A private family archive
Your family stories are disappearing. Start writing them down together.
Remembranch is a private family archive where every relative gets a living page — filled with photos, stories, dates, nicknames, memories, and moments, written by the people who remember.
Private by default · Invite-only · One archive for the whole family
Lötter line
Piet Lötter
Father. Grandfather. Storyteller.
1939 — 2022
"Known for his dry humour, Sunday lunches, and the stories everyone still repeats…"
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memories
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relatives
The quiet loss
Most family stories are lost quietly.
Not because nobody cared. Because no one wrote them down while the people who remembered were still here. The nicknames, recipes, sayings, war stories, wedding photos, old addresses, family jokes, and small details that made someone unforgettable often disappear within a generation.
Remembranch gives your family one private place to gather them before they fade.
What it is
More than a family tree. A living page for every life.
A family tree shows how people are connected. Remembranch helps you remember who they were. Each person gets a private page with their photos, life story, relationships, important dates, memories, and contributions from relatives.
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Build the tree
Add parents, children, spouses, siblings, cousins, grandparents, and generations in a simple visual family tree.
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Capture the stories
Add memories, photos, letters, favourite sayings, recipes, timelines, milestones, and personal details.
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Invite the family
Let relatives contribute what they remember. Every edit can be reviewed, attributed, and preserved.
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Keep it private
Your archive is invite-only and built for your family, not for the public internet.
The reason your family keeps coming back
A shared family calendar that brings the archive to life.
Remembranch isn't a one-time project. It's where your family returns for birthdays, anniversaries, and the moments that matter — with reminders, "on this day" memories, and gentle nudges that prompt relatives to add something new.
Birthday & anniversary reminders
Milestones surface automatically, so no one's special day is forgotten.
On this day
Memories resurface on the dates they happened, sparking stories and conversations.
Gentle notifications
Relatives are prompted to add photos, memories, and updates — keeping the archive alive.
July 2026
This monthPiet's birthday
Turning 87 · Reminder sent
On this day: wedding, 1962
Memory resurfaced for the family
Susan added a new photo
Of Oupa Piet and the pigeons
Lötter family reunion
Milestone event · 3 weeks away
Made for the moments that matter
A sample family page
See what a family page can become.
Explore a sample profile built around Piet Lötter — a living example of how one person's life can be remembered through photos, stories, family connections, dates, and memories.
Lötter line · Grandfather
Piet Lötter
"Oupa Piet" · Kroonstad legend
1939 — 2022
Biography
Husband, father, grandfather, bobaas-storyteller, pigeon fancier, Blou Bulle supporter and Kroonstad legend. Sixty years married to his Skat. He worked on the South African Railways and knew every small station and steam locomotive by heart. He believed true wealth was family and the love between them.
Stories & memories
"Oupa Piet het nie aardse skatte bymekaar gemaak nie, maar eerder die wêreld met skatte gelos — sy trots, sy kinders en sy stories wat ons vir altyd sal koester."
"My Skat … 60 jaar — en dan een oggend word ek alleen, sonder jou, wakker en dis so seer. Ek mis jou."
How it works
Start small. Let the family fill in the rest.
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Add your first relatives
Begin with yourself, your parents, grandparents, or one person whose story you want to preserve.
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Create living pages
Each person gets a page for their story, photos, dates, relationships, and memories.
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Invite contributors
Send a private invite to family members so they can add what only they remember.
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Preserve the archive
Keep your family's stories organised, searchable, private, and ready for the next generation.
Privacy & trust
Private family memories deserve private family spaces.
Remembranch is built for sensitive family information. Your archive is not a public profile, not a social network, and not an open database. You decide who joins, who contributes, and what gets preserved.
Read the full privacy policy.
What families preserve
What lives inside a Remembranch archive.
Grandparents' life stories
The years, the places, the small details only they remember.
Old photos with the names behind them
Faces finally attached to names, before the last person who knew them is gone.
Recipes, sayings, traditions, and family jokes
The small things that made a family feel like home.
Milestones and family gatherings
New babies, milestone birthdays, reunions, and tributes — the moments that bring everyone back.
Letters, memories, tributes, and voice notes
The words in someone's own hand — or their own voice.
Stories children should grow up knowing
The stories your kids and grandkids will still be able to read.
Pricing
One family archive. One simple plan.
One price for the whole family — invite every cousin, the price doesn't change.
Starter Archive
Begin the archive today
- Up to 25 people
- 500 photos
- 1 editor seat
- Invite your whole family
- Version history on every edit
Family Archive
For an active family archive
R82/mo, billed annually
- Up to 500 people & 10,000 photos
- 6 editor seats
- Voice recordings & guided prompts
- Admin approvals on sensitive profiles
- One archive per family
Heirloom Archive
Built to outlive you
≈R208/mo, billed annually
R4,950 once
pay once, preserve forever
- Unlimited people & photos
- 20 editor seats
- Printable family book
- Pay once. Preserve forever.
One plan per family. Invite every cousin — the price doesn't change.
Give the gift of memory
The most meaningful gift for the family who already has everything.
Gift a Remembranch archive to preserve a family's stories, or gift the printed family book to preserve grandparents' stories — a lasting gift for parents and grandparents.
A note from the founder
Built first for our own family.
Remembranch began with one simple thought: if we do not gather these stories now, some of them will be gone forever.
It was first built to preserve real family memories — the kind that live in old photos, family gatherings, handwritten notes, and the people who still remember. If it helps your family the way it helped mine, that's more than enough.
— Tiaan, founder
Start with one person. Build the archive from there.
You do not need the whole family tree ready. Start with one relative, one story, one photo, or one memory. The rest can grow over time.
Private by default · Invite-only · Free to begin