For families recording a life
Your stories. Your words. Your voice.
A way to tell a life story - your own, a parent's or a partner's - in your own voice, in your own words, in your own time.
Penmora helps people record a life story in their own voice and words. The app asks questions, transcribes what was said, and helps families return to the original recordings later.
It does not speak for the storyteller. If something was not recorded, Penmora says so.
How Penmora works
Record a life, a story at a time.
Penmora is a recording app for life stories. There is no right way to use it and no deadline. This is how it works:
One
You talk
The app asks you a question - about the home you grew up in, the people you loved, the work you did - and you answer in your own way. Speak or type; five minutes or an hour; someone beside you or on your own.
Two
Your words are kept
Penmora keeps the recording and writes down what was said - your words, as you spoke them, with the original audio always underneath it. The record is never rewritten.
Three
Your family can return to it
The people you choose can search the stories, read them, and hear them in your voice. And if you want one, a printed book can be made from what you actually said - you can read it in full and design the layout before it is printed.
Built around promises you can read.
Trust should not depend on vague reassurance. The rules behind Penmora are published, in plain words, so families - and the people who advise them - can hold us to them.
When someone you love has stories worth keeping.
We'll write to you once, when Penmora is ready. Nothing in between.