HOW IT WORKS

How LifeLately works

Everything LifeLately does, in the order you'll meet it. Five short parts, about ten minutes to read.

PART 1

Catch it as it happens

The best time to keep a moment is while it's still happening. LifeLately is built to make that take seconds, wherever you are.

In the app

Tap +, say it in your own words, and add photos or a video. The date and place come from your photos.

Say it out loud

Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, talk, and look it over before it saves.

Text or email it

Send a moment to your LifeLately number or email address from anywhere, photos included.

One tap from anywhere

Widgets, Control Center and the Action Button open capture straight away. A gentle daily reminder, if you want one.

NEW MOMENTShe asked if the moon follows us home. We said yes.
Sep 30 · 8:12 PMMaya
IN THE APP
Listening… 0:07
SAY IT OUT LOUD
LifeLately
Pumpkin patch with the girls. Maya picked the lumpiest one.
Saved to your moments.
TEXT OR EMAIL IT
A moment from before
A year ago today
Record
Control Center
ONE TAP FROM ANYWHERE
PART 2

Let your camera roll suggest the rest

Most of life happens between the moments you remember to save. Proposed looks through your camera roll and gathers photos from the same afternoon or the same place into suggested moments.

You decide what stays

Open a suggestion, add a few lines in your own words, and save it. Or dismiss it. Nothing is saved until you say so.

Nothing twice

Photos already in a moment don't come back. If a few overlap, LifeLately offers to add the rest to the moment you already wrote.

From the people you know

When someone tags you in a moment, they can offer you their photos, ready to add to your own.

+2
Wednesday afternoonSep 23 · 12:10–12:40 PM · 5 photos
DismissWrite entry
PART 3

Turn moments into stories

One moment is a snapshot. A run of them is a story. Experiences gather your moments into the chapters of your life: a trip, a season, a first year.

Experiences

Start one for a trip or a milestone, or let LifeLately file each month for you.

Keepsakes that make themselves

Every experience grows three keepsakes on its own: Highlights, a Reel and a Book. Each unlocks as the story fills in, and you can edit any of them.

Told together

Invite the people who were there to add their own moments and photos.

Summer at the lakeJul 4 – Aug 18 · 38 moments · 4 people
HIGHLIGHTS
Summer at the lake
Six weeks, four of us, one dock. The summer Maya learned to swim without holding on.
THE FIRST SWIMShe counted to three twice before she let go.
HighlightsReady
×
CHAPTER 2 · THE DOCKEvery evening ended here, feet in the water.July 12 · Nana
ReelPublished
CHAPTER TWOThe dockEvery evening ended the same way: towels on the boards, feet in the water, Maya narrating the fish none of us could see.
July 12, the longest day of the trip.
BookReady
PART 4

Share it on your terms

Everything you save is yours alone until you decide otherwise.

Send a moment

Tap the paper plane to send a moment's photos and words straight to the family chat.

Publish a story

Publish an experience's keepsakes and share a link. Anyone can open it, no account needed, and you can take it down any time.

The Wall

See what you and your people have published, in one place.

Private stays private

Lock a moment and it never appears in a keepsake, a link or the Wall.

Kasner Family · Today 4:51 PM
G
How was the park??
1 of 3
Maya’s first time on the big slide. She went down eleven times and made me count every one.

Shared from LifeLately
Delivered
N
ELEVEN. She's fearless.
PART 5

Recording a legacy

Some stories are meant for someone else to keep. Make an account for your kid (or your dog) and their story starts writing itself.

Their story fills in

Every moment you tag them in is saved to their story, along with their other parent's.

Hand it over

When they're 13 or older, give them their account, on their birthday if you like, with a letter from each of you.

Theirs from then on

Their story becomes theirs. You can still look back on everything up to that day.

MA
Maya
13 · Your Kids
MAYA’S STORY
412moments· from you and Victoria · since 2013
Give Maya her account

Start keeping the moments that matter.

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