The slow social
Your photos are just the start of your story.
The stories we tell about our lives become the story of our life. Storyus draws your family's scattered moments together - into journeys, reflections and magazines that say what it all meant.
the little moments…
…drawn together into the story of a summer
…drawn together into the story of a summer ↓
Ninety seconds
One family's summer, drawn together.
The greater whole
What your moments become.
Anywhere can hold a great photo - that part is easy now. Storyus is for the part that matters: weaving those moments into something whole, with a shape, a direction of travel, and your family's own voice.
Join the Dots
Moments threaded in order, so a summer - or a whole year - reads as a journey with a direction of travel. Pieces of time, joined.
See the 34-day roadtrip, joined up →
Journey
And its twin: pieces of space, joined over time - the day’s photos pinned to a living map, the real route drawn between them.
Travel a hillfort walk →
Reflecting
A year, a holiday, or just a weekend, whittled down to nine tiles. Choosing them is how you find out what mattered.
See a weekend, reflected →
Magazine
Stories gathered by theme, tag or year - a magazine of your own family's life, always another issue coming.
Browse a family magazine →“Curation is an act of love.”
Whittling a 34-day roadtrip - or an ordinary weekend - down to the nine moments that mattered isn't losing the rest. It's discovering, together, just how much your family actually did: the roses you stopped to smell, the wild berries that became jam. Constraints are how you find out what was really important to you.
Same year, three tellings
One year. Three quite different memories of it.
In 2018 the Seymour family drove 5,200 km across Europe in 34 days - same car, same campsites, same adventures. Then Ben, Jack and Zoë each whittled their year down to nine tiles. Three quite different years emerged. Same adventure, different perspectives, different memories - reinforced. That's what happens when each person owns their own story.
Ben's nine see his Reflection →
the roads, the food, the light
Jack's nine see his Reflection →
mostly the machines, honestly
Zoë's nine see her Reflection →
the fondue made everyone's nine
These link to the family's real, live Reflections - click through and wander. Notice what only one of them kept.
Junior Mode
The youngest storytellers.
Children are often the best tellers in the family - and no, they shouldn't have an account on the internet. So Storyus gives them something better: their own byline, without an account. You hand over the device and it becomes theirs - "by Sam" on every story, big friendly tools, the family reading along.
Everything else stays in your hands. Their posts go to the family or stay private, your PIN takes the device back, and a child's byline is never public - their name stays off the open internet, while their stories become part of the family archive under a name that will be theirs for good.
Your front page
A morning paper, not a feed.
Sign in and Storyus reads like the family's own morning paper: the news in one written line, the day's lead story told big, and a desk laid with stationery - a postcard, an essay, a journey - ready for whatever today needs. Views for catching up, for writing, for following your favourite people, for guardians. Arranged your way, about your people - never an algorithm's guess.
Why we're different
Five promises, kept.
- one
You decide how your story is told - never an algorithm. Nothing is ranked, promoted, or buried; your family's life appears the way you chose to tell it.
- two
No adverts. Ever. Nothing on the page is competing for your family's attention, because nothing on the page is for sale.
- three
Built for reflection. Gentle prompts to look back, notice the good, and feel grateful for it - on purpose, not by accident.
- four
Family-friendly by design. Parents and children write and publish together. No likes , no follower counts, no comments - nothing to perform for.
- five
You pay for Storyus honestly. We never sell your attention or your data - you're the customer, not the product.
Start drawing your story together.
We're letting new families in slowly - it's that kind of place. Meanwhile, the demos are open: wander around a real family's Storyus.
your photos were only ever the start x