Family Media. Not Social Media.

Your family's story deserves better than a camera roll.

Family Nest is a private space for the people you come home to. Journals, voice memos, letters, recipes, traditions. No ads. No algorithm. No performing for an audience.

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Family Journal

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Beach day with the whole crew

June 14

Catching our favourite sunset...

Grandma's birthday party

June 8

Four generations around one table. Made her famous...

First day of summer break

June 1

The look on their faces when we told them about the trip...

How it works

Up and running before your coffee gets cold

1

Create your Nest

Takes 30 seconds. Name it, pick how it looks, and you're in. No credit card required to start.

2

Add the people in your home

Your partner, your kids. That's your nest. Extended family can get updates without needing an account — more on that in a second.

3

Start writing. Seriously, just start.

One journal entry. One voice memo. One sentence. Future you will be embarrassingly grateful.

Start with your household. Expand if you want. Keep it yours either way.

Features

Everything your family will actually use

New

Feb 20, 2026 · Costa Rica

Huck's 1st Catch!

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Journal with Photos & Video

Write about trips, milestones, and the everyday chaos. Attach photos and short videos of the gems, not everything.

Family Map

Pin everywhere your family has been. Vacations, birthplaces, that roadside diner everyone still talks about. Watch your map fill up over the years.

3 Generations
Gma

Grandma

♥
Gpa

Gramps

Mom

Mom

♥
Dad

Dad

Em

Em

Jak

Jak

Sam

Sam

Family Tree

Map your whole crew. Every member gets a profile with photos, birthdays, and their place in the family story.

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Gramps reads The Night Before Christmas

3:42
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The boys sing Happy Birthday to Mom

0:18

2 recordings · family archive

Voice Memos

Mom singing bedtime songs. The kids' favourite sayings before they outgrow them. Voices you will want to hear again someday.

For Jamie, when the time is right

from your husband · sealed with love

🔒 Opens Dec 25, 2030

Time Capsules

Write a letter to your future self, your kids, or your partner. Seal it, set an unlock date, and try not to peek.

Through the Years
2022
Newborn
2023
1 year
2024
2 years
2025
3 years
4 years of memories

Baby Book

Five photos per year, every year. Watch your kids grow up in a timeline you'll never stop scrolling.

Free forever. No credit card needed.

Unlimited journal entries and 500 MB storage on the free plan. See all plans

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Fully Customizable

No two families are the same. Neither are their Nests.

Every feature in your Nest can be toggled on or off. Your family writes stories and saves recipes but doesn't care about artwork? Toggle it off. Your kids are obsessed with baseball? Turn on the Stadium Tour. You're mapping every concert you've ever been to? There's a feature for that too.

These are just a few. We're always adding more, and your Nest grows with you. What you see here is what one family chose. Yours will look completely different.

Your Nest only shows what you've chosen. Nothing extra. Nothing in the way.

Memories & Stories

📖

Stories

🍳

Recipes

🎤

Voice Memos

🎨

Artwork

👶

Baby Book

🏆

Trophy Case

✍️

One Line A Day

Adventures & Activities

⚾

MLB Stadium Tour

🏕️

National Parks

🎵

Concert Map

🌟

Bucket List

🎣

Fishing Map

❤️

Favourites

+ Traditions, Emergency Info, and more on the way

Who it's for

Not social media. Not a photo dump. Just your family's stuff.

For parents

They grow up faster than you think. Write it down.

The funny things they say at dinner. The first time they did something brave. The stuff you swore you'd remember. You won't. But your nest will.

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For couples

Your story started before the kids.

Document it like it matters. Because it does. Date nights, trips, inside jokes, the apartment before the house. All of it belongs somewhere.

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For growing families

More people, more memories, one place.

Everyone adds what they can, when they can. Nobody has to be the family archivist. The nest fills itself.

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For gift-givers

Better than a candle. We're allowed to say that.

Set up a Nest, add some photos, wrap the login on a card. One-time purchase. No subscription for them to manage. The Legacy plan is built for this.

See the gift plan→

Built for real families

Feels like an app. No install required.

Family Nest is mobile-first and works in any browser. Add it to your home screen. Grandparents included.

