Capture My Life
Your life story, in your own voice, for the people you love.
A voice-first journal for anyone with a story worth keeping — and built to be effortless for every generation, including the ones who don’t love technology. The memories you record become a keepsake your family will treasure, long after the stories would have been forgotten.
Most of a life never gets written down
The stories that made you — how you met, the hard year you got through, what your mother used to say — usually fade with the people who lived them. And of everything a family keeps, the thing they treasure most is the sound of your voice telling it.
Capture My Life exists for one reason: so your family never has to say “I wish we’d recorded that.”
How it works
Press one button and talk
No typing, no setup. Open the app, tap the big record button, and tell a story the way you would at the kitchen table.
Answer a gentle question
Not sure where to start? A warm prompt — “What is the story behind your name?” — gives you somewhere to begin. There are fifty, from first memories to final blessings.
Your family receives it
Choose who each memory is for. They keep the sound of your voice, your photos, and your words — for years to come.
Your actual voice — not just words
Other apps turn your memories into typed text. Capture My Life keeps the recording itself: the way you laugh telling it, the pause before the part that still moves you. Your words are written down too — we transcribe them for you — but your family gets to hear you.
For the people you choose
Name the family members who will receive your journal. Some memories you share today; others can wait until the time is right. Nothing is public unless you choose to share it.
Keepsakes they can hold
Turn your memories into a printable Memory Book, a complete archive, or a celebration-of-life slideshow with your recordings built right in — ready for a family gathering.
Why I built this
“I kept hearing the same heartbreak: families who would give anything to hear a loved one’s voice again — and didn’t have a single recording. The stories, the sayings, the way they told it, gone. I built Capture My Life so the people we love can leave that behind while there’s still time, without needing to be good with technology.”
— Lamar Brantley, founder
Start with one memory
Free to begin — record your first story in minutes.
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