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Features Families Need

Unlike like most brands, Simirity focuses exclusively on families, which means we can provide features you won’t see elsewhere. Here’s how Simirity can help your past, present and future family.

Learning new things about each other

Sometimes it can feel like we’re stuck in a never-ending cycle of small talk, when what we truly desire is to learn something meaningful about the people we care about.

When was the last time you discovered something new about your parents or siblings? Not their latest activities, but gained an insight into who they are? Simirity helps you focus on your family, free from distractions, by exploring rarely-discussed subjects where you learn about each other.

Just Stories, Advert Free

Wholesome stories that you love to read, free from distracting adverts. Explore an example story.

The Back Story

Optionally add additional details about the story, including dates, tags, people and places.

Conversations on Stories & Media

From stories flow conversations. Engage your family with comments about any photo, video or story.

Who Is That?

Click to reveal who is in story photos and videos. Both Simirity users and others.

Experiences captured with more than just photos

Life is filled with emotions, thoughts and backstories that even 1,000 photos can’t capture. 

Simirity stories are super flexible, created with story blocks that let you add a multitude of photos, videos, audio recordings, documents, maps and more. So whatever the moment, from the birth of your child to your latest discovery, you’ll be able to bring your story to life. Keeping today’s family connected through stories, and ensuring there’s plenty to look back on in the future.

The different story blocks that users can add to stories

Flexible Storytelling

Stories are built using story blocks. Select your block, add details, then add the next. Reoganise as needed.

Photos & Videos

Bring your story to life with photos and videos. Add individually at relevent points in your story, or as a slideshow.

Photo Narrations & Audio

Add voice narration to your photos or skip typing and share your story with an audio recording.

Albums, Docs, Maps & More

Add external photo albums, attach documents and embed other elements such as videos, podcasts and playlists.

Show Story Information

Add the background information to the story, including the date or period, participants and the location.

Control Story Access

You have full control over who sees your story. You can even share a private link with friends outside Simirity.

Optimised for past, present and future family

Too many apps provide instant enjoyment, but like fast food, they ultimately fail to meet our well-being needs.

This relentless emphasis on the present moment neglects the deep joy found in cherishing our past and working towards a meaningful future. For example, a family chat feed is entertaining in the present moment, but rarely delves into the past and is difficult to navigate through in later years. Simirity combines the immediate satisfaction of hearing from loved ones, with the inspiration to explore your family heritage, while creating a priceless legacy that links you to future generations.

Reminders of the Past

Stories should be enjoyed more than once. Your family’s heritage is woven into daily life with reminders for story anniversaries.

New Members Access Old Stories

Publishing groups grow with your family, so new members enjoy a rich legacy of stories about the past.

Profiles for the Deceased

Create profiles for family no longer with you, and add stories as a tribute to their life. Ensuring they live on in stories.

Planning for the Future

Optionally, give loved ones Successor rights on your profile, so they can manage access to your stories when you’re not here.

No need to be a creative whiz

When asked to create stories about our lives, it’s easy to become overwhelmed and stick to the highlight reel that’s so common in social media. 

Our lives are so rich and diverse, but it can be hard deciding what makes a good story for your family. In Simirity, there is more than a blinking curser awaiting you – we offer inspiration to help family members of all ages build a priceless collection of stories on a wide range of topics.  

100’s of Story Ideas

Explore a wide range of questions (available here and in-app), that can help you figure out what to write about.

Organised by Story Tags

Story tags help you explore many different aspects of your life, from family food to world news. 

A shared family venture, not yours alone

How often do you engage with family in mentally stimulating and rewarding projects, such as a genealogy project or planning a holiday together?

At work, we build strong connections with colleagues through shared projects, but we often lack appropriate activities with our family. Simirity is an opportunity for you to enjoy a shared venture, focusing on learning about each other, not the destination.  Simirity provides all the tools you need to collaborate on stories, chat over your ideas, and even ask others to create stories that you would love.

Create Stories Together

Everything needed to write your story together is found in one place (create tools, original request & chat).

Ask Family for Stories

Sensitively ask others for stories you would like to read, with Story Requests. A great way to keep your family engaged.

No endless searching through feeds…

Sometimes the quick-win isn’t necessarily the best option in the long term.

Take social media or messaging feeds as an example – they are easy to add content to, but good luck finding what you are searching for in years to come. And revisiting the past is absolutely something you’ll want to do, squeezing every ounce of joy from the good times. That’s why Simirity is not an endless feed, but a searchable and filterable collection of stories, making the past easily accessible for future enjoyment.

Find Stories with Ease

Use search and a range of filters to quickly locate the stories you’re looking for.

Find Photos & Videos

The Visuals Page contains photos and videos from all family stories, and includes filters for quick access.

Help family by sharing what you’ve learned

Wouldn’t it be a waste not to share some of the hard-fought lessons you’ve learned in life?

Sharing with family by word of mouth is best, but it’s hard to know who needs what advice and family outside the home will probably miss out. What’s needed is an online self-service system for family wisdom. Lessons can be added when they are fresh in people’s minds, and those seeking help can quickly find lessons of interest. Welcome to Life-Lessons in Simirity – short nuggets of wisdom embedded in the stories that explain the origin of the lesson.

This life-changing feature helps guide young generations away from YouTubers and toward their family for advice.

Add Life Lessons

Include nuggest of wisdom in stories to support others in your family and encourage open discussions.

The Home of Family Wisdom

All Life Lessons are gathered on a single page where readers can filter for the challenges they face.

Designed for Grandma Jill and baby Jake too

Living or deceased, young or old, skilled in technology or not, Simirity is built for you!

Admin features, managed accounts, and on-page help ensure that those who need help can get it. As a family business, we have members in their 70’s happily sharing stories and adding comments. If someone can’t join in, they can allow others to write stories about them so they don’t have to.

Some digital skills are needed of course, especially as they get established within the app. 

Giving Others Access

Optionally, allow family members to administer your account and create stories for your profile.

 

In-App Help

The answer is one click away, with on-page help including videos showing you what to do.

Remember those that you miss…

Where will you go to remember loved ones when they have passed on? 

Sadly, many people don’t think of this until it’s too late, and they are left with a hotchpotch of emails, messages, and photos to remember them by.  Wouldn’t it be nice to have one single place with everything you would want to remember them by? Simirity user profiles offer just this – read stories about their life, watch their photos and videos, learn from their Life-Lessons and really connect as you listen to them talk.

And everything is preserved, allowing future generations to become personally acquainted with their ancestors.

Your Family List

Living family and ancestors live alongside one another – click to explore the stories of their lives.

Treasured Profiles

Stories, photos, videos, voice recordings and more are all gathered in profile pages for all their family to enjoy.

Get a better understanding of how families use Simirity with a quick video tour.

VIDEO TOUR