A photograph of a small boy seen from behind, facing Mount Rushmore, as the app’s own film shows it, with a name card reading Dad, Father.

The voices staywith the photographsthey belong to.

Gathertell is an app for your photographs: the stories behind them, told in your family’s own voices and played back as a film with each storyteller’s name on screen.

Watch the film

Now on the App Store and Google Play.

Gathertell is a private app for families and events: share photos and videos into a shared album, record voice and video stories on each picture, and turn them into narrated films.

  1. A print with a white border lying on the open page of an old album on a wooden table: a small boy seen from behind, facing Mount Rushmore.
  2. A print with a white border lying on the open page of an old album, a small boy seen from behind facing Mount Rushmore, and beside it the People page for Grandpa, framed as a phone: two typed questions, each with an Answer as Grandpa button, Ask Grandpa something, and a story with a photograph at Mount Rushmore as its thumbnail.
  3. The name card cuts on over the photograph as the app’s own film draws it: a name card reading Dad, Father.

The Photograph Stays.Gather everyone’s photos into one album.

Scan in the prints from the drawer, add the photos from everyone’s phones, and they sit together in one album the whole family can see.

An album screen, its prints in a grid: a small boy seen from behind facing Mount Rushmore, and an older man and a boy seen from behind at a railing above a canyon.

The Voice Stays With It.Hand them the phone.They tell it.

One photograph, one story, about as long as it takes to tell it at a table. Say it however it comes.

A print with a white border from the album: a small boy seen from behind, facing Mount Rushmore.
  • The page for a photograph at Mount Rushmore scrolls down to a voice named Dad, Father, heard from its own button, then one named Grandpa, Grandfather.

    Hear it in their own voice.Their words, their pauses.

The Name Stays On It.As it plays.Wherever you send it.

It plays with the sound off too: the captions light up word by word as they speak.

  • The app’s player on a photograph at Mount Rushmore: a name card reads Dad, Father, then Grandpa, Grandfather, while a caption line lights up word by word.

    Play the album as a film.One photograph after another.

The rest of it, screen by screen. Every screen, on one page

At a gathering

After the party.The album is still open.

Guests sign in and add their photos. It is in your Albums afterwards.

Who can see it.What it costs.How to get it.

Who can see our photographs?

Only the people you invite, and anyone you give a share link to. Albums are private to begin with. Each person you add gets a plain role, from look and listen up to full control, and you can change it, or turn a link off, at any time. Anyone with a film link can watch it in a browser, with no app and no account.

Does it recognize faces?

No. Nothing puts a name to a face. The app can tell where the faces are in a photograph and how many, so a film can frame them, and that is all it does with them. A person puts the names to the faces.

What does it cost?

The store shows the price of Plus or Family before you buy, and a plan renews until you turn renewal off in your store account.

How do we get it?

It is on the App Store and on Google Play.

How do we delete an account?

In the app, under Account, or at gathertell.com/delete-account. You have seven days to change your mind. Deleting your account does not cancel a plan you bought: turn renewal off in your store account.

Which phones does it work on?

iPhone and Android, side by side in the same album, so nobody needs a matching phone.

What if someone wants a recording taken down?

The album’s owner can delete any photograph or recording at any time. A person can also withdraw their consent, and their recordings stop being shown. Write to support@gathertell.com if you need help.

A print with a white border from the album: a small boy seen from behind, facing Mount Rushmore.

Start with one photograph.

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