StoryWorth is a subscription service that emails one question per week to a family member. That person writes a response. At the end of a year, StoryWorth compiles all the responses into a printed book.
It works well for families with a member who enjoys writing, who will answer email prompts consistently, and who wants a physical artifact at the end. The printed book is a genuinely nice product. The question bank is large and thoughtful. The email delivery format is low-friction for older family members who are comfortable with email.
StoryWorth's limitations are real. It is entirely text-based — there is no voice recording, no audio, no way to capture the sound of the person answering. It is one-directional — one person answers, others receive. It produces a static artifact rather than a living archive. And the book format, while nice, is not searchable, shareable across a dispersed family, or updatable after printing.
StoryWorth is $99/year per person being interviewed. If you want to capture multiple family members, you pay per person.
What Kinnect Does and Who It Is For
Kinnect is a private family platform built for ongoing memory capture and family connection. It is not a one-year project with a book at the end. It is a living archive that grows as long as your family uses it.
Where StoryWorth is email and text, Kinnect is voice-first. Family members can record audio directly in the app, attach recordings to photos and written stories, and share everything instantly with every member of their private Kinnect group. Echo, Kinnect's daily question feature, sends one prompt every 24 hours and accepts answers in text, voice, or video.
Kinnect is built for the whole family, not just the person being interviewed. Everyone in the group can contribute, respond, and build the archive together. The result is less like a memoir and more like a living family record.
Which One Should You Choose?
Choose StoryWorth if: you want a printed book at the end of a year, the family member you want to capture prefers email and writing, and you are focused on one person's story rather than the whole family's ongoing record.
Choose Kinnect if: you want to capture voices, not just text; you want the whole family involved, not just one person answering; you want a living archive that keeps growing rather than a one-time project; and you want your family's stories accessible to everyone rather than printed in a single book that lives on one shelf.
Both are better than nothing. Most families that are serious about preservation end up wanting what Kinnect provides — voice, ongoing capture, whole-family access — but do not realize it until they have tried text-only tools and found them incomplete.
Kinnect is free to start. Founding memberships are $9.99/year — significantly less than StoryWorth's $99/year. Start at kinnect.club.
