Family apps typically specialise: photo sharing, messaging, or genealogy. Simirity is more versatile—one platform with multiple tools that families mix and match as needed. Below are five common ways families use Simirity.
Modern families face a peculiar challenge: nowhere feels quite right for sharing stories that matter most.
Elderly relatives hold heritage in aging minds while parents watch meaningful moments slip past daily. Video calls rush through updates, messaging handles logistics not stories, and social media feels too public. The natural storytelling that happened over shared meals and weekend visits has largely vanished from modern life.
Simirity creates the missing space—private, permanent, and designed specifically for family storytelling. Everyone shares from past and present, building a living archive that future generations will treasure.
Childhood passes so quickly, and you want to hold onto these years forever.
Photos document the milestones—first days of school, birthday parties, family holidays—but they can’t capture how your child thinks and feels right now. Within a year or two, these details fade completely. Grandparents and extended family share this longing—they want to really know your kids, not just see photos of them.
Simirity captures what matters most and shares it with family near and far—not just photos of your children, but their experiences, emotions, and learnings, plus your own feelings as a parent watching them grow.
Every family inherits wonderful albums full of faces and places that gradually lose their meaning.
Those photos from your grandparents’ generation are beautiful, but who’s standing beside them? What was happening that day? Even your own photos become surprisingly fuzzy after just five or ten years—you remember the moment mattered but can’t quite recall why. Photos are amazing, but they’re incomplete without the stories that give them context and meaning.
Simirity keeps photos and stories together—you can add text, voice recordings, or photo narrations directly to every image, ensuring the complete picture stays clear for generations to come.
We all want to help the people we love, but sharing life insights without sounding like you’re preaching is tricky.
When extended families lived together, this wisdom transferred naturally through daily contact. Today’s scattered families meet less often and lack an obvious way to share deeper knowledge. Social media isn’t the place, messaging apps are too casual, video calls stick to updates.
Simirity gives wisdom a home—when creating stories, add a compact life lesson block to capture key insights. Family can then explore all these lessons in a dedicated section, filtering by life challenge to find relevant guidance whenever they need it.
When you lose someone, you want a place to gather beloved memories that truly capture who they were.
Not just a few kind comments about how nice they were, but real stories combining photos, videos, and text that preserve their personality, experiences, and wisdom. You want family and friends to connect with their memory whenever they need to, and you want their descendants—people who’ll never meet them—to genuinely know this person through rich, detailed accounts of their life.
Simirity creates living memorials that don’t sit isolated on some memorial website or forgotten in a book gathering dust—they exist alongside your family’s ongoing stories, keeping loved ones as a natural part of your family’s continuing journey.
Browse our demo account to see example stories across all these use cases. Get a feel for how your family’s stories could look and work.
Most of us carry decades of experiences worth sharing—career challenges, relationship lessons, life-changing decisions. But there’s rarely a natural time or place to tell these stories in depth, especially to younger family members who’d benefit most.
Simirity creates that space, letting you share your complete story when you’re ready, in your own words.
Family recipes represent more than food—they’re the foundation of celebrations, quality time around the table, and memories of special occasions together.
Recipe cards capture ingredients and steps, but they can’t preserve Gran’s voice explaining her technique, photos of the finished dish at Sunday dinner, or the family tips that evolve over generations. Simirity lets you document complete recipes with written instructions, photos, voice recordings, videos of key techniques, and a comment section where family members add their own discoveries over time.
Your family’s heirlooms are priceless not because of their monetary value, but because of the stories connecting them to your ancestors.
Yet where do you actually preserve these stories in a way that does them justice—not dry written accounts, but the richness of people’s voices telling the history? Simirity lets you document heirlooms through audio or video interviews, photos showing them in their place of pride through different homes over the years, building a living record of all the lives they’ve touched.
Travel creates amazing experiences you want to share with loved ones back home and preserve for yourself to revisit in the future.
Social media works great for sharing in the moment, but it’s designed for now, not for looking back—scrolling through endless feeds isn’t how you want to relive your travels years later! Simirity lets you create detailed travel stories with photos, videos, voice recordings, and tagged locations on maps—so you can give rich family updates while building an organised archive you’ll enjoy revisiting.
World events like COVID become shared reference points across generations—your grandchildren will learn about them in history class, but they’ll truly understand them through your family’s lived experience.
This isn’t just ‘nice to do’; it’s how you connect with descendants through events you both know about. Simirity helps you capture your experiences and thoughts with writing, voice, photos, and videos, bringing abstract historical events to life in intimate family stories.
Family health records serve two vital purposes:
Most families lack a proper system to maintain this critical information privately. With Simirity, you can securely track family health histories, supporting better care for older relatives while providing valuable guidance to those facing hereditary health challenges.
Families need to share practical information privately but often lack a suitable place:
This practical information can prove priceless, yet there’s no natural home for it. Simirity provides a private space where you can upload all kinds of documents and share essential family information, accessible only to those you choose.