Your story is worth telling. Let's get it written.
The AI-guided memoir writing tool that sounds like you.
Tellyng is an AI-guided memoir writing tool. It helps you develop your memories and experiences into prose that sounds like you — not like something a machine wrote — so your family can keep it for generations.
Whether you're preserving your own life story or capturing a parent's memories to pass down to your grandchildren. Give it as a gift →
See a developed passage in your own voice in about two minutes. See how it works →
Your writing remains yours and is not shared unless you choose to share it.
We don't train AI models on your stories. Your memories stay private. See how →
My mother kept a garden behind our apartment building in Cleveland. It wasn't really allowed… In August she'd send me down with a colander before school. The tomatoes were still warm.
“What did it feel like standing down there before school, with the traffic going by?”
My mother kept a garden behind our apartment building in Cleveland. It wasn't really allowed — nobody had said yes to it — but nobody said no either, so every spring she went out there with a trowel and made it hers again. Tomatoes. Pole beans on strings she ran up the fence. And some kind of squash that took over everything, the way it does, vines crawling across the strip of dirt and into the parking spaces like they had somewhere to be.
Example written to show how Tellyng works. Read the full passage ↓
Your voice, not ours
The AI studies how you write and develops your material in your rhythm, your words, and your tone, so your grandchildren can read your stories someday and still hear you in them.
Bring what you have
A full manuscript, scattered notes, or just a memory. Start wherever you are.
One question at a time
No blank page, no prompt overload. The AI asks what it needs to develop your story further.
Private by default
Your stories are yours. Nothing is shared unless you choose to share it.
Bring the whole family into the story.
Send a private link to a sibling, a cousin, or an old friend. They add the memories only they hold, with no account needed. You approve each one before it joins the story, and every memory they share carries their name.
Three steps. About two minutes.
Share a memory or draft
Start with a few honest details. A full manuscript, scattered notes, or just a memory. Wherever you are.
Answer one question at a time
Tellyng asks what it needs to go deeper. No blank page, no prompt overload.
See your story develop
Get a passage in your voice in about two minutes. Edit it, keep it, build on it.
Is Tellyng right for you?
Tellyng is for you if
- You have memories, yours or a parent's, that you want your family to keep.
- You don't think of yourself as a writer and don't want to face a blank page.
- You want the finished story to sound like you, not like a machine.
- You'd like to go at your own pace, typing or speaking one memory at a time.
It's probably not for you if
- You want someone else to write your story for you. Tellyng develops what you share and never makes details up.
- You're looking for a video or audio keepsake. Tellyng is for the written word.
See what Tellyng can do with a memory.
Start with a few honest details. Tellyng asks thoughtful follow-up questions and helps develop them into a passage that still sounds like you.
My mother kept a garden behind our apartment building in Cleveland. It wasn't really allowed. She grew tomatoes and beans and some kind of squash that took over everything. In August she'd send me down with a colander before school. The tomatoes were still warm. She never wrote any of this down and I don't have pictures of it.
“What did it feel like standing down there before school, with the traffic going by?”
Example for demonstration purposes. This is a fictional memory written to show how Tellyng develops material — not a customer's story.
Start free. Go further for $99.
Try the guided experience first. If Tellyng sounds like you, full access is a single launch-price purchase.
Try it free — no account needed
- One complete guided sample experience
- A developed passage in your voice
- No account or credit card required
Full access — $99 launch price
$99 one-time — a fraction of what a professional ghostwriter costs.
- One-time payment
- Six months of AI-guided writing access
- Up to 60 sessions during the access period
- Develop multiple chapters
- Import notes, fragments, or an existing manuscript
- Add photographs and captions
- Invite family to add their own memories. You approve each one.
- Download your life story as a PDF or Word document to share with family
- Order printed hardcover copies: $49 each, or $79 in color, shipping included
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Full refund before your first sessionNot sure? Try the free session first. If you pay and haven't used any AI sessions yet, email us for a full refund.
Pay once. No subscription.
Buying for a parent or grandparent? Give it as a gift →Questions people ask before paying
Does the AI train on my stories?
No. Your writing is used only to generate the questions and passages you ask for. Tellyng does not use your stories to train AI models, and they are never shown to other users.
Read how the AI works with your stories →What happens after my 6 months?
Your story stays yours. When the access period ends, your account becomes read-only — you can still sign in, read everything, and download your PDF, which is yours to keep. If you want to keep developing new passages, renew for another $99 for six more months.
Why not just use ChatGPT?
You could, but you'd have to know what to ask it and keep steering it. Tellyng does the asking. It asks the follow-up questions a good listener would, then develops only what you told it, in your own voice, without making details up. Your stories stay private, they are never used to train AI, and everything lives in one place you can download as a PDF or Word file.
Same memory, two results
In August, before school, she would send me down with a colander to gather what was ripe. I still remember the tomatoes in my hands, warm from the sun.
Clean, but it only rearranges what was typed. It also guessed "warm from the sun," which wasn't in the memory.
In August she'd hand me the colander before school. Go get what's ready. I'd go down the back stairs in my school clothes, and the tomatoes would still be warm from the night. That's the part I remember most. Not the taste, the warmth.
Tellyng asked one question first, about standing there before school. The answer is what made the passage: not the taste, the warmth.
The ChatGPT text is real, unedited output from a fresh chat given the same memory. The Tellyng passage is a written example, not a customer's story.
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Questions people ask before they start.
Free guide
50 Questions to Ask Before It's Too Late
Not ready to write yet? Start by asking. These are the questions that bring back a parent's or grandparent's stories. Free PDF, sent to your inbox.
Built by a storyteller, for people who want to begin.
Tellyng was created by author and storyteller Severen Henderson. For years he helped people who wanted to write but struggled to begin, organize their thoughts, or preserve their natural voice.
He built Tellyng to help people move from memories, notes, and unfinished drafts to meaningful stories they can keep and share.
— Severen Henderson, founder
Hear how your story reads.
Share one memory, answer a question or two, and see a developed passage in your own voice — free, no account needed.
Your writing remains yours and is not shared unless you choose to share it.