The story only they can tell

Give them a hardcover of their life — in their own real voice.

Retold interviews your mom, dad, or grandparent by phone and prints their answers as a keepsake hardcover — with a gold code on the page you scan to hear them tell each story out loud. No writing. No app. They just answer the phone.

Make their book — from $99.99
One-time, no subscription. 30-day full refund, and the voice inside is their real recording — never an AI clone.
📞 They only answer the phone 🎙 Real recorded voice, never AI 💳 One-time, no subscription
Real recorded voice
Three generations reading their Retold hardcover life-story book together
Scan · hear Mom
The quiet math of it

Memories fade. A voice fades fastest.

You can picture their face. But the exact sound of them — the way they say your name, the laugh before the punchline — that’s the first thing that goes. And it goes without warning.

The recipe that’s only ever lived in their head.
Why they really left home, in their own words — not the short version.
The sound of them saying your name across a kitchen.

You see them a few times a year. Every visit, a few more questions go un-asked. Right now, you can still ask — and keep every answer.

📖 Start Their Book — $99.99
🛡 One-time. No subscription. Full refund until 30 days after it arrives.
A phone scanning the code on a Retold book page, playing back her real voice
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💚 Scan a page, hear their real voice

Every page holds their real voice.

Point any phone at the gold code on the page and their real voice plays.

1📖 Open the book to any page.
2✨ Point your phone at the gold code.
3🔊 Their real voice plays.

🛡 Always the real recording — never synthetic, never cloned.

Built from their real recorded voice — never a word of AI.

One-time price · Full refund for 30 days · Their voice on every page

How it works

A grandmother answering a warm phone call
Step 1

They answer a few phone calls

No apps, no typing. They just talk.

An open illustrated book page in their real voice
Step 2

We make their book

Their stories, illustrated, in their real voice.

Hands holding the finished hardcover book
Step 3

It arrives at their door

A printed hardcover, with a gold voice code on every page.

What actually arrives at your door

A hardcover book of their life — in their own words.

This is the thing you hold. A real printed hardcover, their stories on every page, their photos beside them — made to sit on a shelf and be passed down. The film brings it to life; the book keeps it forever.

The Retold hardcover open flat — an illustrated memory scene beside her story🖨 Printed & shipped to you 📖 The Heirloom hardcover — open to a page spread
Scanning the code on a Retold page to hear her real voice🔊 Their voice on every page
The Retold hardcover held open — her photo beside her story✨ Made to be held, not scrolled
Everything that arrives — the book, the keepsake cards, her voice on the phone🎁 Everything that arrives
Start Their Book — $149 🛡 Full refund until 30 days after delivery
Keepsake card
For every grandchild
🧒 One card each
Keepsake card
In a wallet, on the fridge
🏡 Always one scan away
Keepsake card
Grandma Rosa
🎬 Scan to watch her story
🎁 One scan away, forever

A keepsake card for every grandchild.

Every order includes printed cards, each with a private code — give one to every grandchild.

❤️In a wallet or on the fridge — always one scan away.
♾️No app, no logins — works for decades.
Everyone who loved them gets to carry them.

🛡 Private family page — only people you share a card with can watch.

🎁 What your family receives

Their life as a movie, in their real voice.

Five illustrated minutes, narrated in their real recorded voice — yours to keep forever.

An illustrated memory scene — a couple dancing in a 1960s dance hall

🎬 The Film

Five cinematic minutes, narrated in their real recorded voice.

  • 🎙 Their actual voice, preserved forever
  • 🎬 Illustrated scenes of their stories
  • 📬 Private link + downloads you own
Scan the page — and hear her tell it

📖 The Book

A printed hardcover of their story, illustrated and made to be passed down.

  • 🖨 Printed hardcover, in every order
  • 📖 Digital storybook on any device
  • 🔊 Scan a page to hear them tell it
The founder of RETOLD
Why Retold exists

Built by our family, for yours.

“The only recording we have of my grandmother is a nine-second voicemail. I built Retold because I wanted to capture my own parents’ voices — the real stories, in their own words — before it was too late.”

— The founder of RETOLD
🎁 Arrives in time — even though it’s handmade

Give it on the day. The book comes later.

A real hardcover takes a few weeks to interview, illustrate, and print — but the moment isn’t going to wait for Mother’s Day, a birthday, or the holidays. So the second you order, you get a printable and emailable gift card to hand over on the day.

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Print it at home or email it — ready in seconds, personalized with their name.
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Beats the production wait for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays and holidays.
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“They said no more stuff.” This isn’t stuff. It’s their voice and their life — nothing to dust, nothing to store.
📖 Start Their Book — $99.99
💚 One-time. No subscription. Full refund until 30 days after it arrives.
Handing Mom the printed Retold book🎁 Hand it over on the day — the book follows
🎁 One gift. Two ways to give it.

The book of their life — plus the film, if you want it.

Both include the printed hardcover with their real voice inside — one-time price, no subscription.

The Retold hardcover, held open

The Book

Their whole life — a printed hardcover with their real voice inside

$99.99 one time — no subscription
  • 📖 Printed hardcover — their stories and photos, illustrated
  • 📞 A few relaxed phone calls — they just answer the phone
  • 🔊 Gold voice code — scan a page, hear their real voice
  • ✨ Digital edition and all recordings, yours to keep
📖 Make their book — $99.99 👀 See the full book first — real pages
Best valueA family watching the Retold film together

The Book + The Film

Everything in the book — plus their life as a cinematic film

$149.99 one time — no subscription
  • 📖 Everything in The Book
  • 🎬 Their whole life as a film — narrated in their real voice
  • 🏡 A private premiere link, made to watch together
  • 🚚 Free US shipping
🎬 Give the book + film — $149.99 🎬 See how the film works — examples
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🖍 Optional add-on on the product page: a printable coloring book of their memories — $29

Made to be kept forever.

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One-time price

No subscription, ever.

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30-day money-back

Full refund until 30 days after delivery.

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Your story stays yours

Private to your family — their real voice, never AI.

Make their book — from $99.99
Questions

Everything you’re wondering.

🎙 Is it really their voice in the film?
Yes — drawn from their recorded calls, never synthetic, never used to train anything.
📞 Who exactly calls my mom?
A warm interviewer from our small team, on calls scheduled in advance at times she picks.
🛡 What if she won’t do the calls, or can’t finish?
Cancel any time before delivery for a full refund, and your family keeps every recording made.
👵 My mom can’t use apps. Will this work?
She never touches technology — a friendly interviewer calls her phone, and she just talks.
👴 What if Dad’s shy or says he has no stories?
Gentle, specific questions surface stories even they forgot they had.
🎁 I need a gift for THIS weekend. Does this work?
Yes — you get a printable gift card instantly, and the calls and film follow over the next weeks.
📬 How long does the film take?
Most families premiere in about a month; the instant gift card covers the day itself.
🎬 How are the visuals made?
Illustrated with AI tools, directed scene by scene by our editors — never faking anyone’s face.
🔊 What happens to the recordings?
Yours to download from the first call — private by default, never sold, never used to train AI.
💚 What if we don’t love it?
One revision round is included, and a full refund is available until 30 days after delivery. Read the refund policy.
❤️ Other languages? Hard of hearing? Tired easily?
We go at their pace — English and Spanish today; ask us about other languages before ordering.

The stories are still here. That’s the moment to keep them.

Make their book — from $99.99