The Memo Box · One-time purchase · Ships Q1 2027

20,000 photos of your kid.
None you'll rewatch.

A small 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.

First film in 7 days of setup 30-day return · Free shipping Processed in your house · never our servers
The Memo Box — a compact AI device with a top fan, side ventilation, and ports for Thunderbolt, USB, HDMI, and Ethernet
Intel N100 Efficient compute
16 GB RAM Headroom for AI
256 GB SSD System storage
2 TB+ Family library
HDMI to TV Movie night ready
Local-only Stays in your home

Pre-order coverage in family + tech newsletters across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia

Press logos are placeholders — replace before launch with confirmed mentions
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.

01
Monthly recap
First week, every month
02
Trip film
After every trip
03
Birthday film
Every birthday
04
Annual film
Every December 31
Why a box, not an app

Six things only a box can do

Dedicated home compute

Intel N100 with 16 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD plus 2 TB+ family library — quiet, efficient hardware sized for everyday family video work. Multi-year face continuity, scene grading, and emotional pacing run locally on hardware that does 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.

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.

Quiet · runs 24/7

Whisper-quiet fan. Cool to the touch even after long rendering sessions. 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.

Built to last · long-term updates

Hardware covered by warranty out of the box. Free software updates planned for the long haul — final terms published before you order. We will swap a refurbished unit before yours fails.

How it works

Three steps to your
first family film.

01

Plug in the Memo Box

Power, HDMI, wifi — three cables, three minutes. Pair with your iPhone via the FamilyMemo app, once.

02

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.

03

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."

A·M
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."

J·H
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."

L·R
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 long haul. 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?
Compact — sits comfortably on a shelf or beside your TV. Built on the same private-home compute platform as Immich Appliance: Intel N100, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, 2 TB+ for the family library. Whisper-quiet fan, 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?
Manufacturer warranty included out of the box (parts + labor). 30-day return window for any reason. Final warranty term and repair pricing published before pre-orders ship — we'll quote and ship a refurbished swap unit before yours fails. Free software updates for the long haul.
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.
Reserve the Memo Box · $499
$499 one-time · No subscription · Free software updates included · Ships Q1 2027