Dearreals

For families who live far apart

Your mother has stories you haven't heard yet.

Every week, we send your parent a thoughtful question on WhatsApp. They reply in their own voice, their own language, their own time — and a year later, you have a private family archive worth keeping.

A grandmother by a sunlit window, smiling on a phone call

You meant to call last Sunday. Then the week happened. Your father is getting older in a house you haven't sat in for three years, and the ten-minute calls you do manage are mostly about the weather. You love him. You just can't seem to bridge the distance with logistics alone.

So we built something quieter. Not another app for him to learn. Not another reminder for you to feel guilty about. Just a small, weekly rhythm that gives him a reason to tell you something — and gives you something to keep.

How it works

Three small steps, then we get out of the way.

01

Tell us about your parent

Their name, the language they're most at home in, the things they love to talk about. Five minutes, once.

02

We send a prompt each week

On WhatsApp, on a quiet morning. They reply when they like, with a voice note, a video, a photo, or a few sentences.

03

A year, gathered with care

At year-end, your family receives a private digital archive and a hand-bound printed transcript — every voice, every story, kept.

Why WhatsApp

Because your parent already knows how to use it.

There's nothing to install. No login to remember. No new icon on a home screen they didn't ask for.

A prompt arrives in the same chat where their friends and family already write to them. They reply in their own language — typed, spoken, or in pictures — whenever the moment feels right. Some mornings it's a sentence. Some mornings it's twenty minutes of a story you've never heard.

That's the whole interface. We thought it should be that simple.

A few of the prompts

The kind of questions you'd ask if you had the time.

Every prompt is written by a person, not pulled from a template. They're specific enough to invite a real answer, gentle enough not to ask too much.

What do you remember about your wedding day? Not the ceremony — the small things. What did you eat? What were you thinking?
Tell us about your mother. What was she like? What is something she said that you still remember?
What's a place from your childhood that doesn't exist anymore?
If you could send one message to your grandchildren, what would it be?
What song takes you back somewhere, the moment you hear it?
A bound book and handwritten letters on a wooden table

One simple plan

$149 a year, for the whole family.

One price. No upsells. Everything below is included for one parent and as many family members as you want to share the archive with.

  • A thoughtful weekly prompt, sent on WhatsApp
  • Replies in voice, video, photo or text — in any language
  • A private year-end digital archive, searchable and shareable
  • A hand-bound printed transcript book, shipped at year-end
  • Real humans curating the prompts — not a chatbot
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Questions

Things people ask, before they sign up.

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Tell us about the parent you'd want this for.

Leave your details and a little about them. We'll write back personally within a day.