A 4-inch AI device that sits next to your TV. Plug it in once. It pulls your year of phone footage over local wifi and renders watchable family films straight to your screen. No cloud. No subscription. No app rituals.
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First film in 7 days of setup
30-day return · Free shipping
Processed in your house · never our servers
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Apple-class NPUOn-device AI
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4K HDMI 2.1Direct to TV
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Why this matters
Your kid's childhood is buried in your camera roll.
How many photos did you take of your kid this year? Roughly. Three or four a day, plus the holiday and birthday bursts — easily ten thousand a year. Hundreds of video clips on top.
But how many have you genuinely sat down and watched? Probably under twenty. Ninety-plus percent of what you captured will sleep in your camera roll forever, and never be opened again.
It's not that you don't love your kid. The tools are failing you:
Apple Memories stitches a few reels you can't tell a story from — you swipe past them.
iMovie has a project file titled "Kids 2025" that you started once and never opened again.
Tinybeans wants you to scroll back three months and upload twenty things you forgot to add. CapCut has fourteen drafts. None finished.
The day your child turns 18 and asks "what was I like as a little kid?" — what you'll actually pull up is the same six photos you've shown everyone for years. The rest of their childhood lives somewhere in your phone, in a place you'll never go back to. Another app won't fix that. A piece of hardware that does the work for you might.
The Memo Box
One device. One setup. The rest is yours forever.
Three cables and three minutes is the entire installation. Power. HDMI to your TV. Local wifi. Pair with your iPhone once.
From then on the box runs on its own. It pulls moments worth keeping from your camera roll over your home network, shapes them into a story arc with pacing and music, and renders films straight to your TV. You confirm under 5% per film from your phone — that's it.
Last week of every December, an annual film of your year is waiting on your TV. Your photos never left your house.
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Monthly recap
First week, every month
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Trip film
After every trip
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Birthday film
Every birthday
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Annual film
Every December 31
Why a box, not an app
Six things only a box can do
Dedicated AI silicon
A neural processor sized for video understanding lives inside the box — not borrowed from a phone, not rented from a cloud. Multi-year face continuity, scene grading, and emotional pacing run on hardware purpose-built for this and nothing else.
Air-gapped from our cloud
The box only ever connects to the internet for software updates and license checks. Your photos travel from your phone to the box over your local wifi and stay there. There is no cloud copy. We could not exfiltrate your data even if we wanted to.
Plug in once. Forget about it.
After three minutes of setup, the box runs on its own clock. Monthly recap. Post-trip. Every birthday. Year-end annual. You don't open an app, don't tap anything daily, don't write reminders. The box does.
4K HDMI direct to your TV
December annual plays straight onto your living-room TV — no AirPlay setup, no streaming app, no buffering. The cable from the box to your TV is the entire interface. Dolby surround on supported sets.
Quiet · runs 24/7
Sub-25 dB top fan. Cool to the touch even after a four-hour render. Designed to live on a shelf next to your TV, on all the time, the way a router does — but without the LEDs you wish you could turn off.
2-year warranty · 7+ years of updates
Hardware covered for 2 years (parts + labor). Software supported for at minimum 7 years — published commitment, not marketing line. After year 2, repair pricing is published before you buy. We will swap a refurbished unit before yours fails.
How it works
Three steps to your first family film.
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Plug in the Memo Box
Power, HDMI, wifi — three cables, three minutes. Pair with your iPhone via the FamilyMemo app, once.
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First film in 7 days
The box scans your camera roll over local wifi, picks the moments worth remembering, and renders a film you'd be proud to send your parents.
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From there, it just arrives
Monthly. Post-trip. Every birthday. Every December annual. Films land on your TV automatically — under 5% confirmation per film.
First 100 boxes
In the homes of the first 100 families
Real testimonials replace these placeholders after the December 2026 pilot closes. Below are illustrative examples only.
⚠ Placeholder testimonials · Replace with real pilot-cohort quotes after December 2026
"I plugged it in once. Eight months later I haven't had to think about it — and somehow it's made the best films of my kid I've ever seen."
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38 · Brooklyn · Mom of two · Box set up 8 months
"My partner cried at the December film. The fact that nothing left our house — that mattered to us as much as the film itself."
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35 · London · Dad of one · Box set up 12 months
"For $499 once, I stopped feeling guilty every December that I hadn't made anything. The box made it for me."
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33 · Toronto · Mom of one · Box set up 6 months
Frequently asked
Answers, before you ask
Is there a subscription? Hidden fees? Anything recurring?
No. The Memo Box is a one-time purchase. $499, you own it forever. Software updates included for the life of the device — at minimum 7 years. No subscriptions, no in-app upsells, no advertising. We make money once when you buy, and that's the whole business.
How big is it? Where do I put it?
Roughly 4 inches per side — about the size of a stack of coffee coasters. Sits beside your TV or on a shelf. Top-mounted fan stays under 25 dB (quieter than a refrigerator). Runs cool enough to leave on 24/7.
How does it actually see my photos? Is it sending them somewhere?
It pulls from your iPhone over your local home wifi — same network only. Your photos travel from your phone to the box and stay there. The box has internet for software updates and license verification only; it never uploads your photos to us, ever. You can verify by checking your router's traffic log.
Apple Memories is free and built into my iPhone. Why pay $499?
Apple Memories shows you a few photos from last Tuesday — how many of those have you re-watched? For most parents the answer is zero. The Memo Box gives you the year your daughter learned to ride a bike — edited like a film, on a dedicated piece of silicon that does nothing else, in a privacy posture Apple cannot give you because their business model is different from ours. (Tom's Guide on Apple Memory Movies: "hasn't gotten smarter since launch.")
Can the AI actually understand my family's story?
Watch a sample film and decide. 30-day return window from delivery — full refund, no questions. Pre-paid return shipping in the box. We use the product to prove the product.
What if it breaks? Warranty?
2-year manufacturer warranty (parts + labor). 30-day return window for any reason. After year 2, repair pricing published before you buy — we'll quote and ship a refurbished swap unit before yours fails. Free software updates for at minimum 7 years.
What about Android, or kids older than 12?
First-batch units pair with iOS. Android pairing ships as a free firmware update in 2027. Older-kid mode (teen-friendly framing, less child-character recognition) ships in the same update. Pre-orders today get both updates the day they release.
Your 2026 family film starts here.
First film delivered within 7 days of setup, or full refund.
All processing in your house — your photos never train AI.
30-day return window · free shipping in launch countries.