Write your memoir (without writing a word)
A lifetime of stories, captured in an afternoon of chatting.
The easiest way to write your memoir. Biographer turns natural conversations into the story of your life - a keepsake your family treasures forever.
Start your storyFree to use. No card needed. A printed hardcover from $39.
How it works
Your life story, in about five hours of talking
No writing. No blank page. Just conversation.
Pick a topic
Choose from 100+ interview topics: childhood, love, work, the hard times, the proud ones. Each takes about ten minutes.
Just talk
Biographer asks thoughtful questions and truly listens. Answer out loud or by typing, whatever feels natural.
Get your chapters
Each conversation becomes a beautifully written chapter, shaped the way a novelist would, with real pacing and warmth, always in your own voice. Compile them into a book.
Why it matters
The only way to live forever is through your stories.
Most people mean to write it all down someday. Someday rarely comes. A blank page is daunting, and life gets in the way. Biographer makes it effortless: you talk, and your life takes shape as chapters you can hold.
Start your storyWhat you get
More than a book: a life, remembered
Beautifully written chapters
Your rambling stories become elegant prose — shaped with a novelist's craft into real chapters, never rewritten out of your voice, and edited however you like.
A hardcover keepsake
Turn your chapters into a printed book, audiobook, or children's book your family keeps for generations.
Yours forever
Download, print, or export anytime. These are your stories, and they always belong to you.
See a real chapter
From the way you talk to a chapter you're proud of
What you say
You said you met Eleanor in Buffalo. Set the scene for me. What month, what was the weather doing, where were you standing?
winter. '76 i think. outside the chippewa street diner, snow coming down sideways.
And Eleanor. What's the first thing you noticed about her?
she was laughing at something. didn't have a coat. i gave her mine and she kept it a week.
End of session · about 4 minutes
The chapter it becomes
The Coat
It was the winter of 1976, and the snow on Chippewa Street came down sideways, the way it only does in Buffalo. I had my collar up and nowhere in particular to be.
That was when I saw Eleanor. She was laughing at something I couldn't hear, standing in the cold without a coat as if the weather were someone else's problem. So I gave her mine. She kept it a week. I like to think I never really got it back.
You never write a word. You talk, and it becomes your book.
Your book
Every story you tell becomes a page in your book.
A hardcover with your photographs, printed and shipped to your door whenever you order it, from $39.
Printed hardcover from $39
A book for your family
Every story you tell goes into your book. Order it printed whenever you're ready, and we ship it to you.
- Hardcover
- Black & white or full color
- Up to 300 pages
- Your photos inside
“I have in fact been writing a book over the past year but accomplished more through your app in 2.5 hours than the last year! I am so excited to continue.”
Howard R., early storyteller
In their words
Stories worth telling, told at last
What it costs
A private memoir can cost up to $100,000. Biographer is free.
Families hire memoir writers to interview someone they love and write the book. We do the same work for free, and a printed hardcover starts at $39.
Same job, very different bill.
| Private memoir writer | Biographer | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Up to $100,000 | Free |
| Interviews | Booked sessions on their calendar | Any time, day or night, as often as you like |
| Writing | Drafts arrive after the interviews wrap up | A written story after each conversation |
| The book | Printing often costs extra | A printed hardcover with your photos, from $39 |
| After the book | The project ends | Keep talking. Your stories can become more. |
Families commonly pay $35,000 to $100,000, as reported in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Simple pricing
Free to use. Pay only for what you make.
Talking with your biographer, every story it writes, and sharing with family are free, with no card needed. You pay only for what you choose to make: a printed hardcover of your book from $39 plus shipping, and Creations like songs, comics and children's books. A private memoir can cost up to $100,000, as reported in The Wall Street Journal.
Your biographer
- Interviews whenever you like, by voice or text
- Stories written from every conversation
- Share with family, or invite them to add memories
- Read and arrange your book as it grows
You pay only for what you make
- A printed hardcover of your book, from $39 plus shipping
- Songs, comics, children's books and audiobooks, each priced before you make it
A private memoir writer
Up to $100,000
As reported in The Wall Street Journal
Get your biographerNothing is printed until you approve every page, and your stories are always yours to export.
Everything you're wondering
How long does it take to make a whole book?
Is it easy to use?
Do I get to keep everything?
Is this private and secure?
What if I'm not a good writer?
Is Biographer really free?
Do I need a credit card?
What costs money?
Your story deserves to be told.
Start with one conversation today, and see your life take shape.
Start your storyFree to use. No card needed. A printed hardcover from $39.