If you like the idea of recording family stories but want something that feels more like being interviewed by a thoughtful biographer, Biographer was built for that.
if the original recording and QR-code book experience is the main thing you want.
if you want a guided conversation that follows the thread, writes chapters after each session, and can turn stories into multiple keepsake formats.
Remento details reflect its public positioning: a year of unlimited prompts, one printed book, recording from any device, and QR codes that play recordings.
Recording a memory is useful. Being asked the right next question is different. Biographer is designed to notice the detail, follow the emotional thread, and help the storyteller say more than they would have said into a recorder.
we used to drive up to the lake every summer.
A faithful recording of exactly what you said — and only what you said.
we used to drive up to the lake every summer.
Which lake — and who was usually behind the wheel? I want to picture the car.
dad's blue pontiac. windows down the whole way.
Boswell asked for the car. That detail becomes a sentence you'd never have recorded on your own.
Every conversation ends with something to read — a polished chapter in the storyteller's own voice, ready the moment you stop talking.
Chapters collect into a living memoir you can read back through at any time — not a single recording you wait a year to receive.
Tidy a sentence, drop in a photograph, and invite relatives to read or add their own side of the story.
When you're ready, the same stories become a printed book, an audiobook, a children's book, a song, or an e-book.
No app to install, no equipment to figure out. They click a card, start talking, and you watch the chapters arrive.
Send as a giftBy the fifth session it knew my grandfather better than some of my cousins did. It asked about the radios. He did fix radios.
Yes. If you came to Remento to capture a parent's or grandparent's stories, The Biographer does that too — but as a guided interview that writes finished chapters, rather than a set of saved recordings.
Remento records your original answers to set prompts and prints them with QR codes. The Biographer holds an adaptive conversation, follows the thread of what you say, and turns each session into polished, edited prose.
You can speak your stories aloud and Boswell listens and transcribes. The keepsake, though, is a narrated audiobook of your finished chapters — not only the raw recording.
Yes. Your chapters compile into a book you can edit, add photos to, and print when it's ready — and the same stories can also become an audiobook, children's book, song, or e-book.
It does — over 100 interview topics to choose from. The difference is what happens next: Boswell asks adaptive follow-ups based on your answers instead of moving to the next fixed prompt.
Yes. Send it instantly or schedule it for a birthday. They click the gift card, start talking or typing, and family can follow the chapters as they're written — no setup required.
The Biographer needs nothing installed and no equipment to manage — just a conversation, by voice or text. For a parent who finds apps fiddly, talking to Boswell is often the gentler path.