from me, to you

Imagine your child at 18, putting on headphones.

They press play. It's your voice, eighteen years younger, telling them about the day they took their first steps. Every photo, every voice note, every sealed letter your family saved: waiting for them.

Open beta. Three ways in, explained honestly below.

A child with a family photo album
FM2Y timeline on a phone
A sealed letter
Here's the thing nobody tells you.

You take four thousand photos a year. They go into a camera roll with screenshots of parking spots and they never come out.

Meanwhile the thing you actually want to keep, the sound of their voice at four, the way they said "pasghetti," the bedtime question that broke your heart on a Tuesday, never gets recorded at all. Because nothing reminded you to.

FM2Y is built around one honest fact: you will forget. So we won't let you.

The app nudges you on a rhythm you choose. A gentle prompt on quiet weeks. A reminder before birthdays and first days of school. Record the voice. Write the letter. Thirty seconds now, priceless at 18.

"Dad, what did my voice sound like?"you'll want an answer
kids grow ~6cm a year. memories shrink faster.
Every shape a memory takes.

Real screens from the app. This is what the scrapbook looks like when it lives in your pocket.

FM2Y app: photos & video
photos & video

Full-quality originals, not compressed copies. The first-steps video is still full quality when they're grown.

FM2Y app: sealed letters
sealed letters

Write to their future self. Sealed with a date: 16th birthday, graduation, the day they become a parent. Nobody reads it early, not even you.

FM2Y app: voice notes
voice notes

The feature families cry about. Grandma reading a bedtime story is thirty seconds of audio today and an heirloom in twenty years.

FM2Y app: milestones
milestones

First tooth, first day, first heartbreak survived. Marked on the timeline so the whole story reads in order.

THE FAMILY FILE · CONFIDENTIAL
"How are you protecting my kid's data?"

Good. You should ask. Most apps treat your family's most important memories as data to sell to advertisers. We don't do that, full stop. We built FM2Y like a safe with a guest list. Open the file:

Private by default

No public profiles. No discover feed. No strangers. A timeline is visible to exactly the people you invite, and nobody else, ever.

Memory Shield

Screenshot detection on sensitive memories. If someone screenshots a shielded post, it's detected and logged, and you see it in the history.

View history

Every post answers the question 'who saw this?' Views are tracked per person. Quiet accountability for the people you let in.

Security history

Logins, device changes, permission changes, exports. A plain-language audit trail a parent can actually read.

If they get around it

We don't allow downloads, and screenshots go black on most devices. And if someone still finds a way around our defenses? The image itself carries their name, woven into the pixels. You see exactly who did it, and one tap removes them from the timeline for good.

You own everything

Timeline owners can export the whole archive: photos, videos, letters, the lot. If you ever leave, it all leaves with you. Your memories are not our inventory.

You decide who can do what

Permissions are per person, not all-or-nothing. Posting, approving, inviting, even seeing restricted posts: every switch is yours. For example:

Grandma: can post straight to the timeline

The neighbor: view-only, can't post at all

Teen cousin: posts go to you for approval first

Co-admin spouse: full control, same as you

Some protections, like Memory Shield and viewer watermarks, require a paid plan. Private-by-default is for everyone, free included.

Distance doesn't get a vote.

Grandma three states away. Dad deployed six time zones ahead. Everyone you invite adds their piece to the same timeline, from wherever life put them.

Generations of hands stacked together

GRANDMA · 3 STATES AWAY

"Added a voice note to the bedtime story. My mother used to read it to you."

A grandparent and child reading together

DAD · 6 TIME ZONES AHEAD

"Watched the first-steps video from the ship. Whole bunk heard me cheer."

bringing families closer, one memory at a time.that's the whole mission.
On the workbenchcoming soon
Comments & reactionsfamily-only engagement, no public likes
Daily memory promptsthe nudge that beats forgetting
Yearly keepsake booksthe timeline, printed and bound
Family tree viewevery branch, every contributor

We are in open beta 0.1 and we ship fast. Beta families get every feature above as it lands.

Getting in: the honest version.

We are letting families in deliberately, in waves, so the experience stays fast and personal. There are exactly three doors.

door no. 1

The waitlist

  1. 1. Leave your email. Takes ten seconds.
  2. 2. We invite in waves as we open capacity.
  3. 3. Your invite email arrives; you start free that minute.

No payment, no commitment. Just patience.

Join the waitlist
door no. 2 (skip the line)

Fund It Fully

One payment, $100 for every year left, funds the timeline through age 18, and you walk straight past the waitlist today. At 18 it becomes theirs, with a three-year grace window to download everything or keep it going.

  • ✓ Instant access, no waiting
  • ✓ Premium tier with 100 GB of storage
  • ✓ Funded through their 18th birthday
  • ✓ Then 3 more years (to 21) to claim the archive, or subscribe to continue
  • ✓ Gift it: grandparents love this one
Get instant access
door no. 3

A family invite

Already have family on FM2Y? When they invite you to contribute to a timeline, you're in. Full access, free, immediately.

That's by design. A memory app without grandma is just another camera roll.

What it costs, on one card.

Free

$0no card needed

Start the timeline. Keep the basics.

  • One child timeline
  • Photos, video & voice notes
  • Sealed letters
  • Family contributors
  • 5 GB storage
  • Memory Shield + view history
  • 100 GB storage
  • Funded through age 18, kept safe to 21
  • Waitlist skip

Fund It Fully

$100for every year left until 18, one payment

The whole childhood, funded. The keepsake plan.

  • One child timeline
  • Photos, video & voice notes
  • Sealed letters
  • Family contributors
  • 100 GB storage (Premium tier)
  • Memory Shield + view history
  • Watermarked exports
  • Funded through age 18, kept safe to 21
  • Skip the waitlist today
They won't be little forever.

One day the bedtime stories stop, and nobody marks the last one. Start the timeline now; let future-them thank past-you.