Both help families preserve stories. They just ask very different things of the storyteller. One hands them a question to write; the other sits down and talks.
What was the first car you ever owned?
Tell me about that car. Where did you first drive it, with the windows down?
a green pontiac. drove it to the lake the day i got my license.
if your parent likes writing and will happily answer a question by email each week.
if your parent would rather talk, wants a guided conversation, and wants a finished chapter after every session.
A respectful comparison. StoryWorth is a well-loved product. The difference is what it asks of the person telling the story.
A lot of parents have a lifetime of stories. Far fewer want another writing assignment. The Biographer is built for the person who will happily talk at the kitchen table, but would never open a blank document and write a memoir.
Answers are gathered all year, and the finished book arrives at the end. The family waits to see what was captured.
With The Biographer, the family doesn't wait a year to see what's being captured. Every conversation becomes something readable that day.
Yes. Both help families preserve a parent's stories. StoryWorth does it through weekly written questions; The Biographer does it through a guided conversation that produces a finished chapter after each session.
If they genuinely enjoy sitting down to write an answer every week, StoryWorth's email prompts are a proven, well-loved format. The Biographer is built for the larger group of people who have stories to tell but would never open a blank document.
Yes. The Biographer offers gift plans, so you can give a parent or grandparent the conversation, and the finished chapters that come out of it.
Yes. Your chapters can become a printed book, and also an audiobook, children's book, song, or e-book. With StoryWorth, the output is a hardcover book at the end of the year.
No weekly homework. No blank page. Just talk, and read the chapter when you're done.