Start a book, or ask someone
Begin a Storybook for yourself, or invite someone you love to leave their voice.

Storybooks
Start a Storybook. Answer one chapter at a time by writing, speaking, or recording video. Invite someone you love to leave their voice. Private to the people on your membership.
$79 a year · you plus five people you invite

How a Storybook works
You do not need a finished book on day one. Open a chapter. Save it. The next pending chapter loads. Stop whenever you want. Progress stays.
Begin a Storybook for yourself, or invite someone you love to leave their voice.
Octopus asks a few things so the chapters fit this person, not a generic list. If a prompt is wrong, tap Try another question.
Each chapter is text, audio, or video. Save and continue. After a couple of chapters the app will ask if you want to keep going.
Why it is not a chat thread
A Storybook is a private book with a library, an outline, and a studio. It is not a public feed, and it is not another text thread you will lose.
In the studio
See the prompt. Add a memory jogger if you want. Record in the format you picked. Save and the next unfinished chapter comes up.

Ask someone
Send a request. They get a book waiting on them. You can see who has not started yet and share the invite again. Their chapters stay in the family membership, not on a public page.
Three screens from the app

See what you started, what you asked someone else to record, and who is still waiting.

Write, speak, or record video. Save and continue. Come back later.

A few answers so the chapters are dedicated, not a template dumped on everyone.
The questions
When you begin, Kinnect seeds an outline so you can record immediately. If a question does not fit, try another. You still speak in your own words.
Swap a prompt that is wrong for this book. Keep recording. Do not start over.
Text, audio, or video is yours. The outline is a guide. The chapter is their cadence.
Against the gift books
They are good at a finished hardcover. Kinnect is a living Storybook inside a family membership. Text, voice, or video. Invite someone to record. Private. No print product.
Weekly email questions. A printed book at the end. One gift project.
Voice answers. A hardcover. Still a gift you finish.
Chapters you keep opening. Invite dad to leave his voice. Included with Family Membership, next to Vault and Tree.
$79 a year for you and five people. Not a $99 print run. The book stays with the family.
People also ask
No. Storybooks are digital chapters you keep opening. Text, voice, or video. Not a hardcover. StoryWorth and Remento print. This stays in the membership.
Yes. Each chapter is text, voice, or video. Pick a format when you start.
Yes. Ask someone you love to leave their voice. They get a Storybook waiting on them.
People on your Family Membership. Invite-only. Not a public feed.
Family Membership is $79 a year for you and five people you invite. Storybooks are included.
Not a hardcover
StoryWorth and Remento print a gift and stop. This is chapters you keep opening — text, voice, or video — next to the recipe they already wrote down.
Included in your membership
Same plan. Same six paid seats. StoryWorth mails a prompt. Remento is a print shop. This stays digital, next to Tree and Vault.
Family Membership. Invite who belongs. Record one chapter tonight.
$79 a year · six seats · invite-only