How we compare with StoryWorth, Remento and Meminto

Checked 2 November 2026 against the companies’ own pages, listed at the foot. Prices and plans change; where theirs have, tell us at hello@ayearofstories.com and we will correct this page. We name no winner: every line is what each of us does, and where they do more, it says so.

StoryWorth and Remento are good products that have printed a great many books. We made a few different choices. Here they are side by side, then in words.

	A Year of Stories	StoryWorth	Remento
Price and renewal	$99, paid once. Never renews. The launch price for the first 250 families; then $119.	$69 Basic, $99 Color, $199 Unlimited; Unlimited renews at $99 a year.¹	$99; renews at $99 a year or $12 a month after the first year.²
Try it before buying	Yes. Answer one question yourself and the chapter is in your inbox within the hour.	No trial; a 30-day money-back guarantee.¹²	No trial; a sample recording to listen to, and a 30-day guarantee.¹³
How they answer	Voice note or typing, on the weekday and at the pace they choose.	Typing on every plan, phone recording on the higher ones; questions arrive on Mondays.⁵	Audio or video.⁴
Who checks the words	Software drafts under one rule, fix spelling and flow and add nothing; then a person reads every chapter against the transcript.	No review or editing before printing.⁶	Speech-to-Story: a cleaned transcript or a restructured narrative, which the family edits.⁷
Follow-up questions	Two or three with every question; one follow-up email after a short answer.	Automatic follow-ups in Magic Interviews, on the Unlimited plan.⁸	One follow-up generated from each recording.⁹
Who makes the book	We lay out, check and print it; the family reads a preview and says yes.	The family reviews a PDF proof and orders within three months of the year ending.¹⁰	Not checked.
Before they say yes	Nothing is sent, and we never phone or text. A gift card printed at home, or an invitation emailed on the morning you choose.	A scheduled email or a printable card.	A scheduled email or a printable card.
Refund	In full within 60 days of buying or 30 days after the first question, whichever is later; a year while a gift is unaccepted.	30-day money-back guarantee while no book has been printed.	30-day guarantee.
The book	6 × 9 inch hardcover, up to 480 pages, photographs in black and white.	Color: up to 300 colour pages ($99). Basic: up to 480 black-and-white pages ($69).¹	8 × 10 inches, full colour, up to 200 pages included.¹¹
Recordings	Kept, playable and downloadable; a code under each recorded chapter, when the storyteller chooses it.	Kept; a code in the book.	Kept; a code in the book.
Phone and video	Email only; audio in the browser, or typing. We never call.	Recording by phone, including from a landline, on the higher plans.	A phone-call option; video as well as audio.
Since	2026. No families to speak for us yet, so the promises are the proof.	2013; more than a million books printed; tens of thousands of reviews.	More than a million stories recorded; on Shark Tank.

The small numbers point to the sources at the foot of the page. Meminto, the other one-time purchase, is in the notes below where we checked it.

Give a year of stories · $99 Try one question

What we chose

One price, paid once, nothing renews. $99 for one storyteller, one year of questions and one hardcover; no tiers and no renewal. StoryWorth’s plans were $69, $99 and $199, the last renewing yearly at $99¹; Remento was $99 and renews after the first year²; Meminto is also a one-time purchase, from $99³.

Try it first. Answer one of our questions yourself, by talking or typing, and the chapter comes back to your inbox within the hour, labelled as the machine’s first draft. Neither StoryWorth nor Remento offers a trial; both offer a 30-day guarantee^{12, 13}.

Talk or type, on the day they pick. Our storyteller answers by voice note or by typing and chooses the weekday and the pace. Remento takes audio or video⁴. StoryWorth sends on Mondays and the weekday cannot be changed; typed answers are on every plan, phone recording on the higher ones⁵.

A person reads every chapter. Software turns the recording into text and makes the first draft under one rule: fix spelling and flow, add nothing. Then a person reads the chapter against a word-for-word transcript before it goes in the book. StoryWorth says it does not review or edit books before printing⁶. Remento’s Speech-to-Story offers a cleaned transcript or a restructured narrative that the family can edit⁷.

Follow-up questions are included. Every one of our 52 questions carries two or three, and a short answer gets one follow-up email two days later. StoryWorth’s automatic follow-ups are part of Magic Interviews, on its Unlimited plan⁸. Remento generates one follow-up from each recording⁹.

We make the book. At the end of the year we lay out, check and print it; the family reads a preview and says it looks right. StoryWorth’s family reviews a PDF proof and orders the book within three months of the year ending¹⁰. Meminto offers a paid layout check ($49) and approval before printing³.

Nothing is sent until the storyteller says yes, and we never phone or text them. The gift card prints at home the minute you order, or we email the invitation on the morning you choose; StoryWorth and Remento offer a scheduled email and a printable card as well.

The hard cases are in writing. A full refund within 60 days of buying or 30 days after the first question, whichever is later; a year from purchase while a gift is unaccepted; if a storyteller stops, the book still prints with everything told; if a storyteller dies, the questions stop that day and the book prints at no cost, or you are refunded in full if they had not yet said yes. StoryWorth offers a 30-day money-back guarantee as long as no book has been printed; Remento a 30-day guarantee.

Where they do more

Colour and size. Our book is 6 × 9 inches with photographs in black and white. Remento prints an 8 × 10 inch book in full colour, up to 200 pages included¹¹. StoryWorth Color prints up to 300 colour pages for $99; Basic prints up to 480 black-and-white pages for $69¹.

Years in the market. StoryWorth has printed more than a million books since 2013 and shows tens of thousands of reviews; Remento has recorded more than a million stories and was on Shark Tank. We started in 2026, and we would rather say so: until there are families to speak for us, our promises are the proof.

Phone calls and video. StoryWorth’s higher plans include recording by phone, including from a landline, and Remento sells a phone-call option and records video as well as audio. We send email, and our storyteller records in the browser or types; we never call, and we record audio.

The same, or close

Weekly questions by email; a library the family can swap questions from or add their own; photographs added through the year; each chapter shared with the family as it is finished; recordings kept, playable and downloadable; a code in the book that plays the recording (ours is printed when the storyteller chooses it; StoryWorth, Remento and Meminto print one too).