EverStroll is a private, multi-perspective digital family storytelling archive designed to preserve personal memories, voices, photographs, and historical family moments. Instead of collapsing family history into a single rigid timeline, its Storyline format keeps memories connected but distinct, allowing different relatives to preserve their individual perspectives of the same event without overwriting one another. Storylight is the separate public side for stories people deliberately choose to share.
FAQ
A private family archive where different memories can remain different.
EverStroll keeps related family memories connected without collapsing them into one official version: private by default, original sources preserved, and each person’s perspective kept distinct.
Storylight is EverStroll’s public storytelling network. Members can browse real stories, search by topic or place, listen through Story Radio, explore the Story Map, comment, leave emotional reactions, and respond to a story with another real story. Public Storylight stories are separate from the private archive they came from.
No. Storylight is for real experiences. Stories can be ordinary, funny, frightening, emotional, historical, surprising, or deeply personal, but they should describe something that actually happened.
Story Radio is the lean-back listening side of Storylight. Choose an overarching real-story genre such as Memoir, Biography, History, Adventure, Travel, Romance, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, or Horror, then continuously play stories that include original narration shared by their storytellers. EverStroll does not synthesize a storyteller voice for Story Radio.
A Story Ripple happens when one public story prompts someone else to respond with a story of their own. EverStroll keeps the experiences distinct while linking them so people can follow how one memory sparked another. Comments remain available for ordinary conversation, but story-to-story response is the primary social mechanic.
No. Someone can receive a private question link and answer in writing or voice without purchasing a plan. The subscription belongs to the person maintaining the archive.
Free is for your own Story Profile and Storyline and requires no card. Family costs $14.99/month or $139.99/year and includes six total seats—your account plus up to five additional family accounts—along with unlimited Story Profiles, genealogy import, and connected storytelling across people, places, objects, and shared events.
Yes on Family. EverStroll accepts GEDCOM files exported from genealogy software and services. Imported names, dates, places, and family relationships stay labeled as genealogy records; they are not presented as personal memories unless someone actually contributes a memory about them.
Family can request clearly labeled Aster context about a place, object, historical period, or surrounding subject. That outside context is kept separate from archive evidence and is never silently turned into a fact about your family.
No. Aster can organize, summarize, connect, and suggest questions from source material, but it must not invent memories, facts, dialogue, emotions, places, dates, or circumstances. Ask Aster is also instructed to answer only from the archive and show the sources behind concrete claims.
Both perspectives should remain. EverStroll is meant to preserve human memory as memory—not flatten different recollections into a synthetic “correct” version.
Your archive is private by default. Only finished stories you deliberately publish appear on the public Storylight, where members can read or listen, comment, leave emotional reactions, follow Story Ripples, and explore mapped stories. You can publish under your display name or as an Anonymous storyteller. Private memories, source recordings, family-only stories, and Only me journal material do not become public automatically.
Yes. Original voice recordings are first-class memory objects. They can sit beside written memories, photographs, and later narrated stories. If a finished story is deliberately published to Storylight, you choose whether its narration is included in that public story.
Storyline connects memories through time without forcing them into one authoritative family history. Dates help place memories chronologically, but each person’s recollection stays distinct. If two relatives remember the same event differently, both perspectives can remain connected to that moment without one overwriting the other. Life Chapters such as Growing Up, Leaving Home, Building a Family, or The Shop Years can gather related memories without creating duplicate copies.
They are different ways of exploring the same underlying memories. Story Threads gather recurring themes such as family, work, home, love, traditions, and lessons. Places gather memories geographically so a town, home, school, lake, or other location becomes another doorway into a life.
It is a source-grounded way to ask questions across the private archive. Aster is not a digital version of your relative. EverStroll reads the preserved memories and stories, answers from those sources, cites which ones support the answer, and says when the archive does not know.
Yes. Objects & Heirlooms lets you preserve the photograph, people, place, current keeper, and story behind physical things whose meaning could otherwise be lost.
Yes. Signed-in members can report public Storylight material for privacy, harassment, abuse, deceptive content, copyright, or other concerns. Reports go to EverStroll’s administrative review queue.
Yes. Free requires no payment method. Family subscriptions are managed securely through Stripe, where you can update payment details, switch between monthly and annual billing, view invoices, or schedule cancellation at the end of the current billing period.
Canceling stops renewal at the end of the current paid billing period. You can also download a structured archive export or permanently delete your EverStroll account from My Profile. Keep independent copies of irreplaceable original media.