Fablr

How Fablr works

How Fablr Turns Voice Conversations Into a Book

What happens between the first question and the printed hardcover, step by step.

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An older man’s hands hold an open hardcover with a family photograph on one page and a printed code at the foot of the other.

From first question to printed book

Your parent talks. Some months later there is a hardcover on the table with their stories in it, and a code on each chapter that plays them telling it. Here is what happens in between.

1. The conversation

Your parent opens Fablr on a phone, tablet or computer, in a web browser or the iPhone app, and presses one button to talk. The biographer asks a question, listens, and asks the natural next one. Next time, it picks up a thread from the last visit. The year includes 15 hours of conversation, used in whatever size pieces suit them.

2. Photos and keepsakes

A photo, a ring, a recipe card: they hold it up and the biographer asks who, when and what happened. The object becomes part of the story.

3. Family voices

People who come up in the stories can be invited to add what they remember about those moments. Their answers go into the same book.

4. Writing the stories

After each conversation, Fablr writes the stories down in your parent’s own words. They choose how it reads: told as “I” or by their name, close to exactly what they said or shaped a little more into a story.

5. Fixing anything

If a detail is wrong, they say so. “I was eighteen, not nineteen.” The corrected version waits on the chapter page, and nothing changes until they approve it there. Family can type corrections too.

6. The book

The stories are arranged into chapters of their life and printed as a full-color, 8.5x11 hardcover, along with an e-book. The hardcover is included with the $149 Whole Story and ships free in the US; on monthly it is $79 or $99 plus shipping, whenever the story is ready. Each recorded chapter carries a printed code that plays it in their voice. You order the book whenever the family is ready.

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At the kitchen table, a granddaughter scans the printed code on a chapter of an open Fablr hardcover with her phone camera.

If you would rather someone else asked

A biographer who asks the next question.

Fablr holds these conversations by voice, at whatever pace suits them. It follows up the way a good listener does and remembers what they said last time. The stories become a hardcover, with a code on each chapter that plays it in their own voice.

Conversation
15 hours over one year with Whole Story, or 3 hours a month on monthly. No schedule.
The book
Full-color 8.5×11 hardcover: included with Whole Story, or add it to monthly when the story's ready.
Price
$149 once, never renews. Or $25 a month, cancel anytime in one click.

Nothing to download. Fablr works in a browser on a phone, tablet, or computer. (There’s an optional iPhone and iPad app too, if they prefer a familiar app icon and native iOS features.)

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Questions, answered.

No. It writes the conversations into stories in your parent’s own words, and they choose how close the writing stays to exactly what they said.

Yes. Your parent says what’s wrong, and the corrected version waits on the chapter page until they approve it. Corrections can also be typed.

Yes. Each recorded chapter in the printed book has a code that plays that chapter in their own voice.

There’s no minimum and no deadline inside the year. Order the hardcover whenever the family is ready.

Yes. Stories are private by default. Only the people you invite can see or add to them, and nothing is made public or sold.

Give them a year set aside for stories.

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