Grandparents

Your life, printed, in your grandchild's hands.

Grandparents and grandchild organising old photos, letters and stories into a keepsake book

Your grandkids will never open your Google Photos. But they will open a book. BrainCopy gathers your photos, letters and stories, asks gentle questions to fill the gaps, and produces a printed memoir — in your voice — that their children will still read in 2070.

The problem

You have seventy years of photos, letters, postcards, slides, and maybe a diary or two. Most of it is in a cupboard. Some is on an old computer. A few recent ones are on the phone. None of it is in a form your grandchild will actually see.

The cloud is not a legacy. Google Photos, iCloud, Dropbox — they all assume the person who set them up is still paying the bill. When that stops, everything quietly disappears. Your grandchild won't inherit your password. They'll inherit silence.

A printed book is the only format that survives. But writing a memoir is overwhelming. Where do you start? What order? Who types it up? Who picks the photos? By the time you've thought about it, another year is gone.

How BrainCopy solves it

Import everything you already have

Upload photos from your phone, computer, old hard drives, Facebook, iCloud. BrainCopy sorts them by year, by place, by person — automatically. Your whole photographic life is in one place for the first time.

Scan the paper too

Old letters, diary pages, postcards from your children — photograph them or scan them. AI reads the handwriting (yes, even the hard-to-read ones), preserves the original image, and files each one by date. The box in the cupboard becomes part of the same archive.

AI drafts chapters in your voice

For each period of your life, BrainCopy drafts a narrative chapter — who was there, what happened, what the photos show — pulling from your own words where available. You edit what's wrong and add what's missing. Far easier than starting with a blank page.

Speak your stories — it transcribes

Don't want to type? Tap the microphone and tell the story out loud. BrainCopy transcribes it, files it by date, and weaves it into the right chapter. Many grandparents do their whole memoir this way, over a cup of coffee, one story at a time.

One printed book per grandchild

When you're ready, BrainCopy generates a photobook per grandchild — personalised to the stories that involve them, their parents, and their family line. Print it through a normal photobook service. A keepsake they'll put on their own children's shelf.

What you'll actually see

Beta price for Grandparents

50% off the €10/month subscription, forever, for grandparents who join during the beta. Your discount never expires.

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FAQ

I'm not great with computers. Is this too hard?
The hardest step is uploading photos, which most grandchildren will happily help with for an afternoon. After that, capture is literally "open the app, say a sentence, done." No forms, no tagging. If you can send a text message, you can use BrainCopy.
What if I die before I finish?
Whatever is in BrainCopy when you stop is preserved. You designate who inherits access — a child, a grandchild, a family archivist. They can generate the book from whatever you managed to capture. Something is infinitely better than nothing.
Who actually prints the book?
BrainCopy generates the layout and content; you print it through any standard photobook service (we can recommend ones used by customers in your country). Most services accept our layout format directly. One book per grandchild is typically €30–€80 at the printer.
What does BrainCopy cost?
Base subscription €10/month (or €5/month forever with GRANDPARENTS50) covers storage and capture. AI processing to turn your archive into draft chapters is priced once per photo — typically €50–€200 for a lifetime archive. Not a recurring fee for the AI work. The printed book is extra, through the print service.
Do my grandchildren have to use the app?
No. The printed book is the deliverable. The app is your workspace. If a grandchild wants the living digital archive as well (searchable, explorable) they can inherit access — but the book is self-contained.
Is my data safe? What about when the company goes under?
Your files live on European Nextcloud infrastructure (Germany) — you have direct sync-client access to them, outside BrainCopy, with your own password. If BrainCopy ever shut down, you'd keep every photo and file. The printed book keeps the content outside any cloud at all. That's the whole point.
Can I do this with a partner — my husband or wife?
Yes. Each account is one person's archive. Some couples do one archive together (easier); others keep separate ones and cross-reference. Up to you.

Ready to try it?

Takes about 30 seconds to sign up. You can start importing immediately.

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Who else uses BrainCopy

Different people, same problem: too many memories scattered across too many places.