Hear your
grandmother's words
again.
Scan old letters, journals, and postcards. LivesLived reads the handwriting, even faded, messy cursive, and brings it to life. Listen to their words read aloud, explore the people and places, and pass the story on.
Currently available for iPhone and iPad.
How It Works
From a box of old letters to a story you can hear
Snap a photo
Point your iPhone at any letter, journal page, or postcard. That's it.
Watch it come to life
LivesLived reads even the messiest cursive — faded ink, old paper, 200-year-old script. In seconds, you have a clean transcription.
Hear their words
Listen to letters read aloud. Ask questions about what's in them. See every person, place, and date on a map. Share it all with family.
What You Can Do
Everything in that box of letters, unlocked.
You've kept their letters all these years. Now you can finally read every word, hear them aloud, and share them with people who care.
Read It
Built specifically for historical documents — the kind of handwriting that scanners and off-the-shelf apps choke on.
Reads handwriting that nobody in the family can decipher. Faded ink, old cursive, aged paper — it handles what other tools can't.
Original
My Dearest Margaret, I write to you from the front porch of our little house on Elm Street...
Transcribed
My Dearest Margaret, I write to you from the front porch of our little house on Elm Street...
Hear It
Generate narration for a single page or an entire journal. Send it to siblings, cousins, your kids.
Listen to your grandmother's letter like she's reading it to you. Choose from multiple voices. Share the audio with family.
Ask It
It understands context across everything you've scanned — connections you'd miss reading one letter at a time.
Who is Margaret? What happened in 1943? Ask questions and get answers straight from the letters.
Know Them
Names, places, and events are pulled from every document and linked together across your whole collection.
Every person, place, and date — found automatically and connected. See how the people in your family's letters relate to each other.
Map It
Every place mentioned in your documents is found and plotted on an interactive map.
See where the letters were written, where the people traveled, where the story happened. Your family's history, on a map.
Those letters won't last forever.
Neither will the memories.
LivesLived is on the App Store. Scan a letter tonight and hear it read aloud in your hands.
Free to start · iPhone and iPad · No account needed to scan your first pages
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