AFTERTicked one? This is for you.
1Pick who to ask
2They tap a text and talk
3It becomes a book you can play
NOVAVO“My mom won't type, but she'll talk. NOVAVO texted her one question about how she met Dad and she answered out loud for six minutes. We played it for the kids. She laughed at her own story the whole way through.”
Karen, saved her mom's stories
My mom passed away when I was young. It has been 15 years.
I have one video of her, filming my sister and me skating. She is not in the frame, but you can hear her laugh and talk to us on the ice.
I still cry when I hear it. Happy tears.
Sondre, founder of NOVAVO
If they never talk, you get every cent back.
I told Karen I had nothing to tell. Then her first question came: what was the kitchen like on Elm Street. I pressed the red button and talked for twenty minutes about my mother’s pie safe. It’s like talking to my daughter on the phone, except now she gets to keep it.
I gave Mom a guided journal three Christmases ago and she wrote two pages. Two. NOVAVO sent her "how did you and Dad meet" on a Tuesday night and by Wednesday lunch I had eleven minutes of her laughing about a dance hall in Dayton. She's answered nine since and I haven't had to chase her once.
Grandpa always said his life was farm, army, plant, done. Then I asked what his dad was like. Forty minutes later I learned he drove a truck across Germany at nineteen. My mom cried listening.
My dad calls me to turn the TV on. I figured this would be a disaster. He tapped my text, pressed the big button and talked for six minutes about his first job at the Woolworth’s counter. Then he called to ask if it "went through." It went through.
I got burned by one of these services before, charged for a second year I never asked for. Here I paid $99 once, and that was it. Nothing renews. I emailed about adding my stepmom and a real person wrote back the same day. One star off only because I want the printed book already, but Dad's still going.
Mom ignored the first question for almost three weeks and I was about to ask for the refund. Then she sent four answers in one weekend, including the day I was born, which I had never heard from her side. Her link never expired so it didn't matter that she was slow. She goes at her own pace now and I let her.
I didn’t want Nana thinking something was wrong. So I asked, "what did you and your sister get in trouble for." She loved it. Now she texts me "got another one for me?"
My mother lives in Ahmedabad. Her English is fine, but her stories are in Gujarati, so that’s how she tells them. I sent the question by text. She just pressed the button. My husband translates for the kids at dinner. It’s our Sunday thing.
I’d recorded Dad for years and couldn’t find half of it. Now every answer sits in his book, in order of his life. We gave him the printed copy at his 83rd. My nephew scanned the QR code on the Korea story and the whole table went quiet.
Add the storyteller and choose the pace. The questions go out on their own.
No app, no login. Just their voice, the way they tell it.
It puts each story in a chapter, then asks the next question.
No files to email around. The whole family listens free on their own phones.
| What you get | NOVAVO | Story services | Voice memos |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay once, nothing renews | ✓ | ✕Costs again every year | ✓ |
| Up to 10 people | ✓ | ✕Usually 1 person | ✕ |
| Their voice on every page | ✓ | ✕Only on some plans | ✕Gone with the old phone |
My mom passed away when I was young. It's been 15 years now.
Her voice was the first thing I forgot. It was like a defeat. It's when I realised she was actually gone.
I have this one video. I still cry when I hear it. Not because I’m sad, but because I remember her. I can feel her again. She laughs, she is just her. She is here, and I feel like she is never leaving me again.
I built NOVAVO for that video. Someone you love is still here. Keep their voice.
Sondre, founderWe print it and ship it to you. One day your kids scan a story and hear them tell it.
Basic gets 1 hardcover. Share gets 2.
In the printed hardcover, with Basic and Share.
Most story services charge you again every year. NOVAVO is one payment, and nothing renews.
Thanksgiving is the 26th. Miss this table, and the next one is a year away.
If they can open a text, yes. They tap the link, press one big button and talk. No app, no typing, no password.
Writing feels like homework. Talking doesn’t. They just answer out loud, and it goes into their book.
Nobody stands over him. He taps a text and talks when he’s ready.
We remind them, so you never have to chase. What they’ve told is already in the book.
Every story is saved the second they send it, in their own voice. Download everything, free, any time.
No. You pay once. Nothing renews.
Yes. Record up to 10 people on one plan, each with their own book.
When their book is ready, tap "Print it" in the app and we ship the hardcover to your door.