Your life story, kept for good

Tell your story once. Keep it as a book, or watch it as a film.

Talk through your life with a warm, patient interviewer and get back a finished memoir. When the book is ready, see it become a hand-drawn film, told in your own words.

Write my memoir Turn my book into a film

Two services from one family: MemoirMaker for the book, MemoirMovies for the film.

Where would you like to start?

Start with the conversation if your story is not written down yet. Start with the film if it already is.

Older hands holding a black-and-white family photograph beside a hardcover book

If your story is not written yet

MemoirMaker

Talk through your life story. Get back a finished memoir.

  • Talk with Marin, a warm AI interviewer, one chapter at a time, on your phone or computer.
  • Your chapters come back written in your own voice, ready to proof beside your own words.
  • Edit anything, add a cover, and download the finished book as PDF or Word.

Free to start: your first interview sitting and a sample chapter, no card required.

Start my memoir at MemoirMaker
A hand-drawn film still of a couple at the foot of a driveway looking up at a house, titled Prologue, A Mostly Magnificent Memoir, Episode 1

If your story is already a book

MemoirMovies

Your book, as a hand-drawn film, in your own words.

  • The narration is your own sentences, word for word, and the dialogue is used exactly as you wrote it.
  • Choose a look, Light-hearted, Serious or Mid-century, with a voice for every character.
  • Made one part at a time, and you approve each part before the next one begins.

Uploading your book is free, and you can see a free minute of yours first.

Start my film at MemoirMovies

Or go all the way: talk, read, then watch

The two services are built to work together, so one conversation can end up on the bookshelf and on the screen.

1

Talk

Plan your book with Marin in a short first sitting, then tell it chapter by chapter, in as many sittings as you like.

2

Read

MemoirMaker writes each chapter from what you said. You check every paragraph against your own words and approve it.

3

Watch

Choose Make it a film beside your finished memoir. It arrives at MemoirMovies already signed in, with no upload and no new password.

Giving it to a parent?

Many memoirs begin as a gift from a son or daughter. Buy a memoir under your own account, then help your parent begin or share it with them. They simply talk; nothing needs to be typed.

Give a memoir as a gift

Want to see a real one?

The film still above comes from A Mostly Magnificent Memoir, a real memoir made into a hand-drawn film and released as a web series.

See the episodes at MemoirMovies

Interviewing a parent yourself?

Start with the questions. Our free guide gives them part by part, from childhood to the advice they would pass on, with how to ask, how to record and what to do with the answers.

The questions to ask a parent

The stories only one person can tell.

The best time to record them is while there is still time to ask.

Write my memoir Turn my book into a film