Ask us the
hard questions
You should never have to wonder what this is, what it isn't, or what happens to what you share. So ask, and we'll answer plainly.
No, and Neverending Stories will never pretend it is. What you hear is a remembrance: their real voice and their real stories, kept in a form you can still talk to. It never claims to be them, never claims to be alive, and never invents a memory. We believe that honesty is exactly what makes it precious.
Less than you'd think. One clear voicemail can bring back how someone sounded. More (videos, longer recordings, a guided conversation while they're still here) makes the voice warmer and the stories richer. Neverending Stories shows you honestly where you stand: more of them in, more of them back.
Grief has no single right way. Neverending Stories is built as remembrance (like a photo album that can speak), never as a substitute for the people around you, and never pretending the person is still here. Many families find comfort in hearing a voice and the old stories again; others need time before they're ready, and that's just as right. The door stays open. And if grief ever feels too heavy to carry alone, please reach for real support: family, friends, a counselor.
Yes. Someone still living records themselves, on purpose, knowing exactly what for. For someone who has passed, we ask you to attest to your relationship and your family's blessing before anything is made, and we never accept recordings made without a person's knowledge.
Only the people you choose. You can invite family to listen, or to add memories and recordings of their own. Nothing is ever public, and nothing is ever shared without you.
Yes: entirely, and for good. Every recording, every story, every voice you've made belongs to you, not to us. Delete a person, or your whole account, and it's truly gone. We never sell your family's memories and never use them to build anything else.
It can't know what they never said. Ask about something they never spoke of and it will tell you so, gently and in their way ("I don't think I ever told you that") rather than invent an answer. It also isn't a medium, a séance, or a claim about anything beyond this life. It's the part of them they left with us, kept close.
Neverending Stories is an iPhone app with a companion web app (you're on it). We work with a few families at a time, so it isn't priced like an app and there's nothing to check out with here. It begins with a conversation; when we agree to start, your family receives one plain invoice from us. Ask us anything from the invitation page.