, like “How did you two meet?”, and they answer in their own voice. It comes back as a little narrated card the whole family keeps. The prompts do the remembering, so no one has to think of what to say.
Ready-made prompts make the very first recording easyThe whole family, connected
Everyone finds their place.
People you record and people you tag are one shared roster. Link them into a simple family tree and each person’s relationship is worked out for whoever’s looking.
Relationship labels are computed per viewer, never guessedOne QR at the wedding
Put one code on every table.
Everyone’s photos and voices land in the same album, and the slideshow builds itself on the big screen, live, as the night goes on.
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Pricing
Start your family’s archive for free.
$0 / forever
Start your family’s archive.
- 5 GB of photos and voice recordings, room for thousands of memories
- The guided walkthrough, two taps per memory
- Share albums with the whole family
- Make and share films with names on screen, in the style you pick
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For families who want the finishing touches, like automatic audio clean-up that removes hiss and trims long silences so every voice sounds clear.
We’ll share the details before you’re ever asked to pay.
Your photos and recordings stay yoursEverything you save stays viewable and shareable, free, foreverFree to start, no credit card
Questions
The things families ask us first.
Does everyone need an account?
No. You can share an album with a simple link. They tap it, listen, and add their voice, with no sign-up and no password to remember. The person who starts the album handles the setup, and can do that with their Google account in one tap; everyone else can just be handed the phone.
What if someone’s not good with phones?
That’s exactly who we built it for. The guided walkthrough shows one photo at a time with a single giant record button and oversized text. They tap once to start, talk, tap once to stop, and it saves. Two taps per memory, no menus to get lost in.
Who can see our photos?
Only the people you invite. Albums are private by default, and each person you add gets a plain-language role, from “can look and listen” up to full control, that you can change at any time.
Do you use face recognition?
No. The app can notice that there’s a face in a photo and count how many, but it never guesses who anyone is. Every name comes from you. That keeps the whole thing private and clear of biometric-identity concerns.
Can we get our memories out?
Your photos and recordings are yours. You can turn any album into a film, with everyone’s names on screen, to share with the whole family, and nothing you capture is ever locked behind a paywall.
What does it cost?
Starting your family’s archive is free: 5 GB of photos and voice recordings (room for thousands of memories), sharing, and films with names on screen. A paid Plus tier with extra finishing touches is coming later, and we’ll always tell you before you’re asked to pay.
Years from now, you’ll still hear this day in their own voices.
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