A game you play with your grandmother
One grove for your whole family. Every member is a tree. Every story they tell — in their own voice — becomes a lantern in their branches.
why we built thisYou know them by heart. The motorcycle your grandfather never told his mother about. How your grandmother came north at nineteen with one address written inside a shoe. What her kitchen sounds like on a Sunday afternoon.
You’ve heard them a hundred times. And you’ve never once pressed record.
Everyone means to. Almost nobody does — because sitting someone down for an “interview” feels stiff, and formal, and endlessly postponable. So the best stories your family has live in exactly one place: their voices.
Heartwood keeps them.
A game, not a chore
In the app if they like — or the Grove Line simply rings their phone, reads the question aloud in a warm voice, and records whatever they want to tell. Your grandmother never installs anything. She answers the phone, and she talks.
Tap it any night, forever, and hear them tell it again. The grove grows on stories and nothing else — you can’t buy a bigger tree. You can only earn one.
“You’d come over the hill at Villegas Point and the whole Pacific would open up in front of you like a tablecloth being shaken out.”
Grandpa Ray · “The motorcycle” · 2:14 — listen in the demo grove
And when someone is gone
Pale. Silver-grained. Still standing at the center of the grove. It stops growing. It never falls. Every lantern they hung keeps burning.
On the hard nights, your family can stand under those branches and hear the realest thing there is: their actual voice, telling the story the way they always told it — the pauses, the laugh, the part they always exaggerated.
No AI resurrection. No chatbot wearing a loved one’s face. Just them. Kept.
“This tree stopped growing. It will never fall.”
What we promise
Simple, and kind
One price covers your whole family — not one person, everyone. Because the point was never to sell you seats. It was to keep the voices.
Free
$0
A grove for the whole family
Heartwood Family
$59/ year
One price. Everyone’s in.
Heartwood Forever
$199once
Pay once. Kept forever.
And when you want to hold a story in your hands — printed story books, engraved ornaments that play one voice, a film of your year in the grove. Keepsakes from $34.
The record button is never behind a paywall, and your archive is always yours to export — free, forever, even if you leave. That’s a promise, not a plan.
The Santos family planted the demo grove in 2024 — six trees, three generations, one of them already heartwood. Tap the lanterns. Listen to Abuela Rosa. Deal a card and watch a story arrive.
Then imagine every voice is one you love.
No account. Free. Nothing leaves your device.