Start free. Go further for $99.
Tellyng pricing is one free AI-guided session with no account, then $99 one-time for six months of guided memoir writing. There is no subscription.
That is a fraction of what a professional ghostwriter costs. Your story stays yours when the period ends.
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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Free vs. full access
| Feature | Free | Full access |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $99 one-time |
| AI-guided sessions | 1 guided session | Up to 60 sessions |
| Access | One sitting. Email yourself the passage. | 6 months |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Import notes or a manuscript | No | Yes |
| Photo uploads with captions | No | Yes |
| Invite family to add memories | No | Yes |
| PDF or Word download of your story | No | Yes |
| Printed hardcover | No | $49 each ($79 in color), shipped |
Not ready to pay? Try one memory free, no account needed and read the result before you decide.
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.
Questions people ask before they start.
Hear how your story reads.
Share one memory, answer a question or two, and see a developed passage in your own voice — free, about two minutes.