Your family's stories, in one place

Faces, recipes, photos and the stories behind them. Private to your family, and everyone you invite can look and add.

Free for your whole family during early access.

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A sample family. You ask Olive what Grandma Rosa put in her Sunday sauce, and get back Rosa Russo, your great-grandmother, with her own Sunday sauce recipe card, added by Aunt Maria. Tapping Rosa opens her page: 1931 to 2014, Naples to Pittsburgh, with memories from Frank, Maria and Kendahl.

A sample family

The whole family adds to it, and asks it

Other tools ask one person to write, or one researcher to build a tree. In Olive every recipe, photo and story belongs to someone in your family, everyone can add what they know, and anyone can ask.

What you'll keep

  • Family

    Who's who, and how you're related.

  • Recipes

    The Sunday sauce, before the card fades.

  • Keepsakes

    Letters, photos, the things they kept.

  • Memories

    What they said at the table. How they laughed.

How it works

  1. Start with your family

    Add yourself, then your parents and grandparents. A few names is enough.

  2. Invite them with a link

    Send it by text. They open it, see the family, and can add what they know.

  3. Add as you go

    Snap a recipe card or tell a story. Olive puts it on the right page.

Adding a recipe from a photo. You snap Grandma's Sunday sauce card, Olive reads it (2 cans San Marzano, 1 pork bone), says it goes on Recipes and on Rosa's page, and it is saved when you tap Save.

Ask from the chat you already use

Connect Olive to Claude, ChatGPT or Grok. Ask who someone is, find a recipe, or add a photo. Nothing is saved until you say so.

Olive in Claude. You write: Log Mommom's meatballs, here's a picture, with the photo attached. Olive answers that it got Mommom's meatballs from the picture and asks to save it to Recipes and her page. It is not saved until you click Save; then it is on Recipes and her page.

Private by design

  • Only your family

    Only people your family invites can see it. Every page needs a signed-in family member.

  • Never public, never sold

    No ads, and your information is never sold. Your tree never shows up in search results.

  • Faces chosen by hand

    Olive doesn't scan or recognize faces. A person picks each one.

  • Yours to keep

    Ask for a copy of everything at any time. If you ever stop paying, your family still sees it all.

A real person reads every email at hello@thisolive.com. Read the privacy page

Questions families ask

Does Grandma need to download an app?

No. She opens the link you send her, in the browser she already uses, and signs in with a code from her email. No password to remember.

Who can see our family?

Only the people your family invites. If you share a link to someone outside the family, they see a small preview: a name and a face for living relatives.

Can everyone add, or just me?

Everyone you invite can look and add what they know. Each memory shows who added it, and the person who runs your family can fix or undo a change.

What does it cost?

Nothing while Olive is in early access, for the whole family. We will tell you well before that changes.

Can I bring in my Ancestry tree?

Not on your own yet. It's what we're building next. For now, start with a few names and add as you go.

What happens to our stories if we leave?

Email us and we send a copy of everything to the person who runs your family. Ask us to delete it and we will, within 30 days.

Start with one story

Add yourself and a grandparent, then send the link to family. Free during early access. See pricing

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