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The Thompsons

12

entries

4

members

38

photos

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Beach day

June 14

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Grandma's birthday

June 8

📸

Summer break!

June 1

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Our Story

Built for my own family first. Opened for yours.

I'm not a journaler. Never have been. Too much setup, not enough payoff, and the second you fall behind it starts to feel like homework. The consistency thing is what gets you. Miss a few days and suddenly you're in debt to a notebook. And carrying one around everywhere? That never stuck either. At least before everything went digital there was some charm to the idea of it. Now it just feels like one more thing to keep track of.

But there were things I didn't want to lose. Jodi sings a song to the boys every night before bed. My grandfather recorded himself reading The Night Before Christmas, same voice, every single year. My dad and I have been chasing MLB stadiums together for as long as I can remember. My kids say things at dinner I swear I'll remember. I don't. I also always wanted a map of everywhere our family has lived, traveled, and called home.

None of it had one place to live. Group chats bury it. Facebook isn't private. Individual apps do one thing. Nothing held all of it together, for just us, without an audience.

So I built it. First for my own family. Then realized it wasn't just us.

One private place for the journals, photos, voice memos, maps, recipes, and stories that would otherwise disappear. No ads. No algorithm. Just your family.

Bank-level encryption
Privacy-first design
Your data, always yours
Encrypted at rest and in transit

I don't show ads. Ever. Not even tasteful ones.

I don't sell your data. I don't 'anonymize' it and sell it. I don't even look at it. It's yours.

No algorithm. No ads. No one deciding what your family sees.

Permanent, not disappearing stories

Built for your household first. Share outward on your terms.

You don't have to move everything at once. Start with what matters most. The rest can come over time.

Privacy

The part where most apps would say “we take your privacy seriously”

We could say that. But you've read that sentence from companies who were actively selling your search history, so it doesn't mean much anymore.

Here's what we actually do: Your photos stay yours. We don't train AI on them. We don't show you ads. We don't build a profile on your family. There's no “free tier that's actually you being the product.” The free tier is just... free.

If that sounds like a low bar, you're right. But apparently someone had to clear it.

A lot of apps are learning this the hard way right now. We built it this way from day one.

Not the same thing

Family media. Not social media.

Social media is great for connecting with the world. Family Nest is for something different.

Social Media
Family Nest

Who can see your content

Anyone. The world. Strangers.

Only the family members you invite.

What controls what you see

An algorithm optimizing for your attention.

Chronological. What your family added. That's it.

Why it was built

To keep you on the platform as long as possible.

To help you remember what matters.

How it makes money

Ads. Powered by your family's data and behavior.

Subscriptions. Your data is never for sale.

Your kids

Exposed to strangers, algorithms, and advertisers.

Seen only by family. No exceptions.

What happens to your memories

Buried in a feed. Gone in 24 hours. Or deleted when the platform decides.

Permanent. Searchable. Yours to export anytime.

Loved by families

Here's how families are using it

For the parents building it, the kids growing up in it, and the moments worth keeping.

Stories represent typical customer experiences.

“As a mom, it’s everything I want for my kids, saved in one place.”
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Jodi T.

Mom · Kelowna, BC

“I set up the Nest, uploaded 20 years of our favourite family photos, invited everyone, and wrapped the login on a card. My mom cried. My wife said it was the best gift I’d ever given. It cost less than a large bouquet of flowers.”
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Daniel R.

Dad & Nest creator · Portland, OR

“We tried a family group chat. Then a shared album. Then nothing stuck. The Nest is the first thing everyone actually uses. Even my dad, who still calls it ‘the family website.’ He checks it every morning.”
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Claire & Tom B.

Parents of four · Austin, TX

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Pricing

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  • 500 MB storage
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For families ready to go all in

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  • Unlimited entries
  • 5 GB storage (add more anytime)
  • Videos & voice memos
  • All core features
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The Legacy

Founding Family rate. Goes to $349 after Mother’s Day.

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  • Lifetime access. No subscription, ever
  • 10 GB storage (add more anytime)
  • Hand it down to the next generation
  • Full data export
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Your memories are always yours. Every plan includes full data export . We never hold your family's history hostage.

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