How it works
This is how your
private family archive grows.
No app for your elders, Nine or Büyük Dede. No technical knowledge. Just WhatsApp — and step by step your family memories grow.
Pick a question
Choose a loving question from the library — about childhood, village life, migration, family, work or Bayram.
Send the WhatsApp link yourself
Aile Hafızası prepares the question as a WhatsApp message. You open WhatsApp and send it yourself — Dede, Nine or your parents need no app and no login, they reply as usual with a voice message.
A memory card is created
From the original voice Aile Hafızası automatically generates transcript, German translation and a summary — one memory card per voice message with audio, date, speaker and topics.
You build people, places & family tree
Aile Hafızası suggests people, places and time points — you confirm, correct or reject. The family tree only grows through you, nothing is auto-connected.
Step by step
From WhatsApp call to family archive.
Start with 3 questions
Free. Choose from over 70 prepared questions — childhood, village, wedding, migration, Bayram, life lessons.
Send via WhatsApp link
Aile Hafızası prepares the question as a WhatsApp message — with the right text and a link for the recipient. You send it from your own WhatsApp to Dede, Nine or your parents. They reply with a voice message — no app, no login. (Automatic sending via a central Aile Hafızası number is planned as a comfort feature and available depending on setup.)
Audio is stored
Original audio stays untouched in European cloud — encrypted, accessible only to invited family members.
Transcript is created
Automatically from the voice message. Stays in the original language — Turkish, German, Kurdish or Arabic.
Photos can be added
Upload wedding pictures, village houses or family photos and link them to the stories.
Entry lands in the archive
With summary, tags, place, year and suggested follow-up questions — automatically organized.
Family listens and reads along
Invited family members can listen, read along, ask their own questions. Full GDPR data export (JSON) anytime as a safety copy.
Sample flow
One question, one voice message —
and a memory is born.
Step 1
Question
"What was your childhood in the village like?"
Step 2
WhatsApp voice message
Mehmet Dede · Türkçe · 04:32 — original audio stays untouched.
Step 3
Transcript
"Köyümüzde sabah ezanı okunduğunda annem beni uyandırırdı…"
Step 4
Category
Childhood · Sivas / Zara · 1952
Step 5
Archive entry
Appears in the "Memories" tab with audio, transcript, tags, follow-up question.
For whom
Who is Aile Hafızası for?
For grandchildren
who want to preserve their grandparents' voices,
before they're gone. You don't have to know when the right moment is. The right moment is always now.
For diaspora families
who don't want to lose their roots,
even if the children already speak little Turkish. Aile Hafızası preserves language, village stories and cultural heritage.
For old photos
whose stories nobody has written down yet —
black-and-white, without names, without year, without place. Aile Hafızası connects pictures with the voices that explain them.
More than a book — a memory
Not a book.
A living family memory.
A book is optional. The real value is a private archive that grows with your family — story by story.
Original voices, not AI voices
Voice messages from Dede & Nine stay untouched — original voice, original dialect, original words. We do not clone anything.
No app for Dede & Nine
They need no account and no login. They receive a WhatsApp question and reply with a voice message. WhatsApp is enough.
Tell in Turkish, understand in English
The older generation answers in Turkish, in dialect or in whichever language feels right. Aile Hafızası provides transcript and English summary — original always available.
Answers become a chronicle
Each answer is automatically tagged with people, places, years and topics — and lands in timeline, map and family tree at the same time.
Preserve ancestors as roots
Great-grandparents and earlier generations no longer narrate via WhatsApp — but their names, places, photos and what grandparents say about them stay as roots in the family tree.
Photos with context
Old pictures get names, places, years again — and are linked to the matching voice message.
Places & village history
Köy, Mahalle, the old house, the harbor, the oven, the school — memories of places that may not exist anymore today.
Recipes & traditions
Family recipes, Bayram customs, wedding songs — cultural heritage as its own collection alongside the voices.
GDPR data export (JSON)
All contents of your archive as a structured JSON file to download — anytime, yours.
"A photo without a story becomes just a picture over time. Aile Hafızası connects photos with voice, names, places and memories."
Bridge between generations
Grandpa speaks Turkish.
Your children can still understand.
The original voice always remains the most important trace. To make the story understandable for children and grandchildren who no longer speak Turkish fluently, each recording includes a clear text translation below the original.
What we never do:
- We never replace the original.
- We never generate artificial answers.
- We never clone voices.
- The translation only exists as text.
Example from a voice message
Mehmet Dede · Turkish · 04:32
Original
„Köyümüzde sabah ezanı okunduğunda annem beni uyandırırdı. Soğuk sular akardı çeşmeden. Babam tarlaya gitmeden önce hep bana sarılırdı. O zamanlar Sivas'ta hayat zordu ama biz çok mutluyduk.“
English translation
„When the morning call to prayer echoed through our village, my mother would wake me. Cold water flowed from the village fountain. Before my father went to the field, he always held me close. Life in Sivas was hard back then — but we were very happy.“
AI summary
Mehmet remembers his childhood in Sivas: cold mornings, his mother, simple village life and his father's closeness.
Homeland map
Your story,
on the map.
Memories become places: the village in Sivas, the first job in Istanbul, the railway station in Cologne. Your family map grows with every story.
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors. No trackers, no account.
Example memory
„Dorf am Fluss. Morgens lief kaltes Wasser aus dem Brunnen. Bayram wurde mit dem ganzen Dorf gefeiert."
No app. No login.
Just WhatsApp.
Grandparents need no signup. For them it's just an ordinary WhatsApp voice message.
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