Narrative Arc

Record in your own voice. Narrative Arc transcribes on-device using Apple's Speech framework. Edit the text afterward, or leave it exactly the way you spoke it. Your voice is the backbone of the memoir, not a footnote.

More than 150 prompts drawn from narrative therapy. Organized by life phase, relationship, and theme. Adaptive: the next prompt follows what you just shared. Custom prompts whenever you want to go off-script.

An interactive timeline places stories, era markers, and chapters in chronological order. Five date precisions from exact day to a range of years. Toggle between horizontal and vertical layouts; pinch and zoom to focus a decade.

Tag the people in your stories. Import from Contacts. A relationship map shows who appeared with whom, edge-weighted by shared stories. Family members are a first-class subset for keepsake exports.

Attach up to twenty photos per story. EXIF dates surface as suggested story dates. Photo Prompts lets you start a story from any image, with prompts ranked to that photo's date and the people you mark in it.

Publish your memoir as a typeset PDF, a chapter-by-chapter video with your own narration and music, or a private web reader for the family. Five cover templates, your photos, and your voice. Snapshots remember every release.

Invite family members to contribute their own stories to the same memoir. Multiple voices, one shared narrative. Designed for adult children gifting a memoir project to an aging parent, and for parents bringing a generation along.

Built in Swift for iOS and macOS. Speech recognition is on-device only. No cloud requirement, no analytics on your stories, no third-party tracking. The most personal content a person can create deserves the strictest privacy posture, full stop.