A Christmas gift made by the whole family. Each person records one short video — a favorite memory, a wish for the year, a story about Grandma. We print them into a hardcover book, every page playing their voice — delivered before December 25.
Create their book — $79Delivered by your date, or we reprint or refund. No app for anyone to install.
The whole family, in one book under the tree.
Every decade of his life, told by the people who were in it.
The people from every chapter of his working life — in one book, on his last day.
Fifty years together. Told by everyone who was there.
From all of her children. From all of his. The things nobody says out loud — said.
He doesn't need another thing. He's never been given this.
No accounts, no passwords, nothing to learn. If he can point a phone at a page, he can hear everyone.
Each chapter is one person — their photo, their name in big type, their words printed in full.
A code beside every story. Any phone camera reads it — no app, no login.
Their video plays — their voice, their laugh, the pause before the punchline.
This is the screen your family sees when they tap your link — one prompt, one button. If they can answer a phone call, they can do this.
“Tell us about a Christmas at Grandma’s house you’ll never forget.”
It arrives by text, WhatsApp, or email and opens in their browser. Nothing to install, no account to make.
One question, answered out loud — like telling the story at the table. Not happy with it? Record again, as many times as they like.
That's their whole job. Their recording becomes a chapter in the book — and we handle the reminders for everyone else.
8 × 10 in hardcover — cloth-look deep green, gold title
Up to 25 contributors — two pages each, photo and story
Printed in full — the book reads completely with no phone at all
Bilingual editions — their language, with English on the facing page
Extra copies $49 — one for each sibling, same book
Yours to keep — every video also delivered as a downloadable file
Share it with family and friends — WhatsApp, text, email. That's the last coordinating you do.
Each person answers one prompt on their phone in about three minutes. Our reminders — gentle, then firmer — chase the stragglers, and you watch who's done from one page.
We turn the recordings into chapters, print and bind the book, and it arrives before the day. On the day itself, a digital reveal is ready too — just in case.
People tell their best stories in the language they lived them in. So your family records in theirs — Telugu, Hindi, Spanish, Tamil, Punjabi, and more — no script, nothing to translate on the spot. In the book, their chapter prints their original words with the English on the facing page, so a grandchild who doesn't read the language can follow every line. And the code beside the chapter plays the story in their actual voice, exactly as they told it.
«Ese verano, el barco casi no vuelve.»
ఆ వేసవిలో పడవ దాదాపు తిరిగి రాలేదు.
“That summer, the boat almost didn’t come back.”
Their words on one page. English on the facing page. Their voice, one scan away.
They open it at the table,
everyone they love around them.
The first page is read aloud. Then a scan — and an oldest friend, two states away, is talking, and the whole room goes quiet to listen. After the celebration, the book goes on the shelf, where it stays: years from now the grandchildren will take it down and hear that laugh again, and everyone's voices around it.
Our first sample book is at the printer right now — the same presses, paper, and binding your book will use. The day it arrives, real photographs of it replace the pictures on this page, page by page, so you can judge the real thing before you spend a dollar.
Because a photo book is one person's photos, uploaded in an evening — that's why the photo sites can take orders in mid-December. Printing is their only step, and printing is fast.
This book starts with up to twenty-five people. Each of them has to find a quiet moment and record their video — around jobs, time zones, and grandchildren. Then those recordings become chapters, and the chapters become a printed, bound book that still has to ship. Recording is the one part that can't be rushed in the final week, so our deadline is set by the family, not the printer.
Two minutes at the form below. We send you one link to share with everyone.
Contributors finish by this date. The book is built from everyone who's in — no waiting on stragglers.
Printed, bound, and delivered before Christmas morning — guaranteed, or we reprint it free or refund you.
Standard $79 · Premium $99
The price includes the book, printing, and US delivery. There is nothing to pay at print time, and no subscription — ever.
Premium is printed in richer color, allows more pages, and gets priority handling for tight dates — order as late as December 2 for Christmas.
Gifting it together? Four siblings splitting Premium pay about $25 each.
Our guarantee: if the book doesn't arrive by your date, or you don't love it, we reprint it free or refund you. A missed birthday is not something we ask you to risk.
Founding preorder — we'll email you a secure payment link to complete your order. No charge today.
We'll write to your inbox with your payment link and the invite link to share with your family.
Every family has the videos — scattered across phones, buried in chats, one phone upgrade away from gone. We started Kept by Heart because the shelf outlasts the phone. A book gets opened. It gets handed around the table. And with everyone's voices inside it, it becomes the thing the family keeps.
— Praneeth, founder
The book prints on the deadline with everyone who has recorded — that rule is set out before you pay, so there are no last-minute surprises. In practice, the reminders and the deadline do the work, and your dashboard shows exactly who is still missing so one nudge from you can land where it counts.
Yes — the dates on this page are built backwards from the printer's real production and shipping times, with buffer. Christmas orders placed by November 20 (contributors recorded by November 29) are guaranteed before December 25; Premium orders by December 2 carry the same guarantee with expedited handling. And if we ever miss, the guarantee above applies.
$79 for Standard or $99 for Premium — that is the whole cost. Printing, the book, and US delivery are included. Extra copies of the same book are $49 each.
Premium uses richer color printing, allows a longer book (more contributors and pages), and gets priority handling with the later December 2 Christmas cutoff. Standard is the same book, the same guarantee, at $79.
No. Your link opens in their phone's browser. They read one prompt, press record, and they're done in about three minutes. The person receiving the book needs nothing but a phone camera to play the videos — and the book reads in full without one.
Yes. They record in the language they're comfortable in, and the book can print their words alongside an English translation on the facing page — so grandchildren who don't read the language can still follow every story.
The codes point to our own web address, kept stable for the life of the book — and permanence is the entire point of the product. As a backstop that doesn't depend on us at all, your family receives downloadable copies of every video, and the printed stories are complete on paper forever.
From the day you order until the contributor cutoff for your date — for Christmas, that's November 29. You'll see a live count of who's recorded the whole way.
If it's our error or the printer's, we reprint free and fast — that's covered before you ever need to ask. If the book simply isn't what you hoped, the guarantee applies: reprint or refund.
Order by November 20, and on Christmas morning they'll hold a book with everyone they love inside it. Their stories. On their shelf. Forever.
Create their book — $79