I'm telling my own story
One gentle question at a time — typed or spoken, in your own voice.
Try one memory free
Your life, in your words
Keep the stories only you can tell.
Dashlight helps you preserve a life in stories, photos, and voice—then entrust it to the people you love for whatever comes next.
Private by defaultOne prompt at a timeNo monthly fee
Two ways to begin
Whose story are you keeping?
Our family is honoring a parent
For one parent or both. Gather stories from family conversations, transcripts and old diaries — even when memory is fading — and live through them together.
Start a Family CircleMore than a memoir
A life gathered now. A gift to your family later.
Begin with the memories that make you laugh. Add the voices, photographs, people, and wishes that give them meaning. You decide what stays private, what family may see, and what can one day become a memorial.
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Living Biography
Thoughtful prompts turn scattered memories into a story, gently built over time.
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Preparedness
Record wishes and name trusted curators so the people you love are never left guessing.
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Memorial Mode
When the time comes, curators shape approved stories into a memorial, wake display, and guest book.
Me Through the Ages
Build a timeline of your years.
Once a year, Dashlight asks eight gentle questions — what you're proud of, what was hard, who you love, what you hope for. Add that year's photographs and a few spoken words, and the decades line themselves up into a timeline you can edit, compare, and keep.
1962197820032024You are here
Build a Timeline
Free with your account. Add and edit your years before choosing a Dashlight package.
Meet Eleanor
A whole life, not a list of dates.
Eleanor was a teacher, gardener, grandmother of nine, and the keeper of a cinnamon-bread recipe her family still argues about.
“If the bread isn't shared, it isn't bread—it's just flour with pride.”
Her Dashlight gathers the porch in 1962, thirty-eight years in a second-grade classroom, the Saturday reading circle, her own stories, and the memories others added later.
Inside your Dashlight
Start anywhere. Build without pressure.
There is no blank-page test to pass. Dashlight offers one useful question, lets you answer by typing or speaking, and helps organize your own words without changing what happened.
Try the first prompt- 01
Answer one prompt
Write for two minutes or speak naturally. Skip anything that is not right for today.
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Add what words miss
Keep a photograph, a milestone, the people in it, and a short recording in your own voice.
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Choose who may see it
Keep an entry private, save it for family, or mark it as a candidate for a future memorial.
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Let trusted people carry it
Your curators receive access only when Memorial Mode is deliberately activated.
No account required
Keep one memory free.
Try the real rhythm: tell one story, add one photograph, record one minute in your own voice, and ask for gentle writing help.
Open my private previewOne written story
Speak freely or type it. Writing help preserves your facts and voice.
One voice recording
Hear the difference between reading words and hearing you.
Saved only on this device
Nothing is published. Your preview can transfer after you choose a package.
“I want to know the stories behind the photographs before no one remembers.”
A Dashlight gift is an invitation, not an assignment. They can begin with one favorite memory and continue at their own pace.
For parents and grandparents
Give the question you have always meant to ask.
Send a printable gift card and claim code. They create the story in their own account; you receive nothing unless they choose to share it.
Choose a giftOne payment. No monthly memorial fee.
Choose how far the story travels.
Memoir
Write the story while it's still yours to tell.
$99
one time
See what is included Dashlight Core
The story, plus a place for everyone to gather.
$199
one time
See what is included Legacy Keepsake
Something to hold, and something to watch.
$449
one time
See what is included You do not have to tell it all today.
Begin with the story that came to mind while you were reading this. Dashlight will meet you there.