A StoryWorth Alternative
StoryWorth turns a year of written answers into one printed hardcover. Dear Family captures the people you love on video, their voice, their face, their words, and keeps every recording in one private Family Legacy Library that grows forever.
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Dear Family vs. StoryWorth
Both use guided prompts to help your family open up. The difference is what you end up with, and who gets to keep it.
StoryWorth pricing reflects publicly listed 2026 plans and may change. Dear Family is currently in pre-launch.
Why families choose Dear Family
The laugh, the pauses, the way they tell a story you've heard a hundred times. A page can't carry that. A video does, for every generation that comes after.
Prompts, recordings, and memories organized by person and category in your Family Legacy Library. Not scattered across texts, not buried in a camera roll.
StoryWorth wraps up after a year. Dear Family can keep growing, one message today, another next week, a library that becomes priceless over time. Subscription required to add recordings.
If what you want is a physical hardcover on the shelf, StoryWorth does that well and has for years. We built Dear Family for families who want something different: the living voice and face of the people they love, kept and shared with everyone, not printed once and closed. Pick the one that fits what you're trying to keep.
Common questions
Yes if you want to capture real voices and faces on video instead of collecting written answers into a printed book. Both use guided prompts to help your family open up, but Dear Family keeps every recording in a private library your whole family can access forever, rather than producing a single physical book that ends after a year.
Format and permanence. StoryWorth compiles a year of written responses into one hardcover book, then the project closes. Dear Family records video messages that live in an organized, permanent Family Legacy Library, one place for the whole family that keeps growing every time someone adds a memory.
Yes. Dear Family includes prompt categories such as Childhood Memories, Faith & Values, Marriage & Love, Parenting, Hard Times, and Wisdom. Pick a question and press record, or skip the prompt and speak freely.
Everyone. A StoryWorth subscription centers on a single storyteller. In Dear Family, any family member can record, and every recording can be shared privately with the whole family and kept in one library.
Dear Family will start at $99 a year and at that price your whole family can record and contribute, not just one storyteller. It's currently in pre-launch, so joining the waitlist is free with no card required.
Yes. Dear Family has no public feeds and no strangers. Your recordings are stored securely and shared only with the family members you choose.
There's no right moment
Someone in your family has something left to say. Capture their voice while you have every opportunity, and keep it for everyone who comes after.
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