Mom’s rose garden (1/1)
Mom’s rose garden, 1979
Mom’s garden behind the house on Elm Street. The pink rose by the gate was the first one she planted — Dad brought it home the week they moved in, in 1979.
Keep your parents engaged.One story at a time.
Most family photos just sit there. Memtastic gets Mom and Dad talking about them.One text, one good question, answered in their own words.They stay engaged. You stay close.
4 in 5 moms want to share their stories. All it takes is asking. Source: Ancestry, 2023.
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Free to try. No app, no password.
What does “engaged” look like?
Memtastic is not a check-in call. It’s a reason to tell the story only they can tell, and someone asking for it.
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Start it
You add a photo and say what you know. Memtastic asks a few plain questions and keeps the answers with the photo, in your words.
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Add to it
Your parent, your brother, the grandkids — anyone you invite to your family plan can open the photo, add what they remember, and ask their own question. One photo, one shared story.
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Keep it going
On a schedule that suits them, your parent gets a photo and something to talk about. They answer by talking or typing, whenever they like. And if they’re up for it, they can open Memtastic any time to look through the family’s photos or add their own. That’s engaged.
One thing, for both of you.
For them
They’re not just answering. They’re telling. A photo from their own life and a reason to tell the story only they can tell. Their own photos and their own stories, too — added from their phone and kept with the photo for the whole family.
For you
Regular contact without another thing on the calendar. You add the photos, and the texts take it from there. The conversations start without you, and you can read what came out of them any time. Brothers, sisters and grandkids can talk with the same memory from wherever they are.
You set it up once. They just get a text.
Add a handful of photos, and you and the rest of the family can start their stories with what you know. Invite your parent with a text. There’s no app, and they sign in with just their phone number. From then on, a memory arrives weekly, every other week, or monthly — each one a photo and one question, and each reply kept with the photo for the whole family.
The more they talk about a photo, the richer the story gets — and the closer they feel to it. Researchers call this reminiscence and have studied it for sixty years. Memtastic is a family storytelling service, not a medical device or therapy.
It starts at weekly. You can change it for her from your Profile Settings, or she can change it herself. In Easy mode, you manage it for her. She can reply STOP any time to stop the texts.
Tech not their thing? Turn on Easy mode.
One checkbox when you invite them, and Memtastic gets out of their way.
- They land straight on the family’s photos. Nothing to set up, no settings to get lost in.
- They look, listen and chat. Replies can be read aloud, and they can just talk back.
- What they share never changes the family’s story by mistake, and you manage their account and text schedule for them.
One checkbox on the invite screen. That’s all it takes.
Give them something to look forward to.
Start with one photo: a garden, an old kitchen, a wedding. Free to try, no credit card.
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