What We Offer - Free Legacy Videos, Family Trees & Time Vault - About Me Archives
What We Offer - About Me Archives

Everything You Need to
Preserve Your Legacy

From your first story to building your family archive, we provide the tools to ensure your voice lives on for generations to come.

Whether you have 2 minutes or a lifetime of memories to share, About Me Archives makes it simple to record, organize, and protect what matters most. Start free, upgrade anytime.

Free

Your Story, One Question at a Time

Not sure where to start? The Legacy Snapshot guides you through 10 essential questions that capture the heart of who you are. Each question is its own short 2-minute video, recorded at your own pace, one at a time. No need to sit down and do them all at once.

  • 10 short 2-minute videos, each answering one life story question
  • No technical skills required, just hit record and answer
  • Record at your own pace, one today, another tomorrow
  • Completely free, forever
Start Your Legacy Snapshot
Legacy Snapshot
10 guided questions · 2 minutes each · Record at your own pace
1 Tell us who you are
6 What's a favorite memory that makes you smile?
10 What would you like future generations to know?
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Tell Every Story That Matters

Your life isn't just one story, it's thousands. With Premium, unlock access to our Questions Gallery with 140+ curated prompts across 10 categories, or record self-guided videos on any topic you choose. No limits, no restrictions.

  • Access to 140+ curated questions across 10 life categories
  • Unlimited 10-minute video recordings
  • Self-guided option, record anything, anytime
  • Organize your videos by topic, timeline, or audience
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Questions Gallery
140+ prompts across 10 categories to guide your storytelling
Categories Include:
Childhood & Early Life Family & Relationships Career & Work Life Life Philosophy & Lessons Hopes & Dreams Personal Interests & Passions Historical Context & World Events Challenges & Overcoming Adversity Love & Romance Spirituality & Beliefs
Free & Premium

Connect Your Past to Your Future

Map the family that shaped you, parents, children, siblings, and spouses, in an interactive, visual family tree that grows as your family joins. Invite relatives by email, and when they register, their tree connects to yours automatically.

Living and deceased members. Bidirectional relationships. A tree that's alive because the people in it are, or were, real.

  • Interactive visual family tree with intuitive controls
  • Invite family members to create their own profiles and videos
  • Automatic linking when invited family members register
  • Private by default, you control who sees what

Free: up to 20 family members. Premium: unlimited.

Build Your Family Tree
Family Tree
An interactive, visual map of the family that shaped you
Parents, children, siblings, spouses
Invite by email, auto-links on registration
Status badges: Registered, Invited, Not Yet Invited
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The Tapestry, Your Friend Network

Your life wasn't shaped only by family. The Tapestry maps the friendships and chosen connections that made you who you are. Invite friends, accept invitations, and watch as your personal network becomes visible, a woven web of the people who mattered most.

See how your story connects to theirs. Explore degrees of separation. Discover that your life touched more lives than you ever realized.

  • Invite friends to connect their story to yours
  • Visual network graph, see how lives weave together
  • Explore extended connections through degrees of separation
  • Every invitation is a chance for someone new to preserve their story

Free: up to 5 direct friends. Premium: unlimited connections and full extended network view.

Start Weaving Your Tapestry
The Tapestry
A visual map of the friendships that shaped your life
Invite friends by email
Interactive network visualization
Degrees of separation coloring
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Messages That Outlive You

Record a message now. Decide when it arrives. The Time Vault gives you three ways to send your words into the future, so your voice can be present at moments you may never see.

  • Scheduled Delivery: Pick a date. A birthday, an anniversary, a graduation years from now. Your message arrives exactly when you choose.
  • Death-Activated: Your Legacy Steward confirms your passing, and the messages you left behind are delivered to the people you chose.
  • Event-Based: Tied to life milestones. A wedding. A first child. A retirement. Your message waits for the moment it was meant for.
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Time Vault
Three delivery types. One promise: your voice will be there.
Scheduled: deliver on a specific date
Death-Activated: delivered after your passing
Event-Based: tied to life milestones
Free

Explore Stories: Discover Real Lives

Browse real stories from real people. Explore Stories is the public heart of About Me Archives, a place to discover wisdom, laughter, and lived experience from the community.

When a member passes, their profile transforms into a memorial, marked with an "In Loving Memory" banner, their name displayed in gold, and their videos preserved as cherished memories. Their story doesn't end. It becomes part of something larger.

  • Browse stories by theme, generation, or location
  • Featured stories curated weekly
  • Memorial profiles honor those who've passed
  • Open to everyone, no account required to explore
Explore Stories Now
Explore Stories
Discover wisdom from people across different times, places, and paths
Browse by theme, era, or location
Featured stories updated weekly
Memorial profiles with "In Loving Memory" banner
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Your Legacy Steward: A Trusted Guardian

Appoint someone you trust to protect your archive after you're gone. Your Legacy Steward is the person who ensures your story is handled with care, triggering death-activated vault messages, converting your profile to a memorial, and making sure your wishes are honored.

This is what makes About Me Archives work beyond a single lifetime. Your story doesn't depend on a company. It depends on a person you chose.

  • Designate a primary and backup steward
  • Steward receives a secure invitation to accept the role
  • Triggers death-activated Time Vault messages
  • Converts your profile to a memorial when the time comes
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Legacy Steward
A trusted person who protects your archive when you no longer can
Secure invitation and acceptance flow
Triggers vault messages after passing
Converts profile to memorial
Now on iPhone

Your Story, In Your Pocket

The About Me Archives app is now on iPhone, bringing your story to your phone: Legacy Snapshot recording, your Family Tree, The Tapestry, Time Vault, and Explore Stories. Record wherever the moment finds you, with Android coming soon.

Legacy Snapshot Family Tree The Tapestry Time Vault Explore Stories
On iPhone now · Android soon

Free vs. Premium: Choose What's Right for You

Feature Free Premium
Legacy Snapshot (10 × 2 min)
Questions Gallery Access 140+ Questions
Unlimited Videos 10-min videos
Self-Guided Recording
Family Tree 20 Members Unlimited
The Tapestry (Friend Network) 5 Friends Unlimited + Extended
Time Vault Messages
Legacy Steward
Explore Stories
Video Storage 10 snapshot videos Unlimited

Ready to Start Your Legacy?

Begin preserving your story for future generations. Start free today, no credit card required.

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