We back up everything we do online, yet still lose the stories shared in real life.
Get startedIt all goes in the same Memory Box.
Photographs, videos, voices, letters, interviews, recipes, and biographies: everything you add is gathered into one Memory Box, kept together in a private archive.
And it can leave whenever you like.
The complete Memory Box is gathered into one downloadable archive, including its photographs, films, recordings, stories and transcripts.
A BagIt manifest and SHA-256 checksums travel with the archive, so its contents can be checked independently at any time.
Double-click and it opens: no account, no subscription, no internet. Ordinary files in open formats, readable long after today's apps are gone.
Memory should be Hereditary
The stories, memories and little details your loved ones carry are part of your family's history. Wayback When helps you preserve them now, so they can still be heard, watched and passed down for generations.
Supported by AI
Wayback When uses AI to help you build and organise your Memory Box through conversation. Simply talk, and it can ask thoughtful questions, uncover forgotten details, organise your stories and make voice-controlled edits as you go.
It can spend as long as you need listening and guiding the conversation, acting like a patient personal biographer who helps turn a lifetime of memories into something your family can keep.
Speak naturally
Just talk, and the AI biographer will help capture your story.
Organised for you
Photos, voices and memories are sorted as you go.
Edit by voice
Make changes simply by saying them out loud.
I thought I knew all of Mum's stories, but every photograph brought back something I had never heard before.
The grandchildren now know the voices, memories and little details that would otherwise have been lost.
It gave us an easy reason to sit down, ask questions and preserve the stories we always assumed we would remember.
This has been amazing for our family. We call it FamilyTok because everyone keeps adding stories and sending them around.
Dad had told some of these stories for years, but recording them in his own voice made them feel completely different.
Each photograph opened up a memory we had never heard before. It has brought the whole family closer.
My children can now hear their grandparents telling the stories themselves, rather than only hearing them from me.
It feels reassuring to know that these memories are together, organised and ready to be passed on.
7 in 10 photographs are never looked at again.