Don’t just remember them.See them. Hear them.
Tether is where your family records their stories in their own voice, so the people who come after can hear them tell it.
A photograph tells you what someone looked like. It doesn’t tell you how they laughed, or what they said when you asked about the hardest year of their life.
Tether is a place for the rest of it. Your mother tells the story of the first job she ever had. Your grandfather walks you through how he makes the gravy. Your father finally says the thing he never found the right moment to say.
They record. You watch. So do their grandchildren, and the ones after that.
Simple enough for anyone
We built this for an 87 year old who has never recorded a video. If it needs a tutorial, we got it wrong.
One question, at a time that suits them
A question shows up at the hour they choose. It might be about childhood, work, faith, a recipe, or someone they loved. Family can send questions of their own, and those go to the top of the list.
In their own words, in their own time
One take, on whatever phone they already have. Nothing to edit and nothing to learn. Every story is transcribed and filed by topic, so the library organizes itself as it grows.
Who sees it, and when
The whole family, or one grandchild by name. Shared today, or sealed until they are gone. The story belongs to the person who told it. We keep it safe, and we never decide for them.
Ask him anything
The video library doesn’t just sit there. Ask a question the way you would have asked him, and Tether’s AI-powered conversational search finds the moments he answered it, then shows you those moments in his videos.
Tell me how you met Grandma.
What was it like growing up during the Depression?
I just had my first child.
That last one isn’t a question. Tether understands life moments too. The hard week, the new baby, the day you need him most. It brings forward the story that speaks to where you are.
Some things are meant to be said later.
Sealed stays sealed
A sealed story cannot be seen while they are here. Not by the family, and not by whoever manages the account.
Released when the time comes
A message for a daughter. A note to a grandchild for the day they get married. The words someone could not say out loud. Each one opens when it was meant to.
A graveside that speaks back
The QR Headstone is a weatherproof code at the memorial site. Anyone who loved them can scan it and step into their world.
Reach through space and time and touch the heart of someone you love.
For the ones who come after
Family are guests here, never customers. Watching is free on every plan, on any phone, for as many of you as there are.
Ask them something
Send a question and it waits for them. When they answer it, you will know. It is the conversation you meant to have, in the order you meant to have it.
Search it like a person
Browse by storyteller or topic, or just ask. You will land on the exact moment in the exact story where they talked about it.
Bring in the family
Grandchildren, cousins, the ones who moved away. Everyone who should hear these stories can.
Afterwards
When the time comes, we will tell you gently, and what they left will be waiting. Sometimes that includes something addressed only to you.
Free to start
Record a few stories and see whether it suits you. No card, and no trial running out. Family watching is free on every plan.
Free
- Five stories
- 10 GB of storage
- Up to five people watching
- One storyteller
Family Legacy
- Unlimited stories
- Unlimited family watching
- $5 a month for each additional storyteller
- QR Headstone
- Grief and counseling resources
Tethering is what happens after someone is gone. We keep their stories and release what they sealed. It is billed separately at $89 a year for the first storyteller, and $49 a year for each one after that.
The stories that matter most are never written down. They live in the people who carry them, and when those people are gone, the stories go too. Tether makes sure they don’t.