Our house, with the sun on the wrong side on purpose.
Where it is now
A year of their life, kept in three places that lose it.
- The kitchen counterUntil the pile gets too tall and most of it goes in the recycling.
- Your camera rollSomewhere between a parking receipt and forty screenshots.
- The school's appIt belongs to the school, and so does the decision about how long it stays.
You already do the hard part, which is noticing and taking the photo. Nothing turns those photos into a record of what your child made and did this year.
How it works
Three steps. You do the first one.
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Pick
Choose about twenty photos from your camera roll. That is all Chapter asks of you. Importing from a school app is planned, and founding families will test it first.
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Draft
Chapter sorts everything by date and by kind: made, played, baked, hiked, travelled. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence it drafts a short caption on the device, and it always leaves room for your child's own words.
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Keep
Correct anything that is wrong and the chapter is finished. Chapters live on your iPhone. Optional sync uses your own private iCloud — there is no Chapter account.
Through the year
Monthly first. Then the year.
- MonthlyA 15-second recap of the month, to watch together or send to family. This ships first.
- YearlyThe chapter: everything you kept, in date order, with a PDF edition to print or send.
- WeeklyA 15-second recap of the week, when the week has enough in it. Planned after monthly.
Chapter builds recaps on your iPhone while it charges. If it didn't get the chance, it catches up when you open the app. A quiet month makes no recap, and nobody is told they missed one.
Promises
Four promises, written before the app.
Your originals stay yours.
In the app, they stay on your iPhone. If you turn on sync, it uses your own private iCloud. There is no Chapter account, and Chapter holds no copy it could keep from you.
Leaving costs nothing.
Export every piece with its caption and date in one step. Delete the app, and everything stays exactly where it is.
No AI company sees your child's work.
In the app, sorting, recaps and AI captions run on your iPhone. In the app, your child's photos and words are not sent to Chapter or to any AI company.
No ads, no feed, no streaks.
Chapter will not sell you mugs between photos, and it will not remind you to post. It opens when you have something to add.
Why these four. Before designing anything we read one- and two-star reviews of family photo, keepsake and calendar apps. What made parents angriest was losing access to their own memories, ads inside a paid product, and children's photos being sent to AI services.
The chapter
A finished page, on the phone.
- Dated and in orderEach moment carries its date and its kind: made, played, baked, hiked, travelled.
- Their words beside yoursA caption can be what your child said about it, in their exact words.
- Every line is editableChapter drafts. You decide what the record says.
- One chapter per child, per yearShort enough to read with them at the end of the school year.
Example only — made for this page. The photos are generated, not from a real family.
The price
Joining is free. Pricing comes later.
Joining the founding list is free. What chapters, recaps, saving and exporting will cost at launch is still being planned — nothing here locks a price.
Later we plan to offer an optional paid package that helps children learn and build. Whatever that becomes, the plan is that chapters you already made stay yours and editable.
Questions
Before you join.
What do I get for joining the founding list?
An email when a place opens. The first twelve families send about twenty photos and get a finished chapter back, then spend twenty minutes telling us what was useful and what was not. Those founding photos go only to the owner, solely to build that family's chapter by hand, and are deleted 30 days after the chapter is delivered.
Does a person see my photos?
For the twelve founding chapters, yes — only the owner, to build that family's chapter by hand. Photos are deleted 30 days after the chapter is delivered; you can also ask sooner. In the app, no person sees them.
What does it cost?
Joining the founding list is free. Launch pricing for chapters and recaps is still being planned. A paid package to help children learn and build may come later, and it would be optional.
What does Chapter collect?
The founding-list form on this site stores only the email you enter. In the app, v1 sends no usage analytics and never your child's work, words or name.
Who is it for?
Parents of elementary-age children whose year is scattered across a camera roll. It works for one child or several, with a separate chapter for each.
Is it only for artwork?
No. Anything you photographed counts: what they made, baked and played, and where they hiked and travelled. Books, films and music may follow once we know parents want to add them.
Is there an Android version?
No. Chapter is being built for iPhone first. Chapters live on the phone; optional sync uses your private iCloud.
When does it launch?
There is no date. We will set one after the founding chapters, once we know what families actually used.