You have eighteen years of photos spread across a dead Facebook, a half-full iCloud and four old phones. You have scraps of your child's drawings, school reports, and that WhatsApp thread with their grandparents. BrainCopy pulls it all into one chronological archive and turns it into a printed book you hand over on their 18th birthday — a gift no one gets to give twice.
Your kid is 16. They will be 18 in two years. You have vaguely meant to "do something with the photos" for a decade, and the window is narrowing. Every time you open the old Facebook account there are tears. Every time you close it, another year slips.
The material is absurdly rich: their first word, the time they called the dog "floof," the drawing on the fridge that you kept and forgot. Spread across a dead Android phone, your ex's iCloud, an old shared Dropbox, and a literal shoebox in the attic.
Meanwhile, every other gift idea feels inadequate. What do you give a person turning 18 that they'll still care about at 40? Not another hoodie. Not cash. Something that acknowledges that you were paying attention.
Old Facebook, iCloud, Google Photos, WhatsApp exports, Instagram, that ancient Dropbox folder. BrainCopy dedups across platforms so the same photo doesn't appear four times, and sorts everything chronologically by actual date taken.
The drawing from age 4, the school report from Year 2, the note they left you on Mother's Day 2015. Photograph each one. OCR reads the text (including the early-primary-school handwriting). The physical artefacts become part of the digital archive.
From "newborn in a blanket" to "graduation in a hoodie," every photo featuring your child is clustered. Eighteen years visualised as one continuous face aging through time. Useful for the book, profoundly useful for the parent.
Each year — age 0, age 1, etc. — gets a draft chapter: the milestones, the funny things, the trips, the school years. Drafted from your own photos, posts, and captured stories. You edit. You remove. You add the things that were never online.
Generate the final layout — 18 chapters, one per year, photos and words, maps of where they travelled, faces of the people in their life. Print through a standard photobook service. A single hardcover book. A gift that can't be topped.
50% off the €10/month subscription, forever, for parents assembling an 18th-birthday book. Your discount never expires.
TEEN18). AI processing for 18 years of photos is typically €50–€200 one-time. Printed book through a standard photobook service, €40–€100. Total typically well under €300 end-to-end for the gift of a lifetime.Takes about 30 seconds to sign up. You can start importing immediately.
Start before graduationDifferent people, same problem: too many memories scattered across too many places.