A quiet app for family stories

There’s a moment, usually in a kitchen, when someone starts with “you probably don’t remember this…”

Family Museum is a private archive of the voices who raised you. Record a story. We transcribe it on your phone, never on our servers. The archive remembers — so the rest of you can just listen.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 12
The Archive
Your family, gathered.
Ask the archive…
Ask
47
STORIES
12
VOICES
3h
RECORDED
RECENTLY GATHERED
NR
The kitchen at Nana's
Nana Rose · 1963 · 3:42
You probably don't remember this, but your grandfather kept a jar of lemon drops…
DJ
Crossing at Ellis
Dada Joseph · 1928 · 5:18
My mother held my hand so tight. I remember looking up…
RECORD
A voice you love
TRANSCRIBE
On device, always
REMEMBER
Ask the archive
KEEP
In your iCloud
How it works

Three gestures. One lifetime remembered.

01
RECORD

Press record.

A relative starts a story. You press record. Your phone listens — and so does the archive, for the first time.

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● LIVE
RECORDING NANA ROSE
Let them talk.
TRANSCRIPT
“You probably don’t remember this, but your grandfather kept a jar of lemon drops on the top shelf — right above the flour tin…”
00:42
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Save
02
TRANSCRIBE

Their words, on your phone.

Speech becomes text right on your device, with speaker labels. Nothing is sent anywhere. Watch the transcript appear, word by word.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12
The Archive
Your family, gathered.
Ask the archive…
Ask
47
STORIES
12
VOICES
3h
RECORDED
RECENTLY GATHERED
NR
The kitchen at Nana's
Nana Rose · 1963 · 3:42
You probably don't remember this, but your grandfather kept a jar of lemon drops…
DJ
Crossing at Ellis
Dada Joseph · 1928 · 5:18
My mother held my hand so tight. I remember looking up…
03
REMEMBER

Ask the archive anything.

Where does Nana talk about the kitchen? What did Papa say about the war? Answers cite the recordings — and the exact moment inside them.

ASK THE ARCHIVE
Your family,
in their own words.
What happened in the kitchen?
Ask
ANSWER
Three stories in the archive take place in the kitchen — all of them Nana Rose’s.
A jar of lemon drops on the top shelf, Sunday gnocchi at the long table, the afternoon your mother learned to make coffee.
FROM THESE STORIES
NR
The kitchen at Nana's
Nana Rose · 1963
Privacy, plainly

Your audio lives in your iCloud.
Never on our servers.

Your grandmother’s voice is the most private thing you’ll ever hold. So we built Family Museum the only way it could be built: everything that can happen on your phone, does. Everything that must be stored, is stored in your own iCloud — locked inside Apple’s end-to-end encryption, where even Apple cannot read it.

YOUR VOICE
the kitchen
encrypted at capture
YOUR iPHONE
transcribes here
E2E encrypted
YOUR iCLOUD
only you hold the key
Never our servers. Never a third party. Never training data for someone else’s model.
ON-DEVICE AI

Transcription runs on your phone.

Speech-to-text, speaker labels, entity extraction — all executed by the Neural Engine in your iPhone. The audio never crosses the internet.

ICLOUD, END-TO-END

Only you hold the key.

Recordings sync through iCloud with Apple's end-to-end encryption. The keys are stored in your Secure Enclave, tied to your Face ID.

VOICE BIOMETRIC

Speaker models stay local.

We learn who sounds like whom — but the voice embeddings live on your device, not in a central database. They never leave.

OFFLINE BY DEFAULT

Airplane mode works fine.

Record at your grandfather's farmhouse where the signal's bad. Everything still works. Things sync when you're ready — or never, if you prefer.

Voice biometric · continuous learning

It learns the sound of the people who raised you.

Every recording quietly teaches the archive another fraction of a voice. Over months, Family Museum can tell Nana from Aunt Miriam from Uncle Rafe — even when three of them are laughing over the same story.

The catch: every voice model lives in the Secure Enclave on your phone. Nothing about how your grandmother sounds is ever uploaded, aggregated, or used to train a general-purpose model.

