What is the most important thing you have learned about forgiveness? Not the easy kind.
Draws out: the hardest person they forgave, and the rule they live by now.
For the stories no one ever wrote down
Leave them your stories. In your own voice.
Waterfall asks the questions that bring out the stories and the judgment of a lifetime, keeps every word in your voice, and lets your family ask you about them for years to come.
Free to tell and keep your own stories, forever. Nothing is ever deleted unless you ask.
Glace Bay, 1958
My father's kettle
"Every morning my father would put the kettle on before he said a word to anyone..."
In Walter's voice · 3:24
The stories that matter most are the ones nobody writes down. How he met her. Why he left. What he'd do differently. Then one day, nobody can ask.
Our secret is the questions
Ask the right question and you get the story, not a summary.
Every question is built from memory and behavioural research to reach past "it was fine" into what actually happened, why it mattered, and what it taught. Then Waterfall asks the gentle follow-up: why?
Watch the daily question videosWas there a moment you realised you were on the wrong path? What did you do about it?
Draws out: the turning point, and the courage it took.
What small daily ritual from your life do you hope someone inherits?
Draws out: the ordinary things that turn out to be a family's identity.
Easier than a diary. Made for one thing.
1
Tell it any way
Speak it, type it, or photograph a letter or a recipe card. One big button. No mistakes are permanent.
2
Shape it and keep it
Title it and add the year, the place, the people. It becomes a page in your book, in your voice.
3
Ask it anything, later
Every story stays in context, so you and your family can search it in plain words and find the answer in your own words.
The gift that keeps giving
Give Dad a year. Get his stories for a lifetime.
Give Waterfall to a parent or grandparent. They get something meaningful to do. Then they invite the grandchildren, who can ask from the first day, "What would Granddad say?" and hear it in his words.
Anyone in the family can pay, or chip in together.
I got offered a job far from home. What would Granddad say?
In his words, from his stories
"Home isn't the place. It's the people who'll pick up when you call."
From "Leaving Glace Bay," 1966
Good for the storyteller, too
Telling your life story is good for you.
Reminiscence, remembering and sharing past experiences out loud, is one of the most studied activities in later-life care. Waterfall gives it a daily reason, a listener, and a place to keep it.
A Cochrane review of reminiscence therapy found benefits for communication, quality of life and mood for some people living with dementia, though the effects were often small and varied between settings.
A meta-analysis of 128 controlled studies found reminiscence and life review were followed by moderate improvements in depressive symptoms in older adults.
Waterfall is not a medical device and does not prevent or treat dementia or memory loss.
All our research and referencesThree promises we built the product around
Never deleted for money
If a plan stops, your stories stay and you can keep telling new ones. Only you, or the heir you name, can delete them.
You choose who inherits
Name who keeps your book. If you name no one, it goes to your next of kin or legal representative.
Private until you share
Every story starts private. You decide, story by story, who can hear it.
Optional, and only if you say yes
Help teach AI some judgment.
Today's AI can reason, but it was never taught the kind of judgment you learn by living: when to forgive, when to walk away, what really matters. If you choose, your stories can help train a model for moral reasoning, with names and details removed. It's off by default, and you can turn it off at any time.
Telling your stories is free. Forever.
Pay when you want your family in, and anyone in the family can pay.
KeepFreeTell, write and photograph. Today's question. Your stories, kept forever.
Storyteller$149 /yror $14.99 a monthFamily circle of 12. Grandchildren can ask. Ask across all your stories and guided question paths.
Care homes$299 /moup to 25 residentsResident codes, common-room tablets, staff dashboard. Learn more
The Storyteller plan can be given as a gift. No account needed to buy.
See full pricingStart with one story.
Answer today's question. It takes five minutes, and it will last a lot longer.