Questions about Biographer, answered.

The Biographer turns a conversation into a finished memoir. You sit down with Boswell, talk about a chapter of your life, and at the end you have a beautifully written piece of prose to keep. Over time those chapters become a book.

Boswell is your personal memoir writer. He asks the questions a thoughtful biographer would, listens, and turns what you say into chapters worth keeping. He's named for James Boswell, who spent years recording the life of Samuel Johnson.

Three steps. You talk — typed or spoken. Boswell writes the chapter. You keep going. Each session ends with something to read, and the conversations grow more personal as Boswell comes to know your story.

Not at all. You just talk the way you'd tell a friend across the kitchen table. Boswell does the writing — your only job is to remember.

Yes. Tap the microphone and tell the story out loud; Boswell transcribes it and writes from your voice. Many people find that talking loosens memories that typing never reaches.

About ten minutes. No schedule, no homework, no pressure. Most people do a session or two a week and end the year with a full biography.

Boswell writes the session into a finished chapter and adds it to your library. You can read it right away, make edits, or simply move on to the next memory.

Yes. There are 100+ interview topics to choose from — childhood, work, love, the people who shaped you — and you can start wherever you like.

Always. Skip anything that doesn't fit, come back to it later, or never at all. It's your life; you decide which parts get told.

Of course. Start talking about anything and Boswell will follow. The topics are a doorway, not a fence.

Yes. Every chapter is yours to revise — change a word, add a detail you forgot, or rewrite a passage entirely.

Yes. Add the photograph that goes with a memory, and it lives alongside the chapter in your book.

You can. Share a single chapter, or invite family to read along as your book grows.

Yes. Family can contribute their own stories and corrections, so a memory gets told from more than one chair at the table.

You buy Biographer for someone you love, and they get their own conversations with Boswell. You can follow along as their chapters arrive.

Yes. Send it the moment you buy it, and they can start their first conversation today.

Yes. Choose the date and we'll deliver the gift that morning, ready to open.

Just an email to begin. There's nothing to install and nothing to learn.

If they can use a computer, they can use Biographer. They can talk instead of type, and the screen feels like a simple text conversation — nothing to set up.

Yes. Add a note in your own words and it arrives with the gift.

Yes. Invite the family and everyone can read each new chapter as it's written.

Biographer is a subscription — one plan, billed monthly or yearly, with the annual option working out to less per month. A finished hardcover book is included each year; other keepsakes can be added on. See the pricing page for current rates.

Yes. Start your first conversation free — talk with Boswell and read your first finished chapter before you decide anything.

Gifts don't need one — the gift itself covers everything from the very first conversation, so the person you're giving to can simply begin.

Anytime, in a couple of clicks. No phone call, no retention maze.

No. Your chapters are yours. Export them before you go, and they stay readable — you're keeping a life's worth of memory, not renting it.

Yes. Order additional hardcovers, an audiobook, a children's book, a song, or an e-book à la carte, whenever you'd like more copies to share.

A real hardcover — your chapters typeset like a memoir, with your photographs, your title, and your name on the spine. Something that belongs on a shelf, not in a folder.

A printed book is included once a year, and you can order it whenever your chapters feel ready. Additional copies can be ordered anytime.

Yes. Your chapters can be narrated into an audiobook — your life, read aloud, for the people who'd rather listen.

Yes. A chapter can be retold and illustrated as a children's book — a gentle way for the youngest in the family to meet a grandparent's story.

Yes. A memory can be set to music — an original song made from your own words.

Yes. Export your chapters as an e-book to read on any device, or to send to family across the world.

You do. Every word you tell and every chapter Boswell writes belongs to you, completely.

Yes. Your stories are private by default — visible only to you, and to the people you choose to invite.

Anytime. Take your chapters with you as a document, an e-book, or a printed book — they're yours to keep.

Yes. Delete a single chapter or your entire account whenever you wish, and it's gone for good.

No. Your memories are never used to train AI models. They exist to write your book, and nothing else.

Only you, unless you invite someone. Share a single chapter or the whole book with family — the choice is always yours.

StoryWorth emails a weekly prompt and prints what you've written at the end of the year. Boswell is a real, ongoing conversation that writes the chapter for you — so you don't have to be a writer, and you have something to read after every session, not just in December.

Remento records short video answers and transcribes them into a book. Boswell goes further: a genuine interview that draws out the story, then writes it as memoir-quality prose — and turns it into audiobooks, children's books, and songs, not one fixed format.

A ghostwriter can cost tens of thousands and takes months of scheduling. Boswell gives you the same thoughtful interview and finished prose — on your own time, at a fraction of the cost, ten minutes at a sitting.

All three, in one. Boswell interviews you, writes the chapters, and turns them into a book — so nothing is left for you to assemble.