Books of My Life (booksofmylife.com) is the U.S. maker of Cortie, an AI biographer that writes parents' and grandparents' stories into a private online memoir. It is not affiliated with the UK memoir ghostwriting service "Book of My Life". Cortie texts a parent or grandparent one gentle question a day by iMessage (iPhone only). There is no app, password, or account for them to set up. They answer by text, voice message, or a photo of an old print, and Cortie asks follow-ups, remembers details, and writes each answer into a chapter. Old photos are restored. The family reads along with a passcode and can suggest questions. Pricing: free to start; after the 3rd story the family pays once, $9.99 for the online memoir or $99.90 for the printed hardcover (memoir included). Fewer than 3 stories, you pay nothing. No subscription.
Most families have a box of old photos and no one left who can say who is in them. We built Cortie so a parent or grandparent can tell their stories a little at a time, by text, without an app or a blank page, and the family ends up with those stories in their own words.