Slow Books

Tell the story behind one photo

Pick a photo and say out loud what you remember. In a minute you get a page with your own words. Send it to your family, and later collect pages like this into a book.

Create a momentFree, no sign-up
A boy in a light blue jacket and a hat with red pompoms sits on a tree stump in a spring forest
“This is Dima, he’s three here. We were walking in the park and he found a freshly cut stump. He climbed up and said it was his throne and he wasn’t going home. I knitted that hat myself, from my old sweater. He only agreed to get down for ice cream. In March! Not long ago I found the hat in the attic, and now his son wears it.”
Olga, about Dima’s throne

How it works

  1. 1

    Pick a photo

    An old one from the album or a new one from your phone. A phone picture of an old print works too.

    Mom holds the baby, Dad next to her makes a funny face
  2. 2

    Tell it out loud

    Press the red button and talk the way you would tell a friend. Up to three minutes. We suggest where to start.

  3. 3

    Share the page

    Your browser writes down your words, and we gently clean up the text: we remove pauses and repeats and keep your words.

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Moments add up to a book

Create an account and your moments are kept for you. When you have twenty or thirty, we lay out a book for print: the photo on one page, your words on the other.

Next to each story there is a QR code. Point your phone camera at it and you hear the voice.

Create your first moment

Sign in with a link from your email. No password needed.

A family on a pink sofa in a rented room by the sea

We rented a room by the sea, and the sofa there was so pink that Dad said it was only good for photos. We put the camera on a stool, Dad set the timer and ran to us. It worked on the third try.

Kate, about the first summer by the sea

Point your camera to hear the voice

Questions

Who can see my moment?
Only people you send the link to. The page is not in search engines. You can hide the voice, then the link shows only the text.
What does it cost?
Making and keeping moments is free. Printing a book is paid separately.
Where does my voice go?
Your browser recognizes the speech. To clean up the text we send it to Google Gemini, and if the browser could not recognize it, the recording too. We keep the recording so it can be played from the link.
Which language can I speak?
Russian, English, Spanish or German. Choose the language before you record.