Storyworth
4.2 • 76 Reviews
Storyworth offers personalized storybooks as a way to preserve memories and experiences.
4.2
Storyworth earns largely positive reviews for helping people capture life stories through weekly prompts and producing handsome, sturdy hardcovers with clear photos, while critiques flag lapses in emails, rigid editing/layout tools, and occasional customer-service and policy frustrations. Reviews indicate the brand works when users commit to the process—memories flow, books impress—but weaknesses include clunky formatting, limited customization, and issues like expired subscriptions, draft exclusions, and misprints.
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5mo ago
I received this product as a gift. Signed up, got my security information and wrote answers to several questions. Never received any follow emails with "new" questions to answer. Didn't even receive anything other than promotional emails asking me to sign up or give a gift to a friend. No way to contact what they call "customer service". Very frustrating - DO NOT buy or give this product as a gift !!!!!
2y ago
For some time, I had contemplated writing a history of my life. I wanted to leave a record of my existence for my kids and grandchildren. I wanted this and I was motivated to do it, but I really didn’t know where to begin…until my daughter gave me the gift of Storyworth! Storyworth presented me with an opportunity to tell my story in a unique and impactful way. Instead of a chronological recitation of events, the weekly Storybook “questions” caused me to focus on topics that allowed me to truly reveal those experiences in my life that shaped me as a person. These were things my kids wanted to know but also things that I wanted them to know…things like my religious beliefs, things like my successes and failures, things like my philosophy of life, things about my work experiences, things about my relationships and the people I love, etc. It was more about the ingredients that made me who I am and not about dates and places. Each week, the stories took me about an hour or two to write. Honestly, I couldn’t wait to get the weekly question on Monday! The questions caused me to be very introspective and I feel that , by writing on these questions, I have grown as an individual. I received my books last week. I ordered the color version ( which I highly recommend!). I purchased four copies for the important people in my life! The book is professionally printed and bound. I am proud of the book of my “Reflections “ that I wrote and that Storybook helped me produced. I feel comforted knowing that I had an opportunity to explain, in my own words, my life’s story.
2y ago
The program was very easy to use, and the structure, answering one question a week for a year, allowed me to complete my life stories that I otherwise would have never started. I am delighted with the final product, the coloured photos, hard cover and design look better than I expected.
2y ago
I just received my book from Storyworth and I love it! It is professionally made, very sturdy, and it even feels good to the touch! I especially love the book design and color options, and also the ability to choose the size and shape of the cover photo. In December of 2022, our youngest daughter gave me a gift subscription to Storyworth as a Christmas gift. So, for the previous 15 months, I’ve been busy writing and editing, primarily using my blog for the bulk of my content. Storyworth gives you a year and three months to finish writing the book, so I took advantage of the whole allotted time and submitted mine just a couple days before it was due! My book is based on my life story, my family, and my journey of faith. It has 65 chapters and 480 pages, which is the maximum amount of pages allowed. After I finish proofreading my first copy of the book, I’m planning on ordering several copies to give to my kids and grandkids. If you’ve ever considered writing a book, I recommend Storyworth. They send you interesting questions each week to help spark memories which, combined with a little inspiration, help you put your memories into words. While I primarily used my blog to write my book, I used one of their questions to inspire me to write a story about all of the great cooks in my family. It’s titled, “What’s Cooking?!” It’s one of the longest stories in my book, and includes recipes and treasured photos of my grandma, my mom, my sister, my daughters, grandkids, and my mother-in-law. While I love all of my stories in my book, this chapter is very special to me.
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Storyworth offers personalized storybooks as a way to preserve memories and experiences.
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Storyworth is committed to the belief that everyone has a story worth sharing. Storyworth helps people remember, write about, and publish their life memories. You can think of it like a conversation: each week, Storyworth sends the writer a question that's chosen by themselves or a loved one. The writer simply responds to that question over email. After a year, those stories are bound into a beautiful keepsake book. Nick and Krista Baum launched StoryWorth in 2013. Nick had been trying to record his Dad’s stories for years, without much success. One day, he had the idea to email him a single question each week – certainly one email response a week wasn’t too much to ask. Now their family has hundreds of pages of his stories that they’ll be able to enjoy for years to come. Along the way, they’ve turned this personal project into a thriving business that has helped other families record millions of their own stories.
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