Record their stories without writing a word
Record your mother’s or father’s life story with an AI interviewer. Keep that voice, and every word.
Try a free interview nowFree, 5 minutes, on your phone. No account, no card. Jaribu kwa Kiswahili
Record your mother’s or father’s life story with an AI interviewer. Keep that voice, and every word.
Try a free interview nowFree, 5 minutes, on your phone. No account, no card. Jaribu kwa Kiswahili
Pick from two hundred questions written to walk a whole life, or add the ones only your family would know to ask. Yours get asked first.
A link arrives on WhatsApp. One tap, and the interviewer asks — in Kiswahili, Dholuo, Gikuyu or English. No app, no account, no typing.
Every answer comes back in your parent’s own voice, with the words written underneath. Download all of it, whenever you like.
Answer three questions by voice and hear how the interviewer listens — and follows up on the part you linger on. Five minutes on your own phone, then decide whether to hand it to your mother.
Free. No account, no card, nothing to install.
Every answer becomes a chapter in one album — the voice, the words, and a link the whole family can open on any phone, forever.
Exactly as it was told — the pauses, the laugh, the way she says your name.
Every word written down and searchable, so a name from 1974 is never lost again.
Open it in twenty years and it is still there. Download the audio and the words whenever you like — nothing to renew, nothing to lose.
“Tell me about the place you grew up.”
We lived by the river. In the mornings my mother would send me down with the tin, and the water was so cold it made your hands ache…
Start with childhood, work, love, or whatever your mother or father feels like talking about. These questions open the conversation; the interviewer follows up on the answers. Your parent can skip any question.
One life story.
Five dollars. Once.
$5≈ KES 650/ per story
Enter your email to start. After payment, we’ll send your interview link within a day.
Pay securely by card through Stripe.
KES 650 is the same price everyone pays — about $5, in shillings. Send it by M-Pesa, then give us the confirmation code — a person checks it and sends your interview link within a day.
No card needed, and nothing is charged in dollars. Your usual M-Pesa Send Money fee applies.
No. Kumbukumbu is something you buy for your family: $5 to record one parent's story. Your parent pays nothing and is not paid to take part.
One person recorded: the whole interview however long it runs, the audio, every word transcribed, in any language on the list. One payment, no subscription.
Open the link on your own phone and sit next to her while she talks. There is nothing to install and nothing for her to type.
Choose Kiswahili, Gikuyu, Dholuo, Luhya, English, Somali or another available language during setup. The interviewer asks questions and follows up in the language you choose for your parent.
Yes. Read all 200 questions below.
Yes. Try the free three-question interview on your own phone, in English or Kiswahili, to hear how it works.
Yes. The link picks up where she stopped, so two questions on a Sunday afternoon is enough. There is no time limit.
