Your family gets a book, not a login.
Talk for ten quiet minutes. It becomes a hardcover book — with a small code on the page that plays your voice telling it.
- Your first story is free. No card.
- Private until you share it.
Look inside a finished book · Giving it to your mom or dad? Start here
What Kept4 keeps
Documents keep things. Kept4 keeps the meaning.
A page from a real book
Chop Wood, Fly Planes
Jeremy — who built Kept4 — about his dad
Scan it — it’s realA ring without the story is just a ring.
Kept4 holds the voice, the photo, and the why beside the what. Every story told out loud prints with a code like this one, so the people who read it can hear the person who told it.
The photo. The story. The voice. Kept together, and kept for someone.
How it works
Three small things. Something worth keeping.
No app to install. If you can answer a question out loud, you can do this — and so can your mother.
1Tell it
Kept4 asks; you answer out loud, in your own voice. No typing, no blank page waiting for you.
2It's written down
Your words are written up as they were told, and your recording is kept beside them.
3Hold it
Add the photographs, and it prints as a hardcover your family can hold — every spoken story with its code on the page.
Want to see every screen first? Walk through it yourself
The book they’ll hold
This is what your stories become.
Real pages from a finished Kept4 book: a 6×9 hardcover on heavyweight coated paper, photographs mounted like prints, and a small code beside the stories told out loud. Eleanor Whitfield is a family we invented, so we could show you a whole finished book without opening a real one — every page here is a genuine press file. Yours will be entirely your own.
All 70 pages of Eleanor’s book, exactly as the press prints them.
Everyone at the table
Grandchildren can tell their stories too.
Hand a child the phone: questions read aloud, one big button to talk. What they say is kept in their own voice, and you choose whether their book carries a code to play it.
Grandma and Grandpa can tell one together, with both names on the story and one book for the family.
Grown-ups hold the keys. You set it up, and every way out asks for a four-digit code. A child can’t buy anything, share anything, or wander off.
Included in the same plan — there’s no separate subscription for the kids’ side.
See the kids’ side
For the one giving it
Give it to the storyteller in your family.
The stories you’d most like to keep are usually someone else’s. Give them a place to tell them.
- You give it.Pay once, and we email them a private link.
- They claim it.Their own Kept4, no card, no expiry, theirs for life.
- It stays theirs.You never see inside unless they choose to share it with you.
$299once, for life
Lifetime access. Printed books are ordered separately.
Give Kept4Or sit with them for the first story. Ten minutes at the kitchen table is plenty.
Read the guide you can forwardPlans
Your first story is free.
No card, nothing to cancel. Tell one story and read it back. When you want to keep going — photos, family, the book — choose how to pay.
Monthly
$7.99/ month
Cancel anytime.
Annual
Best value$79/ year
Two months free. Refundable within 14 days.
Lifetime Access
$299once
For good. The one to give.
Every plan is all of Kept4: your stories, photos, family sharing, and the PDF of your book.
Printed books are separate: paperback from $49, hardcover from $79, US shipping included.
Your privacy
Private until you share it.
Private by default
Nothing is public. A story reaches someone only when you share it — a link, an invitation, a printed page.
You choose who sees it
Your family sees only what you share with them, when you share it.
Your words, as you told them
Kept4 asks the questions. Your stories are written up the way you told them, with your recording beside them.
Two-factor sign-in if you want it, a published refund policy, and a real person at support@kept4.com. Read the Trust Center
The first one off the press
The day the first one arrived.
Jeremy Weeks, who built Kept4, opening the first book off the press.
Faith is welcome here — the prayer you still say the way your mother said it, the verse on the fridge. As much or as little as your family wants.
Ready when you are
Start with one story.
Kept4 asks one question at a time, and you choose where to begin. Four of the doorways:
- Someone you love“Pick a person you love. Tell me who they are and what makes them them.”
- A photograph“Pick a photo that holds a story for you — something you've kept, or someone you love.”
- A moment that changed you“Tell me about a moment that changed you — when you became more of who you are now.”
- What you believe“What do you believe — about God, about how to live, about what matters most?”
No card. You don’t have to finish in a weekend.
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