Everyone brings a piece.
A private place for one family’s stories, photographs and voices. Each of you adds what you remember, and the whole family keeps it.
How it works
Most of what a family knows was never written down. Open Attic gives all of it one place.
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Add a piece
Say it out loud, write a few lines, or add a photograph.
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It finds its people
Every memory sits with the people it is about, in their own fabric.
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Only your family sees it
No advertising, no tracking, and nothing sold.
Have a look round
This is Maya’s attic, on the website and in the iPhone app. Record something, write a few lines, or look round her family.
3 new memories since Sunday.
More, if you want it
Why keep it?
Most of what a family knows was never written down.
It’s in the way Nana tells the one about the orchard. It’s in a photo with no names on the back, and in Uncle Daniel’s version of 1985, which is not the same as Mom’s. When the people who know go quiet, so does the story.
Open Attic gives all of it one place. Anyone in the family can add a piece, and everyone else can find it years from now, next to the people it’s about.
Who can see what we add?
- Only people invited to your family’s attic can see it. Nothing in it is public.
- A memory can be for the whole family, or only for the people it’s about.
- No advertising, no tracking across other sites, and nothing sold.
- You sign in with a one-time link by email. There are no passwords.
How does everyone get their own fabric?
Each person gets a fabric when they’re added and keeps it for good. Their memories, their square on the family tree and their life on the years all wear it.
The family tree is a quilt with you in the middle, your closest family round you and everyone else further out. Tap anyone to put them in the middle instead.
Switch to the years and every life runs side by side. Move along them and everyone’s age follows, so you can see who was where when something happened, and where everyone was at 20.
Is there an iPhone app?
Open Attic for iPhone keeps recording with the phone locked, and holds a memory on the phone until the attic has all of it.
About the iPhone appStart your family’s attic
The first piece can be small. A name, a date, a minute of someone’s voice.