Tell
Speak naturally or write a few words.
Give your parents the questions you’ll wish you had asked.
Turn your family’s memories into a book.
Simply speak. Erinnerä helps transform your stories and photographs into a beautiful hardcover book and private family archive — kept in Switzerland.
Private by design · Swiss-hosted · No AI training on your stories
Try a first memory
What is one memory you never want to forget?
Type a short memory. Erinnerä shows how it could become the beginning of a book page.
Based on your input · Original source preserved
This could be the first page of your Erinnerä.
“Sunday mornings belonged to the lake. Before the rest of the house had fully awakened, Grandfather would already be waiting, the old red thermos tucked under his arm.”
Continue your storyAsk while you still can.
Do you know how your father met your mother? What your grandmother’s childhood home looked like? What your mother’s first job was? Who the people in your old family photographs are? Family stories disappear one small detail at a time. Erinnerä makes asking easy — for children, parents and grandparents.
Gift experience
Give your parents the questions you’ll wish you had asked.
The ideal start is often a gift: you create the moment, your parents or grandparents do not need to write a book. They speak at their own pace, Erinnerä helps organise the memories, and your family receives a book or private archive.
How it works
From a few spoken words to a story you can keep.
Create
Your memories are shaped into stories, chapters, captions, and pages.
Keep
Create a private family archive, then choose a printed book, or both.
Memory transformation
You remember. We help you tell it.
You remain in control. We help shape your words into a clear, readable story, without taking ownership of your voice.
First words
“My grandfather used to take us to the lake every Sunday. He always brought the same old red thermos.”
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Finished story
“Sunday mornings belonged to the lake. Before the rest of the house had fully awakened, Grandfather would already be waiting, the old red thermos tucked under his arm.”
Easy for the person telling the story
No one has to write a book.
The storyteller can speak, add short notes or answer gentle questions. Erinnerä helps shape the words while keeping the story in their own voice.
Choose how much help you want. Nothing is added to your story without your approval.
Question: Tell me about your childhood home.
You: “We used to go to Ascona every summer.”
Question: “Who usually came with you?”
You: “My parents and my sister.”
Question: “What is the first thing you remember when you think of those summers?”
00:42
“The house had green shutters, and in the morning you could hear the church bells...”
Two ways to keep it
A book for the table. An archive for the family.
CoverChapter openerPhoto spreadTimelineMobile archive
Printed Book
Something your family can hold.
- Premium hardcover
- Personal cover
- High-quality printing
- Photographs and chapters
- Family copies
- Delivered to your home
Private Family Archive
A lasting home for stories, photos, voices and context.
- Written stories
- Original voice recordings
- Photos and captions
- People, places and timelines
- Family contributors
- Export and deletion controls
Swiss privacy
Your family’s memories should not become someone else’s data.
Created with Swiss privacy principles from the beginning.
Kept in Switzerland
Designed so your family material can be stored in Switzerland and protected while it is saved and sent.
Private by design
No advertising profiles, no selling personal information, and no using customer stories to teach public writing tools.
You own your story
Your memories remain yours. You should be able to take a copy with you and remove what you no longer want kept.
Quiet craftsmanship for personal stories.
Memories kept in Switzerland, a culture of privacy, quality printing, support for several languages, clean Swiss design, and discreet handling of everything your family shares.
Family memories contain names, relationships, photographs, private experiences, and stories that may never have been shared publicly. We believe those memories deserve a private home.
Use cases
Most powerful while you can still ask.
For your parents
Preserve their stories while you can still ask.
For grandparents
Keep memories, photos and voices for the next generation.
As a family gift
A personal gift for birthdays, Christmas, retirement or anniversaries.
In memory of someone
Gather stories and photographs from family and friends.
No one remembers the same story exactly.
Family members can contribute memories, photos, voice recordings, captions, corrections and alternative perspectives. Each story can preserve who shared what.
Start your way
Start by gifting, asking or telling.
Begin with one question, a voice note or a photograph. Step by step, those fragments become an organised family archive.
I want to ask my parents
Send a simple first prompt or gift the Erinnerä experience.
I want to tell my own story
Start with your voice, notes or photographs.
We want to create it together
Invite family so several memories can come together.
Dad’s first carTrip to Ticino, 1987How Mum and Dad metGrandmother’s kitchen
Chapter 1 — Childhood
Chapter 2 — Family
Chapter 3 — Leaving Home
Pricing
An heirloom, not another subscription.
Digital
CHF 100.-
Private family archive
- A private place online
- Stories and chapters
- Photographs
- Spoken memories
- Family invitations
- Kept in Switzerland
- Take a copy with you
Book
CHF 300.-
Private family archive plus one premium printed book
- Everything in Digital
- Premium hardcover book
- Careful page design
- Photographs placed with care
- One printed copy
- Swiss or European delivery
Family
CHF 900.-
Family archive, shared contributions, and several books
- Everything in Book
- Family members can contribute
- Three printed copies
- More time to gather memories
- Priority book review
- Family keepsake collection
Final prices may vary based on page count, printing options, and delivery.
Requests and orders are currently handled by email only. A binding order is only created after personal contact.
Request by email
Start your Erinnerä by email.
Fill in the key details. Your email app will open with a prepared request to info@erinnera.ch.
Family voices
Pilot families wanted.
We’re inviting the first families to create an Erinnerä. Real customer stories will appear only with permission.
FAQ
Questions before you begin.
You tell stories by text or voice and add photographs. Erinnerä organises them into a private family archive; the physical book is a curated edition of that archive.
No. You can simply speak naturally. We help with the words; you remain the author.
Yes, Swiss German is an important use case for Erinnerä. The exact processing depends on the recording and transcription workflow used.
Yes. Family members can add memories, photos, voice recordings, corrections and alternative perspectives.
Yes. Photos can be connected to people, places, memories, chapters and captions.
Yes. The private archive gathers material over time; the printed book is a selected, designed edition.
Erinnerä is designed around Swiss privacy principles. Concrete hosting, backup and provider information will be shared transparently as they are finalised.
Only invited people and necessary project contributors. No advertising profiles and no sale of personal data.
No. Customer stories are not used to train public models.
Yes. Export and deletion controls are part of the product principle. Contact us if content should be removed.
The system should not intentionally add facts to your life story. Suggested text is based on material you provide, and you remain responsible for approving the final version.
Different perspectives can be preserved side by side. That is often more honest than forcing one supposedly perfect version.
The most important question is the one you can still ask.
You don’t need a manuscript. Start with a sentence, a photograph, or your voice.
Tell your first memoryPrivate by design. Kept in Switzerland.