Every fact traces back to a photo, document, or recording
Photographs, documents, and recordings become sources with dates, people, and places attached — so a fact in the Story can always be traced back to where it came from.
For the people keeping a family or community story straight
Photos, documents, and memories, curated into one true Story.
Simply Stories turns scattered photographs, documents, recordings, and memories into a private, curated Story — with people, places, and moments connected, every fact backed by a source, and a curator deciding what is ready to share.
Currently a private pilot for one founding familyUnlimited users — yes, reallyPrivate beta, by invitationPowered by Simply360
The recordPeople, places & sourcesPeoplePlacesSources
Curator reviewContribution to chapterSubmitReviewApprove
Private by defaultInvited members onlyStory websiteContribution form
privateby default — nothing is public until a curator approves it
onesource-backed record for every person, place, and moment
curator-ledreview before anything a contributor submits is added to the Story
invitationthe Story stays with the people your family invites
Why a family or community chooses Simply Stories
The photos are scattered. The story does not have to be.
Photo albums live in one relative’s closet, documents in another’s files, and the stories themselves only in memory. Simply Stories gives a family or community one place to gather sources, connect the people, places, and moments they describe, and let a curator decide what is accurate and ready to share — instead of a memory disappearing when the person who held it is no longer there to tell it.
The record stays private until a curator says otherwise — sharing is a decision, never a default.
One record per person and place, shared across every moment
A person or a place is recorded once and connected to every moment, source, and chapter it belongs to, instead of being retyped in a caption each time it comes up.
Family and community members can add what they know
Invited contributors submit a photo, a document, or a memory with context — who, where, roughly when — and it waits for a curator, not the public, to review it.
Nothing joins the Story without a decision
A curator accepts, asks for more context, or declines every submitted claim before it is placed in a chapter — the Story reflects what your family has actually confirmed.
Moments and sources organized into a Story you can follow
Approved moments and sources are placed into chapters, so a Story reads as a narrative a relative can follow, not a database a relative has to search.
A public version of the Story
Publishing curated chapters or a public Story site for people outside the invited family or community is designed into the product and not yet open for general use.
How it fits together
From a shoebox of photos to a Story your family can follow.
A photo, document, or recording becomes a source; the people, places, and moments it shows get connected to it; a contributor or curator proposes what it means; a curator reviews and approves it; and the approved material takes its place in a chapter.
Photos, documents, and recordings captured as sourcesPeople, places, and moments connected to the sources that back themContributors submit context — curators decide what is confirmedApproved claims placed into chapters that read as a narrativeSharing stays private to invited family and community members until a curator opens it further
For the relative who has become the family archivist
Somewhere for the photos and documents to actually live.
Instead of a closet of albums and a phone full of scans only you can find, sources, people, and places live in one record the next generation can actually use.
See how it worksFor a family or community deciding whether to start
A private pilot today, with a plan for what comes next.
Simply Stories is currently a private pilot with one founding family. Ask what a broader rollout could look like for your family or community.
Request an invitationWorks with any website
Your website, or ours — same system underneath.
A Story lives on a private, responsive website that invited family and community members can open from a phone, tablet, or computer — no separate app to install, and nothing public until a curator says so.
Story websiteContribution formCorrection requestChapter view
Works even better together
Tools that work hand in hand with Simply Stories.
Four companion tools from the Simply360 family can extend Simply Stories: tags and scans in the physical world, live maps for spaces, a standalone website builder, and connected raffle fundraising.
A small tag at a memorial bench, a gravesite, or inside a printed photo album can point straight to the online Story or a chapter of it — a phone tap replaces a QR code stuck to the back of a frame.
Explore Simply Action Tags
When a reunion or memorial gathering needs a room or hall booked, Simply Spaces can hold that booking on the same kind of live map used elsewhere in the Simply360 family — a separate, general-purpose tool your family can use for the event around the Story, not a part of the Story record itself.
Explore Simply Spaces
Need the public site first? Simply Websites gives family and community curators the same Website Studio as a standalone builder: draft free, publish for $39/month, and connect Simply Stories when the site needs live data.
Explore Simply Websites
Running a fundraiser? Simply Raffles gives family and community curators connected raffles, ticket packages, public and offline entry paths, prizes, eligibility, reports, and recorded winners — using the same people and data Simply Stories already manages.
Explore Simply RafflesBring us the photos. We will help you find the Story.
Simply Stories is a private pilot today. Tell us about your family or community archive, and we will follow up as broader access opens.