More than a written answer.
Their original voice and video, too.
A written memory is precious. The voice and expression behind it can mean even more. StoryKeeper lets parents and grandparents write, dictate, record audio or video, or tell stories through a simple phone call. We create a beautifully edited hardcover with chapter QR codes that open the original recordings. No time limit. No subscription. More of the person you love, preserved.
Don’t stop at what they said. Keep the way they said it.
My Life in a Book offers a year of prompts with typing and voice-to-text, leading to a hardcover keepsake. StoryKeeper is our recommendation when you want the original telling to remain part of the book: audio, video and chapter-linked QR playback, as well as writing and a phone-call service. Both packages give families time to keep creating without a subscription or completion deadline.
StoryKeeper
No time limit on either package. No subscription or renewal. Write, dictate, or record original audio and video, with a phone-call service available too. Chapter QR codes reconnect your family with the actual telling—not only the printed words.
My Life in a Book
A one-year Story Prompt Program with writing, voice-to-text and a full-colour hardcover advertised at up to 500 pages. Family editing is supported. Original chapter-linked audio/video playback and an automated phone-call recording service are not advertised in the product details reviewed.
Why StoryKeeper gives your family more freedom
Compare the things that matter: time to tell the story, ways to capture it, and how much of the original person you can revisit from the book. Published by StoryKeeper. Competitor details checked against the linked official sources on 16 September 2026; features and terms may change or differ by market. StoryKeeper prices below are in pounds sterling. Phone-call service and contributor allowances depend on your package. My Life in a Book product · My Life in a Book programme
| MY LIFE IN A BOOK | StoryKeeper | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to create your book | One-year question programme; see ongoing programme terms | No time limit on either package |
| Subscription or renewal | Not presented as automatic annual renewal | One payment. No subscription or renewal. |
| Start a chapter by typing | Yes — typing and voice-to-text | Yes — write directly or dictate |
| Original audio recording | Voice-to-text; original chapter playback not advertised | Yes — preserve and replay the original |
| Original video recording | Video recording not advertised in product details | Yes — preserve and replay the original |
| Phone-call recording service | Phone-call recording service not advertised | Recording and transcription included in Plus |
| QR access to original recordings | Original chapter QR playback not advertised in product details | Chapter QR codes open original audio or video |
| Hardcover books included | 1 full-colour hardcover, advertised up to 500 pages | 1 with Classic · 2 with Plus |
| Family contributions | Family editing and additional authors | Unlimited contributors with Plus |
| Package prices | See current provider prices for your market | StoryKeeper Classic: £79 · StoryKeeper Plus: £99 |
| StoryKeeper | MY LIFE IN A BOOK | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to create your book | No time limit on either package | One-year question programme; see ongoing programme terms |
| Subscription or renewal | One payment. No subscription or renewal. | Not presented as automatic annual renewal |
| Start a chapter by typing | Yes — write directly or dictate | Yes — typing and voice-to-text |
| Original audio recording | Yes — preserve and replay the original | Voice-to-text; original chapter playback not advertised |
| Original video recording | Yes — preserve and replay the original | Video recording not advertised in product details |
| Phone-call recording service | Recording and transcription included in Plus | Phone-call recording service not advertised |
| QR access to original recordings | Chapter QR codes open original audio or video | Original chapter QR playback not advertised in product details |
| Hardcover books included | 1 with Classic · 2 with Plus | 1 full-colour hardcover, advertised up to 500 pages |
| Family contributions | Unlimited contributors with Plus | Family editing and additional authors |
| Package prices | StoryKeeper Classic: £79 · StoryKeeper Plus: £99 | See current provider prices for your market |
Let the memory choose the format.
Give someone an easy starting point, not a single way to take part. With StoryKeeper, a parent or grandparent can type, dictate, record audio or video, or use a simple phone-call recording and transcription service. A chapter can be carefully written one day and naturally spoken the next.
My Life in a Book also supports typing and voice-to-text, so it is not a writing-only product. Speaking can help create its written responses. StoryKeeper goes further by preserving original audio or video as part of the memoir, with QR codes connected to the relevant memory inside the book.
That wider choice matters for a complete life story. Keep a private reflection in writing, an amusing anecdote in their own voice and an expressive story on video. The family does not have to settle for the written answer alone.
