Bring family and friends together to share photographs, stories and personal messages in one beautiful keepsake, in their own words. You can write it yourself too.
Free while we test it before launch · Relatives need no app or account · You choose what goes in
No sign-up needed. You have 14 days (more if you need it) and can download any time. Then we delete everything, for your family’s privacy.
Who remembers this?
A photograph with its caption, a page led by someone’s words, or several people remembering the same moment side by side. We choose a layout for each memory, and you can change any of them. Every book is 8 × 8 inches.
Ruth
Nan saved for nearly a year for that television. On Saturday nights the neighbours' children came round and sat in a row on the rug, and she made them all cocoa before the programme started.
Clive · Ruth's uncle
I always sat closest to the screen, and I was told off for it every single time.
The Hartleys’ example book, page for page as Lovingly Kept makes it. More about the example book
Start with a photograph. Invite the people who were there. Gather their memories. Create the book.
Choose one from your phone, or take a picture of an old print. No photograph? Start with a memory.
Elm Road, ’72What others remember
Margaret · Nan
That’s our front step on Elm Road.
Uncle James · Mum’s brother
0:00 / 0:42Tom · her grandson
I’m the one hiding behind Mum!
Family and friends add their own words, or record their voice.
Your 12 memories
They're all in. Tap any you'd like to leave out.
Elm RoadIn the book
CampingIn the book
PicnicLeft outEvery memory is included. Leave any out, and put them in the order you like.
Ready
32 pages · 8 × 8 inches
Send to familyWe lay out every page for you. A digital book now, printed hardcovers next.
Open the example family to see a finished memory wall and a completed book. You can even try being a relative: open a private link to one of their photographs and add a memory of your own.
Names, photographs and memories in the example are illustrative.
Lovingly Kept brings photographs, written stories and voice recordings together in a personalised family memory book. Here is what matters to us as we build it.
Your family stories are personal. We’re building Lovingly Kept around controlled sharing, so families can contribute to a book without making their memories public.
Family memories should sound like the people who shared them. We preserve contributors’ own words rather than rewrite, summarise or polish their stories with AI.
The person creating the book decides which contributions appear in the finished keepsake.
Photographs should reflect the moments your family captured. We avoid decorative filters and retouching that change the original image.
Family photographs, stories and voices together in one personalised memory book. Digital first, with printed books planned.
Straightforward pricing with no unexpected subscription. What each format includes is explained before you pay.
Every family has a box of them. Add the ones you can't place, and the family helps you work out who, where and when.
A guess is welcome. “Edie?” stays on the photograph until someone knows for sure. When the family has worked it out, mark it We've worked it out.
Add your memory
I saved for nearly two years before I could afford it.
Or say it out loud (optional, up to a minute)
Grandad’s first carWhat others remember
Grandad
I saved for nearly two years before I could afford it.
0:00 / 0:42Mum · his daughter
That’s Grandad.
Emma · his granddaughter
Who is the little boy at the front?
Every book starts with one photograph. Here are three a family might make.
The people, promises and moments that made our day unforgettable.
Dad promised he wouldn’t cry. He lasted until the third step.
Remembered by Emily, James, Mum, Dad, Sophie, Tom and Nana Rose
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Honey’s life, told through the photographs and stories of everyone who loved her.
Even the neighbour remembers: she set her watch by their morning walk.
Remembered by Claire, Tom, Maya, Grandma June and Pat
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His life, told through the photographs and stories of the people who know him best.
Dad recorded the night the bus broke down in the snow. Scan the page to hear him.
Remembered by Dad, Grace, Marcus, Mum, Uncle Lloyd, Amara and Elijah
Start a book like thisAlso for
Gather everyone’s memories of someone you’ve lost, in one book the whole family can keep.
A life story book
Grace’s dad, Desmond, is living with dementia. The family gathers his life story while they can share it with him: his photographs, and the stories of the people who know him best.
Grace adds a picture of her dad with the car he saved two years for. One photograph starts the story.
Dad’s car, ’70sGrace · kept this photograph
Dad with the car he saved for.
What others remember
Uncle Lloyd · his brother
He washed it every Sunday before church. He wouldn’t let any of us eat in it. Not even a sweet.
0:00 / 0:51Amara · his granddaughter
Grandad still says it was the best car he ever had.
His brother tells the story behind it, in his own voice. Everyone adds what they know, so nothing depends on Dad remembering.
Ready
32 pages · 8 × 8 inches
Send to familyA book to look through together, with their words and voices kept in it.
They open it on any phone or computer and share what they remember, in writing or out loud.
Each person gets a private link. They can come back to it as often as they like.
They can say they're not sure, that they don't remember, or skip a question altogether.
When they’ve finished, they can invite someone else who was there, if you’ve allowed it.
While we’re in early access, a limited number of families make and download their book free. One person starts the book. Everyone they invite adds their memories for free.
From launch: digital book £19 · printed hardcover from £49 (planned prices).
Printed books are planned. We’ll tell you here when they’re available.
A few things you may want to know before you start.
Anyone you invite. Family members, friends, children, grandchildren and other people who share memories of the person or family can each add their own contribution.
Yes, if you’d like to. Voices are optional. In the book, a small audio card sits beside that story, and scanning it with a phone camera plays the original recording. During early access, the audio cards stop working when your project is deleted after 14 days. We plan to let you download every recording with your book, so you always have your own copy.
No. Lovingly Kept doesn't rewrite, summarise or polish anyone's memories. What goes into the book is exactly what your family wrote or said.
Lovingly Kept keeps your photographs as they are. If you’d like a colour version, apps such as Photomyne (opens in a new tab) or MyHeritage (opens in a new tab) can colourise an old photograph. You can then upload the colour version, and the original too if you’d like both in the book.
Each person you invite gets their own private link, made just for them, which can’t be guessed. It only opens the photograph you shared it for, not the rest of your book. You can close any link at any time, remove any memory, and leave anything out of the book.
Only you and the people you invite. Links are private. At Lovingly Kept, only our team can access them, and only to fix a problem or when you ask us for help. You see every memory before the book is made, and you choose which photographs go in.
No. During early access, making and downloading a book is free for a limited number of families. From launch, the digital book is planned at £19, paid once per book. There’s nothing to renew.
Lovingly Kept starts as a digital book. Printed books are planned, and we’ll let you know when they’re available.
Yes. You can gather the photographs, stories and voices that capture the person and their life beyond their diagnosis. “I’m not sure” and “I don’t remember” are always fine answers. Lovingly Kept is a keepsake, not a medical or therapy product.
We’d love to. If you’re a care home or social care provider and would like to help residents’ families make life story books, email info@lovinglykept.com.
Collecting memories can take a while, especially when relatives are slow to reply. You can add 14 more days to a project once, and ask us to email you a reminder before it’s deleted, so you can download your book in time.
Yes. You can make more than one book from your family’s photographs and memories. During early access, every book is free. You can download each one at any time, and 14 days after it’s started we delete it, so your family’s memories don’t sit on our servers.
Bring your family's photographs, stories and voices together and create something worth keeping.
Start a memory book
