“The day you were born it rained, and your father cried twice…”
Volume I · Gift Our Fable
Give them a family archive they’ll open for years.
A private place for letters, voice notes, photos, and videos from the people who love them most.
Starts at $12/mo or $99/yr · one child included
Private by design · Cancel anytime · Never used for ads
“When you were three weeks old…”
§ 01How it works
You begin once. The archive keeps collecting.
- I.
Start with one child
Create the archive and invite the people who already love them.
- II.
We ask for small stories
Family answers from a link — letters, voice notes, photos, or video. No app required.
- III.
Your child opens it later
Letters, voice notes, photos, and videos stay private until the moments you choose.
What arrives
A private family archive, not another project.
Our Fable gives your circle small, easy invitations over time — then keeps the answers together for your child.
- Questions go to the people who know your child best.
- They can answer with letters, voice notes, photos, or video.
- Everything stays private until the moments you choose.
§ 02Why Our Fable
Your camera roll shows what happened. Our Fable keeps why it mattered.
What disappears first is the context — the voice, the story, the memory only one person knows. Our Fable gathers it from the people who were there, and keeps it private until your child is ready.
Question for Nana Rose
“What do you remember about the day Noah arrived?”
She can answer by letter, voice note, photo, or video. No app required.
A parent Dispatch
“Mae took her first steps today. I wanted you all to see it.”
One private update to the people who love her — without turning childhood into a public feed.
Opened later
“From Uncle James, saved for your thirteenth birthday.”
Milestones make the archive feel less like storage and more like a gift waiting for the right moment.
Founder note · Why we built this
We’re Dave and Amanda. We built Our Fable because the people who loved our son most had stories, voices, and small memories we knew he might want someday — and none of it had a real place to go.
So Our Fable asks the right people small questions over time and keeps their letters, voice notes, photos, and videos privately sealed for your child. Not a public feed. Not another scrapbook project. A calmer family record.
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Dave & Amanda
Our Fable§ 03What's inside
Try the interactive demo →Four parts. One private archive.
01 · Chapter
A growing archive
The child sees one place someday: letters from parents, voice notes from grandparents, photos from aunts and uncles, videos from the people who were there.
02 · Chapter
Questions that get answered
Instead of asking everyone to write a memoir, Our Fable sends small questions that are easy to answer and worth saving.
03 · Chapter
Private Dispatches
Parents can share small updates with the circle in one calm place, then keep the best moments inside the archive.
04 · Chapter
Useful this week, priceless later
Circle questions, weekly photo roundups, monthly digests, birthday capsules, school-art keepsakes, legacy voice kits, and a simple progress dashboard help the archive feel useful long before it opens.
§ 04It gets better with age
The longer it waits, the more it means.
One letter on a quiet evening. A voice note from a grandparent. A photo from the day they were born.
Over time, it becomes a record your family can return to.
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Birth
Letter from Mama
3
First words
Voice note from Nana Rose
7
Lost teeth
Photo from Papa
13
Coming of age
Letter from Auntie Maya
18
Milestone achieved
153 entries opened
§ 05Private by design
Built on trust. Designed to endure.
Private by design
You control who contributes and what's kept. It is a private alternative to posting childhood publicly or scattering it across group threads.
Portable by default
Download letters, photos, voice memos, and videos in standard formats. The family record should belong to the family.
Built for continuity
Recovery codes, careful access controls, and portable exports help the record endure across years, devices, and family changes.
§ 06Questions before starting
Clear before checkout. Private after.
The important parts should be obvious before you pay: who can contribute, what stays private, what it costs, and whether your family can take the archive with you.
Start your child’s archive →Will my family need another app?
No. Circle members can answer from a simple private link with a letter, voice note, photo, or video.
Is anything public?
No public child profile, no social feed, and no searchable family page. You choose who is invited.
Can we leave with our memories?
Yes. Your archive is exportable, including letters, photos, voice notes, and videos in standard formats.
Who owns the record?
Your family does. Our Fable is the private keeper, not the owner of your child’s memories.
§ 07Pricing
Simple pricing, before you start.
One private family memory archive. One child included. Dispatches included. Pay yearly or monthly — cancel anytime.
Growing family? Each additional child is $4/mo or $39/yr. Each child gets their own archive and can share the same circle or have a completely separate one.
Need a copy? Export every letter, photo, voice memo, and video at any time.
Our Fable
$99/ year
About $8.25 a month. Save $45 versus paying monthly.
- —The Archive — letters, voice notes, photos & videos
- —Thoughtful questions tailored to every relationship
- —Dispatches for private family updates, included
- —Milestone openings at 13, 16, 18, 21 + custom
- —The Day They Were Born
- —AES-256 encrypted · export anytime
— Begin —
Start their archive.
Set up in minutes. Invite an unlimited circle, send thoughtful questions over time, and keep letters, voice notes, photos, and videos private for your child to open later.
Secure checkout · Dispatches included · Private by design
Start your child’s archive →
Secure checkout · Private by design