Memories unshared
are twice lost.

The name

Storykin. Kinstory. Kidstory.

The name is embedded in itself. Kin — your people, your blood, your chosen family. Story — the thread that holds them together across distance and time. Storykin is simply the stories of kin.

From that seed, two products grow. Kinstory — the story of your kin, captured and kept. Kidstory — a story for your kids, built from the real people in their lives. The circle closes when both exist together.

Kinstory

A living library of your family's past

Families are more separated than ever — by oceans, time zones, career moves, and the quiet drift of adult life. The kitchen table conversations that once carried a family's history forward have become rarer. And with every passing year, the window to record the stories of our elders narrows.

Kinstory exists to change that. It gives families a guided, beautiful way to capture the irreplaceable details of a lived life — not the dates and résumé facts, but the texture: the smell of a grandmother's garden, the sound of a father's laugh, the migration that shaped everything, the colour of the family dog's fur.

Every question in Kinstory has been carefully curated to surface the vivid, sensory detail that makes a story real — and human.

A family member — anywhere in the world — receives a questionnaire. They answer in their own time, in writing or by voice. Storykin weaves those answers into a polished biography. Not a Wikipedia entry. A kin story — warm, particular, unmistakably theirs.

These biographies live in a private family library we call the Story Circle. Visible only to the people you invite. Editable as long as memory keeps coming. And preserved — permanently — for the family members who come after.

Why kin stories matter

The farther back you go,
the more fable-like it becomes

There is something that happens to a memory as it ages. The sharp edges soften. The ordinary details become luminous. A great-grandmother's migration from one continent to another — told in her own words, filtered through sixty years — becomes something closer to myth than memoir.

This is the hidden power of kin stories. They teach children — and adults — where they come from. They answer the question that no history class ever can: who were the specific people who made me possible?

A child who knows that their great-grandfather crossed a sea alone at nineteen, with nothing but a name written on a piece of paper, carries something the rest of the world does not. That story becomes part of their identity — part of the invisible architecture of who they are and what they believe themselves capable of.

These are cultural time capsules that can't be found anywhere else. Not in archives. Not online. Only here.

Kidstory

Real kin. New adventures.

The momentum of unearthing a kin story should not be underestimated. When a child hears of their grandmother's migration — the courage, the strangeness, the wonder of it — they do not want it to end there. They want to know: what would she do next?

Kidstory takes the real characters from your family library — Abuela Maria, Grandpa Al, Great-aunt Bea — and brings them on entirely new adventures. The same real people, the same real voices and details, stepping into a world of pure imagination.

The result is not a generic bedtime story generated by an algorithm. It is a story that could only belong to one family on earth. A story that a grandfather in one country can read to a grandchild in another — across thousands of miles — because the grandfather is in it.

Imagine a grandparent who cannot be in the room at bedtime — reading their grandchild a story in which they are the hero.

Kidstory was designed for exactly this. For the separated families. For the grandparents who live on different continents. For the children who have never met their great-grandmother but somehow feel they know her — because they have gone on adventures with her.

Kinstory + Kidstory

The fabulous kin fable

Kinstory gathers. Kidstory plays. Together they close the circle — from memory to imagination, and back again.

A family that uses both is doing something remarkable. They are recording the past with one hand and building a living mythology with the other. The real stories of real people — made richer, stranger, and more wonderful with every retelling.

This is the fabulous kin fable. Not fiction. Not pure memoir. Something in between — the kind of story families used to tell around fires, and that we have somehow lost the habit of telling.

Storykin is how we get that habit back.

Petkin

Meet Piwi

Every great story needs a companion. Ours is Piwi — a French Havanese with enormous ears, impeccable instincts, and an inexhaustible enthusiasm for family history.

Piwi is Storykin's Petkin: a virtual companion who lives inside the app, encourages you when you haven't answered questions in a while, and celebrates every new story added to your library. Pets, it turns out, are very good at reminding us that the things that matter most are the things we keep putting off.

A Purrsian cat is coming soon, for those whose allegiances lie elsewhere.