Secure Enclave · hardware isolated
Same silicon that guards your Face ID guards your family’s voices.
LOCAL VOICE MODELS · DEVICE ONLY
NR
Nana Rose
14 stories · model trained locally
98.4%
PV
Papa Vince
7 stories · model trained locally
96.1%
AM
Aunt Miriam
6 stories · model trained locally
94.7%
MODEL SIZE
2.4 MB / voice
UPLOADED
Never.
The archive, unpacked

Three ways to wander
through a family.

TREE

The people, grouped by generation.

Great-grandparents up top. You and yours at the base. Everyone in between remembered by name, by voice, by story count.

THE PEOPLE WHO RAISED YOU
The tree
PARENTS & SIBLINGS
NR
Nana Rose
1932– · 14 stories
CONTRIBUTOR
PV
Papa Vince
1929–2019 · 7 stories
Memorial
AM
Aunt Miriam
1935– · 6 stories
LISTENER
UR
Uncle Rafe
1938– · 3 stories
PENDING
TIMELINE

A lifetime scrolled as years.

Every story lands on a year. Scrub the decades. 1928, 1963, 1974 — the archive is a history of a family in its own words.

TWO CENTURIES, ONE FAMILY
Timeline
1928
DJ
Crossing at Ellis
Dada Joseph
1963
NR
The kitchen at Nana's
Nana Rose
1974
AM
The summer porch
Aunt Miriam
ASK

Natural-language search, cited.

"What stories happen in the kitchen?" The archive answers — and points you back to the exact thirty seconds of recording.

ASK THE ARCHIVE
Your family,
in their own words.
What happened in the kitchen?
Ask
ANSWER
Three stories in the archive take place in the kitchen — all of them Nana Rose’s.
A jar of lemon drops on the top shelf, Sunday gnocchi at the long table, the afternoon your mother learned to make coffee.
FROM THESE STORIES
NR
The kitchen at Nana's
Nana Rose · 1963
NR
NANA ROSE · RECORDED MAR 12 · 3:42
“You probably don’t remember this, but your grandfather kept a jar of lemon drops on the top shelf — right above the flour tin. He would lift me up when your mother wasn’t looking. There was always flour on his hands. Always.”
1:03 / 3:42
📍 Brooklyn, NY
1963
Kitchen
Grandfather
Lemon drops
Pricing

Simple, like a library card.

Family Museum is free for anyone who just wants to listen. If you’re the one doing the recording, there’s a small subscription that keeps us independent — and keeps your family’s voices out of someone else’s training data.

LISTENER
Free
forever

Listen to recordings shared with you. Browse your family tree. Read transcripts.

  • Access shared archives
  • Full transcripts
  • Family tree & timeline
  • iCloud sync
MOST FAMILIES
CONTRIBUTOR
$4.99
per month

Record your own stories. Transcribe on-device. Ask the archive. Everything a family needs.

  • Unlimited recording
  • On-device transcription
  • Voice biometric models
  • Ask with citations
  • Share with up to 8 family members
KEEPER
$39.99
per year

For the one person in every family who takes this on. Everything in Contributor, billed annually.

  • Everything in Contributor
  • Annual billing · save 33%
  • Priority iCloud backup
  • Archivist tools (coming soon)
Questions

The ones
people ask.

Inside your own iCloud account, protected by Apple's end-to-end encryption. The keys that unlock them are stored in the Secure Enclave on your devices, tied to your Face ID. Family Museum — the company — cannot read them. Neither can Apple. Only you and the people you explicitly share with.

No. Nothing leaves your phone for training. The speech recognition and speaker models run on-device using Apple's Neural Engine. The only data that ever touches a server is anonymized usage (how often you record, broadly) — never audio, transcripts, or voice embeddings.

Your archive lives in iCloud. Sign in on a new iPhone and it's all there — voices, transcripts, photos, the tree. If you ever close your iCloud account, the recordings go with it. We cannot recover them, because we never held a copy.

Yes. Record a story at your grandparents' farmhouse with no signal. Transcription runs locally. Stories sync to iCloud when you're back on wifi — or never, if you keep them on-device only.

Yes. Listener is free forever. Contributors can invite up to eight family members to listen to the shared archive at no cost. Only the person doing the recording needs a subscription.

We built memorial members into the app from the start. Their voices — from any existing recordings — can be added, labeled, and remembered. The tree holds them the same way the family does.

Begin the archive

The archive, alive.

Start with one story. The kitchen, if you can. Someone else will remember the rest.

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