Dear Ones: Family Memory Saver

Finally, a keepsake app that is private, unlike the others who just claim to be. Unless you choose to share, your memories stay on your device and personal iCloud. No ads

A treasured keepsake for every member of the family, to keep now and hand down someday. Letters written for today or sealed for later, plus photos, videos, voice notes, quotes, and milestones. This is the place to save them all.

Dear Ones is a private family heirloom for everything you want to remember, and everything you want to tell your children or grandchildren someday.

Not a feed. Not a photo backup. A keepsake in the making, for every one of them.

WHAT YOU CAN SAVE

• Quotes. Remember the exact thing she said. Tag it to the child who said it.
• Milestones. First steps, first words, graduation, the day he went off to college.
• Photos and short videos. Up to ten photos per entry, with a caption underneath.
• Voice notes. Tell the story of the day they were born. Record the cute things they say. They get to hear it in your voice, and you get to hear it in theirs.
• Selfie videos. Talk to one of them directly. Save it for someday.
• Letters. Write a letter for today, or for someday. Seal it for their wedding day, their 18th birthday, the day they leave home.

HOW TO USE IT

Capture is quick. Open the app, pick what kind of memory it is, tap save. Tag it to the family timeline, an individual timeline, or both, or keep it private just for you.

Scrolling through your timeline feels like opening a book and reading your family story. Letters render in serif, cursive, or handwritten. Pick the font that feels like you wrote it.

Each family member gets their own thread, and you choose where every memory goes.

SHARE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE

Give grandma a code and the timelines you choose will open in her own copy of the app. You decide who sees what, and how much they can do.

• One code can unlock any mix of timelines: the family timeline, one person's, or several at once.
• Each code is view only, or view and add memories. Your choice.
• Anything family members add waits for your approval before it joins your keepsake.
• Change what a code unlocks, or revoke it entirely, anytime.
• Viewing is free for them. One subscription covers your whole family.

KEEP IT, OR HAND IT OVER

Export a timeline as a file to keep: a PDF of your photos, quotes, letters, and milestones, with the voice and video saved alongside. Printing to a physical book is coming in a future update.

WHY A MOM BUILT THIS

Dear Ones was built by a mom who wanted to keep all the moments with her kids (and future grandkids) in a way that was simple, private, and done with a tap. It is for the one whose phone is full of photos and whose head is full of scattered stories, the baby book that never got filled in, the voice memos she will never scroll back to find. Dear Ones is where all of that can finally live, be remembered, and be passed on.

FOR YOUR FAMILY ONLY

Dear Ones is a private family keepsake. No public feed. Nothing shared off your device except what you choose to share, with the people you choose to share it with.

SUBSCRIPTION

Family plan: $7.99 a month or $59 a year. One family per subscription. 14-day free trial. Family Sharing enabled. Cancel anytime in Settings, Apple Account, Subscriptions.

What the subscription unlocks: unlimited entries, unlimited children, photo and voice attachments, scheduled letter delivery, co-parent contributions, and family sharing codes.

PRIVACY

Dear Ones shows no ads, does not track you, does not sell data, and never uses AI to write your memories for you. If you turn on family sharing, only the entries you share (and compressed copies of their photos and recordings) are stored on our servers so the family you invited can see them. Entries you mark private never leave your device.

From Next Frontier Builders. Made for the mom who wants to remember everything and needs a simple way to do it.