Memoir and life story writing

An AI Memoir Writer That Starts From Your Memories, Not a Blank Page

You know the stories. The hard part is turning decades of them into chapters someone will read to the end. Tell the AI what your memoir is about, give it your journals, letters and transcribed recordings, and it plans the book with you and drafts it chapter by chapter in your own voice.

What you decide first

1The kind of memoir2The order the story is told3The voice it is written in

A new account comes with 100 credits, your first book outline and your first chapter free.

Part of the AI non-fiction book writer

Writing My Life Story Is Not the Same as Writing a Report

A memoir is one true story cut from a life: a childhood, a career, an illness, a move across the world, a marriage. Generic chat tools treat it like an essay and flatten every year into the same tidy paragraph. Here the memoir is a non-fiction book with its own setup: you choose the memoir subgenre, how the story moves through time, which memories it is built from, and how it should sound, before any chapter is written.

Built from what you lived

Upload journals, letters, old blog posts or transcripts of you talking through your memories. The relevant passages are attached to the chapters they belong to.

Your voice, not a house style

Paste six to ten paragraphs you wrote yourself, and the chapters follow how you write.

A shape for a whole life

Chronological, thematic, story-driven, personal anecdotes or narrative non-fiction: you pick how the years are ordered.

A finished book at the end

Cover, formatting, print-ready PDF and EPUB, and an audiobook, all in the same app.

How Your Life Story Becomes a Book

Six steps, saved as you go. A memoir can sit for a month between chapters and be exactly where you left it.

Step 01

Tell it what the memoir is about

Start a non-fiction book, describe the story in a few sentences and pick the memoir subgenre: family, coming of age, travel, immigrant, career, recovery, military, spiritual and more. The AI suggests a title, description and reader; you keep or change any of it.

Step 02

Set the voice and the shape

Choose the tone, such as conversational, reflective or empathetic, and the content structure that orders the years. Paste a sample of your own writing so every chapter sounds like you.

Step 03

Add your memories

Upload journals, letters, family notes or transcribed voice memos as PDF, DOCX, DOC, TXT, MD, EPUB or RTF, up to ten files and 100,000 words. The first file is free, each one after costs 10 credits.

Step 04

Approve the chapter plan

Choose a book structure and chapter template, then get an outline of every chapter with its own target length. Change one chapter or all of them by describing what you want, at 3 credits per chapter outline.

Step 05

Write chapter by chapter

Each chapter is drafted from its outline and the memories attached to it. Read it, edit it by hand or with the AI chat, and move on. The first chapter you generate is free.

Step 06

Make it a book you can hold

Design a cover, format the interior, and download print-ready files and an EPUB. Turn it into an audiobook if your family would rather listen.

What Makes It a Memoir Writer, Not a Text Generator

The memoir runs through the non-fiction path, which has its own details step, structure step, outline and chapter writer.

Memoir subgenres

Family, travel, coming of age, immigrant, war and military, addiction and recovery, medical, spiritual, business, career and more. The subgenre shapes how the chapters are planned.

Your memories attached per chapter

Uploaded material is parsed once and the excerpts that belong to each chapter are attached to its outline, so the chapter about your first job is written from what you wrote about your first job.

Writing style matching

A writing style field takes six to ten paragraphs of your own prose. The chapters follow your sentence length, rhythm and word choice.

Length you control per chapter

Every chapter has its own target between 200 and 5,000 words, so a short vignette and a long turning-point chapter sit in the same book.

Bring a draft you already started

Import the pages you already have. The non-fiction import pulls out the book details, chapter outlines and chapter text, and you continue from there.

Editing, cover and audiobook

The Book Editor reviews the whole manuscript, the cover studio designs the front, and the Audiobook Studio reads it aloud.

Memoirs People Write Here

The memoir subgenres in the app cover most life stories. A few of the most common:

A life story for the family

Parents and grandparents writing down where they came from, so the stories outlive the dinner table.

Coming of age

One stretch of growing up, told with the hindsight of the adult who survived it.

Travel and immigration

A journey or a move to a new country, built from the notes, photos and messages you kept.

Illness, loss and recovery

The year everything changed, written at your own pace and in your own words.

What It Costs to Write Your Memoir

Credits come from your plan or a one-time pack. Planning costs little; the writing is where credits go.

Planning the memoir

3 credits per chapter outline

Book details, tone, structure and chapter template cost nothing. A twenty-chapter memoir is planned for 60 credits, and a new account starts with 100.

  • Details and structures generated free
  • First memory file free, then 10 credits each
  • Outline edits by instruction

Writing the chapters

Model is your choice
15 credits per chapter

15 credits with Gemini, 20 with Grok, 30 with Claude. The first chapter you generate is free, so you read a real chapter of your own life story before paying anything.

  • Written from your outline and memories
  • Target word count per chapter, 200 to 5,000
  • Book cover 30 credits, your own upload free
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Memoir Questions, Answered

What people ask before they start writing their life story here.

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Your Stories Deserve More Than a Shoebox

Describe the memoir, add the memories you already have, and read the first chapter of your life story today.

Memoir subgenres and structures to choose from
Chapters written from your own memories
First outline and first chapter free