Pricing
Your family can gather memories, photographs, voices and perspectives without paying anything. The finished Book is $795, and you buy it only when the story is ready to become one.
No trial, no countdown, no subscription. One price, one finished family artifact.
Start at no cost
Recollective is free to use for as long as your family is remembering. You are not on a trial and nothing expires.
Answer a prompt or simply write what you remember. One memory is enough to begin.
Invite family, friends and colleagues. Anyone in the project can bring in another voice.
Photographs go in whole, and a memory can be spoken instead of written.
As the material builds, the Story Map, Family Discoveries and what's still untold appear for the family.
A weekend, a season, a year. The story sets the pace, not a billing cycle.
This is not a 30-day trial. There is no countdown, no expiring project and nothing to cancel. Families gather for as long as it takes to feel the story is theirs.
As the memories accumulate, your project reaches a point where the family can see the story is there. That is the moment the Book makes sense — not before, and not on a schedule we set.
Nothing locks. If your family isn't ready, keep gathering; the story only gets richer while you wait.
The Book
$795
One time, per Book. Not a subscription.
Everything your family has gathered, thoughtfully shaped into a beautiful finished story about someone you love.
Chapter I
Nadia taught at Bellfield for nineteen years. She walked to work past the allotments on Verney Lane.
According to Ivan, she was out of the house before he had his shoes on. She filled the green thermos the night before and left it by the door.
Sofia remembers a dent in the green thermos. It was not precious, Nadia said; it was just hers.
An example family, written by Recollective from example memories, to show how a Book reads.
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Memories, photographs and voice recordings from everyone who loved them.
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Many perspectives on the same life, with discoveries and connections the family can see.
Free
Enough of the story is gathered that it can become a written book.
$795
$795, once, when your family decides.
Everything gathered is organised into the material the Book will be written from.
Your family's own contributions are written into chapters as one continuous story.
You read the manuscript in full and can revise it. Nothing is approved without you.
Once your family approves the content, the story becomes your finished Book.
Manuscript creation and Book production are being rolled out with our founding families. We confirm materials, timing and delivery with each family directly rather than publishing specifications we haven't finalised.
The Painting and the Song are coming soon. They are not for sale yet, and we won't publish prices for them until they exist. The Painting · The Song
Yes. Creating a project, inviting your family and gathering memories, photographs and voice recordings costs nothing. No card is required to begin.
When your family decides to turn what you've gathered into the finished Book. That is the $795 Book, paid once.
No. This is not a 30-day trial. Your project does not expire and there is no countdown.
As many as belong in the story — children, siblings, partners, grandchildren, friends and colleagues.
Yes. Anyone in the project can bring in another voice, so the circle grows the way a family actually does.
Yes, and they are kept whole rather than cropped to fit a template.
Yes. A memory can be spoken instead of written; recordings are transcribed and kept with the story.
Yes. Ready to write is a signal, not a lock. Families often keep gathering after it appears.
It begins the transformation of everything your family has gathered into the finished Book, including the editorial review your family reads and revises.
No. There is no recurring charge and nothing to cancel.
Yes. A Recollective project is only visible to the people your family invites into it. Nothing is public.
Yes. Your family reads the full manuscript and can revise it before approving it.
Something we haven't answered? Write to us — a real person reads every message.
Bring together the people who remember, and decide about the Book once you can see what you're creating.