Memory Capsule
The app for preserving your entire family’s memories for the future.
Your photos and videos alone don’t tell the complete story. Until now.
Coming soon to the App Store
Tell the stories behind the photos.
Add video or audio commentary to a photo or video.
Patent pending
Record yourself while you look at a photo and tell the story. Use your finger to highlight areas in the photo, just like you would if you were looking at a physical scrapbook.
Replaces Remento · $99/yr
Hold & drag to highlight while you talk
Create Guided Memories of entire photo albums
Patent pending
Tell the story behind a family vacation or a special event in your life by narrating an album of photos and videos. Your photos and your story, at your own pace.
Replaces StoryWorth · $59–199/yr
Add traditional journal entries to your library.
For the moments in life that don’t have a photo or video attached, we’ve got you covered.
Transcript
We had the barn painted redthat summer, and your great-grandmother kept the chickens right up against the fence line because the foxes…
Transcribed automatically. Searchable forever.
Plus: a prompt library and a timeline view of your life.
Privacy and sharing settings for the future.
Share a capsule with family and friends.
Let the people who were there add their own photos — and their own commentary and Guided Memories too!
Replaces PhotoCircle + Tinybeans · $85/yr
Simple, powerful profile with privacy built in.
Keep everything private, make certain information password-protected, or be an open book. Every piece of media and every album can have its own privacy settings.
Unlock your memories at a specific time in the future.
Write or record a letter today and seal it until a graduation, a wedding, an anniversary — it will be waiting, exactly when you meant it to arrive.
Library management made easy.
Mark moments on videos to find them quickly.
Remember that one moment in that long video, but don’t want to scrub? Mark it as a moment and make it instantly searchable.
Search everything in your library.
That’s right, everything. Search for people that you’ve tagged, locations, even what you said in a video. Video and audio is automatically transcribed (optional) to make searching and reliving those moments as accessible as possible.
In a recording
“…had the barn painted red that summer”
Grandpa on the farm · 0:42
In a journal
“The barncame down in the storm”
Photos · 14
Clean up burst shots and duplicates.
It seems silly to have to build this feature, but we know that cleaning up your photo library is a big task. We’re here to help with beautiful duplicate and burst shot detection, helping you pick your favorites to make memory sorting easier than ever.
Replaces Slidebox · $49.99/yr
11 near-duplicates
Keep the sharpest · free 84 MB
4 more groups
Nothing leaves until you say so
Plus: powerful filtering app-wide, smart capsules and collections, and a timeline view.
All of these features, also on web.
Upload pictures from your computer, tag them on your phone. Memory Capsule works both ways, all the time.
Five subscriptions. Or one.
This is what it costs to assemble the same thing out of the apps that each do one part of it.
Photomyne
Scanning old prints
$59.99/yr
Remento
Recorded story prompts
$99.00/yr
Slidebox
Duplicate cleanup
$49.99/yr
PhotoCircle+
Shared albums
$9.99/yr
Tinybeans
Private family sharing
$74.99/yr
What that adds up to
$293.96
Memory Capsule
$99/year
or $9.99 a month
Founding price, locked for life. It rises for everyone who joins later — never for you.
Competitor prices checked August 2026, and these are the cheaper plans — Picnic charges $8 a week for photo cleanup alone. A free tier keeps a small archive at no cost, for as long as you want it.
“Why pay for this when Instagram is free?”
Because they aren’t the same kind of thing. Social media is where you show people. This is where you keep things.
A feed, or an archive
A feed is built to be scrolled past. Try finding one particular photo from 2014 — you cannot search your own posts by what is actually in them. Here everything is findable: by who is in it, where, when, and what was said out loud.
The good ones, or all of them
Nobody posts the blurry one of their mother in her kitchen. That is the one your family will want in thirty years. An archive keeps the whole thing, including everything that was never worth showing strangers.
A caption, or a voice
Four words under a picture is not the story. Here you talk over it, pointing at faces as you go — and the person who lived it is the one telling it, in their own voice, for as long as the file exists.
And the part nobody thinks about until it’s too late: an account is not an inheritance. Your photos here are yours — full resolution, never re-compressed, exportable whenever you like, and handed on to whoever you choose.
More features
One shared family tree
Build it together, and every card says what that person is to you.
A timeline of your life
See who was alive together — and which years nobody photographed at all.
Face recognition, on your device
Name a person once and every photo of them is tagged — your photos never leave your phone to be analysed.
Import whole albums
Point it at an album and walk away — uploads keep going with your phone locked.
Full resolution, always
Nothing is re-compressed to save space, and you can export the lot whenever you like.
Works on a proper screen
The web app mirrors the phone — useful for the family tree, where space helps.
The stories go first.
Long before a photograph fades, the person who knew what was happening in it is gone. Be the one who wrote it down.
Coming soon to the App Store
Founder pricing
Locked in for everyone who joins before launch. Start free with 10 GB — Plus adds 200 GB, transcription and captions, video export, and AI duplicate detection.