A chapter on the page. A person behind it.
A beautiful book is only the beginning. StoryKeeper brings written chapters, family photographs and original recordings together in a full-colour hardcover. Your family can read the memory, scan the QR code connected to it, and hear the voice or watch the video behind those words.
An eBook is included, and you can print up to 500 pages. Review the chapters, organise the photographs and approve the book before printing: the finished keepsake should feel like the person whose life it celebrates, not a collection of hurried answers.
StoryKeeper Classic includes 1 hardcover copy. StoryKeeper Plus includes 2 hardcover copies in total—one to keep and one to share. Both packages have no subscription and no completion deadline. My Life in a Book also advertises a full-colour hardcover of up to 500 pages, so page count alone is not a StoryKeeper-only benefit. Our recommendation rests on the fuller experience: original recordings linked to chapters, an included eBook, more storytelling formats and no completion deadline.
A transcript keeps the words. A recording keeps more.
The way a story is told can become the part a family treasures most. StoryKeeper preserves original audio and video connected to the memoir. Scan the chapter’s QR code to hear the storyteller’s natural words or watch the original video—the laughter, pauses and expression belong to that actual memory.
My Life in a Book advertises voice-to-text as a way to create written stories. Its product information also describes an optional audiobook made using a short voice sample. A narration of the finished text is a different experience from returning to the original recording of a particular memory.
We did not find original chapter-linked audio/video QR playback advertised in the product details reviewed. StoryKeeper makes that connection a central part of the keepsake, so future readers can move between the beautifully edited chapter and the authentic moment behind it.
Keep their expression—and let the next chapter arrive naturally.
Sometimes a smile tells you as much as a sentence. StoryKeeper’s original video recordings let the book preserve how someone tells a memory, not simply the text produced from their speech. A nearby QR code can take the reader from the page to that familiar voice and expression.
My Life in a Book offers a one-year Story Prompt Program; that describes the included question programme, not proof that an unfinished book or existing memories disappear after twelve months. We do not present it as an automatically renewing subscription or claim cancellation removes a family’s work.
StoryKeeper’s promise is simpler: both packages have no subscription, renewal or completion deadline. Choose it when the memoir needs time to grow, with room for original video, phone-call storytelling and the next photograph or memory someone discovers.
Make room for everyone who remembers, and what stays private.
A life story is rarely remembered by just one person. A sibling has the photograph, a grandchild has the question, and someone else remembers the detail that makes everyone laugh. StoryKeeper lets you bring that help into the project through family contributions, prompts, photographs and feedback.
With Plus, unlimited contributors can help build a fuller picture of a life. The storyteller can choose what to share with invited collaborators or viewers, so asking for help does not have to mean opening every private reflection or unfinished chapter to everyone.
My Life in a Book also supports family editing and additional authors, so collaboration is not unique to StoryKeeper. StoryKeeper brings that help together with original-recording playback and more control over the material you share. For a family book that needs to grow gradually, StoryKeeper combines collaboration with the freedom to write, record, revisit and finish without a subscription deadline.
The stories are precious. So is the way they’re told.
Meet families who have captured the memories, photographs and voices they want to pass on. These are StoryKeeper experiences, not reviews of the other services.
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Before you choose your life story book
Is voice-to-text the same as keeping an original recording?
No. Voice-to-text creates written words from speech. StoryKeeper also preserves original audio or video, linked to the relevant memory through a QR code in the book. Your family can read the edited chapter and replay the way the story was actually told.
Does StoryKeeper have a one-year completion deadline?
No. Both packages have no subscription, renewal or completion deadline. My Life in a Book advertises a one-year question programme; we do not claim that existing stories disappear when that period ends. StoryKeeper gives families a clear no-time-limit way to keep developing the memoir.
Can a parent or grandparent tell stories by phone?
Yes. StoryKeeper offers an automated phone-call recording and transcription service, as well as direct writing and online audio/video. We did not find a phone-call recording service advertised in My Life in a Book’s product details. Choose the approach that feels easiest for the person telling the story.
Preserve the person, not just the printed answer.
Choose StoryKeeper for a life story you can read, hear and watch. Write, record audio or video, or tell memories through a phone call, with chapter QR codes opening the original recordings. Packages start at £79 in the UK. No time limit. No subscription.
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