Saved to the device first
Recording begins immediately and is written locally. The upload happens afterwards, on its own, when the connection returns.
The questions come later.
It is never the big things you wish you had asked. It is how they took their coffee, what they were afraid of at thirty, why they kept that one photo in the drawer for forty years. AfterLyfe helps you keep those answers now — one question at a time, in a real voice — for the one person meant to have them.
Private by design. One person records. One person receives.
Where are you starting from?
There is no wrong answer. Pick whichever is closest.
Someone I love has died
Gather what they actually left behind — messages, voice notes, photographs — into one private place that still sounds like them.
Begin rememberingI want to leave something behind
Record your own stories, in your own voice, for one person you choose. Sealed until the day they need it.
Start my journalI care for people near the end
A calm, low-burden way for hospice and senior living teams to offer life-story work without adding to the round.
See it for care teamsGuided Stories
Nobody can tell you their whole life. Anyone can answer one question.
“Tell me your life story” is a wall. “What was your first job?” is a door. One memory pulls up the next — the first job leads to the first car, and the person who rode around in it, and the summer everything changed.
Where you come from
What was your first job, and what did it teach you about people?
My first job was ____________
And when the question isn’t enough
Some days the question lands and the story just comes. Other days a person stares at the screen and nothing arrives. So every question has a second half: the first few words of the answer, already written.
You are not composing something. You are finishing a sentence.
41 questions across six themes — where you come from, the people who shaped you, turning points, what you figured out, love and the everyday, and messages meant for a day that has not happened yet.
Questions from family
The best questions won’t be yours.
You will never think of every story worth keeping. But your daughter wants to know what went through your head the day you found out she was coming. Your grandson wants to know what your own grandfather was actually like.
So let them ask. Their questions arrive in a quiet inbox, and you answer whenever you are ready — or say that this one is not for answering. Nothing is ever published, and nothing is ever automatic.
Every question they ask is a story that would otherwise have gone unrecorded.
Question inbox
Jordan asked
What was your mother like when she was my age?
You answered
She was funnier than me, and much braver. She once talked a bank manager into
a loan she had no business getting.
Answers are kept as memories in your vault, with a note of who asked and when.
Summer, 1987
Tell us what the camera missed
- Who are we looking at?
- Where was this, and what year?
- What happened just before this was taken?
- Why did you keep this one?
Photos and video
The photograph isn’t the memory. You are.
A picture proves a moment happened. It cannot tell anyone who was standing just out of frame, what the argument that morning had been about, or why this one stayed in the drawer for forty years.
Think of any documentary about a person: they play the old clip, then cut to someone saying “what you can’t see is…”. That second part is the whole thing. Upload the file, then say the part the camera missed.
A file on its own is stored, not understood. AfterLyfe keeps your words as the memory and the file as the attachment — never the other way round.
Wherever they actually are
Recording shouldn’t depend on the wifi.
Bedside in a care home. A kitchen table with two bars of signal. A back bedroom at the far end of the router. The moment someone is finally ready to talk is not the moment to discover the connection has dropped.
Retries without duplicating
Every recording carries its own identifier, so a story interrupted and retried tomorrow arrives once — not twice, and never not at all.
Nothing to install
A phone, tablet or computer and a browser. Large type throughout. Someone else can work the device — you only have to tell the story.
For hospice and senior living
A resource your team can offer without adding to the round.
Life-story work is already part of good person-centred care. What it usually lacks is a simple way to run it, and something the family can keep afterwards. AfterLyfe is built to be introduced in a sentence and picked up at the patient’s own pace.
Low burden for staff
No new workflow, no scheduling, no equipment to manage.
Grounded in the literature
Built on reminiscence therapy, life-story work and dignity therapy.
Free, no account needed
Start at a kitchen table, not a sign-up form.
The printable question deck is the whole prompt library on cards, in large type, with the sentence starters included. Print it, cut it up, put it on the table at Sunday lunch and see what happens.
It costs nothing and it works entirely without us. If you want to keep what gets said, that is what AfterLyfe is for.
What is in the deck
- Every question across all six themes, in large print
- The sentence starter on each card, for when someone freezes
- A one-page facilitation guide for groups and activity hours
- Blank cards, because your family has its own questions
Pricing
One price. One person recording, one person receiving.
No tiers, no per-memory charges, no upsell once someone has trusted you with this. Explore the free preview now. Paid companion activation will open after the remaining provider, recipient-delivery and safety checks are complete.
$25/month
Cancel whenever. Everything is exportable, always.
Explore the preview$199/year
The same thing, priced for people who intend to keep going.
Explore the previewYou can also prepay remembrance years so the archive outlives the card on file. Prepaid years do not begin until the person you chose activates their access.
You do not have to tell your whole life today.
Tell one. That is genuinely enough to start — and the next one is easier.