Your family history, made for bedtime

The stories behind your ancestors
told for the children who came after

Upload an old letter, newspaper clipping, or life sketch. Heirloom finds the story inside and brings it to life with images.

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How it works

Upload any document

Upload any ancestor document

Your grandmother's letters. A newspaper clipping from the year everything changed. An autobiography nobody's read in forty years. Upload it, and we'll find the stories inside.

Upload screen
Story candidates screen
We do the reading

We find the moments worth telling

You don't dig through the document. Heirloom does. We read what you bring and pull out the moments worth keeping — a life worth knowing, an event worth remembering. Pick the one that feels right.

Your pick, brought to life

Choose a story. We'll write it.

Select a story and Heirloom rewrites it for young ears. Simple language, warm tone, original illustrations. The kind of thing a five-year-old will actually ask to hear again.

Story generation screen
Story library screen
Ready when the moment is

Ready when the moment is

Bedtime arrives without warning. So does a family dinner where someone says "tell them about great-grandpa." Your story library is always there — ready to open, ready to read.

Pricing

Start free.
Keep going from $5/month.

Free

$0
  • 3 stories, lifetime
  • Full story + illustration
  • Save to your library
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Starter

$5/month
  • 10 stories per month
  • Full story + illustration
  • Save to your library
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Best value

Family

$7/month
  • 50 stories per month
  • Full story + illustration
  • Save to your library
  • Family Group Sharing Soon
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FAQ

FAQs

If something else is on your mind, write to us.

The best sources are documents rich in personal detail: letters, newspaper clippings, autobiographies, biographies, and life sketches. If you're not sure where to start, FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com are good places to look — both have digitized collections worth searching. Census records and vital records alone usually don't have enough story in them to work well. Handwritten documents aren't supported yet; typed or printed originals give you the best results.
Usually under two minutes from upload to finished story. Creating the illustration adds a little time — a full picture-book spread usually takes about a minute and a half.
A Portrait captures a person — who they were, where they lived, what made them them. A Story follows an event or journey: the immigration voyage, the year the farm failed, the winter the family sheltered a stranger. Heirloom picks the format that fits your document; you can switch if you disagree.
No account needed to start. You get 3 free stories — upload a document, get a story, and read it in full without signing up. After 3 stories, a subscription is required to keep going.
Documents you upload are read to write your story and are not retained after the session ends, unless you choose to save the story to your library. We do not use your family documents to train AI models.
Stories are written for a read-aloud audience of roughly ages 4–10, though older children enjoy them too. Difficult historical realities — illness, migration hardship, loss — are handled with age-appropriate care rather than being omitted. Your family's truth, gently held.

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